RiverArts

Drink & Draw
2023-12-07 19:30 - 21:30, 2023-12-20 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-01-04 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-01-17 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-02-08 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-02-21 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-03-07 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-04-04 19:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York) and 11 more dates | Hastings Public Library, Orr Room, Lower Level, 7 Maple Avenue, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, 10706, United States
Drink & Draw

Hastings Public LibraryOrr Room, Lower level 7 Maple AvenueHastings-on-Hudson
Admission: $20 Register in advance. We are requiring folks pre-register and pay IN ADVANCE ONLY. Class limited to 30 people so book in advance. If you register and can’t make it, please email jriesman@riverarts.org
Time: 7:30-9:30pm

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Drink & Draw is a modern twist on the classic artistic practice of life drawing. Artists of all experience levels and backgrounds are welcome, especially those that have always wanted to try their hand.
In this non-instructional event, we aim to create a relaxing, social and inclusive environment for the community to come together for a fun night of drawing. After some mingling with fellow guests, participants will have an opportunity to capture the human body in poses of different lengths, with breaks for refreshments in between.
There’s wine, crackers, cheese and cookies to enjoy, and our host curates a playlist to keep your energy flowing. The evening lasts about 2 hours, and participants leave with a collection of their new works… and maybe some new friends too.
RiverArts is proud to be able to provide this unique opportunity right here in our Rivertowns, an opportunity which is often only accessible to art students or by traveling into New York City, with a significant investment of time and tuition. Drink & Draw offers a perfect entry-level for the amateur artist, and we have seen beginners improve significantly as their skills develop in subsequent sessions and they draw on their experience and learn from others.
Model provided. Please bring your own art supplies and arrive on time. Must be over 18 to attend. Wine for those 21+
FOR MORE INFORMATION EMAIL: jriesman@riverarts.org
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Memory Palaces: Imagination & Reckoning in Mosaic | Artist Conversation with Haifa Bint-Kadi
2024-02-25 14:00 - 15:30 | Urban Studio Unbound, 66 Main Street, Yonkers, NY, 10701, United States
Memory Palaces: Imagination & Reckoning in Mosaic | An Artist Conversation with Haifa Bint-Kadi

Sunday, February 25, 20242:00 PM – 3:30 PMUrban Studio Unbound66 Main St., Yonkers, NY
$15 in advance, $20 at the door

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Join us for a conversation with artist Haifa Bint-Kadi as she unveils her new collection, Memory Palaces, led by Marie-Louise Miller.
This collection features 3-dimensional structures with mosaic elements representing the essence of home stemming from her deep connection to her own heritage to the Arab culture. Each palace is paired with an audio recording specific to the memories contained by the palace.
Memory Palaces is inspired by Bint-Kadi’s childhood as a first generation Palestinian-Afro-Caribbean American and a daughter of refugees. Bint-Kadi’s work explores the feelings of nostalgia, grief, and yearning often felt by refugees and immigrants as they relocate in search of new homes. Each piece represents an evolution of memories drawn from the past into the present through the Bint-Kadi’s mosaic practice. This collection is made possible by a grant received from NYSCA.
About the ArtistHaifa Bint-Kadi a first Generation Palestinian-Afro-Caribbean American, a daughter of refugees, a mother, and a grandmother. Haifa was trained in Italy as a classical mosaicist, but even in her early work, she was always drawn to the idea of public art as an index or marker of lived experience. She holds a B.A. and M.F.A. from Istituto d’Arte per il Mosaico in Ravenna, Italy, and has been creating public art mosaics since 1993. She serves as a full-time curator for the City of Yonkers library system, a certified teaching artist, and an adjunct professor at Suny Purchase, focusing on Arts for Social Justice. Haifa has created over 24 public art mosaics and steel sculptures across the state. Haifa’s studio practice revolves around family archives, translating them into paintings and mixed media-maps exploring her Afro-Caribbean and Arab roots. Recognized with numerous awards, grants, and accolades, including the Kennedy Center’s Steam Educator Award, Haifa believes art fosters healing, builds self-esteem and identity, and inspires wonder and exploration.
About the Artist Conversation Series:   RiverArts creates opportunities to amplify the artistic voice, bringing insight and delight to our community. We are proud to spotlight leading voices in art, music, poetry, dance, and theater. Under the direction of Marie Louise-Miller, our Artist Conversation series offers a chance to get up close and personal with artists. The Artist Conversation Series aims to shed light on the intricacies of creativity across all its artistic mediums from the fine artist to the performance artist.

