WSW ChiliBowl 2025 Photo by Maya WainhausRosendale, N.Y. – On April 11th, Women’s Studio Workshop’s beloved Chili Bowl Fest Fundraiser returns! For almost 30 years this event has been a celebration of ceramics and community and has become a staple of the Hudson Valley's public festival schedule. In recent years WSW has added an online portion, leading the festival to include a one-day online sale along with the in-person sale of handmade ceramics!

Over 500 beautiful bowls hand-crafted by local artists, WSW staff and interns, resident artists, students, and volunteers will be available to purchase! Because so many hands contribute to this process, each vessel is one-of-a-kind, and widely varied in shape, size, color, decoration, and, of course, price-point. Guests always have a blast looking for the perfect piece. All proceeds from the Chili Bowl Fest support artistic programming at WSW.

The In-Person Sale will take place from 2-7PM at the Women’s Studio Workshop (722 Binnewater Lane, Rosendale NY). Admission is $10 from 2-4PM, and free from 4-7PM. Children’s admission is free all day. Each bowl purchase comes with a free serving of chili donated by dozens of local eateries, and we’ll have live music all day from The Library Band!

The Online Sale will open at 10AM at https://bit.ly/ChiliBowlOnline. Once purchased, each bowl will be double-boxed, carefully packaged with recyclable materials, and mailed directly to your door for ultimate safety and ease. Be sure to bookmark the page and set your alarms, because these bowls will sell out fast.

We hope you will join us to celebrate our cherished Chili Bowl Fundraiser, and continue to support our creative community of ceramicists!

Women's Studio Workshop (WSW) is a visual arts organization in Rosendale, New York. Since 1974, WSW has brought over 5,000 artists from across the globe to work in the printmaking, hand papermaking, letterpress printing, photography, book arts, and ceramics studios. Over 6,500 Ulster County youth have participated in WSW’s Art-in-Education program. WSW’s artists’ book grant program has published more than 250 artists’ books, collected by special collections of major libraries and museums including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Tate Modern, and The Library of Congress, among many others.

 

Women’s Studio Workshop programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, the Hershey Foundation, Ruth Foundation for the Arts, Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Cowles Charitable Trust, Cornelia Bailey Foundation, NOVO Foundation, Strypemonde Foundation, Stewart’s Shops, Klock Kingston Foundation, Dorothea Rockburne Foundation, and the Windgate Charitable Foundation.

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Photo: WSW ChiliBowl 2025 (Photo by Maya Wainhaus)