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Paterson, it seems, is a city in motion. New construction dots the downtown retail and commercial district while Paterson established and emerging artists live and work in the decades old industrial area near the historic Great Falls. Art Walk Trying to tie it all together on an artists’ canvas is the Paterson Arts Council and its aptly named Paterson Art Walk, a one-day collaborative exhibition on June 12 of over 200 local, regional and international artists and curators. From 10 am to 10 pm, the artists’ works will transform the historic, industrial and commercial landscape of Paterson into a temporary ramble through an itinerary of unique and layered sites reshaped and recreated by works of art. The Art Walk provides a k e n novel opportunity to experience the a m o energy of site-specific and other t
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National Historical Park, a 18th to 20th- o t century industrial district planned o h around the cascade of the 77 foot-high p Great Falls, and the adjacent Downtown Commercial Historic District. The artists and their mediums includes visual and performing arts, music, fine art, poetry, sculptural works, site specific Other Upcoming PC Arts Events installations, all creating a synergy at a June 1: Ethel Merman Musical Tribute, Wayne variety of diverse venues—fast-food June 2: Art Grant Application Workshops, Paterson, Hawthorne restaurants, vacant industrial mills, June 4: Tex Doyle opens Botany Village Friday Night Concerts, Clifton theatres, 1900s Beaux Arts commercial June 5: Lambert Castle Antique Show and Sale, Paterson buildings and Paterson’s new downtown June 5: Gravikord Duo opens Ringwood Farmers’ Market shopping mall, Center City. June 8: New Hope Players Spring Drama Program, Clifton The Art Walk is presented free, rain or June 8: Art Grant Application Workshop, Wanaque shine. Walking maps are available at June 9: Evolution of the Modern Guitar, Wayne Public Library each location as well as in advance at the June 9: Hamilton House Museum 35th Anniversary Gala, Clifton Paterson Museum, Great Falls Cultural June 12: Distinguished Poets Series at PCCC, Paterson Center, Paterson Library and City Hall. June 22: History Grant Application Workshops, Paterson, Hawthorne For details, contact producer Donata June 23: Passport to the Arts Exhibit, Clifton Arts Center Anna at [email protected] through June 30: Fox Talk, exhibit of art by Ashley Kesling, PCCC or go to patersonartscouncil.org. Pg. 2 • june 2010 artsnews @ passaic county
Grant Workshops: The Passaic County Cultural & The Ringwood Farmers’ Market is open every Saturday Heritage Council offers grants for art and history through Oct. 30, rain or shine. A project of Eat Local, Inc. projects taking place within the county. Passaic County and dedicated to bringing locally grown and produced arts and cultural projects planned for calendar year 2011 foods to the community, the Market is in the Ringwood (Jan. to Dec.) are eligible, while history grants are Park and Ride. The Market also offers performances of available to groups with projects planned for the fiscal regional musicians in a series of free performances. Sets year 2011 (July 2010 to June 2011). For art grants, are at 10 am and noon. The schedule: Gravikord Duo on June 5; Lenape Jive on June 12; Loretta Hagen on June 19 workshops are on June 2 in Paterson and Hawthorne and and The Billies on June 26. Bring a chair, reusable bags June 8 in Wanaque. The application deadline is July 15. and even well-behaved dogs on leashes. Vendor and music History application workshops in Paterson and info: www.ringwoodfarmersmarket.org. W Hawthorne are on June 22. Deadline is July 22. For info, call 973-684-6507, or email [email protected]. Tex Doyle & the Country Thunder Band opens and closes the Friday Night Summer Concert Series in The Distinguished Poets Series at PCCC presents Historic Botany Village, Clifton. The series opens on June readings from What’s Your Exit?: A Literary Detour 4 and the finale is on Aug. 27 (no concert on July 2). Through New Jersey , as part of the Paterson Art Walk , on Other bands perform rock, blues and jazz. In case of rain, June 12 at 1 pm at the Hamilton Club Building, 32 Church the venue moves from Sullivan Square to the Italian St., Paterson. Readers include contributing authors Laura American Cooperative Hall. Concerts are free and begin Boss, Lorraine Doran, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Mark at 6 pm. For info: www.historicbotany.com. W Hillringhouse, Jeffrey Ethan Lee and Joe Weil. An open reading will follow this free event. For info, go to www.pccc.edu/poetry or call 