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Salon Sunday | Tarrytown
2024-04-07 12:00 - 16:00 | Throughout the Rivertowns, Throughout Rivertowns
Salon Sunday
James Fuentes, Gallerist; Producer, Salon Sundays

Tarrytown Open Studios

Salon Sundays invite visitors to tour local artists’ studios! Salon Sundays offers an exciting opportunity to gain insights into the creative process, learn about techniques in a variety of media and interact with artists here in the Rivertowns community.  In most cases, participating artists will be exhibiting works for sale so please consider supporting our community of artists through your patronage.
Salon Sundays are inspired by the French salons founded in the 18th century as a means for new and emerging artists to gather and show their works in large numbers. Artists filled the walls, floor to ceiling, exhibiting anything and everything for the public and each other. Salons drew intellectuals, writers, poets, sculptors, painters, printmakers, supporters, and those interested in engaging with the creative community.
Find the map HERE.
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Salon Sunday | Tarrytown Copy
2024-04-07 12:00 - 16:00 | Throughout the Rivertowns, Throughout Rivertowns

We the Spirits | A conversation with photographer Jason Gardner
2024-04-14 17:00 - 18:30 | Ted and Nune Studio, 45 Main Street, Store B, Hastings-On-Hudson, 10706
We the Spirits | A conversation with photographer Jason Gardner

Sunday, April 14, 20245:00 PM – 6:30 PMTed and Nune Studio45 Main St., Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
$15 in advance, $20 at the door

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Join us for a conversation with American photographer Jason Gardner as he shares details from his new book and collection, We the Spirits, exploring his 15-year journey through 15 countries as he visually documented the ritual and festival of Carnival.
We the Spirits focused on documenting tradition, folklore, and community within the celebrations. Collaborating with ethnographers and local experts, Gardner chose subjects in smaller villages and remote towns to most accurately present the complexities of these local customs. We the Spirits have been featured in Photolucida’s Top 50 portfolio, GEO Magazine France, and The Guardian (UK).
About the Artist
Jason Gardner is an American photographer, based in Paris and New York. He tells stories, using photography and writing, within the framework of Visual Anthropology. He is passionate about culture, ritual, and music and how they impact human expression.
In 2013, Jason published A Flower in the Mouth, a photobook about the culture, music and rituals of Carnaval in Pernambuco, Brazil (Visual Anthropology Press, USA). Now he continues with We the Spirits (GOST Books, UK, 2024). Jason’s work has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, GEO France, This is Colossal, L’Oeil de la Photographie, Sunday Times Magazine (UK), Rolling Stone, Le Parisien, New York Magazine, FotoMagazin (Germany), NPR.org, and SPIN Magazine.
About the Artist Conversation Series:   RiverArts creates opportunities to amplify the artistic voice, bringing insight and delight to our community. We are proud to spotlight leading voices in art, music, poetry, dance, and theater. Under the direction of Marie Louise-Miller, our Artist Conversation series offers a chance to get up close and personal with artists. The Artist Conversation Series aims to shed light on the intricacies of creativity across all its artistic mediums from the fine artist to the performance artist.

