Accepting Submissions: “Open Call Members Exhibition” April 1-9, 2023
2023-02-17 - 2023-03-18 | Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center i,82 North Broadway, Nyack, NY, USA
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. (There will be another JURIED exhibition in the Autumn.)
Fully registered Artist Members will be accepted on a first come, first served basis.
For entry details visit our website https://www.edwardhopperhouse.org/artist-members.html :

Window of Color - Works by Arthur Gunther
2023-02-19 14:00 - 2023-04-01 16:00 (America/New_York) | Rockland Center for the Arts,27 S Greenbush Rd, West Nyack, NY,
Window of Color, Works by Art Gunther is on view Feb 19 – April 1, open
Mondays – Saturdays, 11am – 4pm. The opening reception will be Sunday, Feb.
19th, 2pm – 5pm.
For 25 years, 1981-2006, Gunther penned The Column Rule, a newspaper
opinion piece at The Journal News in Rockland County, New York.
Gunther’s primitive-style paintings are inspired by the light and space of
Edward Hopper and Rockland County. His work is a comment on places and
things – in Rockland and beyond.

New Voices: Rockland’s Next Art Generation
2023-02-20 11:00 - 2023-04-02 16:00 | Rockland Center for the Arts, 27 South Greenbush Road, West Nyack, 10994
New Voices: Rockland’s Next Art Generation
February 19 – April 1, 2023
Opening Reception: Sunday, February 19, 2pm – 5pm
Free to the Public
Please join Rockland Center for the Arts for New Voices: Rockland’s Next Art Generation, opening Sunday, February 19th from 2-5pm. During RoCA’s 75th Anniversary, in 2022, it presented Rockland’s Women of South Mountain Road. These women had achieved national and international notoriety in their various fields. We are excited to start off our 76th exhibition year by presenting some of the younger talent in Rockland, as part of the next art generation. Artists are Nina Berlingeri, Joel Blenz, Matt Casanova, Danielle McDonald, Alice Mizrachi, and Nate Singer.
Nina Berlingeri has solidly planted roots in Rockland’s art scene through a 2014 artist residency at the Arts Students League of New York’s Vaclav Vytlacil studios. She was then awarded the first Edward Hopper House Fellow of Creative Community Outreach for a 2018 artist residency. Further developing her public youth arts programs, “The Nighthawks” connecting local high school students with artworks, and artists with ways to develop and refine their own creative practice. Berlingeri was awarded the Emeritus Award for Historic Site Stewardship from the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2018 on behalf of the museum. Berlingeri’s bold figurative work mirrors her life and the ongoing resonance between her experiences and environment. The deconstruction, distortion, and reinstitution of the figure is regularly evolved through creating a series of multiples- each derived directly from the previous. This enables the distortion of the form to remain malleable and retain its immediacy. Her current work has maintained the focus of the figure, most recently through the lens of reflective self-portraits.
Joel Blenz’s abstract, mixed media artworks play with perception. His work is an examination of the subcultural and natural decayed outdoor surfaces, recreating beautiful textured and blended surfaces into his paintings. He retains the grime, grit, and detritus of a street aesthetic through his manipulation of surfaces. A studio practice has allowed for an exploration of an endless amount of layering and drying time in his painting process. Each piece provides an interactive experience for the viewer. When walking back and forth in front of the work, colors shift and fade creating an illusion that confounds the viewer. He is intrigued with the power of messages in public spaces and how advertising has an impact on our psyche. He consciously makes an effort to create more positivity in this visual landscape by focusing his public art on uplifting and positive messages for the community. His current work is an ongoing exploration of the ambiguous space that graffiti now occupies as both an outsider art form and a legitimate player in the contemporary world. Blenz’s current work has been featured in exhibitions for Pop Up MoMA, New York, Gallery Guichard in Chicago, IL, Scope Art Fair and Graffiti Gardens in Miami FL during Art Basel.
