Art in the Library

Hispanic Heritage Month Featured Artist: Carmen Lizardo

In the Margins of Invisibility, on view from September 20th – October 14th
Adriance Memorial Library Rotunda Gallery

The Margins of Invisibility offers an artistic exploration of how ancestral ties shape identity and cultural memory. It reflects on the migrant experience, tracing the evolution of family, culture, and self across borders. Through diasporic narratives, the work examines hybrid identities and the intricate dynamics of belonging, displacement, and assimilation.

“Los márgenes de la invisibilidad” Del 20 de septiembre al 14 de octubre
Adriance Memorial Library
Esta obra explora cómo los lazos ancestrales moldean la identidad y la memoria cultural. Reflexiona sobre la experiencia migrante y cómo la familia, la cultura y el yo se transforman al cruzar fronteras. A través de narrativas diaspóricas, la obra examina identidades híbridas y las complejidades del arraigo, el desplazamiento y la asimilación.

To Swallow a River, on view October 15 – 31

Exhibición de Arte Latino “Tragarse un Rio” por Carmen Lizardo
Del 15 de octubre al 31 de octubre
Adriance Memorial Library

Tragarse un Río presenta fotografías superpuestas de orillas, botes de inmigrantes y autorretratos para explorar cómo la migración moldea la identidad, la  memoria y el sentido de pertenencia. En esta obra profundamente personal, el agua se convierte en barrera y puente—una metáfora de los cruces físicos y emocionales que enfrentan los migrantes. El mar, inmenso y cambiante, refleja la naturaleza fluida de la identidad y los lazos que perduran a pesar de la distancia.

Jennifer Wollock

November 1 – December 31

Born in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, to parents from New York and Alberta, Canada, Jennifer Wollock grew up in Minnesota. Her training began at the Minneapolis Art Institute in a class that combined film, gallery visits, and original art inspired by that magnificent collection. (She was disconcerted when the class was directed to draw birds; when she made a Canada Goose, her instructor informed her that a Canada Goose was not a bird.) Wollock (then Jennifer Robin Goodman) first encountered the Middle Ages, folk music, printing, and puppetry while spending a year with her family in Cambridge, England. At Radcliffe College, and Harvard University, she teamed up with her classmate Emily Cheslow Singh (who used to live here in Poughkeepsie) to start an independent undergraduate puppet company, a collaboration still going strong. She also studied at the Center for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts in Minneapolis, and with the artist Rosemary Lindsay in College Station, Texas, while teaching English at Texas A&M University. Her marriage with Dr. Jeffrey Wollock, the historian and violinist, brought her and their three children back to New York. There she co-founded UAI (Underground Artists of Inwood) in Northern Manhattan, a family studio-artists’ team, to encourage artistic participation and collaborative multilingual work in the arts. UAI has exhibited artwork and performed old and new folk music and hand puppet demos at “Art in the Garden” in Inwood over the past three years. Some of her art and music is also available on Bandcamp.

The works on paper exhibited here represent one artist emerging over time, down to the present. These are things she brings with her, like a flying village.

Group Tiny Art Show

November 1 – December 6

Closing Reception: Saturday, December 6, 3:30 – 4:30 

Come meet the artists who participated in this year’s show. Light refreshments will be served. No registration required.

Robin Hutchinson: Reap in Joy

October 8, 2025 – January 7, 2026

Exhibits/Markets: