About the Exhibition
Terrestrial Extra is the 2026 iteration of the Dorsky Museum’s annual Hudson Valley Artists exhibition. Guest-curated by artists Alta Buden and Craig Monteith, it will present work by Hudson Valley-based artists who consider how industrial materials pulled from the Earth’s surface or extracted from its depths become integrated into the visual field.
Appearing as features of the terrain, remnants from stone and sand quarries, cement factories, and clay pits reveal the transformative effect of industrial production on our surroundings. Through an aesthetic and ecological consideration of materiality, Terrestrial Extra explores how such remnants--stone, glass, cement, and clay, along with products and byproducts including steel, wood, and charcoal--are also generative art materials.
Interested artists are invited to submit artwork in mediums that have a direct and specific relationship with industrialization or that illustrate its impact through maps, charts, scientific studies, schematics, cross sections, and historic narratives.
The exhibition will be on view at the Dorsky Museum February 7 - April 5, 2026
About the Curators
Alta Buden and Craig Monteith are visual artists and curators who co-founded and co-direct Roundabouts Now, a contemporary art gallery located in Kingston, NY. Buden is a sculptor with a background in biology and an interest in human relationships to the environment. She works primarily in clay, glass, and steel. Monteith is a mixed-media artist and art worker. His two and three-dimensional artworks employ stained glass, found objects, and the vernacular of technical illustration to make unexpected connections between objects and their uses. The curatorial duo has a decade long history of thoughtfully showing work by fellow artists that began with Harbor and Regina Rex galleries in New York City and now continues in Roundabouts Now.
Submission guidelines
The Hudson Valley Artists exhibition is open to all artists with a permanent mailing address and active fine art practice in Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rensselaer, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester counties.
Students and the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art staff, advisory board members, and their immediate families are not eligible.
Eligible artists are invited to submit a maximum of six images or video files of work created in 2022 or later.
All types of fine art and all art mediums will be considered.
Brief proposals for new works including installation, social practice, or performance may also be submitted. The Museum will not cover the material expenses related to producing a new work.
There is no application fee.
Submission deadline: by midnight on Sunday, September 14.
The Hudson Valley Artists Annual Purchase Award of $3,000 will be used to acquire one or more artworks from the exhibition for the Museum’s permanent collection. This Purchase Award is made possible thanks to the Alice and Horace Chandler Art Acquisition Fund.
Delivery of Accepted Work
All works must be hand-delivered by the artist, or a representative of the artist, according to the following schedule:
Drop Off: December 15 and 16, 2025
Pick Up: April 9 - 10, 2026
Accepted artists will be advised of specific drop off and pick up times. Please note that all accepted artworks must be delivered and picked-up in person. The museum cannot accept artworks from delivery services, FedEx, UPS or USPS. Any artworks left in the museum after April 10 will be subject to a storage fee.
Installation
All works selected for display must be framed or delivered in a manner ready for installation. For works that have complicated installation and deinstallation procedures, it is the responsibility of the artist to complete all necessary tasks. While The Dorsky Museum has a limited supply of equipment, it is the responsibility of the artist to supply any equipment for video projects, performance pieces and the like.
About The Dorsky Museum
Through its collections, exhibitions and public programs, the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art supports and enriches the academic programs at the College and serves as a center for Hudson Valley arts and culture. With more than 9,000 square feet of exhibition space distributed over six galleries, The Dorsky Museum is one of the largest museums in the SUNY system. Since its official dedication in 2001, The Dorsky has presented more than 100 exhibitions, including commissions, collection-based projects, and in-depth studies of contemporary artists including Robert Morris, Alice Neel, Judy Pfaff, Carolee Schneemann and Ushio Shinohara.
Museum Hours: Wednesday–Sunday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Closed Mondays, Tuesdays, holidays and intersessions. For more information about The Dorsky Museum and its programs, visit www.newpaltz.edu/museum or call (845) 257-3844.