Michael Howard has developed two boardgames, CoQuest and Threat, that take up the challenge of collaboration as an alternative to competition. Open to all ages!

Developing CoQuest games began as a pastime, but over time, became an integral aspect of Michael's creative work. Like all good games, playing CoQuest and Threat are meant to be fun to play. But in today's world, they also offer an opportunity for those who want to strengthen their capacity for creative collaboration, as well as foster it more widely in our social affairs and institutions. 

This is one of two workshops in which you can dive into the two themes of Michael Howard's artwork: Visible Speech and Visible Music (respectively). Along with some biographical context, we will explore some of the form exercises included in the exhibition that are keys to a fuller experience of the musical and speech dimensions of his artwork.

Looking at his artwork will naturally lead over into a couple of drawing activities; one that explores Visible Speech (on February 28), and the other exploring Visible Music (on March 7).

Please note that you can attend one or both – they do not have to be taken together! Sliding scale of $20-40 per workshop, or $50 total for both. ADVANCE REGISTRATION REQUIRED: email info@lightformsartcenter.com to sign up!

On Fri, Mar 6 at 4:30pm, Luigi Morelli will give a lecture entitled The Calendar of the Soul as a Path to Self-knowledge through Feeling: Preparing Ourselves for Easter.

The Calendar of the Soul is a self-enclosed world, a little like the lessons of the First Class of the School of Spiritual Science, or the Foundation Stone Meditation. Rudolf Steiner called it a “potential path to self-
knowledge through feeling” (1 st preface to the Calendar). It is in fact a world that calls us to a participatory, fluid and artistic understanding of the relationship between soul and macrocosm through our immersion in the cycle of the seasons and the life of the festivals. Each season requires of us different soul qualities and at each mid-season point we meet a challenge that spurs us and helps us transition from one cardinal festival to another.

This presentation will focus on the rhythm of expansion the soul undertakes into the ethers (cosmic life, cosmic light and cosmic warmth) in spring and summer and the contraction/transformation they undergo in fall and winter. It will explore one specific transition and look at how the Calendar helps us move from winter and Christmas to spring and Easter. It will highlight what is required of us and how we can best support the coming Easter experience.

Luigi Morelli has worked extensively with the contents of the Calendar ofbthe Soul in the last fourteen years. What he has written about it can be found at www.millenniumculmination.net

This is one of two workshops in which you can dive into the two themes of Michael Howard's artwork: Visible Speech and Visible Music (respectively). Along with some biographical context, we will explore some of the form exercises included in the exhibition that are keys to a fuller experience of the musical and speech dimensions of his artwork.

Looking at his artwork will naturally lead over into a couple of drawing activities; one that explores Visible Speech (on February 28), and the other exploring Visible Music (on March 7).

Please note that you can attend one or both – they do not have to be taken together! Sliding scale of $20-40 per workshop, or $50 total for both. ADVANCE REGISTRATION REQUIRED: email info@lightformsartcenter.com to sign up!

Michael Howard has developed two boardgames, CoQuest and Threat, that take up the challenge of collaboration as an alternative to competition. Open to all ages!

Developing CoQuest games began as a pastime, but over time, became an integral aspect of Michael's creative work. Like all good games, playing CoQuest and Threat are meant to be fun to play. But in today's world, they also offer an opportunity for those who want to strengthen their capacity for creative collaboration, as well as foster it more widely in our social affairs and institutions. 

Join Michael Howard for a lecture on Visible Music, Visible Speech: The Evolving Role of Art and Artist. 

Michael writes: "As an artist, I offer my artwork as seeds for awakening the artistic capacities in every human being. And in this way, art fosters the capacities needed for the Social Art of developing a culture and society in keeping with our full humanity."

You are invited to the opening of Michael Howard's Visible Music, Visible Speech exhibition. There will be a short introduction and musical interlude by Alicia Burns and Patrick Loughrey at 7pm.

This exhibition features two main themes in Howard’s work: visible music, and visible speech, each made visible through both sculptures and paintings. 

You are invited to the opening of Larry Young's Face to Face exhibition, happening concurrently with the opening of Michael Howard’s exhibition.

Larry Young (January 21, 1944 – February 16, 2026) viewed painting as a portal into inner life - an experience that moves the viewer seamlessly between individual subjectivity and universal human truths.

“The whole human being is complete in the face,” said Young. He described its architecture simply: in the forehead lives the quality of thinking; in the eyes and nose, the life of feeling; in the mouth and jaw, the forces of will and desire.

Tues, Dec 23 7pm: Philosophy of Freedom presentation
You are invited to a presentation by Andreas Schmitt on a very exciting project based on the Philosophy of Freedom by Rudolf Steiner. Schmidt recently gave a presentation at the 100 Years Rudolf Steiner conference at Harvard University in Boston, MA.

In Andreas’ presentation you will get an introduction into the meaning of the Philosophy of Freedom for the challenges of modern times, for exploring our own inner being, and it’s creative power. And we will do exercises to experience it in a deep and personal way. 

