Historic Hudson River Towns

The Discovery of a Masterpiece
2023-02-15 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | 20 S. Greenbush Rd.
While cataloging the artwork housed inside of the Hartley Dodge Memorial,
art historian and educator Mallory Mortillaro uncovered a masterpiece that
had been lost to the art world since the 1930’s. After a year of research
the piece was authenticated as an official work by Auguste Rodin. Mallory
will share the story of how a simple art cataloging project evolved into a
search for a mysterious piece’s provenance, and became one of the biggest
art finds in recent history.
This is a joint event of the Palisades, Orangeburg, and Tappan Libraries.

The Discovery of a Masterpiece
2023-02-15 19:00 - 20:00 | NY
While cataloging the artwork housed inside of the Hartley Dodge Memorial
Mallory Mortillaro uncovered a masterpiece that had been lost to the art
world since the 1930’s. After a year of research the piece was
authenticated as an official work by Auguste Rodin. Mallory will share the
story of how a simple art cataloging project evolved into a search for a
mysterious piece’s provenance, and became one of the biggest art finds in
recent history.
Mallory Mortillaro is an art historian and educator. She has ten years of
teaching experience, and has worked on various art research projects for
museums and organizations in the New York metropolitan area. She studied at
Drew University. Mallory resides in New Jersey with her husband.
This is a joint event of the Palisades, Orangeburg, and Tappan Libraries.

Haven - Safe Houses of the Hudson Valley
2023-02-16 - 2023-02-18 | NY
The Hudson Valley was a key route on the Underground Railroad, with many
churches, storefronts and homes created as safe houses for slaves seeking
freedom in Canada. Haven is Part One in a series on these important links
to freedom.
Starring – Dameon Reilly-Maiysha Jones Reilly-Donna James-Steve Allen-Scott
Schneider-Brian Bagot-Michelle Evans
Costumes – Zacha Liz
Sponsored by: Gordon Center for Black Culture and Arts and Rockland Center
for the Arts
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information – www.shadesrep.com
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Additional Performance – February 18 @ 8p.m.
Rockland Center for the Arts
27 Greenbush Road, West Nyack, N.Y.
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Nyack Farmer's Market
2023-02-16 09:00 - 13:00 | Main Street Parking Lot, 119 Main Street, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
Nyack Farmers Market – A Four Season Outdoor Farmers Market
The Market offers a cornucopia of the best local produce, grass-fed meat, fresh seafood, beautiful baked goods, perfectly prepared foods, and handcrafted goods ready to fill your tables and gift baskets.

HOURS:
Thursdays from 9am to 1pm, outdoors year-round in the Main Street parking lot year-round.

PARKING:
Parking in the Artopee Lot is free during Market hours, and street parking is free before 10am. Meters throughout the Village are in effect Monday-Saturday from 11am to 7pm. Farmers Market vendors and patrons: please do not park in the M&T Bank parking lot.

The Enchanted Garden: Colors in Motion - Sculptures by Dorothy Gillespie
2023-02-16 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-02-17 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-02-18 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-02-19 09:00 - 20:00 | 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
2023-02-16 12:00 - 17:00, 2023-02-17 12:00 - 17:00, 2023-02-18 12:00 - 17:00, 2023-02-19 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

The Spectre Bridegroom and Other Valentine's Ghost Stories by Peter Royston
2023-02-16 18:30 - 19:30, 2023-02-17 18:30 - 20:30, 2023-02-19 18:30 - 19:30 | Tarrytown Music Hall, 13 Main Street, Tarrytown, NY, 10591, United States
Love conquers all – even Death! This Valentine’s Day, gather up your loved ones (or just come yourself!) and head to the Tarrytown Music Hall to meet THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM AND OTHER VALENTINE’S GHOST STORIES. This lushly eerie event tells two romantic ghost stories adapted for the stage by Peter Royston.
The Spectre Bridegroom, based on a story by Washington Irving, the creator of Rip Van Winkle and The Headless Horseman, is a fun and passionate tale of love at first – and last – sight! On her wedding day, a young woman meets her betrothed, only to find that he may have other, ghostly, plans!
In the other tale, Death Rides Fast, another young woman rides through the night on a magical horse with a man who may, or may not, be her long lost husband!
In THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM AND OTHER VALENTINE’S GHOST STORIES, the audience moves with the action of the stories throughout the beautiful, historic Music Hall!
Please join your Ghost Hosts at the Tarrytown Music Hall for THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM AND OTHER VALENTINE’S GHOST STORIES! It’s a 45 minute romantic, exciting and spooky event for Valentine’s Day – a perfectly delightful way to celebrate love, passion and thrills!
Tickets:
$25 Adults
Special Valentines Day Event pricing: $30 *
*Additional $10 long-stem rose available for pre-sale purchase
The Box Office will not be open for these performances, please have your digital tickets available
Please arrive 15 minutes before scheduled tour time – No late entry will be permitted
The 45-minute tour kicks off in the theater lobby and does include climbing stairs and extended periods of standing.
Maximum 60 patrons per event.

