News Brief: ArtsWestchester Receives Folk and Traditional Arts Community Grant
ArtsWestchester was recently chosen to receive one of 27 grants from Mid Atlantic Arts.
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News Brief: Madelyn Jordon Fine Art Moves to White Plains
Contemporary art gallery Madelyn Jordon Fine Art (MJFA) recently relocated from its Scarsdale studio.
“Our Path” : A Film about the Life of Returning Veterans
“Remembering is easy… it’s forgetting that is hard…” – Ron Whitehead, Desert Storm Veteran and Art Teacher in Ossining What is life like for a veteran who returns home from war? This is an important question that is often neglected, according to John Rizzo, a photojournalist who created Our Path….
Take a Noonday Getaway with Pianist Anna Vinnitsky at Downtown Music at Grace
On January 25, pianist Anna Vinnitsky returns to Downtown Music at Grace (DTM) for a “Noonday Getaway” concert. The event’s program includes a sonata of Mozart, the virtuosic Faschingsschwank aus Wien from Robert Schumann and a piano transcription of a traditional Klezmer melody. Vinnitsky, whom DTM calls “a Downtown Music…
Inciting Emotion Through an Unexpected Medium
InCiteful Clay, an exhibition that explores a movement in contemporary ceramics that addressed social commentaries, completed its U.S. tour this past month. In the exhibition, 27 artists used the age-old medium of clay, which traditionally serves functional or decorative purposes, to offer provocative critiques of social and political injustices. The…
Local Artist Brings ArtsWestchester’s Windows to Life in “Half Nature”
ArtsWestchester’s building transforms this year with the intention to bring environmental issues to light. ArtsWestchester presents Half Nature, a site-specific installation created by New York visual artist Susan Rowe Harrison who is inspired by the endangered species in Westchester County. The historic building’s windows are enlivened with Rowe Harrison’s…
“Remedy”: In Their Own Words
The focus of ArtsWestchester’s current exhibition is to examine the connection between art and healing. The works represent two aspects of this association – art that visualizes or responds to the tools, methods and institutions of healing, as well as works that explore how art can help communities in collective…
Clay Art Center Looks Back at 60 Years of Clay Artistry with Year-Long “RE/CLAY” Program
In 2017, Clay Art Center will celebrate its 60th anniversary by hosting RE/CLAY, a year-long program that examines the past, present and future of ceramics, giving specific attention to chronicling the development of the Center. Programming throughout the year will include exhibitions, classes and events that ask how artistic growth…
Public Art Projects at The City Center Recently Unveiled
Kite Realty Group, in partnership with ArtsWestchester, recently unveiled two public art commissions as part of the renovation and Grand Reopening of The City Center Shopping Center in White Plains. Design proposals for a suspended sculptural installation in the Center’s multi-story atrium and for a mural in the renovated Mamaroneck…
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