LAFF: Lesbian Adventures 45+, NJ/NY

Distance: 4.5 miles
Elevation: 350 feet

We’ll take an easy hike at South Mountain Reservation from the Fairy Trail to Hemlock Falls. We may or may not see fairies but we’ll see lots of the cunning little houses they’ve built tucked into tree hollows and under logs. Bring something to eat at the falls. It’s Spring so hopefully the water will be gushing.

Friendly dogs are welcome, but only those that don’t chase fairies.

What to expect:
· friendly lesbians
· great artwork by women artist
· interesting conversations
· a welcoming community.

Our first gallery is Berry Campbell Gallery at 524 W 26th Street. We will meet there at 2:05 pm on Saturday, May 16, 2026.
Berry Campbell presents Louisa Chase: The Eighties. Louisa Chase (1951-2016) was an influential figure who occupied a distinctive position between the New Image Painting and Neo-Expressionist movements in New York’s flourishing art scene of the 1970s and 1980s.
Recognized for her vigorous handling of paint and psychologically charged compositions, Chase developed an artistic language that paired gestural abstraction with a dynamic interplay of symbolic imagery, energetic marks, and expressive color. Her work moves between abstraction and figuration without fully resolving into either mode. Drawing on recurring images of heads, hands, and fragmented bodies, her paintings are direct and forceful.

Louisa Chase’s work is represented in major New York museums, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, as well as in public collections across the United States.
Also at the Berry Campbell Gallery, a focused exhibition of porcelain sculptures by Sally Silberberg, an extraordinary and largely unseen body of work that marks a pivotal moment in the artist’s practice. These works challenge perception, and Silberberg asks whether porcelain, “an elegant material hovering between rough clay and glass” as the artist put it, could instead be experienced as dense and geological. The resulting sculptures are angular, striated, and weighty, their layered surfaces and sharp angles evoking fractured stone or exposed strata. Both controlled and unstable, the sculptures balance precision with disruption, and give the impression of forms under pressure caught in a state of continual transformation. *
Next, we will stroll to the Hauser & Wirth at 542 W 22nd Street. 'I See You You See Me’ marks the gallery’s first exhibition dedicated to the work of radical Italian artist Carol Rama (1918 – 2015). Organized by Carlo Knoell, this focused presentation gathers key works from six decades of Rama’s career, bringing new focus to the nature of her wildly original experimentations in various mediums—paint, textile, sculpture and bricolage—from 1947 through 1998**.**
Rama’s non-conformist approach to artmaking was largely dismissed during her lifetime. However, her oeuvre has attracted new attention from critics and collectors in recent decades, exerting a noteworthy influence on generations of contemporary artists for whom Rama’s formal breadth and unfailing belief in visual art as a tool for liberation, are signposts. A pioneer who forged connections between desire, sacrifice, eroticism, repression and rebellion, Rama now is taking her rightful place at the center of current cultural dialogue. **

We’ll end our tour at Intelligentsia Coffee at 180 10th Ave at 21st St., where you can spend some time getting to know other lesbians. See someone you are curious about? Ask if you can buy her a coffee and let this be a truly social event!
Cost: FREE (except for the coffee or tea or snacks at Intelligentsia Coffee).

Come see amazing art by female artists, meet other lesbians, and converse over coffee or tea.
*text and photos from Berry Campbell
**text and photos from Hauser & Wirth

Moderate Hike
**Distance: 5.8 miles
**Elevation gain: 840 ft

See all the way to Pennsylvania!

We’ll start at Mohican outdoor Center, go down the Coppermine Trail and up the steep Kaiser
Trail to Raccoon Ridge. We’ll have beautiful views as we head south on the Appalachian Trail to Mohican Mountain for lunch and a gorgeous 360 degree panorama. Then we’ll head back to the Center going north on the AT. The Mohican Center has a nice dining room where we can have soup or lesbian second lunch. It’s one of our best traditions.

**Notes: There are no rock scrambles or exposed cliffs, but the trail is rocky. There’s no cell phone coverage at the trailhead, but there is up on the ridge. It’s cool and breezy up there and a windbreaker is handy. Friendly dogs are welcome but not indoors.

Join us on an Architectural Walking Tour in Manhattan, focusing on Women’s History, and led by an architect.
This walk will be followed by social gathering at a local cafe!

During the walk, the tour leader will talk about specific women who lived along East 90th street on the Upper East Side at the turn of the century (1890s), and the buildings that they lived in.
The walk will be a 1.1 miles downhill stroll from 5th Avenue, along 90th Street, to Carl Schurz Park (by the river).
Duration: about 90 minutes - starting and ending near various bus and subway lines.
What to Bring: sunscreen, and an interest in history.
Starting Location: We will start at the southwest corner of 5th Avenue and 90th Street. There is a curved stone bench at this location that is part of Engineers Gate entrance to Central Park. This meeting location is just across the street from The Church of the Heavenly Rest.
Change in elevation: 50 feet
Punctuality: We will wait till 2:10pm and then start walking.
Questions: Send any questions as a message to the Meet-Up group.

No guests or plus ones. Attendees must be signed up as members.