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On view in the Library's Museum Gallery from April third through May 27th, 2022. An opening reception volition exist held on Lord's day April 3rd, from ane:00 to 4:00 p.m. The reception and exhibit are free and open up to the public. Chapters will be limited to 25 persons at a time. Westchester-based artist Lori Kapner Hosp's paintings pay tribute to the beauty and richness of the home lands that newcomers to the The stateshave left behind. Each painting offers a glimpse of the people, traditions or civilisation of the country it represents. Lori'due south art honors the bravery, heart and exuberance of our
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The Library will host an exhibition of Artist Books by self-taught artist Marc Shanker. The show runs from Mon, December 6th, 2021 through Friday, February 4th, 2022. "My books are words extended by images, and images extended by words. The physicality of books focuses attention and adds to their significance. Whether large or modest, books exert a power dissimilar whatever other object," states Shanker. The exhibition includes over thirty prints and 11 Artist Books. Shanker'due south books include collage and mixed media adaptations of Aeschylus' The Orestian Trilogy, and Looking into the Middle of Doom, The Diary of a Greek Soldier
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Lenape Fine art Showcase: Jack Crying Raven Anderson September 10th through December 1st In commemoration of his Ramapough Lunaape Heritage, this memorial exhibit is a display of works by self-taught artist, Jack Crying Raven Anderson. On view in the Library's Museum Gallery through December 1st. You tin see Oleana Whispering Dove talk about the showroom here. His work has been shown in group and solo shows over the past 25 years in New York City and New Jersey areas. In 2015 ii of his works were selected for the permanent collection at Museo Maam in Rome, Italy. Jack said before his
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This new exhibit will be on display in the Library's newly renovated Museum Gallery on the second floor starting Tuesday, June 1st, through Fri, September 3rd. The gallery is accessible during normal Library hours. "Regeneration" looks at a future focused on climate justice. The exhibition includes drawing, collage, mixed media, photography, painting and poetry. Participating artists are Stephanie J. Alvarado, Isabella Bannerman, Diane Brawarsky, Carlos Mateu, Gina Randazzo and Ed Immature.   Artwork from left to right: Ed Immature, Fish, 2020, Multimedia on Masonite, v"x8"x3" Fish symbolizes "Sparingness" in which we celebrate the time of our gift of fellowship, harvest,
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Join student artists and their families for a reception celebrating the art of White Plains City Schoolhouse children, grades K-12, on the 2nd floor of the Library on Th, May 30th, from five:00-7:00 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. The showroom will be on display through June 6th. (Images below are from last year'south art show.)
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Bring together u.s. on Sabbatum, November 17 from 2:00-four:00 p.m. for the opening reception of Akimie Worrell'due south fine art showroom "No Longer Hidden: Beingness—without—Beingness Sick Cell." "No Longer Hidden: Beingness-without-Being Sickle Cell", is an showroom comprised of mixed media fine art portraying to the perils, small comforts, and life, ane faces when: navigating the world with the horrific pain of Sickle Cell Disease (SCD). Akimie Worrell grew upward in Barbados, and graduated with a Thou.Southward. from The College of New Rochelle. She was built-in with the inherited, debilitating claret disorder SCD. Worrell navigates life between worlds of style, art and affliction. She states
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Rick Rogers is a self-taught artist who "grew upwards visiting galleries and museums and soaking in the riches of the masters." His path was unusual every bit a park ranger for 10 years on the 4,300-acre Ward Pound Ridge Reservation (where he and his family lived for 34 years), but that would evolve into his co-founding Westchester's Art in the Parks programme and curating the reservation's gallery.  Rogers later on spent ten years at the Silvermine School of Fine art in New Canaan, Conn., doing maintenance and art installing. While on the job, he "had the good fortune to meet many keen artists
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It was three decades ago when artist Donna Faranda first used a computer to 'paint' in points, or pointillism, the motion created by 19th century French impressionist Georges Seurat. "I had painted 'traditionally,' with castor, watercolors, easel and smock, but I felt bars past my pocket-size apartment in Brooklyn," she says. "My husband, Jan Novick, is an Information technology professional, and he helped me see the potential of painting digitally at a time when home computers were primarily word processors." Technology and Faranda accept both come a long way. "I at present utilize Photoshop to create a montage from images that I accept either drawn, scanned or constitute on the spider web. From these images,
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The Harlem Fine Arts Bear witness will celebrate its 5th Annual Upshot, showcasing artists and authors on Tuesday, March 29 at the White Plains Library, 6 – 9 p.m. The upshot showcases African American artists and authors from the New York metropolitan area. This twelvemonth'due south special recognition honorees will include the acclaimed R&B and pop singing group Atlantic Starr and youth phenom Julius Rodriguez. Featured authors include: Flo Anthony, David Banks, Dr. Martia Goodson, Monica Michelle and Carol Hill Mackey. Over 200 Children enrolled in the White Plains Youth Agency's Afterwards School Connection plan have been decorated creating beautiful pieces of