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Salon Sunday | Hastings-on-Hudson & Dobbs Ferry
2024-05-19 12:00 - 16:00 | Throughout the Rivertowns, Throughout Rivertowns
Salon Sunday
James Fuentes, Gallerist; Producer, Salon Sundays

Hastings-on-Hudson & Dobbs Ferry Open Studios

Salon Sundays invite visitors to tour local artists’ studios! Salon Sundays offers an exciting opportunity to gain insights into the creative process, learn about techniques in a variety of media and interact with artists here in the Rivertowns community.  In most cases, participating artists will be exhibiting works for sale so please consider supporting our community of artists through your patronage.
Salon Sundays are inspired by the French salons founded in the 18th century as a means for new and emerging artists to gather and show their works in large numbers. Artists filled the walls, floor to ceiling, exhibiting anything and everything for the public and each other. Salons drew intellectuals, writers, poets, sculptors, painters, printmakers, supporters, and those interested in engaging with the creative community.
Find the map HERE.
#SalonSunday

Drink & Draw Copy
2024-05-29 19:30 - 21:30 | Hastings Public Library, Orr Room, Lower Level, 7 Maple Avenue, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, 10706, United States

Flow Lines: Variations on Stillness at Sunset | Artist Conversations Series
2024-06-22 20:00 - 21:30 | Quonset Hut, 145 Palisade Street, Dobbs Ferry, NY, 10522
Flow Lines: Variations on Stillness at Sunset | Artist Conversations Series

Saturday, June 22, 20248:00 PM – 9:30 PMQuonset Hut145 Palisade Street, Dobbs Ferry, NY(over the bridge, across the tracks)
$15 in advance, $20 at the door

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Join us for our Artist Conversations Series presentation of Flow Lines: Variations on Stillness at Sunset.
Flow Lines is an interdisciplinary collaboration blending art, visual effects, and sound, featuring contributions from Jon Hatch, Bruce Robbins, and Malcolm Macdougall. Inspired by the multidirectional flow of rivers and estuaries, Flow Lines represents an interconnection of multiple creative disciplines.
This immersive experience synthesizes responses to various original source materials, with each response building upon the last. Flow Lines invites the audience to explore these variations as a community, while reflecting on their own individual responses. A talk-back with the artists will follow the performance.
The Variations:

Phase 1 – Gathering and viewing sculptures by Malcolm Macdougall, on display outside of the Quonset Hut.
Phase 2 – Inside the Quonset Hut, we convene with artists Bruce Robbins and Jon Hatch.
Phase 3 – The main presentation will begin at sunset in the Hut, featuring:

Original electronic music by Jon Hatch
Visual works by BC Robbins

Phase 4 – Exploration of darkness.
Phase 5 – Talkback after performance with artists.

About the Artists

Jon Hatch
Jon is a versatile composer and musician who navigates between the worlds of media composition and live performance. With a passion for crafting immersive sonic experiences, Jon specializes in composing music for film, television, and video games, infusing his pieces with a unique blend of analog synthesizers, experimental modular synths, tape loops, and traditional orchestral instruments. As a performing artist, Jon captures audiences with his diverse range of performances, from ethereal ambient soundscapes to daring and innovative sonic landscapes, all while maintaining a captivating sense of melody. www.jonhatchmusic.com
Bruce Robbins
BC Robbins is a multimedia artist who runs a studio in Dobbs Ferry, NY. His creations span various art forms, including painting, photography, performance, sculpture, and video, delving into themes such as the passing of time and introspection. Alongside a deep appreciation for both visual and performing arts, he has embraced puppetry as a means to intertwine his diverse passions. For over three decades, Mr. Robbins has also been an arts educator at The Masters School. In one of his favorite activities, he incorporates puppetry into an interdisciplinary project with fellow faculty members and students. The yearly puppet opera with the fifth-grade students enriches the learning experience through the arts. bcrobbins.com
Malcolm MacDougall
Malcolm endeavors for his sculptures to enter into a dialogue with the natural landscape. He concentrates on studying materials and their properties in relationship to the natural versus man-made environs. Referring to his sculptures as landscape “chapter objects,” they allude to other material experiences, as a chapter in a story may refer to others, helping to unite a holistic meaning between the natural and fabricated, real and abstract, concrete and metaphorical. These objects are conduits to broader thoughts and experiences. As a symbol of both the natural and man-made constructs around us, his sculptures create an awareness of industrial materials, with those which are invented blurred against those which are natural, imploring the viewer to appreciate the aesthetic qualities of all. Through fluid, albeit solid, forms, Malcolm’s landscape-driven works allow one to discover a personal concept or image in the work. malcolmmacdougall.com
About the Artist Conversation Series:   RiverArts creates opportunities to amplify the artistic voice, bringing insight and delight to our community. We are proud to spotlight leading voices in art, music, poetry, dance, and theater. Under the direction of Marie Louise-Miller, our Artist Conversation series offers a chance to get up close and personal with artists. The Artist Conversation Series aims to shed light on the intricacies of creativity across all its artistic mediums from the fine artist to the performance artist.

