themselves: contemporary still life. presents dead flowers

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get more event information, visit www.artswestchester.orgThemselves: Contemporary Still Life. Still life painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and video art by contemporary artists. 9/10, 6:30-8pm. 738-2525 or www.pelhamartcenter.org

11/ sAturdAyFilm: Jacob Burns Film Center presents The Valley of Gwangi. Part of the series “Movies for Kids (And Their Families)” 9/11-9/12, 12pm. 773-7663 or www.burnsfilmcen-ter.org

Fundraiser: Katonah Museum of Art presents Second Saturday. Cocktails, live music and artful evenings where conceptual performances ensure that no two events are alike. 9/11, 7pm-9pm. 232-9555 or www.katonahmuseum.org

music: Yonkers Downtown BID pres-ents Yonkers Riverfest. Enjoy the day at Yonkers Waterfront Amphitheatre. 9/11, 12-8pm. 969-6660 or www.yonkersdown-town.com

music: Friends of the Warner Library presents Concert/Masterwork Conversations. With pianists Matthew Harrison and Vlada Yaneva. 9/11, 2:30pm. 631-7734 or www.warnerlibrary.org

music: Lagond Music School presents Open House. Tour the facility, meet the Directors and ask them all of your questions! 9/11, 2-4pm. 345-0512 or lagondmusic.org

music: Tarrytown Music Hall presents The Led Zeppelin Experience. Performed by Hammer of The Gods. 9/11, 8pm. 631-3390 or www.tarrytownmusichall.org

music: Town of Greenburgh presents East Hartsdale Avenue Outdoor Summer Music Series: Really Terrible Orchestra of Westchester. Music performed in con-junction with the Farmers Market. DiSanti Plaza. 9/11, 10am. 993-1504 or www.green-burghny.com

12/ sundAydance: The Performing Arts Center presents Shen Yun Performing Arts. See ancient legends of virtue brought to life alongside modern tales of courage. 9/12, 7pm. 251-6200 or www.artscenter.org

Festival: The Rye Arts Center pres-ents Festival @ 51. A hands-on day of art, music, theater, and storytelling for the entire community. 9/12, 12-4pm. 967-0700 or www.ryeartscenter.org

Opening: Castle Gallery presents Nature/Culture reception. A free public reception. 9/12, 2-4pm. 654-5423 or www.cnr.edu/cg

perFOrmance art: Paramount Center for the Arts presents Mike Super - Magic & Illusion. A new form of magic that tran-scends the “trick.” 9/12, 2pm. 739-2333 or www.paramountcenter.org

spOken WOrd: Hudson Valley Writers’ Center presents River of Words. A launch event for "River of Words: Portraits of Hudson Valley Writers." 9/12, 4:30pm. 332-5953 or www.writerscenter.org

13/ mondAy lecture: Color Camera Club of Westchester presents Photographic Program. Photographers, enhance your skills and expand your knowledge of photog-raphy. 9/13, 7:30-9:30pm. 769-7758 or www.colorcameraclub.org

music: Hudson Chorale Welcomes New Members. 2010-2011 season starts. Scarsdale Presbyterian Church. 9/13, 6:30-7:30pm. 478-0074 or www.hudsonchorale.org

WOrkshOp: Color Camera Club of Westchester presents Learn to Better Photographic Skills. Enhance skills and expand your knowledge of photography. 9/13, 7:30-9:30pm. 769-7758 or www.color-cameraclub.org

16/ thursdAylecture: Katonah Museum of Art pres-ents CrossTalk. Meet book agent Molly Friedrich and New York Times writer Lisa Belkin. 9/16, 6:30pm. 232-9555 or www.katonahmuseum.org

Opening: Osilas Gallery presents The Nicholas Brothers: A Dialogue in Art and Life: opening reception. Reception at 3pm, and Gallery Talk at 7pm. 9/16. 337-9300 or www.osilasgallery.org

music: Paramount Center for the Arts presents Nanci Griffith. The Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter performs

for the first time at the historic Paramount. 9/17, 8pm. 739-2333 or www.paramountcen-ter.org

18/ sAturdAyFestival: John Jay Homestead State Historic Site presents 18th Annual John Jay Homestead Country Fair - Barn Dance. 9/18 & 9/19, 5-9pm. 232-8119 or www.johnjayhomestead.org

