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A T UGUS 2015 artsw.org/artsnews ARTSNEWS A publication of ArtsWestchester Yonkers Downtown BID – Concordia Conservatory – Cross County Summer Fest – (photo credit: Alissa Meyer) Brooklyn Sugar Stompers (photo credit: Kevin Fitzpatrick) Fall Music Classes The British Invasion Tribute (photo source: morrisarts.org) So much to see and do in Westchester! 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: D OF L AR EG O I B S Y L T A UNT T N CO Y O U R O S C 1683 W O . D Y R . E G E S A N I Z N T , thisandthatbyjl.com Y C T HE N STER COU R ead a digital version of ArtsNews every / ArtsWestchester @ArtsWestchester @ArtsWestchester /ArtsWestchester month: artsw.org/artsnews AUGUST 2015 Westchester County Business Journal • ARTSNEWS A3 news in brief 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 curric- ulum – 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 ap- peal 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

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