Art After Dark Gala
Friday, November 17 | 6:00 – 9:00 PM
Please join us for this year’s Art After Dark, a fun-filled evening honoring artists, alumni, and activists in our community who embody The Art Effect’s belief in using your creative voice to bring about positive social change. We’ll celebrate with delicious food, live music, and immersive art experiences — all surrounded by the spectacular Black art exhibition, quiet as it’s kept, in the Trolley Barn Gallery.
This year, The Art Effect is proud to honor artists James Ransome and Lesa Cline-Ransome, alumni John Olson, and community partner La Voz Magazine.
The Art Effect empowers young people to develop their creative voice to shape their futures and bring about positive social change. Art After Dark is our biggest fundraiser of the year and a chance to celebrate heroes from our community while also powering The Art Effect’s distinctive model of arts education, college prep portfolio development, and youth workforce development in creative industries.
Be a part of Art After Dark and celebrate with hundreds of folks just like you who make The Art Effect possible. We can’t wait to see you there!
Purchase Tickets
Friday, November 17, 2023 | 6:00 – 9:00 PM
Trolley Barn Gallery
489 Main St, Poughkeepsie
Meet The 2023 Honorees
Each year, Art After Dark honors individuals and organizations who have improved the quality of life for individuals and families in our community; shown a great love of and support of The Art Effect; or serve as leaders and change agents in the local community.
This year, Art After Dark will honor:
Purchase a Congratulatory Program Ad
Businesses and individuals can purchase a congratulatory ad celebrating our honorees or The Art Effect that will be featured in the event program. Quarter, half, or full page ads are full color and must be received by November 1, 2023.
In The Gallery
quiet as it’s kept — an exhibition of Black art of exceptional quality that explores the depths of the Black experience and reveals its complex roots. From landscapes to surrealism, from digital art to sculpture, from traditional to innovative — this show provides that Black art is as unique as Black people.
BUY A POSTER
James Ransome is an award-winning artist and illustrator based in the Hudson Valley, and co-recipient of The Art Effect’s 2023 Artist Award at Art After Dark.
We are pleased to be able to offer a limited number of signed posters featuring Ransome’s illustrations for sale. Purchase one to keep or sponsor one to be donated to a school classroom, library, or youth center throughout the Hudson Valley. Choose from five designs here.
Art After Dark Mission
The Art Effect empowers young people to develop their creative voice to shape their futures and bring about positive social change. Art After Dark is our biggest fundraiser of the year and a chance to celebrate heroes from our community while also powering The Art Effect’s distinctive model of arts education, college prep portfolio development, and youth workforce development in creative industries.
Proceeds from the evening provide essential support for The Art Effect’s arts education programming.
2023 Art After Dark Sponsors
Additional event support provided by Prime Print Shop and Durant’s Party Rentals.
Generous support for quiet as it’s kept provided by Humanities New York and Dutchess Tourism through a grant administered by Arts Mid-Hudson. Additional support from the New York State Council on the Arts.
Thank you to Fast Signs of Wappingers.