Matt Casanovas’ main focus is on the narrative – collecting from folklore, sentimental memories, and present day stories to create a timelessness through unbounded mediums in painting and printmaking. He pulls the emphatic expressions of both body and sentiment from vintage film promotions as well as stories, and applies them to a contemporary vantage point using materials and techniques of the old masters. Casanovas has exhibited his work at the Garnerville Art Center, Garnerville, NY, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL and Siragusa Gallery, Chicago, IL
Danielle McDonald uses a process of illustration, a system of collecting, deconstructing and reassembling images or fragments of moments preserved and composed in the mind. These images are concrete, symbolic and abstracts parts of life. She plays with scale and perspective to visually imagine the way we prioritize and compose moments in the mind. Parts of stories and images are weaved together, consciously and subconsciously, helping us to make sense of relating and connecting to others. McDonald is a public school teacher and community worker. She has collaborated with schools, shelters, cultural institutions, universities, facilities for incarcerated teens, Groundswell and designed mural walls throughout Philadelphia and New York City, designed sets for Opera Delaware and small independent films.
Alice Mizrachi is a mixed media muralist, fine artist, educator, and curator. Grounded in deep compassion for the human experience across borders, Mizrachi explores both the spiritual and physical dimensions of being human, and in particular, female. Mizrachi’s intentions include the empowerment of self and others through artistic expression, as well as advocacy for women, youth, and the environment. Family, community, and tribe are also recurring themes and are approached as active spaces of shared engagement through her mural making. Her studio practice has developed into a testing ground for explorations in assemblage, sculpture, and installation that has transformed both her painting practice and her work as a muralist. Her spontaneous approach to line, and the deconstruction and reconstruction of figurative elements in her assemblage and ceramic sculpture, reveal a human hand in the making of her work, an intentional maneuver in an increasingly technological age. Mizrachi’s work has been featured in the Museum of the City of New York, the National Museum of Women in the Arts and Albright-Knox Museum.
Nate Singer is a mixed media artists working in ink, paint, sculpture and film. His interest in organic matter led to an intimate understanding of the underlying systems of embedded geometrics within organic matter. At once energetic and poised, Singer’s abstract paintings and ink drawings use saturated, hard-edged shaped and intuitive calligraphic marks to create compositions that resemble organic growth while reveling in technical orchestration. He has exhibited at Garnerville Art Center, Saratoga Arts Center, and Union College with an art residency at Salem Art Works. He has been awarded a Hilda A. Colish Sculpture Award and a NY6 Think Tank Grant.
Please join Rockland Center for the Arts for New Voices: Rockland’s Next Art Generation. The exhibit opens with an artist reception on Sunday, Feb. 19th, 2:00pm – 5:00pm. The exhibit will be on view through April 1st, open Mondays – Saturdays 11am – 4pm, (closed Sundays). Free to the Public (masks encouraged). Also on view in Gallery One, Window into Color: Works by Art Gunther, works inspired by the light of the Edward Hopper House Museum and Study Center and by the realist painter himself. Art-ifacts: Works by William Rauschenberg on view in Gallery Two. Rauschenberg uses the lost art of sand casting to create three dimensional puzzle like pieces. 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.

Keith Rousseau
2023-03-01 - 2023-04-01 | Bunbury’s Coffee,460 Piermont Ave, Piermont, NY 10968, USA
These 6 abstract pieces on reclaimed material will be on display and for
sale at @bunburyscoffee https://www.instagram.com/bunburyscoffee/ in
Piermont NY for the month of March. They are acrylic on wood panel 16×35
and ready for hanging as is.

Art Exhibit: A Walk in the Park by Dan Lukens
2023-03-02 - 2023-04-01 | Palisades Free Library,19 Closter Road, Palisades, NY 10964, USA
Walking Tallman State Park from the South entrance, you are drawn to the dramatic Hudson vistas. On a less traveled trail, however, there is a path straddled by beautiful marsh ponds. An unnatural landscape, the earthen berms there are reminders of a human purpose now long since forgotten. In new painting, are views of the park and other favorite local places – Dan Lukens
Dan’s paintings will be on display and available for purchase in the Marie H. Firestone Community Room through the month of March.

