Historic Hudson River Towns

Photo Exhibit: 82 Pieces of '82: Main Street, Nyack
2023-01-21 - 2023-01-22, 2023-01-28 - 2023-01-29, 2023-02-04 - 2023-02-05, 2023-02-11 - 2023-02-12, 2023-02-18 - 2023-02-19, 2023-02-25 - 2023-02-26, 2023-03-04 - 2023-03-05, 2023-03-11 - 2023-03-12 | Historical Society of the Nyacks 50 Piermont Ave., Nyack, NY, 50 Piermont Ave., Nyack, 10960, United States
82 Pieces of ’82
Main Street, Nyack
Photos by Brad Hess
The Historical Society of the Nyacks
50 Piermont Avenue

The exhibit will be open Saturdays from 1 – 4 January 21st through April 15th
In 1982, photographer Brad Hess walked Main Street in Nyack every Sunday morning, taking over 3,000 black and white photographs. Trying out a new film, he decided Main Street was where he would experiment with it. As the images emerged from his dark room, he became fascinated with the quality of the film as well as the opportunities Main Street offered him. He returned nearly every Sunday morning for the next year, walking from 9W to the riverfront.

82 Pieces of ’82, Main Street, Nyack will be our first traditional “opening” since COVID. Please join us in thanking Brad for sharing his amazing work with us, and hearing what he has to say about these street scenes and their meaning for Nyack. We look forward to your questions, feedback and commentary. Brad will have the floor around 1:30. Please come masked – we want to minimize everyone’s exposure to our current variant with its high transmission potential. And for that reason also, our refreshments are very minimal.

Accepting Submissions: “Open Call Members Exhibition” April 1-9, 2023
2023-02-17 - 2023-03-18 | Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center i,82 North Broadway, Nyack, NY, USA
Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center is pleased to relaunch the Members Exhibition for current Artist Members. The Spring Show – April 1-9, 2023 – is an “Open Call Members Exhibition” showcasing up to 50 artists, each of whom may enter one original artwork. (There will be another JURIED exhibition in the Autumn.)
Fully registered Artist Members will be accepted on a first come, first served basis.
For entry details visit our website https://www.edwardhopperhouse.org/artist-members.html :

NOSH AND PLAY! - A BI-WEEKLY ADULT "RETREAT"
2023-02-22 19:00 - 20:30, 2023-03-08 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Creative Arts Workshop, 48 Burd St, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
NOSH AND PLAY! – A BI-WEEKLY ADULT “RETREAT”
Every other Wednesday 6:30-8:15pm
$25 per visit
A continuation of our “Paint, Nosh, Reflection” series.
This go around we will have guest facilitators lead a group activity which will be focused from theatre, the arts, dance, or mindfulness.
This is an easy to swallow (pun-intended) evening meant to relax, inspire, and engage all of your senses.
So come join the fun and get out of the week-day brunt and let’s Nosh and Play!!
Each week a special “nosh” will be featured to “feed the soul” in a very figurative way!
This is a safe space to make art, be yourself, and heal. Please come with that in mind as we hold space and kindness towards one another in the shared retreat.
Come for one or all evenings.

Double Vision at Lagstein Gallery
2023-02-26 13:00 - 18:00, 2023-03-02 13:00 - 18:00, 2023-03-03 13:00 - 18:00, 2023-03-04 13:00 - 18:00, 2023-03-05 13:00 - 18:00, 2023-03-09 13:00 - 18:00, 2023-03-10 13:00 - 18:00, 2023-03-11 13:00 - 18:00 and 3 more dates | Lagstein Gallery,85 South Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
DON BRADFORD
Don Bradford, a ceramic artist for more than 40 years, has worked with raku, pit-barrel firing and ceramic sculpture. His pieces have been exhibited at the New Jersey State Museum, the Zimmerli Museum at Rutgers University, The Bergen Museum, and Morris Set Museum, among others.
A practicing ceramic instructor, he has taught and lectured for the NJ Arts in Education Foundation’s Project Impact, the Thompson Park Creative Arts Center in New Jersey; St Thomas Aquinas College, and RoCA in New York. Bradford holds a BA from Montclair University and a MA from William Patterson University, and independent studies at Tuscarora Pottery School, NV, the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, TN, the Greenwich House Pottery, NYC, and the Aegean School of Fine Arts, Greece.
MELISSA SGROI
Melissa Sgroi, an emerging abstract expressionist painter, primarily works on oversized primed canvas attached to the wall with pushpins and nails, which she later stretches. Sgroi paints on paper as well, developing gestural brushstrokes and color groups.
LAGSTEIN GALLERY
85 South Broadway
Nyack NY 10960
845.535.1509
GALLERY HOURS:
Thurs:3-6
Fri: 3-6
Sat: 1-6
Sun: 1-4
or by appointment lagsteingallery@gmail.com