Film: Jacob Burns Film Center presents Jason and the Argonauts. Part of the series “Movies for Kids (And Their Families)” 9/18-9/26, 12pm. 773-7663 or www.burns-filmcenter.org

music: ArtsWestchester presents El Grito. Live music, Traditional Mexican Arts, workshops for all! Yonkers Riverfront Library 9/18, 1-4pm. 337-1500 or www.ypl.org/riverfront

music: Town of Greenburgh presents East Hartsdale Avenue Outdoor Summer Music Series: Dave & Lisa Reitman; Katherine. Music performed in conjunction with the Farmers Market. DiSanti Plaza. 9/18, 10am. 993-1504 or www.green-burghny.com

dance: Evolve Dance Inc. presents Evolve Dance E-LAB Series. Four Sunday workshops for dance students and profes-sionals to experiment and develop ideas for new choreography. 9/19-10/31, Dance Students: 12-2pm; Dance Professionals: 2-4pm. 522-2419 or www.evolvedance.org

Fundraiser: Common Ground Coffeehouse presents The Howling Wolf Family Folk Festival. A Benefit for The Wolf Conservation Center. 9/19, 1pm-5pm. 693-1065 or commongroundfusw.com

Dead Flowers Band at John Jay Homestead's 18th Annual Barn Dance, 9/18

Shen Yun Performing Arts at Performing Arts Center at Purchase College, 9/12.

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get more event information, visit www.artswestchester.orgmusic: Yonkers Downtown BID presents Evolution Arts. Afternoon of leisurely art browsing is accompanied by live and free entertainment. 9/19, 1-4 pm. 969-6660 or www.yonkersdowntown.com

music: Concordia Conservatory presents Music in the Gallery Series: Impressionism in America. Concert inte-grating music with the exhibition The Nichols Brothers: A Dialog in Art and Life. 9/19, 4pm. 337-9300 or www.concordiaconservatory.org

music: Copland House presents An Afternoon with Stephen Schwartz. 9/19, 3pm. 788-4659 or www.coplandhouse.org

music: New Rochelle Public Library presents Classical Concert: Flutist Kathleen Nester. Suggested $2 donation. 9/19, 3pm. 632-8254 or www.nrpl.org

music: WCC Center For The Arts presents Camerata Chamber Orchestra “Classical Period Pieces.” Musical mas-terpieces feature string orchestra selections by Mozart, Beethoven, and Franz Joseph Haydn. 9/19, 3pm. 606-6262 or www.suny-wcc.edu

music: Westchester Musicians Guild presents Memorial Concert honoring pia-nist Anna Mi Lee (1921-2009). A program in honor of Anna Mi Lee: concert pianist, accompanist, teacher, and long-time member of the Guild. Scarsdale Woman’s Club. 9/19, 2:30pm. 668-4017

Opening: Blue Door presents Opening Reception: Mettle of METAL. Focuses on metal and includes an array of two and

three dimensional works with the challenge of metal as its primary media. 9/19, 2-5pm. 375-5100 or www.bluedoorgallery.org

Opening: Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art presents After the Fall: Opening Reception. Emerging contempo-rary art from East and Central Europe, by art-ists who were educated at the transitional period between communism and democracy. 9/19, 3-6:30pm. 788-0100 or www.hvcca.org

spOken WOrd: Hudson Valley Writers’ Center presents Annual Mystery Writers Reading. Featuring Terese Svoboda and Jane Cleland 9/19, 4:30pm. 332-5953 or www.writerscenter.org

theater: YCP TheaterWorks presents The Lady with all the Answers. For decades, advice columnist Ann Landers answered countless letters from lovelorn teens, confused couples and many others in need of advice. 9/19, 2pm. 528-4145 or www.ycptw.org

20/ mondAyColor Camera Club of Westchester pres-ents Monthly Club Digital Competition. The Color Camera Club was formed to provide photographers with a place to enhance their skills and expand their knowl-edge of photography. Color Camera Club of Westchester 9/20-9/20, 7:30-9:30pm. 769-7758 or www.colorcameraclub.org

23/ thursdAyFilm: New Rochelle Public Library pres-ents French Film: Tell No One. Based on the bestselling novel by Harlan Coben. 9/23, 7pm. 632-8254 or www.nrpl.org

Film: The Performing Arts Center pres-ents Talk Cinema. Join fellow cinema afi-cionados with host Harlan Jacobson to view the best in independent and foreign films. 9/23, 7pm. 251-6200 or www.artscenter.org

