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This issue is sponsored by: T ake an dance, theatre, MORE arts class literary arts, this fall... film & more! MUSIC IN Page THE A5 AIR Page A8 A2 Westchester County Business Journal • artsnews august 2015 contents ThisAndThatByJL.com news in brief Page A3 highlights Page A4 W ords... Words... fall arts classes Page A5 music in the air Page A8 Wonderful Words jazz fest 2015 Page A11 arts calendar Page A13 by Janet Langsam

exhibitions Page A14 ArtsWestchester CEO (photo credit: Cathy Pinsky) workshops Page A15 To me, words are quite ArtsWestchester | 31 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains | 914.428.4220 wonderful. Some are even paintings in the sense that ArtsNews (artsw.org/artsnews), your guide to arts you look at the words and and culture in Westchester County, NY, is published get an immediate visual. So by ArtsWestchester, a private, not-for-profit the sadness and unintended organization established in 1965. The largest of its kind consequences conveyed in New York State, it serves more than 150 cultural by the words “No Child organizations, numerous school districts, hundreds of Left Behind” (NCLB) are artists and audiences numbering more than one million. The goal of ArtsWestchester quite visceral to me. Now is to ensure the availability, accessibility and diversity of the arts in Westchester. Congress is transforming this NCLB legislation into the Froma Benerofe, Board President inspirational “Every Child John R. Peckham, Board Chairman Achieves” Act. That to me is a Janet Langsam, Chief Executive Officer more promising outcome...and Debbie Scates, Director, Marketing and Communications hopefully it’s not just words. Teaching Artist Joe Mullins creates fish prints with Mary Alice Franklin, ArtsNews Editor and Communications Manager students at Longfellow Middle School in Mt. Vernon Alison Kattleman, Designer and Calendar Editor Another word that happilly still seems to be alive in word and deed is “bipartisan.” That word has been so missing in action in Washington that it The work of ArtsWestchester is made possible with support from Westchester was striking that the U.S. Senate approved its reauthorization version of the County Government. Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) by a wide margin of 81-17. Robert P. Astorino, County Executive It’s not a done deal of course, until both houses reconcile their differences. Michael Kaplowitz, Chairman, Westchester Board of Legislators But one thing is clear...on both sides of the aisle there appears to be agreement that the misguided “testing” word is in for an overhaul, giving Westchester Board of Legislators education reform back to the states. Imagine the glee across the nation Catherine Borgia Kenneth W. Jenkins MaryJane Shimsky when 13 years of “testing” to a national standard is gone. As if there really Benjamin Boykin James Maisano Michael J. Smith could be a one-size-fits-all way to teach children. Gordon A. Burrows Sheila Marcotte Bernice Spreckman David B. Gelfarb Catherine Parker John G. Testa One of the key elements of the senate version of the bill is the reaffirmation Peter Harckham Virginia Perez Alfreda A. Williams of the arts as a core curriculum subject. That is to say simply, the arts are Lyndon Williams not a frill but are essential to a comprehensive education. Not my words, but those of U.S. Education Commissioner Arne Duncan: “A well-rounded Thanks to our generous supporters: education is simply too vital to our students’ success to let the teaching Joseph and Sophia Abeles Foundation, Aetna Foundation, Anchin Block & Anchin, Benerofe Properties, The Bristal, The Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundation, CBRE, Clarfeld Financial of the arts and humanities erode.” It’s not just about keeping alive past Advisors, Con Edison, Curtis Instruments, Empire City Casino, Entergy, Ethan Allen Interiors, The generations of creativity. It’s also about nurturing future imagination. But Examiner, First Niagara Foundation, Inspiria Media, Jacob Burns Foundation, JMC Consulting, don’t take my word for it. Ask Albert Einstein. He said, “The true sign of P.C., The Journal News, The Liman Foundation, Macerich Co. Cross County Shopping Center, intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” He got that one right! Macy's, MAXX Properties, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Peckham Industries, Inc., Pernod Ricard USA, Reckson, A Division of SL Green Realty, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Smart Family Foundation, VENU Magazine, Wells Fargo Foundation, Westchester Family, Westchester Magazine, Westchester Medical Center, Westfair Communications, White Plains Hospital, Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman and Dicker, LLP, and WTP Advisors. Don't miss Janet's weekly blog posts at:

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Hudson River Museum’s in the “Folk and Traditional Arts” Junior Docent Program category for her exceptional work In Memoriam: Acclaimed Novelist and Long-Time in hooked rug-making. The hooked New Rochelle Resident E.L. Doctorow Celebrates 20 years rug tradition began in the mid-19th century and, like quilts, they are now One of America’s prized icons of the era. A longtime greatest novelists, resident of Westchester, Tooley E.L. Doctorow, Parker is deeply involved in a range recently passed of historical vernacular art traditions away at the age of and activities: she is a board member 84. He was most of the Westchester Historical Soci- known for The ety, President of the Westchester Book of Daniel as Arte Basket Makers Guild and has well as Ragtime, Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano presenting organized exhibitions of both hooked the hugely pop- proclamations at the recent Junior Docents rugs and baskets at local libraries ular novel that graduation was written while and cultural centers throughout the Doctorow and his E.L. Doctorow (photo credit: Basso Cannarsa/LUZphoto/Redux) Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano recently county. NYSCA awarded 91 grants, family were living in New Rochelle. His Victorian and Colonial home on joined the Hudson River Museum as which are intended to fund the artis- Broadview Avenue served as inspirations for the book, which was later it marked the 20th year of its Junior tic vision or voice of individual artists turned into a movie and Broadway musical. During his time in West- Docents program, which trains living and working in New York. Yonkers high school students as chester, he often gave readings and talks, appeared at local cultural museum docents and art and science events and was a member of Sarah Lawrence College’s writing faculty instructors. This season, nearly 70 Artist Opportunity at Ridge from 1971-1983. Doctorow’s novels stood out for his incorporation students attended two-hour train- Hill Shopping Center of historical facts into fictional stories in which invented characters ing sessions each week, and spent appeared in scenes that were depicting historical periods and figures. occasional weekends working with Together, his novels span more than 150 years of American history through his compelling storytelling, which twice made him a finalist families in the museum’s workshops for the Pulitzer Prize and won him National Book Awards, the National and galleries. College preparation is Humanities Medal and National Book Critics Circle Award. integrated into the program’s curriculum – participants take preparatory study workshops and trips to college campuses – and one hundred per- We want YOUR cent of participants have attended college. Nearly 700 students have photos from graduated from the program in the Westchester’s Ridge Hill Shopping Center OPEN past two decades. The Ridge Hill Shopping Center in past 50 years Mary Tooley Parker Yonkers, in cooperation with Arts- for our new Westchester, is seeking proposals Receives NYFA Artist from artists for a permanent mural exhibition! Fellowship spanning one of the Center’s exte- CALL rior walls. Artists are encouraged to explore the themes of transpor- tation, movement, social interaction and the local community. Proposals should be original in design and have universal, family-friendly appeal and then present these themes in a positive light. Applicants must be at least 18 years old and live in, Mary Lee Bendolph, Gee's Bend Quilter by or maintain a studio in, the lower Mary Tooley Parker Hudson Valley region of New York The New York Foundation for the (including NYC, Westchester, Rock- Arts (NYSCA) has honored Somers land, Putnam, Orange, Dutchess, Learn more at: resident Mary Tooley Parker as a Ulster and Sullivan Counties). For artsw.org/decades recipient of a 2015 Artist Fellowship more info, visit: artsw.org/ridgehill. A4 Westchester County Business Journal • artsnews august 2015 highlights

