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Beers and Bierstadt: Tasting and Tour (Cancelled)
Due to inclement weather, this event is cancelled. Do you love beer and art? Then mark your calendars for Beers and Bierstadt, a celebration of the start of the Oktoberfest season and our exquisite exhibition, The Bierstadt Brothers: Painting and Photography, which closes on October 1. Four of Westchester’s best local breweries—Alternative Medicine Brewing
Taller de arte familiar: La mola del río Hudson
La mola es una forma de arte textil, cual tradicionalmente es parte de la vestimenta femenina, hecha por la etnia Guna de Panamá y Colombia. A menudo, también se ven retratos de animales vestidos en mola. En este taller, celebrando el mes de la herencia hispana, crea tu propia mola usando papel de construcción y
Classical Japanese Tea Ceremonies
Take part in a Japanese tea ceremony, a formal ritual designed to engender harmony, respect, purity, and tranquility. Formalized in fifteenth-century Japan, chanoyu has been practiced around the world by devotees who combine taste, aesthetics, and manner in a seamless dialogue. Watch local practitioners who have studied in the Senke tradition, which is centered in
Floral Dimensions: A Discussion with Seongmin Ahn and John Yau
…floral imagery in his large-scale panels, using the botanical specimens—rose, geranium, petunia, caladium, budleya, lily, and violet—to reflect the sitter’s dominant personality traits. In her first solo exhibition at the…
Family Art Workshop: Hudson River Molas
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month and create your own mola, or textile art, using construction paper and glue in place of cloth and thread, and decorate it with animals that can be found in the Hudson River Valley. Mola is a form of textile art that traditionally forms parts of women’s clothing among the Guna, the
Traditional and Contemporary Japanese Music
Join Masayo Ishigue and Miyabi Koto Shamisen Ensemble for an immersive experience of Japanese traditional and contemporary music in the exhibition galleries, surrounded by Kengo Kito: Unity on the Hudson. The four musicians will play the koto, a plucked half-tube stringed zither, and the shamisen, a 3-string instrument that resembles a banjo. The koto, the
Ikebana Flower Workshop with Mike McManus
Join Mike McManus, a contemporary practitioner of the Japanese art of ikebana, to create your own arrangement of flowers and other natural elements to take home. Learn to design seasonal,…
Art Workshop: Vibrant Lens
Guided by HRM Teaching Artist-in-Residence Natalya Khorover, create a layered, stained glass–like artwork made of brightly colored translucent single-use plastics, transparent tissue paper, and clear tracing papers tinged with colored pencils or pastels. Add collage components from magazines, plastic packaging, or other ephemera. This program is inspired by Therman Statom’s mixed-media artwork and Louis Comfort
Feel Good Fridays—50th Anniversary of Hip Hop!
This Feel Good Friday, celebrate fifty years of Hip Hop with Yonkers native Darrel “DJ Jericko” Morrison, who traces the genre from its inception in the Bronx on this date in 1973 to today. With free general admission from 5–7pm, experience the exhibitions currently on view, grab a drink, and enjoy the outdoor courtyard with
Japanese Dance Performance by Sachiyo Ito & Company
In this performance inspired by Kengo Kito: Unity on the Hudson, Sachiyo Ito & Company presents classical dances that express reverence for nature. Sachiyo Ito will demonstrate classical dance form…