Dance Events in Westchester to Kick Off Your Year
Arts organizations are swinging their way into the new year with a variety of upcoming dance events, leaving no leaf unturned…
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Nutcracker Dream: Ballet des Amériques Begins 10-Performance Run at the Emelin
Choreographer and pedagogue Carole Alexis saw The Nutcracker as a child and thought of it as one beautiful ballet among many. When Alexis, who grew up in Martinique, Senegal and France, moved to the U.S., she was surprised to find it was a holiday tradition.
Quilting America Together: How One Artist Forges Community Through a Centuries-Old Tradition
A person may have been unknowingly covered by an old, handmade blanket while sleeping at their grandmother’s house as a child. They may have watched their mother repair a pair of old jeans with fabric patches.
News Brief: ArtsWestchester Receives Folk and Traditional Arts Community Grant
ArtsWestchester was recently chosen to receive one of 27 grants from Mid Atlantic Arts.
News Brief: Madelyn Jordon Fine Art Moves to White Plains
Contemporary art gallery Madelyn Jordon Fine Art (MJFA) recently relocated from its Scarsdale studio.
“Our Path” : A Film about the Life of Returning Veterans
“Remembering is easy… it’s forgetting that is hard…” – Ron Whitehead, Desert Storm Veteran and Art Teacher in Ossining What is life like for a veteran who returns home from war? This is an important question that is often neglected, according to John Rizzo, a photojournalist who created Our Path….
Take a Noonday Getaway with Pianist Anna Vinnitsky at Downtown Music at Grace
On January 25, pianist Anna Vinnitsky returns to Downtown Music at Grace (DTM) for a “Noonday Getaway” concert. The event’s program includes a sonata of Mozart, the virtuosic Faschingsschwank aus Wien from Robert Schumann and a piano transcription of a traditional Klezmer melody. Vinnitsky, whom DTM calls “a Downtown Music…
Inciting Emotion Through an Unexpected Medium
InCiteful Clay, an exhibition that explores a movement in contemporary ceramics that addressed social commentaries, completed its U.S. tour this past month. In the exhibition, 27 artists used the age-old medium of clay, which traditionally serves functional or decorative purposes, to offer provocative critiques of social and political injustices. The…
Local Artist Brings ArtsWestchester’s Windows to Life in “Half Nature”
ArtsWestchester’s building transforms this year with the intention to bring environmental issues to light. ArtsWestchester presents Half Nature, a site-specific installation created by New York visual artist Susan Rowe Harrison who is inspired by the endangered species in Westchester County. The historic building’s windows are enlivened with Rowe Harrison’s…
“Remedy”: In Their Own Words
The focus of ArtsWestchester’s current exhibition is to examine the connection between art and healing. The works represent two aspects of this association – art that visualizes or responds to the tools, methods and institutions of healing, as well as works that explore how art can help communities in collective…
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