Historic Hudson River Towns

3rd Juried Exhibition: Through the Eye of the Needle
2022-11-05 08:00 - 2022-12-09 08:00 (America/New_York) | Hudson Valley MoCA, 1701 Main Street, Peekskill, 10566
Thru the Eye of the Needle
“Are you from Pumbedita, where they push an elephant through the eye of a needle?”
Rav Sheishet of Nehardea (Babylonian Talmud, Baba Metzia, 38b).
An aphorism for convoluted reasoning

Sewing, weaving, braiding, knotting…
The enormity and disparateness of culture integrated into the warp and woof of the artist
Are you an artist using stitchery, macramé and weaving, integrating shards of pottery, found objects and recyclables, bottle caps and shells of the beach into your complex tapestries?
Then this is a call to you!!!

Hudson Valley MOCA’s third Juried exhibition
In addressing the use of hand crafting to reflect on cultural diversity, regional craft and environmental issues we look to a history spanning millennia, from the feather collages and paintings of Peru, to the contemporary works of El Anatsui, to the computer detritus integrated by Moffet Takadiwa in his keyboard beading, to the constructs of Leonardo Drew or Liza Lew. Shells embedded into weavings, rubies and gems into medieval tapestry, hair for embroidery, recycled wool for warmth. There is a world to explore, a language to decode.
Application through Café https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=10961
Required:
Name, address, website, e-mail, mobile
$45.00 per application
Artist statement
up to 5 images

Deadline: December 9, 2022, midnight

Elmwood Playhouse Presents The Cake
2022-11-11 - 2022-12-04 | Elmwood Playhouse,10 Park St, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
Elmwood Playhouse
10 Park Street, Nyack, NY
Friday, Nov 11 – Saturday, Dec 3
Written by Bekah Brunstetter and directed by Melinda Pinto, Frosting will fly in this topical, multilayered, sweet comedy. Della, a Christian conservative, faces a crisis of conscience when asked to make a wedding cake for the same sex wedding of her late friend’s daughter. This charming and heartfelt play calls to mind the playwright’s Emmy nominated work on TV’s award-winning show “This Is Us.”
FOR PRIDE CENTER EMAIL SUBSCRIBERS: Get $27 tickets for $20 when purchasing through the box office (845-353-1313) by using code: PRIDE