24/ fridAymusic: Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts presents Bill Frisell Trio. Bill Frisell is a revered guitarist in jazz and American music since the late 80s. 9/24, 8pm. 232-1252 or www.caramoor.org

music: Irvington Town Hall Theater presents London Calling: Live In Hyde Park. Bruce Springsteen is back with his newest concert film. 9/24, 8pm. 591-6602 or www.irvingtontheater.com

music: Tarrytown Music Hall presents Petula Clark. The most successful and beloved female recording artist to hail from England. 9/24, 8pm. 631-3390 or www.tar-rytownmusichall.org

25/ sAturdAycOmedY: Paramount Center for the Arts presents Brian Regan. Regan has distin-guished himself as one of the premier come-dians in the country. 9/25, 7pm. 739-2333 or www.paramountcenter.org

Festival: Friends of the north castle library presents 49th Annual Armonk Outdoor Art Show. Ranked among the top Fine Art & Design Shows in the New York Metropolitan area by Sunshine Artist aga-zine. 9/25 & 9/26. 10am-5pm. www.armonk-outdoorartshow.org

Festival: Warner Library presents Annual Eco Fair. Annual Eco-Fair will be held at Patriots Park. 9/25, 10am-2pm. 631-7734 or www.warnerlibrary.org

music: Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts presents Patti LuPone: The Gypsy In My Soul. The newest solo con-cert by the Broadway legend. 9/25, 8pm. 232-1252 or www.caramoor.org

music: New Rochelle Opera presents 25th Anniversary Celebration. Two differ-ent concerts, each featuring highlights from the company’s productions over 25 years. Iona College Council on the Arts. 9/25, 8pm. 637-7796 or www.iona.edu/artscouncil

music: North Castle Public Library & Lagond Music School presents KJ Denhert. A unique artist, singer, guitarist and songwriter who calls her music Urban Folk and Jazz. 9/25, 8pm. 273-3887 or www.northcastlelibrary.org

music: New Rochelle Opera presents 25th Anniversary Celebration. Two concerts featuring selections from the com-pany’s past productions. 9/25, 8pm & 9/26, 3pm at Iona College Council on the Arts. 576-1617 or www.nropera.org

music: Town of Greenburgh presents East Hartsdale Avenue Outdoor Summer Music Series: Dueces Child. Music performed in conjunction with the Farmers Market. DiSanti Plaza 9/25-9/25, 12pm. 993-1504 or www.greenburghny.com

music: Peoples’ Voice Cafe Presents Walkabout Clearwater Chorus and Sharon Katz and Peace Train. The chorus, founded by Pete Seeger, appears in several tracks of his CD “Pete Seeger at 89.” 9/25, 8pm. www.peoplesvoicecafe.org

music: Westchester Jazz Orchestra presents Tribute to Michael Brecker with Special Guest Randy Brecker. WJO

Yo-Yo Ma at Caramoor. Photo by Stephen Danelian

With comedy that's big enough for everyone, sharp enough for you, Brian Regan performs at Paramount on 9/25


get more event information, visit www.artswestchester.orgsalutes the late, great saxophonist Michael Brecker with a musical tribute. Irvington Town Hall Theater. 9/25, 8pm. 591-6602 or www.westjazzorch.org

Opening: Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden presents Opening Reception: 2010 Tri State Artist’s Competition Winner’s Exhibit. An opening reception for the Tri State Artist’s Competition winners as well as an exhibit of “Celebrity Bugs” by Flora Viale. 9/25, 1-3pm. 669-5033 or www.hammondmuseum.org

theater: WCC Center For The Arts presents National Players in “The Scarlet Letter.” There’s no story as passionate as Nathaniel Hawthorne’s masterpiece. 9/25, 8pm. 606-6262 or www.sunywcc.edu

theater: YCP TheaterWorks presents The Lady with all the Answers. For decades, advice columnist Ann Landers answered countless letters from lovelorn teens, confused couples and a many others in need of advice. 9/25, 2pm. 528-4145 or www.ycptw.org

WOrkshOp: Hudson River Museum presents Paintbox Leaves Opening Weekend. Opening for the exhibition Paintbox Leaves: Autumnal Inspiration from Cole to Wyeth. 9/25-9/26, 12-5pm. 963-4550 or www.hrm.org

