Historic Hudson River Towns

FACE TO FACE: Forgotten Voices Heard
2023-03-25 22:00 (America/New_York) | Nyack Center,58 Depew Avenue, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
Short-film Screening | Conversation| Violin Performance
Kelly Hall-Tompkins, world-renowned violinist and pioneer of nonprofit
Music Kitchen, joins Co-Director, Elliott Forrest for a screening of their
award-winning short-form documentary, FACE TO FACE: Forgotten Voices Heard,
which premiered at Carnegie Hall.
The screening will be followed by a conversation with Rockland Community
leaders about homelessness and food insecurity and the evening will be
capped off with an exclusive performance by Ms. Hall-Tompkins.
Tickets:
https://www.artsrock.org/tickets.php?id=128&siteid=638AAFDC-29CB-4739-AD0E-CB2994C79B63&site_eid=90995&site_edid=340463
$20 General Admission
A portion of proceeds benefit Soup Angels
https://www.soupangels.com/soupangels/index.html
Reduced price or complimentary tickets are available for those in need.
For more information contact: info@artsrock.org mailto:info@artsrock.org

The Enchanted Garden: Colors in Motion - Sculptures by Dorothy Gillespie
2023-03-26 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-27 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-28 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-29 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-30 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-31 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.

Children's Programing
2023-03-26 12:00 - 16:00 | NY
Beginning this Sunday, March 26th, 12-4pm, The Haverstraw Brick Museum is
partnering with Refuge-Dreams to bring Sunday afternoon family programming
to the Museum.
The marbleizing of paper was an essential historical technique for making
the ordinary extraordinary in the 1800s. Women also often made little books
to record their dreams or common household accounts. At the Haverstraw
Brick Museum, they have many little books in their archives that tell a
unique story. Join them this SUNDAY, as they make little “dream” books
using traditional marbleizing and découpage techniques to tell our own
stories.
https://www.haverstrawbrickmuseum.org/earthdayfestival…
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Edward Hopper's Hudson River Boyhood and Emerging Artistic Vision
2023-03-26 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
2023-03-26 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.

Double Vision at Lagstein Gallery
2023-03-26 13:00 - 18:00 | 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

Rock 'n' Rollers
2023-03-26 15:00 | NY
The Rock ‘n’ Rollers will be performing a concert at The Nyack Center on
Sunday March 26th 3pm. Hope to see you there!

OSTARA CANDLE MAGICK WITH MEGHAN
2023-03-26 18:30 - 20:30 | Nyack, NY, USA
Another magical evening making spell candles with Meghan! This time, we will be working with aspects of Ostara, making candles from scratch and infusing them with potent intentions, ritual oils, herbs and crystals … come solo, with a friend or with your significant other for a delightful night of fertile creativity!
$25 per person, includes egg-shaped glass candle dish, wax, oils, herbs and crystals!

The Candace Lyn Mathews Quartet
2023-03-26 19:00 | Elmwood Playhouse,10 Park St, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
The Candace Lynn Matthews Quartet: An Evening of Cole Porter & Standards
from the Golden Era
Sunday, March 26 at 7:00pm
Award-winning performer and recording artist Candace Lynn Matthews brings
her vocal style to Elmwood Playhouse in “The Candace Lynn Matthews Quartet:
An Evening of Cole Porter & Standards from the Golden Era” on Sunday, March
26 at 7:00pm.
Candace was seen in the multiple award-winning Elmwood Playhouse production
of “Night & Day: Love Lost and Found Through the Eyes of Cole Porter” where
she was chosen as Best Performer in a Musical byhttp://BroadwayWorld.com.
She now returns with her Quartet for one night only!

