About Omi
Overview
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Overview
Omi is a not-for-profit residency program for international visual artists, writers, musicians and dancers as well as the site for The Fields Sculpture Park, a year round public exhibition space for contemporary sculpture. Located in Omi, New York, a Hudson River Valley hamlet two and a half hours from New York City, Omi is situated on 300 acres of rolling farmland with spectacular views of the Catskills and the river valley.
There are four distinct residency programs: the Art Omi International Artists Residency, which invites thirty artists from around the world for three weeks every July; the Ledig House International Writers Residency, which sponsors forty to fifty writers and translators for up to two months each year; and Music Omi International Musicians Residency, which brings together twelve to fifteen musician-composers to collaborate actively and perform in August, and Dance Omi International Dance Collective which brings together ten individual dancers from around the world for three weeks of collaborative dance.
Since its beginning, Omi has been guided by the vision that creative work is a vehicle for knowledge and understanding that transcends political and cultural boundaries. To this end, Omi has hosted over 400 residents from 50 different countries to date. Omi provides residents with room, board, and a place to work. Our Boards, comprised of peer group professionals, review all applications.
As an integral part of our programs, Omi broadens the scope of traditional retreats by hosting visiting New York critics, gallerists, publishers, collectors, curators and agents who help residents cultivate valuable career opportunities. Our strong commitment to fostering professional success and growth in the lives of serious artists, writers and musicians makes Omi unique.Our Mission
Omi International Arts Center works to further communication and exchange among writers, musicians, visual artists and dancers by offering international working residencies in a peaceful country setting. Omi advances the scope of traditional artists' retreats by introducing our residents to gallerists, publishers, critics, agents, curators and collectors who help them cultivate valuable career-networking opportunities.
Omi has always recognized the importance not only of nurturing creative individuals, but also of bringing the arts to the public. Each of Omi's residencies includes a public program-- the "Open Day" studio visits of the visual arts program, the Ledig House spring and fall authors' readings, a Dance Open Day Performance and the Music Omi Collaborative Concert - in which our international residents share their work with the community at large.
The Fields Sculpture Park, open year-round since 1998, provides hundreds of visitors with the opportunity to experience the impact of important international contemporary sculpture in striking natural surroundings. Educators, schoolchildren, and various community groups take advantage of Art Omi's educational outreach program, and enrich their knowledge and appreciation of contemporary art and sculpture.
Since its founding ten years ago, Omi International Arts Center is guided by the principle that artistic expression is a vehicle that transcends economic, political, and cultural boundaries. By inviting a synergistic mix of artists, writers, musicians and dancers from all over the world to create a diverse, positive working community, Omi transforms this guiding vision into an exciting reality.
It has been said that "Life imitates Art". It is the hope of all those who work on behalf of Omi that the world will emulate our artistic community in finding ways to remove those obstacles which separate people and nations from one another.Administrative Director
- Ruth Adams
- Arnold J. Kemp, Assistant Administrative Director
Executive Committee
- Bruce Burnett, Antrev Inc.
- John Cross, Artist
- Alan Fishman
- Francis Greenburger, Chairman of Omi, Inc.,
Chairman and CEO of Time Equities, Inc.- Abby Hamlin, Hamlin Ventures
- Andy Humphrey
- Robert Kantor, President, Time Equities, Inc
- Heidi Neuhoff, Heidi Neuhoff Gallery
- Anders U. Schroeder, Chairman, Asgard Group
- Joe Thompson, Director, MASS MoCA
Location
Omi International Arts Center
59 Letter S Road
Ghent, New York 12075
Omi International Arts Center
55 Fifth Avenue, 15th Floor
New York, New York 10003
Click -here- for map
from New York City by car
Take the Henry Hudson Parkway until it becomes the Saw Mill River Parkway and continue on the Saw Mill to the Taconic State Parkway North. Take the Taconic State Parkway North 1-1/2 hours to Hudson/Ancram Rt. 82 Exit. This exit is just north of signs for "Lake Taghkanic State Park". Pay close attention as Route 82 crosses the Taconic Parkway further south as well, but this earlier exit should not be taken. At the end of the ramp, take a right onto Route 82 North. Take 82 North to Route 9H. Take a right onto Route 9H. Go north on Route 9H for 10 miles to County Route 22, which is the second right after "Love Apple Farm". Rt. 22 is 3.5 miles north of the juncture of 9H and Rt. 66. Go 2 miles on Route 22 to 1405 County Route 22.from Boston by car:
I-90 W/Massachusetts Turnpike/Mass Pike
Take exit B3 for RT-22 toward New Lebanon/Austerlitz
Turn left at RT-22
Turn right at RT-203
Turn left at CR-9
Turn left at CR-9/RT-66
Turn right at Garage Pl Rd
Continue straight onto CR-21
Slight left at CR-22
Visitors Center is on your right.
1405 County Route 22from NH and PA:
Take NYS Thruway to Hudson, Rt. 23B, then left onto 9H. Follow above instructions from Route 9H to ART/OMI.by train from NYC (2 hours):
Take the Amtrak train from Penn Station, in Manhattan at 7th Ave. and 32nd Street, to Hudson, New York. For train schedules and reservations, phone: 1-800-872-7245.from Hudson:
Take Route 66 North. Turn left onto 9H. Turn right onto County Route 22. Go to 1405 County Route 22 on left.from Chatham:
Follow Route 66 South. In Ghent, turn right onto Garage Place. Turn left onto County Route 22. go to 1405 County Route 22.from Albany:
Take I-90 East toward Boston. Take the Hudson Exit/US-9 Exit 12 toward Hudson. Take a right onto US-9. Stay straight through the traffic circle and continue onto NY 9H. Turn left onto County Route 22. Go to 1405 County Route 22 and turn left into Omi International Arts Center.
If you are an invited guest at OMI - Ledig House, please let us know in advance when you plan to arrive in Hudson. We will be happy to meet you at the train station to drive you to Omi. Call Ledig House at 518-392-4568 x 100.
Contact Us
Omi International Arts Center
55 Fifth Avenue, 15th Floor
New York, New York 10003
212.206.5684
Omi International Arts Center
59 Letter S Road
Ghent, New York 12075
Director, Ruth Adams - director@artomi.org
General Administration: Vennette Rondeau - admin@artomi.org
Architecture Omi: Director: Peter Barton
Art Omi International Arts Residency: Claudia Cannizzaro - artists@artomi.org
Dance Omi International Collective Program: Christopher K. Morgan - dancers@artomi.org
Educational Programming, Director: Sasha Sicurella - education@artomi.org
The Fields Sculpture Park, Director: Amy Lipton - thefields@artomi.org
The Fields Sculpture Park, Curators: Peter Franck/ Kathleen Triem - curator@artomi.org
Ledig House International Writers Residency: D. W. Gibson - writers@artomi.org
Music Omi International Arts Residency: Jeffrey Lependorf - musicians@artomi.org
For information about handicapped accessibility in our Sculpture Park or for our events, please call 212-206-5684 or email us at admin@artomi.org.
Links
ARTIST RESIDENCY FOR SCULPTORS @ CAMPING FUSINA VENICE-ITALY
A Gathering of the Tribes
CELEBRATION OF CELTS GAMES OF COLUMBIA COUNTY:
www.celebrationofcelts.com
Access Arts' ArtDeadline.Com@ArtDeadline.Com
resartis.org
The Inn at Hudson
