Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Interview with Elia Gurna
An conversation with Windows 2009 artist Elia Gurna. Elia installed "Ma Ma Mt. Beacon" at 502 Main Street.
Interview by Madeline Hoyt
Filmed & edited by Conrad Tatge
Interview with Jason Hahne
A visit with Windows 2009 artist Jason Hahne on August 8, 2009. Jason installed "haben einige veranderungen" at 504 Main Street.
Interview by Madeline Hoyt
Filmed & edited by Conrad Tatge
Excerpts from "Public Art, the Economy and Our Community" Panel Discussion
Featuring: facilitator Ty Marshal; Christopher Albert, Artist; Garin Baker, Orange County Arts Council; Steven Evans, Assistant Director of Dia Foundation at Dia:Beacon; Cabot Parsons, Chairperson of Beacon Arts & Cultural Development Committee; Sara Pasti, Director of Samuel Dorsky Museum & Beacon Councilwoman; Dan Weise, Open Space Gallery, Beacon
Filmed & edited by Conrad Tatge
Interview with Cabot Parsons
A conversation about public art with Cabot Parsons prior to the Public Art Panel Discussion on August 8, 2009. Cabot is the Chairperson of Beacon Arts & Cultural Development Committee and an artist.
Interview by Madeline Hoyt
Filmed & edited by Conrad Tatge
Friday, August 14, 2009
Elizabeth Castagna
Elizabeth Castagna - 500 Main Street
“What do you want?”
The question “What do you want?” hung across 4 windows in large bold text of the storefront at 500 Main Street. What would contemplation of this question give rise to inside of us? What is it like for a community to see this question on a daily basis for one month? Do we change once we become clear about what we want? Where does the answer to this question live in our body?
I chose 500 Main Street storefront because of the mailbox slot. A mailbox slot in the door of a vacant store with the question “What do you want?” evokes a feeling that maybe you can get what you want by writing it down on a piece of paper and putting it into the slot. What does it feel like for you to express what you want?
“What do you want?”
The question “What do you want?” hung across 4 windows in large bold text of the storefront at 500 Main Street. What would contemplation of this question give rise to inside of us? What is it like for a community to see this question on a daily basis for one month? Do we change once we become clear about what we want? Where does the answer to this question live in our body?
I chose 500 Main Street storefront because of the mailbox slot. A mailbox slot in the door of a vacant store with the question “What do you want?” evokes a feeling that maybe you can get what you want by writing it down on a piece of paper and putting it into the slot. What does it feel like for you to express what you want?
Melissa Toth & Joe Pimentel
Melissa Toth & Joe Pimentel - Fire Lotus, 474 Main Street
I have been exploring the use of text and multimedia to create works of art that visually convey the emotions associated with self-actualization within the physical world, as well as, greater awareness and sensitivity to the spiritual realms of higher consciousness. I draw exclusively on my own original writings and it is through my process of creating poems (reading, re-reading, and editing) that I find inspiration for what later becomes visual works of art, made with a variety of materials and a strong sense of spontaneity. By extending into the realm of making artwork, I hope to better connect to the human condition and more effectively provoke emotional and energetic responses to the concepts and themes presented in my poetry.
For the Windows on Main Street :: Beacon NY project I worked with Joe Pimentel to create an installation in the Fire Lotus/Mills Antiques storefront on the east end of town. Our goal with this work was to create a composition that would be visually appealing and compliment the atmosphere of the stores without overwhelming the products or nature of the respective businesses. As a result, we decided to use foam board and colored cellophane (red, orange, and yellow) due to the lightweight and semi-transparent quality of the materials. We chose to use a large lotus flower as our main image and incorporated circular, orb-like shapes rising up and flowing through the length of the storefront windows like a wave of smoke or visible energy. The finished composition has a magical quality that captures the sunlight and reflects the respective hues on the interior of the space, while still allowing more than adequate visibility of some of the products that each store has to offer. Overall, it was a very interesting process that resulted in a successful interaction of artists and store owners to create a fun and beautiful art installation.
