Photo Exhibit: 82 Pieces of '82: Main Street, Nyack
2023-02-04 - 2023-02-05, 2023-02-11 - 2023-02-12 | 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.

Teatown’s 19th Annual Hudson River EagleFest
2023-02-04 09:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Croton Point Park, 1 Croton Point Avenue, Croton-on-Hudson, NY, 10520, United States
Teatown’s 19th Annual Hudson River EagleFest returns to Croton Point Park on Saturday February 4, 2023 for an all day celebration!
The program includes thrilling live bird shows spotlighting birds of prey, bird walks where you can view eagles through spotting scopes, heated tents filled with educational displays and exhibits, crafts and games for children, food trucks, and more!
Snow date is Sunday, February 5.
We look forward to celebrating together with Bald Eagles as they descend upon Hudson River during their annual winter migration.
Please email eaglefest@teatown.org for inquiries.
Adult Member (12+) $25
Adult Non-Member (12+) $30
Child Member (3-11) Children under 3 are free $15
Child Non-Member (3-11) Children under 3 are free $17
Day of pricing at the door: 2/4/23
Adult: $35
Child: $18
No member discount at the door. Members, take advantage of your discount during the online pre-sale!
Tickets can be bought in advance at: https://www.teatown.org/eaglefest-tickets/

The Enchanted Garden: Colors in Motion - Sculptures by Dorothy Gillespie
2023-02-04 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-02-05 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-02-06 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-02-07 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-02-08 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-02-09 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-02-10 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-02-11 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
2023-02-04 12:00 - 17:00, 2023-02-05 12:00 - 17:00, 2023-02-09 12:00 - 17:00, 2023-02-10 12:00 - 17:00, 2023-02-11 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

Unique Crystal Fine Art Paintings
2023-02-04 13:00 - 16:00, 2023-02-05 13:00 - 16:00, 2023-02-11 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.

Origami Workshop with Samantha Folds
2023-02-04 14:00 - 15:30 | Nyack Library, 59 S Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, United States
Join us for a fun filled, all ages, afternoon in the Community Meeting Room learning origami techniques. Samantha will also take us up to the 3rd floor Klay Exhibit case where her elaborate origami art will be exhibited from January 16 – February 28.
Hot Chocolate will be served during the event.

Llama Llama Red Pajama Live!
2023-02-04 14:00 - 15:30 | Tarrytown Music Hall, 13 Main Street, Tarrytown, NY, 10591, United States
Llama Llama Red Pajama Live!, a new musical by Bay Area Children’s Theatre inspired by the bestselling Llama, Llama Red Pajama series of picture books by the late Anna Dewdney.
Families can join in the fun when Llama bursts into his bedroom looking frantically for his favorite red pajamas. Mama, hearing the commotion, comes upstairs with Llama’s pajamas in the laundry basket to ask about his day—his very first day at school—and put him to bed. But when she goes downstairs to do the million things that busy mothers have to do at the end of the day, Llama is too wiggly to fall asleep, and besides, he’s thirsty. He howls for Mama to come back up, but she doesn’t arrive. Will she ever return?
“What’s amazing about the Llama Llama books,” said Director, “is that they are telling a story about a normal child who is going through scary moments about growing up and has to learn how to take care of himself in the simplest ways to feel safe, comfortable and become a little bit more independent. What we’re doing with this musical is to bring to life some of those situations, as Llama learns that, if he’s a bit anxious, he can calm down and not have a total mental breakdown at this very moment. Llama is already living in an imaginary world, but sometimes that scary shadow is just an old towel and a baseball bat left on the floor. We’re just helping him deal with the choices he has made.”
Award-winning playwright-composer-lyricist Austin Zumbro (“Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site the Musical”) has written a panoply of clever tunes in a variety of styles to create a fun-filled, contemporary musical that expresses the imagination of childhood for both children and adults to enjoy, including a song about the history of sleepwear through the ages.
Families are invited come to this original, world-premiere musical ready to do the Bedtime Dance! Recommended for ages 3 and up.

LGBTQ+ Family Valentine Craft Workshop
2023-02-05 10:30 - 12:00 | Rockland County Pride Center, 28 South Franklin Street, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
LGBTQ+ Family Valentine
Craft Workshop
Sunday, February 5, 2023
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
For LGBTQ+ families with children of all ages. Do seasonal crafts and play fun games with other LGBTQ+ families.
Any questions about the program or access, contact Kris at KrisHillen@rocklandpridecenter.org.

Celebrity Pizza Masters featuring RCC Culinary Arts Program Chefs
2023-02-05 14:00 | Gio’s, 253 South Little Tor Road, New City, NY, 10956, United States
Are you a fan of Chopped ™? Have you ever wanted to go to Alaska? Would you enjoy seeing a pizza cook-off?
You can do all of this! Save the date of February 5, 2023 as Walters Wanderings Travel, Celebrity Cruises and Dave Noll, co-creator of Chopped, bring to Rockland County, Celebrity Pizza Masters!!!
Four up and coming chefs, all from the RCC Culinary Arts Program, will square off in a pizza making competition and you will cheer them onto victory! Watch the chefs create pizzas with an Alaskan theme while learning about the Alaska cruise experience. A winner will be crowned and you, as an audience member will receive great incentives to cruise with Dave Noll and learn more about this pre-eminent cooking competition show.
There will be an Alaskan themed tasting plate for everyone to sample the food and drink of Alaska! The charge for this is $25/person plus tax and tip. BUT…if you book the cruise with Dave Noll in July, you will be reimbursed for your Alaskan plate food cost as on board credit on top of any other incentives.
We will have door prizes as well from Walters Wanderings Travel, Celebrity Cruises, Dave Noll and who knows who else!!
Doors open at 1:45. Spread the word so that our Pizza Masters will have a full house to root them on to victory and a $1000 prize!!!