N euberger Museum of Art Goes for the Gold N ew Exhibition Immerses Visitors in Nature

I n a collaborative project, each of ArtsWestchester’s current seven member museums of the Fair- Revisiting Arcadia: field/Westchester Museum Alliance Contemporary Landscapes (FWMA), is currently presenting exhibition, on view through an exhibition based upon one of the August 29, offers fresh “Seven Deadly Sins.” The Neuberger perspectives on the Museum of Art studies the con- relationship between artists cept of “greed” by exploring ideas and their natural settings. with which gold, the most coveted Gallery visitors will of materials, is associated. In the become immersed in their aptly named GOLD, 22 contemporary surroundings by sculptures artists reflect on the ways in which and installations: ceramic gold helps to define society’s notions poppies cascade along Evening’s Afterglow by Lauren Sansaricq (photo courtesy of of beauty and economic and moral the walls in Leigh Taylor Hawthorne Fine Art) values. By overturning, and at times Mickelson’s Papavar; reinforcing those conceptions, the Christine Aaron’s 9-foot-tall hanging monoprints give the sense of walking artists delve into spirituality, cultural through a forest; a video projection by Diane Mitchell envelopes visitors in rituals and an evaluation of what peo- Untitled by Dario Escobar (photo credit: Daniel imagined landscape; and a stark black and white enveloping grove of trees by Hernández-Salazar) ple value most. Sylvia Fleury trans- Judith Economos blankets the gallery’s bank vault. Visitors get blissfully lost forms and elevates everyday objects like a gold-plated trash can; Ebony G. in the abstract serenity of Stefan Radtke’s photographs, reflect on the moody, Patterson undercuts jacquard tapestry with images of working-class Jamai- minimalist quality of Joy Moser’s paintings that invoke the sublime, and glean cans who have suffered violent deaths. Other artists reference gold-mining the clear artistic inspiration from America’s Hudson River School painters on practices in South Africa, Pre-Columbian art, and ritualistic uses of gold to contemporary artists like Lauren Sansaricq. Through this enduring artistic adorn objects of spiritual significance. GOLD is on view through October 11. tradition, the fifteen exhibiting artists address both the beauty and darkness For more info, visit: neuberger.org. of the ever-evolving landscape – from the effects of global warming to nature- made abstractions. For more info, visit: artsw.org/arcadia.

Ossining Public Library Highlights White Katonah Museum Explores Outsider Art Plains Photographer Robert Pliskin

Long-time White Plains resident The art collection of Robert Pliskin garnered a life-long William Louis-Dreyfus interest in topography after spending is a rich assemblage his childhood heydays in a summer of several thousand cottage near Lake Mahopac. It works by hundreds of was those sunny afternoons that artists. In Inside the inspired him to study, and later Outside, on view through teach, geology – an interest that October 11, the Katonah soon snuck into his means of artistic Museum of Art will take expression, in the form of landscape a focused look at five photography. The Ossining Public of these artists, each Library Gallery presents a collection of whom bypassed of these photographs in Geology of formal training in favor Early Bird by Nellie Mae Rowe Light, Robert Pliskin: A Photographic of their own unique Life in Light and Stone, on view from journeys. The exhibition examines the diverse life paths that inspired these August 3 through 28. Curated by Pat- individuals and their work. James Castle was a deaf artist who made his rick J. Cicalo, the exhibition features striking black and white photos of ink, tools and artwork almost exclusively with found materials. Born a slave, nature as large as 26x36 inches. An Bill Traylor began drawing at 84-years-old on discarded cardboard. The Backlit Trees by Robert Pliskin opening reception on August 8 from highly individual style of Thornton Dial, the richly ornamented drawings of 2-4pm includes the screening of short documentary film by Gary Ditlow. The Nellie Mae Rowe and the drawings on brown wrapping paper scrolls by exhibition is free and open to the public on Monday through Saturday during Willie Young are all reflective of personal visions outside of mainstream art library hours. For more info, visit: ossininglibrary.org. practices. For more info, visit: katonahmuseum.org. august 2015 Westchester County Business Journal • artsnews A5 fall arts classes E xpand Your Creative Horizons: Take an Arts Class!

ArtsWestchester is a multi-faceted arts council with more than 100 member organizations, many of which offer classes for both kids and adults. Here's a list of many places offering creative and professional learning opportunities. Some scholarships are available.