26/ sundAydance: Irvington Town Hall Theater presents Kathak Yatra. Featuring “Sundari Aur Nag” (Beauty and the Beast) by Katha Dance Theatre in Minnesota. 9/26, 4pm. 591-6602 or www.irvingtontheater.com

music: Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts presents Family Concert with The Knights and guest appearance by Yo-Yo Ma. This joyous, interactive concert, with a very special appearance will be an inspiration for the entire family. 9/26, 1pm. 232-1252 or www.caramoor.org

music: Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts presents Yo-Yo Ma with The Knights. Classical Music icon Yo-Yo Ma is welcomed everywhere in the world for his generous humanity, peerless virtuosity and musical imagination. 9/26, 4:30pm. 232-1252 or www.caramoor.org

music: The Chappaqua Orchestra pres-ents The Saddest Music Ever Written: The Story of Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings. Author Tom Larson’s multimedia

presentation explores the cultural impact of Barber’s work. At Chappaqua Library 9/26, 3pm. 238-9220 or www.chappaquaorches-tra.org

music: Westchester Chamber Music Society presents Tokyo String Quartet. The famed Quartet is featured in the first fall concert of 2010. Congregation Emanu-El of Westchester 9/26, 8pm. 967-7399.

spOken WOrd: Hudson Valley Writers’ Center presents HVWC Readers’ Series featuring Vivan Shipley and P.H. Liotta. The month comes to a climax with the HVWC Readers’ Series featuring Vivian Shipley and P.H. Liotta. 9/26, 4:30pm. 332-5953 or www.writerscenter.org

27/ mondAydance: Steffi Nossen School of Dance presents Week of Dance Open House. Try a new dance technique or re-engage in an old favorite at Steffi Nossen classes. 9/27-10/2, various vimes . 328-1900 or www.steffinossen.org

lecture: Color Camera Club of Westchester presents Learn Photography. 9/27, 7:30-9:30pm. 769-7758 or www.colorcameraclub.org

28/ tuesdAyFilm: Jacob Burns Film Center pres-ents 9500 Liberty. A documentary about Immigration Policy - special event with Director Eric Byler. 9/28-9/29, 7pm. 773-7663 or www.burnsfilmcenter.org

29/ WednesdAymusic: Paramount Center for the Arts presents Engelbert Humperdinck. The quintessential romantic balladeer and inter-national recording icon. 9/29, 8pm. 739-2333 or www.paramountcenter.org

theater: YCP TheaterWorks presents The Lady with all the Answers. For decades, advice columnist Ann Landers answered countless letters from lovelorn teens, confused couples and many others in need of advice. Eastchester Public Library 9/29, 7pm. 528-4145 or www.ycptw.org

30/ thursdAyFundraiser: Clay Art Center presents 3rd Annual Benefit: Lala & Jim Howard. Proceeds from the benefit will fund Clay Art Center’s community programming, scholarships for local youth and the Artist-in-Residence Program. 9/30, 6-9:30pm. 937-2047 or www.clayartcenter.org

spOken WOrd: Friends of the Warner Library presents Author Talk/ Phantoms of the Hudson Valley. Monica Randall, author of Phantoms of the Hudson Valley, will show slides and discuss castles and mansions along the Hudson River. 9/30, 7pm. 631-7734 or www.warnerlibrary.org

theater: The Schoolhouse Theater presents Brownsville Bred. Set in 1980s Brooklyn, this hilarious and moving one-woman show tells of a Latina’s coming of age. 9/30-10/17, Thu, Fri, Sat, 8pm; Sun 4pm. 277-8477 or www.schoolhousetheater.org

MUSIC: Randy Brecker, legendary trumpet player and multi-Grammy winner performs with Westchester Jazz Orchestra, 9/25

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www.artswestchester.orgexhibitionsArtsWestchester presents Enslaved Africans' Rain Garden. An exhibition featuring five maquettes by artist Vinnie Bagwell, site-plan concepts for the rain garden and a historical perspective on slavery in Westchester. 9/25-10/23. 428-4220 or www.artswestchester.org

Blue Door 375-5100 or www.bluedoorgallery.org

Tribute: Bill Weinstein (1918-2005) •Urban Folk Carvings and Capturing Memories in Art. 7/10-9/9.Mettle of METAL.• Focuses on metal and includes an array of two and three dimensional works with the challenge of metal as its primary media. 9/19-11/13.