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Children at White Plains Public Library are learning nearly George Moses Horton as they walk The Trove's Black History StoryWalk® which is on display in the Library's fine art gallery during the calendar month of February through Lord's day, March 13, 2016. The StoryWalk® is based on the book: Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton, written and illustrated by Don Tate. George Moses Horton was a slave who grew up working long hours on a North Carolina farm. Though unable to attend schoolhouse, he was determined and taught himself to read. While he tended his main's cattle, he composed verses in
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Showing: eleven/12/2015 – 01/eight/2016 Join the artists and friends for a reception on Wednesday, December 9, 7pm – 9pm in the Museum Gallery. Refreshments will be served. Revisiting Arcadia: Contemporary Landscape at White Plains Public Library presents various artistic approaches to the settings around us. From traditional Hudson River School-style painting to conceptual abstraction and expressionistic painting, each artwork immerses viewers in the sublime, as both of these two artists explore both the beauty and darkness of the natural earth. Artists:  Hilda Greenish Demsky & Barry Shenkman Contact: Kathleen Reckling Contact Number: 914-428-4220 This bear witness is being presented in partnership with
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A portrait exhibit and documentary film about Holocaust survivors and their descendants by Seth Harrison. Seth Harrison has been a photojournalist with The Journal News/lohud.com in Westchester County. N.Y. for the past 28 years. He has told the stories of our neighbors in the Lower Hudson Valley through his coverage of news, sports and features. His body of work also includes documenting the Sept. 11th attacks on the Globe Trade Middle, the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, the 2004 Presidential elections, Superstorm Sandy, the mass school shooting in Newtown, coverage of the World Serial and the Boston Marathon bombings,
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"Hidden in Plain Sight," an exhibition of photographs by Barry Katzen of architectural details on buildings in White Plains, will go along view at The Gallery in the White Plains Public Library on June nineteen. The exhibition volition be open up to the public through August 2, 2015. Long-time White Plains resident Barry Katzen has spent the terminal decade recording architectural details throughout the city. "I sought out the interesting, the cute, the mysterious, and the downright foreign." Katzen has captured valuable visual treasures which are however embedded in our congenital surroundings. Opening reception will be at vi:30 p.m. on June xviii. It is free and all
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On view in the Library Museum Gallery from September 28, 2014 through November 28, 2014, this showroom features the work of Peter Wood, an English language teacher at White Plains High School. His art has been shown in Manhattan, Easthampton, NY and the mid-west. 1 of his paintings was featured in an showroom at the Katonah Museum of Art. All of the books used in his piece of work were re-purposed from discarded items from libraries, schools or private collections. They were reclaimed from garbage and residuum bins and the artist "attempted to breathe new life into them. Essentially, these books accept been
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Travesías: an art exhibit by artists of the state of Puebla, Mexico. This showroom is available to the public from April 30th to May 16th, 2014.
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On view March 10 – April 27, 2014 in the White Plains Library Gallery, this exhibit celebrates the golden age of rock and roll in photographs, some never earlier exhibited, taken by Tapani Talo, a White Plains resident, builder, photographer and, during the time the photographs were taken, a sound engineer for some of the nearly iconic bands of the era. Mr. Talo'south love of music is evident in the very deep facial expressions and seriousness that comes through. Likewise photos from the Rolling Stones 1970 show in Helsinki, other highlights of the exhibit include rare operation images of Led
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The aboriginal and beautiful Turkish art of paper marbling known as Ebru is on display now at the White Plains Public Library Museum Gallery. Y'all can relish the work of artist Yasemin Ozsavasci until February 25, 2014. Presented in collaboration with the Turkish Cultural Center of Westchester.
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Join usa this Lord's day, January 13 from i-3 p.thousand. for the opening of "Fantasy Visions," an exhibit of paintings in mixed media that are at in one case colorful, idea-provoking, and entertaining. Artist Diane McCulloch volition be in omnipresence. 1 of her paintings, Chinese Destiny, is shown here. "Fantasy Visions" will be on display in the Museum Gallery until February 22. This show is brought to yous by the Friends of White Plains Public Library.
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The hooked rugs of cobweb enthusiast Mary Parker will be on view in the Museum Gallery at the White Plains Public Library from Monday, December 3, 2012 to Friday, Jan 11, 2013. Ms. Parker's work is inspired by the past and present of Westchester and Putnam Counties. Hooked highlights include local celebrated sites and cemetery "folk art," as well equally other work from traditional to contemporary. Carpet hooking has been called the one truly original folk fine art of America and Ms. Parker'south piece of work carries forward the tradition of expression through this 19th century craft. Folk art expert, William C. Ketchum,
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Berenice Pliskin has been a working silk painter for the past xx years. Her paintings take been featured in news media and museums and exhibited widely. Some are being shown in our Museum Gallery right at present (through November 16th) alongside her husband Bob's work. On Wednesday, Oct 24 from seven-8 p.m.Berenice volition demonstrate her silk painting techniques and give a guided bout of her paintings on view in the Library Museum Gallery. Please join us to learn about this intriguing medium. (At left: Carlos is Learning English language by Berenice Pliskin)
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