APRIL 2017 ARTSNEWS (photo credit: Mary Franklin) Alice credit: (photo Downtown by Walkers Marion Schneider Roseanne Cash (photo credit: DeborahRoseanne Feingold) credit: Cash (photo Mamaroneck Artists Guild – Performing Arts Center at Purchase College – ArtsWestchester – ArtsWestchester – Different Strokes Roseanne Cash From the Streets Remedy Artist Zimer works ArtsWestchester’s mural in on his gallery A publication of ArtsWestchester artsw.org/artsnews This issue is sponsored by: A2 Westchester County Business Journal • ARTSNEWS APRIL 2017 contents from the CEO news in brief Page A3 event highlights Page A4 arts calendar Page A12 exhibitions Page A17 The NEA workshops Page A18 at Its Best by Janet Langsam, ArtsWestchester CEO ARTSWESTCHESTER | 31 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains | 914.428.4220 ArtsNews (artsw.org), your guide to arts and When I think of Romare culture in Westchester County, NY, is published Bearden, I can actually by ARTSWESTCHESTER, a private, not-for-profit reproduce in my mind organization established in 1965. The largest of colorful depictions of its kind in New York State, it serves more than African American factory 150 cultural organizations, numerous school districts, hundreds of artists, and audiences numbering more than one million. The goal of ArtsWestchester is to ensure the workers going about their availability, accessibility, and diversity of the arts in Westchester. laborious routines. I am less familiar with the artist’s Robert W. Roth Janet Langsam Debbie Scates abstract works, which are Board President Chief Executive Officer Director, Marketing & at the root of his vision. Communications John R. Peckham Mary Alice Franklin Now, in part through a Board Chairman ArtsNews Editor & Erika Reinhart $45,000 grant from National Froma Benerofe Communications Manager Sr. Designer & Creative Manager Endowment for the Arts Board President Emeritus Rocío De La Roca Alfredo Ponce (NEA), Neuberger Museum Communications Associate Graphic Designer of Art Director Dr. Tracy Fitzpatrick has put together The work of ArtsWestchester is made possible with support from a visual and scholarly Westchester County Government. Eastern Gate by Romare Bearden (photo credit: examination of the artist’s Robert P. Astorino Michael Kaplowitz Steven Bates / The Romare Bearden Foundation, abstract large- and small- County Executive Chairman, Westchester Board of Legislators courtesy of DC Moore Gallery, New York / Art scale watercolors, stain © Romare Bearden Foundation / Licensed by VAGA, NY) paintings and mixed media WESTCHESTER BOARD OF LEGISLATORS collages, some in storage Catherine Borgia Kenneth W. Jenkins MaryJane Shimsky since the 1950s. These works are seminal to the works for which the Benjamin Boykin James Maisano John G. Testa artist is best known. They will be on view at the Neuberger beginning Gordon A. Burrows Sheila Marcotte David Tubiolo September 10, 2017. This is the Neuberger at its best. This is also the Francis T. Corcoran Catherine Parker Alfreda A. Williams NEA at its best – rewarding scholarship, bringing outstanding work Margaret A. Cunzio Virginia Perez Lyndon Williams to our community, revealing a little known aspect of a well-known David B. Gelfarb artist’s legacy, recognizing African American heritage and, by the way, making these good works accessible to the American public by Thanks to our generous supporters touring them nationally. These are some of our American artistic values – scholarship, community, creativity, education, exploration, legacy, 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, diversity, heritage. These are the values we speak out for when we say Curtis Instruments, Empire City Casino, Entergy, Ethan Allen Interiors, The Examiner, Inspiria Media, Jacob #SavetheNEA. Burns Foundation, JMC Consulting, P.C., The Journal News, Key Bank, Macerich Co. 