A series of twelve new murals scattered in downtown New Rochelle represent the many facets of this suburban-but-metropolitan city, and highlight the place that arts have always had in the city. “New Rochelle has always been a magnet for artistic people, at least from the turn of the 20th century,”…
In Act II of Giacomo Puccini’s opera Tosca, the protagonist sings: “Vissi d’arte, vissi d’amore” (“I lived for art, I lived for love”). The same could be said of Camille Coppola, the co-founder and artistic director of New Rochelle Opera (NRO), who has spent the past 37 years mentoring and…
Groups throughout Westchester, including several arts groups, are celebrating National Pride Month this month with events that bring visibility to the LGBTQ+ community. Westchester Pride, for one, has a mission. The White Plains festival, which kicks off Pride Month on June 5, aims to “provide a space for healing, connection…
After a three-year break due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Peekskill Open Studios is back for its 23rd year. The two-day event will feature works from more than 100 artists in a variety of settings in and around downtown Peekskill – open studios, galleries, special exhibition spaces and pop-up shows –…
Every year, the Asian American Heritage Festival attracts up to 7,000 residents at the Kensico Dam Plaza in Valhalla to celebrate Westchester’s diversity, including its expanding Asian and South Asian populations. This year will be no different when the OCA Westchester & Hudson Valley (OCA-WHV) presents the 25th annual festival…
From June 23-August 4, Clay Art Center (CAC) will present a series of concurrent solo exhibitions by its three resident artists: Able Broyles, Anny Chen and Breana Hendricks. The Center’s residency program helps to advance the careers of emerging ceramic artists, always culminating in a year-end exhibition that highlights their…
The City of White Plains will soon become even brighter as developers partner with ArtsWestchester to flood the City’s walls and public spaces with original artworks and sculptures by area artists. It’s all in the name of the organization’s five-day Serious Fun Arts Fest on October 12-16, which is presented…
Historic Hudson Valley Landmarks Reopen to Visitors Historic Hudson Valley has recently reopened four of its National Historic Landmarks to the public – Philipsburg Manor, Washington Irving’s Sunnyside, Union Church and Kykuit, the Rockefeller estate. Philipsburg Manor, which has undergone a recent multi-million-dollar restoration, transports visitors to the 1750s, where…
Aaron: How did Juneteenth in New Rochelle first come together? Linda Tarrant-Reid: Last year we went to the City of New Rochelle to ask them if they would partner with us to do a Juneteenth celebration. They thought it was a great idea. The year before, they had done…
Excerpt from an interview with Joyce Sharrock-Cole, Ossining Village Historian Conducted on April 18, 2022 by Aaron Paige. Aaron Paige: How did the Ossining Juneteenth begin? Joyce Sharrock-Cole: It was birthed in 2020, after the murder of George Floyd and subsequent civil unrest in the Country. There were two dynamic, Ossining women,…
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