973-684-6555. W, P, A The Paterson Youth Photography Project will be exhibited during June at the Paterson Public Library, 250 Broadway; free. The mission of PYPP is to enrich the lives of school age children in Paterson by introducing them to photography as a means for self-expression and an opportunity for personal growth. To donate, volunteer or participate, contact founder Gwenn Karel Levine at 201-391-7663 or via [email protected]. W Little Falls Alliance for a Better Community (ABC) presents the 3rd Annual Summer in the Park Concert Series at the Gazebo in Memorial Park, at Main St. and Wilmore Fox Talk, drawings and paintings by Ashley Kesling, is on exhibit Rd. Concerts are free and take place each Thursday from at PCCC’s Broadway and LRC Galleries, through June 30. Details June 24 to Aug. 26 from 7-8:30 pm. Call 973-812-7916 or at www.pccc.edu/art/gallery or www.ashleykesling.com. go to www.abc-littlefalls.org for more info. W St. Peter’s Summer Sunset Blues Cruise Sails benefit In an effort to reduce cost and environmental impact, the food bank of St. Peter’s Haven in Clifton. Board the copies of the Passaic County Arts News will be distributed majestic tall ship A. J. Meerwald in Liberty State Park at via email beginning with the September issue. If you wish 6 pm and return at 8:30 pm. The lineup: July 2, the Dean to receive your copy of the Arts News by US Mail, call Shot Band; July 7, Nasty Ned and the Roots Rebels; The 973-684-6555 or email [email protected] with your name, Midnight Ramblers on July 13. Tickets are $55, includes address and phone number. To add your e-mail address to water, soda and beer. For tickets and more info, e-mail the list write to [email protected] with the subject “Arts [email protected]. News Via Email” and provide your name, address and The Wayne Public Library presents a musical tribute to the email. You can also mail your requests to PCCHC, late Broadway star Ethel Merman on June 1 at 7 pm. On 1 College Blvd, Paterson, NJ 07505. Arts News is already June 9 at 12:30 pm, singer/songwriter Joe Giacoio offers available online in PDF format at www.pccc.edu/pcchc a musical workshop, The Evolution of the Modern Guitar. (click on “Arts News” on top of the home page) and local The Library is at 461 Valley Rd., Wayne. Call Deborah events are promoted on our Facebook page Rosenblatt at 973-694-4272, ext. 5408 or go to www.facebook.com/PCCHC. www.waynepubliclibrary.org for more on these free events. W june 2010 artsnews @ passaic county • Pg. 3
The Hamilton House Museum will celebrate its 35th The Clifton anniversary with a gala on June 9, 6 pm at the Valley Regency, Arts Center is Clifton. Tickets are $45 and include dinner, dancing and celebrating 10 cash bar. Call Norma Smith curator at 973-744-5707. years of The Hamilton House on Valley Rd. in Clifton is a Dutch bringing art to gambrel roofed homestead salvaged for posterity in 1975 the public with when the structure was moved across Valley Rd. to Surgent an exhibit Park. It is now maintained by the city and volunteers who entitled provide tours, special events and offer a walk through Passport to the history, with each room on display to depict how original Arts . This Dutch settlers lived during the 18th and 19th century. W exhibit and sale of work is by skilled artists from the Printmaking for William Paterson University will metropolitan area whose concept is for viewers to travel to showcase more than 50 original prints made by WPU faculty countries/continents via art and to explore geographical and students at the Riverdale Art Center, 2 Newark Pompton destinations, culture and heritage. The exhibit opens on June Turnpike in Riverdale, through June 27. Works shown were 23 and is displayed to July 31. A reception open to the public created using both oil- and water-based inks. Prints were is on June 24 from 5 to 8 pm where those who attend may made using etching, lithography, linocuts, silkscreen and blue participate in a mural project collaboration. Admission film etching. Free. For hours and details, contact the donation/fee is $3 for non-members. The Clifton Arts Center Riverdale Art Center at 973-513-9250 or at is located on the grounds of the Clifton Municipal Complex www.riverdaleartcenter.org. W near the intersection of Clifton and Van Houten Aves. The Hanna Gallery, at 3 Carletondale Rd., Ringwood, has Adjacent to the Center is a Sculpture Park set amongst a opened in a modern space amidst the bucolic sprawl of the green sprawling campus which also features an Artesian well. western woods of Passaic County. The owner and resident The Clifton Arts Center Gallery opened in January, 2000. For painter, Micheal Hanna, runs this intimate studio providing