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Westbeth Community Room
155 Bank Street
New York, NY 10014

Bob Malneky is deeply involved with blues and other forms of roots music. He participated in Sunday sessions in Washington Square Park in the early ’60’s and has learned from and played with many blues legends such as Muddy Waters and Lightnin’ Hopkins.
In 1974, he recorded and toured with the legendary harmonica player Sonny Terry.
Bob taught World Folk Music at CCNY for many years and has remained active, playing at clubs, coffee houses and festivals in this country and abroad, as well as performing at concerts here at Westbeth.

Lucille Rhodes is a photographer, former filmmaker and professor. Her films have been screened at the New York Film Festival , Berlin Film Festival, PBS, etc. She profited from her creative retreats at Yaddo and the MacDowell Art Colonies as well as Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute. She was one of the founding staff members of both the New York State Council on the Arts and the Kentucky Arts Council,and for many years has been a judge of documentary films for the Guanajuato International Film Festival.

The Alice Neel film we will be seeing was selected to accompany Alice’s one woman show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2021, and can be accessed from their film archive through YouTube. Lucille has been working on several photographic projects for a number of years including one, on her great love, the riders of the NYC subway system!