News Release: 10/9/2025

KinoSaito, the Art Students League, and the Paul & Kristin LoGerfo Charitable Fund Announce Their Second Partnership Artist in Residence (AIR) Fellowship Program in Westchester County and Fall 2025 Resident Artists with Open Studios on Saturday, November 8th, 1-4 pm

Verplanck, NY (October 2025) – KinoSaito, the Art Students League, and the Paul & Kristin LoGerfo Charitable Fund are pleased to announce their second partnership Artist in Residence (AIR) Fellowship Program beginning on October 8, 2025 at KinoSaito’s nonprofit art center in Westchester County, NY. The four-week onsite residency program will host two artists whom the Art Students League selected via a competitive application process. This year’s awardees are Frank Webster and Peter Bonner. On Saturday, November 8th from 1-4 pm, the artists will be opening their studios to the public during their residency here at KinoSaito. This is a unique opportunity to witness their work in progress and gain insights into their creative process. Frank Webster (https://fwebster.com/) is a painter who lives in New York, NY. Webster received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his MFA from the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. He also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Webster is the recipient of numerous awards including the NYFA Fellowship in Painting, the Pollock Krasner and the Golden Foundation Individual Artist Award.

He has shown in solo and group exhibitions in New York at Isabel Sullivan Gallery, Blackston Gallery, Transmitter Gallery, Sara Meltzer Gallery and White Columns, to name a few. Webster’s work has been reviewed in Art in America, the New Yorker, Village Voice and New York Times among other publications. He has been awarded residencies at the NES Artist Residency in Iceland, the Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program, Painting Space 122, Virginia Commonwealth University, the Ucross Foundation, the Corporation of Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony among others.

In 2022, he participated in the spring expedition of the Arctic Circle Residency where he documented the Svalbard archipelago with special attention paid to its glaciers. Later that year he was an artist in residence at the Burren College of Art where he trekked over and recorded the distinctive karst landscape. Also in the same year, Webster was commissioned to execute The Stone—a monumental Icelandic landscape—by the Durst Organization for the library for the newly constructed SVEN residential project in Long Island City, New York. In 2024, the Isabel Sullivan Gallery in Tribeca presented the solo exhibition Earthed Lightning: Northern Landscapes by Frank Webster which brought together topographical paintings from Ireland, Norway and Iceland.

Webster’s work is in public and private collections in the US and abroad. Currently, Webster teaches watercolor technique at the Art Students League of New York.

Peter Bonner (https://peterbonner.net/) was born in Australia and has been living and working in New York since 1998. Bonner studied drawing and painting in Melbourne from 1994 and during that time drew from the model obsessively. This fostered development in his work that led to him winning the Dobell Prize for Drawing in 1996, Australia’s preeminent Drawing Prize, and being selected a finalist in 1997 and again in 2000.

In 1998 Bonner’s painting, Exterior space - Melbourne (Bones scattered in the field) was exhibited at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Australia and brought him to the attention of the New York Studio School. This resulted in Bonner being awarded a scholarship to study at the School with the likes of Mercedes Matter, Charles Cajori and Esteban Vicente which he did from 1997 to 2001.

Since then Bonner has made work in the deserts in central Australia and the American South West, as well as making works from drawings and from Memory in his Brooklyn Studio. He completed a Masters by Research degree in 2010 investigating Perception, Memory and the Primitive. Over that time Bonner’s process has evolved from the ideas of those who were associated with or in the circle of the abstract expressionists into a process of continual construction and deconstruction that moves fluidly between the human figure and landscape, evoking an inner, emotive, bodily space and incorporates materials such as sand, rice paper, and charcoal.

Bonner has exhibited extensively in New York and in Australia, having solo and focused exhibitions in New York with John Davis Gallery, William Holman Gallery, Michael David gallery and more recently Anita Shapolsky Gallery as well as solo exhibitions in Melbourne, Brisbane and San Francisco.

This round of Art Students League AIR fellowship is funded by the Paul & Kristin LoGerfo Charitable fund. To learn about supporting a program, visit https://www.kinosaito.org/donate. For more details about this partnership AIR Program, visit https://www.kinosaito.org/current-resident-artists. For more information on Open Studios on November 8th from 1-4 pm, visit https ://www.kinosaito.org/events. For any further questions, please contact Gallery Director, Megan Meadowlark, at 914-293-7468 or megan@kinosaito.org.

About Art Students League The Art Students Leauge was founded in 1875 by a group of art students who hoped to escape the Academy by founding a member-run art school designed for and run by independent artists. For nearly 150 years, the Art Students League of New York has been a haven for countless artists, who

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About KinoSaito KinoSaito is a nonprofit 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.