DANCE

• Ballet des Amériques (Port Chester) offers ballet training and a comprehensive dance education in its Pre-Professional Program (extracurric- ular schedule) and its Conservatory Program (daytime schedule for home and cyber-schoolers). 646-753-0457. balletdesameriques.com

• S teffi Nossen School of Dance (White Plains) offers classes for dancers from 22-months-old (Dancing Tots) to adults (modern, ballet, jazz, hip-hop and Moving Wheels and Heels – an adaptive class for dancers with special needs at its main site in White Plains and in Chappaqua. New offerings include a boys’ class and Improvisation/Composition. 914-328- 1900. steffinossen.org

• Youth Theatre Interactions (Yonkers) provides weekly classes for children aged 6-19. Courses are offered in a range of dance study classes that include jazz, Latin, modern, step, street, African and tap styles, as well as classes in drama, theatre dance, percussion and steel drums. 914- 963-3040. ytiyonkers.org

Experiments in Media (Grades 5-6), Jacob Burns Film Center (photo credit: Keir Alexander)

FILM

• Jacob Burns Film Center and Media Arts Lab (Pleasantville) offer innovative programs for pre-K through adult students in new media, production, screenwriting, animation and more. Scholarships are available for every class. FIRST SATURDAYS @ THE LAB offer free family workshops on the first Saturday of every month beginning in October. 914.773.7663 x8. burnsfilmcenter.org/education

• The Picture House (Pelham) offers an array of dynamic film education classes for the fall 2015 semester. A robust curriculum with learning opportunities in acting, screenwriting, and directing is customized by seasoned film industry professionals and teachers to meet the needs of students. Classes begin on Wednesday, October 7. 914-738-3161 or [email protected]. thepicturehouse.org.

Ballet des Amériques, Senior Division Ballet Levels 4 and 5 (photo courtesy of Ballet des Amériques) A6 Westchester County Business Journal • artsnews august 2015 fall arts classes

L ITerarY ARTS

• A lliance Française de Westchester (White Plains) offers year- round French classes and tutoring for all levels and ages, taught by experienced, native French speakers. There is initiation through songs for toddlers, advanced conversation for adults and classes are offered based on age and fluency level. 914-681-8735. afwestchesterny.org.

• Hudson Valley Writers’ Center (Sleepy Hollow) offers workshops for family history buffs, poets, novelists, screenplay writers, playwrights, memoirists and more for established authors alike. Camps and classes for kids and teens are also available for budding writers and lyricists. 914- 332-5953. writerscenter.org.

Songcatchers after-school music program (photo credit: Kathleen McEntee) MUSIC

• Concordia Conservatory (Bronxville) offers early children, youth, adults and seniors music programs throughout the year for vocals as well as an array of instruments, including the violin to Afro-Caribbean drums. Private lessons and group classes are available. 914-395-4507. concordiaconservatory.org

• The Cortlandt School of Performing Arts (Croton-on-Hudson) develops the musical talents of all ages on all instruments and voice, at both the pre-professional and recreational levels with programs such as a community chorus for children (Kids Care Cabaret) and a developmental class for 3-5 year olds focusing on music (Li’l Peeps). Private lessons are offered for voice and all instruments. 914-402-4250. cortarts.com

• Hoff-Barthelson Music School (Scarsdale) offers a comprehensive sequential music program for children and adults that includes instrument and vocal private lessons as well as classes for music theory, composition, jazz studies performance opportunities and more. New offerings include a Suzuki guitar Moving Wheels and Heels dancers in rehearsal at Steffi Nossen School of Dance program and expanded vocal studies. 914-723-1169. hbms.org (photo credit: Gilad Ben-Zvi)

• Songcatchers (New Rochelle) offers several core programs for younger music students, including a concert choir, after-school music THEATRE program and early childhood music program. Children can learn a variety of instruments and participate in advanced training in an • A xial Theatre (Pleasantville) H oward Meyer’s Acting Program offers instrument ensemble. 914-654-1178. songcatchers.org/programs acting classes and performance workshops for children and adults of all ages, as well as playwriting classes and workshops. 914.286.7680. hmacting.org SILPEC A NEEDS • Youth Theatre Interactions (Yonkers) provides weekly classes for chil- • Steffi Nossen School of Dance (White Plains) Moving Wheels and dren ages 6-19. Courses are offered in drama, theatre dance, percussion, Heels is an adaptive class for dancers with special needs at Steffi Nossen’s and steel drums, as well as a range of dance study that includes jazz, Latin, White Plains and in Chappaqua locations. 914-328-1900. steffinossen.org modern, step, street, African, and tap styles. 914-963-3040. ytiyonkers.org august 2015 Westchester County Business Journal • artsnews A7

• Clay Art Center (White Plains) offers hand-building clay classes for young students aged 6-10. 914-937-2047. clayartcenter.org

• T he Color Camera Club of Westchester (Valhalla) provides the photographic enthusiast with a venue to learn about, and better, their image-making skills. Weekly programs of speakers, exhibitions and competitions all offer a learning experience for members and guests to improve talents and inspire creative vision. First meeting is Sept 14. 914- 769-7758. colorcameraclub.org

• T he Hudson River Museum (Yonkers) offers drop-in art workshops every weekend led by junior docents and art professionals. Fall art projects with Teaching Artist in Residence LeAnn Yanelli explore the art of dance through painting and sculpture. Contact the museum for the latest project listings. 914-963-4550. hrm.org

• Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (Peekskill) offers programs inspired by selected works from their current exhibition for families, life drawing classes on Thursday evenings, and tailored programs for school children. 914-788-0100. hvcca.org/education-programs

Center for the Arts at Westchester Community College (photo credit: Debora Fitzgerald)

VISUAL ARTS

• A rtsWestchester (White Plains) offers classes in basic drawing and anime (ages 8-13) taught by artist Alan Reingold as well as clay ceramic classes (ages 6-10) in partnership with Clay Art Center. 914-428-4220. artswestchester.org

• Bullseye Glass (Mamaroneck) offers glass fusing classes for children and adults. Projects include glass tableware, sculpture, painting and printmaking. 914-835-3794. bullseyeglass.com/newyork

• Center for the Arts at Westchester Community College (White Plains) offers art classes for students of all ages, including classes in drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, ceramics, jewelry and digital arts. 914-606-7500. sunywcc.edu/arts

• Center for the Digital Arts at Westchester Community College (Peekskill) has five post-production studios and is dedicated to fostering digital arts education. From digital video production to Introduction to 3D Animation, the Center for the Digital Arts is an access point to creating art in the digital age. 914-606-7300. sunywcc.edu/peekskill

• Clay Art Center (Port Chester) offers extraordinary clay classes and workshops in pottery and sculpture for adults and children seven days a Bullseye Glass (photo credit: Michele Gotfredson) week in all levels, year round. 914-937-2047. clayartcenter.org A8 Westchester County Business Journal • artsnews august 2015

ArtsWestchester Presents IN THE

MU SIC Thank you to our Asponsors: IR A partnership between ArtsWestchester and Westchester County Government.

