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Debra Rapoport
A Chat with the Style Icon

Live from NYC
Enjoy a fresh start to the New Year with revolutionary fashion designer Debra Rapoport, Advanced Style icon, and wearable art innovator.

On Saturday, January 16th, 10:30 AM EST

A free event, but you must register:
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Debra Rapoport represents the best of the Big Apple with her immense humor, vibrancy and eclectic style, and she’s brimming with wisdom to share. The first of our new monthly series – featuring conversations that inspire us to live bravely, aligned with our purpose and passions, and deep human connection. We will dive into her colorful world and the many lessons she can teach seekers and creatives.

If you are not in EST time zone, be sure to convert the time.

This is a free event, but your donations to Debra’s chosen charity – God’s Love We Deliver – are welcomed.
God’s Love We Deliver cooks and home-delivers nutritious, medically tailored meals for people too sick to shop or cook for themselves. To support the health of their clients, they also provide ongoing nutrition assessment, education, and counselling. God’s Love is a non-sectarian organization serving people in need and their children and caregivers.

What to expect
Listen to Debra’s stories of iconic style and playful exploration – from age 3 to 75!
A look at her hats, creative process and unique relationship to found objects.
Learn about her mantra – the 4Ts – to live a life that really matters.
Aging with attitude.
The environmental, social and political significance of her unique approach.

Lucille Rhodes’ film on Alice Neel at Met Museum with interview of filmmakers

Lucille Rhodes’ documentary on Alice Neel, portrait painter, owned by the Metropolitan Museum, is being featured online for the month of January as part of the Met 150 birthday celebration.

Watch free with the link below:

Lucille Rhodes on Alice Neel

A self-proclaimed “collector of souls,” the American painter Alice Neel (1900–1984) is known today for her powerful, psychologically rich portraiture. She depicted a wide range of subjects, from her family and friends to prominent critics, artists, activists, and strangers she met on the street. In this rarely seen documentary, Neel’s signature candor and wit are on full display. Providing a brief biographical sketch from her early marriage and the Great Depression through her later years in Spanish Harlem, the film also shows the artist at work on a portrait of Lucille Rhodes, who co-directed with Margaret Murphy. Excerpted from Rhodes and Murphy’s “They Are Their Own Gifts” (1978), a triptych of “film portraits” about women artists that also includes chapters on the poet and activist Muriel Rukeyser as well as the dancer and choreographer Anna Sokolow. Cinematography by the legendary Babette Mangolte.

PICTURING ALICE NEEL
Met Perspectives Interview with filmmakers Margaret Murphy and Lucille Rhodes by Met Museum on the making of the film.
https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives

Lucille Rhodes chaired and taught film at C.W Post College (LIU) for 25 years. She has won awards internationally for her independent documentaries and produced films for Sesame Street and Bravo. As a film editor, she worked with Norman Mailer on Maidstone and on Peter Gimbel’s Blue Water, White Death. Her screenplay Nealy Hollow was invited to Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute thanks to residencies at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo .She has filmed/lectured in China, Turkey, Israel, Finland and Mexico and served as a Fulbright Media Specialist in Latvia.

Prior to her career in film, she was Assistant Director of Visual Arts at the New York State Council on the Arts and Assistant Director of the Kentucky Arts Commission which she helped found. She has served on numerous documentary film juries including the Emmys.

Currently she is a juror for the Guanajuato International Film Festival, and is working with Photoshop on her cellphone photo archives.

Blood Drive
Westbeth Gallery

Healthy blood donors are urgently needed as local blood supply drops to dangerously low levels.

PLEASE JOIN US IN OUR EFFORTS TO SAVE LIVES.
DONATE BLOOD FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT.

Tuesday, January 12, 2021
1:00pm to 7:00 pm

Westbeth Gallery
57 Bethune Street, NYC, 10014
Main Gallery

Due to the current public health crisis and social distancing rules, DONORS MUST MAKE AN APPOINTMENT (walk-ins only if room capacity and appointment scheduling permits.)

CLICK HERE to schedule an appointment

For eligibility information visit Can I donate or call 800-688-0900

For those that are ineligible to donate please understand you can be supportive by asking others to donate for you

The Need is Constant in All Communities and Every Donation Can Save Three Lives!

Don’t forget to bring photo ID or NYBC donor card. Face covering is required before entering the blood drive. Eat well and drink plenty of fluids before donating.

We look forward to seeing you!

January is National Blood Donor Month