Beginning on September 11, Hopper House invites painters with all levels of experience to take classes each Saturday with Delah McKay at her studio in Piermont, NY.

Oil Painting (9.30a-12.30p): Achieve that professional touch to your painting with this step by step approach from set up to finish.

Fearless Painting (2pm-5pm): Acrylics, watercolor & crayons. Loosen up, use your fingers, try new utensils, paint to music, and discover your own voice and style.

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Coast to Coast: Paintings by Nathan Horner and Peter Jerry

August 28 – October 10, 2010

Reception: Saturday, August 28, 5-7 pm

California artist Nathan Horner and New York artist Peter Jerry create realist paintings of landscapes and transportation that are uniquely of their place.

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Nyack, Aug 19 — The 30th Summer of free jazz concerts at the Hopper House concludes tonight at 7:30p with Jano & Luther Rix Quintet.

The Edward Hopper House Art Center is located at 82 North Broadway in Nyack, New York,

For more information, visit HopperHouse.org.

by Samuel Anderson

The Edward Hopper House Express Yourself! Workshop for the YMCA Summer Teen Club had its opening reception on Friday at P.Ross on Main Street.  The reception debuted the artwork of ten teenaged artists and kicked off a weeklong exhibition.

Each child had painted, with the help of a mentor, a self-portrait. The results were staggering in their beauty and poignancy. They ranged from one inspired by Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland to a depiction of a detective story another artist wanted to write.

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Nyack, Tues. Aug 17 — The UpSouth Twisters perform tonight at 7:30p in Memorial Park in the last Mostly Music concert of the Summer.

Sponsored by the Friends of The Nyacks, concerts are free to all and take place in Nyack’s Memorial Park each Tuesday night from through August 17. It’s a great night for packing up a picnic dinner, grabbing the family, a few lawn chairs, a blanket and heading down to Memorial Park to enjoy a summer evening with friends and neighbors.

In the event of inclement weather, please call (845) 358-4973.

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August 18th, 7:30PM – 9:00PM
Come spend a summer evening at the Historical Society of Rockland County and learn about the history of Rockland Lake, presented by Robert Maher, co-founder of the Friends of Rockland Lake and Hook Mountain non-profit organization.

Following the presentation in the Community Room at the HSRC’s museum at 20 Zukor Road, New City, NY., we invite our guests upstairs to the museum’s gallery to enjoy our current exhibit, “Images of Rockland in Photographs and Words”. Admission is free, but donations are greatly appreciated.

For more information, call 845-634-9629 or go to
www.rocklandhistory.org.

by Peter Danish

For the past two years, the media has been full of articles concerning the dire state of arts funding during this current economic crisis.  The simple truth is painfully obvious: even in the best of times funding for the arts is a struggle.

One of the wonderful things about Rockland County is the fact that there are more not-for-profit charitable organizations than any other county in New York State.  Quite a statement considering we are also the smallest county in the state.  On the surface, that statistic speaks to a uniquely civic-minded, service-oriented community.  But the myriad of important and deserving causes make fund raising for the arts even more difficult.  .

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Nyack, Aug 12 — The 30th Summer of free jazz concerts at the Hopper House continues tonight at 7:30p with Richie Hart & Linc Milliman Duo.

The Edward Hopper House Art Center is located at 82 North Broadway in Nyack, New York,

For more information, visit HopperHouse.org.

Winter Wednesday Flowers has partnered with a private collector for the month of August to show and sell original artwork by some of the great realist and surrealist masters of the 20th century.  Among those in the collection are pieces by Leonor Fini, Milton Avery, Dorothea Tanning, Frederico Casatellon, Philip Pearlstein.  All are signed, and many are dated.  For more information, or to inquire about a private showing, please call 845-405-1902.

Winter Wednesday Flowers is located at 152 Main Street, Nyack NY.

by Samuel Anderson

The Edward Hopper House in association with the Rockland YMCA in Nyack is presenting the self-portraits of ten teen artist’s hosted by P.Ross on Main Street this Friday August 13th to open up an exhibition that will run one week. 

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