Art All Around Us ...
... in the Bronx and Beyond!
Brief note/reminder: “Art All Around Us” is a bi-weekly, digital newsletter highlighting art happenings in the Bronx, southern Westchester (especially Yonkers), occasionally other places I come across, and my own art/photography/writing as well. Subscriptions are free — they always will be — but I may ask readers for voluntary financial support in the future so I can continue to produce and grow “Art All Around Us.” In the meantime, I’d be grateful if you can support my work by sharing this newsletter with friends and colleagues who may be interested. Thanks!
As you may know, I do mixed-media/abstract art but also photography (you can see some of it on my IG page @jordanmossbx).
I took this photo above of the Henry Hudson Bridge a few weeks ago from Inwood Hill Park where the fog pretty much blocked out the Bronx for a bit.
And here’s some more Art All Around Us …
If you’re looking for something cool to do this weekend, don’t miss this: YOHO’s 19th Annual Artists Open Studio, 5/20-21 from 11 to 5 p.m. I’ve been to several of these, have met so many passionate artists and learned so much about their work. (Sadly. I’ll be away this weekend and can’t make it.) And this is only one part of Yonkers Arts Weekend!
This Saturday (5/20) from noon to 5 p.m., The Bronx Historical Society is putting on a poetry seminar with Bronx poet Mariposa Fernandez at Poe Cottage in Poe Park (corner of Grand Concourse and Kingsbridge Road).
“Darrel Ellis: Regeneration,” a Bronx Museum of the Arts exhibit, begins on May 24. Ellis’ “highly original merging of painting, printmaking, and photography, anticipated current artistic interest in archive, appropriation, and personal narrative.” (Ellis died of AIDS in 1992 when he was 33.)
“Toward Love and Power,” an exhibit at Bronx Art Space ends with a closing reception this Saturday, May 20 from 5 to 8 p.m.
“Missing Generations: Photographs by Jill Freedman,” is on through July 16 at the Derfner Judaica Museum in Riverdale. It “includes thirty-six black and white photographs by noted street photographer Jill Freedman documenting sites of destruction and the resurgence of Jewish life after the Holocaust in Hungary, Poland and Czech Republic.” And you can also check out Derfner’s ongoing exhibit: “Tradition and Remembrance: Treasures of the Derfner Judaica Museum.”
I really want to see these three current exhibits at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers. Haven’t been there in too long, and it’s so close by!
“Paper & Glue: The Art of Collage,” an exhibit at Blue Door Art Center in Yonkers, that I have a piece in (see below), ends this Saturday, May 20. The gallery is open Thursday and Friday from 3 to 6 p.m. and on Saturday from 1 to 6 p.m.
I mentioned this in my last email but I’m still anxious to check out one of these upcoming “Boogie Down Dance” performances at BAAD! (Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance) in Westchester Square (Bronx).
Fact: Legendary photographer Richard Avedon, a student at DeWitt Clinton High School in Bedford Park (Bronx!) from 1937 to 1940, would’ve been 100 on Monday. There’s an exhibit of his work now through June 24 at Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea.
I loved this article: “What Patti Smith Can Teach Us About Creative Courage.” (Her book, “Just Kids,” is the best memoir I’ve ever read.)
OK, this might seem off topic, but it ain’t. The Kingsbridge Armory (photo above) on Kingsbridge Road in the northwest Bronx is the largest armory in the country, and possibly on the entire planet. It can be home to so many small businesses, events, and nonprofits that benefit the neighborhood and the entire borough. Any of that can potentially be related to those interested in seeing, and doing, creative work, performances, classes, etc. I’m a member of the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, which is working hard with community residents and storeowners to make sure the Armory’s future is determined by Bronxites and even co-led by an entity we create. It can serve the community well in so many ways if everyone who cares about its future takes part. If this interests you, please come to the Coalition’s monthly meeting on Friday, May 26, where we’ll focus on Armory next steps. Info in flier below (and more detail on the Armory’s failed redevelopment history in my article here). Hope you can make it!
(Note: All photos in newsletter without a credit are taken by me.)
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