NONPROFIT ORG US POSTAGE PAID HUNTINGTON NY 11743 SUMMER 2019 (JUNE–SEPT) • VOL XIX • ISSUE 2 PERMIT NO. 275 *************ECRWSS POSTAL CUSTOMER FREE SummerHUNTINGTON Arts JUNE 25 – AUGUST 11, 2019 Festival CHAPIN RAINBOW STAGE • HECKSCHER PARK • 6 DAYS A WEEK / TUESDAY – SUNDAY / RAIN OR SHINE PRESENTING SPONSOR: PRODUCED BY THE TOWN OF HUNTINGTON / PRESENTED BY THE HUNTINGTON ARTS COUNCIL SAF_NewsletterCover_2019_Final.indd 1 4/23/19 12:48 PM From the Executive Director Arts Cultural News Summer in and different audiences. Not only is programming at Huntington Arts Council. Huntington is a there first-rate artwork by many of our Their recognition of the importance SUMMER 2019 time for vacations Long Island artist, but the concept of the of the arts in our daily lives as well as and relaxation. space has transformed to accommodate the strong economic impact the arts Table of Contents The arts do not community happenings such as Singer have on a community is commendable. 6 Calendar of Events take a break, but Songwriter Night, Conversations in the At Huntington Arts Council, every 14 Gallery Events continue strongly. Arts, Huntington Village Art Walk and individual member and funder becomes 16 Arts In Education Huntington is more. This diversifies the audiences and increasingly valuable in times of 16 Grants fortunate that cross-pollenates artists from the visual uncertainty. Thank you all for your 20 Summer Arts Festival these activities and performing worlds. continued support. MARC COURTADE keep audiences Executive Director Grants for the Arts begins the workshop I encourage everyone to continue to Cover Art : Huntington Arts Council coming to town Leaves of Art by Nick Striga year round. phase of our 2020 grants cycle in July. participate in the arts. The Summer The modified schedule will continue, Calendar is full, and offers excellent The Huntington Summer Arts Festival and allow us to have funding decisions opportunities to celebrate the arts on offers 42 evenings of performances with by November. Please check out the Long Island. See some performances; something for everyone, featuring the Calendar of Events which includes many visit a museum or gallery; create best of local, national and international of those funded in the 2019 grants cycle. something! The arts enrich our lives… talents. Please look at the schedule and The cultural landscape of Long Island is please let them enrich yours. Visit Our Gallery plan to attend as many evenings as you multi-layered and reflects our diversity 213 Main Street, Huntington, NY can. Thanks to the Town of Huntington, with a rich variety of programming. 631.271.8423 Suffolk County and NYSCA, these events I extend my gratitude to the Town of remain free of charge and open to all. Marc Courtade Hours: Huntington, Suffolk County and New Executive Director M - F 9am - 5pm / Sat 12 - 4pm Our Gallery Events have brought in new York State for their continued support of Huntington Arts Council www.huntingtonarts.org Follow @HuntingtonArts on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter! “Life is Short and Art is Long” lasting decades and decades. And he was curious, because he loved people. To Donate became a painter in post war New York I took thousands of pictures of him, and Go to huntingtonarts.org and and a revered teacher on Long Island shot hours and hours of footage for documentary I have yet to finish. He was click the “Donate” button. and a beloved husband twice over. He became a really good painter and he a little bit crazy and a f---king lion of a knew both recognition and obscurity human being. And always, always living and he made work anyway. 60+ years his authentic self. He was, as they say, Arts Cultural News is published three times a year by the Huntington of daily work. Not many can claim that ‘woke’. Boy was he woke. Arts Council, Inc. and is made kind of accomplishment. He had a hot One time in graduate school I called him possible, in part, with public funds temper. He had chronic anxiety. He was from the New York State Council on after a particularly brutal critique of incapable of lying. He was a horrible the Arts, the Town of Huntington, my work. I wanted to quit—a quivering corporations, foundations, and driver. He was a passionate Giants fan 23 year old. I don’t remember the individuals. The Huntington Arts (loathed the Yankees). He spoke terrible particulars of our conversation except Council gratefully acknowledges French. He was practically deaf. He had the support of Town Supervisor he convinced me to stay the course. “Life Chad A. Lupinacci and Council no use for small talk or irony or popular is short and art is long” he said. He said members Mark Cuthbertson, culture. He was the least materialistic it to me more