--Melissa Toth
I persistently challenge myself to see how far my imagination can soar on earth and through space by contemplating ideas about time, moments, and overall experiences. I find myself overwhelmed by the limitless possibilities that can be explored and realized as our souls gradually evolve towards a higher level of potential. As this evolution plays out inside of our minds, we continue to create and interact with the constructed, visible world around us. I draw on these visual references, as well as symbols, icons, and metaphors to inform my paintings from a philosophical and analytical point of view.
The process of creating my work leads me to question ideas about societal laziness, when clearly there is an ever-changing-machinemind of information present in all of us that can be tapped into at any given time to promote greater understanding and awareness of the world. When I look at all of the animate and inanimate objects in my surroundings, I continually see opportunities to create unique objects. By using watercolor and colored pencils on paper, I attempt to morph these unique objects into a flowing, cohesive visual aesthetic that creates a semi-abstract, organic representation of the familiar in an unrecognizable way.
For the Windows on Main Street :: Beacon NY project I worked with Melissa Toth to create an installation in the Fire Lotus/Mills Antiques storefront on the east end of town. Our goal with this work was to create a composition that would be visually appealing and compliment the atmosphere of the stores without overwhelming the products or nature of the respective businesses. As a result, we decided to use foam board and colored cellophane (red, orange, and yellow) due to the lightweight and semi-transparent quality of the materials. We chose to use a large lotus flower as our main image and incorporated circular, orb-like shapes rising up and flowing through the length of the storefront windows like a wave of smoke or visible energy. The finished composition has a magical quality that captures the sunlight and reflects the respective hues on the interior of the space, while still allowing more than adequate visibility of some of the products that each store has to offer. Overall, it was a very interesting process that resulted in a successful interaction of artists and storeowners to create a fun and beautiful art installation.
--Joe Pimentel
I have been exploring the use of text and multimedia to create works of art that visually convey the emotions associated with self-actualization within the physical world, as well as, greater awareness and sensitivity to the spiritual realms of higher consciousness. I draw exclusively on my own original writings and it is through my process of creating poems (reading, re-reading, and editing) that I find inspiration for what later becomes visual works of art, made with a variety of materials and a strong sense of spontaneity. By extending into the realm of making artwork, I hope to better connect to the human condition and more effectively provoke emotional and energetic responses to the concepts and themes presented in my poetry.
For the Windows on Main Street :: Beacon NY project I worked with Joe Pimentel to create an installation in the Fire Lotus/Mills Antiques storefront on the east end of town. Our goal with this work was to create a composition that would be visually appealing and compliment the atmosphere of the stores without overwhelming the products or nature of the respective businesses. As a result, we decided to use foam board and colored cellophane (red, orange, and yellow) due to the lightweight and semi-transparent quality of the materials. We chose to use a large lotus flower as our main image and incorporated circular, orb-like shapes rising up and flowing through the length of the storefront windows like a wave of smoke or visible energy. The finished composition has a magical quality that captures the sunlight and reflects the respective hues on the interior of the space, while still allowing more than adequate visibility of some of the products that each store has to offer. Overall, it was a very interesting process that resulted in a successful interaction of artists and store owners to create a fun and beautiful art installation.
--Melissa Toth
I persistently challenge myself to see how far my imagination can soar on earth and through space by contemplating ideas about time, moments, and overall experiences. I find myself overwhelmed by the limitless possibilities that can be explored and realized as our souls gradually evolve towards a higher level of potential. As this evolution plays out inside of our minds, we continue to create and interact with the constructed, visible world around us. I draw on these visual references, as well as symbols, icons, and metaphors to inform my paintings from a philosophical and analytical point of view.
