2017 Artists of the Month
December 2017:6 PM – Reception for Artist of the Month Collette Fournier
Fournier has worked as a staff photographer for The Rockland Journal-News, The Bergen Record, about...time magazine, and freelanced for The New York Post and has worked in the television industry. Earlier in her career Fournier was selected by the Rochester City School District and the University of Rochester to photograph three educational tours to West Africa. Fournier is an active member of NYC-based Kamoinge Inc., an African American photography collective. Through Atria Books/Simon & Schuster, Kamoinge published Sweet Breath of Life, A Poetic Narrative of the African American Familywith writer Ntozake Shange. Through Kamoinge and The Soros Institute/ Open Society grant, Ms. Fournier’s photos were on view in “Kamoinge: Revealing the Face of Katrina” in NYC at HP at Calumet Gallery and at the College of New Rochelle, Gordon Parks Gallery. Fournier is an active member of the University Photographer’s Association of America (UPAA). She was honored by the American Association of University Women (AAUW) for her photography. Fournier received a Community Service Award from the Rockland County Legislature for the Arts, NAACP, Martin Luther King, Jr. Center and received the 2008 Artist of Award by the County Executive Arts Awards of the Arts Council in Rockland County. Fournier has been Artist-in- Residence at the CEJJES Institute in Pomona, NY, and her photographic achievements were recently recognized in Nyack’s News and Views. 7-8 PM – GALLERY TALK: "Retrospective: Spirit of a People"
Produced through an Arts Council grant, Kamoinge photographer Collette V. Fournier’s “Retrospective: Spirit of a People” is a historic embodiment of four decades of her photography archives. The presentation takes the viewer from black and white to color imagery and from film to digital capture. Fournier’s serial works explore themes of The Amistad: From Mystic Seaport to Nova Scotia, Post Hurricane Katrina, Travels to West Africa, and her community. |
September 2017Artist of the Month Ellen Hopkins Fountain
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GALLERY "TALK": Bach to Rock's "Teacher Creature"
Bach to Rock's music teachers are "Teacher Creature" and they play classic rock and contemporary favorites. Bach to Rock provides music lessons for students of all ages and skill levels living in Nanuet, New City, Pearl River, Suffern & West Nyack.
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August 2017Artist of the Month Suzanne Clothier
Suzanne H Clothier was born in 1920 and has been painting since she was 15 years old. She graduated from Yale University with a BFA. She has shown and sold her work in galleries, museums, and institutions with a personal following in the hills and fields of Sussex and Warren counties in New Jersey. Now living in New City, NY she is still painting at 97 years old.
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GALLERY TALK: POETRY READING
Nick Norwood is a professor of creative writing at Columbus State University and the director of the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians in Columbus, Georgia, and Nyack, New York. His poems have appeared widely in such journals, online sites, and national broadcasts as The Paris Review, Shenandoah, Oxford American, Poetry Daily, PBS NewsHour’s Art Beat, U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry, NPR’s Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor, and many others. He is the winner of a Pushcart Prize, the Hollis Summers Prize in Poetry, an International Merit Award from Atlanta Review, and both a Tennessee Williams Scholarship and Walter E. Dakin Fellowship to attend the Sewanee Writers Conference. His third and most recent full volume, Gravel and Hawk, was published by Ohio University Press in 2012. He has collaborated with artist and master printmaker Erika Adams on two books featuring his poetry--Wrestle (2007) and Text (2016), with photographer Chuck Hemard on the book The Pines: Southern Forests due out later this year, and with sculptor Mike McFalls on the permanent art installation “powerhouse,” which features Nick’s poem of the same name and is mounted in corten steel on the RiverWalk in Columbus, Georgia. In March 2016 his article on “Tone and the International Style” in the work of the Northern Irish poet and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney appeared in the international Irish studies journal Estudios Irlandeses, published at the University of Barcelona. Nick has been the sole poet representing the United States at the Euroscience Open Forum’s session “Science Meets Poetry” on four separate occasions—in Munich (2006), Turin (2010), Copenhagen (2014), and Manchester (2016). An award-winning teacher, Nick served as the co-director of the EC-Ireland study abroad program from 2013-2015, as site director of CSU’s Spencer House in Oxford, England, in spring of 2008, at which time he was also a visiting fellow of Greyfriars Hall, and he has taught in study abroad and study away programs in Oxford, Swäbisch Gmünd, Germany, and New York City. As director of the Carson McCullers Center, he has made frequent appearances to speak on McCullers’s life and work in the United States and abroad—including at the University of Sofia (Bulgaria) in April 2017—and will do so again at the international Carson McCullers scholars conference at John Cabot University in Rome in July 2017. |
July 2017:Artist of the Month Laura Gurton
GALLERY TALK
Illustrator Dan Springer will talk about the meaning of caricature and then will draw caricatures of Lincoln and Washington, inviting questions and reactions to his work. Dan Springer graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design. He has illustrated for The New York Times, The Village Voice, and Avenue magazine. He has worked as a caricature artist since 1991, including work at Six Flags-Great Adventure and has been living on commissioned caricature paintings and freelance illustration projects since 1999. |
June 2017: John F. Simon, Jr.GALLERY TALK
Drawing Your Own Path is an account of how visual artist John F. Simon, Jr.’s daily drawing discipline became a meditation practice, and how that meditation illuminated his creative source. A practical guidebook full of Simon's own art, Drawing Your Own Path offers meditation practitioners an alternative path to ‘just sitting’ and offers artists a way to mindfully examine and deepen the source of their creative ideas. John F. Simon, Jr. is one of the pioneers in the development of Software Art. His seminal work "Every Icon" was included in the 2000 Whitney Biennial. In October 2005 the Whitney Museum of American Art and Printed Matter published Simon’s artist’s book and software CD, Mobility Agents, and in 2011, Simon collaborated with Icelandic singer Björk to write an app for her album, Biophilia, the first app album ever created. Simon’s artworks can be found in the permanent collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Collezione Maramotti, The Brooklyn Museum, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. Simon currently lives and works in Sugar Loaf, NY. Reception for SCULPTURE IN THE GARDEN
Curated by Eric David Laxman, we are pleased to feature a new sculpture installation in our Garden for summer 2017 with works by Lannie Hart, Stephen Keltner, Sarah Haviland and Peter Strasser. |
May 2017: June Gumbel |
April 2017: Doris Shepherd Wiese |
March 2017: Judith Brice |
February 2017: Ed Kirkland |
January 2017: Michele Paradiso |