Page Simon
2023-03-03 - 2023-04-01 | Dennis P McHugh PIermont Public Library,Piermont, NY 10968, USA
Throughout March, the Dennis P. McHugh Piermont Public Library presents our
Art Show of the Month – Page Simon Paintings. An opening reception for the
artist will be held on Sunday, March 5th,http:// from 3:00 -5:00 pm. All
are welcome.

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.

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.

Vladimir Cybil Charlier, Sari Dienes & Ned Harris
2023-03-11 19:00 - 2023-04-23 17:00 | Garner Arts Center,55 W Railroad Ave, Garnerville, NY 10923, USA, 2 W Railroad Ave, United States

The Enchanted Garden: Colors in Motion - Sculptures by Dorothy Gillespie
2023-03-12 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-13 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-14 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-15 09:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-16 09:00 - 20:00 | Rockland Center for the Arts,27 South Greenbush Road, West Nyack, NY 10994, USA
The Enchanted Garden: Colors in Motion
Sculptures by Dorothy M. Gillespie
The Catherine Konner Sculpture Park
Oct. 15, 2021 – Oct. 2023
Free to the Public, Dawn to Dusk
RoCA is proud to present the The Enchanted Garden: Colors in Motion exhibit as a part of a tribute to the 20th Century artist and feminist, Dorothy Gillespie. The exhibit will open October 15th in The Catherine Konner Sculpture Park at RoCA.
Dorothy Gillespie’s joyful and brilliantly colored starbursts glimmer hanging from the trees as well as lining the pathway. The pieces create an enchanted garden of colors in motion. Though stationary they seem to possess a kinetic quality. Two larger pieces can be seen at the entry to RoCA. The exhibit was partially installed this summer and will be completed for exhibit October 15th. The exhibit will remain on display through October 2023.
Gillespie (1920-2012) was born in Roanoke, VA and lived in Nyack during the later years of her life. She pioneered joyful, new directions of metal sculpture and is best known for large-scale, colorfully painted arrangements of cut aluminum strips curling, radiating, or undulating in giant arrangements of ribbons, enchanted towers, or bursting fireworks. She was well known as a painter, sculptor and installation artist whose work incorporated many significant 20th-century trends in art.
During Dorothy Gillespie’s youth … “girls did not attend art school, at least not ‘nice’ girls,” said Gillespie in 2010. Nevertheless, she was determined to be an artist and attended the Maryland Institute College in Baltimore. She was more fortunate than women sculptors in the 19th Century who were mostly hired as studio assistants by established male sculptors with few exhibitions. Harriet Hosmer, Emma Stebbins, Edmonia Lewis, Frances Grimes and Helen Mears were some of the few who made names in the arts as women during that time. They did not pursue monumental work as frequently as men did and mostly produced works in bronze and consistent middle-class demand for small-scale sculpture to decorate the home and garden. Today many more women are now entering traditional male dominated sculpture roles in metal, wood and stone, thanks to the pioneering activism of women like Dorothy Gillespie in the 20th century.
An influential force in the women’s movement, Gillespie encouraged more women’s art in museums and art in public spaces. In 1970, Gillespie joined Women in the Arts and created picket signs protesting at the Whitney Museum demanding that the curators choose more women artists for their “Annual exhibition. The demonstration worked, and more women artists were chosen for the show. Although the increase was very slow, over time it increased from 8 percent to 40 percent. Gillespie was the Founder of the Women Artists Historical Archives of the Women’s Interart Center in NY, NY, filming and taping interviews of some of the most important women artists of the 20th century as well as presenting her own radio show. Gillespie along with Joyce Weinstein founded a group called the NY Professional Women Artists. The 14 members lectures at Universities and wrote articles to encourage other women artists.