The process of creating my work leads me to question ideas about societal laziness, when clearly there is an ever-changing-machinemind of information present in all of us that can be tapped into at any given time to promote greater understanding and awareness of the world. When I look at all of the animate and inanimate objects in my surroundings, I continually see opportunities to create unique objects. By using watercolor and colored pencils on paper, I attempt to morph these unique objects into a flowing, cohesive visual aesthetic that creates a semi-abstract, organic representation of the familiar in an unrecognizable way.
For the Windows on Main Street :: Beacon NY project I worked with Melissa Toth to create an installation in the Fire Lotus/Mills Antiques storefront on the east end of town. Our goal with this work was to create a composition that would be visually appealing and compliment the atmosphere of the stores without overwhelming the products or nature of the respective businesses. As a result, we decided to use foam board and colored cellophane (red, orange, and yellow) due to the lightweight and semi-transparent quality of the materials. We chose to use a large lotus flower as our main image and incorporated circular, orb-like shapes rising up and flowing through the length of the storefront windows like a wave of smoke or visible energy. The finished composition has a magical quality that captures the sunlight and reflects the respective hues on the interior of the space, while still allowing more than adequate visibility of some of the products that each store has to offer. Overall, it was a very interesting process that resulted in a successful interaction of artists and storeowners to create a fun and beautiful art installation.
--Joe Pimentel
Beacon Community Center Teens
Beacon Community Center Teens - Kennedy Fried Chicken, 392 Main Street
Dana Devine O’Malley
Dana Devine O’Malley - Zora Dora, 201 Main Street
“A Day of the Dead in Beacon”
Chef Steve was inspired by Mexican street food when he developed his Popsicles. Simple but complex are the flavors. I wanted to take from that and mix it into Beacon life. Each diorama reps a different thing about Beacon life IE DIA, biking, arts, hiking, the river, etc.
The piece is made with as much recycled, Eco friendly material I could use. I have a Fine Arts/Photography background and it was the first time using these materials.
danadevineomalley.com
“A Day of the Dead in Beacon”
Chef Steve was inspired by Mexican street food when he developed his Popsicles. Simple but complex are the flavors. I wanted to take from that and mix it into Beacon life. Each diorama reps a different thing about Beacon life IE DIA, biking, arts, hiking, the river, etc.
The piece is made with as much recycled, Eco friendly material I could use. I have a Fine Arts/Photography background and it was the first time using these materials.
danadevineomalley.com
Teresa Marra
Teresa Marra - Chill Wine Bar, 173 Main Street
Using elements of collage, painting, sculpture and writings, Teresa Marra’s body of work tugs at the heartstrings through representations of inter-human relationships, satire, and raw honesty.
She frequently utilizes existing materials enriched with words, paint strokes or thread stitching to portray short narratives that tend towards the open ended and opaque. Her canvases marry emotions and beauty, fashion and youth, birth and death, resulting in an intimate yet dirty realism.
This window is her first attack at installation art. Using the same mediums she brings her canvas work to a more three dimensional atmosphere. Integrating objects that would normally be tossed away she has created a metaphor for heartbreak and love.
www.teresamarra.blogspot.com • teresa.marra33@gmail.com
Using elements of collage, painting, sculpture and writings, Teresa Marra’s body of work tugs at the heartstrings through representations of inter-human relationships, satire, and raw honesty.
She frequently utilizes existing materials enriched with words, paint strokes or thread stitching to portray short narratives that tend towards the open ended and opaque. Her canvases marry emotions and beauty, fashion and youth, birth and death, resulting in an intimate yet dirty realism.
This window is her first attack at installation art. Using the same mediums she brings her canvas work to a more three dimensional atmosphere. Integrating objects that would normally be tossed away she has created a metaphor for heartbreak and love.
www.teresamarra.blogspot.com • teresa.marra33@gmail.com
Edward Vermehren & Beth Lewis-Jackson
Edward Vermehren & Beth Lewis-Jackson - Hudson Beacon Glass, 162 Main Street
Hudson Beach Glass was chosen for its large bright open windows and for the creative process of glass making. The ground they chose was Shoji Paper which is a translucent fiber sheet typically used to make traditional Japanese Shoji screens and doors. The mediums used were inks, translucent paints and pastels. All of the windows on the second and third floors display one window sized figure. The sizes of figures range from 3’x6’ to 3’x9’. With the common goals of using creative spirits, inventiveness, and thinking on a larger scale, these artists set forward. What they came out with was a project which expresses the human figure and the human mind while not limiting themselves to a single window and using the building as a whole.