Castle Gallery presents Nature/Culture. 9/7-11/7, free public reception 9/12, 2-4pm. 654-5423 or www.cnr.edu/cg

Clay Art Center presents Lorna Meaden. Solo exhibition of utilitarian pottery exploring the habitual, rather than the daily ritual. 9/2-9/25. 937-2047 or www.clayartcenter.org

Greenburgh Arts and Culture Committee presents Pen & Ink and Colored Pencil Paintings. An exhibit of 43 paintings by

Stan Gluck of Mt. Kisco. 7/7-9/7. 682-1574 or greenburghartsandculture.org

Greenburgh Public Library presents “Scapes” The Art of Doreen O’Connor. Featuring the art of Doreen O’Connor. 8/3-9/15. 721-8200 or www.greenburghlibrary.org

Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden 669-5033 or www.hammondmuseum.org

Tri State Artist’s Competition Winner’s •Exhibit. A group show of Peggie Blizard, Belle Manes, Constance Kiermaier, Mayumi Takagi, and Joanna M. Wezyk. 9/22-11/20. Holiday in Eden by Jason Noushim.• Jason Noushin is the grand prize winner of the Tri State Artist Competition 9/22-11/20. Celebrity Bugs by Flora Viale.• She invented art in the box, a portable mini museum, and is currently involved with Marte, the Museum of Contemporary and Modern Art in Italy. 9/22-11/20.Hyper Calligraphy.• Kouhei Okamoto Line Works. 6/26-9/18. Circulation.• Aquatints by Jung Eun Kim. 6/26-9/18.

Metal Alchemy.• Sculptures by Richard Pitts. 6/26-9/18.

Harrison Council for the Arts 835-0324 or www.harrisonpl.org

“Photos of the Moment” by Linda •Austrian. At Harrison Public Library 8/7-9/10. “Abstract Responses” by Mary Rankin.• Acrylic and mixed media paintings and works on paper by Mary Rankin. Meet the Artist: 9/18, 2-4pm. At Harrison Public Library 9/12-10/8.

Hudson River Museum 963-4550 or www.hrm.org

Richard Deon: Paradox and Conformity• . 7/3-9/6. Paintbox Leaves: Autumnal Inspiration •from Cole to Wyeth. Over 100 works attest to the American artist’s fascination with autumn presented in landscapes. 9/25-1/16/2011.

Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art 788-0100 or www.hvcca.com

After the Fall.• Emerging contemporary art from East and Central Europe, by artists who were educated at the transitional period between Communism and Democracy. 9/19-7/24/2011. Leonardo Silaghi.• Summer 2010 Artist-in-Residence: 23 year-old Leonardo Silaghi’s first solo painting exhibition in the United States. 9/19-12/19

Hudson Valley Hospital Center presents Set in Stone. An exhibition of ArtsWestchester’s Folk Arts Program that originally opened in February of 2008. On view through 12/10. www.hvhc.org

Iona College Council on the Arts presents The Micro-Sculpture of Dalton Ghetti. Miniature work of Dalton Ghetti, who has been carving sculptures into pencil lead, without the aid of a magnifying glass. 9/7-10/7. 637-7796 or www.iona.edu/artscouncil

Katonah Museum of Art 232-9555 or www.katonahmuseum.org

Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary •Cuban Art from the Farber Collection. Encompasses the full scope of contemporary Cuban art history. 6/27-9/19.Charles Johnstone: Havana.• 18 photographs taken by the artist during his 2006 visit to the beautiful nation of Cuba. 6/27-9/19.Edel Rodriguez.• Colorful illustrations that celebrate the culture of Cuba. 6/27-9/19. Matthew Geller: Woozy Blossom •(Platanus nebulosus). A twenty-foot leafless tree with many brass nozzles attached that produce a spray of fog; sculpture is sensitive to the slightest change in wind, temperature and humidity.

Mamaroneck Artists’ Guild 834-1117 or www.mamaroneckartistsguild.org

iMAGine 2010• . It’s first open juried fine craft show. 8/14-9/6. In Focus.• Featuring active members' work in a variety of media. 9/1-9/18.

Museum of Arts and Culture presents Harlem? Harlem! Dance Theatre of Harlem 1969-2010. Dance history comes alive in New Rochelle. 9/13-10/2. 576-6518 or www.dbmac.org

Neuberger Museum of Art 251-6100 or www.neuberger.org

American People Black Light: Faith •

The Micro-Sculpture of Dalton Ghetti, Iona College Council on the Arts

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Ringgold’s Paintings of the 1960s. This exhibition features the artist’s two earliest series, American People (1962-1967) and Black Light (1967-1969). 9/12-12/19Natalie Jeremijenko: Connected •Environments. Jeremijenko is an artist whose work explores the impact of technology on society and the environment. 8/3-10/24. Pat Steir: Drawing Out of Line.• A major figure in American Art since the 1970s. 9/12-12/19.