info, call Roxanne Cammilleri, Clifton Arts Center Director at exhibit space and offering small, private classes in oil paint, 973-472- 5499 or go to www.cliftonnj.org. W watercolor, drawing, and anatomy for a wide range of The Ringwood Manor Association of the Arts presents an students. For info, go to HannaStudioGallery.com. W exhibition of artwork and photography inspired by the Lambert Castle Museum’s antique show and sale is on 4,044 acres of Ringwood State Park, through June 6, at the June 5 and 6, from 10 am to 5 pm. Tickets are $15. The Barn Gallery. The Barn Gallery is located within museum is at 3 Valley Rd., Paterson. The Castle is also Ringwood State Park, Sloatsburg Rd., Ringwood. For home to the Passaic County Historical Society. For info, more information and other exhibits, call 973-663-9081 or call 973-247-0085 ext. 201 or www.lambertcastle.org. W visit rmaarts.wordpress.com. W
The New Hope Players (above left) presents its Spring 2010 Drama Program and performance at the New Hope School, 780 Clifton Ave., Clifton, on June 8 at 7 pm. The play, directed by Jennifer Bushinger, is part of the HSA Performing Arts program. Admission is free. Call 973-272-3255 for info. At right, The Clifton Arts Center celebrates its 10th year with a new exhibit, Passport to the Arts. Pg. 4 • june 2010 artsnews @ passaic county
Winners of the 2010 Passaic County Film Festival, which was held at the Fabian Theater at Center City Mall in Paterson on April 17.
Winners of the 2010 Passaic County Film Festival In the Pin by Eddie Choe and Stephen Le of Wayne Hills include the following: First place High School category High School and DWI Music Video by Brandon Margroff, was The Magic Glass by Stephen Kuchenreuther, Mike Keith Popp and Ryan Hanenburg of West Milford High Vigorita, Doug Hervey and Jake Korinko of West Milford School were awarded Honorable Mention. The Independent High School. Second place in the High School category winners were Breakfast Serial by David Simonetti; Seedtime was Face Down by Theresa Fingado, Kelsey Peck, Kaily by Mark Jonathan Quiles and Fallen by Andres Guzman, Ostlund and Oliva Maltempi, also of West Milford HS. Katherine Vargas and Miguel Lozano. Thirty two films were Beneath the Woods by Cecilia Potenza of Mary Help of received and judged by 13 judges from the Passaic County Christian Academy of North Haledon took third place. Film Commission. For info: www.passaiccountynj.org/film.
The Artist/Teacher Institute (aTi) W A T S P L B V provides classroom teachers, administrators, students and artists with in-depth, hands-on experiences in a variety of art forms for professional
Wheelchair Assistive TTY Sign Large UVA Braille Access for growth and discovery. Participants learn accessible Listening Language Print Audio Blind or System Interpretation Description Low Vision new skills to integrate arts into their curriculum and professional practice To help ensure that everyone regardless of age or disability can participate while connecting with a community of fully in the diverse cultural programs offered, PCCHC asks that organizations listing submissions to passaic county artsnews provide accessibility services peers. Led by master teaching artists, aTi offered at each venue. Please refer to the chart above as a guide. Please call 2010 summer workshops include Book presenters/venues to confirm event and accessibility information. Arts, Latin Dance, Modern Dance, Services may be available without being noted in this listing. Creative Movement, Music, Printmaking, Playwriting, Theatre, Games & Improv, passaic county Oil Painting, Glass Painting, Installation Art, Poetry Out Loud and Memoir. Participants earn 60 NJ PD credits. Dates: arts www.njartscouncil.org/artsedprog.cfm. is published by newThe PCsCHC is funded, in part, by Passaic County Cultural & Heritage Council the NJ State Council on the Arts/ Harriet Tubman and the @ Passaic County Community College Department of State, Underground Railroad: The Art of 1 College Blvd., Paterson, NJ 07505-1179 a Partner Agency of the Mark Priest, is displayed at the 973-684-6555 • www.pccc.edu/pcchc National Endowment American Labor Museum/Botto House for the Arts. Maria Mazziotti Gillan/ Executive Director National Landmark through Aug. 28. Tom Hawrylko/ Editor The Botto House is at 83 Norwood St., send news/art before the first of the month preceding the month of event Haledon and offers various other display Tomahawk Promotions, 1288 Main Ave. Clifton, NJ 07011 or via [email protected] rooms. Hours are 9 am to 5 pm, Mon. This newsletter is available in a large print edition. through Fri. Call 973-595-7953 or visit Please call 973-684-5444 to request your copy. www.labor-museum.org. W