The Center Arts program supports LGBTQ artists as well as brings art into education on LGBTQ issues in the broader community.
Center Arts currently includes:
- Romaine Brooks Gallery
- Live from the Living Room Poetry Open Mic
About the Romaine Brooks Gallery
The Romaine Brooks Gallery at the Pride Center of the Capital Region is a gallery dedicated for a creative space and outlet for LGBT artists and themed work. The Gallery is coordinated by Alan Ilagan and is a participant of Albany’s 1st Friday-a free cultural event in Albany featuring numerous gallery openings, one-night shows, local shops, restaurants, and live entertainment. Check out the 1st Friday website for more details about the celebration: www.1stfridayalbany.org. The gallery is located on the third floor of the Pride Center and is open during Rainbow Café drop in hours, 6-9PM Saturday-Wednesday and 9-10PM Thursday and Friday.
2013 Featured Artists
January: Caitlin S. Kerrigan
February: Carole Fults and Mary Pierce LaFleur
March: Jonathan Hammer
April: Steven Minchin
May: Poppy
June: The PRIDE Show
July: Tim Bergstrom
August: Kelly Raver
November: Lisa McLain
Current Artist: Steven Minchin
Steven’s Erased Branch Archive features a twist on the idea of landscape painting with assemblage and acrylic works that reduce to a new essence materials plucked out of a backyard on Hudson Avenue and negated in Garden Alley. The show, which hangs through the month of April, will open on Friday, April 5th from 5pm-9pm.
The Romaine Brooks Gallery is located on the third floor of the Pride Center of the Capital Region at 332 Hudson Avenue, Albany, NY 12210.
2012 Featured Artists
January: John Basko
February: Kevin Bruce
March: Diana Spencer
April: Dave Abbott
May: Stephanie Levay
June: Group Pride Show
July: David Tink
August: Lyle Houston
September: Ford McLain
October: Daniel Mozzillo
November: Eileen Clynes
December: Sandy Pratt
About Live from the Living Room
Live From The Living Room is a featured reading series with an open mic afterwords, always held on the second Wednesday of the month in the Pride Center’s Rainbow Cafe. Sign up is @ 7:00 pm, reading starts at 7:30. Hosted by Don Levy. Suggested donation $2.00.
2013 Featured Poets
January: Kevin Peterson
February: Leslie Michelle
March: Alan Casaline
April: Carole Rossi Keynon
May: Tess Lecuyer
June: Luis Pabon
July: Ken Denberg
August: Jacqueline Ahl
September : Judith Prest
Current Feature Poet: Carole Rossi Keynon
Carole Rossi Kenyon has been published in the Capitol Region Poets Magazine and has been a featured poet at Café Lena in Saratoga Springs NY. She has just completed work on her first chap book, “Natural Selection”. Carole lives in Gansevoort NY and works as a technical writer/engineer whisperer in Saratoga County NY. She is a Devotee of Poetry and a self-proclaimed open mic addict. The poetry center of Carole’s brain is always open and ready to receive visitors.
Carole Rossi- Kenyon will be the Featured Poet for April’s Live from the Living Room Poetry Open Mic.
2012 Featured Poets
January: Mojavi
April: Java Poets Collective’s
Suzanne Myers, Cecele Allen Kraus, Terry Royne & Amy White
May: Mojavi September: Kristen and Marilyn Day
October: Sylvia Barnard
November: Algorhythm
December: Emily Gonzalez
