SEPTEMBER 2018 ARTSNEWS by Pavlina Alea) Pavlina by (photo credit: Buck Ennis) Crystal Blue (photo source: sonyclassics.com) source: (photo (Artwork: An Education Movie still from Jacob Burns Film Center – JazzFest White Plains – An Education Armonk Outdoor Art Show Arturo O’Farrill This issue is sponsored by: A2 Westchester County Business Journal • ARTSNEWS SEPTEMBER 2018 from the from the CEO County Executive There is no better place to welcome fall than in Westchester County. Music fills our streets, artists set up their easels outside and the crisp weather inspires Collaboration: Shared Visions us to create. ArtsWestchester has plenty in store for By Janet Langsam, ArtsWestchester CEO us this season. Whether you are interested in spending your Saturday afternoon at an exhibit on neon lights, spending your Monday in a dance class or taking your child to a Wednesday morning storybook class, our County has something for you. Just when I think that collaboration I feel fortunate to have this organization in our County to inspire our residents is one of the hardest ways to work in to participate in the arts. ArtsWestchester's monthly ArtsNews publication the arts world, I become encouraged highlights the many cultural opportunities provided for the enjoyment of residents anew by what I see happening throughout the County. Fall is here, so keep track of upcoming arts and cultural among artists in Westchester. What programs by browsing the articles and calendar on these pages. makes collaboration so difficult is that its success depends upon a • a directory of fall arts classes offered in Westchester (see page A6) shared vision. This shared vision • a collection of works by Andy Warhol on display (see A11) may be hard to achieve, but it is what • a jazz festival that takes place throughout White Plains (see page A13) makes collaboration a powerful practice that has become somewhat As you travel our beautiful County, I hope you will take the time to enjoy the arts. of a holy grail, particularly in the community arts field. Thank you, George Latimer, Developing a shared vision takes Winter by Lesli Uribe Westchester County Executive leadership and, happily, Hudson Valley artists are up to the task. So it was welcome news to see 51 artists weigh in on The Art of the Tree in an exhibition throughout the Mariandale Center in Ossining. While we love gallery and museum exhibitions, it's always refreshing The work of ArtsWestchester is made possible with support from when artists get together and find new spaces to show new work. In this Westchester County Government. case, it is works by Karen Allen, Lana Yu, Leslie Uribe, Lawrence Flood, Wendie Garber, Nadine Gordon-Taylor, Hillary Hostetler, Kristin Manner, Misa Mori, Peg George Latimer Benjamin Boykin Taylor, Sone Tower, Alex Uribe, Beth Dewit, Lavinia Wiggins and Lily Yu and County Executive Chairman, Westchester Board of Legislators others. WESTCHESTER BOARD OF LEGISLATORS In another space, curator Lisa P. Oswald shared with me the news that Nancy E. Barr Christopher A. Johnson MaryJane Shimsky Hastings-On-Hudson Village Arts Commission is presenting The River Flows Catherine Borgia Michael Kaplowitz John G. Testa Both Ways, an exhibition of abstract and representational art that celebrates the Gordon A. Burrows Damon R. Maher David Tubiolo Hudson River. What's unique about this collaboration is that it is a partnership with the Newington-Cropsey Foundation, which promotes Jasper Cropsey’s Kitley S. Covill Catherine Parker Alfreda A. Williams significance in art, history and culture at the same time as it introduces Margaret A. Cunzio Virginia Perez Lyndon Williams 29 artists that were selected from 238 submissions of artists residing in Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, Columbia, Dutchess and Ulster Counties, as well as New York, and Fairfield County, Connecticut. Thanks to our generous supporters Joseph and Sophia Abeles Foundation, Aetna Foundation, Anchin Block & Anchin, AvPorts, Bank of Finally, kudos to the First Thursday Gallery Hop collaboration, which kicks off America, Bloomingdales, Benerofe Properties, Berkeley College, The Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundation, on Thursday, September 6 from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. What's challenging about this Clarfeld Financial Advisors, Con Edison, Empire City Casino, Entergy, Ethan Allen Interiors, The Examiner, collaboration is that four arts organizations – Blue Door Art Center, Philipse Inspiria Media, Jacob Burns Foundation, P.C., The Journal News, Key Bank, Kite Realty Group, The Liman Foundation, Macerich Co. Cross County Shopping Center, Macy's, MAXX Properties, Neiman Marcus, Manor Hall, Urban Studios Unbound and Riverfront Art Gallery – have managed Nordstrom, Peckham Industries, Inc., People’s United