Historic Hudson River Towns

The Enchanted Garden: Colors in Motion - Sculptures by Dorothy Gillespie
2023-04-24 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-04-23 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-04-22 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-04-21 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-04-20 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-04-19 09:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | 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.

Artist Talk
2023-04-22 17:00 - 18:00 | Garner Arts Center,55 W Railroad Ave, Garnerville, NY 10923, USA, 2 W Railroad Ave, United States
Vladimir Cybil Charlier & Sari Dienes Foundation
Moderated by GARNER Arts Center

Unique Crystal Fine Art Paintings
2023-04-22 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.

Encore Encounter: Recycled Art of Poramit Thantapalit
2023-04-22 11:00 - 16:00, 2023-04-21 11:00 - 16:00, 2023-04-20 11:00 - 16:00, 2023-04-19 11:00 - 16:00 | Rockland Center for the Arts, 27 South Greenbush Road, West Nyack, 10994
Encore Encounter in Gallery Two
Recycled Works by Poramit Thantapalit
April 15 – June 10, 2023
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 15, 2pm – 5pm
Free to the Public
Please join Rockland Center for the Arts for the opening Encore Encounter: Recycled works by Poramit Thantapalit in Gallery Two.
Encore Encounter features the works of Poramit Thantapalit. Poramit’s work is inspired by the relationship and connection between humans, nature and the surroundings such as trees, flowers, the ocean, people and animals. The artist focuses on using both recycled and non-recycled materials to create his artwork. Discarded shopping bags, cereal boxes, and plastic bottles that were once considered “trash” are altered into unexpected visions of beauty such as coral clouds hanging from the ceiling and bluetanica gardens growing on the wall . Poramit’s artwork is created from small parts and are uniquely assembled like puzzles. Each piece can stand alone as an individual object or together to create a large installation. Cyanotype prints are often made of the recycled objects of art. Beautifully created sculptures, installations, mixed media and drawings exemplify just how much waste we generate. It also His work inspires viewers to protect our environment.
A native of Thailand, Poramit Thantapalit has a degree in journalism and a master’s in computer graphics from New York Institute of Technology. He has over 15 years experience as a graphic designer, artist and photographer with global marketing organizations. His installations and artworks have been exhibited at the Arcadia Earth Museum, National Academy Museum, the James Rose Center, IPCNY Print Fest at Robert Miller Gallery, the Jersey City Theater, and the Sodertalje Arts Gallery in Sweden. His installation “Masked Arts” that he created during the pandemic was featured in the New York Times Sunday edition in May 2021. Poramit now lives in New Jersey.
Please also join Rockland Center for the exhibit opening with an artist reception on Saturday, April 15th, 2:00pm – 5:00pm. The exhibit will be on view through June 10th, open Mondays – Saturdays 11am – 4pm, (closed Sundays). Free to the Public. For more information call (845) 358-0877 or visit www.rocklandartcenter.org.
RoCA gratefully acknowledges support for its programs from The Rea Charitable Trust, ArtsWestchester, Sarah and Stephen Thomas, The Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation, M&T Bank, The M&T Charitable Foundation, The Dorothy Gillespie Foundation, Walter Cain & Paulo Ribeiro, Kantrowitz, Goldhamer & Graifman P.C., QuietEvents, the Estate of Joan Konner, Lighting Services Inc.,, the Mark and Jessie Milano Foundation, Zaklin Family Charitable Fund, The County of Rockland, Art Services Group, RoCA members, donors and business members.
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 the County of Rockland.

LGBTQ+ Family Spring Craft Workshop
2023-04-22 10:30 - 12:00 | Creative Arts Workshop, 48 Burd St, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
LGBTQ+ Family Spring Craft Workshop
Saturday, April 22, 2023
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Join the Pride Center and Creative Arts Workshop for some seasonal crafts & games…prizes included!
For LGBTQ+ families with children of all ages.
RSVP required.
For questions or to RSVP:
KrisHillen@rocklandpridecenter.org.