An Evening with Bruce Hornsby
2023-03-26 20:00 - 21:30 | Tarrytown Music Hall, 13 Main Street, Tarrytown, NY, 10591, United States
Bruce Hornsby returns to Tarrytown Music Hall for an intimate solo performance. Bruce has built one of the most diverse, collaborative, and adventurous careers in contemporary music. Drawing from a vast wellspring of American musical traditions, the singer/pianist/composer/bandleader has created a large and accomplished body of work and employed a vast array of stylistic approaches. Throughout this period, Hornsby has maintained the integrity, virtuosity and artistic curiosity that have been hallmarks of his work from the start.
Hornsby and his band The Range’s first album “The Way It Is” (1986) was steadily and slowly building in popularity in the U.S. when in August the title track exploded on BBC Radio One in England, then Europe, the rest of the world and finally in the United States. The record went on to sell three million records, the band played Saturday Night Live and opened for Steve Winwood, John Fogerty, Huey Lewis, the Grateful Dead and the Eurythmics before becoming headliners on their own tour supported by Crowded House.His three Grammy wins ( along with his ten Grammy losses!) typify the diversity of his career: Best New Artist (1986) as leader of Bruce Hornsby and the Range, Best Bluegrass Recording (1989) for a version of his old Range hit “The Valley Road” that appeared on the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s “Will The Circle Be Unbroken Volume Two, and a shared award with Branford Marsalis in 1993 for Best Pop Instrumental for “Barcelona Mona”, a song written and performed for the 1992 Olympic Games.

Post-Impressionism In Its Own Right: Online Class
2023-03-28 10:00 - 11:00 | Bethany Arts Community, 40 Somerstown Rd, Ossining, NY, 10562, United States
Join Jill Kiefer, Ph.D. as she leads her Online Course series for BAC entitled: “Post-Impressionism In Its Own Right” for 6 Tuesdays, 02/21-03/28, 2023 from 10 – 11 AM.
Discussions of Post-Impressionism are often limited to its relationship with Impressionism. But this diverse and distinctive movement stands very much on its own—having traveled quite different paths than those explored by the Impressionists. Indeed, Post-Impressionism embraced the past, the present, and the future—and its influence remains a force today.
In this program, we’ll focus on the key Post-Impressionists (Seurat, Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin) to examine their unique achievements. Which ones most avidly pursued symbolic and subjective meanings in their art? How and why did structure, optics and order become the obsession of others? In what ways did their combined efforts and aesthetic visions define what would become the modern idiom? Join us as we seek the answers to these questions, and identify how Post-Impressionism fits into the broad tapestry that is art history.

Nyack Farmer's Market
2023-03-30 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.

Diamonds Are Forever But How Much Do You Really know About Them?
2023-03-30 18:00 - 19:00 | Metal and Stone Jewelers, 12 South Broadway, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
Please join us in our shop, Metal and Stone Jewelers, for an evening of diamond education given by our in house GG (Graduate Gemologist) Seth Gopin. Learn how to buy diamond jewelry in an educated way. As Sy Syms used to say……An educated consumer is our best customer!

OGHAM WITH MORGANA
2023-03-30 18:30 - 20:30 | Nyack, NY, USA
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.
The Second Aicme ‘hÚathe’ begins March 2nd…
– hÚath (H), Hawthorn: (Overcoming) Despair, Fear & Anxiety
– Dair (D), Oak: Strength & Endurance
– Tinne (T), Holly: Mastery, Skill & Manifestation
– Coll (C), Hazel: Wisdom, Enlightenment
– Ceirt (Q), AppleTree: (Dealing With) Misfortune and Bad Luck
Sign up for a single class, or an Aicme of 5.
Each class only $21
Each Aicme (5 Feda) $90 (save $15)
(20% discount for Students, OAPs, Veterans, Persons with Disabilities, call for details)

Japanese Drums Performance - March 31st
2023-03-31 17:00 - 18:00 | Palisades Center,1000 Palisades Center Dr, West Nyack, NY 10994, USA
March 31, 2023
Location: Level 3, Food COurt
Time: 5pm – 6pm

Opening Reception
2023-03-31 17:00 - 18:30 | Edward Hopper House,82 North Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, USA

VOYAGE OF THE SPIRITUAL ASTRONAUT CONTINUES ...
2023-03-31 18:30 - 20:30 | Nyack, NY, USA
JUST FOR MEN
Open, hosted discussions allowing men to voyage to their spiritual side, sharing and learning together, and creating a Circle of Support for one another …
No sign up necessary, drop in and meet some likeminded souls!