For a complete list of Music in the Air events, visit: artsw.org/musicintheair

City of White Plains presents Jazz Forum Arts presents Wolff Neighborhood Nights: Back to & Clark Expedition. Keyboardist the Garden – Woodstock Tribute. Michael Wolff and drummer Mike Take a trip back to the music of the Clark anchor an all-star groove-heavy Woodstock era with all of the same jazz-funk band. 6:30pm at Lyndhurst, beloved favorites that rocked audi- Tarrytown. jazzforumarts.org ences more than 40 years ago. 7pm at 8/7d fri ay Renaissance Plaza. whiteplainsny.gov Jazz Forum Arts presents Marcus Cross County Shopping Center Goldhaber Quartet. NY-based jazz presents Summer Fest 2015: FDR vocalist and bandleader Marcus Drive. FDR Drive offers a mix of music Goldhaber has a strong reputation that will appeal to various age groups, among critics and fans for his accessible including motown, R&B, rock and swing. songwriting and intimate approach to 7pm. crosscountysummerfest.com straight-ahead jazz. 6:30pm at Pierson Katonah Museum of Art presents Park, Tarrytown. jazzforumarts.org Caramoor @ KMA: Classical Concert. Hammond Museum & Japanese Performance by members of the Harlem Stroll Garden presents The Norm Chamber Players. At Katonah Museum Hathaway Moonlight Swing Band. of Art. 8/5, 5:30pm. katonahmuseum.org This 18-piece band will have you New Rochelle Council on the tapping your toes and shaking a leg Michael Wolff of Wolff & Clark Expedition, Jazz Forum Arts, 8/6 (photo source: Examiner.com) Arts presents New Rochelle to favorite tunes from the ‘30s and Opera. Favorite selections from ‘40s. 8pm. hammondmuseum.org Mark Morganelli & The Jazz Forum 8/1t Sa urday opera, operetta and Broadway Hudson River Museum presents All-Stars. 12pm at 235 Main St., N ew Rochelle Council on the Arts outdoors. 7:30pm at Hudson Park Friday Night Music: Timothy Bloom. White Plains. jazzforumarts.org presents Arts Encounters: Dance En Bandshell. newrochellearts.org R&B, rock and soul artist Timothy Plein Air. Local dance teachers and 8/5 wednesday 8/6s thur day Bloom is a Grammy Award-winning companies share the joy of movement. Jazz Forum Arts presents Farnsworth City of White Plains presents Noon songwriter for Ne-Yo and Chris Brown. Saturdays at 1pm through 8/29, at Brothers Sextet. Drummer Joe Day Concerts: Bookends – ‘60s-’80s 8pm in the amphitheater. hrm.org Ruby Dee Park on the New Rochelle Farnsworth has earned the admira- Hits. High-energy songs and favor- Yonkers Downtown BID presents Ron Library Green. newrochellearts.org tion of both his contemporaries and ite cover tunes from the ‘50s, ‘60s Sunshine and his Orchestra. Retro- 8/4s tue day jazz veterans for his sparkling cymbal and ‘70s that members of the whole swing band Ron Sunshine plays a com- work and effervescent sense of time. Jazz Forum Arts presents Brazilian family can sing along with. 12pm at bination of jump blues, jive and small- 6:30pm at Estherwood Mansion, Jazz at Chase. Performance of jazz Renaissance Plaza. whiteplainsny.gov group swing including ‘90s swing revival Dobbs Ferry. jazzforumarts.org standards and Brazilian music by acts like Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. 6:30pm august 2015 Westchester County Business Journal • artsnews A9

Outdoor Summer Concert Series

Come to The Green in the center of the Cross County Shopping Center in Yonkers this summer for free performances by some of the area’s best bands. Taking place in August:

Ron Sunshine and his Orchestra, Yonkers Downtown BID, 8/7 (photo credit: Kristin Callahan) WE DNesDAY, AUGUST 5 | 7-9pm FDR Drive. FDR Drive is one of New York’s most respected and requested at Yonkers Downtown Waterfront Cross County Shopping Center party bands, with polished vocalists and musicians who know how to get Amphitheater. yonkersdowntown.com presents Summer Fest 2015: British the crowd dancing. The band offers a mix of music that includes, current 8/8 saturday Invasion Tribute. A retrospective of dance hits, motown, R&B, ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s music, rock, pop hits, swing, classic songs by iconic British groups novelty songs and standards – a little something for everyone! H udson River Museum presents The such as The Moody Blues, Dave Clark Illiad: Performed by Hudson Valley Five and, of course, The Beatles. Shakespeare Festival. See a new 7pm. crosscountysummerfest.com take on the Grecian classic by Homer. 8pm in the amphitheater. hrm.org New Rochelle Council on the Arts presents Striped Bass Band. 8/11s tue day Striped Bass Band prides itself on Rye Town Park presents The performing classic rock favorites from Angelo Rubino Band. Singer and the ‘60s to the ‘90s that are ”off saxophone player Angelo Rubino the hook.” 7:30pm at Hudson Park leads this six-member band that per- Bandshell. newrochellearts.org forms a wide range of musical styles 8/13s thur day from the ‘40s to ‘90s. 7:30pm at The South Pavilion. townofryeny.com City of White Plains presents Noon Day Concerts: Country Mist – Two FDR Drive (photo source: Facebook) 8/12 wednesday Steppin. This lunchtime musical inter- Jazz Forum Arts presents Vanderlei lude features country classics along Pereira & Blindfold Test. Drummer with works by newer artists. 12pm at WE DNesDAY, AUGUST 12 | 7-9pm Vanderlei Pereira is one of the most Renaissance Plaza. whiteplainsny.gov The British Invasion Tribute. Experience a nostalgic journey through the sought-after musicians on the con- Jazz Forum Arts presents Shunzo 1960s as The British Invasion Tribute pays homage to the music that helped temporary Brazilian jazz scene. Ohno Group. International award-win- shape an entire generation. Complete with authentic outfits, the four- 6:30pm at Estherwood Mansion, ning Shunzo Ohno is considered one member band covers iconic groups such as The Zombies, The Moody Blues, Dave Clark Five, Herman’s Hermits and – of course – The Beatles. Dobby Ferry. jazzforumarts.org of the most versatile and influential City of White Plains presents trumpeters of modern jazz. 6:30pm at Neighborhood Nights: Michael Lyndhurst, Tarrytown. jazzforumarts.org Tate 3D Rhythm of Life – Latin 8/14d fri ay Soul. Two- time Latin Grammy crosscountycentersummerfest.com Award-nominee Michael Tate leads a H udson River Museum pres- band he describes as ”3D” – dynam- ents Friday Night Music: Osekre. ic, diverse and danceable. 7pm at Osekre offers a lively blend of Renaissance Plaza. whiteplainsny.gov Afropop, ska, punk and reggae. 8pm in the amphitheater. hrm.org A10 Westchester County Business Journal • artsnews august 2015 music in the air cont’d