Adam Falcon Trio feat. Etienne Stadwijk and Jonathan Toscano at Maureen's Jazz Cellar
2023-04-21 20:00 - 21:30 | Maureen’s Jazz Cellar,2 North Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
Adam Falcon brings his trio into Maureen’s Jazz Cellar, one of Rockland
County’s most intimate music venues. This singer-songwriter will be
featuring Etienne Stadwijk on piano and Jonathan Toscano on bass for a
special evening of stories, music and song.

INSPIRED! 2023, a benefit for Rivertown Film
2023-04-21 19:30 - 22:00 | Rivertown Film at the Nyack Center,58 Depew Avenue, Nyack, NY 10960, USA, entrance on South Broadway
People who create are inspirations to us all. But what inspires them? Find
out at Rivertown Film’s 8th Inspired! on Friday, April 21 at Nyack Center,
when fifteen local artists in varied disciplines share the sources of their
inspiration, each using ten slides and twenty seconds per slide to explain
them. Join us for a fast-paced night of creativity and enjoy the many ways
that artists find inspiration. The program starts at 8:00, but arrive early
for complementary hors d’oeuvres and to look over our silent auction items
and raffles. After the presentation, additional hors d’oeuvres, desserts
and beverages will be available as you mingle with the artists. Our food
donors include Bolzano’s Restaurant-Congers, Hudson House, Otto’s Full
Service in Piermont, BJ’s, Prohibition River, Olde Village Inne, Dolce
Vita, Turiellos, Stop & Shop Orangeburg and Boxer Donuts. Tickets are $35
or $25 for members of Rivertown Film.
Taking part this year are:
Event MC: GLEN SCHLOSS, Performer, Producer, Remixer and
Multi-Instrumentalist
The 2023 Inspired! Honorees:
DRU PLUHOWSKI, Choral director
ELLIOTT FORREST, Broadcaster, Director/Producer/Designer/Filmmaker
ELENA MELENER SCHLOSS, Voice Actor, Writer, Director and Content Creator
TREY BOHNAM SCHLOSS, Drummer and Singer
RAY LEVIER, Drummer / Composer / Producer
KIM CROSS, Actor
DOROTHY GILLESPIE, Sculptor represented posthumously by her son Gary Israel
SUSAN HILLARY (aka SHAPIRO), Filmmaker & Painter
KIMBERLY FENNELL, Social Media Content Creator
HERNZ LAGUERRE, JR., Journalist / Video Storyteller
CHARU KRISHAN, Hindi Storyteller / Writer and Translator
J. FAITH ALMIRON, Cultural Studies Scholar and Critic
PETER ARTIN, Sculptor
OSCAR GONZÁLEZ-BARRETO, Scholar /Teacher / Playwright / Radio Host
DAVID SHIRE: Composer

Art Lillard's Blue Heaven Swing Sextet
2023-04-21 19:30 - 20:30 | The Nyack Library, 59 South Broadway, 10960
The Blue Heaven swing sextet is a small band with a big band sound. Wherever they perform, Blue Heaven is enthusiastically received by listening audiences and swing dancers alike.

Shadow Work with Meghan McSweeney @ Modern Druid
2023-04-21 18:30 - 20:30 | Modern Druid, 60 S. Broadway, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
SHADOW WORK WITH MEGHAN MCSWEENEY
Shadow work facilitates a deep and intimate relationship with your core self, your patterns. These are the woven structures our outward self is created from. It is here that we find the Key to unlock those pieces of ourselves, but first we must find the Torch so we can reveal what is there waiting to be seen.
This two-part class will give you the tools to go deeper and explore your Shadow, learn how to cut away what doesn’t serve you, and how to adapt to the changes within.
Each participant will work with at least one pattern, and through meditation and visualization, we will be able to observe, acknowledge, accept, integrate, and release a personal Shadow or pattern.
Due to the intimate nature of this work, there are only 5 places available… please reserve early.
DATES:
Friday, April 14th, AND
Friday, April 21st, 2023
TIME: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

EVENT LINK:
https://modern-druid.shoplightspeed.com/shadow-work-workshop-with-meghan-mcsweeney.html

PRICE: $75 per person (for both classes)

James Webb Telescope Images Set to Music Birth of the Universe Featured Guest from the Space Telescope Science Institute
2023-04-20 20:00 | Rittenhausen Theater at BOCES 131 North Midland Avenue Nyack, NY
Thursday, April 20, 2023
James Webb Telescope Images Set to Music
Birth of the Universe
Featured Guest from the Space Telescope Science Institute
Time: 8:00pm EST
Old Nyack High School
151 N Midland Avenue, Nyack, NY
Tickets: $20
For the first time anywhere, spectacular new images from the JAMES WEBB TELESCOPE will be seen on BIG SCREEN set to music. These new images far surpass what scientists previously received from the Hubble Telescope. Award-winning director, producer, Elliott Forrest has set these out-of-this-world images to music. Special guests will be on hand to explain the images.

