Music for Furniture concert during Hudson Winter Walk
Dec
6
6:00 PM18:00

Music for Furniture concert during Hudson Winter Walk

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

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Clay workshop with Elmer Orobio
Nov
1
11:00 AM11:00

Clay workshop with Elmer Orobio

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

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Queen of the Sun screening with Gunther Hauk
Oct
24
6:00 PM18:00

Queen of the Sun screening with Gunther Hauk

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.

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Mystery Drama workshop
Sep
5
to Sep 7

Mystery Drama workshop

This weekend: Mystery Drama workshop with Laurie Portocarrero! The workshop starts Friday, Sep 5th at 7pm at Lightforms - 743 Columbia St, Hudson, NY 12534. To sign up or get more details, send us a message!

Laurie Portocarrero is bringing three Mystery Drama experiences to Lightforms this September! From Sep 5-7, she will present a workshop on the Mystery Dramas. On Sep 11 at 7pm, she will share a story of the Portal of Initation. And on Sep 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.

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Jul
13
4:00 PM16:00

Fire in the Temple two-person reading

Sun, July 13 at 4pm. Glen Williamson and Laurie Portocarrero will perform a two-person reading of Fire in the Temple.

About Fire in the Temple

Rudolf Steiner, one of the most influential spiritual teachers of the 20th century, joins with the archangel Michael to confront mysterious demons in 1920s Europe. Crafted from actual events and discourse, Fire in the Temple dramatizes the last days of Rudolf Steiner's life, beginning with the destruction by fire of the original Goetheanum building on New Year's Eve, 1922. Proceeding through the almost unfathomable exertions of creativity that followed before Steiner's death in 1925, the play brings to the stage people who surrounded him in these final moments, including his wife, Marie Steiner von Sivers, and his physician, Dr. Ita Wegman. Their personal conflicts, hopes, and sorrows are sensitively portrayed in this rigorously researched drama.

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Jul
12
7:00 PM19:00

Fire in the Temple two-person reading

Sat, July 12 at 7pm. Glen Williamson and Laurie Portocarrero will perform a two-person reading of Fire in the Temple.

About Fire in the Temple

Rudolf Steiner, one of the most influential spiritual teachers of the 20th century, joins with the archangel Michael to confront mysterious demons in 1920s Europe. Crafted from actual events and discourse, Fire in the Temple dramatizes the last days of Rudolf Steiner's life, beginning with the destruction by fire of the original Goetheanum building on New Year's Eve, 1922. Proceeding through the almost unfathomable exertions of creativity that followed before Steiner's death in 1925, the play brings to the stage people who surrounded him in these final moments, including his wife, Marie Steiner von Sivers, and his physician, Dr. Ita Wegman. Their personal conflicts, hopes, and sorrows are sensitively portrayed in this rigorously researched drama.

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Jun
20
7:00 PM19:00

Hans Schumm lecture: Spiritual Image in Painting

Fri, June 20 at 7pm. Hans Schumm will give a lecture at Lightforms Art Center entitled "Spiritual Image in Painting: The Great Turning Point in the Art of Painting in the 20th Century."

Two streams of artistic expression appeared on the horizon almost simultaneously at the beginning of the 20th century: the great Abstraction, and the Spiritual image in painting. What lead to the impulse of modern art? And what took place at the same time and place as a kind of counter movement?

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May
16
6:00 PM18:00

Gerard Wagner opening + talk by Hans Schumm

Opening Reception and Talk by Hans Schumm
Friday, May 16
Doors open at 6pm | Talk by Hans Schumm of the Gerard Wagner Foundation at 7pm
Through Color to Form is a rare large-scale public exhibition of the work of Gerard Wagner (1906-1999). Wagner, an German-born English painter, based his art on the ideas of Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925), the founder of anthroposophy. This landmark exhibition will feature over 30 of Wagner’s paintings spanning from the 1940s through the 1980s.

With this new exhibition of Gerard Wagner's art, Lightforms continues exploring the influence of Rudolf Steiner on 20th century artists, an endeavor first started when Lightforms exhibited the work of Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) in 2020. Although there are numerous artists that Steiner influenced, Hilma Af Klint is presently among the most well-known artists to have studied personally with Rudolf Steiner.

Wagner’s work is a testament to this exploration of color as an objective language—a medium through which both Steiner and Wagner sought to reveal the hidden rhythms and spiritual forces of the world.

See more at www.lightformsartcenter.com/gerard-wagner-2025

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Apr
25
6:30 PM18:30

David Garland concert - Music for Furniture

Concert by Music for Furniture
Friday, April 25


On Fri, April 25, Garland will do a musical performance with his improvisational group Music for Furniture.

The Behavior of Sunlight is a solo exhibition by photographer and musician David Garland. The show features Garland’s experimental photography, capturing the changing nature of sunlight through reflection. These captivating images give both a macro and micro perspective on the world that is all around us. David writes “Like a mirage, these optical phenomena are real, but not the physical things they appear to be. ...My images are discovered as much as created.”

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Apr
11
6:30 PM18:30

David Garland opening + artist talk

Opening Reception and Artist Talk:
Friday, April 11
Doors open at 6:30pm | Artist Talk at 7pm

The Behavior of Sunlight is a solo exhibition by photographer and musician David Garland. The show features Garland’s experimental photography, capturing the changing nature of sunlight through reflection. These captivating images give both a macro and micro perspective on the world that is all around us. David writes “Like a mirage, these optical phenomena are real, but not the physical things they appear to be. ...My images are discovered as much as created.”

David Garland will give an artist talk during the opening reception at 7pm on Fri, April 11. On Fri, April 25, Garland will do a musical performance with his improvisational group Music for Furniture.

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