Saturday Oct 4, 2025 at 7pm
features film portraits of Benny Andrews, Barton Benes, and Muriel Rukeyser

and

Saturday Oct 11, 2025 at 7pm
features Tobias Schneebaum

Westbeth Community Room
155 Bank St
(enter through courtyard)
New York, NY 10014

Presenter, Lucille Rhodes, Westbeth Photographer and Filmmaker
Lucille’s film on Muriel Rukeyser premiered at the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center. Her filmed portrait of painter, Alice Neel, archived by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is currently being screened alongside her recent retropspective (2022) by major museums internationally.

I would like to invite friends and neighbors to attend the screenings and after share any memories you may have. I knew and loved Barton, was awed and grateful to Muriel, met Tobias only briefly through Barton and Benny only in exchanging smiles and weather reports at 9th floor elevator.

Benny Andrews (1930-2006) artist
The Visible Man 28 minutes
Directed by David Irving; produced by Linda Freeman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Andrews

Barton Benes (1942-2012 artist
No Secrets (25 minutes)
Directed by Joe Lovett
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barton_Lidice_Beneš

Muriel Rukeyser (1930-1980) Poet
They Are Their Own Gifts (19 minutes)
Produced and directed by Lucille Rhodes and
Margaret Murphy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel_Rukeyser

Tobias Schneebaum (1922-2005 Artist and Anthropologist.
Keep The River on Your Right 93min
Produced and Directed by David Shapiro and Laurie Gwen Shapiro.[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Schneebaum

Sponsored by WARC and The Beautification Committee