with many prominent artists in jazz Jazz Forum Arts presents Gilberto and Latin music. 6:30pm at Pierson “Pulpo” Colon Group. Gilberto “Pulpo” Park, Tarrytown. jazzforumarts.org Colon, one of the Latin industry’s most Hudson River Museum pres- accomplished pianists, is known for ents Friday Night Music: Yonkers his storytelling solo performances Community Music Showcase. on the piano. 6:30pm at Lyndhurst, Residents of Yonkers will perform Tarrytown. jazzforumarts.org song, dance, drama, and spoken word. 8/28d fri ay 8pm in the amphitheater. hrm.org Yonkers Downtown BID presents 8/22 saturday Soul Synergy Orchestra. Soul Synergy H udson River Museum presents Orchestra is a vocal and instrumental The Tempest: Performed by Hudson ensemble that embodies the heart of Valley Shakespeare Festival. A classic soul music and funk. 6:30pm modern take on Shakespeare’s come- at Yonkers Downtown Waterfront dy about the exiled sorcerer Prospero Amphitheater. yonkersdowntown.com and his shipwrecked enemies. 8pm Jazz Forum Arts presents 4th Osekre, Hudson River Museum Amphitheater, 8/14 (photo credit: Kwame Anyane-Yeboa) in the amphitheater. hrm.org Annual Jazz Forum Arts Vocal Jazz 8/26 wednesday Competition Winners Concert. Tyrha Lindsay, Director with Hiroshi Yonkers Downtown BID presents New Rochelle Council on the N ew Rochelle Council on the Arts Yamazaki Trio. 6:30pm at Pierson The Barons. This oldies doo-wop Arts presents Alive ‘N’ Kickin’. presents 3D Ritmo Da Vida. 3D’s Park, Tarrytown. jazzforumarts.org group takes concertgoers back to the Alive N Kickin’ plays top-of-the- funky salsa and Caribbean soul sounds ‘50s and ‘60s with dancing and enter- chart hits from every era and make for music that is diverse, dynam- 8/29 saturday tainment for the whole family. 6:30pm genre. 7:30pm at the Hudson Park ic and danceable. 7:30pm at Hudson H ammond Museum & Japanese at Yonkers Downtown Waterfront Bandshell. newrochellearts.org Park Bandshell. newrochellearts.org Stroll Garden presents 49th Annual Amphitheater. yonkersdowntown.com 8/20s thur day 8/27s thur day Moonviewing Concert. Imbued Jazz Forum Arts pres- by the light of paper lanterns, the City of White Plains presents Noon City of White Plains presents ents HAM featuring Jesse Japanese Stroll Garden is a magi- Day Concerts: Good Clean Fun. Noon Day Concerts: Ricardo Brotter. 6:30pm at Pierson Park, cal setting for this ancient custom. Good Clean Fun entertains audience Gautreau – Latin Flair. Gautreau Tarrytown. jazzforumarts.org 6:30pm. hammondmuseum.org members with pop rock hits. 12pm at brings a fusion of bluesy guitar-driv- 8/15 saturday Renaissance Plaza. whiteplainsny.gov en tunes with a Latin edge to this H udson River Museum presents Jazz Forum Arts presents Gene jazz-inspired performance. 12pm at Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Perla Quartet featuring Viktorija Renaissance Plaza. whiteplainsny.gov Ark. View a screening of the 1981 Gecyte. Jazz bassist Gene Perla classic adventure film starring Harrison has been a knowledgeable leader Ford. 8pm in the amphitheater. hrm.org in the music business for more than 8/18s tue day four decades. 6:30pm at Lyndhurst, Tarrytown. jazzforumarts.org Jazz Forum Arts presents Brazilian Jazz at Chase. Performance of 8/21d fri ay jazz standards and Brazilian music Yonkers Downtown BID presents by Mark Morganelli & The Jazz Brooklyn Sugar Stompers. This Forum All-Stars. 12pm at 92 Main traditional jazz and blues group spe- St., Yonkers. jazzforumarts.org cializes in music that ranges from 8/19 wednesday the Jazz Age of the ‘20s through the Swing Era of the ‘30s. 6:30pm Jazz Forum Arts presents Glenda at Yonkers Downtown Waterfront Davenport & Her Trio. Mt. Vernon- Amphitheater. yonkersdowntown.com born jazz vocalist Glenda Davenport Jazz Forum Arts presents Chris 49th Annual Moonviewing Concert, Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden, 8/29 (photo source: has been described as “a mature, hammondmuseum.org) Rogers Quintet. Trumpeter and com- skillful singer with depth, emotion poser Chris Rogers has performed and swing.” 6:30pm at Estherwood extensively throughout Europe, Mansion, Dobby Ferry. jazzforumarts.org For a full list of Music in the Air events, Japan, South America and the United States as a featured soloist visit: artsw.org/musicintheair august 2015 Westchester County Business Journal • artsnews A11 jazz fest 2015