Late Winter Programs
2023-02-17 - 2023-02-26 | Creative Arts Workshop, Nyack, NY, USA,48 Burd St Suite 101, Nyack, NY 10960, USA

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 :

PERSONAL PROBLEMS, streaming at Rivertown Film
2023-02-17 07:00 - 2023-02-23 23:30 | https://watch.eventive.org/rivertownfilm/play/63cf3fc657fe7a004cb76468
Defying the racially exclusive Hollywood studio system, novelist Ishmael
Reed, Rockland County director Bill Gunn and a renegade group of artists
banded together to make a “meta soap opera” about the struggles of a
working class couple in New York City in 1980. They illuminated Black
reality and soap opera banality through the story of a nurse’s aid and her
husband, leading us through the stresses of their lives. “With a
Fassbinderian flair for color and a neorealist’s eye for composition…
Gunn spins a potent ensemble drama from his modest domestic
milieu.”—Hollywood Reporter. USA, 1980, 165 minutes. Zoom discussion with
cast and crew members Sam Waymon and Marshall Johnson, moderated by Bill
Batson, on 2/21.
Personal Problems was produced on 3/4” videotape in 1980 and was shown once
on PBS. It was rediscovered in 2015 and restored, but the master tapes were
too badly degraded to bring them up to modern video standards.
“George Bernard Shaw said that “If you do not tell your stories others will
tell them for you and they will vulgarize and degrade you.” With few
exceptions, this expression can be applied to Hollywood’s treatment of
Blacks from the creation of the industry to now.” – Personal Problems
writer, Ishmael Reed
“Personal Problems is among those rare, quietly unassuming avant-garde
works that takes the trouble to be genuinely entertaining while pushing
formal and textual boundaries.” —Film Comment

Joseph Cornell
2023-02-17 19:00 | Creative Arts Workshop, Nyack, NY, USA,48 Burd St Suite 101, Nyack, NY 10960, USA

Sip & Sculpt @ Creative Arts Workshop
2023-02-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Creative Arts Workshop, Nyack, NY, USA,48 Burd St Suite 101, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
A night to celebrate Joseph Cornell and expression.

Los Lobos
2023-02-17 20:00 - 22:00 | Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, 1008 Brown St, Peekskill, NY, 10566, United States
The journey of Los Lobos began in 1973, 50 years ago this year, when David Hidalgo (vocals, guitar, and pretty much anything with strings), Louie Perez (drums, vocals, guitar), Cesar Rosas (vocals, guitar), and Conrad Lozano (bass, vocals, guitarrón) earned their stripes playing revved-up versions of Mexican folk music in restaurants and at parties. The band evolved in the 1980s as it tapped into L.A.’s burgeoning punk and college rock scenes. They were soon sharing bills with bands like the Circle Jerks, Public Image Ltd. and the Blasters, whose saxophonist, Steve Berlin, would eventually leave the group to join Los Lobos in 1984.
Early on, Los Lobos enjoyed critical success, winning the Grammy® for Best Mexican-American Performance for “Anselma” from its 1983 EP …And a Time to Dance. A year later, the group released its full-length, major-label debut, How Will the Wolf Survive? Co-produced by Berlin and T Bone Burnett, the album was a college rock sensation that helped Los Lobos tie with Bruce Springsteen as Rolling Stone’s Artist of the Year.
A major turning point came in 1987 with the release of the Ritchie Valens biopic, La Bamba. The quintet’s cover of Valens’ signature song topped the charts in the U.S. and the U.K. Rather than capitalize on that massive commercial success, Los Lobos instead chose to record La Pistola y El Corazón, a tribute to Tejano and Mariachi music that won the 1989 Grammy® for Best Mexican-American Performance.
Los Lobos has sold millions of records, won prestigious awards and made fans around the world. But perhaps its most lasting impact will be how well its music embodies the idea of America as a cultural melting pot. In it, styles like son jarocho, norteño, Tejano, folk, country, doo-wop, soul, R&B, rock ’n’ roll and punk all come together to create a new sound that’s greater than the sum of its parts.

Photo Exhibit: 82 Pieces of '82: Main Street, Nyack
2023-02-18 - 2023-02-19 | 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.

Unique Crystal Fine Art Paintings
2023-02-18 13:00 - 16:00, 2023-02-19 13:00 - 16:00 | Arts Alive Art Gallery,85 South Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
Do you love crystals? Experience the power of crystals
in a new collection of 20+ original fine art crystal paintings.
Each painting combines the power of a specific Color, Image, and Crystal to
produce positive energy for peace, joy, success, and/or wealth. Crystals in the paintings include: Citrine, Amethyst,
Rose Quartz, Clear Quartz, Peridot, Moonstone, and others.
You will feel the power of these unique crystal paintings when you visit.
Paintings come with info about the crystal, color, and image used
and are affordably priced from $60 to $195.
This is a must-see, brand-new, unique fine-art genre.
Arts Alive Art Gallery, 85 South Broadway, Nyack, NY
Saturdays & Sundays 1 – 4 pm.

