Historic Hudson River Towns

Double Vision at Lagstein Gallery
2023-03-11 13:00 - 18:00, 2023-03-10 13:00 - 18:00, 2023-03-09 13:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | 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

Unique Crystal Fine Art Paintings
2023-03-11 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.

Edward Hopper's Hudson River Boyhood and Emerging Artistic Vision
2023-03-11 12:00 - 17:00, 2023-03-10 12:00 - 17:00, 2023-03-09 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

LGBTQ+ Walking Group
2023-03-11 10:00 | Rockland County Pride Center, 28 South Franklin Street, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
LGBTQ+ Walking Group
Saturday, March 11, 2023
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Join other members of the LGBTQ+ community for a walk in nature.
Any questions about the program, access, or location, contact Kris at KrisHillen@rocklandpridecenter.org

The Enchanted Garden: Colors in Motion - Sculptures by Dorothy Gillespie
2023-03-11 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-10 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-09 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-08 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-07 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-06 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.

Photo Exhibit: 82 Pieces of '82: Main Street, Nyack
2023-03-11 - 2023-03-12 | 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.

Jon Faddis Quartet
2023-03-10 21:30 - 23:00, 2023-03-10 19:00 - 20:30 | New York
“He’s the best ever, including me!” — Dizzy Gillespie
“…the world’s greatest trumpeter … the greatest trumpeter on the planet for decades … brash soloistic logic and breathtaking technical acuity …” — Time Out New York
Known as one of the most innovative and inspiring contemporary jazz trumpeters, Grammy-nominee Jon Faddis’s career — like his mentor Dizzy Gillespie – has been marked by both intense integrity and great humor.
Whether leading his own quartet, conducting a celebrated orchestra or teaching at a prestigious college, he is the consummate musician. His distinctive trumpet appears on hundreds of records and numerous soundtracks for film and television. Dizzy called him “the best ever, including me!”

Pride and Prejudice Opens at Elmwood Playhouse
2023-03-10 20:00 - 22:30 | Nyack, NY, USA
Elmwood Playhouse opens Kate Hamill’s riotously irreverent adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice on Friday March 10 in Nyack, NY. Complimentary mocktails will be served before the show to celebrate opening night. The show runs through April 1, with an open-captioned performance on March 30.
Directed by Alison Costello and featuring Rick Apicella, Darren Carfano, Dana Duff, Katie Schmidt Feder, Ken Hatlee, Sierra Lidén, Aaron Newcome, and Emma Ruck, Elmwood’s production of Pride and Prejudice delivers this classic story with edge and energy. It’s fun and funny and full of surprises– definitely not your grandmother’s Austen!
Performances begin March 10 and continue through April 1. Curtain is at 8 pm on Fridays and Saturdays, 2 pm on Sundays, and 8 pm for the open-captioned performance on Thursday March 30. Tickets are on sale now: $27; seniors/youth/military are $24.
Elmwood Community Playhouse is the 2022 winner of Broadway World’s “Favorite Local Theatre,” as well as a dozen other awards for individual productions, directors, actors, and designers this season.
Tickets and information at elmwoodplayhouse.com 845 353 1313