Jazz Fest Returns to White Plains: September 24-27

ArtsWestchester, the City of performance at Downtown Music at Grace Church that combines the harmo- White Plains and the White ny of hard-bop with the rhythms of the Caribbean. When the sun sets, Arts- Plains Business Improve- Westchester will get bluesy with Women of the Piedmont Blues – an evening ment District come together that will unite key practitioners of the acoustic blues on the East Coast. once again to present a four-day jazz event that will The weekend continues with a full offering of events on Saturday. First, celebrate emerging tal- a Latin jazz workshop by the MCW guides visitors through the concepts ents, performance poetry and instruments that comprise Latin jazz music. Nearby, an afternoon of and accomplished Grammy slam poetry will take over the auditorium at the White Plains Library as The Award-winners at a variety Duende Project performs rhythmic poetry with musical accompaniment. of venues throughout the The day finishes with an explosive performance of Brazil Meets Jazz at the City of White Plains. White Plains Performing Arts Center, where the Grammy Award-nominated Brazilian Trio will take the stage. This year’s Jazz Fest is as varied as the many styles of The celebration takes to the streets on Sunday, September 27, culminating jazz in its genre. The festival in an all-day outdoor food and music festival along Mamaroneck Avenue. kicks off on Thursday, Sep- Music lovers, jazz aficionados and those who simply love live music will find Valerie Turner, Women of Piedmont Blues, tember 24 with The South something to rave about during this free event. Featured musicians include ArtsWestchester, 9/25 American Jazz Project, led 16-year-old local prodigy Julius Rodriguez; master electric flutist Sherry by Grammy Award-winner Daniel Freiberg, in ArtsWestchester’s intimate Winston; guitar virtuoso Doug Munro and Big Boss Bossa Nova; Mount gallery space. The musicians explore the rhythms and melodies from Ar- Vernon’s own The Rocky Middleton Quintet; and all-star ensemble The John gentina, Chile, Peru and more, from a jazz perspective. Patitucci Quartet.

On Friday at noon, jazz lovers can enjoy a lunchtime music interlude for a For Jazz Fest details and ticket information, visit: artsw.org/jazzfest.

ArtsWestchester, The City of White Plains and The White Plains BID present: 2015 Presented by

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artsw.org/jazzfest #WPJazzFest artsw.org/jazzfestTurner, Resa Gibbs & Jackie 3:00pm | An Afternoon of SEPT 24: SEPT 25: merrit. ArtsWestchester, 31 Performance Poetry with The SEPT 27: Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains, NY. Duende Project. White Plains 8:00pm | South American 12:10pm | Latin Jazz with Ed Admission: $20. Public Library Auditorium. 2-5pm | White Plains Jazz & Jazz Project in Concert, Fast and Conga-Bop. Downtown FREE ADmISSIOn. Food Festival. Mamaroneck Ave., led by Daniel Freiberg. Music at Grace Church, Main St., 8:00pm | Brazil meets Jazz, Orange Julius & the Big Beat • Doug ArtsWestchester, White Plains, NY. SEPT 26: Munro & Big Boss Bossa Nova with 31 Mamaroneck Ave., FREE ADmISSIOn. featuring Brazilian Trio with maucha Adnet and mark Charlie Lagond • Rocky Middleton White Plains, NY. Quintet • Sherry Winston • John 2-4pm Latin Jazz Workshop morganelli. White Plains Admission: $20. Patitucci Quartet with Tim Armacost 8:00pm | Women of the at the music Conservatory of Performing Arts Center, 11 City Place, & Jay Azzolina. Piedmont Blues, featuring Poet Westchester. 216 Central Ave., White White Plains, NY. Admission: $35/$25, FREE ADmISSIOn. Gold, Eleanor Ellis, Valerie Plains, NY. FREE ADmISSIOn. (Advance discount: $5 off). A12 Westchester County Business Journal • artsnews august 2015 highlights, cont’d

A dvanced Screening of New Ben Kingsley Viewing Historic Hudson Valley from a Movie at The Picture House Child’s Perspective

On August 12, The Pic- On Thursdays throughout ture House will present the summer, families are an advanced screening invited to explore legendary of the new film Learning author Washington Irving’s to Drive before it opens Sunnyside home “from nationwide on August 21. a child’s perspective.” The film stars Academy Weekly themes with Award-nominee Patricia coordinated educational Clarkson as Wendy, an au- and artistic activities thor whose husband just create new explorations left her, alongside Acad- for each visit. On August emy Award-winner Ben 6, children will learn how Kingsley as Darwan, a taxi Patricia Clarkson and Ben Kingsley in Learning to Drive nature inspires artists and (photo credit: Karen Sharman) driver on the verge of an (photo source: YouTube) authors from the Hudson arranged marriage. When Valley; on August 11, they can explore the games that children in the 19th Wendy hires Darwan to teach her to drive, the mismatched pair help each century played; on August 20, a tour of the estate will identify architectural other to overcome life’s road blocks. They subsequently form an unlikely styles that influenced Irving’s design of his home; and August 27 will celebrate friendship that brings joy back into each of their lives. Immediately follow- the author himself, along with his timeless stories. All events have a craft table ing the film, a post-screening discussion and Q&A will take place between with arts projects along with a full day of games and activities. Families are the film’s director, Isabel Coixet, and The Picture House critic-in-residence encouraged to make their visit a full-day excursion by packing a picnic to enjoy Marshall Fine. For more info, visit: thepicturehouse.org. on Sunnyside’s grounds, which overlook the Hudson River. For more info, visit: hudsonvalley.org/washington-irvingtons-sunnyside.