James Prosek: Drawing on Hopper
2023-03-02 18:00 - 19:30 | Edward Hopper House Art Center, 82 N Broadway, Nyack, NY
“In every artist’s development the germ of the later work can be found in the earlier. . . . What he was once, he always is. . . ” -Edward Hopper
Join award-winning artist, naturalist, and writer James Prosek at the exhibition, “Edward Hopper’s Hudson River Boyhood and Emerging Artistic Vision” (on view until March 26th). The renowned Connecticut based artist explores parallels with Edward Hopper’s childhood experiences, specifically how objects and scenes he was drawn to capture in his sketchbooks–as he wandered, and trespassed, on private lands of his rural hometown–would help shape his mature artistic identity. As with Hopper, art was a natural outlet for him and as a youth he developed his artistic gift and love of nature.
Described early in his career as a modern-day Audubon, Prosek made his authorial debut at nineteen years of age with Trout: an Illustrated History (1996). Today, the Yale graduate and Connecticut resident continues to bring the natural world into people’s lives through his large-scale silhouette murals and paintings, watercolors, and trompe l’oeil clay and bronze sculptures. Prosek’s work has been featured in major museums and exhibitions, including “Fragile Earth: The Naturalist Impulse in Contemporary Art” organized by the Florence Griswold Museum and now on view Brandywine Museum of Art. Recently, Yale University Art Gallery published “Art, Artifact, Artifice,” a catalog of his 2020/21 exhibition, and this fall, the Amon Carter Museum will present Trespassers: James Prosek and the Texas Prairie this fall.
$20 non-member, $15 members

16th Annual Penguin Plunge
2023-03-05 12:00 - 14:00 | Memorial Park Nyack
It’s cold and snowy and no two ways about it! If you can’t beat it, you might as well embrace the winter in the best way possible! Take a plunge into the frosty waters of the historic Hudson not only for yourself, but for these great kids who have serious illnesses!
Over the past 13 years the Penguin Plunge has raised over $440,000 to help over a dozen families offset the astronomical medical expenses associated with caring for their children with serious illnesses. These are your neighbors… your friends… your community. From toddlers to teenagers, boys and girls, these brave youngsters fight a daily battle to live a normal life in spite of the conditions they each face.
The Penguin Plunge counts on members of the community like you to contribute in some way to help them in their fight.
You can make a difference in their lives.
Register here: https://www.penguinplungeny.com/register

BridgeMusik Spring Festival 2023
2023-03-06 - 2023-05-02 | Various, Various, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
We are excited to announce BridgeMusik Spring Festival 2023 (March 6 – May 1, 2023). Our students will participate in masterclasses with renowned artists: Carol Wincenc (flute professor, The Juilliard School), Jerry Grossman (principal cello, The MET Opera) and Kurt Nikkanen (concertmaster, NYC Ballet). Festival students will also be working with our wonderful team of regular and new faculty members! There will be several live performances featuring our students, faculty and guest artists.

Registration information and schedule of events can be found here.

Bubblemania featuring Casey Carle
2023-03-08 08:00 - 17:00 | Rittenhausen Theater at BOCES 131 North Midland Avenue Nyack, NY
Sunday, April 2nd at 2:00pm EST
Theater at Old Nyack High School
131 North Midland Avenue, Nyack, NY
Tickets: Child $12 / Adult $20 / Family Four Pack $50
Bubbles! Big Bubbles! Thousands of Bubbles! An extremely unique program fusing high-energy entertainment, highly crafted showmanship and artistic achievement. Casey’s show is loaded with in-the-moment improvisation, quick wit, big band swing music, a bit of audience participation and the untamed, often unbelievable qualities of spherical liquids. Part Science, All Fun! The show includes fog-filled bubble art forms and jazz inspired, choreographed routines to eventually “trapping” people inside bubbles!