Lewis Black: Off The Rails
2023-03-10 20:00 - 22:00 | Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, 1008 Brown St, Peekskill, NY, 10566, United States
He’s Back!
Known as the King of Rant, Lewis Black uses his trademark style of comedic yelling and finger pointing to expose the absurdities of life. His comedic brilliance makes people laugh at life’s hypocrisies and the insanity he sees in the world. A GRAMMY Award-winning stand-up, Lewis Black performs his critically acclaimed shows more than 200 nights annually, to sold-out audiences throughout Europe, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States. He is one of a few performers to sell out multiple renowned theaters, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York City Center, the Main Stage at the Mirage in Las Vegas and a sold-out Broadway run at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York City.
Since 2014 Lewis Black has done over 400 live streaming shows, called THE RANT IS DUE, at the end of each of his standup performances. Adding his own unique style, Lewis delivers audience-written Rants which have been submitted from the fans at his show and throughout the world. These rants are now available on Lewis Black’s podcast, Rant Cast. Black is the longest-running contributor to THE DAILY SHOW on Comedy Central. He has had comedy specials on HBO, Comedy Central, Showtime and Epix. In 2001, he won Best Male Stand-Up at the American Comedy Awards. His newest special Thanks for Risking Your Life (streaming premiere October 6, 2020) was his last live performance before the Covid lockdown. He has released eight comedy albums, including the 2007 GRAMMY Award-winning The Carnegie Hall Performance.
He won his second GRAMMY Award for his album Stark Raving Black and has published three bestselling books: Nothing’s Sacred (Simon & Schuster, 2005), Me of Little Faith (Riverhead Books, 2008) and I’m Dreaming of a Black Christmas (Riverhead Books, 2010). In 2012, he performed eight sell-out shows at Richard Rodgers Theatre on Broadway as well as did one of his two HBO Specials BLACK ON BROADWAY. In 2015, Black notably voiced the character “Anger” in the Academy Award-winning film from Pixar, Inside Out.
A published playwright, he’s written over 40 plays and has found his work performed throughout the country, including at the A.C.T. Theatre, the Magic Theatre, The Williamstown Theatre Festival, and The Public Theatre. In addition to his professional pursuits, Lewis is dedicated to a number of charitable organizations including the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, The Rogosin Institute, and The 52nd Street Project. He’s also deeply committed to supporting our troops. A seasoned USO tour veteran, he’s performed for the troops on three Christmas tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Red Hot Chilli Pipers
2023-03-10 20:00 - 21:30 | Tarrytown Music Hall, 13 Main Street, Tarrytown, NY, 10591, United States
Returning to Tarrytown Music Hall for another smash year! Bagpipes with attitude. Drums with a Scottish accent. A blazing rock band and show so hot, it carries its own health warning! It’s Bagpipes. It’s Rock. It’s Bagrock. AC/DC meets the poet Robert Burns. Where rock anthems sit comfortably alongside the great tunes from the glens and the mountains of Scotland. It’s The Red Hot Chilli Pipers – an internationally renowned ensemble consisting of pipers, guitarists, keyboards, and drummers — who have been rocking the world from New York to Beijing to Melbourne and everywhere in between with musicianship of the highest order and a passion for pipes that will leave you breathless. The band has four music degrees from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and all the pipers and drummers have played at the top level in bagpiping.

Food Enthusiast Program: A Taste of Northern Italy
2023-03-09 18:30 - 21:00 | RCC Hospitality and Culinary Arts Center, 70 Main St, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
Food Enthusiast Program: A Taste of Northern Italy
MARCH 9 @ 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM EST
Hospitality and Culinary Arts Center
70 Main Street, Nyack NY
Cost: $70 per person
An evening with hands-on preparation and up-close demonstrations on Northern Italian traditional recipes and methods. All students will prepare and take home:
Wild Mushroom & Truffle Infused Risotto
Parmesan Crusted Chicken Milanese w/ Fresh Mozzarella, Arugula & Tomatoes
A Fresh Baked & Personalized Focaccia Bread
*This class will focus on sautéing, pan frying & baking.
Snacks are provided upon your arrival and you get to take the food you make home with you.
Contact Mark Davidoff at 845-875-7571 or mark.davidoff@sunyrockland.edu with any questions.
Please arrive on time.

Movie Night Screening of Champions, starring Woody Harrelson - sponsored by BRIDGES in partnership with The Arc Rockland, Jawonio, and Venture Together
2023-03-09 18:00 - 21:00 | AMC Palisades 21 Movie Theatre,4403 Palisades Center Drive, West Nyack, NY 10994, USA
BRIDGES in partnership with The Arc Rockland, Jawonio, and Venture
Together, Invites you to a screening of the new movie Champions on
Thursday, March 9, 2023, at 6:00 PM at the AMC Palisades 21. Tickets are
$10
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and include one free small popcorn. Proceeds will benefit all four
organizations.
We are grateful to the AMC Palisades 21 for the donation of the theatre and
popcorn.
To arrange for assistive technology, or for more information, contact Vicki
Caramante, BRIDGES Events Coordinator, at vcaramante@bridgesrc.org
mailto:vcaramante@bridgesrc.org or 845-624-1366 x127.

Nyack Farmer's Market
2023-03-09 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.

NOSH AND PLAY! - A BI-WEEKLY ADULT "RETREAT"
2023-03-08 19:00 - 20:00 | Creative Arts Workshop, 48 Burd St, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
NOSH AND PLAY! – A BI-WEEKLY ADULT “RETREAT”
Every other Wednesday 6:30-8:15pm
$25 per visit
A continuation of our “Paint, Nosh, Reflection” series.
This go around we will have guest facilitators lead a group activity which will be focused from theatre, the arts, dance, or mindfulness.
This is an easy to swallow (pun-intended) evening meant to relax, inspire, and engage all of your senses.
So come join the fun and get out of the week-day brunt and let’s Nosh and Play!!
Each week a special “nosh” will be featured to “feed the soul” in a very figurative way!
This is a safe space to make art, be yourself, and heal. Please come with that in mind as we hold space and kindness towards one another in the shared retreat.
Come for one or all evenings.