New Castle Historical Society Museum presents Reader’s Digest: The Local Magazine that Conquered the World. This exhibition chronicles one of the most phenomenal publishing successes in the 20th century all happening in Westchester. 3/1-1/30/2011. 238-4666 or www.newcastlehistoricalsociety.org

OSilas Gallery presents The Nicholas Brothers: A Dialogue in Art and Life. Hobart and Spencer Nichols are early 20th century Bronxville artists who have significance well beyond village borders. 9/8-10/23. 337-9300 or www.osilasgallery.org

Pelham Art Center presents The Things Themselves: Contemporary Still Life.

Still life painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and video art by contemporary artists. 9/10-10/30. 738-2525 or www.pelhamartcenter.org

School of the Arts at Purchase College presents Yuri Kobayashi Exhibits Stepping Stones. A series of work with several pieces created while serving as Windgate Artist in Residence at Purchase College. 8/16-9/10. 251-6000 or www.purchase.edu

The Rye Arts Center presents 10th Annual Painters on Location: Plein-air Paint-out and Live Art Auction. Take advantage of this unique opportunity to watch artists painting en plein-air! 9/12-25. 967-0700 or www.ryeartscenter.org

WCC Center For The Arts presents Geometry of Tension: Nathan Poglein and William C. Maxwell. This exhibition pairs two artists whose work investigates recurrent geometric forms. 9/7-10/15. 606-7500 or www.sunywcc.edu/arts

White Plains Public Library Foundation presents Jazz Studies - Photographic Exhibit. This photographic display documents the professional jazz scene in the late 70s to late 90s. 6/30-9/30. 422-1480 or www.whiteplainslibrary.org

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great exhibitions this fallThese arts organizations have exhibitions that will get anybody excited for the coming of the cooler season.

katonah museum of art - Mapping: Memory, and Motion in Contemporary ArtOctober 3, 2010 – January 9, 2011Maps have been drawn since prehistoric times. Today, with the advent of GPS and Google Maps, they have infiltrated daily life more than ever before. In an era of global culture, artists are increasingly exploring maps as both image and cipher. Mapping: Memory and Motion in Contem-porary Art features paintings, works on paper, sculptures, videos, a sound instal-lation, and a live web terminal to address such themes as borders and boundaries, identity and colonialism, journeys—both real and imagined, memory and nostalgia, and tourism and travel.

Encompassing the stars, the land, and the built environment, Mapping explores various strategies that artists use to track their subjects, distilling them into art objects and activities that choreograph location through time and space. Many of the artists incorporate actual maps into their imagery while others emphasize the act of mapping itself. Still others explore new technologies like satellite imaging, the Internet, and specialized computer software. For more information, call 914-232-9555 or visit www.ka-tonahmuseum.org.

hudson valley center for contemporary art - After the Fallseptember 19th, 2010 through July 2011After The Fall showcases emerging contemporary art from East and Central Eu-rope, by artists who were educated at the transitional period between commu-nism and democracy. Some of the most impressive new art today, especially in painting and video, is coming from Eastern and Central Europe’s former commu-nist countries. After the Fall attempts to understand how this art differs from art in the West and, more importantly, why artists from this region are making such compelling work at this moment.

The eighteen young artists in the exhibition were born under Communist rule, but their art schooling occurred following Communism. They live in a society that has struggled to redefine itself. What informs these artists’ works is a deep re-spect for their heritage. Many are reflective of life lost or in transition; buildings in semi-ruin, beautiful land being misused. The palette, the memory, the sense

of tone, is not anything you see in America or Western Europe. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 914-788-0100 or visit www.hvcca.org.

neuberger museum of art -American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold’s Paintings of the 1960sseptember 11 - december 19, 2010 Today, Faith Ringgold is well known as the progenitor of the African American story quilt revival that began in the late 1970s. The once influential paintings she created during the previous de-cade, with only a few notable excep-tions, disappeared from view, omitted from critical, art historical discourse for more than forty years. On the occasion of Ringgold’s 80th birthday, the Neuberger Museum of Art has organized the first comprehensive survey of these paintings. The exhibi-tion will include the landmark series American People (1963-1967) and Black Light (1967-1971), along with related murals and political posters. Taken to-gether, these works represent an un-precedented artistic exploration of the intersections of race, gender and class, made in direct response to the social upheavals of the 1960s. For more infor-mation, call 914-251-6100 or visit www.neuberger.org.

hudson river museum - Paintbox Leavesseptember 25, 2010 – January 16, 2011The fall landscape and paintings of its trees in full glory is often regarded as uniquely American. On September 25, the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, opens Paintbox Leaves: Autumnal Inspiration from Cole to Wyeth, which includes 100 paintings from major museums and private collections and it examines the narrative of the American artist’s fascination with autumn.

