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Claire Rosenfeld: The Changing Earth

Monotypes by Claire Rosenfeld

Opening: Tuesday, April 5, 6-8PM

Revelation Gallery
224 Waverly Place
April 5-28, 2022
Hours: Monday-Thursday, 11AM-3PM (and by appointment, contact the artist)
(Closed April 14 and 18)

The Changing Earth focuses on phenomena dramatically shifting our physical reality: forest fires, melting glaciers, and erupting volcanos. These changes to the planet are real, symbolic, and visually profound.

As a longtime painter of dramatic natural images, Claire Rosenfeld’s work draws attention to the rhythmic movement of nature, evoking specific moments of time and place.
The exhibit’s monotypes (unique painted prints) utilize both ink and encaustic (wax and pigment). Many are painted into or collaged, with the subject being suggested rather than stated.
Claire Rosenfeld is a New York City-based visual artist working in painting and experimental printmaking. Her figurative expressionist work utilizes imagery that moves between figuration and abstraction. Additional work can be viewed on her website: www.clairerosenfeld.net

“Claire Rosenfeld’s paintings and drawings have the brilliance of Fauve colors and glare with the stark emotion of German Expressionism, but most of all, they distinguish themselves with a complexity and evolution of mood that are strictly individual… Her way to apply paint—bright over dark over bright—in some instances—shows how she reaches into the darkness to pull out the light. And just as the colors come at the viewer in flashes, the figures gesture with poignancy. The climate of anxiety and the anticipation resolve themselves in the bright/dark stillness where time is congealed: the dynamics are becoming more important than knowing what will take place. Medievalists felt this way—anticipating the place being not mine, but becoming its own.”
Laura Sue Schwartz, Arts Magazine

Claire Rosenfeld, a New York City-based painter, holds an MFA from Queens College, a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, and studied at the New York Studio School. Her paintings, drawings and prints have been exhibited in museums and galleries, nationally and abroad in numerous solo and group shows. Rosenfeld has been awarded artist residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Millay Colony for the Arts, Ossabaw Island Project, and others, in the United States, and Karolyi Foundation, France; Fundacion Valparaiso, Spain; and Fundacion Centro Cultural, Dominican Republic. She has taught at the Cooper Union, School of Visual Arts, New York University, and Silvermine School of Art, amongst others.

Spirit of Spring: Festival of the Arts

Come celebrate with Music, Dance, Poetry . . .
SAVE THE DATE – Sunday, March 20, 11am-2pm on Pier 46 
(at Hudson River Park & Charles Street, NYC)

At 11:33am join in RINGING of BELLS for PEACE @ the moment of the Vernal Equinox, led by City Council member Erik Bottcher.

The Villager
Celebrate the coming of spring at Hudson River Pier 46/h2>
March. It’s balmy one day and frigid another. It’s a month of fickle weather inching toward spring.
Spring officially arrives on March 20 at 11:33 am, when day and night are equal across the planet. This Sunday the temperature might possibly be in the 60s.
On that day, Westbeth multi-media artist SuZen with a cadre of friends is hosting a spring celebration on Pier 46, Hudson River and Charles, to usher in the season of rebirth.

“It’s a time of renewal, new beginnings,” SuZen says, “especially, after two years of the pandemic. It’s a time to celebrate life and one another.”

From 11 am to 2 pm, The Spirit of Spring Festival of the Arts will feature music with the Westbeth Jammers, dance, and poetry.
At the exact moment of spring’s entrance, peace bell ringings will take place led by the neighborhood’s newly elected council member Erik Bottcher. The public is invited to make “joyful noise”.

“Now more than ever do we want to think about peace,” she says, reminding neighbors that the ringing of bells for peace will be at the exact moment of the vernal equinox, 11:33 a.m.

Read the entire article by Tequila Minsky HERE

David Greenspan in The Patsy

Transport Group and I are reviving my 2011 solo rendition of Barry Conner’s 1925 romantic comedy The Patsy – a Cinderella story concerning a lovelorn girl smitten with her sister’s fiancé. A conventional comedy unconventionally interpreted. My collaboration with Transport Group went like gangbusters during its initial run. It’s a fleet and funny 80 minutes.

We run from March 31 – May 1 in the beautiful Playhouse at Abrons Arts Center… on the good-ole Lower East Side. If you didn’t catch it in 2011 I think you’ll have a heck of a good time. And if you did see it a decade ago, you might enjoy it even more now given all we’ve been through the last few years.

– David Greenspan

For tickets: Transport Group

Gloria Miguel: Misdemeanor Dream and NEWS12 Interview

GLORIA MIGUEL INTERVIEW ON NEWS 12 MARCH 22,2022

Photo: Jonathan Staff

The Native American Bohemia in Brownstone Brooklyn

Ms.Muriel Miguel and her two older sisters, Gloria (95) and Lisa Mayo (who died in 2013 at 89), have often been described as the matriarchs of Indigenous theater in North America.