A rtsWestchester Now Accepting Applications for Arts Alive Grants

At the heart of ArtsWestchester’s mission is There are three Arts Alive funding opportunities: its belief that the arts should be available to all of Westchester’s economically, geographically • Arts Alive Project Grants provide support and ethnically diverse communities. Through and assistance to community-based cultural the organization’s Arts Alive grants program, programs that engage a broad and diverse support is provided to organizations and audience. independent artists for programs that bring • Arts Alive Artist Grants provide direct sup- artistic expression to life through various genres, port to artists for the creation of an original, including the performing arts, exhibitions and new work that incorporates the community as music. It also helps to bring these programs to context. residents throughout the county, particularly in areas where access is limited. For example, past • Arts Alive Education Grants provide support grantees have included dancer Andrea Elam, for the partnership between an artist or orga- who brought creative movement workshops to nization with the Westchester public school people with mental and physical disabilities, district for projects that offer students rich Greenburgh Public Library’s “Cafe a las Siete” artistic learning experiences. series of Latin American music and dance events, and Young at Arts, in partnership Pre-application workshops in September are with Amani Public Charter School in Mount available throughout the county to assist those Vernon, which initiated an introductory interested through the application process. For instrumental strings program to the school. dates and locations of these workshops, visit: artsw.org/artsalive.

ArtsWestchester will be accepting applications Arts Alive grants are made possible with funds from the De- for this year’s Arts Alive grants through October 9. centralization Program, a re-grant program of the New York For guidelines and a downloadable application, State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), with support of Governor Arts Alive grantee – OCA (Organization of Chinese Americans) visit: artsw.org/artsalive. Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Westchester and Hudson Valley august 2015 Westchester County Business Journal • artsnews A13 arts Calendar

8/7d fri ay Spoken Word: Hudson River Museum presents Arts in the S poken Word: Hudson Valley Afternoon: Lifelong Learning for Writers’ Center presents Beauty & Adults – Envy: The Stuff of Story. Brutality: A Poetry Reading with Folk and fairy tales told by Regina Ress Alex Dimitrov & Joseph Fasano. include themes of money, power, fame Two celebrated lyrical voices of current and love, and a rarely told story by Hans American poetry read from their new Christian Andersen. 1pm. hrm.org work. 7:30pm. writerscenter.org 8/14d fri ay 8/12 wednesday L ectures: Chappaqua Library Film: Chappaqua Library presents presents The Golden Age Hadassah Film Festival: Mamadrama: of Radio and Television: A The Jewish Mother in Cinema. Retrospective. This nostalgia- Mamadrama combines film clips, filled program will examine a wide cultural commentary and interviews range of popular radio/TV shows with Hollywood and Israeli filmmakers and personalities between 1935- on the image of the Jewish mother 65. 2pm. chappaqualibrary.org in film. 7pm. chappaqualibrary.org 8/15 saturday Film: The Picture House presents Learning to Drive Advance Screening Music: Tarrytown Music Hall The cast of Godspell, 8/1-9, Westchester Broadway Theatre (photo courtesy of Westchester presents Todd Rundgren: Global and Q&A with director Isabel Coixet. Broadway Theatre) Tour 2015. Songwriter/ recording A literary agent (Patricia Clarkson) and artist Todd Rundgren has made a a Sikh driving instructor (Ben Kingsley) lasting impact on both the form 8/1 saturday 8/2 sunday find that each has something to learn and content of popular music, with from the other about starting life Music: Chappaqua Library presents Music: Caramoor Center for Music such hits as Hello It’s Me, I Saw the Bach to Gershwin: Clarinet and and the Arts presents Festival anew. 7:30pm. thepicturehouse.org Light, and Can We Still be Friends. Piano. Featuring clarinetist Thomas Finale: Orchestra of St. Luke’s/ 8pm. tarrytownmusichall.org Piercy. 3pm. chappaqualibrary.org Hélène Grimaud. 2015 Artist-in- Comedy: Hudson River Museum Residence Hélène Grimaud (piano) presents National Comedy and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s Theater. Pick funny games and present a sweeping, thunderous scenes for New York’s nationally- approach to Brahms’ Piano Concerto acclaimed improvisational comedy No. 1 and Tchaikovsky’s Winter show, then pick the winners. 8pm Dreams. 4:30pm. caramoor.org in the amphitheater. hrm.org 8/6s thur day Music: Caramoor Center for Music Family & Kids: Historic Hudson and the Arts presents Suzanne Vega. Valley presents From a Child’s Hear the neo-folk icon in her second Perspective. Parents and children are appearance at Caramoor in its intimate invited to travel back to the 19th century Spanish Courtyard. 8pm. caramoor.org and view the home of Washington Theatre: Westchester Broadway Irving through a child’s eyes. Tour Theatre presents Godspell. The Irving’s home, play games, try on beloved musical from Stephen Schwartz period clothing and enjoy hands-on (Wicked), based on The Gospel activities. Other Thursdays: 8/13, 20 According to St. Matthew. 8/1-2 and & 27 from 10am-5pm at Washington 8/6-9, times vary. broadwaytheatre.com Irving’s Sunnyside. hudsonvalley.org Pablo Heras-Casado conducts the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, 8/2 (photo credit: Gabe Palacio) A14 Westchester County Business Journal • artsnews august 2015 events cont’d exhibitions

8/19 wednesday Music: Tarrytown Music Hall A rtsWestchester presents Jazz is Dead Reunion – artswestchester.org Film: Chappaqua Library presents A Jazz Exploration of the Grateful • Revisiting Arcadia: Contemporary Landscapes. Diverse approaches by 15 artists Musical Film With A Shakespeare Dead. A performance that embarks depicting natural settings, from traditional Hudson River School-style painting to Theme: The Lion King. 1994 animated from the compass point of Garcia photography and video. On view through 8/29, Tues-Fri: 12-5pm, Sat: 12-6pm. Disney classic starring James Earl and company’s most complex and Jones. 7pm. chappaqualibrary.org Bullseye Glass Resource Center audacious material, culled from bullseyeglass.com many periods of their storied history. 8/21d fri ay • In The Nature of Things. Work by Jane Bruce, Susan Cox, and Sandy Gellis, as 8pm. tarrytownmusichall.org T heater: White Plains Performing the culmination of their residency at the Bullseye Glass Center, New York. On view Arts Center presents Bye Bye Birdie: through 11/15, Tues-Fri: 10am-6pm, Sat: 10am-5pm. Young Performers Edition. The Clay Art Center satirical story of a Rock and Roll singer clayartcenter.org who joins the army and bids a teenaged- • Kelley Donahue: 2014-15 Barbara Rittenberg Memorial Fellow – There’s No girl goodbye with a kiss. Performed by Visit Such Thing as the Future. Kelley’s figurative and abstract organic objects act the WPPAC Summer Theatre Academy as three-dimensional canvases. Opening reception: Sat, 8/8, 6-8pm. On view 8/4- with actors ages 10-17. 7pm. wppac.com artsw.org 9/10, Mon-Sat: 10am-4pm. Spoken Word: Hudson Valley Writers’ Center presents Open Katonah Museum of Art katonahmuseum.org Mic Night. Join the Writers’ Center for more • Inside the Outside. Highlights from the of William Louis-Dreyfus collection by in performing spoken word, music, five artists. On view through 10/11, Tues-Sat: 10am-5pm, Sun: 12-5pm. stand-up comedy, dance and any other event info. form of creative expression you’d like • Emilie Clark: The Delicacy of Decomposition. Clark uses her family’s preserved to share. 7:30pm. writerscenter.org food waste to explore “gluttony,” as both self-indulgence and over-consumption. On view through 9/6, Tues-Sat: 10am-5pm, Sun: 12-5pm.