Bank. Pernod Ricard USA, Reckson, A Division of SL to corral 11 restaurants in downtown Yonkers to provide "specials" with coupons Green Realty, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, VENU Magazine, Wells Fargo Foundation, Westchester Family, available at the galleries. Way to go! Westchester Magazine, Westchester Medical Center, Westfair Communications, White Plains Hospital and Wilson Elser D OF L AR EG O I B S Y L T A T Don’t miss Janet’s weekly blog UNT N CO Y O U R O S C 1683 W O . D Y E R E . S G A I Z N T N , C Y H T posts at: thisandthatbyjl.com E N STER COU /ArtsWestchester | @ArtsWestchester SEPTEMBER 2018 Westchester County Business Journal • ARTSNEWS A3 ARTSWESTCHESTER | 31 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains | 914.428.4220 ArtsNews (artsw.org), your guide to arts news in brief and culture in Westchester County, NY, is published by ARTSWESTCHESTER, a Taconic Opera's Program Artwork by Mental Health private, not-for-profit organization established in 1965. The largest of its kind in New York for Young Opera Singers Recipients in Westchester State, it serves more than 150 cultural organizations, numerous school districts, Exhibited in White Plains hundreds of artists, and audiences numbering more than one million. The goal of ArtsWestchester is to ensure the availability, accessibility, and diversity of the arts A collection of works by recipients in Westchester. of mental health services in Michael J. Minihan Janet T. Langsam Debbie Scates Westchester County will be on Board President Chief Executive Officer Director, Marketing & display in ArtsWestchester’s Communications gallery from September 7-13. The John R. Peckham Mary Alice Franklin exhibition, Visions 2018: Wander Board Chairman ArtsNews Editor & Erika Reinhart Communications Manager Sr. Designer & Creative Manager With Me, is a partnership between Joseph P. Oates Westchester County’s Department of Vice Chairman Rocío De La Roca Alfredo Ponce Community Mental Health (DCMH), Contributor & Graphic Designer Rockland Psychiatric Center and Communications Associate New York Opera Conservatory students performing ArtsWestchester. For more than 30 years, ArtsWestchester and DCMH New York Opera Conservatory (NYOC), have worked together to provide ArtsNews Contents a summer program for emerging art services and residencies to artsw briefs .....................................................A5 opera singers has completed its first people with chronic mental illness. season. Produced by Taconic Opera, fall arts classes ...............................................A6 According to ArtsWestchester the intensive five-week program aims CEO Janet Langsam, "The activities september arts festivals .................................A9 to position itself as a “trade school” are designed to be outside the events highlights ..............................................A10 for the opera industry. NYOC provides therapeutic framework, enabling an affordable way for students to those who participate to tap jazzfest white plains ........................................A13 experience resume-building roles, their imaginations, express their events calendar ................................................A14 lectures about the opera business, creativity, develop new skills, personalized coaching and classes and to fully integrate into the exhibitions and workshops .............................A21 on stage direction. Participants have community.” Visions 2018 will feature the opportunity to take part in leading works by more than 60 artists in roles from operas and oratorios and ArtsWestchester’s downtown White In Memoriam: Copland House Announces present them during performances Plains gallery. The “Wander With that are free to the public. This year’s Me” theme invites visitors to step Richard Dannenberg Residency Recipients performances included Mozart’s into the “world” of a mental health Magic Flute and Cosi fan tutte, as recipient and discover that they Copland House has announced Richard Dannenberg, who was well as six oratorios. Dan Montez, may have similar aspirations. An twelve composers from eight states a former board member of Director at Taconic Opera, plans opening reception will take place as the recipients of its annual ArtsWestchester and served as to offer the program every summer on September 6. For more info, visit: Copland House Residency Awards. its Treasurer for several years, moving forward. For more info, visit artsw.org. recently passed away. He is The awardees, hailing from varied newyorkoperaconservatory.com. survived by his wife, three children backgrounds and artistic pursuits and six grandchildren. A devoted like concert and acoustic music, philanthropist, Dannenberg, with were chosen by a composer jury. his wife Barbara, was an active The award provides an all-expenses- supporter