“To Build a Home” Opens at the Headwaters Arts Center

HEADWATERS – The Roxbury Arts Group presents “To Build a Home”, an exhibition of artwork by New York artists Katherine Chazwik, Maeve McCool, and Polly Shindler, showing at the Headwaters Arts Center February 14–April 4, 2026. Free and open to all, the artist reception will be held on the opening, Saturday, February 14, 2–4p. For more information, visit roxburyartsgroup.org.

Featuring images of interior and exterior spaces, the work of Chwazik, McCool, and Schindler gives us an intimate look at what makes a home, from the objects, memories, and emotions that inhabit a place, to the structure that contains them. This work explores questions such as: Where does safety reside? Where do we find shelter? And what truly protects us?

Katherine Chazwik’s work “combines printmaking, drawing, and sculpture to construct spaces that reference local architecture.” Weaving time and space into her pieces, Chazwik “layers imagery in a way that reflects the conflicting feelings we have about places.” 

Maeve McCool’s installation of found objects, sketches, and ephemera “points towards the passing of time,” the transience of memory, and the impermanence of the treasured objects which make up a home. 

Polly Shindler’s “paintings are a look into some of our quietest moments. They explore the parts of our world that feel mundane but when cobbled together create a life.”

This exhibit invites us to consider what creates the architecture of a place that is sacred enough to be called home.

Katherine Chazwik is a mixed media artist, curator, and art educator living and working in New York’s Capital Region. She studied art and art education at The College of Saint Rose, created Smallbany Gallery in 2020, and tries to teach middle schoolers that anyone can be an artist.

Maeve McCool is a visual artist based in Catskill, NY. Her work aims to consider memory, decay, and regrowth through detailed drawings, prints, and mixed media techniques. McCool studies how capitalist production rises and falls and how rural American communities emotionally connect to industry versus nature, and ideas of home, femininity, and loss.

McCool received her BA in Fine Art and Art History from the Corcoran College of Art and Design at the George Washington University in 2018. McCool has been a resident at The Tides Institute, Eastport, ME, The Sable Project, Stockbridge, VT, In Cahoots, Petaluma, CA, Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center in Hyattsville, MD, Prattsville Art Center in Prattsville, NY, and Future Prairie, Portland, OR. McCool has had numerous solo exhibitions including  at Athens Cultural Center, Lexington Arts + Science, Monolight Gallery and Prattsville Art Center, and participated in numerous group exhibitions in New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Washington, DC.

Polly Shindler received an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute and a BA in History from University of Massachusetts. Solo exhibitions include Windows at Deanna Evans Projects in NYC, Retreat at Ortega y Gasset Projects and Tennis Elbow at The Journal Gallery, NYC. A second solo exhibition with Deanna Evans is upcoming in February 2026. She had her first solo fair presentation at NADA in Miami in 2024. Recent group shows include Ochi Gallery in Ketchum, ID, Chozick Family Gallery in NYC and Heaven Gallery in Chicago. Polly was awarded the Martha Boschen Porter Grant in 2023. Her painting Green Rocking Chair shown in Still Lives, a group show at Underdonk in Brooklyn, was featured in “Goings on About Town” in the New Yorker in 2018. Shindler has attended residencies at Yaddo, Vermont Studio Center and Wassaic Project. Polly lives in Millerton, NY in the Hudson Valley. 

Exhibitions at the Headwaters Arts Center are generously supported by Roxbury Wine & Spirits. All programs offered by the Roxbury Arts Group are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the NYS Legislature, the A. Lindsay and Olive B. O’Connor Foundation, the Robinson Broadhurst Foundation, The Community Foundation for South Central New York, the Tianaderrah Foundation, The Delaware National Bank of Delhi, and individual supporters.

Transient City, (Patridge) by Katherine Chwazik

Deep Time (Strangers) by Maeve McCool

Workplace by Polly Shindler