Yonkers Philharmonic Orchestra, 8th Annual Beethoven Festival
2023-02-05 15:00 - 17:00 | Saunders Trades and Technical High School, 183 Palmer Road, Yonkers, 10701
Beethoven: From Classicism to Romanticism
Yonkers Philharmonic Orchestra presents a program of beloved works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Cherubini, with Guest Conductor Andrés Rivas.
Cherubini’s Concert Overture is an exhilarating curtain raiser, capturing the energy and drama of opera. Mendelssohn’s popular Hebrides Overture “Fingal’s Cave” was inspired by the composer’s visit to a remote Scottish island. Beethoven’s Romance no. 2 in F features the lyrical melodies and virtuosity of Beethoven’s earlier works To conclude the program, the orchestra performs Beethoven’s magnificent Third Symphony, “Eroica”, a revolutionary work in its time, written at a major turning point in Beethoven’s life and career as he dealt with his growing deafness. Into this music, Beethoven poured his passion, fury and anguish with a depth of musical expression that moves away from his roots in the classical and baroque styles and into the Romantic era.
Admission Free – All are welcome!

Nyack Farmer's Market
2023-02-09 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.

Edward Hopper: Early to Late with Elizabeth Thompson Collearly
2023-02-09 18:00 - 19:30 | Edward Hopper House Art Center, 82 N Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, United States
Join Hopper scholar Elizabeth Thompson Colleary to examine how Hopper’s early drawings relate to later masterworks that clearly display the ongoing influence and impact that Hopper’s Nyack years had in defining his lifelong artistic vision.
Ticket includes glass of wine.
$15/members
$20/non-member

Deconstructing Racism: A Path Toward Lasting Change - Book Talk & Signing with Barbara Crain Major & Joseph Barndt
2023-02-09 18:30 - 20:30 | Nyack Library, 59 South Broadway, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
DECONSTRUCTING RACISM: A PATH TOWARD LASTING CHANGE
Book Talk and Signing with Barbara Crain Major & Joseph Barndt
Thursday, February 9, 2023 | 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
at the Nyack Library, 59 S Broadway,

CLASSICAL CANDLELIGHT CONCERTS - BACH+ Sara Sant'Ambrogio, Cello
2023-02-11 20:00 | First Reformed Church of Nyack, 18 S Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
Saturday, February 11, 8:00pm
First Reformed Church, Nyack
More Info: ArtsRock.org
Tickets: $55 Premium Seating, $40 General Admission
GRAMMY-winning cellist Sara Sant’Ambrogio comes to Nyack for the first of a series of concerts lit by candles in the historical First Reformed Church of Nyack. The beautiful wood acoustics will ring with the music of Bach, including highlights from his famous Cello Suites, among other composers. Her playing has been called “Sheer pleasure” by the New York Times. She is a founding member of the Eroica Trio.

Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Being Alive
2023-02-11 20:00 - 21:30 | Tarrytown Music Hall, 13 Main Street, Tarrytown, NY, 10591, United States
Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Being Alive with Adam Ben-David on piano
Before he was an Emmy-winning TV star, Mandy Patinkin was already a Tony-winning Broadway legend. Mandy Patinkin in Concert: BEING ALIVE, presents the acclaimed actor / singer / storyteller in his most electrifying role: concert performer. “Mandy Patinkin is in the business of showstopping,” raves The New Yorker, and that’s exactly what he does in this powerful, passionate evening of song. BEING ALIVE is a collection of many of Mandy’s favorite Broadway and classic American tunes. From Irving Berlin to Stephen Sondheim, from Cole Porter to Harry Chapin, Mandy Patinkin takes you on a dazzling musical journey you’ll never forget.

Louie Prima Jr. and The Witnesses
2023-02-11 20:00 - 22:00 | Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, 1008 Brown St, Peekskill, NY, 10566, United States
“Like his father, Prima, Jr. is a talented entertainer whose jocular vocals led much of the action… it catapulted the sound into the present and these stunning Witnesses enjoyed numerous featured spots as vocalists and instrumentalists. Tireless doesn’t begin to describe each perspiration-filled moment.”- New York City Jazz Record
Louis Prima Jr. and The Witnesses are a boisterous, horn-driven, 10-piece New Orleans-style band known for their energetic performances that raise the roof and bring audiences to their feet. Their eclectic and rowdy style crosses several genres, from big band and swing to rock and blues, combining original music from their two albums with tail-shakin’ and foot stompin’ favorites from the five-decade career of Louis Prima Sr. With the band’s collective talents and diverse musical tastes, their shows have a sound that is unique while staying true to the vintage Prima style.
Prima Jr. is the son of legendary entertainer Louis Prima, known for his New Orleans-flavored music and lively performances. Prima had a career that spanned five decades and included record-breaking contracts to perform in Las Vegas where legends such as Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and Louis Armstrong would regularly jump on stage with the entertainer and his band. His popularity was so great at one point that he was asked to perform at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy. His classic “Sing, Sing, Sing” was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, he won the first ever Music Group Grammy for “That Old Black Magic” and his classic “Jump, Jive ‘an Wail” went on to start a swing revolution in the 90s.
