Tall Shadows in Short Order

Tall Shadows in Short Order is the Wassaic Project’s 2024 Summer Exhibition, featuring 30 artists throughout all seven floors of Maxon Mills, with a focus on large, site-specific installations. 

These include an interactive site for rest and exchange of plant knowledge by Tiffany Smith; a 30-language broadcast of the U.S. national anthem by Daniel Shieh; a mountain range made from maps of the U.S. and Argentina by Luciana Abait; a narrative wheel about psychic children in Vietnam by Petra Szilagyi; and, on the top floor, an alternative version of Wassaic in miniature, from Cate Pasquarelli’s Museum of Embellished History. 

Curated by Wassaic Project founders Eve Biddle, Bowie Barnett-Zunino, and Jeff Barnett-Winsby, and artist Will Hutnick, Tall Shadows in Short Order is open Saturdays and Sundays, 12 pm to 5 pm until September 14. The Art Nest drop-in kids space is open Saturdays 12 pm to 5 pm.

Admission is free. The mill is only air conditioned on the ground floor; there is no elevator.

There are events at the Wassaic complex of buildings into October, including open studio tours with resident artists, a dance party in September, and the annual Haunted Mill and Monster’s Ball for Halloween.—wassaicproject.org