Historic Hudson River Towns

Lagstein Gallery Presents "art by the people who run this place"
2023-01-06 13:00 - 18:00, 2023-01-07 13:00 - 18:00, 2023-01-08 13:00 - 18:00, 2023-01-12 13:00 - 18:00, 2023-01-13 13:00 - 18:00, 2023-01-14 13:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Lagstein Gallery,85 South Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
art by the people who run this place
Opening reception December 11th from 2-4pm
December 11-January 15
Lagstein Gallery
85 South Broadway
Nyack, NY 10960
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Friday 3-6pm, Saturday 1-6pm, Sunday 1-4pm

The Enchanted Garden: Colors in Motion - Sculptures by Dorothy Gillespie
2023-01-07 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-01-08 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-01-09 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-01-10 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-01-11 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-01-12 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-01-13 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-01-14 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
2023-01-07 12:00 - 17:00, 2023-01-08 12:00 - 17:00, 2023-01-12 12:00 - 17:00, 2023-01-13 12:00 - 17:00, 2023-01-14 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

Woman to Woman: A Lesbian Social Group In-Person Meet-Up
2023-01-08 13:00 - 15:00 | 28 South Franklin Street, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
Woman to Woman:
A Lesbian Social Group
In-Person Meet-UP
Sunday, January 8, 2023
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Come join other local women for a relaxed afternoon of fun. And, as with all our Woman to Woman events, Trans Women and Non-Binary Lesbians welcome!
Any questions about the program or access, contact Kris at KrisHillen@rocklandpridecenter.org.

Pedaling with Edward Hopper by Mike Hays
2023-01-10 18:00 - 19:30 | Edward Hopper House Art Center, 82 N Broadway, Nyack, NY
Held in conjunction with “Edward Hopper’s Hudson River Boyhood and Emerging Artistic Vision.”
Mike Hays, a cyclist and local history columnist, explores Hopper’s teenage years in the 1890s when he and throngs of men and women embraced the sport for health and transportation. Hays will explore what made Hopper’s own bike special, his early drawings of cyclists, and the artist’s fascination with the popular Madison Square 6-day bicycle races of the 1930s and his painting “French Six-Day Bicycle Rider” (1937).
Members: $15
General Public: $20
Seating limited to 25
Ticket includes one sporty aperitif compliments of John Henry.
Image: Edward Hopper, (Cyclist), 1895–1899. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Josephine N. Hopper Bequest.

Ogham with Morgana @ Modern Druid
2023-01-11 - 2023-01-12 | Modern Druid, 60 S. Broadway, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
OGHAM WITH MORGANA
Ogham, the mysterious ancient Irish alphabet, is based on a set of characters (feda) that are associated with specific trees and/or plants and is considered to represent an ancient system of knowledge. Most often used today for divination, each letter symbol has specific, and often complicated, and multi-faceted, concepts associated with each one. The 20 symbol letters (‘feda’) are organized across 4 ‘families’ (aicme). Morgana will guide us in learning about each feda and its associated plant over the course of a year.
We will learn where Ogham originated, how to pronounce and write the feda, and utilize plant matter, teas, poetry, art, historical lore, guided meditations and of course the Ogham Intention Oils, to integrate us with each plant’s healing essence.
Sign up for a single class, an Aicme of 5, or all 20 classes!
December 14: Fern (Alder)
https://modern-druid.shoplightspeed.com/ogham-class-with-morgana-aicme-1-fern-alder.html
January 11: Sail (Willow)
https://modern-druid.shoplightspeed.com/ogham-class-with-morgana-aicme-1-sail-willow.html
January 25: Nin (Ash)
https://modern-druid.shoplightspeed.com/ogham-class-with-morgana-aicme-1-nin-ash.html
Each class only $21
Each Aicme (5 Feda) $90 (save $15)
All Feda (20) $360 (save $60)
(Already missed a few? You can sign up to watch the recordings)

Nyack Farmer's Market
2023-01-12 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.

Montefiore Nyack Job Fair
2023-01-12 15:00 - 18:00 | Montefiore Nyack Hospital, 160 N. Midland Ave, Nyack, 10960
Join our esteemed team of healthcare professionals committed to providing the highest standards of excellence in our medical care and service to patients and their families.

The Lifespan of a Fact @ Elmwood Playhouse
2023-01-13 - 2023-02-05 | Elmwood Community Playhouse, Inc., 10 Park St, Nyack, NY 10960, United States
written by Jeremy Kareken, David Murrell and Gordon Farrell, based on the book by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal
directed by Claudia Stefany
Friday January 13th 2023 — Saturday February 4th 2023
This comedy of deliberate errors asks an age-old question: Why let the truth get in the way of a good story? Based on actual events, the screwball antics and quick-witted dialogue provide a thought-provoking examination of the relationship between “truth” and “accuracy.”
Presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing.

Garner 3 Exhibition: Artwork by Joe Fusaro, Nathan Singer, & Justin Smith
2023-01-14 - 2023-02-27 | GARNER Arts Center | Building 35,55 West Railroad Avenue, Garnerville, NY 10923, USA
Garner 3 Exhibition
Artwork by Joe Fusaro, Nathan Singer and Justin Smith
January 14 – February 26, 2023
Building 35
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 14th 5-7pm
Gallery Hours:
Fridays – 2-5pm
Saturdays & Sundays – 1-5pm

KIDS TOUR "Ultimate Pizza Crawl" (drop off and pick up)
2023-01-14 11:00 - 13:00 | Downtown Nyack, Main Street & Broadway, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
Who knew there was SO much to learn about pizza and its magnificent journey from Naples, Italy to New York! We will explore the entire lineage along with hand crushing San Marzano Tomatoes and visiting pizzerias to learn about the styles and variations that have risen over the years. Kids will taste varieties of pizzas, sauces, and cheeses and learn all about dough secrets, sauce traditions, and cheesy truths. Fun and educational!

Drop-off tour designed for kids 7 and up.

Beer, Bread, and Buddies - Food Tour
2023-01-14 14:00 - 16:00 | Creative Arts Workshop, Nyack, NY, USA,48 Burd St Suite 101, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
Variety truly is the spice of life and variety of beers and bread-based foods is what we will be tasting along this two hour walking and drinking tour of Nyack. Learn about beer making techniques, styles, old-school varieties and new-school tastes too! All paired with a healthy portion of baked goodness to keep our bellies happy while spending the afternoon indulging in all things hops n ale! $65.00 per guest.

Joey G's Nyack Food Tours: Beer, Bread, & Buddies
2023-01-14 14:00 - 16:00 | Downtown Nyack, Main Street & Broadway, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
