Encore Encounter: Recycled Art of Poramit Thantapalit
2023-04-22 11:00 - 16:00, 2023-04-24 11:00 - 16:00, 2023-04-25 11:00 - 16:00, 2023-04-26 11:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | 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.

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.

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

The Enchanted Garden: Colors in Motion - Sculptures by Dorothy Gillespie
2023-04-23 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-04-24 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-04-25 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-04-26 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-04-27 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.

Rising Artists
2023-04-26 - 2023-05-16 | Nyack, NY, United States

Salsa with Chico Alvarez and Mafimba! Wednesday 4/26 6pm/8pm
2023-04-26 05:00 - 17:00 | Roost Restaurant,2 Union Street, Sparkill, NY 10976, USA
April’s Latin Lounge will showcase the return of salsa big band with Chico
Alvares & Mafimba!
We have two dinner seatings upstairs with the concert:
Doors open at 5pm first come first served
6pm (arrive by 5:30) and 8pm (arrive by 7:45)
Please arrive promptly. Seating is first come first served. Roost will be
offering a delicious seasonal menu with the concert ($25 minimum per person
at tables)
We recommend purchasing tickets at least 48 hours in advance.
Children 12 and under are free admission
Entrance to the concert is through the door on the LEFT
NOTE: Concerts take place on the second floor. Roost and Union Arts Center
are located in a one-hundred-year-old restored firehouse without an
elevator.
*****
Ernesto “Chico” Álvarez Peraza is a Cuban North American artist of Latin
American music. He was born in New York City but grew up in Cuba and
currently lives in the state of New Jersey. Álvarez has been performing as
a singer throughout the New York City tri-state area since the 1980s. He
currently performs with the Afro-Cuban band Mafimba and is also the host of
a Latin jazz radio show on Sunday afternoons at WBAI Pacifica Radio (99.5
FM) called the New World Gallery. Alvarez is also a graphic artist and has
designed album covers for various Latin music labels over the years.
Alvarez is the recipient of an award from the National Federation of
Community Broadcasters and has interviewed famous artists such as Dizzy
Gillespie and Tito Puente.

Crafts & Drafts at Industrial Arts Brewing
2023-04-26 18:00 - 20:00 | Industrial Arts Brewing Co.,55 West Railroad Avenue # 25, Garnerville, NY 10923, USA
Crafts & Drafts
Wednesday, April 26, 6-8 PM
Industrial Arts Brewing Co.
55 W Railroad Ave, 25 | Garnerville, NY 10923
Tickets:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/crafts-drafts-tickets-601814261657
Crafts & Drafts is a fun evening of crafting while sipping on local
hand-crafted beverages at Industrial Arts Brewing Company in Garnerville.
Your ticket is good for the craft (all materials and instruction provided),
1 beer or wine, and a raffle ticket for a fabulous door prize.
About the Craft:
You will be making a set of four coasters using an acrylic pour technique.
Instruction will be provided by artist Joy Buckhout.
All are welcome to attend! Whether you enjoy crafting or just want to make
some new friends, join us! Cheers!!
Proceeds go to the Friends of Rose Memorial Library, which provides support
for Rose Memorial Library.

Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island
2023-04-26 20:00 - 22:00 | Rivertown Film at the Nyack Center,58 Depew Avenue, Nyack, NY 10960, USA, entrance on South Broadway
RADIOACTIVE
The Women of Three Mile Island
Directed by Heidi Hutner
USA, 2023, 76 min.
The story of the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor meltdown, the worst
commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history, and what has happened in its
community since 1979. It focuses on never-before-told stories of four
intrepid homemakers, two lawyers who took the local community’s case all
the way to the Supreme Court, and a young female journalist who was caught
in the radioactive crossfire. (USA, 2023, 76 min.).
Discussion after the film with director Heidi Hutner and environmental
attorney Susan Shapiro.
Community Partners: Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition, Radiation and
Public Health Project, Sierra Club Lower Hudson Group.

Nyack Farmer's Market
2023-04-27 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.