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RiverArts Studio Tour Preview Show - Hastings
2024-10-20 15:00 - 17:00 | Hastings Village Hall Gallery, 7 Maple Avenue, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, 10706, United States
Preview Show
Sunday, October 15 3-5pmHastings Village Hall Gallery7 Maple Avenue, Hastings-On-Hudson
The RiverArts Studio Tour will return this November for a weekend celebration of art throughout the Rivertowns on Saturday, November 2, 11am–5pm and Sunday, November 3, 11am–3pm
This multi-village adventure offers a veritable treasure hunt through industrial lofts, home studios, outdoor installations, storefronts, and galleries stretching from Hastings-on-Hudson to Tarrytown. The Studio Tour offers an opportunity to engage with local artists in an intimate setting, learn about their process and inspiration, and meet plenty of art lovers along the way. Participants can explore a wide range of mediums and unique works, and if you are lucky, you’ll bring home something to treasure for years to come.
In addition to the main Tour weekend, RiverArts will host two preview exhibitions of works by participating artists. On Sunday, October 20th from 3-5pm, a preview show featuring works by Hastings, Dobbs Ferry, and Ardsley artists on the Tour will be shown at Hastings Village Hall Gallery. On Sunday, October 27th from 3-5pm, a preview show featuring works by Tarrytown, Sleepy Hollow, and Irvington artists on the Tour will be shown at Shames JCC.

RiverArts Studio Tour Preview Show - Tarrytown
2024-10-27 15:00 - 17:00 | Shames JCC, 371 S. Broadway, Tarrytown, NY, 10591, United States
Preview Show
Sunday, October 27 3-5pmShames JCC371 S. Broadway, Tarrytown
The RiverArts Studio Tour will return this November for a weekend celebration of art throughout the Rivertowns on Saturday, November 2, 11am–5pm and Sunday, November 3, 11am–3pm
This multi-village adventure offers a veritable treasure hunt through industrial lofts, home studios, outdoor installations, storefronts, and galleries stretching from Hastings-on-Hudson to Tarrytown. The Studio Tour offers an opportunity to engage with local artists in an intimate setting, learn about their process and inspiration, and meet plenty of art lovers along the way. Participants can explore a wide range of mediums and unique works, and if you are lucky, you’ll bring home something to treasure for years to come.
In addition to the main Tour weekend, RiverArts will host two preview exhibitions of works by participating artists. On Sunday, October 20th from 3-5pm, a preview show featuring works by Hastings, Dobbs Ferry, and Ardsley artists on the Tour will be shown at Hastings Village Hall Gallery. On Sunday, October 27th from 3-5pm, a preview show featuring works by Tarrytown, Sleepy Hollow, and Irvington artists on the Tour will be shown at Shames JCC.

RiverArts Studio Tour
2024-11-02 11:00 - 17:00, 2024-11-03 11:00 - 15:00 | Throughout the Rivertowns, Throughout Rivertowns
The RiverArts Studio Tour offers an opportunity for art lovers to engage with local artists in their own studios. This two-day tour will be held on the first weekend of November.
Saturday, November 2, 11am–5pmSunday, November 3, 11am–3pm
This multi-village adventure offers a veritable treasure hunt through industrial lofts, home studios, outdoor installations, storefronts, and galleries stretching from Hastings-on-Hudson to Tarrytown. The Studio Tour offers an opportunity to engage with local artists in an intimate setting, learn about their process and inspiration, and meet plenty of art lovers along the way. Participants can explore a wide range of mediums and unique works, and if you are lucky, you’ll bring home something to treasure for years to come.
In addition to the main Tour weekend, RiverArts will host two preview exhibitions of works by participating artists.