Paintbox Leaves displays 19th-century art, including that of Cole and Jasper Cropsey, who is called “America’s painter of autumn,” alongside that of later American Impressionists and contemporary artists, who reinvigorated land-scape painting. Their artwork lends itself to four themes: “the Harvest and the Hunt,” symbol of the fruitful domestication of the American landscape; “the Visitor In the Landscape,” reflecting man’s evolving relationship with nature

and tourism; “the Leaf and the Magic of Color” tracing artis-tic and scientific inquiry into the phenomena of autumn; and “Autumn Abstraction,” reflect-ing artistic influence on the depiction of natural forms. For more information, call 914-963-4550 or visit www.hrm.org.

Eric Finzi, Blowing Bubbles, 2007.Courtesy of the artist and Billy Shire Fine Arts, Los Angeles, California

Thomas Hart Benton, Autumn, 1940. Whitney Museum of American Art

Marius Bercea, After the Rain, 2009Private Collection NYC, NY

Faith Ringgold, American People Series #1: Between Friends, 1963.Private Collection


take a class: spotlightspelham Art Center Celebrates 40th Anniversary By Georgette Gouveia By Ruth Tanenhaus

Those deflated by the recent reces-sion should take heart in the story of the Pelham Art Center, celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.

It was the late 1970s, and yet anoth-er recession had led to the closing of gas stations like one that stood on Fifth Avenue in Pelham. That’s when a group of savvy arts-loving community leaders decided to make lemonade out of lemons. In 1982, the group bought the gas station for $1, with plans to outfit it for a fledgling arts center that had begun in 1970 as the two-day Pelham Art Happening. Over the course of the next three years, the group would raise $250,000 to give the Pelham Art Center a proper home.

Today, in other troubled times, the Center is not only surviv-ing but thriving, serving not only about 1,200 paying students ranging from age 5 to 95 in some 100 visual arts, writing and theater programs, but also scores of exhibit-goers as well as disadvantaged youngsters with the Center’s outreach offer-ings. And they do it all with a staff of four and a budget of $460,000 a year. (Having a host of volunteers and pro-vocative artists to draw on helps.)

For many, the thought-provoking shows are the Center’s calling card. One thinks of an exhibit from the last

decade, on fairy tales reinterpreted by contemporary women artists who drew on themes of feminism, gender and sexuality. Says director Lisa Robb: “We have a long-standing tra-dition of doing group shows around not only certain media but certain genres and themes.”

This past spring the Center celebrat-ed its 40th birthday with an exhibit about birthdays and a survey show on the more than 400 exhibitions the

Center has mounted. Next spring it ends the festivities with the biannual Alexander Rutsch Award and Ex-hibit. Named for one of the center’s found-ers, it’s a solo show with a $5,000 prize.

In between, there’s lots going on. The

Center has opened a digital media lab, converting an old darkroom into a nine-computer station space.

In the meantime, students of all ages can select from courses in the visual arts and writing, with drama also being offered to the young. And the Center’s reach extends beyond Pelham to serve those in need with after-school programs or senior citi-zen tours. Classes for children and adults beginning in September.

Robb will step aside after 12 years as Director of the Pelham Art Cen-ter. She sees the coming 40 years as equally bright as the first 40, with plans for, a refurbished courtyard, greater outreach to youths ages 12-25, and classes in additional art forms like printmaking.

Lemonade indeed.

For more, call 914-738-2525 or visit www.pelhamartcenter.org.

hudson Valley Writers’ Center brims with renewed energy

If you’ve often told yourself “one day I’ll write a book,” but you’ve been put-ting it off, a nurturing environment awaits you at the Hudson Valley Writ-ers’ Center (HVWC).

Housed in the restored and historic Philipse Manor railroad station in Sleepy Hollow, the Center’s mission is to enhance appreciation of the literary arts. In addi-tion to encouraging writ-ers on all levels, it hosts public readings by new and established writers of prose and poetry. A popular Open Mike Series, for example, attracts an age-diverse audience of 20-somethings to octoge-narians.

