Real People, Realizing Potential

 

 

You are cordially invited to attend

An Art Exhibition Sponsored By:

Cerebral Palsy Associations of New York State, Cerebral Palsy of Westchester,

Queens Centers for Progress & United Cerebral Palsy of New York City

Please Join us for the Opening Reception:

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

6:00 PM – 9:00PM

(Exhibition Dates: June 25th, 2011 through July 17th, 2011)

RIVAA Gallery

For additional information contact:

Alan Shibley, Cerebral Palsy Associations of New York State

90 State St., Suite 929, Albany, New York 12207

ashibley@cpofnys.org 518-436-0178 www.cpofnys.org

Real People, Realizing Potential

Art From the Heart IV

May 28th – June 19th, 2009
Opening Reception, Saturday May 28th, 6-9PM

A collection of visual art by Coler  Goldwater Specialy Hospital and Nursing Facility Patients and Residents Hosted by the Roosevelt Island Visual Art Association.

This exhibit is funded through the Angelica Patient Assistance Program and The Goldwater Auxiliary.

Ioan Popoiu – Artist Statement

Art Forum

E1 – Ioan Popoiu – Solo show

BLANKET OF ASH AND LAPILLI

April 16 – May 22, 2011

Opening Reception: 6-9pm Saturday April 16, 2011

Guitar and Vocals With Matt Katz

Saturday, March 26
@ 4:00 p.m.
RIVAA GALLERY, 529 Main Street
Admission FREE

RIVAA to Host “Music and Memory” Concert

Matt Katz will offer a variety of songs, guitar music and reminiscences at a 4:00 P.M. recital on Saturday, March 26 at Gallery RIVAA. Katz, a twenty-two-year Roosevelt Island resident, has played the guitar for over fifty years.
He started playing as a twelve-year-old, after attending a summer camp at which Pete Seeger, a Beacon, New York neighbor of the camp, led the kids in al fresco songs. Matt, a piano student at the time, was relegated to playing castanets on the lawn, a role he found “unsatisfying.” He studied basic guitar technique at Brooklyn College and much later, classical guitar at the Guitar Study Center, operated by Paul Simon’s younger brother, Eddie.
He has performed in a variety of venues including the Lake Tarleton Club in Pike, New Hampshire, a summer resort that catered to a New York, Boston and Montreal clientele, where his primary job was lifeguard. He also has performed on cruise ships where his duties included squiring single young ladies in the evenings.
Katz began teaching guitar during his U.S. Army tenure (our of sheer boredom, he says) and this continued with his return to civilian life in New York, teaching privately, at community centers and settlement houses and at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music in Park Slope. While he adored teaching, he gave it up for, as he says, “a job that actually would support me.”
While stationed in Honolulu, he and a young Navy chaplain wrote and produced a service with an environmental theme and presented it at the Pearl Harbor Naval Base synagogue, a Quonset hut that the rabbi shared with the Seventh Day Adventists. Katz attributes the success of the program to the mountain of music with an ecological theme sent to him by Pete Seeger.
Katz has performed in an assortment of contexts here on Roosevelt Island. He presented a solo recital at Gallery RIVAA several years ago, and has played during the Fall for Arts Festival and during the RIRA 9/11 memorial observances. He participated in making the Roosevelt Island film, A Necessary Music, and contributed a guitar solo to the sound tract. In addition, and with Chris Fuller and Howie Leifer, the other two-thirds of the Bearded Bards, they have presented a half-dozen folk music concerts under the auspices of the Roosevelt Island branch of the New York Public Library. In their group bio, Matt claimed that the trio had been born in a Louisiana canebrake and were raised by wolves.
Matthew holds his opportunity to perform with Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary, at Peter’s home during a fundraiser for Island-based Orphans International, as a supreme highlight of his musical career. “For a baby-boomer folkie, it was a fantasy moment,” he said.
Saturday’s two-hour program will include folk, blues, classical, and ragtime music and of course, a large helping of his beloved Tom Lehrer songs. The concert is free and everyone is invited.

Annette R. Hochberg

New Exhibition of Anette’s works will be on show at the Octagon Gallery, April 16-May29. The opening reception will be on Sunday, April 17th 5-7pm.

Karine Poghosyan Concert, March 20th

ON SUNDAY, MARCH 20^TH AT 5:00 PM at Gallery RIVAA

Karine Poghosyan, renowned pianist and friend of Gallery RIVAA will be performing:

Franz Schubert [1797-1828] Impromptu in G-flat Major, Op. 90, No.3
Manuel De Falla [1876-1946] Fantasia Bætica [1919]
Komitas Vardapet [1869-1935] Garun a [It’s Spring]
Igor Stravinsky [1882-1971] Trois Mouvements de Petrouchka
I Danse Russe
II Chez Petrouchka
III La Semaine Grasse