This project was created through the collaboration of artists Beth Lewis-Jackson and Edward Vermehren. Large scale painting was a new and exiting challenge for both artists. These artists are members of the Beacon Figure Drawing Session that meets at Floor One in Beacon NY. The subjects they presented were inspired by the drawings and sketches from the drawing sessions.
Ed Vermehren is a self-trained lifelong artist with experience in many types of media ranging from paints to photography. Most of his work in recent years has been with paint and ink. Ed has been a Beacon resident for over 5 years and a lifelong Dutchess County resident. It is truly a gift that Ed possesses.
Beth Lewis-Jackson received a BFA from SUNY Purchase and an MsED from Bank Street/Parsons School of Design. She is a new resident of Beacon, Beth’s paintings reflect the world as she lives it.
Hudson Beach Glass was chosen for its large bright open windows and for the creative process of glass making. The ground they chose was Shoji Paper which is a translucent fiber sheet typically used to make traditional Japanese Shoji screens and doors. The mediums used were inks, translucent paints and pastels. All of the windows on the second and third floors display one window sized figure. The sizes of figures range from 3’x6’ to 3’x9’. With the common goals of using creative spirits, inventiveness, and thinking on a larger scale, these artists set forward. What they came out with was a project which expresses the human figure and the human mind while not limiting themselves to a single window and using the building as a whole.
This project was created through the collaboration of artists Beth Lewis-Jackson and Edward Vermehren. Large scale painting was a new and exiting challenge for both artists. These artists are members of the Beacon Figure Drawing Session that meets at Floor One in Beacon NY. The subjects they presented were inspired by the drawings and sketches from the drawing sessions.
Ed Vermehren is a self-trained lifelong artist with experience in many types of media ranging from paints to photography. Most of his work in recent years has been with paint and ink. Ed has been a Beacon resident for over 5 years and a lifelong Dutchess County resident. It is truly a gift that Ed possesses.
Beth Lewis-Jackson received a BFA from SUNY Purchase and an MsED from Bank Street/Parsons School of Design. She is a new resident of Beacon, Beth’s paintings reflect the world as she lives it.
Steve Rossi
Steve Rossi - Artisan Wine Shop, 180 Main Street
Being interested in Beacon’s manufacturing past, and specifically in its contribution to Hudson Valley brick production, the project that I will be pursuing for this years Windows on Main Street Project involves creating a link between brick production in Beacon and the iconic New York City architectural landmarks of Rockefeller Center and the Empire State Building — two buildings historically documented to have used bricks from Dennings Point Brick Works in operation from 1881–1939.
It is my hope to draw attention to the under recognized and largely unseen labor contributed by numerous Beacon residents to the production of masonry materials used in these landmark buildings. To meet these ends, my installation involves mounting a number of postcards of each of the landmark buildings listed above in the storefront windows of Artisan Wine. On the backside of the postcards will be printed cropped close-up portraits appropriated from historical photos gathered from the archives of the Beacon Historical Society of the workers from Dennings Point Brick Works.
A mirror will be mounted from the interior ceiling and suspended approximately twelve inches away from the window, providing a reflective surface visible from the exterior of the storefront. This reflection will facilitate a multilayered perception of the landmark postcards, the portraits printed on their reverse side, along with the viewers own reflection — providing an immediate visceral connection to the experience of the project, as well as establishing sitespecific relationships between Beacon’s manufacturing history and the landmark architecture of New York City.