Andreas Schmitt is a German anthroposophic physician. He is the founder and leader of the annual Philosophy of Freedom training, a worldwide schooling path based on the Philosophy of Spiritual Activity in 14 languages and with more than 2500 participants in the past seven years. 

Concert by Music for Furniture at 6pm during Hudson’s Winter Walk! Music for Furniture is an experiment in attentive listening. David Garland, Rodney Alan Greenblat, Jimmy Garver, Kenji Garland, and Dan Kirkhus pool their musical perspectives to create spontaneous soundscapes using synthesizers, electronics, and woodwinds.

David Garland has worked and collaborated with the likes of Patti Smith, Sean Ono Lennon, Yoko Ono, Meredith Monk, Sufjan Stevens, John Zorn, and many more. 

With his multi-instumental scorings and innovative collaborators, Garland has issued a dozen unique recorded albums from the 1980s and on, both under his own name as well as with the bands Garlands and Music for Furniture.

What people are saying about David Garland's music: 

“David Garland has quickly become one of my favorite contemporary composers. Like many great songwriters before him, he pushes the limits of acceptable harmony and dissonance, yet never at the expense of beauty. He is able to take the listener through what might otherwise be quite perplexing musical architecture, and guide them along as if floating effortlessly on a cloud. The fact that Garland is not more known is an indication that much of the world has forgotten why it is we make and listen to music in the first place. If it’s not possible for popular music to reach the heights of the great classical masters, it seems no one has told David Garland.” 
—Sean Ono Lennon

“Garland is a superb, crazily imaginative songwriter. Singing through a Synclavier or banging on a piece of Styrofoam, he’ll sing about how insane the nightly news is, how painful true love is, how scary getting to know other people is, and it all quietly creeps up and hits you right where you live.” 
—Kyle Gann, Village Voice

“Mr. Garland [is] an accomplished pop baritone and determinedly self-choreographed dancer… His lyrics mix droll directness and evocative ambiguity, and he sets them to catchy tunes. His persona — a fallible character trying to make sense of his life — is unpretentiously appealing.”
— New York Times

The workshop, Forms in Space, will be a discussion and workshop focusing on composition, perception and the architecture of painting. Limited seats - registration is required! Email us to register.

Join us for an artist talk with Lydia Rubio at Lightforms Art Center.

Coco Neumann from Australia will sing a set of original folk music and Jen Zimberg will sing Songs of Joan of Arc as a duo with Coco.

Join us for the opening of Lydia Rubio’s solo exhibition, Talisman, at Lightforms Art Center.

On Saturday, November 8th at 3pm, Ezra Sullivan will give a lecture with musical introduction by Jen Zimberg and Kai Naor. Presented by the Berkshire-Taconic Branch.

On Saturday, November 1st from 11am-1pm, Elmer will lead a clay modeling workshop. The workshop will explore forming the human figure, sculpting using the "taking away" method, and observations and conversations about the Americas in relation with the human body as an archetype. Sliding scale of $20-60, which includes clay. REGISTER IN ADVANCE by emailing info@lightformsartcenter.com

Join us on Saturday, October 25 at 2pm for an artist talk with Elmer Orobio.

Screening of Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? movie with presentation by Gunther Hauk.

QUEEN OF THE SUN: What Are the Bees Telling Us? is a profound, alternative look at the global bee crisis from award-winning filmmaker Taggart Siegel, director of REAL DIRT ON FARMER JOHN . Taking us on a journey through the catastrophic disappearance of bees and the mysterious world of the beehive, this engaging and ultimately uplifting film weaves an unusual and dramatic story of the heartfelt struggles of beekeepers, scientists and philosophers from around the world including Michael Pollan, Gunther Hauk and Vandana Shiva. Together they reveal both the problems and the solutions in renewing a culture in balance with nature.

This screening takes place during Elmer Orobio’s solo sculpture exhibition DEVOTION AND INNER STRENGTH: SCULPTED SONGS, MEMORIES & HOMAGES.

Elmer Orobio solo sculpture exhibition DEVOTION AND INNER STRENGTH: SCULPTED SONGS, MEMORIES & HOMAGES opens on Friday, Oct 17 from 5-7pm!

Colombian-American artist/sculptor Elmer Orobio brings his world of sculpture alive at Lightforms this month.

Laurie Portocarrero is bringing three Mystery Drama experiences to Lightforms this September! On Saturday, September 13 at 3pm, Laurie will be joined by eurythmists Clifford Venho and Ivilisse Esguerra Venho for a performance piece and workshop.

All events at Lightforms Art Center: 743 Columbia St, Hudson, NY 12534.

Laurie Portocarrero is bringing three Mystery Drama experiences to Lightforms this September! On Thursday, September 11 at 7pm, she will share a story of the Portal of Initation.

All events at Lightforms Art Center: 743 Columbia St, Hudson, NY 12534.