Kariné Poghosyan has been described as an “extraordinary” and “larger than life” pianist, whose playing “goes to the heart of the music.” New York Concert Review characterized her as a passionate musician, who “was born to play.”
She began her music studies in her native Yerevan, Armenia, studying at the Romanos Melikian Music College and Komitas State Conservatory. During these years, she was active in performances, with appearances on Armenian National Television, and in competitions. She made her orchestral debut at the age of 14 with Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1, and received Second Prize at the Arno Babajanian Second State Piano Competition, where she was also awarded a Special Prize for the Best Concert Etude.
Ms. Poghosyan also won the CSUN Symphony Concerto Competition, the New West Symphony Discovery Artists Competition, the 1000 Islands International Piano Competition, and the Artists International Auditions, and was a top prizewinner in the Five Towns Music and Arts Competition and the Los Angeles International Liszt Piano Competition. She received scholarship awards from the honorable National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Glendale Symphony Orchestra, the Armenian Students Association of America, AGBU, and the Jacob and Bronislaw Gimpel Memorial Award.
Some of her performances include recitals at the Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, the Trinity’s Concerts at One series at the St. Paul’s Chapel, the Beverly Hills Sundays at Two series,  a recital for the Valley Committee for the LA Philharmonic, the Bach’s Lunch Recital Series in Manhattan Beach in California, the Los Angeles Liszt Competition Winners’ Concert at the Nixon Library, the Young Artists International Peninsula Festival in California, and the International Keyboard Institute and Festival in New York. She has appeared with numerous orchestras including the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony, New West Symphony, Musica Bella Symphony Orchestra, CSUN Symphony Orchestra, and Armenian Youth Symphony.
She has participated in master classes with such renowned artists as Alicia de Larrocha, Claude Franck, Jon O’Connor, and Jerome Rose. Kariné Poghosyan is also an active chamber musician, and as a member of various chamber groups, she was selected twice as the winner of the Lillian Fuchs Chamber Music Competition.
In addition to her distinctions as a performer, Kariné Poghosyan also demonstrated excellence in various academic endeavors, being inducted to the National Society of Collegiate Scholars and the Pi Kappa Lambda Music Honor Society, and included in several editions of the National Dean’s List. She received her Bachelor of Music degree, summa cum laude, from California State University in Northridge, under Professor Françoise Regnat, and her Master’s and D.M.A. degrees at the Manhattan School of Music, under Dr. Arkady Aronov. She was the first M.S.M. graduate in over twenty years to have completed her Doctoral studies in only two years. Her doctoral thesis was on Aram Khachaturian for Piano.

Vernissage 10

Blue Wave at the Octagon Gallery

Blue Wave — Computer “Dessin” for Two Decades by Izumi Tokuno

January 15th – February 20th, 2011

At the Octagon Gallery, 888 Main Street, Roosevelt Island NY 10044

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Absolutely Cool

December 11, 2010 – January 30, 2011

Opening Reception, Saturday December 11, 6-9pm

POETIC EXPRESSIONS, AN EXHIBITION OF ARTWORK BY TOSHIKO GRONER AND GEORGETTE SINCLAIR

POETIC EXPRESSIONS

An Exhibition of Artwork by Toshiko Groner and Georgette Sinclair

Opening Reception Saturday, November 6th, 6-9pm

 

 

Roosevelt Island’s 5th Annual Fall Arts Festival

Roosevelt Island’s 5th Annual Fall Arts Festival features
Brooklyn electro-pop sensation Hank and Cupcakes, Poets Rock RIVAA creative arts, storytelling & magic for kids & an outdoor performance of “Oedipus Rex”

The 5th Annual Fall for Arts Festival, a FREE outdoor and indoor event presented by the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation, is a one-of-a-kind gallery with a highly acclaimed mix of visual, performing, culinary, and interactive arts. The festival, 11am-5pm, Saturday, October 2nd offers something for children and adults alike.

Hank and Cupcakes performs at 12:45pm at Blackwell Park, 545 Main Street. The raw, edgy, minimalist duo, Hank and Cupcakes has set New York City on fire with their raw edgy, minimalist pop since arriving in Brooklyn from Israel two years ago. “Hank & Cupcakes have consistently been making waves in the Brooklyn/NYC area and their live shows are off the hook. Everyone gets that feeling that they are one second from blowing up and when you catch their act you will understand why.” – Top 10 bands to watch in 2010 – MusicVagabond,

An array of avant-garde New York City poets and singer songwriters perform at Poets Rock RIVAA 3 from 11am-4pm at Gallery RIVAA (Roosevelt Island Visual Arts Association) Gallery, 527 Main Street. The show features Stacy Rock & Sweet Soubrette; Bellow & Rob Gomez; Chris Fuller and poets Jane Ormerod, Eric Fabri, David Lawson, Ocean Vuong, Brant Lyon, Elizabeth Harrington & Mike Marcellino. “Fall for the Arts,” works by gallery artists will also be exhibited.

At the “Imagination Station” young aspiring artists create their own chalk sidewalk mural masterpiece, make fresh butter and apple juice and participate in a variety of arts and crafts projects. The fun also includes storytelling and popular English-Spanish bilingual children’s musician “Louie.” This arts event comes to life with help of the Children’s Museum of the Arts, Materials for the Arts, the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum, Roosevelt Island and other NYC artists.