Nyack Farmer's Market
2023-04-20 08:00 - 14:00 | 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 8am to 2pm, 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.

Lesbian Happy Hour
2023-04-19 18:00 - 21:00 | Maureen’s Jazz Cellar, 2 North Broadway, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
LESBIAN HAPPY HOUR
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 | 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Music and mingling…a Lesbian-only evening in the heart of Nyack at Maureen’s Jazz Cellar.
Trans, cis, Non-Binary: all Lesbians are welcome!
18+
This event is held at Maureen’s Jazz Cellar, 2 North Broadway, Nyack.
For questions about accessibility, menu, or directions, please call 845-535-3143 or email Brianne@maureensjazzcellar.com.
For questions about the event, contact Kris at krishillen@rocklandpridecenter.org.

Untold Stories
2023-04-15 11:00 - 2023-06-10 16:00 | Rockland Center for the Arts,27 South Greenbush Road, West Nyack, NY 10994, USA
Untold Stories
April 15 – June 10, 2023
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 15, 2pm-5pm
Free to the Public
Rockland Center for the Arts (RoCA) continues its mission of inspiring the
community through new and diverse forms of contemporary exhibitions, all
free to the public. During the month of April, RoCA will bring together
three artists whose art conveys life stories of ecological issues,
immigration, and humanity.
Untold Stories, curated by Mary Ting for the Emerson Gallery, brings
together fragmented memories, dreams, whispers, whimpers, trauma,
historical and contemporary chaos which are woven together, dissected, and
reassembled in the works of Tara Sabharwal, Mary Ting and Yeon Ji Yoo. Time
is at once present, past, future and the site is here, there, elsewhere and
nowhere. These works are much more than collages, drawings, paintings,
prints, books, sculpture, and photographs – they are evocations of loss;
desperations; relics, shrines; and reckonings. Likewise, they are also
rebirths; devotions; divinations, odes to nature, wonder, life; and newly
revised contemporary translations of old stories. These Untold Stories are
the artists’ pilgrimage into the hauntings of war, immigration, politics,
gender issues and ecological collapse.
The paintings, drawings and prints of Tara Sabharwal are intuitive in
process -a melding of the unconscious self and the raging global migration
crisis. Tara has also curated many exhibitions on the theme of migration.
Tara was born and educated in Delhi, India and resides in New York.
The drawings, installations and books of Mary Ting reflect on Chinese
cultural history, trauma, grief, and the loss of nature. Mary teaches
environmental justice and does research on the wildlife trade. Mary is an
American born Chinese, who also studied and worked in China.
The sculpture, photographs and collages of Yeon-Ji Yoo are infused with her
childhood memories, family struggles and reconstructed narratives. Yeon Ji
has a graduate degree in fine arts and also environmental science. Yeon Ji
spent her early childhood in rural South Korea before immigrating to the
United States.
Please join Rockland Center for the Arts for the exhibition opening artists
reception on Saturday, April 15th, 2:00pm – 5:00pm. The exhibit will be on
view through June 10th, open Mondays – Saturdays 11am – 4pm, (closed
Sundays). Free to the Public. For more information call (845) 358-0877 or
visithttp://www.rocklandartcenter.org
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www.rocklandartcenter.org.
RoCA gratefully acknowledges support for its programs from The Rea
Charitable Trust, ArtsWestchester, Sarah and Stephen Thomas, The Richard
Pousette-Dart Foundation, M&T Bank, The M&T Charitable Foundation, The
Dorothy Gillespie Foundation, Walter Cain & Paulo Ribeiro, Kantrowitz,
Goldhamer & Graifman P.C., QuietEvents, the Estate of Joan Konner, Lighting
Services Inc.,, the Mark and Jessie Milano Foundation, Zaklin Family
Charitable Fund, The County of Rockland, Art Services Group, RoCA members,
donors and business members.
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 the County
of Rockland.