Being interested in Beacon’s manufacturing past, and specifically in its contribution to Hudson Valley brick production, the project that I will be pursuing for this years Windows on Main Street Project involves creating a link between brick production in Beacon and the iconic New York City architectural landmarks of Rockefeller Center and the Empire State Building — two buildings historically documented to have used bricks from Dennings Point Brick Works in operation from 1881–1939.
It is my hope to draw attention to the under recognized and largely unseen labor contributed by numerous Beacon residents to the production of masonry materials used in these landmark buildings. To meet these ends, my installation involves mounting a number of postcards of each of the landmark buildings listed above in the storefront windows of Artisan Wine. On the backside of the postcards will be printed cropped close-up portraits appropriated from historical photos gathered from the archives of the Beacon Historical Society of the workers from Dennings Point Brick Works.
A mirror will be mounted from the interior ceiling and suspended approximately twelve inches away from the window, providing a reflective surface visible from the exterior of the storefront. This reflection will facilitate a multilayered perception of the landmark postcards, the portraits printed on their reverse side, along with the viewers own reflection — providing an immediate visceral connection to the experience of the project, as well as establishing sitespecific relationships between Beacon’s manufacturing history and the landmark architecture of New York City.
Peter Iannarelli & Keisha Luce
Peter Iannarelli & Keisha Luce - Moxie Salon & Beauty Hub, 544 Main Street
Title: The letters and numbers of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech, "I Have a Dream," presented four ways in the colors of the four-color-process printing model.
Title: The letters and numbers of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech, "I Have a Dream," presented four ways in the colors of the four-color-process printing model.
Will Walker & Jesse Lebwhol-Steiner
Will Walker & Jesse Lebwhol-Steiner - M&T Bank, 200 Main Street
Will Walker creates installations, objects, drawings and paintings that exist somewhere between the banalities of overlooked, ordinary objects and materials, and the buoyant promises of science fiction. For the installation at M&T Bank on Main Street, Walker covered the windows of the offices at the bank with green tissue, altering the character of the light drifting through the space. While mirroring the traditional colors of the bank’s logo, the green glow suffusing the offices suggests the possibility of a relocation of the architecture, as if the light seeping in was filtered by a canopy or forest, or as though through grass. Also on display in the west window of the bank is an installation created in collaboration with Jesse Lebwohl-Steiner.
The relationship between people and their environments is my primary interest. Specifically, the effect they have on each other and where the border between them lies. This boundary is much like the line between ocean and shore. A line is perceptible, yet changing and determined by the individual will of two interdependent elements reacting to each other. The line between people and their environments is similarly in constant flux. How much are we a product of our environments? To what extent are our environments an extension of who we are?
For Windows on Main Street 2009, I have adopted unwanted house plants. Each plant’s history will be documented to this point in brief textual statement. The project will culminate in homes being found for each plant.
Will Walker creates installations, objects, drawings and paintings that exist somewhere between the banalities of overlooked, ordinary objects and materials, and the buoyant promises of science fiction. For the installation at M&T Bank on Main Street, Walker covered the windows of the offices at the bank with green tissue, altering the character of the light drifting through the space. While mirroring the traditional colors of the bank’s logo, the green glow suffusing the offices suggests the possibility of a relocation of the architecture, as if the light seeping in was filtered by a canopy or forest, or as though through grass. Also on display in the west window of the bank is an installation created in collaboration with Jesse Lebwohl-Steiner.
The relationship between people and their environments is my primary interest. Specifically, the effect they have on each other and where the border between them lies. This boundary is much like the line between ocean and shore. A line is perceptible, yet changing and determined by the individual will of two interdependent elements reacting to each other. The line between people and their environments is similarly in constant flux. How much are we a product of our environments? To what extent are our environments an extension of who we are?
For Windows on Main Street 2009, I have adopted unwanted house plants. Each plant’s history will be documented to this point in brief textual statement. The project will culminate in homes being found for each plant.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Emily Sylvester
Emily Sylvester - Poppy's Burgers & Fries, 184 Main Street
I wanted to not only display my personal work in Poppy’s but show my appreciation for a genuinely good burger joint in Beacon, and to illustrate my new found love of meat after being vegetarian for a year. I’ve created a series of illustrations, using pen and colored inks, as a tribute to Poppy’s amazing burgers, and to the joy of eating meat.