Anthony Rodia
2023-03-31 19:00 - 20:30, 2023-03-31 21:30 - 23:00 | Tarrytown Music Hall, 13 Main Street, Tarrytown, NY, 10591, United States
A first-generation Italian-American born and raised right here in Westchester County, New York, Anthony Rodia came out of the womb making people laugh. In his 20’s he tried a few open mics, but ultimately took a different career path as a finance manager of a luxury car dealership. In 2019, Rodia returned to comedy and left his day job to become a full-time stand-up comic. He hit the ground running and performed 100 shows in just nine months, and within three years Anthony has gained a massive fan base online and around the country.
In a very short time, Anthony gained over 900,000 social media followers and his YouTube videos have amassed over 22 million views. Rodia’s comedy pulls from his real life and razor-sharp observations on marriage, parenthood, road rage, and everything else worthy of a social media rant.
With the onset of quarantine, Anthony made the most of a captive audience, delivering a staggering 86 weekly videos. “ROAD RAGE WEDNESDAY” became a fan favorite, but his Uncle Vinny and Zia Lucia characters transformed into a phenomenon. They are the crazy uncle and aunt you love but can’t be out in public with, who speak their minds (whether you asked for it or not).
In 2021, Anthony launched Rodia Wines, which include a Zia Lucia’s White Blend and Uncle Vinny’s Red Blend that both pair perfectly with any of your favorite Italian dishes. Rodia Wines will soon be available in local retail stores and is currently available online at https://rodiawines.myshopify.com/.
Rodia also host the weekly podcast, Little Bit of Laughs on Podcast One. Get to know the comedian behind your favorite viral videos and stand-up comedy alongside his co-host and radio legend Goumba Johnny. Join Anthony and Goumba as they get into hot topics, rants, pranks, and listener’s questions and stories.
Anthony has appeared on Elvis Duran and the Morning Show, FOX’s Good Day New York, and Elizabeth & Elisa on News 12, he quietly claimed the throne of “KING OF OFF THE BOAT COMEDY.”
Rodia is currently selling out comedy clubs and theaters across the country on his The Road Rage Tour.

Photo Exhibit: 82 Pieces of '82: Main Street, Nyack
2023-04-01 - 2023-04-02 | 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.

Members Exhibition @ Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center
2023-04-01 - 2023-04-10 | Edward Hopper House Art Center, 82 N Broadway, Nyack, NY
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.
Fully registered Artist Members will be accepted on a first come, first served basis.
To register:
1) Pay your $20 registration fee here
2) Complete this online registration form
3) Exhibitors must be current Museum Members at the Artist ($65), Friend ($125) or Patron ($300) levels through April 2023.
To join or renew, go to the Membership item on our Fareharbor Dashboard then select your level: Click Here
Questions on your membership status? Contact info@hopperhouse.org

Dave & Buster’s Breakfast with the Easter Bunny, Palisades Center, Nyack
2023-04-01 09:00 - 11:00 | Nyack, NY, USA
TICKETS: https://www.prekindle.com/event/61121-breakfast-with-the-easter-bunny-2023-west-nyack
Hop on in for Breakfast with the Easter Bunny. We have two great ticket packages available for a celebration that is fun for the whole family!
Bunny Ticket: All American Breakfast Bar, Orange and Cranberry Juice, Coffee, $15 Power Card, Easter activity, pictures with the Easter Bunny, suggested 18% gratuity, and taxes
Chick Ticket: All American Breakfast Bar, Orange and Cranberry Juice, Coffee, pictures with the Easter Bunny, suggested 18% gratuity, and taxes
Questions? Please contact Jodi Bergin at (214) 92336 or jodi.bergin@daveandbusters.com
All children must be accompanied by an adult at all times; All adults must have tickets for entry. Children under the age of 2 do not need a ticket for entry.
Once purchased, all tickets are non-refundable and non-transferrable. Restrictions May Apply. See Store for Details.

Croton Point Nature & History Hike
2023-04-01 09:00 - 11:00 | Croton Point Park, Croton Point Avenue, parks.westchestergov.com
Croton Point Park Naturalist John Phillips and Village of Croton Historian Marc Cheshire will lead a hike on Saturday, April 1, at 9 a.m. to explore Croton Point’s history, natural history, archaeology and geology. The hike will last roughly 1.5 to 2 hours. This event is free. Meet at the gate to the RV park, where parking is available. Ages 6 and up; wear sturdy shoes. The same hike will take place on April 15.
