CALLS FOR

TWO-DIMENSIONAL ART - May 17 deadline for submissions to the Harrison Council for the Arts Annual Juried Art Program.  See details.

FOLK   ARTISTS and artists working with folk-related themes, motifs and narratives - May 31 deadline to submit images for a new "Visions" exhibition at the Blue Door Gallery, 5 Hudson Street, Yonkers, NY 10701, to show 7/13 - 8/24.  Email images to yonkersbluedoor@gmail.com or mail CD with JPEG images to Gallery, Attn: BDG#38.  Actual work no larger than 60", no heavier than 75 lbs.  Up to six entries per artist.  NO ENTRY FEE.  Accepted works - installation fee $15/work.  35% Gallery commission all sales.

ALTERED BOOKS - If you have created any of these mixed media artworks made by changing the appearance and/or meaning of a book, and would like to show your piece in the small Gallery of the Croton Library, please contact Sharon Kullberg at slkullberg@optonline.net or call 271-5640.

LOCAL ARTISTS - Most media.  If interested in exhibiting in an upcoming show at Teatown Lake Reservation's Nature Center Gallery, send at least 3 lo-res small images and short bio to Yvonne Beldotti (ybeldotti@teatown.org) or contact her at (914) 762-2912 ext. 120 for more info.

Sunday
May 19, 6 pm

At the Black Cow, 4 Old Post Road South, Croton-on-Hudson in the heart of the Upper Village ((hours and directions):

CCoA   founding member Cornelia Cotton reads from Stepping Stones, her collection of stories.



To download a copy of the flyer in pdf format to print, click here.

Reception
May 9 at 6 pm

Show
May 2 -31

At the Brecht Forum, 451 West Street, New York:

Guardians of the Mosque: African Palestines of Jerusalem,

an intimate black and white photo-documentary by Crotonite Andrew Courtney of the little known African Palestinian whose lives and history are centered in the old city, Jerusalem.

The opening on May 9 at 6 pm will feature an artist talk, music and light refreshments.

A book is forthcoming.

May

At the Black Cow, 4 Old Post Road South, Croton-on-Hudson (the heart of the Upper Village)(hours and directions):

At the Edge: Altered Vision - Croton Point

Brilliantly evocative mobile phone photgraphs taken by Betsy Braun Lane through found filters of broken glass, evoking both the beauty of nature and concern for human environmental damage and pollution.

Croton Point Park, jutting into the Hudson River, was once largely tidal marsh, in use by inhabitants for at least 7,000 years, home in the 19th Century to brick-making and agricultural pursuits from watermelons to wine and for much of the 20th Century to a vast landfill/dump, now capped.  Out of its recovered natural beauty and echoes of trash, Lane weaves images of shimmering color.

May 31 - June 14
Reception June 6 3-5

From May 31 - June 14, a selection of works from

the 9th Annual
MATTERS OF THE HEART

Paintings, drawings, and sculpture by Westchester artists over 55,

including Stephen Jacoby (a digital drawing, shown)

will be at Fordham University's Westchester Campus at 400 Westchester Avenue in West Harrison (directions).  The opening reception is on Thursday, June 6 from 3-5 pm.

thru June

At the In the Ottinger Room of the Croton Free Library , 171 Cleveland Drive, Croton-on-Hudson, NY: Now through the end of June, you can take a hike through the year's seasons via the nature photographs of Bobby Uricchio in the Ottinger room at the Croton Free Library - "see colors you have never seen without the aid of stimulants!"

thru September

At the Greenburgh Public Library, 300 Tarrytown Rd Elmsford:

The Alternet

curated by Carla Rae Johnson

about 80 artists contributed 15,000 works of art to fill a fifty-drawer library card catalog.  Many of the artists created 300 works apiece - drawings, photos, collages, or writings - on three-inch by five-inch cards.

The montage to the left is a tiny sampling of works.  It includes work by such contributors as Stephen Jacoby (top middle) and former long-time Crotonite Sheila Rechtschaffer (bottom left)

Browse through the "Altenet" card-catalog and make amazing discoveries in every drawer.  "It's like Facebook for your fingers!"  And of course it has its own Facebook page - www.facebook.com/thealternet.

The Alternet is going to continue on the Road.  The further schedule so far is

2013: October - November in Chappaqua; December - January 2014 in Peekskill

2014: Mid-March - May in Ithaca; June - July in Rochester; August - September in Ashville, NC; October - November in City College, NYC

For more information check out The Alternet Facebook page.

Now

At the Munciipal Building in Croton: The Masses: The Croton Connection

A multi-media presentation inaugurating the History Museum's first screening of visual images on a new large screen monitor installed on the first floor of the Municipal Building. The show includes the history of THE MASSES, biographies of Max Eastman the nine other Crotonites who contributed to the magazine, representative samples of political cartoons and illustrations; and every cover of the magazine from its inception in 1911 through its final issue in December 1917.  Original sketches and cartoons from Robert Minor and his wife Lydia Gibson, very rare copies of the magazine, portrait photographs, first edition books written by the principals, and a number of published biographies are part of the exhibit.

THE MASSES inspired deep convictions - none of its contributors were ever paid.  Luminaries such as Carl Sandburg, Amy Lowell, George Bernard Shaw, Upton Sinclair, Dorothy Day, Pablo Picasso, John French Sloan, George Bellows, Eugene Debs, Sherwood Anderson, Louis Untermeyer and others helped make this periodical prestigious and influential.  THE MASSES impact as a socialist magazine saw the realization of some of its strongest causes - women's suffrage, worker's rights and benefits, availability of birth control information which are almost universally accepted while others like economic injustice, opposition to war and the use of free speech are still debated today.  The exhibition and its multimedia component will be available on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 9:00 am till 5:00 pm.  For questions, contact THE CROTON ON HUDSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY AT 914-271-4574 OR HISTSOC1@OPTONLINE.NET.

Have something to put on the calendar?

Numerous members of the Croton Council on the Arts participate in group exhibits or present individual shows throughout the year.  There are also other exhibitions of interest in the Croton-Cortlandt region.

If you would like CCoA to consider including on the page a notice of your upcoming exhibition, individual or group show, please send us information, including location, dates aand hours, your e-mail or mailing address, and whether you are a CCoA member.  If you are a performer, please tell us about your appearances, including the where and when.  If you are a writer or director, please tell us when your works are due to come out.  E-mail us.