I wanted to not only display my personal work in Poppy’s but show my appreciation for a genuinely good burger joint in Beacon, and to illustrate my new found love of meat after being vegetarian for a year. I’ve created a series of illustrations, using pen and colored inks, as a tribute to Poppy’s amazing burgers, and to the joy of eating meat.
Beth Haber & Steven Lewis
Beth Haber & Steven Lewis - Riverwinds, 172 Main Street
“River Notebook” visually plays with the time honored practice in the Hudson River Valley of writing on, and reading the river. Here we continue the dialog between present and past. The pages of this “River Notebook” come from a series of “Flow –Texts” where paint flows and deposits its pigment on the surface of mylar leaving a tracery of its path — and imagines tactile archives (the books of earlier times) in a digital age. The actual text we use carries the words of Robert Juet taken from his journal of Hudson’s 1609 voyage. Juet sailed with Henry Hudson on at least three voyages and is listed by Hudson as “The Master His Mate” The entries are those that correspond to those written in the late summer of 1609 as the crew of the Half Moon sailed up the river and back this season -exactly 400 years ago. Juet’s phrases, observations and descriptions float and flow across the “page” screen. They can be read in multiple streams and like the river itself, flow both ways.
“River Notebook” visually plays with the time honored practice in the Hudson River Valley of writing on, and reading the river. Here we continue the dialog between present and past. The pages of this “River Notebook” come from a series of “Flow –Texts” where paint flows and deposits its pigment on the surface of mylar leaving a tracery of its path — and imagines tactile archives (the books of earlier times) in a digital age. The actual text we use carries the words of Robert Juet taken from his journal of Hudson’s 1609 voyage. Juet sailed with Henry Hudson on at least three voyages and is listed by Hudson as “The Master His Mate” The entries are those that correspond to those written in the late summer of 1609 as the crew of the Half Moon sailed up the river and back this season -exactly 400 years ago. Juet’s phrases, observations and descriptions float and flow across the “page” screen. They can be read in multiple streams and like the river itself, flow both ways.
Theresa Gooby
Theresa Gooby - 259 Main Street
In 1965 Los Angeles artist Ed Ruscha set out to photograph every building on Sunset Blvd. in LA for what would become his iconic work “Every Building on the Sunset Strip”. This monumental work achieved an effective non-judgemental and almost anthropological record of previously unexplored details and aspects of the urban experience. It is in this spirit that I have photographed every empty storefront on Main St. Beacon. I present these spaces not as empty but as full off potential, each one an opportunity waiting to happen. Posing the question to anyone who passes by: what would you like to see in these spaces if you could have anything? I see this work as a collaboration between the artist and the imaginations of our city’s population.
After months of informally surveying people in Beacon, I have begun a list of what the people of Beacon want added to our Main St.; pragmatic businesses, community-based projects, entertainment, food. The invented businesses I’ve listed are the beginning of a collective re-imagining of Beacon’s commercial mainstay. Anyone who passes by is invited to propose their own ideas which will be added to the installation at 259 Main St. as the month of WOMS progresses.
In 1965 Los Angeles artist Ed Ruscha set out to photograph every building on Sunset Blvd. in LA for what would become his iconic work “Every Building on the Sunset Strip”. This monumental work achieved an effective non-judgemental and almost anthropological record of previously unexplored details and aspects of the urban experience. It is in this spirit that I have photographed every empty storefront on Main St. Beacon. I present these spaces not as empty but as full off potential, each one an opportunity waiting to happen. Posing the question to anyone who passes by: what would you like to see in these spaces if you could have anything? I see this work as a collaboration between the artist and the imaginations of our city’s population.