Haven: Safe Houses of the Hudson Valley
2023-02-18 20:00 - 21:30 | Rockland Center for the Arts,27 South Greenbush Road, West Nyack, NY 10994, USA
Saturday, February 18 at 8:00pm
Rockland Center for the Arts
27 South Greenbush Road West Nyack, NY
Registration is required and begins Feb. 4th.
Free of charge or by donation.
Masks encouraged.
This play is sponsored in collaboration with The Gordon Center for Black
Culture and the Arts and Shades Repertory Theater.
In Celebration of African American History Month, Shades Repertory Theater
continues on its ongoing journey to bring the rich history of the Black
experience to the stage. Haven is Part One in a series on the Underground
Railroad Safe Houses in the Hudson Valley in the 1860s. Rockland and
Westchester Villages were key routes along the Hudson River, with many
churches, homes and storefronts serving as safe havens for slaves seeking
freedom in Canada. Haven is written and directed by award-winning
playwright Samuel Harps, and stars; Dameon Reilly-Maiysha
Jones-Reilly-Steve Allen-Donna James-Michelle Evans-Brian Bagot and Scott
Schneider with customs designed by Zacha Liz.
RoCA’s programs are made possible, in part, with funds from the New York
State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and
the New York State Legislature. Funding is also made possible by ASG of
Connecticut.

Haven: A play by Samuel Harps
2023-02-18 20:00 - 21:30 | Rockland Center for the Arts, 27 South Greenbush Road, West Nyack, 10994
Haven
A Play by Samuel Harps
Part One: Safe Houses of the Hudson Valley
Saturday, February 18 at 8:00pm
Rockland Center for the Arts
27 South Greenbush Road West Nyack, NY
Registration is required and begins Feb. 4th.
Free of charge or by donation.
Masks encouraged.
This play is sponsored in collaboration with The Gordon Center for Black Culture and the Arts and Shades Repertory Theater.
In Celebration of African American History Month, Shades Repertory Theater continues on its ongoing journey to bring the rich history of the Black experience to the stage. Haven is Part One in a series on the Underground Railroad Safe Houses in the Hudson Valley in the 1860s. Rockland and Westchester Villages were key routes along the Hudson River, with many churches, homes and storefronts serving as safe havens for slaves seeking freedom in Canada. Haven is written and directed by award-winning playwright Samuel Harps, and stars; Dameon Reilly-Maiysha Jones-Reilly-Steve Allen-Donna James-Michelle Evans-Brian Bagot and Scott Schneider with customs designed by Zacha Liz.
For more information or to register call RoCA at 845-358-0877.

Opening Reception - New Voices: Rockland's Next Art Generation
2023-02-19 14:00 - 17:00 | Rockland Center for the Arts,27 South Greenbush Road, West Nyack, NY 10994, USA
Please join Rockland Center for the Arts for New Voices: Rockland’s Next
Art Generation, opening Sunday, February 19th from 2-5pm. During RoCA’s
75th Anniversary, in 2022, it presented Rockland’s Women of South Mountain
Road. These women had achieved national and international notoriety in
their various fields. We are excited to start off our 76th exhibition year
by presenting some of the younger talent in Rockland, as part of the next
art generation. Each artist has a unique style and perspective on the world
they see today.
Artists are Nina Berlingeri, Joel Blenz, Matt Casanova, Danielle McDonald,
Alice Mizrachi, and Nate Singer.
Please join Rockland Center for the Arts for New Voices: Rockland’s Next
Art Generation. The exhibit opens with an artist reception on Sunday, Feb.
19th, 2:00pm – 5:00pm. The exhibit will be on view through April 1st, open
Mondays – Saturdays 11am – 4pm, (closed Sundays). Free to the Public (masks
encouraged). Also on view, Window into Color: Works by Art Gunther in
Gallery One and Art-ifacts: Works by William Rauschenberg in Gallery Two.
For more information call (845) 358-0877 or visit
http://www.rocklandartcenter.org.

Window of Color - Works by Arthur Gunther
2023-02-19 14:00 - 2023-04-01 16:00 | Rockland Center for the Arts,27 S Greenbush Rd, West Nyack, NY,
Window of Color, Works by Art Gunther is on view Feb 19 – April 1, open
Mondays – Saturdays, 11am – 4pm. The opening reception will be Sunday, Feb.
19th, 2pm – 5pm.
For 25 years, 1981-2006, Gunther penned The Column Rule, a newspaper
opinion piece at The Journal News in Rockland County, New York.
Gunther’s primitive-style paintings are inspired by the light and space of
Edward Hopper and Rockland County. His work is a comment on places and
things – in Rockland and beyond.

Jazz in the Afternoon
2023-02-19 15:00 - 16:30 | Christ Church San Marcos, 43 South Broadway, Tarrytown, NY, 10591, United States
Christ Church San Marcos relaunches its live music program with a benefit concert on February 19. Concert features Lynn Viggiano on piano and Ken Matthews on bass. All donations and sales proceeds support the continuing music series.
This is the church where Washington Irving was a vestryman, warden, Sunday School teacher, and regular parishioner until his death in 1859. His pew is still marked with a brass tablet.