then once over the years. Eugene Cook, Joan Cergol and person I ever met. He was extremely And so it is Dad…and so it is. Edmund J.M. Smyth and the Suffolk well read and very well informed. He County Delegation of the New York was unfailingly generous with his time, The stars are rejoicing, Dad. They State Assembly and Senate and the Stan Brodsky welcome you home. And here I am, like a Suffolk County Council members. his encouragement, his recourses and March 23, 1925--March 30, 2019 his love; and he could become resentful child lost in my grief. The grief rests like or disappointed when others didn’t a heavy fog, like a stone on my chest. It is the saddest day. reciprocate with the same furious Couldn’t you be with us just a little longer? Then I see your paintings. They’re The Huntington Arts Council is a Here was my father. A poor kid from energy. He traveled extensively. And 501(c)(3) not for profit organization. Bensonhurst—he grabbed life with we took a few trips together, he and I—I all over your house, my apartment. I’ve both hands and took a massive bite. photographed or wrote and he painted. lived my whole life with these paintings. To include a bequest to the At 18 he was a combat soldier in the He told me he wanted to insert himself So I remember—we will all remember-- Huntington Arts Council in your your skill and your devotion to your life’s will, add “I give to Huntington Vosges Mountains and the experience into the landscape. I confess I’m still not Arts Council, Inc., with offices at marked him. With a GI bill he got himself sure what he meant but I loved watching work and your beautiful restless soul. I 213 Main St, Huntington, NY 11743, several degrees: a BJ, a MFA and a EDD him work with his rapt concentration. love you forever. a general bequest of $[amount] to be used for its exempt purposes.” (I tried to read his dissertation once We stayed in Maine. Arizona. France. and it was impenetrable). He nurtured He would strike up a conversation with deep friendships and correspondence anyone along the way—because he Shared by Alexandra Brodsky STAFF BOARD OF DIRECTORS Marc Courtade Maureen H. Starr Emily Dowd Kay Sato Marc Franchi Kenneth Britt Andrea M. Gordon Executive Director Director of PR & Marketing Grants Coordinator President Secretary Robin Gordon John Chicherio Jenna Strand Rachel M. Kalina Beth Levinthal Paul Biedermann Kevin O’Connell Performing Arts Director Development Director PR Associate Vice President Member at Large Angela Rogan Kieran Johnson Regina Van Bell Joshua Kreitzman Rita Bender Business Manager Arts in Ed Coordinator Treasurer Eileen Kathryn Boyd 2 | Arts Cultural News Summer 2019 | For information on advertising contact, Sheila Sullivan-Alyskewycz, Advertising Director | 631.659.3370 From the Supervisor and entertainment close to home, In addition to the Summer Arts Festival’s Meet the starting with the free Summer Concert regular “Family Night” performances Series in Heckscher Park. A perennial on Tuesdays, another cultural program Huntington Town Council favorite, Huntington’s Summer Arts much-beloved by families is the free Festival – now in its 54th year – has “Movies on the Lawn” series established performances scheduled every Tuesday at the initiative of Councilman Mark through Sunday evening from June Cuthbertson. A complete listing of the 25th through August 11th on Heckscher dates, locations, and scheduled movies Park’s Chapin Rainbow Stage, with can be found in this newspaper or by additional Thursday evening concerts by calling 631-351-3112. Be sure to make the Northport Community Band at the your way to Heckscher Museum, one of Robert W. Krueger Bandstand in Village the great gems here in Town for their Park in Northport. summer offerings. Check the listings in CHAD A. LUPINACCI Supervisor, Town of Huntington this newspaper or visit www.Heckscher. MARK CUTHBERTSON EUGENE COOK This summer, the opening lineup begins org for more information. Town Councilman Town Councilman Dear Friends, with a Family Show every Tuesday, starting with Cinderella on June 25th, These are highlights of just a few of the Welcome to “Long Island’s Cultural followed up shortly thereafter by most popular offerings. For additional Capital!” The Town of Huntington Mamma Mia! on July 6th, the Brubeck listings of diverse cultural opportunities takes great pride in being the home to Brothers during Jazz Week on July 18th, throughout the Town browse the artists and musicians, as well as great and be sure to mark July 20th on your pages of this newspaper and discover cultural events like our Summer Concert calendar for the ever-popular “Coltrane the cultural treasures in your own Series at the Chapin Rainbow Stage in Day,” presented in collaboration “backyard.” Heckscher Park.