Gillespie also coordinated a course to educate and enlighten women in the visual arts, after being invited to teach at The New School in NYC. The intent was to prepare women for a new, more aggressive role to function in the art world. Due to her already busy schedule, she asked artist Alice Barber to share the task of revealing to the young students the ‘system’ that drove the NY art world and how to succeed. In 1974 she organized an innovative outdoor exhibition, Walk Through Art, mounted in Central Park, Battery Park, and Rockefeller Center, then travelling to fifty colleges, universities and street fairs. Compelled to involve viewers in her work, she created large 7 ft high triangles of art for people to walk through the sculptures. Gillespie has held positions of designing programs as a Professor of Art, being a Board of Trustees for more than one college or art center, as a visiting artist in residency and as the Chairperson of the Fine Arts Committee for the International Women’s Art Festival.
Dorothy Gillespie’s career spanned seven decades, always at the forefront of the American Art movement. She studied at the Maryland Institute College in Baltimore before moving to New York City, where she studied at the Art Students League. Her works grace many institutions, museums, colleges, universities and public spaces, including the permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the United States Mission to the United Nations. She was one of the first artists to offer her art to the world through displays in the lobbies of public institutions and governmental centers such as the Mayo Clinic, Epcot Center, Warren Wilson College, Fort Lauderdale Airport-Delta Terminal, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, the Miami Public Library, United States Mission to the United Nations, and the Court House Square – Roanoke, VA and Universities across the country.
Among her many honors, Gillespie received the Alice Baber Art Fund, Inc. Grant Award: a Doctor of Pedagogy from Niagara University in Niagara Falls, A Doctor of Fine Arts (Honoris Causa) from Caldwell College in Caldwell, NY, an Allied Professions Award from the Virginia Society, the American Institute of Architects in Richmond, VA., the Distinguished Alumni Award from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, the Outstanding Services Award from University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Caucus for Art, and the Gala 8 “Distinguished Woman” Award at Birmingham Southern College.
The Catherine Konner Sculpture Park is open from dawn to dusk, free to the public. Brochures can be picked up at the registration desk. For more information visit: www.rocklandartcenter.org or call 845-358-0877.
This exhibition was made possible thanks to the generous support of The Dorothy M. Gillespie Foundation and Gary Israel.
RoCA’s programs are made possible, in part, with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Funding is also made possible by the County of Rockland.
RoCA gratefully acknowledges support for its programs from The Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation, M&T Bank, The M&T Charitable Foundation, The Dorothy Gillespie Foundation, Peter & Rebecca Lang, Kantrowitz, Goldhamer & Graifman P.C., Luxury Kitchen and Bath, Golden Artist Colors, Inc., QuietEvents, the Estate of Joan Konner, Lighting Services Inc., Sarah and Stephen Thomas, the Mark and Jessie Milano Foundation, Zaklin Family Charitable Fund, The County of Rockland, Simona and Jerome Chazen, Art Services Group, RoCA members, donors and business members.