The Enchanted Garden: Colors in Motion - Sculptures by Dorothy Gillespie
2022-11-28 09:00 - 20:00, 2022-11-29 09:00 - 20:00, 2022-11-30 09:00 - 20:00, 2022-12-01 09:00 - 20:00, 2022-12-02 09:00 - 20:00, 2022-12-03 09:00 - 20:00, 2022-12-04 09:00 - 20:00, 2022-12-05 09:00 - 20:00 and 4 more dates | Rockland Center for the Arts,27 South Greenbush Road, West Nyack, NY 10994, USA
The Enchanted Garden: Colors in Motion
Sculptures by Dorothy M. Gillespie
The Catherine Konner Sculpture Park
Oct. 15, 2021 – Oct. 2023
Free to the Public, Dawn to Dusk
RoCA is proud to present the The Enchanted Garden: Colors in Motion exhibit as a part of a tribute to the 20th Century artist and feminist, Dorothy Gillespie. The exhibit will open October 15th in The Catherine Konner Sculpture Park at RoCA.
Dorothy Gillespie’s joyful and brilliantly colored starbursts glimmer hanging from the trees as well as lining the pathway. The pieces create an enchanted garden of colors in motion. Though stationary they seem to possess a kinetic quality. Two larger pieces can be seen at the entry to RoCA. The exhibit was partially installed this summer and will be completed for exhibit October 15th. The exhibit will remain on display through October 2023.
Gillespie (1920-2012) was born in Roanoke, VA and lived in Nyack during the later years of her life. She pioneered joyful, new directions of metal sculpture and is best known for large-scale, colorfully painted arrangements of cut aluminum strips curling, radiating, or undulating in giant arrangements of ribbons, enchanted towers, or bursting fireworks. She was well known as a painter, sculptor and installation artist whose work incorporated many significant 20th-century trends in art.
During Dorothy Gillespie’s youth … “girls did not attend art school, at least not ‘nice’ girls,” said Gillespie in 2010. Nevertheless, she was determined to be an artist and attended the Maryland Institute College in Baltimore. She was more fortunate than women sculptors in the 19th Century who were mostly hired as studio assistants by established male sculptors with few exhibitions. Harriet Hosmer, Emma Stebbins, Edmonia Lewis, Frances Grimes and Helen Mears were some of the few who made names in the arts as women during that time. They did not pursue monumental work as frequently as men did and mostly produced works in bronze and consistent middle-class demand for small-scale sculpture to decorate the home and garden. Today many more women are now entering traditional male dominated sculpture roles in metal, wood and stone, thanks to the pioneering activism of women like Dorothy Gillespie in the 20th century.
An influential force in the women’s movement, Gillespie encouraged more women’s art in museums and art in public spaces. In 1970, Gillespie joined Women in the Arts and created picket signs protesting at the Whitney Museum demanding that the curators choose more women artists for their “Annual exhibition. The demonstration worked, and more women artists were chosen for the show. Although the increase was very slow, over time it increased from 8 percent to 40 percent. Gillespie was the Founder of the Women Artists Historical Archives of the Women’s Interart Center in NY, NY, filming and taping interviews of some of the most important women artists of the 20th century as well as presenting her own radio show. Gillespie along with Joyce Weinstein founded a group called the NY Professional Women Artists. The 14 members lectures at Universities and wrote articles to encourage other women artists.
Gillespie also coordinated a course to educate and enlighten women in the visual arts, after being invited to teach at The New School in NYC. The intent was to prepare women for a new, more aggressive role to function in the art world. Due to her already busy schedule, she asked artist Alice Barber to share the task of revealing to the young students the ‘system’ that drove the NY art world and how to succeed. In 1974 she organized an innovative outdoor exhibition, Walk Through Art, mounted in Central Park, Battery Park, and Rockefeller Center, then travelling to fifty colleges, universities and street fairs. Compelled to involve viewers in her work, she created large 7 ft high triangles of art for people to walk through the sculptures. Gillespie has held positions of designing programs as a Professor of Art, being a Board of Trustees for more than one college or art center, as a visiting artist in residency and as the Chairperson of the Fine Arts Committee for the International Women’s Art Festival.
Dorothy Gillespie’s career spanned seven decades, always at the forefront of the American Art movement. She studied at the Maryland Institute College in Baltimore before moving to New York City, where she studied at the Art Students League. Her works grace many institutions, museums, colleges, universities and public spaces, including the permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the United States Mission to the United Nations. She was one of the first artists to offer her art to the world through displays in the lobbies of public institutions and governmental centers such as the Mayo Clinic, Epcot Center, Warren Wilson College, Fort Lauderdale Airport-Delta Terminal, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, the Miami Public Library, United States Mission to the United Nations, and the Court House Square – Roanoke, VA and Universities across the country.
Among her many honors, Gillespie received the Alice Baber Art Fund, Inc. Grant Award: a Doctor of Pedagogy from Niagara University in Niagara Falls, A Doctor of Fine Arts (Honoris Causa) from Caldwell College in Caldwell, NY, an Allied Professions Award from the Virginia Society, the American Institute of Architects in Richmond, VA., the Distinguished Alumni Award from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, the Outstanding Services Award from University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Caucus for Art, and the Gala 8 “Distinguished Woman” Award at Birmingham Southern College.
The Catherine Konner Sculpture Park is open from dawn to dusk, free to the public. Brochures can be picked up at the registration desk. For more information visit: www.rocklandartcenter.org or call 845-358-0877.
This exhibition was made possible thanks to the generous support of The Dorothy M. Gillespie Foundation and Gary Israel.
RoCA’s programs are made possible, in part, with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Funding is also made possible by the County of Rockland.
RoCA gratefully acknowledges support for its programs from The Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation, M&T Bank, The M&T Charitable Foundation, The Dorothy Gillespie Foundation, Peter & Rebecca Lang, Kantrowitz, Goldhamer & Graifman P.C., Luxury Kitchen and Bath, Golden Artist Colors, Inc., QuietEvents, the Estate of Joan Konner, Lighting Services Inc., Sarah and Stephen Thomas, the Mark and Jessie Milano Foundation, Zaklin Family Charitable Fund, The County of Rockland, Simona and Jerome Chazen, Art Services Group, RoCA members, donors and business members.

Edward Hopper's Hudson River Boyhood and Emerging Artistic Vision
2022-12-01 12:00 - 17:00, 2022-12-02 12:00 - 17:00, 2022-12-03 12:00 - 17:00, 2022-12-04 12:00 - 17:00, 2022-12-08 12:00 - 17:00, 2022-12-09 12:00 - 17:00 | Edward Hopper House Art Center, 82 N Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
Curated by Carole Perry and Kathleen Motes Bennewitz, with Lynne Z. Bassett
This exhibition investigates how the artistic vision of Edward Hopper (1882-1967) coalesced during his youth in Nyack until he moved away in 1908, at age 26, to pursue his career in New York City. It features selections of the artist’s early drawings and sketches on loan from the Whitney Museum of American Art, private collections and the Arthayer R. Sanborn Hopper Collection Trust, as well as school notebooks, artmaking materials, and costumes, memorabilia, and artworks by Hopper and family members from the Edward Hopper House Museum’s collection and its Sanborn-Hopper Family Archive. Together, these objects provide a glimpse into Hopper’s early years, the influence of his boyhood proximity to the busy waterfront and commercial district of his hometown, and insights into his life at home and his family’s support of his developing talent and ambitions.
$10 Non-Members
$8 Seniors
Membership checked at door
Exhibit runs from November 3, 2022-March 26, 2023 during the Hopper House’s regular hours, which are as follows:
Thursdays 1pm-5pm
Fridays 1pm-5pm
Saturdays 12pm-5pm
Sundays 12pm-5pm