The Faux-Real Theatre Company performs “Oedipus Rex” at 2pm, outdoors at Roosevelt Landings Amphitheater, 540 Main Street. This classic tale of man versus destiny will be performed in brightly colored wigs, fantastical costumes, and masks that [act] as megaphones…exactly as Sophocles intended it to be performed when he wrote it 2400 years ago.

LOCATION: Blackwell Park and the lawn across the street, south of the Rivercross apartments on Roosevelt Island.

DIRECTIONS: Take the F train to Roosevelt Island. Walk 5 minutes north (right upon exiting the subway station) on Main Street or take the red bus (25 cents).

11:00
11:15 Sharon Stern
11:30 Helen Roht
11:45 Naomi Imbrogno
12:00 Erica Miriam Fabri
12:15 David Lawton
12:30 Ann Settel
12:45 Jane Ormerod
1:00 Fran Bolinder/Catherine Hogan
1:15 Carol Tanjutco
1:30 Elizabeth Harrington
1:45 Brant Lyon
2:00 Ocean Vuong
2:15 Mike Marcellino
2:30 Bellow – Rob Gomez
2:45
3:00 Stacy Rock
3:15 Sweet Soubrette
3:30
3:45 Chris Fuller
4:00
4:00-7:00 Mary Camper Titsingh Book Signing and Reading

Deborah Julian – Observations From the Urban Landscape

Deborah Julian’s photograph exhibit “Observations From the Urban Landscape” is showing at the Octagon Gallery from September 4th – October 10th, 2010. The opening reception will be on Sunday, September 19th from 4-6 pm.

Observations From the Urban Landscape

Deborah Julian

“Living in New York has taught me to appreciate cities and the figure in an urban landscape. My images are created spontaneously. While wandering with my camera, I do not speak to the people I photograph. I prefer to record my subjects while they are unaware of my presence and perhaps lost in thought or activity. Often I am attracted to a body pose or facial expression that seems to tell a story as my camera captures a fleeting observation before it is gone forever. Frequently I am drawn to a scene with strong geometric patterns which provides an intriguing frame for the people passing through. My work is perhaps influenced by my love of film and theater as my eye seeks a challenging, rhythmic, continuously changing landscape often full of surprising elements.”

Deborah Julian has been a photographer for over twenty-five years and  holds degrees in photography and art history. She is a member of Gallery RIVAA. Her photographs have been exhibited and sold in galleries in New York and New Jersey.

R•I•T Roosevelt Island Tram

The Island of Art

June 12 – August 22, 2010 (updated date!!!)

Opening reception: Saturday June 12, 6-9PM   (updated date!!!)

Live musical theater “AVAC Memories”

Please join us for this short live performance followed by a Q and A with the creators.

Saturday, May 22: 5pm Live musical theater “AVAC Memories” in Gallery RIVAA: (527 Main Street, Roosevelt Island)

One Person’s Trash is Another Person’s Musical Theater Extravaganza!

AVAC Memories tells the story of five pieces of household waste who are tossed into a Roosevelt Island garbage can and, together, go on a thrilling journey through the AVAC sanitation system. As they are dropped down garbage chutes, sucked through pneumatic tubes, crunched in a compactor and shipped off to the dump in a garbage barge, our grimy heroes learn some valuable lessons about friendship, courage and perseverance in the face of adversity.

AVAC Memories was written by Frederick Alden Terry (music) and John Herin (lyrics), and directed by Dev Bondarin, with musical direction by Remy Kurs, featuring Jennifer Blood, Jason Collins, Steven Eng, Sevan Greene, and Jaygee Macagupay.

On Sunday May 23rd, Richard Melnick, President of the Greater Astoria Historical Society, will lead a walking tour of Roosevelt Island focusing on East River infrastructure. The tour will end at the Fast Trash Exhibit at Gallery RIVAA. At the conclusion of the walking tour Michael Heimbinder, Executive Director of HabitatMap, will discuss the logistics of moving trash in New York City answering the questions:

how does garbage move? who moves it? and where does it move to?

Start Time:  11:00 AM

Place:  Socrates Sculpture Park, Vernon Blvd., and Broadway, LIC.

Course:  Socrates south to Costco, Rainey Park, and to Roosevelt Island Bridge (at 36th Avenue), cross bridge to Roosevelt Island.  On the island, head south along East Channel to Queensboro Bridge, cross island to west side, walk north along West Channel to exhibit at Gallery RIVAA, 527 Main Street, Roosevelt Island.

To get to Socrates Sculpture Park, take N Train to Broadway, and at street level walk west to Vernon Blvd. to park main gate. (It is a bit of a walk.) Alternately, you can take the Q103 or the Q104 bus to Broadway and Vernon Boulevard. From RI Island you can take the Q102 bus across the bridge to 36th Ave. and Vernon Blvd. (Depending on where you are coming from you will have to do some searching to find out where you can pick up the Q 103 and 104). Off islanders can also take the Q102 bus from Queens Plaza.