Edward Hopper's Hudson River Boyhood and Emerging Artistic Vision
2023-03-12 12:00 - 17:00, 2023-03-16 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
2023-03-12 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
2023-03-12 13:00 - 18:00, 2023-03-16 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

Space Rocks: Asteroids, Comets, and Meteorites
2023-03-12 14:00 - 15:00 | Rockefeller State Park Preserve, 125 Phelps Way, Pleasantville, 10570, United States
Did you know that 100 tons of dust and sand-sized particles from space bombard Earth daily? Thankfully, most of it doesn’t make it through our atmosphere. However, the larger meteorites that do survive offer a unique glimpse into the formation and evolution of our solar system.
Join environmental educator, Kim Fendrich, for a presentation on asteroids, comets, and meteorites, and learn about the stories they tell us.
The presentation will take place in the art gallery at the he Rockefeller State Park Visitor’s Center.
Max: 20 people

Pride and Prejudice at Elmwood Playhouse
2023-03-12 14:00 - 16:30 | 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. 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

Judy Niemack Quartet
2023-03-12 16:00 - 17:00, 2023-03-12 18:00 - 19:00 | Jazz Forum Club, 1 Dixon Lane, Tarrytown, NY, 10591, United States
A stunning, sunny vocalist of pinpoint articulation, fearless improvising, exuberant scatting and riveting vocalese, Judy Niemack is a singer’s singer, wildly appreciated by the jazz cognoscenti. LA Jazz Scene calls her “one of the best, and purest jazz singers ever.”
An inventive composer and original lyricist, her 2018 album New York Stories with the DR Big Band earned 4 ½ stars from Downbeat. Her latest and 15 th album, What’s Love, got 4 stars from Jazzwise.

Pride & Prejudice @ Elmwood Playhouse
2023-03-13 - 2023-04-02 | Elmwood Community Playhouse, Inc., 10 Park St, Nyack, NY 10960, United States
written by Jane Austen, adapted by Kate Hamill
directed by Alison Costello
Friday March 10th 2023 — Saturday April 1st 2023
The classic story, adapted with edge and energy for a new era, explores the absurdities and thrills of finding your perfect (or imperfect) match in life. Literature’s greatest tale of latent love has never felt so theatrical, or so full of life.
Presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing

Post-Impressionism In Its Own Right: Online Class
2023-03-14 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.

Stargazing in Rockefeller State Park Preserve
2023-03-14 19:30 - 21:00 | Rockefeller State Park Preserve, 125 Phelps Way, Pleasantville, 10570, United States
Experience Sleepy Hollow after dark! Peer into the cosmos with Vinny Coulehan of the Rockland Astronomy Club; view the night sky through a telescope and catch a glimpse of our planetary neighbors.
Meet at the Rockefeller State Park Visitor’s Center courtyard, followed by a short walk on the Overlook trail to the viewing location. Dress warmly and bring water and a flashlight or headlamp with a red setting.
IMPORTANT: Group leaves promptly at scheduled times. This is a night hike, after the park has officially closed. Latecomers will not be able to join after the group has departed.