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The winners are: Mizuki Hayakawa of Scarsdale Residents at Lyndhurst (cello), Benjamin Spector of Pelham Upcoming Grant Opportunities Mansion (cello), Vishnu Srinivas of Scarsdale Mount Vernon Initiative Grant is open to individual artists who are (piano) and Stephanie Tateiwa of Harrison (alto saxophone). Honorable based in Westchester County. Artists must be applying for funding for Mentions were awarded to Alex a community-engagement project that will take place in Mount Vernon, Gemme of Hastings-on-Hudson (flute) such as a workshop or mural. and Deborah Zhang of Scarsdale (cello). Winners were chosen during Yonkers Arts Initiative Grant is open to individual artists who must be an open call competition in March. based in Yonkers. Artists may apply for support for the creation of a For further information, please call new Yonkers-based work of art or a community-engagement project 914-725-1203. that will take place in Yonkers, such as a workshop. Grant and Initiatives to Email [email protected] with questions, or for additional (photo courtesy of Lyndhurst Mansion) Honor Author E. L. Doctorow information. For full guidelines, visit: In an effort to introduce or reacquaint artswestchester.org/grants local residents to a local historical gem, Lyndhurst Mansion will open its Submission deadlines: Wednesday, April 12, 11:59pm doors to Tarrytown residents for free tours on Thursdays and Fridays from April through September. Visitors ArtsWestchester organizations together to network will see 16 rooms of the 1838 Gothic Among Hundreds at Arts and receive advocacy training from Revival style mansion, including professionals in the field. Reckling the parlor, Victorian dining room Advocacy Day and Brady met with the staff members from the offices of several and Grand Picture Gallery. Also on Hundreds of arts advocates from Senators and U.S. Representatives view is a collection of 10,000 pieces, across the country recently in order to discuss the value of including Tiffany windows and E.L. Doctorow (photo credit: Basso Cannarsa) convened in Washington D.C. arts education, sustained funding furniture by Alexander Jackson Davis, last month for Americans for the for National Endowment for the as well as railroad baron Jay Gould’s The Doctorow Legacy Initiative in Arts’ 30th annual National Arts Arts and the CREATE act, which collection of 19th century French New Rochelle, along with Helen Action Summit, often referred to as ensures the longevity of creative paintings. Individual Tarrytown Doctorow and New York State Arts Advocacy Day. ArtsWestchester industries. For more info on how you residents should show a valid ID Assemblywoman Amy Paulin, staff members, Gallery Director can encourage your local politicians at the Lyndhurst Welcome Center. recently announced a $125,000 grant Kathleen Reckling and Programs to support the arts, visit Americans Local Tarrytown community groups from New York State that will support Assistant Lauren Brady, were among for the Arts’ Action Center: and organizations are welcome to the Initiative’s programs honoring those who attended. Arts Advocacy artsactionfund.org. schedule group tours during the E. L. Doctorow. The acclaimed Day brings a wide range of cultural season. For more info, visit: author and former New Rochelle lyndhurst.org. resident wrote best-selling historical fiction novels including The Hudson Valley Music The March and Ragtime. Alongside Terry Chamberlain Club Announces Winners the announcement, sculptor Derek u u of 2017 Student Awards Chalfant’s proposal was introduced Tuning Repair Restoration as the winner of an international 917-846-7903 The Hudson Valley Music Club has RFP for a sculpture of the author, announced four winners for its which will be displayed in the City. 2017 Student Awards, an annual The committee has also supported Piano Technicians Guild competition for high school students a Heritage Award designation for Associate Member living in, or attending school in, Doctorow’s former house, as well as BME Degree Music the creation of educational programs Westchester County. The winners will display their talents during an in local schools. For more info, visit: April 24 concert at the Dobbs Ferry newrochellearts.org. [email protected] A4 Westchester County Business Journal • ARTSNEWS APRIL 2017 event highlights Photographer Joséphine Douet Envisions Painter Andrew Wyeth’s World at Hudson River Museum After years as a photographer, behind the scenes of the Paris fashion world and documenting the lives of bullfighters, Joséphine Douet decided to give herself an artistic challenge. She immersed herself in the world of a painter she had always admired: Andrew Wyeth. Taking on a 5-week project in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, the very town in which the beloved watercolorist