The tour ends on Roosevelt Island.

Tour by Greater Astoria Historical Society with HabitatMap and Fasttrash.org. For more information about the Socrates Sculpture Park see socratessculpturepark.org

Upcoming Events

Thursday, May 13, 7:15-9pm:

The Public School New York will offer “On pneumatics (puffs of air, natural magic)” a single-session class examining the genealogy of “pneumatics,” and its roots “pneu-” and “pneuma,” against the backdrop of Fast Trash. Meeting at the Roosevelt Island Subway at 7:15pm and ending at the Gallery. For details see: http://nyc.thepublicschool.org/class/2437

Saturday, May 15 • 5 – 7 pm • Gallery RIVAA

527 Main Street • Roosevelt Island, NY • F to Roosevelt Island

Join CUP for a screening of “Collection and Disposal: A Job for the Birds” and “Garbage Problems,” two films about the future of garbage disposal in New York City. The screening will be followed by a presentation by garbage historian and environmental policy planner Benjamin Miller and a Q and A with Miller and filmmaker Robert Machover. Benjamin Miller is the former director of policy planning for the New York City Department of Sanitation and author of Fat of the Land: Garbage of New York, the Last Two Hundred Years. He is currently the senior research associate for freight programs at the University Transportation Research Center. In addition to “Collection and Disposal,” Robert Machover has made “Troublemakers,” “We Got to Live Here,” “Shop Talk,” and “Binocular Vision.” His documentaries are often used as organizing tools.

PEOPLE & BUILDINGS film series

The People & Buildings Film Series is made possible in part by public funds from the New York York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. “Collection and Disposal: A Job For the Birds” courtesy of the Reserve Film and Video Collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. This program was curated by Valeria Mogilevich in conjunction with the exhibit “Fast Trash: Roosevelt Island’s Pneumatic Tubes and the Future of Cities.” This event is free and open to the public. Seats are limited, RSVP to info@anothercupdevelopment.org to secure your spot.

Sunday May 16, 2pm:

Architectural League of New York’s Urban Omnibus meet up on Roosevelt Island. Explore Roosevelt Island with landscape architect Donald Richardson of Zion Breen and Richardson Associates, designers of Paley Park in Manhattan and part of the team for the 1969 master plan for Roosevelt Island. Meet at 2pm in front of the Roosevelt Island Subway Station and end at Fast Trash.  Information: urbanomnibus.net

ON THE WAY TO FARABA

A photographic journey to a small village in Senegal. Esther traveled with her son Aaron, who is in the Peace Corp, to his village in southeastern Senegal and to Mbour on the coast. The humility and kindness of the people she met there, left an indelible impression.

Esther Piaskowski Cohen

Reception:  May 8, 2010 from 6-8pm

Octagon Gallery

May 1 – June 13, 2010  Hours: 9am-9pm

888 Main Street, Roosevelt Island, NY 10044

“Fast Trash” opens on Earth Day, this Thursday, 4/22

What if we radically changed the way we move garbage through the city? Fast Trash explores this question through the lens of a novel approach to garbage collection that has served Roosevelt Island since 1975. Part infrastructure portrait, part urban history, the exhibition draws on archival materials, original maps, photographs, drawings, diagrams and video interviews to bring an invisible system to the surface, and asks what a community built around progressive policies and technologies can teach us about how we choose our infrastructure.

April 22–May 23, 2010

Opening Reception: Thursday, April 22, 6-9pm

http://www.fasttrash.org/

“Poetry is music of the soul.”

Notebook Writer host, poet Mike Marcellino discovers what Voltaire meant by that with his guests – poets Gil Fagiani, Queens, NY, who will read from his new collection about Spanish Harlem in the 1960s, “A Blanquito In El Barrio”(Rain Mountain Press); Jane Ormerod, from New York City, who will read from her new book of poems, “Recreational Vehicles on Fire” (Three Rooms Press); Erica Miriam Fabri, NYC poet & performance artist, author of “Dialect of a Skirt” (Hanging Loose Press) and Babs Martin, Tulsa, OK, songwriter and vocalist with “Babs Martin and the Trip” who will perform songs from her new album, “Awake in the Fog” Mike introduces his new recording, “Alphabet Coffeehouse” and talks with special guest Tad Sudol, president of the non-profit Roosevelt Island Visual Art Association, which operates Gallery RIVAA. Mike, Gil and Jane will perform in a two-part poetry and music series to mark National Poetry Month at Gallery RIVAA, 527 Main St., New York at 8pm, Friday, April 9 and 4pm, Saturday, April 24. On the air with Mike are co-host Natalie Bliss, an artist and educator from Auckland, New Zealand, and Adelia Sincliar, assistant producer, a poet and poetry and spoken word curator from New York City. Mike, a correspondent in the Vietnam war, is a national award winning journalist, surfer and poet in a folk band. Show airs 7-9pm CST (8-10pm EST). To listen (or comment) call 646-595-4478 (NYC) or online (register to be on the air) on the show website. Shows are live, archived and Podcast.