After months of informally surveying people in Beacon, I have begun a list of what the people of Beacon want added to our Main St.; pragmatic businesses, community-based projects, entertainment, food. The invented businesses I’ve listed are the beginning of a collective re-imagining of Beacon’s commercial mainstay. Anyone who passes by is invited to propose their own ideas which will be added to the installation at 259 Main St. as the month of WOMS progresses.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Jason Hahne
Jason Hahne - 504 Main Street
education: BFA Alfred University
education: BFA Alfred University title: haben einige veranderungen
medium: steel, wood, dc motor
dimensions: 66" x 67" x 24"
medium: steel, wood, dc motor
dimensions: 66" x 67" x 24"
Carla Goldberg
Carla Goldberg - Beacon Institute for Rivers & Estuaries, 199 Main Street
"It's All About The River"
"It's All About The River"
mixed media:resin, ground glass, paper, wire, pigment and ink.
Carla Goldberg is originally from Southern California, and is a mixed media artist. She graduated with honors from the University of Redlands, CA. and earned her MFA from Maryland Institute, College of Art (MICA), Mount Royal Graduate School of Art in Baltimore, MD. Presently she lives with her husband and young family in the Hudson Valley region of New York, which is the subject matter of her works.
It is the Hudson River that inspires and informs her work, intermingling imagery, histories, legends and river science. Carla Goldberg’s work has been featured in solo and group shows nationally and internationally in galleries, universities and museums and can be found in public spaces and corporate collections. She has been publicly juried numerous times into the top 50 artists on Saatchi Showdown online and regularly receives over 40 million hits per day. She also curates and creates large group shows and projects. Among these include the Centennial Celebration for the University of Redlands, which included 50 Alumni artists spanning eight decades. She also created and ran the FREEDOM & ART project bringing together a diverse group of 74 international artists from 27 countries in a fundraising format for Amnesty International in support of political leader and prisoner of conscience Aung San Suu Kyi and her beloved country of Burma. The project created a book, a coordinated simultaneous 27 country happening, a traveling art exhibition and panel discussion that received coverage by the BBC- Radio Free Asia.
Keely Sheehan
Keely Sheehan - Echo, 484 Main Street
YOUTH. BIRTH. GROWTH. MEMORY.FLIGHT.
These were the foundations that I built from while working on this project.
The desire to be somewhere else is consuming when what is necessary is to be exactly where you are.
And then community begins.
YOUTH. BIRTH. GROWTH. MEMORY.FLIGHT.
These were the foundations that I built from while working on this project.
The desire to be somewhere else is consuming when what is necessary is to be exactly where you are.
And then community begins.
Rebecca Ambrosini and Cheyenne
Rebecca Ambrosini & Cheyenne - Muddy Cup Coffeehouse, 129 Main Street
This is an interactive piece created by recent Beacon High School graduates. Leaving a stack of napkins inside the Muddy Cup, guests are welcome to take a napkin and draw or create images, adding to the collection of napkin art created on site. The napkins are then added to the windows using wire and paperclips, making the project grow and change as the exhibit runs.
This is an interactive piece created by recent Beacon High School graduates. Leaving a stack of napkins inside the Muddy Cup, guests are welcome to take a napkin and draw or create images, adding to the collection of napkin art created on site. The napkins are then added to the windows using wire and paperclips, making the project grow and change as the exhibit runs.
Friday, July 17, 2009
Windows on Main Street Special Events
Panel Discussion: “Public Art, the Economy and Our Community”
Saturday, August 8, 2009
2:00pm – 4:00pm
Dia:Beacon, 3 Beekman Street, Beacon
Join local and regional professionals in a discussion about Public Art and its effect on the local economy and the various ways Public Art pertains to the community.
Saturday, August 8, 2009
2:00pm – 4:00pm
Dia:Beacon, 3 Beekman Street, Beacon
Join local and regional professionals in a discussion about Public Art and its effect on the local economy and the various ways Public Art pertains to the community.