According to Frank Juliano, the HVWC’s new Executive Director, the expanded scope and diversity of this fall’s offerings are particularly entic-ing. From September to December, the Writers’ Center will offer 41 work-shops and classes.

Scheduled classes include Beyond Trauma and Drama: Transforming Your Life Through The Power of Writ-ing, which is designed to encourage students to grapple with issues of extraordinary difficulty…as a way to employ the arts as a tool to improve everyday life. Also introduced this fall is a course for serious visual artists

who are challenged by the written word. Artist and writer Frank Boyer will assist artists in finding their own voices, and helping them in crafting art-ist statements in Writing As An Artist.

Practical courses for fic-tion writers include Who Are These People? How to Write Great Characters; “Writing Great Dialogue;” and Raising the Stakes: Writing Tension into Your Story. For assistance in focus and continuity: The Writing Habit: How to

Keep Going and Avoid the Block.

Collaboration is an important part of the HVWC’s outreach efforts. A great example of this maxim is a new col-laboration between the Writers’ Cen-ter and the Friends of the Rockefeller State Preserve entitled Writing at the Rockefeller, which will investigate nature and writing and the fusion of both. The thousand-acre preserve will host a Nature Poetry Workshop for adults and Reporting Nature’s News for children.

The Hudson Valley Writers’ Cen-ter is located at 300 Riverside Drive in Sleepy Hollow. For a com-plete course schedule and more in-formation, call (914) 332-5953 or visit www.writerscenter.org

Frank Juliano, Executive Director

The Hudson Valley Writers' Center is housed in the restored and historic Philipse Manor railroad station in Sleepy Hollow. Pelham Art Center

Lisa Robb, Executive Director


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photo oppsmusic in the airOn Wednesday, July 28, municipal officials, arts organization leaders, and chamber of commerce representatives gathered at the Arts Exchange in downtown White Plains to announce Music in the Air, an initiative to let residents know about the more than 250 free and affordable concerts hap-pening in Westchester in the summer months. The initiative was supported by Westchester County Government and the Westchester County Board of Legislators. Swiss Re was the corporate sponsor of the initiative.

County Executive Rob Astorino announces the Music in the Air initiative at The Arts Exchange.

Chairman Ken Jenkins discusses the economic impact of Music in the Air, which was sponsored by the Westchester County Board of Legislators.

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Dozens of municipal officials, arts organization leaders, musicians and chamber of commerce representatives gathered at the Arts Exchange in downtown White Plains to announce Music in the Air.


Steve Ferguson, Assistant Airport Manager, Westchester County Airport; Ann Fabrizio, Director of Development, ArtsWestchester; and Mike Parletta, Airport Environmental Manager, Westchester County Airport.

eyes on the city: Youth photo program For the tenth consecutive year, ArtsWestchester teamed up with the White Plains Youth Bureau to offer High School students in the White Plains area the opportunity to study with a professional photo journalist over the summer months. This project received a grant from Key Bank. Through the program, the students were given a solid introduction to photography by Richard Falco, a pro-fessional photographer. With this knowledge, the twelve students then created “Eyes on the City,” an online photo essay of life in White Plains. Their subjects included city neighborhoods, the professions of residents, and White Plains’ cultural diversity. View their photographs on www.artswestchester.org.

Participating students included Nikki Brown, Mark Conigliaro, Thomas DeMarzo, Robert Gold, Edward Gonzalez, Margaret Indelicato, Julia Lang Gordon, Michael Lovitch, Brianna Martinez, Esra Tanrikorur, Jaclyn Wing and Donnice Wortham.

At the public opening of “Eyes on the City,” held at The Arts Exchange on August 11th, student photographers gathered with White Plains Mayor Adam Bradley, as well as representatives of ArtsWestchester, the White Plains Youth Bureau, and Key Bank.

As the sponsor of “Eyes on the City,” Key Bank representatives attended the August 11th opening of the exhibition to offer their congratulations to the students.

They included (clockwise, from bottom left) Fran Reinstein, VP/Director, Community Relations Key Bank, Hudson Valley District; June Herow Relationship Manager of the East Post Road Key Center in White Plains; John Damiano, Branch Manager of the Bank Street Key Center in White Plains; Dawn Bauer, Branch Manager of the North White Plains Key Center in North White Plains; and Anna Bruno, Area Retail Leader for Westchester County (bottom right).

Some of the young photographers show their work to family and friends in digital presentations.

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