updated link

POETS ROCK, PART I

FRIDAY NIGHT APRIL 9TH. PART II SUNDAY AFTERNOON APRIL 24TH AT GALLERY RIVAA

Recession : The Generosity of Art — Works of Arline Jacoby

Join RIVAA member,Arline Jacoby, at the OPENING RECEPTION of her one person show on March 14th from 3 -7PM

FAST TRASH: Roosevelt Island‘s Pneumatic Tubes and the Future of Cities

April 22 – May 23, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 22, 6 – 9pm

Roosevelt Island’s idiosyncratic underground garbage disposal suggests alternate futures for New York City’s infrastructure

New York, April 22, 2010—What if we radically changed the way we move garbage through the city? This is the question that independent curator Juliette Spertus and the design firm Project Projects will answer in “FAST TRASH: Roosevelt Island‘s Pneumatic Tubes and the Future of Cities,” an exhibition about Roosevelt Island’s highly effective yet little-known underground garbage collection system.
On Roosevelt Island—located in the East River between Manhattan and Queens—there are no garbage bags on the sidewalks and no garbage trucks. Instead, garbage is collected from its 14,000 inhabitants via a retro-futuristic system of underground tubes. A computer empties the trash chutes several times a day, whisking away the waste of the Island’s residential towers, and zooming it through underground pipes to a transfer station at one end of the island. There it is compacted, sealed into containers, and loaded on a truck to join the rest of New York City’s waste.
Part infrastructure portrait, part urban history, the exhibition argues that service infrastructure plays a crucial role in cities and is even capable of inspiring the collective imagination. Roosevelt Island was designed in the late 1960s as a brand-new community where technology and urban design would allow New Yorkers of all incomes to enjoy the best of Manhattan without the nuisance of cars—or trash. Often perceived as Manhattan’s quirky doppelganger, the exhibition reveals Roosevelt Island to also be a groundbreaking case study for the future, offering valuable insights into a community built around progressive policies and technologies.

The exhibition explores the history of Roosevelt Island’s pneumatic garbage system by tracing key events in the Island’s development alongside milestones in New York City garbage collection and alternative transport technologies. Brochures, advertisements, and other ephemera from Roosevelt Island’s archives illustrate the themes and the urban preoccupations of the 1970s. Photographs of the engineers and technicians at work at Roosevelt Island’s facility and video interviews create a portrait of one of the world’s early pneumatic garbage systems, as it operates today.The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) and students from Roosevelt Island’s Child’s School (TCS) collaboratively produced visual interpretations of the complex system to help Roosevelt Island residents better understand how their garbage is collected.

Cities around the world, from Stockholm to Seoul, are taking note of this technology because it takes trucks off the roads, easing congestion and lowering emissions. By exploring Roosevelt Island’s approach to infrastructure from a variety of angles we gain insight into how cities choose infrastructure, and what this means for a sustainable urban future.

Presented and curated by Juliette Spertus with Project Projects, the exhibition was produced with the support of the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation (RIOC), Roosevelt Island Visual Arts Association (RIVAA), Roosevelt Island Historical Society (RIHS), Envac, the Swedish manufacturer of Roosevelt Island’s system, and CUP.

For more information contact:
Juliette Spertus, curator
Phone: 347-632-1775
Email: juliette.spertus@gmail.com
Web: www.fasttrash.org

Vernissage 9

March 6th – April 11th, 2010

Opening Reception:
Saturday, March 6th, 6-9PM

Celebrating 40 Years: Welfare Island

Exhibition Opens this Saturday, Jan. 9th Reception 2 – 6 PM at the Octagon Gallery

An evening of film and performance—Saturday, Jan. 9th

This coming Saturday evening – An evening of film and performance at Gallery RIVAA, Saturday, Jan. 9th at 7:30 PM

OFF THE WALL

RIVAA Group Show

December 12, 2009 – January 31, 2010

Opening reception on Saturday, December 12th 6-9pm

NUDES by Tad Sudol

Emma Gray, 2005, Conte on paper H29″xW22″

Artist email: tadus@aol.com

November 13th to December 13th at the Octagon Gallery

Octagon Gallery is located at 888 Main Street, NY 10044

Open every day 9AM – 9PM

Duality — Photography of Alexander Movshovich

November 7th – December 6th.

