Mar 5, 2021
Artist Talk: Where Do You Sit in Life? With Rochelle Udell
Apr 6, 2021 @ 2:00 PM via Zoom
RegisterInspired by Pablo Neruda’s Ode To A Chair, I have focused on the chairs that have stories. I believe everyone has a chair story. Chairs hold us, and they hold meaning and our imaginations. Chairs are history, power and identity. And they raise questions like, where do I sit in life? Exploring chairs, their role in raising humans off the floor, I have learned that sitting is never just about sitting.
About the Artist
Rochelle Udell is an artist and speaker focusing on subjects that will hopefully provoke and inspire you to reflect on the questions and narratives in your life. “My work is informed by the years I spent as a Creative Director and Marketing Executive helping clients make vital emotional connections with the people who are their consumers.”
Mar 5, 2021
Lado a Lado: Side by Side
A Celebration of Literature and Art
Presented by Ossining Children’s Center and BAC
Exhibit on Display: April 1 – April 28
Exhibit Event: April 9 @ 6pm Virtual Hang with Art talk featuring the teachers and kids of OCC
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Bethany Arts Community and Ossining Children’s Center partner to present Side by Side, a multimedia art exhibit which celebrates our diverse community. Among many themes, one we explore in particular is that of difference-sameness.
The Ossining Children’s Center encourages children to consider how the contrast of difference and sameness actually brings us together harmoniously because when children learn to respect and celebrate the differences in others they also learn just how similar we all are. This is at the core of what the Ossining Children’s Center teaches. Difference-sameness is what we all pride ourselves in as members of the Ossining community.
We ask our children:
“How do you feel?”
“How do you see yourself?”
“How do you see your friends?”
“What languages do your parents speak at home?”
“Where is your family from?”
In doing so we find connections in our racial, linguistic, cultural, and gender differences that foster a sense of respect and community.
Through a myriad of mediums, the pieces created in this exhibit reflect diversity and introduce our children to new methods of creative expression at the crossroads of literature and visual art.
Gallery Hours:
Mon-Friday 10am-12pm & 1pm-3pm
Saturday Apr 10th 10am-2pm
Friday Apr 16th 4pm-7pm
Saturday Apr 17th 10am-2pm
– Due to Covid safety protocols, appointments are suggested
With Thanks and Acknowledgement
Poetry Month programs at Bethany Arts Community are sponsored by Theater O.
Jan 9, 2021
Join us Friday, April 9th at 7:30 PM via Zoom for “Collaborations: Words & Images” – an Online Talk with JILL KIEFER, Ph.D.
RegisterDuring this talk we’ll be taking a look at some significant collaborations between wordsmiths and painters—from medieval times to the present day. In addition to illuminated manuscripts and bestiaries, we’ll have a look at Sandro Botticelli’s drawings for Dante’s Divine Comedy, Henri Matisse’s Florilège Des Amours De Ronsard, Salvador Dali’s Alice in Wonderland Suite, Grace Hartigan and Frank O’Hara’s Oranges, Dennis Ashbaugh and William Gibson’s Agrippa, Jeff Vandermeer and Eric Schaller’s The Exchange, Alexis Smith and Amy Gertsler’s Past Lives, Matt Kish’s illustrations of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, Rebecca Campbell and Nicole Walker’s 7 Rings: An Artist’s Game of Telephone, and Danez Smith and Sam Vernon’s fall poem and the Broadsided Press. Join us on this journey through time to explore extraordinary collaborative projects. You’ll find meaning and relevance from legendary works of the distant past—to contemporary endeavors on timely issues.
