If attending a farm tour, a volunteer cleanup or a free little library ribbon cutting are not in your weekend plans, nor is attending a Colonial Era Food Preservation or Hispanic Heritage/Latin X Soccer Showcase and neither is attending the The Bear Mountain Bridge, Then and Now, 100 years old presentation or a tour of the Bear Mountain Toll House, then maybe attending the Hudson Valley MOCA Art Educator Panel and opening receptions for two new exhibits are or attending KinoSaito for a Not a Sonata #5 concert is.
Hudson Valley MOCA reopening for the season with 2 new art exhibits
The Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Arts (Hudson Valley MOCA) officially reopens its doors this Saturday, September 21, 2024 with not one but two new exhibitions: Crit Ecologies: Artists, Community, Criticality and Psychological Portraiture. Both exhibitions will have opening receptions from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Hudson Valley Museum located at 1701 Main Street in Peekskill, N.Y. Prior to the receptions, there will be a Crit Ecologies: Art Educator Panel from 1 to 3 p.m.
At the Art Educator Panel, Livia Straus: Co-Founder, President HVMOCA will moderate a discussion between art educators Jeanne Silverthorne, Patricia Miranda, and Carla Rae Johnson as they address the benefits and the need for artists to create communities for ongoing critique and growth.
Photo courtesy: Hudson Valley MOCA
Artists for the exhibition Crit Ecologies have been participants in The Crit Lab, a graduate-level critique seminar program for working artists after and outside academia. The Lab is an alternate critical community for artists to come together in ongoing, sustained, contact, with empathetic listening, radical optimism, and rigorous dialogue, in an act of hope over destruction. The structured pedagogy was developed by Patricia Miranda to focus and deepen discussion beyond common subjective reactions, and to support ethical structures in which artists’ practices can thrive. The Crit Lab structure was designed in response to the opinionated and personal nature of much critique, often clouded by the power dynamics of gender, class, race, etc.
Curated in a competitive juried process from Crit Lab participants from Fall 2023-Spring 2024, selected artists have the benefit of exposure through an exhibition at Hudson Valley MOCA, an institution which is known for identifying extraordinary talent early in an artist’s career. For more information on the artists in the exhibition, click here.
The Crit Ecologies: Artists, Community, Criticality exhibition, on display from September 21 – December 7, 2024, was curated by Patricia Miranda & Livia Straus.
Photo courtesy: Hudson Valley MOCA
The Psychological Portraiture art exhibition will be on display from September 21, 2024 – June 30, 2025. The exhibit will examine how artists use photography and painting to capture the persona of an individual, whether in reactions of the moment, introspective explorations triggered by posed questions, or in response to near events.
If you can not make the opening receptions, no need to stress. Hudson Valley MOCA is open every Thursday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. In-depth tours are available by appointment by contacting: [email protected]. Admission is $20 for Museum Members, $30 for Non-Members, and $25 for Peekskill Residents (with proof of residency), Veterans and Active-Duty Military and Seniors. Students are $20 and Children under 8: Free with adults. For more information, visit Hudson Valley MoCA’s website.
KinoSaito presents Not a Sonata #5 concert
On Sunday, September 22, 2024, from 3 to 4 p.m., Pianist Bruce Odland and cellist Lin Esser return to KinoSaito as part of their continuing Not a Sonata #5 performance series, with collaborator Rinde Eckert.
Enjoying a long standing collaboration since 1977, artists and multi-instrumentalists Lin Esser and Bruce Odland share an impressive collection of creative experiences. At present they continue to work together on numerous projects; in film, theater, recording, and here again in a live musical performance. Bruce and Lin unveil their latest endeavor as a series of piano and cello recitals the duo call Not a Sonata. Created as real-time spontaneous compositions, the Not a Sonata draws upon Bruce and Lin’s own individual wealth of creative ideas as well as an enduring musical fellowship.
On Sunday, September, 22 the duo will also be joined by Rinde Eckert. Rinde Eckert is a composer, singer, actor and instrumentalist. His career has spanned many different genres from classical music (he has appeared as principal soloist with the New York Philharmonic, and BBC Philharmonic) to performance art, jazz, folk, progressive rock, and theater (his play Orpheus X was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize). He is a Guggenheim fellow in composition, and a recipient of the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award (2012).
KinoSaito is located at 115 7th St, Verplanck, NY. Tickets for this event are $10 and RSVP is required using this link. For more information and to see other events and exhibitions at KinoSaito, visit their website and Facebook page.
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