Opening reception Saturday, November 7th, 6-9PM

 

Fall for the Arts

The 4th Annual Fall for Arts Festival

The 4th Annual Fall for Arts Festival

Saturday, October 10th 2009

Good Shepherd Church Plaza , Rivercross Lawn &

Surrounding Areas

Good Shepherd Plaza 543 Main Street

11am- 4pm Artist displaying their original works as well as delicious food, and desserts

11:30am-12:30pm 3 Bearded Bards (islanders Howie Leifer, Chris Fuller and Matt Katz)

1pm-1:30pm Salsa versus B-Boys Demonstration

2pm- 3pm 8 Piece Latin Band

3pm- 4pm Flamenco Dancing Showcase

Rivercross Lawn aka “The Imagination Station”

Kids Area-ages 1-18

Ongoing Art Project Activities 11am -4pm

Materials for the Arts- Projects: Maracas and Mexican Aprons

Children’s Museum of the Arts- Projects: Clay station & craft station

Wykoff Farmhouse- Activities: Apple Pressing and Making Fresh Butter

South Street Seaport Museum- Activities: Recreating FDR’s Sailboat with paper, wood carving demonstration and watercolor exhibit

“Louie” Bilingual Children’s Song Singer- Interactive songs with instruments

Storytelling by Bobaloo

SportsPark 250 Main Street

(Next to Tennis Bubble)

11am-2pm Free Art Workshop instruction by RIVAA Artists

Art supplies and materials included/ All ages

RIVAA Gallery 527 Main Street

Spoken Word Poetry 11am to 4pm Hosted by Chris Fuller and Adela Sinclair

12:00 PM – 4 PM Spoken Word Poetry

4:10 PM Japanese Bamboo Flute (Shakuhachi) Recital by island resident Gerald Starlight

7 PM Isadora Duncan Dance Recital (Refreshments Served)

OTHER RIVAA ACTIVITIES

11AM – 2PM – Art Workshop (for all levels) at the Sportspark Studios. All welcome, no registration required, materials provided.

Roving Entertainment 11am to 4pm

watch out for…..

Stiltwalkers

Facepainters

Balloon Sculptors

Walking Characters

Open House New York Sites on Roosevelt Island

Free tours at the following locations:

Saturday 9 AM to 4 PM- The Church of the Good Shepherd Community Center

Saturday and Sunday 9 AM to 4 PM- Southpoint Park

The Octagon and Lighthouse Park are also participating again this year in Open House New York – Saturday and Sunday noon to 5.

For more information visit http://www.ohny.org

OHNY WEEKEND OPENING OF SOUTHPOINT PARK

SPONSORED BY THE ROOSEVELT ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY

SOUTHPOINT PARK OPEN 12 NOON TO 5 P.M.

FOR OHNY.

Blue Wave

Computer “dessin” for two decades, by Izumi Tokuno.

October 9th – November 8th, 2009 at the Octagon Gallery.

Recent articles from The Main Street Wire

Upcoming Art Workshops

Dear Friends of RIVAA, here is a description of the upcoming Art Workshops being conducted by RIVAA Artist/Teachers.  Do not be frightened by the descriptions as each participant will be taught on their level and ability, while at the same time being introduced to art concepts that will help you to produce a personal piece of artwork and perhaps give you skills to further appreciate art that you might view in museums and galleries.

No prior art training is required. Materials will be supplied.

All workshops take place at the Sportspark Art Studios behind the tennis bubble. Any questions call Gallery RIVAA at 212 308 6630

 

SESSION #1 Saturday, September 26th 11 -2

Drawing The general notions used in visual art expression. Composition, underlying structure, integrated spatial organizations, linear flow, part vs whole, etc. The main components for creating an image: Form, Value, Color and Composition. Drawing as the linear representation of subjects. The three modalities of line: Contour Line, Crosshatched Line and Gesture Line. Positive and Negative shapes; the grid of lines to help integrate all elements in a composition. Reducing objects to the basic geometric shapes of: sphere, cone, cylinder, pyramid, rectangular solid. Value: light- dark relationship; three tones patterns and value scales, The workshop will use still life objects for drawing studies and models for figure explorations and portraiture.

 

SESSION #2 Saturday, October 3rd 11-2

Painting Color – the esthetic, emotional and spiritual value of color. The seven components of light as color – red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Study the Color Wheel comprising Primary and Complementary colors. Study Warm and Cool Colors, Intense and Muted Tones. Learn the two main methods to gray down (Tone) the colors. Learn how to organize a palette. Learn color relationships and how to contrast colors.

 

SESSION #3 Saturday, October 10th 11 -2

Drawing and Painting Drawing: Use of vertical and horizontal lines; proportions and measurements. Value scales of light, middle and dark tones. Workshop will use a model for figure drawing and portraiture. The model in motion will be studied for balance, structure and gravity. The poses will explore action, sitting, arching, gesture and character. Painting: The symbolism of color and its importance in our lives.

 

SESSION #4 Saturday, October 17th 11 – 2

Drawing and Painting Pastel Technique: Learn about different kinds of pastels (soft and hard). Learn about colored papers for pastels and how to paint a landscape in pastels including luminosity, cool and warm colors Painting: Learn about flat and modulated surface, texture, vibration, impasto, transparency and how to use varnishes. Explore the psychological, esthetical and social-spiritual aspects of the Visual Arts. No art experience necessary for any of the workshops and all materials will be supplied.

Fall Fiesta

September 12th – November 01, 2009

Opening Reception September 12th, 6-9PM

Bucuresti Wien Praha – Beatrice Popoiu

Photography of Roosevelt Island Visual Art Association (RIVAA) member, Beatrice Popoiu at the Octagon Gallery, Roosevelt Island

Opening Reception Saturday, Aug. 29th, 6-9PM

Real People. Realizing Potential.