“They made a space for so many people and companies,” Penny Couchie, an actor and choreographer of Ojibwe and Mohawk ancestry, said. “They made no apologies for the way that we tell stories.”

In recent weeks, Ms. Miguel has been scrambling to finish preparing for the debut of her latest production, “Misdemeanor Dream,” a collaboration between her company, Spiderwoman Theater, and Aanmitaagzi, an arts group led by Ms. Couchie and her husband, Sid Bobb, on Nipissing First Nation territory in Ontario. The show, which will open on March 10 at La MaMa, the experimental theater in the East Village, represents the culmination of her life’s work so far, she said.

– Saki Knafo, NY Times March 4, 2022 (excerpt)
Read entire article HERE

La MaMa ETC presents the world premiere of Misdemeanor Dream

March 10 – 27, 2022

Ellen Stewart Theatre
66 East 4th Street, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10003

Tickets: https://www.lamama.org/shows/misdemeanor-dream-2022

“Misdemeanor Dream” features Ms. Miguel’s sister Gloria, in the role of The Elder.Credit…Adrienne Grunwald for The New York Times

It is the latest large-scale production of Spiderwoman Theater, the legendary Downtown feminist-Indigenous theater ensemble. Created by a multi-generational performing ensemble with members drawn from Indigenous communities across North America and internationally, this unique production across inter-woven disciplines explores the realms of Indigenous story, magic, interrupted dreams and lost languages, while including all who experience it in a vital continuum of Native spirit and worldview.

In Misdemeanor Dream, old spirits long-ago silenced reveal themselves to the current inhabitants of Turtle Island through their stories and experiences of daily, contemporary life (“Turtle Island” is the name given to Earth by Indigenous peoples in North America).

We are, in the words of Spiderwoman co-founder and artistic director Muriel Miguel, “exploring what we, as Indigenous people, have lost, how we reclaim it and our path to move into a future where we can hold on to our dreams, heal ourselves and be hopeful.”

Greenwich House opens Westbeth Older Adult Center

We are open to anyone in the neighborhood 60 and older. We are hoping we get neighbors from all over the West Village. I am very excited coming to Westbeth to help open a new Center, I grew up around the corner at W 11th St and I feel like life is coming full circle for me. I look forward to meeting you and introducing myself. We are there every day from 11-1 to register members.

-Donna Coles
Assistant Director
Phone: 212-989-3620
www.greenwichhouse.org
dcoles@greenwichhouse.org

About Greenwich House Older Adult Centers

Partially funded by the New York City Department for the Aging (DFTA), Greenwich House’s older adult centers are a vital resource for many in the community. Our centers offer social, educational, physical and cultural programs to engage members, build community and promote healthy and active lifestyles. Every weekday, each center serves a hot lunch that meets DFTA’s nutritional requirements.

Along with regularly scheduled weekly programming, each center fills their monthly calendars with special events. Thanks to partnerships with cultural institutions, local politicians and private foundations, this includes access to exciting arts programming and opportunities. Free courses are taught by professional artists, and chances to see performances are provided throughout the year. Other activities include visits to cultural institutions or shopping trips, services like free haircuts or tax assistance, or cooking demonstrations by guest teachers.

More info: Greenwich House

Peter Bernstein Trio at Village Vanguard

Few guitarists put as much care, sensitivity and subtle strength into every single note as Bernstein does. Among the finest melodists in jazz, he has a full-breadth command of his instrument, but his biggest assets are his knack for crisp understatement and simplicity.
— New York Times

Tickets: March 8 – March 13, 2022
Two shows 8:00PM and 10:00PM

Jazz guitarist Peter Bernstein has been a part of the jazz scene in New York and abroad since 1989. During that time he has participated in numerous recordings and performances with musicians from all generations. As a leader, Peter has released nine albums and a DVD. As a sideman Peter has appeared in groups led by Sonny Rollins, Bobby Hutcherson, George Coleman, Lou Donaldson, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Fathead Newman, Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Diana Krall, Lee Konitz, Jimmy Cobb and many more. Current projects include his album, Monk, with Doug Weiss and Bill Stewart, a recently released solo record, Solo Guitar – Live at Smalls, and the highly acclaimed organ trio with organist Larry Goldings and drummer Bill Stewart.

More info at: PeterBernsteinMusic.com

Peter Washington bass A founding member of the collective hard bop sextet One for All and is a visiting artist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. His extensive discography numbers more than 400 recordings.

Joe Farnsworth drummer Has worked with David Hazeltine and Jim Rotondi, Benny Golson, Steve Davis, and Eric Alexander . He has also played with Alex Graham (1995), Michael Weiss the Three Baritone Saxophone Band and Diana Krall. He is now a member of Pharoah Sanders’ band.