Improvisationalism: Myth & Nature
2023-04-15 11:00 - 2023-06-10 16:00 | Rockland Center for the Arts, 27 South Greenbush Road, West Nyack, 10994
Improvisationalism in Gallery One
Paintings of Gde Arsa Artha
April 15 – June 10, 2023
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 15, 2pm – 5pm
Free to the Public
Please join Rockland Center for the Arts for the opening of two exhibits: Improvisationalism: Paintings by Gde Arsa Artha in Gallery One.
Improvisationalism is the work of Rockland artist, Gde Arsa Artha, inspired by his homeland of Ubud, Bali, Indonesia. His paintings play off of nature, mythology and traditional Balinese folk tales. Art plays an important part in Balinese traditional ceremonies, establishing a need for spatial orientation, both physically and visually, balancing and arranging the energy of the universe. For example, his painting “Moon Eclipse” displays the moon as the goddess of immortality fighting off the evil demon from hell as he flies through the sky during the full moon trying to swallow the moon goddess, Ratih. Ratih brings balance to the universe by not allowing the demon to capture immortality. The painting was inspired by the 1997 Hailey’s Comet and Bali mythology of the moon eclipse. His latest paintings often incorporate ink and computer technology. As tradition has informed his art, evolution helped develop it; technically with the use of Western color and perspective while connecting with the past, reflecting both his Balinese origin and his individuality.
Tjokorda Gde Arsa Artha studied all the traditional arts of his Bali homeland from an early age. Arriving in New York in the early eighties, he attended the Arts Students League in New York City on scholarship. Through the Asia Society of New York and other organizations, he has frequently participated in programs representing the visual and performing arts of Bali, including music and dance performances, workshops, and demonstrations of Balinese techniques in painting, carving, crafts, and dance. He has exhibited in Bali’s Puri Lukisan Museum in Ubud, throughout NYC and the Hudson Valley region. He has been commissioned by UNICEF to paint “The Little Cowboy” for the Flags of the United Nations. Artha has been a grant recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, a professor at Bard College, a member of the Giri Mekar, a community gamelan orchestra in the Hudson Valley, and is the current Director of The Pomona Cultural Center in Rockland. He resides in Pomona, NY with his family.
Please also join Rockland Center for the Arts for the artist reception on Saturday, April 15th, 2:00pm – 5:00pm. The exhibit will be on view through June 10th, open Mondays – Saturdays 11am – 4pm, (closed Sundays). Free to the Public. For more information call (845) 358-0877 or visit www.rocklandartcenter.org.
RoCA gratefully acknowledges support for its programs from The Rea Charitable Trust, ArtsWestchester, Sarah and Stephen Thomas, The Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation, M&T Bank, The M&T Charitable Foundation, The Dorothy Gillespie Foundation, Walter Cain & Paulo Ribeiro, Kantrowitz, Goldhamer & Graifman P.C., QuietEvents, the Estate of Joan Konner, Lighting Services Inc.,, the Mark and Jessie Milano Foundation, Zaklin Family Charitable Fund, The County of Rockland, Art Services Group, RoCA members, donors and business members.
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 the County of Rockland.

Kibbitz & Nosh: New York City’s Vanishing Cafeterias
2023-04-15 - 2023-06-26 | Edward Hopper House Art Center, 82 N Broadway, Nyack, NY
Kibbitz & Nosh: New York City’s Vanishing Cafeterias
Photographs by Marcia Bricker Halperin
During the early to mid-20th Century, the streets of New York City were filled with hundreds of cafeterias, and self-service eating establishments. One particular restaurant, Dubrow’s Cafeteria in Brooklyn, was a legendary institution. New York City-based photographer Marcia Bricker Halperin documented Dubrow’s and other cafeterias in their waning days, drawn to the memorable faces and the liveliness and sorrow of urban life in that vanished world.
Hopper House Hours
Thursday
1–5 PM
Friday
1–5 PM
Saturday
12–5 PM
Sunday
12–5 PM