LGBTQ+ Walking Group
2023-03-11 10:00 | Rockland County Pride Center, 28 South Franklin Street, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
LGBTQ+ Walking Group
Saturday, March 11, 2023
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Join other members of the LGBTQ+ community for a walk in nature.
Any questions about the program, access, or location, contact Kris at KrisHillen@rocklandpridecenter.org

Pride & Prejudice @ Elmwood Playhouse
2023-03-13 - 2023-04-02 | Elmwood Community Playhouse, Inc., 10 Park St, Nyack, NY 10960, United States
written by Jane Austen, adapted by Kate Hamill
directed by Alison Costello
Friday March 10th 2023 — Saturday April 1st 2023
The classic story, adapted with edge and energy for a new era, explores the absurdities and thrills of finding your perfect (or imperfect) match in life. Literature’s greatest tale of latent love has never felt so theatrical, or so full of life.
Presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing

THE SEASONS - Four Love Stories
2023-03-15 20:00 - 22:00 | The Nyack Center,Depew Ave & S Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
Over the course of a year, four sets of intertwined characters are faced
with turning points in their romantic lives. Each chapter takes place in a
different season, with the central characters in each season being
age-appropriate, thus: Summer, young adults, Autumn, middle aged, Winter,
elderly, and Spring, a ten-year-old girl. USA, 2022, 82 minutes.
After the screening Rockland County filmmaker Paul Schwartz will discuss
his film with Peabody Award winning broadcaster and ArtsRock Executive
Director Elliott Forrest.
From March 16 through 26, Rivertown Film will present Paul Schwartz’s A New
York Story (2021) in our virtual theater. When you purchase a ticket to
The Seasons you will receive a discount code for 100% off of the price of
tickets to A New York Story.
Directors Statement: I have always been intrigued by pieces that are told
as a series of stories that link to each other: either thematically, by
sharing characters, or by unfolding linearly over a period of time. In this
film the four stories are linked in all three ways. They are all romantic,
they are told serially as the seasons succeed each other, and in each story
after the first, one character from the previous story reappears.
Paul Schwartz is a writer, director and composer. His work is in the field
of dramatic story-telling in all its forms, and encompasses projects in
film, theatre, opera and dance. Recent film projects include TIME CAN BREAK
YOUR HEART and A NEW YORK STORY. He is the composer of two operas, multiple
ballet scores for New York City Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet, Lucinda Childs
Dance Company and others. He is the creator of two cult series of
recordings: the ARIA series and the STATE OF GRACE series, which have sold
over a million copies world wide. He has sold millions more through his
collaborations with Carlos Santana, Josh Groban, and David Foster.

A New York Story, directed by Paul Schwartz
2023-03-17 07:00 - 2023-03-26 23:30 | https://rivertownfilm.org/12443-2/
In the tumultuous summer of 2020, four entwined New Yorkers tell stories of
how their lives have been shaped by the protests, the pandemic, and the
unforeseen consequences of both. Directed by Rockland filmmaker Paul
Schwartz, 2021, 49 minutes, with Mike Keller, Ivy Omere, Joan Porter, Ed
Setrakian.
Directors statement: The pandemic, the protests and the sense of a total
political schism in 2020 were all things I needed to address creatively,
and in a way that minimized the risk of infection for all involved. So I
tell A New York Story in four monologues by four different characters, each
with their own agenda and point of view, but the stories they tell are only
fragments the whole. I shot each actor individually, limited the crew to
one person (me), and followed strict Covid protocols so that I could
realize the story while protecting my colleagues.
$7 / $5, and free when you purchase a ticket to Paul Schwartz’s The Seasons
– Four Love Stories, screening at Rivertown Film in the Nyack Center on
March 15.
