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Inspired by Bill Viola’s Moving Stillness: Mount Rainier 1979, light and sound artist Rachael Guma will give an interactive talk and brief history of “expanded cinema,” a term used to describe a film, video, multimedia performance or an immersive environment that pushes the boundaries of cinema. The program includes hands-on experience with various analogue technologies

Experience a fashion show featuring creations by Westchester Community College Fashion Design Department students, ranging from first-semester designs to the final collections of graduating students. Come see their original designs and boundless imagination and creativity exhibited on the runway.   Sponsored by City of Yonkers.

Explore the vibrant world of melted crayon art by creating stunning designs on wax paper. Using crayons and heat techniques, you’ll transform simple materials into colorful masterpieces. Recommended for ages 4+; adult supervision required.   Sponsored by the City of Yonkers.

Take a fresh look at Glenview on a unique tour focusing on the flowers that abound within the historic home, in celebration of Mother’s Day. Laura Vookles, Chair, Curatorial Department, will lead the tour, inviting you to help look for clues to whether the home’s main floral motif is a sunflower or a chrysanthemum. Learn

You can preserve your family history! Just in time for Mother’s Day, learn about best practices and methods for scanning, photographing, and preserving your family’s vintage photographs and documents. Go behind the scenes with Digitization Technician Anna Jacobson and Collection Assistant Becca Muffler as they guide you through the HRM’s process of digitizing thousands of

Join Yonkers’ own Morsemere Garden Club for “Art in Bloom,” a National Garden Club (NGC) Small Standard Flower Show. Club members will present design, horticultural, educational, and botanical arts displays inspired by floral works on view in the HRM collection. From petite designs to tea tables for two to wearable floral art, each display adheres

Oglala Sioux artist Kite (Dr. Suzanne Kite) presents an immersive, improvisational performance that bridges sound, image, and technology, inspired by George Morrison’s Collage × Landscape, on view in Smoke in Our Hair: Native Memory and Unsettled Time. Accompanied by musicians, Kite arranges wooden blocks into a mosaic-like graphic score—an experimental form of music notation—guided by

Experience the vibrant, cross-cultural sound of composer, saxophonist, and singer Stephanie Chou, in celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Along with her quintet, Chou will perform two sets, at 5:15 and 6:45pm, and a demonstration and discussion of the erhu, a Chinese two-stringed bowed instrument, during intermission. In addition, get creative in a

Join us for a new series of live planetarium programs for adults this spring that explores big questions in space science and the latest discoveries in the cosmos. The shows will take place the first Wednesday of each month, with a different theme each month. In May, imagine being a pilot, flight crew member, or

This panel explores the work of George Morrison (Ojibwe), whose work is featured in Smoke in Our Hair: Native Memory and Unsettled Time, a deeply influential artist who challenged imposed expectations of what Native American artists could and should produce. Panelists include exhibition curator Sháńdíín Brown (Diné); scholar and curator Dr. Scott Manning Stevens (Akwesasne