Although 2012 is the year of the dragon in the Chinese calendar, for ArtsWestchester it is the year of the Fish. There are two reasons for this. The first is that the Chinese believe that the fish brings in wealth, and we at ArtsWestchester hope they are right. We need an infusion of arts funding […]
Perhaps I am dating myself…BUT…When I was just a kid growing up in the Rockaways, my mother and I would board the Long Island Railroad every Saturday for an hour trip into Manhattan for ballet classes and for Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s concerts at Carnegie Hall. The closest thing we had to culture was the […]
As we mourn the loss of Steve Jobs and marvel at the iPad, iPod and iPhone, we may tend to under value the lowly hammer, wrench and axe. Not so for Eric Wildrick whose sculptures embody a fascination for hand tools, which for early mankind made possible the impossible. Two of his sculptures made of […]
This week, my guest blogger is Judith Weber, a ceramic artist and President of the New Rochelle Council on the Arts. In 1983, Weber co-founded Media Loft, the first Loft established for artists in Westchester County. At my request, Judith reviewed the eARTh exhibition on view at ArtsWestchester’s Peckham Gallery through November 23. Sixty-eight ceramic […]
Ariel Plantz thinks of herself as a “community artist”…a creative brand I hadn’t heard of before. A community artist is different than, say, a community organizer. We all know he became President. A community artist, if he or she is lucky, may land an exhibition at a museum or alternatively get another gig and then […]
The word “earth” has (ART) within it. I didn’t think about that too deeply when we planned an exhibition called “eARTh” opening on October 5th in our White Plains building. Credit for that title goes to Leigh Taylor Mickelson, the curator, who selected the earth works of 68 artists in the region. She is the […]
What’s in a number? Sometimes it tells a story. 1800 is the number of tiles in the original 9/11 People’s Memorial Wall constructed in 2001 on Central Avenue in Richard Presser Park in Greenburgh. 1711 is the number of tiles salvaged, repaired, cleaned and reassembled tile by tile by Sarah Bracey White and 41 volunteers who […]
Going global. That’s the plan for the fall season at the Performing Arts Center (PAC) (www.artscenter.org) at SUNY Purchase. I have this from a reliable source… Wiley Hausam, PAC Executive Director. “Our season is more robust than last year with 35 performances and more international programs, including those from Brazil, Venezuela, Spain, Hungary, Germany, Australia […]
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