2025 MILLBROOK ARTS & OPEN STUDIOS | JULY 19 - 20TH
The Millbrook Arts Group is pleased to participate in the sixth edition of UPSTATE ART WEEKEND. This connective annual event for locals and tourists alike celebrates the cultural vibrancy of Upstate New York and MILLBROOK ARTS & OPEN STUDIOS aims to celebrate our creative community in Millbrook.
Our event will run Saturday, July 19th to Sunday, July 20th from 10am - 5pm and will include a curated exhibit at the Millbrook Arts Project at the Millbrook Library, 11 Open Studios, and a concert at 6pm by local musicians STRAWBERRY RUNNERS & SHE KEEPS BEES at the Millbrook Bandshell.
ARTISTS PARTICIPATING IN OPEN STUDIOS
MILLBROOK ARTS PROJECT EXHIBITION @ MILLBROOK LIBRARY
Generated Utility: Natalie Beall & Kathy Greenwood
July 12 - August 23rd, 2025
Public Reception: Saturday, July 19, 4 - 6:00pm
The Millbrook Arts Project is pleased to present the fifth exhibition of our inaugural season. GENERATED UTILITY brings together the work of Natalie Beall and Kathy Greenwood, two artists who explore the regenerative possibilities of domestic forms and functions. Through material invention and abstraction, they reimagine familiar objects and traditions, shifting them from the realm of the functional into spaces of poetic ambiguity and formalist play.
Fascinated by the underlying energy of inanimate objects, Natalie Beall creates paper collages and mixed-media wall sculptures that suggest a taxonomy of invented tools and unnameable gadgets. Often flattened and symmetrical, her work embraces a lineage of traditionally feminine and often overlooked creative pursuits that hold dormant potential.
Kathy Greenwood similarly engages with domestic material culture, but through the deeply tactile language of textiles. Using salvaged and heirloom fabrics, she braids, knots, stitches, and weaves discarded clothing and recycled aluminum cans into sculptural forms that carry the memory of labor and care. In tandem, Greenwood’s paintings abstract patterns observed in her sculptural work, offering a contemplative lens through which to examine repetition, craft, and time.
Together, Beall and Greenwood explore how domestic and utilitarian objects can be generative sites of meaning. Their work celebrates the ingenuity found in transformation and invites viewers to reconsider the quiet lives of the everyday things that surround us.