Artist Talk: Michelle Weinberg & Natasha Sweeten

Please join us at The Wick Hotel on Sunday, August 16, for an artist talk with Michelle Weinberg & Natasha Sweeten on the occasion of their exhibition, Notes To Self. They will be in conversation with local artist Jean Feinberg.

July 16–September 20, 2026
CREATE Offsite: The Wick
41 Cross St, Hudson, NY
Free to public

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Jean Feinberg began exhibiting her work as an invited artist at the women’s cooperative gallery A.I.R. and at the new Mary Boone Gallery both then located in Soho in late 1978. She went on to join the Rosa Esman Gallery and later Victoria Munroe Gallery in New York. Her work has been in solo and group shows including the National Academy Museum, the Weatherspoon Art Gallery, the Milwaukee Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Princeton Museum of Art, Angles Gallery in California, John Davis Gallery, Beth Urdang in Boston, Stefan Stux Gallery, the Jersey City Museum, and Galeria Durban in Venezuela. She has been the recipient of grants, fellowships, and residencies from the National Endowment for the Arts, Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Edward Albee Foundation. Her works are represented in public and private collections in the US and Europe including the Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Parasol Press, Werner Kramarsky, Best Products, IBM Corporation, Amerata-Hess, and Champion International, and has been reviewed Art in America, Artforum, Arts, Art International, ArtNews, The New York Times, and The Boston Globe among others. Jean has taught and lectured about her work at academic institutions including the Parsons School of Design, Princeton University, the Chicago Art Institute, Rhode Island School of Design, Brown University, and Bard’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts where she taught for many years. She recently retired her position as Assistant Professor in Fine Arts at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She holds a BS in Fine Arts from Skidmore College and an MA in Painting from Hunter College.

Michelle Weinberg is the recipient of a Gottlieb Foundation Award (2025), Pollock-Krasner (2025 and 2016), NYSCA Support to Artists Grant (2025), LES Printshop Keyholder (2024-25), Yaddo (2024), NYSCA/NYFA (2023), LMCC, MacDowell, Millay, SouthFlorida Cultural Consortium, State of Florida Individual Artist, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, homesession and Fundacion Valparaiso in Spain, 100W Corsicana in TX, Studios at MASS MoCA and more. Exhibitions: Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland, SanArt, Brooklyn, Studio 502/ArtBridge, Project: ARTspace, LES Printshop, High Noon Gallery, Charles Moffett Gallery in NYC, ArtPort in Kingston, NY, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance in Narrowsburg, NY, Pulp Holyoke, MA, La Plataforma in Barcelona and Edge Zones, Outer Space Miami, MiFA Gallery, Collective 62, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, University Galleries at Florida Atlantic University and Frost Art Museum in Miami. Commissioned: murals, tiles, terrazzo, mosaic works for facebook, Miami-Dade County AiPP, Wolfsonian Museum in Miami Beach, Miami International Airport and more. Currently her mural “River Semaphore” is installed at Battery Park in Lower Manhattan. Her hand-knotted rugs are produced in collaboration with CariniLang in NYC. Weinberg works in NYC, Miami, FL and in Sharon Springs, NY.

The daughter of an immigrant, Natasha Sweeten was born in Kentucky and considers her youth a navigation between belonging and being an outsider. She grew up in college town suburbia and attended high school in rural southern Indiana, where her first job was on a U-Pick-It farm, sweeping parking lots and leading school children on apple orchard tours. She studied painting and sculpture at the Cleveland Institute of Art and painting at Bard College, supporting herself in New York City by working at art galleries and as an artist assistant. 

Sweeten’s work has been included in various solo and group exhibitions, including at Edward Thorp Gallery, Satchel Projects , BravinLee (all NYC) and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland. Her work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Art in America and the Journal of Contemporary Painting, among others. She is the recipient of a 2006 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting and a PS 122 Space Fellowship, as well as several artist residencies at MacDowell, the Vermont Studio Center and Yaddo. 

Primarily a painter, Sweeten at times collaborates with fellow artists in various media, including painting, sculpture, installation, collage and film. In 2024, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Gordon Matta-Clark’s Splitting, she collaborated with Ithaca-based architects Ballman Khapalova to create an homage by cutting her upstate garage in half. Sweeten also curates exhibitions and writes art reviews for the blog Two Coats of Paint. She lives and works in Germantown, NY.

For inquiries, please contact gallery@createcouncil.org

This exhibition is a part of CREATE Offsite.