HIGHLIGHTING ART WORK BY PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES FROM THREE NYC ORGANIZATIONS

Queens Centers for Progress, United Cerebral Palsy of New York City and Cerebral Palsy Associations of New York State-Metro Services have joined to produce an exhibit of art work by people with disabilities. The exhibit will run from August 15 to September 7 at the Roosevelt Island Visual Art Association Galley (RIVAA). The show will feature paintings, sculpture, photography and other forms of art work created by people with disabilities supported and served by the three participating organizations.

A reception and sneak preview for artists, their families and invited guests is scheduled from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm, Thursday August 13 at the RIVAA Gallery. Over 80 works of art, produced by dozens of artists will be on display free of charge. Many of the pieces will be offered for sale, with proceeds of the sale going directly to the artist. For more information visit the websites of the participating agencies at QCP www.queenscp.org UCP www.ucpnyc.org or CPA of NYS www.cpofnys.org

Cerebral Palsy Associations of New York State offers its 24 Affiliates technical assistance and opportunities for training, information sharing and networking. More than 85,000 people receive services from the nearly 17,000 dedicated professionals working for CP of NYS and its Affiliates.

HOLOCAUST — NEVER FORGET, NEVER AGAIN

"Deportation" by Dana Naumann, hammered lead, wood and wire, wall sculpture, 30" x 30", 30 lbs.

A Holocaust Memorial Exhibition of Hammered Lead Sculptures by Dana Baldwin Naumann

Public Reception: Saturday, July 11, 2009 6:00 to 9:00 PM

Exhibition: July 11 to August 7, 2009

Guest Curator: Johnes Ruta

"If it Never Happened, Where Did They Go?" by Dana Naumann, hammered lead, wood and wire, pedestal sculpture, 30" x 30", 40 lbs.

Queensboro Bridge Talks: June 21st

Join us for two gallery talks on Sunday, June 21st.

3 p.m. at the RIHS Visitor Center Kiosk

“All Aboard to the Past:  the Queensboro Bridge Trolley” as photographed by Sid Kaplan

4 p.m. at Gallery RIVAA  527 Main St.

“Connecting Island and Generations — the Queensboro Bridge at 100″

Join RIHS President and Historian Judith Berdy and learn about the history of the bridge, trolley and the images displayed at both sites.

Donation requested.  No reservations required.

Connecting Islands and Generations — The Queensboro at 100

Open from May 23rd – June28th

Opening event : Gallery RIVAA, May 31st 2009, 2pm-7pm
Refreshments will be served

Saturday, June 6th will be Roosevelt Island Day

ART FROM THE HEART III

April 25th – May 17th, 2009
Opening Reception, Saturday April 25th, 6-9PM

A collection of visual art by Coler  Goldwater Specialy Hospital and Nursing Facility Patients and Residents Hosted by the Roosevelt Island Visual Art Association

VERNISSAGE 8

Group Show

March 14th – April 19th, 2009
Opening Reception, Saturday March 14th, 6-9PM

WINTER OF CHANGE

Group Show

December 6th, 2008 January 25th, 2009
Opening Reception, Saturday December 6th, 6-9PM

Esther Cohen — LIGHT

October – November 8th, 2008
At the Octagon, 888 Main Street

Georgette Sinclair — Great Escapes

October 18th – November 23rd, 2008
Opening Reception, Saturday October 18th, 6-9PM

FALL FOR THE ARTS 3

September 6th – October 12th, 2008
Opening Reception, Saturday October 4th, 6-9PM

Inventions

June 14th, 2008 – August 24th, 2008
Opening Reception, Saturday June 14th, 6-9PM

A show by Gallery RIVAA members. Guest artist: Mihai Caranica

Vernissage 7

March 15th, 2008 – April 27th, 2008
Opening Reception, Saturday March 15th, 6-9PM

VISAGE

January 19th, 2008 – March 2nd, 2008
Opening, Saturday January 19th, 6-9PM

COOL FOCUS

November 17th – January 13th, 2008

Opening, Saturday November 17th, 6-9PM

Ioan Popoiu and Beatrice Popoiu

RECENT WORKS

October 13th – November 11th, 2007

Opening, Saturday October 13th, 6-9PM

STONE AND FIRE

Tad Sudol – Photography

September 8th – October 7th, 2007

Opening, Saturday September 8th, 6-9PM

SUMMER EXPRESSIONS

July 14th – August 26th, 2007

Opening, Saturday July 14th, 6-9PM

ART from the HEART II

June 2nd – July 8th, 2007

Opening, Saturday June 2nd, 6-9PM

A collection of visual art by ColerGoldwater Specialy Hospital and Nursing Facility Patients and Residents Hosted by the Roosevelt Island Visual Art Association

VERNISSAGE 6

March 31 – May 20th, 2007

FAMILY REUNION

A one-act play about three generations of a family, will be performed at the Gallery RIVAA on Sunday, March 4th, at 7:30 p.m. as part of the series titled “Our Lives – Our Experiences, by Roosevelt Islanders”.