Latinlounge with Cuban singer & pianist Ariacne Trujillo Duran! 3/15 6/8PM
2023-03-15 17:00 - 22:00 | Roost Restaurant,2 Union Street, Sparkill, NY 10976, USA
Roost Restaurant is happy to invite you to our March Latin Lounge at Union
Arts Center! Presented by Mz. Valentine, March’s Latin Lounge will showcase
the music of Ariacne Trujillo Duran.
Grammy nominee Ariacne Trujillo Duran was born in Havana, Cuba. She began
her career as a child prodigy. Blessed with perfect pitch, she’s had an
extensive career as a concert pianist and composer. She achieved Master
prizes and Special Mentions in national and international Cuban
competitions and performed at the country’s top theaters and halls. At age
14, Ariacne was chosen to perform with Matanzas and Santiago de Cuba’s
symphonic orchestra. While working as a lead singer, dancer and pianist at
the legendary Cabaret Tropicana, she pursued a Bachelor’s Degree in music
piano performance from Cuba’s hyper-competitive ISA Conservatory.
In 2002 she arrived in New York City after winning a Residency Fellowship
in musical composition at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Since
then, Trujillo has been in numerous significant projects, such as the 14
piece New York Times-acclaimed Timba band “La bola,” where she was the
Musical Director, pianist, and lead vocalist. She was the lead vocalist and
pianist with The Pedrito Martinez Group for over 6 years, where she
performed in many of the most important Jazz Festivals around the world
such as:
Red Sea Jazz Fest. Newport Jazz Fest, Umbria Jazz Fest, Montreaux Jazz
Fest, Peruggia Jazz Fest, Daegu International Jazz Fest, The Murton
Percussion Fest, San Fransisco Jazz Fest, etc.
With her powerful musical presence and versatility, Trujillo has become one
of the virtuoso pianists and vocalists from the New York area.
Trujillo recently graduated with a Suma Cum Laude Bachelor of Art in Music
at the New Jersey City University and is already on the Master Jazz
Program. In 2018 she accepted the Musical Director’s position for the
off-Broadway production “Carmen to Havana and Back.” Performing with her
Quintet, she has received critical acclaim as the production’s arranger,
singer, and Master of Ceremonies. In 2022, she was the pianist of another
off-Broadway production “My Broken Language”, written and directed by
Quiara Alegria and musical supervised by Alex Lacamore. One of Trujillo’s
compositions was included in Terri Lyne Carrington’s book New Standards,
published by Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice.
Trujillo’s Unique Style derives from her countless professional
participations mixed in with her intrinsic musical instinct. Her music
characteristically carries a special treatment of the implicit rhythm of
the “Tumbaos,” mixing the traditional Cuban Music with “Timba” and
classical highlights, charged with aggressive harmonization with great
technical complexity and creativity.
Trujillo has performed, shared a stage, and recorded with legends such as
Paul Simon, Paquito D. Rivera, Wynton Marsalis, Steve Gadd, Jonny Pacheco,
John Scofield, Javier Limón, Steve Turre, Brian Lynch, Lew Soloff, Taj
Mahal, Diego El Cigala, Alain Perez, Jimmy Busch, Derek Trucks, Isaac
Delgado, and Esperanza Spalding.
Her vocal technique stems from an opera background with an extensive and
sometimes slightly raspy range where she constantly phrases and uses
methods of R&B, Opera, Funk, Blues, Jazz, and Soul.
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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 7:30)
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.
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.
For more information, call 914-488-4698
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Beginner Israeli Dance Class
2023-03-15 18:45 - 19:45 | Congregation Sons of Israel, 300 North Broadway, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
Beginner Israeli Dance class offered from 6:45 PM – 7:45 PM. Learn simple steps to classic Israeli dances.
This is the last of the series. Stay tuned for new classes to be announced.
Prior experience is not required. All are welcome. Join anytime. Great exercise for your body & your mind!
This class is followed by an Intermediate level class, which you will be encouraged to join after you have mastered basic steps

THE SEASONS - Four Love Stories
2023-03-15 20:00 - 22:00 | The Nyack Center,Depew Ave & S Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
Over the course of a year, four sets of intertwined characters are faced
with turning points in their romantic lives. Each chapter takes place in a
different season, with the central characters in each season being
age-appropriate, thus: Summer, young adults, Autumn, middle aged, Winter,
elderly, and Spring, a ten-year-old girl. USA, 2022, 82 minutes.
After the screening Rockland County filmmaker Paul Schwartz will discuss
his film with Peabody Award winning broadcaster and ArtsRock Executive
Director Elliott Forrest.
From March 16 through 26, Rivertown Film will present Paul Schwartz’s A New
York Story (2021) in our virtual theater. When you purchase a ticket to
The Seasons you will receive a discount code for 100% off of the price of
tickets to A New York Story.
Directors Statement: I have always been intrigued by pieces that are told
as a series of stories that link to each other: either thematically, by
sharing characters, or by unfolding linearly over a period of time. In this
film the four stories are linked in all three ways. They are all romantic,
they are told serially as the seasons succeed each other, and in each story
after the first, one character from the previous story reappears.
Paul Schwartz is a writer, director and composer. His work is in the field
of dramatic story-telling in all its forms, and encompasses projects in
film, theatre, opera and dance. Recent film projects include TIME CAN BREAK
YOUR HEART and A NEW YORK STORY. He is the composer of two operas, multiple
ballet scores for New York City Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet, Lucinda Childs
Dance Company and others. He is the creator of two cult series of
recordings: the ARIA series and the STATE OF GRACE series, which have sold
over a million copies world wide. He has sold millions more through his
collaborations with Carlos Santana, Josh Groban, and David Foster.

Nyack Farmer's Market
2023-03-16 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.