Neuberger Museum of Art neuberger.org • Plastic: Art in an Era of Material Innovation. Spanning the dominant art move- ments of the mid-20th century, Plastic demonstrates the unique versatility and dominance of plastic in art. On view through 8/23, Tues-Sun: 12-5pm. • GOLD. Twenty-one contemporary artists physically or conceptually utilize gold in this exhibition that explores many ideas with which this most desirable of materials is associated, particularly greed. On view through 10/11, Tues-Sun: 12-5pm. • Teresa Margolles: We Have a Common Thread. Margolles explores violence and socio-political issues through a series of new works involving the participa- tion of artist-embroiderers from Panama, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Brazil, Mexico, and the U.S. On view through 10/11, Tues-Sun: 12-5pm.

Ossining Public Library ossininglibrary.org • The Geology of Light, Robert Pliskin: A Photographic Life in Light & Stone. Black and white photographs of nature. Opening reception: Sat, 8/8, 2-4pm. On view 8/3- 8/25. Mon & Thurs: 9am-9pm, Tues & Fri: 10am-6pm, Wed: 1pm-9 pm, Sat: 11am-5pm.

Pelham Art Center pelhamartcenter.org ARTSWESTCHESTER GALA • Faculty and Student Showcase. New work in a variety of mediums by the Art Center’s teachers and students. On view through 8/7, Tues-Fri: 10am-5pm. • Knit Knit Bomb Bomb. This community yarn-bombing installation colorfully transforms public space. On view 24 horus a day, 7 days a week through 8/31.

transFORM Gallery transformgallery.com artsw.org/gala • Alexander Rutsch Exhibit. A retrospective of celebrated Austrian artist Alexander Rutsch’s work. On view through 8/30, Mon-Sat: 10am-4pm. august 2015 Westchester County Business Journal • artsnews A15 exhibitions workshops

Ballet des Amériques Katonah Museum of Art balletdesameriques.com katonahmuseum.org • Ballet Summer Intensive. Classes in ballet, pointe, modern jazz, dance history • KMA Creativity Club: Summer Series. Creative activities for ages 8-12. Wed, and more. 8/3-28, Mon-Fri: 9am-2:30pm. 8/5, 10am-2pm: “Something From Nothing” – make art from discarded materials. Wed, 8/12, 10am-2pm: “Food-Centric Art” – food as subject, inspiration and Clay Art Center medium. clayartcenter.org • Saturday Drop-In Clay Class. For adults, children and families interested in Wainwright House experimenting with clay for the first time. Saturdays: 2-4pm through 8/29. wainwright.org • STEAM Camp (ages 6-9). Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math com- • Drumming for Wellness: Find Your Rhythm To Health with Damon Jackson. bine to create a powerful learning tool during this educational ceramics camp. Learn how to use different timbal instruments (drum, shaker, bell and more). 8/3-7, 9am-12pm. 8/14, 7pm. • Wheel Throwing Boot Camp (ages 10+). Learn the basics of the potter’s wheel • For more Wainwright House workshops, visit wainwright.org. and make forms such as bowls and mugs. 8/3-7, 1-4pm. Warner Library • For more Clay Art Center workshops, visit clayartcenter.org. warnerlibrary.org • Totemic17: Woodcut Workshop. Join Jeff White of Totemic17 to make Hudson River Museum “bridgelights” – lanterns featuring impressions of people and origins we honor. hrm.org Projects will be exhibited at Circus Latino in Sleepy Hollow this September. Sat: • Family Studio: Arts & Science Projects. Creative activities for ages 7+ inspired 8/1 & 8/22, 12-4pm. by the museum’s collections and exhibitions. Arts Projects – Sat & Sun: 1-4pm through 8/30. Science Projects – Sat: 1-4pm through 8/29. Westchester Community College Center For The Arts • Crafting Community: Mirrors. Decorate mirror frames with Sarah Divi. 8/8, 2pm. sunywcc.edu/arts • Summer Teen Art Institutes (grades 9-12). Students create original artworks Hudson Valley Writers’ Center in these one-week intensive courses. Drawing & Painting: 8/3-6; Sculpture & writerscenter.org Ceramics: 8/10-13; Digital Photography: 8/10 -13. All classes held 10am-4pm. • Writing Your Love Stories. Shape a memory into your love story. 8/1, 12pm.

Clay Classes Exhibitions The SHOP at CAC Community Arts Westchester Community College Artist Studio PEEKSKILL EXTENSION CENTER Spaces Residencies Clay Parties The Center for the Digital Arts www.clayartcenter.org Digital arts education in the 21st Century with five post-production studios, 3D scanning and printing resources, computer graphics imaging, fine arts studio and prosumer video production equipment. 50+ general education courses to help fulfill liberal arts requirements, along with ESL and other non-credit courses for adults and children. Open Houses DID YOU KNOW? August 11, 20 and 31, 5:30 – 7:30 PM Register Now! Classes start September 10

914-606-7300 ▪ sunywcc.edu/peekskill Email: [email protected] ArtsWestchester’s 2015 Gala 27 North Division Street Peekskill, NY is on a Friday this year. We are tooting our own horn! Just this once, a little.

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