Who better to write about human relationships than our own Helen Roht, long time Roosevelt Island resident? In 1941, working as a French translator for the Office of War Information, not knowing where she was assigned, she sailed to England under sealed orders in a convoy of 88 liberty and battle ships, German submarines chasing them. In London, she broadcasted daily news roundups from Piccadilly which, unknown to Helen, included coded messages for the French Resistance movement.

Helen officially retired from the UN in 1973; but, fluent in numerous languages, she never stopped working there. She heads the Committee on Aging at the Assn. of Former International Civil Servants; has a BA from Hunter College and a Masters from Columbia. Here on RI, Helen started the Seniors Association and served as its pro bono program director for 6 years.

Sunday, March 4, 7:30 p.m. Gallery RIVAA, 527 Main Street
From left: Helen Roht, Playwright Cast: Martin Samstat, Phyllis Burdoe, Mary Cavanaugh, Miebaka Yohannes, and Harry Small (not pictured)

GEORGE SARU

An artist of international stature for a third of a century, Saru is represented in the permanent collections of major museums in Europe, Japan and The United States, and has his own place in St. Petersburg’s Hermitage.

Visit the web site of George Saru at http://www.SaruGeorge.com For more information about this exceptional artist.

March 3rd-25th, 2007

From Tuscany to Paris

Rachel Garrick, Toshiko Kitano Groner, Leendert Van Der Pool, Georgette Sinclair

September 9th – October 8th , 2006
Opening Reception Saturday, Spetember 9th, 6-9PM

Where Art Exists, Communities Flourish

Group Show

August 5th – September 3rd, 2006

STREET EDGE

Photography of Eliza Sudol

May 27th – June 25th, 2006

VERNISSAGE 5

A Group Show

March 4 – April 16, 2006

DOUBLETAKE

Works of Esther Piaskowski Cohen

January 21-February 19,2006

Wintechromatic

Holiday Group Art Show

November 19th, 2005 through January 8th, 2006

GROUP SHOW

October 15th – November 13th, 2005

Featuring works of Valeriu Boborelu, Cristina Elinesco, Beatrice Popoiu, Ioan Popoiu, William Sinclair, and Florentin Tanas.

SOUTHPOINT

2006 Biennial International Ideas Competion

September 10th, 2005 through October 9, 2005
Opening Reception September 17th, 6-9PM

The Emerging New York Architects Committee, AIA NY Chapter is announcing the second biennial international ideas competition for emerging architects to explore issues of universal design and historic rejuvenation in developing a visual / performing arts center on Roosevelt Island.

For more information see :

ENYA
AIA
Coler  Goldwater
RIVAA
Registration begins : September 1, 2005
Registration ends : November 18, 2005
Submission deadline : January 13, 2006

STILLNESS

July 2nd – August 14th, 2005

Art from the Heart

May 21st – June 19th, 2005

A collection of visual art by Coler Goldwater Specialty Hospital and Nursing Facility Patients and Residents.

Coming to Light: The Louis I. Kahn Monument to Franklin D. Roosevelt for New York City

This exhibition celebrates Louis Kahn’s architectural vision for the Roosevelt Memorial on Roosevelt Island, one of New York’s most spectacular sites overlooking the United Nations, Queens and New York’s south harbor. Documentation of the architect’s sketchbook containing poetic writings and notes on the project will be displayed, along with other drawings that reveal Kahn’s process as he developed the project in 1973-74.

Aerial view of Southpoint Park with overlay of Roosevelt Memorial, detail, 2004. Courtesy, Langan Engineering and Environmental Services, Inc. and TerraServer.com

Presented by the Roosevelt Island Visual Arts Association in association with The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union and the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. This exhibition was made possible with support from The Reed Foundation.

Rafal Olbinski

Fall, 2004

Posters

Gabaret Salgian

June, 2004

Icons in traditional style

Vernissage 3

March 27 – May 23, 2004

RIVAA’s third anniversary show!

Roosevelt Island Schools

February – March, 2004

Works by Roosevelt Island’s youngest artists.

Works on Paper

January 24 – February 29, 2004

8-8

November 8 – January 8, 2004

TABOO

September 13th – October 26th, 2003

Open your eyes to the unexpected. What is Taboo? RIVAA artists answer this provocative question in a mixed media exhibition.

EXPOSURES

July 26 – September 6, 2003

In Exposures, ten artists representing this international community explore dramatic visual expressions in color and black and white photography.

VERNISSAGE 2

March 29th – May 25th, 2003

RIVAA’s first anniversary show.

LET’S FACE IT

September 28th – November 23rd, 2002

A simulacrum of spirit in the face and the body.

Analogic Sensations

July 13th, 2002

This festival aims to recontextualize media and establish an active relationship between us and our environment. The presented works use a variety of media to engage all the senses. Meaning threads through the integration and interaction of the works. We look to illuminate contemporary processes of communication and help viewers interpret messages consciously rather than subconsciously.

See the Analogic Sensations website