KinoSaito Presents Spring 2025 Artists in Residence Open Studios

Verplanck, NY (March 2025)—KinoSaito is pleased to announce its Open Studios event on Saturday, April 5th, 2025, from 12 to 4 p.m. with Spring 2025 Artists in Residence, Dylan Everett and Khari Johnson-Ricks. This is a four-week onsite residency program at KinoSaito. Light refreshments will be provided during Open Studios. The event is free to the public and will occur at KinoSaito’s nonprofit art center at 115 7th Street in Verplanck, NY, where the artists will open their studios for an exciting glimpse into their works in progress and practice.

Dylan Everett (b. 1994) is an artist/photographer working with still life and photo collage. He currently lives and works in New York, NY. He received an MFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2019, and a BA in Visual Art from Brown University in 2016. In 2022, his work was exhibited at the Silver Eye in Pittsburgh, PA, among other group exhibitions. In 2021, his work was shown in a solo exhibition at the Griffin Museum of Photography (Winchester, MA) and in a virtual solo exhibition at Shelter in Place Gallery (Boston, MA).

In 2020, he was a recipient of the West Collection LIFTS Grant and Acquisition Award; he was previously awarded the Digital Silver Imaging Portfolio Prize in 2018, was named second place for the 2019 Lenscratch Student Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2022 Silver Eye Center for Photography Fellowship.

Khari Johnson-Ricks (b. 1994) is a multimedia artist whose practice includes works on paper, murals, independent publishing, and black vernacular dance. He lives and works in New Jersey. In addition to Night Gallery, his work has been included in groups at Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles; Center for Art Research and Alliances New York; and SCADMOA, Savannah, among others. He has created public murals for the city of Newark as part of Mayor Ras Baraka’s Model Neighborhood Initiative and Gateways to Newark Projects. His zines are featured in the library collections of the MET Library, the Whitney Library, and the MOMA Library.

For more details about this AIR Program, visit https://www.kinosaito.org/current-resident-artists. For more details about the Open Studios, visit https://www.kinosaito.org/events. For any additional inquiries, please contact Gallery Director Megan Meadowlark at 914-293-7468 or megan@kinosaito.org.

About KinoSaito
KinoSaito is a nonprofit art center founded in 2018 and dedicated to the creation of abstract art. We are committed to nurturing art experimentation across all mediums and perpetuating the legacy of our founding muse and Japanese-American artist, Kikuo Saito (1939-2016). The center opened in 2021 upon renovation of its historic St. Patrick’s Catholic School located in Verplanck, NY. Since opening our doors, we have served a multicultural, intergenerational audience of 3,500 annually.

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KinoSaito Programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.