Tapping the Source - A Roxbury Arts Group Staff Show Jan 10-17

ROXBURY - Artist Reception: January 10, 3-5pm

ROXBURY - Roxbury Arts Center presents "Tapping the Source," an exhibition featuring work from the Roxbury Arts Group staff, opening Saturday, January 10, 2026, with an artist reception from 3-5 PM. The exhibition remains on view for one week through Saturday, January 17, at the Roxbury Arts Center, 5025 Vega Mountain Road, Roxbury, NY.  For more information, visit roxburyartsgroup.org.

‘Tapping the Source’ highlights the artistic work of the Roxbury Arts Group staff, including Patrick Barnes, Rachel Condry, Ursula Hudak, and Kristin Stevenson. Though their practices give them a particular insight and perspective in their work to serve the arts community, as members of staff they do not often get to present their art practice in their professional context. This show serves as a rare opportunity for the community to experience the personal artistic lifesource that they tap in their work expressed, together, in the Walter Meade Gallery.

Patrick Barnes will be showing a series of work that depicts Prattsville, NY in the wake of Hurricane Irene in the Fall of 2011. A native of Stamford, NY, Patrick received a BS in Still Photography from Ithaca College and a MA in Arts Administration from the University of New Orleans.  He has lived and worked in Philadelphia, PA as a Production Assistant at a digital print studio; in New Orleans, LA as the Coordinator of Curatorial Affairs and Collections at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art; and is now back home in Stamford, NY where he is the Executive Director of the Roxbury Arts Group. 

Rachel Condry (she/her) is a clarinetist, improviser, composer and educator. She lives in the western Catskills and is working to establish The Center for Quantum Living, an intentional community based in regenerative design and Deep Listening practice. Rachel studied composition with Pauline Oliveros at Mills College and participated in Pauline’s 2011 Tower Ring Project in Geyserville, CA. She became a certified Deep Listening practitioner in 2020 after witnessing the lasting impacts of this work on those who engage with it and has been building a Deep Listening Community ever since. As a performer, Rachel takes a special interest in new and creative music and can be heard in a variety of diverse ensembles and recordings such as the Nathan Clevenger Group, The Matt Small Chamber Ensemble, and Gestaltish. She can also be heard on Roscoe Mitchell’s albums Discussions (2017) and Roscoe Mitchell Orchestra Littlefield Concert Hall Mills College (2019) on Wide Hive Records. In 2005, Rachel played at Carnegie Hall with the Matt Small Chamber Ensemble. She has an MFA from Mills College in Oakland as well as a BA and a BM from Oberlin College and Conservatory.

Ursula Hudak will be showing selected ceramic works from her recent collection, ‘Silence from Slovakia’. Ursula has been an active ceramicist for over fifteen years. Mentored in her youth by potter Marian Ferrer, she expanded her practice at Oberlin College as member and Co-President of their pottery co-op while studying to receive her BA in Art History. She graduated with honors, writing her undergraduate thesis on reclining nudes by Matisse and Modigliani in the Allen Memorial Art Museum and their relation to their donors, the Bissets, who co-founded the Maidenform bra company. After graduating from Oberlin she joined the Roxbury Arts Group team, where she works as their Creative Opportunities Coordinator, managing their CROP program, the Walter Meade Gallery, and the Delaware County Arts Grant program. Ursula returned to Oberlin’s pottery co-op in March of 2025 for a three-week artist residency, where she created a new body of work titled ‘Silence from Slovakia’. Selected works from this collection are included in the exhibition. Currently, she is a member and teacher at the Smithy Clay Studio in Cooperstown, where she continues to create both functional and sculptural works; she lives in Oneonta with her husband, Leon, and their three rowdy cats.

Kristin Stevenson is a mixed media artist working primarily in cold wax and oil. Using materials such as ashes, marble dust, graphite, and pigments, she paints expressive, layered abstract paintings that explore themes around memory processing and the evolution of identity. Stevenson studied cold wax medium with Rebecca Crowel at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ireland; oil painting with Timothy Joseph Allen in Rome, Italy; and woodcut printing with Peter Rockwell in Rome, Italy. She received an NCFE certificate in art and design (ceramics) from Bristol City College in the UK and more recently worked with beloved local ceramicist Elizabeth Nields in Upstate New York. She has shown her work in the US and Europe in solo and group exhibitions, and in regional and national juried shows. Her work has been published in a literary magazine and can be found in many private collections around the world. She is currently working on an interdisciplinary collection in which she uses sculpture, assemblage, and paintings to better understand one of life’s great transitions through middle age.

Our exhibition programs are generously supported by Roxbury Wine & Spirits. All programs offered by the Roxbury Arts Group are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the NYS Legislature, the A. Lindsay and Olive B. O’Connor Foundation, the Robinson Broadhurst Foundation, The Community Foundation for South Central New York, the Tianaderrah Foundation, The Delaware National Bank of Delhi, and individual supporters.