- Christopher Albert, Artist
- Garin Baker, Orange County Arts Council
- Steven Evans, Assistant Director of Dia Foundation at Dia:Beacon
- Cabot Parsons, Chairperson of Beacon Arts & Cultural Development Committee
- Sara Pasti, Director of Samuel Dorsky Museum & Beacon Councilwoman
- Dan Weise, Open Space Gallery, Beacon
Please let us know you're coming at: 17EastMain@gmail.com, or by calling (845) 765-1629.
Opening Reception
Saturday, August 8, 2009
6:00pm – 9:00pm
Chill Wine Bar, 173 Main Street, Beacon
Featuring the chill groove of K. Erik Ino & James
Come meet the artists of Windows on Main Street
Artist's Panel Discussion
Saturday, September 12, 2009
12:00pm – 2:00pm
Zuzu's Coffeehouse, 453 Main Street, Beacon
Join the artists of Windows on Main Street as they discuss their process, participation and creation of Windows on Main Street.
Closing Reception
Saturday, September 12, 2009
2:00pm – 4:00pm
Zuzu's Coffeehouse, 453 Main Street, Beacon
Join us for a closing reception with the artists and business owners who participated, sponsored and created this year’s Windows on Main Street.
Opening Reception
Saturday, August 8, 2009
6:00pm – 9:00pm
Chill Wine Bar, 173 Main Street, Beacon
Featuring the chill groove of K. Erik Ino & James
Come meet the artists of Windows on Main Street
Artist's Panel Discussion
Saturday, September 12, 2009
12:00pm – 2:00pm
Zuzu's Coffeehouse, 453 Main Street, Beacon
Join the artists of Windows on Main Street as they discuss their process, participation and creation of Windows on Main Street.
Closing Reception
Saturday, September 12, 2009
2:00pm – 4:00pm
Zuzu's Coffeehouse, 453 Main Street, Beacon
Join us for a closing reception with the artists and business owners who participated, sponsored and created this year’s Windows on Main Street.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
2009 Windows Participants
- Rebecca Ambrosini & Cheyenne - Muddy Cup Coffeeshop, 129 Main Street
- Kathleen Anderson - Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union, 324 Main Street
- Beacon Community Center Teens - Kennedy Fried Chicken, 392 Main Street
- Beacon Green Teen - Beacon Natural Market, 348 Main Street
- Elizabeth Castagna - 500 Main Street
- Carla Goldberg - Beacon Rivers for Estuaries & Rivers, 199 Main Street
- Theresa Gooby - 259 Main Street
- Elia Gurna - 502 Main Street
- Beth Haber & Steven Lewis - River Winds Gallery, 172 Main Street
- Jason Hahne - 504 Main Street
- Peter Iannarelli & Keisha Luce - Moxie Salon, 544 Main Street
- Jesse Lebwohl-Steiner & Will Walker - M&T Bank, 200 Main Street
- Beth Lewis-Jackson & Edward Vermehren - Hudson Beach Glass, 162 Main Street
- Teresa Marra - Chill Wine Bar, 173 Main Street
- Eileen McTiernan - Mount Beacon Fine Art, 155 Main Street
- Mount Incline Railway Society - 460 Main Street
- Dana Devine O’Malley - Zora Dora, 201 Main Street
- Joe Pimentel & Melissa Toth - Fire Lotus, 474 Main Street
- Keely Sheehan - Echo, 470 Main Street
- Vickie Raabin - Mixture, 209 Main Street
- Steve Rossi - Artisan Wine Shop, 180 Main Street
- Dan Rigney - BEAHive/American Burnish, 291 Main Street
- Emily Sylvester - Poppy’s Burger’s & Fries, 184 Main Street
- Catherine Welshman - Jacqueline’s, 478 Main Street
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Monday, July 06, 2009
Thank You Sponsors!
Binaifer & Navroz Dabu
Howland Cultural Center
Manor House Realty
River Therapeutic Massage
Special thanks to:
for printing out our fabulous window banners!
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