JULY / AUGUST 2016 ARTSNEWS Greenburgh Public Library – Caramoor – Jacob Burns Film Center – (photo source: Jacob Burns Film Center) (photo credit: Mark Fitton) Treasures of the Night Skies Scott by Nammacher) (photograph Cecile McLorin Salvant Contemporary Color A publication of ArtsWestchester artsw.org/artsnews ArtsWestchester Presents This issue is sponsored by: PAGE A12 Sponsored by A2 Westchester County Business Journal • ARTSNEWS JULY / AUGUST 2016 contents from the CEO news in brief Page A3 artsw briefs Page A4 highlights Page A6 music in the air Page A15 Collective Healing arts calendar Page A24 exhibitions & workshops Page A29 by Janet Langsam, ArtsWestchester CEO ARTSWESTCHESTER | 31 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains | 914.428.4220 In the wake of the Orlando tragedy, I ask myself again ArtsNews (artsw.org), your guide to arts and a question that I ask myself culture in Westchester County, NY, is published frequently: “What is there about by ARTSWESTCHESTER, a private, not-for-profit art that makes us turn to it in organization established in 1965. The largest of its times of tragedy?” Governor kind in New York State, it serves more than 150 Cuomo turned to the arts this cultural organizations, numerous school districts, hundreds of artists, and audiences week when he announced a numbering more than one million. The goal of ArtsWestchester is to ensure the million dollar art project to availability, accessibility, and diversity of the arts in Westchester. honor “all victims of hate, Robert W. Roth Janet Langsam Debbie Scates intolerance and violence.” It Board President Chief Executive Officer Director, Marketing & is perhaps, as the poet Hafiz Communications wrote in the 14th century, John R. Peckham Mary Alice Franklin because “art offers an opening Board Chairman ArtsNews Editor & Nathalie Gonzalez Communications Manager Sr. Designer & Creative Manager for the heart…” as it helps us Froma Benerofe heal from the unfathomable Board President Emeritus Rocio De La Roca Alfredo Ponce and the incomprehensible. The Communications Associate Jr. Designer acclaimed acting teacher Stella Adler once opined that “life The work of ArtsWestchester is made possible with support from beats down and crushes the Westchester County Government. soul, and art reminds you that Robert P. Astorino Michael Kaplowitz Lana Yu’s What Matters? mural in Peekskill you have one.” That is why we County Executive Chairman, Westchester Board of Legislators stand in awe at the Vietnam WESTCHESTER BOARD OF LEGISLATORS Veterans Memorial, and why Catherine Borgia Kenneth W. Jenkins John G. Testa we tremble when we see the AIDS Memorial Quilt (The Names Project). Benjamin Boykin James Maisano Alfreda A. Williams Remember also the power of Christo’s The Gates and DeNiro’s Tribecca Gordon A. Burrows Sheila Marcotte Lyndon Williams Film Festival to quell the fear of New Yorkers and bring them back to their Francis T. Corcoran Catherine Parker city in the wake of 9/11. These works are part of our collective healing Margaret A. Cunzio Virginia Perez process. They presented us with a path back to wholeness and love for David B. Gelfarb MaryJane Shimsky each other and the world. In our work at ArtsWestchester, we strive daily Thanks to our generous supporters to put into words the meaning and the power of the arts, its capacity to bring us together, to memorialize the things we care about, to express Joseph and Sophia Abeles Foundation, Aetna Foundation, Anchin Block & Anchin, Benerofe Properties, The Bristal, The Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundation, CBRE, Clarfeld Financial Advisors, Con Edison, Curtis shared ideals and values, and yes, to be there when it is the only way to Instruments, Empire City Casino, Entergy, Ethan Allen Interiors, The Examiner, First Niagara Foundation, move beyond tragedy. Inspiria Media, Jacob Burns Foundation, JMC Consulting, P.C., The Journal News, The Liman Foundation, Macerich Co. 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S G A I Z N T N , Y posts at: thisandthatbyjl.com C T HE N STER COU /ArtsWestchester | @ArtsWestchester JULY / AUGUST 2016 Westchester County Business Journal • ARTSNEWS A3 news in brief National Endowment for the Arts Farber, a founding member of Merce Hoff-Barthelson Appoints Ken ArtsWestchester & Memorial Honored With Tony Award Cunningham Dance Company, and Cole as New Director Sloan Kettering Embark on Arts Bessie Schonberg, for whom the New for Healing Partnership York Dance and Performance Awards (“The Bessies”) are named. Jasperse, who graduated from the program four years ago, has since established John Jasperse Projects. He said: “Sarah Lawrence College (SLC) has a long and illustrious history as a leader of progressive education… I look forward to ensuring that SLC continues to be an institution where The Tony Awards, presented by dance – and its connection to other artistic