Pop-up First Friday @ Hotel Nyack
2022-12-02 19:00 - 22:00 | Hotel Nyack,400 High Ave, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
Pop-up First Friday at Hotel Nyack
400 High Ave, Nyack, NY
Friday, December 2, 2022, 7-10 pm
The Nyack Art Collective is hosting a Holiday Art Show and Sale in The Speakeasy, in the lobby of the Hotel Nyack. Live music and cash bar.
https://www.nyackartcollective.com

Valley Cottage Library Holiday Craft Fair
2022-12-03 10:00 - 16:00 | Valley Cottage Library, 110 New York 303, Valley Cottage, NY 10989, United States
The Valley Cottage Library is excited to hold its Annual Holiday Craft Fair featuring unique, locally made crafts from more than 30 vendors. Free admission and parking make for a perfect holiday shopping day.

Pangalay Beginner Dance Workshop
2022-12-04 11:00 | Creative Arts Workshop, 48 Burd St, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
Come with us next Sunday, December 4 starting at 11am for a fantastic afternoon celebrating, learning, and eating!
Pangalay Beginner Workshop with Desiree Quintero, PhD
Participants will learn the aesthetics of Pangalay Tau’Sug/Suluk as a foundation for pangalay dancing that manifests within local-cultural contexts. The workshop will include a vital lecture component to bring participants into a better understanding of what the “people of the Sug” strive for in performing the movement motifs of pangalay dancing.
Creative Arts Workshop Nyack
171 Main Street, Nyack
$30 workshop only; $50 with lunch at Karenderya
RSVP @ www.arts-workshop.com

Artist Talk by Marla Anzalona
2022-12-04 14:00 - 15:00 | Ketonet Passim Books,72 N Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, USA

World Aids Day Event
2022-12-05 18:30 | Nyack Library, 59 S Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
WORLD AIDS DAY EVENT
Monday, December 5, 6:30 PM
Hosted by the Nyack Library
59 South Broadway, Nyack
Join the Pride Center in recognizing the history and ongoing impact of the HIV/AIDS crisis. Our annual event is joined by speakers and an original panel of the AIDS quilt will be on display in the Carnegie Reading Room of the Library through the week.
This event is free and open to all. Arrive early to guarantee seating.
For questions about the program or accessibility, contact Matt at MattKoke@rocklandpridecenter.org

Phoenix Theatre Ensemble Presents Women Rock III
2022-12-06 18:30 - 20:30 | Black Parakeetz Paint, Swig, and Sing, 298 Main Street, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
5 short plays written by 5 talented and gifted Rockland writers on the theme of
The Unexpected Guest
Performed impromptu by courageous actors who have roles assigned on -the-spot by drawing an actor’s name from hat #1 and character description from hat#2 regardless of age or gender . Actors are then handed the script (unseen prior to this moment) and are given 5 minutes to prepare to present a fully staged performance. A hilariously fun evening of theatre…
Join us at 6:30 for a meet and mingle with the artists — Drinks and Food available for purchase
Black Parakeetz is dedicated to bringing art-based entertainment to Nyack, NY and its surrounding communities featuring an eclectic bar that boasts the best Martini and Manhattan outside of Manhattan. And ask about the “The Phoenix” — PTE’s Signature Cocktail.
Performance begins at 7pm sharp. Seating is limited.
All proceeds benefit Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, Phoenix Festival and our Artists
Featuring: Bea Pohl, Bethany Ball, Diana Green, Jennie Redling, Julie Goldberg, and
“An Unexpected Guest”

Holiday Youth Artists' Market
2022-12-10 11:00 - 14:00 | Creative Arts Workshop, 48 Burd St, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
All vendors are local youth artists and makers.

Saturday, December 10, 2022 – 11am-2pm
at the Creative Arts Workshop
171 Main Street, Nyack, NY 10960

Holiday Gift Fair
2022-12-10 11:00 - 16:00 | Hudson Market on Main, 5 North Broadway, Nyack, NY, 10960
Nyack Chamber of Commerce’s Holiday Gift Fair is back at Hudson Market on Main. Featuring local artisans and Nyack’s favorite merchants selling one-of-a-kind gifts, there’ll be something for everyone on your list. Don’t miss the chance to get unique, hand-crafted gifts for your loved ones at special holiday discounts!
