EVENTS

Friday, March 6, 2026
6:30 – 8:30 pm

Step into an evening of spiritual connection inspired by the exhibition Emma Stebbins: Carving Out History. We will gather together to explore the important role that spiritualism played in Victorian Life and how it particularly empowered women as artists, entrepreneurs, and spiritual leaders. Featured guests include guided mediums, tarot card readers, authors, and artists including: Brenda Lee and members of Long Island Psychics; Dr. SUSAN L. ABERTH, author of Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art ; and Alex Chowaniec artist and creator of the Healing Tarot deck. 

The evening will include gallery style readings from talented mediums, intimate conversations, and presentations on the topics of women, art, and spiritualism, and light refreshments will be provided. The evening will illuminate the power that women have to tap into universal energy, inner strength, artistic creation, and the enduring symbols of angels and healing waters, like those present in the most celebrated work of Emma Stebbins. 

$25 for Members, $35 Non-Members Space is limited. Registration required.

Susan L. Aberth is the Edith C. Blum Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY where she teaches courses on Latin American religious art, Outsider art, Surrealism and a variety of esoteric topics including alchemy, Freemasonry and Spiritualism. A revised and expanded edition of her 2020 book, co-authored with Mexican curator Tere Arcq, The Tarot of Leonora Carrington, is currently out from RM Verlag, Madrid (with a Spanish edition). In addition to her book Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art (2004, Lund Humphries), her recent scholarship has focused on women artists and occultism. Essays by her are included in Surrealism and Magic (2022 Guggenheim, Venice); Witchcraft: Library of Esoterica (2021 Taschen); Not Without My Ghosts (2020 Drawing Room & Hayward Gallery); Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist, (2019, Phoenix Art Museum); and Surrealism, Occultism and Politics (2018, Routledge). 

Alex Chowaniec is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY who has exhibited internationally, including at La MaMa in New York City; The Barbican Centre, London; Olga Korper Gallery, Art Toronto, Galerie d’Art Jean-Claude Bergeron and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Canada. Chowaniec created the Healing Tarot, a healing deck for those with loved ones fighting cancer and for those who have experienced the loss of a loved one to cancer. The Healing Tarot has been published in card form as a discursive tool, and also as original artwork that has been exhibited in the past in conversation with the ritual practice of the deck. Chowaniec will be sharing images from her Healing Tarot deck at this event and speaking to her journey of creating this special piece of art and how individuals can utilize the deck in their own lives as a healing practice. 

Brenda Lee and the Long Island Psychics are a network of gifted and well-rounded psychic mediums with over 30 years of soul-level insight. Their work combines intuitive guidance with deep compassion, helping clients navigate life’s challenges with clarity, purpose, and peace. Through their readings, Brenda and her team connect with you on a spiritual level to reveal meaningful truths, offer healing messages, and guide you toward greater understanding and alignment on your journey.