and intellectual fields – is vital Mohala i ka wai ka maka o ka pua by Antoinette The American Theatre Wing (ATW) Ken Cole (photo courtesy of Hoff-Barthelson) Wysocki and The Broadway League (TBL), and thrives in the 21st century.” Hoff-Barthelson Music School Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) is recently honored the National (HBMS) has announced the Endowment for the Arts (NEA) with WORD Exhibition Extended committed to integrating art into its appointment of Ken Cole as its new mission of “providing state-of-the-art a 2016 Special Tony Award at its Executive Director. The change will science and clinical research in support 70th annual event. Now celebrating come following the retirement of of cancer treatment.” In 2013, MSK its 50th anniversary, the NEA is the Joan Behrens Bergman, who held began its Outpatient Art Program, independent federal agency that the position for 17 years. Cole will now a signature feature of their funds and supports opportunities for help bring the school through its next New York City Metro area facilities, Americans to participate in, and have phase of growth and development including Brooklyn, Manhattan and access to, the arts. According to ATW while “ensuring that HBMS continues New Jersey locations. Beginning this President Heather Hitchens and TBL to nurture the development of summer, ArtsWestchester will curate President Charlotte St. Martin: “Over students and the community for years exhibitions for MSK’s Westchester the past 50 years, since its inception, to come.” His most recent positions facility in Harrison. Featuring [the NEA] has funded 18 Tony Award- include his role as Vice President of Westchester-regional artists, the winning plays and 15 Tony Award- Learning and Leadership Development installations will rotate twice per year. wining musicals, not to mention at the League of American Orchestras, This partnership between MSK and offering vital support to hundreds of and as Associate Director of the ArtsWestchester highlights a growing theatre professionals. The NEA also National Guild for Community Arts trend in healthcare to approach healing Untitled by Yunizar supports ArtsWestchester’s efforts Education. holistically through the arts. and continually helps to keep the arts alive in Westchester. Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art has extended its Sleepy Hollow Students Unveil Sculptures WORD exhibition. Initially slated to New Sarah Lawrence Dance Sleepy Hollow Middle School and close on July 31, the juried exhibition Company Director Appointed ArtsWestchester recently unveiled will now remain on view through site-specific sculptures created by the December 17. Featuring talented School’s 7th and 8th grade students. The regional artists who prominently sculptures are a culmination of their work feature a word, or words, in their with teaching artists Pedro Nel Osino, works, WORD addresses how those Marie McCann-Barab, John Rizzo and words are used as a contemporary Nancy Maloy. The program encouraged art form. The recent arrival of an teamwork through a shared art-making additional work to the gallery, experience that was designed to improve Untitled by Indonesian artist Yunizar, communication skills and build confidence. John Jasperse (photo credit: Chris Taggart) completes the exhibition. For more This program was made possible with funds info on WORD, visit: hvcca.org. from Westchester Community Foundation- Dancer and choreographer John Sculpture, Symbiosis, created by 7th and Feldman Fund and UCLA Center X through Jasperse has been named Director of 8th grade students at Sleepy Hollow Middle the US Department of Education in School the Sarah Lawrence Dance Program, partnership with the Sleepy Hollow School which has yielded notable dancers District and ArtsWestchester. and choreographers, including Viola A4 Westchester County Business Journal • ARTSNEWS JULY / AUGUST 2016 ArtsW brief ArtsWestchester Welcomes New President, Board Members, Officers Robert W. Roth, a retired principal with the firm JMC Consulting, assumed the role of Board President of ArtsWestchester at its annual meeting on June 8, 2016. Roth is a licensed professional engineer who has been recognized by the International Council of Shopping Centers for his expertise. He has more than 40 years of site planning and engineering experience with a vast array of clients including national retailers, developers, builders, institutions and municipalities. Roth is an expert in site design, civil engineering, traffic and parking, storm water management, and a host of other environmental issues. In addition to serving as an expert witness, he has presented numerous projects for approval to agencies and community groups. He has been an active and dedicated board member at ArtsWestchester since 2006, sharing his professional skills on the Building Committee, as well as the Development and Executive Committees.