Flash Sketch Mob headlines Hopper Plein Air Pop-Up Weekend
NyackNewsAndView’s own Bill Batson organizes his first Flash Sketch Mob in Nyack in 9 years in collaboration with the Edward Hopper Museum and Studio Center this Saturday, July 13, from 12:30 – 3:30pm. The crowd-sourced landscape portrait project was born on the pages of Batson’s Nyack Sketch Log column. You can register for the Hopper Flash Sketch Mob here. Scholarships are available.
A lecture entitles “Painting In the Open Air” by Elizabeth Thompson Colleary will precede the Flash Sketch Mob and is the perfect precursor. Colleary will present numerous oils and watercolors, many rarely seen, that Jo Nivison and Edward Hopper painted in outdoor settings where they found inspiration. Get tickets here.
Entire sections of the village were captured by groups of 100 artists respectively in Flash Sketch Mobs in 2012 and 2015. Artists lined both sides of the street, arriving as individuals, couples and families all becoming one giant flash sketch mob that is creating a handmade google map street view of our one square mile village.
Images are then scanned and shown as a collective representation of the village we all love. A village that inspired, Hopper and that has been subsequently shaped and defined by Hopper. Please join us Saturday from 12:30 to 3:30pm here at the hopper house.
The Flash sketch mob is open to artists of all ages and skill levels. After folks return from their designated assignments, we will scan their work for a screening on July 2Oth. The slideshow on that day will cap off a day that includes a Hopper Ride from the Whitney Museum in NYC to Nyack and a concert by Night Hawk.
Cyclists in the “Tour de Hopper,” will start their journey at registration early on Saturday, July 20 from 7–8:30am outside the Whitney Museum (99 Gansevoort Street, Manhattan) before heading north to the Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center (82 North Broadway, Nyack).
Edward Hopper House is where Hopper was born and grew up in Nyack before moving to New York City. The Edward Hopper House will offer snacks, Hopper birthday activities, and tours of the artist’s home, including a look at his 1897 bicycle. At the end of the visit, riders will head back to the Whitney Museum which is located near the neighborhood where Hopper lived and worked for much of his life
The day ends with a Edward Hopper birthday concert by Night Hawk, a Hopper inspired indie band currently touring the northeast this summer.
The band’s name “Night Hawk” is an allusion to Edward Hopper’s painting Nighthawks (1942) and they sings the stories of Edward Hopper paintings and more.
Night Hawk is a Bowdoin-based outfit led by Colter Adams and Peyton Semjen, whose music often blurs the line between indie rock and performance art. Featuring a rotating cast of intrepid players from the New England underground, the project revolves around the question: what do Edward Hopper’s paintings sound like?
The band members (all recent graduates of Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Maine), are reprising a concert, presented this spring at the Bowdoin Museum of Art, on the Garden Stage of the Edward Hopper House Museum.
Dozens of artists coming together to make art in public on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the marriage of Joe and Ed two artists that shared that same art partnered art making experience.
The Flash Sketch Mob will continue to be a part of future Hopper Birthday weekend celebrations as a way of paying homage to Jo and Ed, two star-crossed creatives, painting side-by-side in the town where they lay side-by -side in eternal repose at Oak Hill Cemetery. Observational art making is a great way for visitors to experience our village, leaving behind a record of their perspective.
And for those of us who live here, what better way to reacquaint ourselves with a landscape animated by light reflected by a river that inspired America’s most renowned realist painter. The unexamined place is not worth inhabiting.
The more we learn about where we live, the more zealous we can be in her defense.
Join the Hopper Flash Sketch Mob and become better acquainted with our community.
Nyack Famous Street Fair
Hundreds of vendors and thousands of visitors will transform Main Street and Broadway in Nyack into an outdoor bazaar the size of a small city on Sunday, July 14.
Sunday’s fair is sponsored by ACADA, the Arts, Crafts and Antique Dealers Association. Proceeds from the street fair are used to support promotional initiatives like Visit Nyack.
All street fairs run from 10am – 5pm, rain or shine
FYI: Pets are forbidden by village ordinance.
Silent Film Screening with Live Music From Hervé and Skyler Alexandre
Comedy and Fantasy From the Silent Era With Live Musical Accompaniment by Hervé and Skyler Alexandre. Presented by Garner Arts Center and Rivertown Film Saturday, July 20, at 8:30pm. Outdoors at Garner Arts Center, 55 W Railroad Ave, Garnerville, NY
After a stunning performance accompanying silent classics last summer, Hervé and Skyler Alexandre return to Garner Arts Center to accompany classic comedy and fantasy from the early days of experimentation and discovery in filmmaking.
The Goat by Buster Keaton
Dream of a Rarebit Fiend by Edwin S. Porter
KoKo’s Earth Control by Dave Fleischer
AND MORE
Tickets on sale here. Rivertown Film members receive a discount.
Rockland Photography Club Members Exhibit
A reception with light refreshments will be held on Tuesday, July 16 from 6-7:30pm at the Hidden Treasures Gallery in Palisades Mall on the first floor by Macys. The president of the Rockland Photography Club is our own Photo Editor, Andrea Swenson.
Brooklyn Demme screens Mountain Lion to Benefit Ashley Dawson
On Friday July 26, Rockland County filmmaker Brooklyn Demme will share his debut fictional feature film at the Cultural Arts Theatre of Rockland Community College. Mountain Lion: Healing Film of St. Francis is an intense drama about personal relationships, mental health, and family dynamics, that uses magical realism to express mindfulness in intimate relationships and seriousness in prayer. It was entirely shot in Rockland County.
The Sandhill Band of Lenape & Cherokee Indians, Rivertown Film, TurtleGang Edutainment, and Truth 2 Power, are offering a free screening to promote and benefit That Kid, the upcoming debut fictional film of Truth 2 Power co-founder and producer of Mountain Lion, Ashley Dawson.
Registration is required in order to secure seating, and any donations given at registration or at the screening will be directed to the production of That Kid. REGISTER HERE. If you do not receive a confirmation email, you have not successfully registered. Names of everyone who registers will be at the door. You do not need to bring a printout or show your receipt on your phone.