Dine Out for Change & Celebrate International Women's Day
2023-03-08 17:30 - 20:30 | Nyack, NY, USA
Celebrate International Women’s Day and Dine Out for Change.
International Women’s day is next week, and this year’s theme is #EmbraceEquity.
Let’s celebrate and support the Center for Safety and Change. For over 40 years, the Center for Safety and Change has remained the only victim-assistance non-profit agency in Rockland County, providing critical comfort to victims in crisis 24/7/365.
For International Women’s Day and beyond, let’s all fully #EmbraceEquity.
Call to reserve your spot at 845.480.5416

Bubblemania featuring Casey Carle
2023-03-08 08:00 - 17:00 | Rittenhausen Theater at BOCES 131 North Midland Avenue Nyack, NY
Sunday, April 2nd at 2:00pm EST
Theater at Old Nyack High School
131 North Midland Avenue, Nyack, NY
Tickets: Child $12 / Adult $20 / Family Four Pack $50
Bubbles! Big Bubbles! Thousands of Bubbles! An extremely unique program fusing high-energy entertainment, highly crafted showmanship and artistic achievement. Casey’s show is loaded with in-the-moment improvisation, quick wit, big band swing music, a bit of audience participation and the untamed, often unbelievable qualities of spherical liquids. Part Science, All Fun! The show includes fog-filled bubble art forms and jazz inspired, choreographed routines to eventually “trapping” people inside bubbles!

Hudson Valley Art and Thomas Cole (Part 2)
2023-03-07 14:00 - 15:30 | Haverstraw King’s Daughters Public Library,10 West Ramapo Road, Garnerville, NY, USA
Thomas Cole and The Voyage of Life
In this session, we take a close look at four paintings and turn our gaze
inward. Becoming a wise elder involves looking through our life
experiences, reflecting on lessons learned, and applying those as we move
forward. Thomas Cole, a 19th-century American artist who inspired the
Hudson River School of landscape art, brought these reflections to the
canvas, with his four-painting series The Voyage of Life.
Now, you have the opportunity to examine your own voyage of life in this
guided personal development session with art historian Rena Tobey. Bring a
journal or some paper and something to write with; be prepared for some
quiet reflection. In this 60-minute session, you will be thinking about
your own life using the framework of Cole’s four paintings. We will build
on the introduction to the artist in part 1 with focus on the specific
symbols and meaning embedded in each painting–all to deepen your own
thinking.
Starting with part 1 will provide more context for your personal work, and
part 2 can also stand alone. Either way, come learn about Cole’s painted
arc of lived experience, and use his model to consider your own journey on
the river of life.
Register for Part 1 of this 2-part series.

Hudson Valley Art and Thomas Cole (Part 1)
2023-03-07 14:00 - 15:30 | Haverstraw King’s Daughters Public Library,10 West Ramapo Road, Garnerville, NY, USA
Part 1 – Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School
Like any good hike or visit to a favorite park, landscape paintings open up
the vast world of nature. But more than a pretty picture, Thomas Cole’s
paintings are coded with a plea for preserving wilderness while growing a
country that coexists in harmony with the land. Influential today as well
as 200 years ago, this 19th-century American painter became our first
conservationist. He also recognized how important the vast expanses of land
were for shaping American identity. His followers, forming the Hudson River
School of landscape art, built on Cole’s legacy and used their works for
political persuasion. In this interactive talk, we’ll dig beyond the
surface and take a slow look at paintings that tell complex, often coded
stories of national as well as personal choice. You will leave refreshed,
with renewed vigor for our natural world and all its meaning.
Rena’s greatest passion is making art accessible, invigorating, insightful,
and fun. She has taught art history at NYU’s School for Professional
Studies and Southern Connecticut State University. Rena provides talks for
New York Adventure Club and New York Public Library, as well as many
community organizations. She conducts lively, interactive tours of museum
collections, now via Zoom. Just for fun, she has created Artventures!®
Game–a cheeky party game on the adventures of art and art history.

Post-Impressionism In Its Own Right: Online Class
2023-03-07 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.

BridgeMusik Spring Festival 2023
2023-03-06 - 2023-05-02 | Various, Various, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
We are excited to announce BridgeMusik Spring Festival 2023 (March 6 – May 1, 2023). Our students will participate in masterclasses with renowned artists: Carol Wincenc (flute professor, The Juilliard School), Jerry Grossman (principal cello, The MET Opera) and Kurt Nikkanen (concertmaster, NYC Ballet). Festival students will also be working with our wonderful team of regular and new faculty members! There will be several live performances featuring our students, faculty and guest artists.

Registration information and schedule of events can be found here.
