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Greetings!
Yesterday evening my husband and I heard
the sound of katydids, which we associate with summer drifting into its
laziest days. It's a great time of year to relax and wander around our
own area checking out all the art on public display. Although I've
been involved with Blue Door for awhile, until we started putting
together the newsletter I never realized just how much art there was to
be seen around town almost any time. For ideas, read on; you can also
check our previous newsletters (under Quick Links at left) for more.Lynne Goodman
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The Blue Door Artist Association is the only not-for-profit art gallery in Yonkers. We invite you to join us in our efforts to serve both the artists and the public in our community.
Member benefits include: - An artist gallery page on our website
- Inclusion in a yearly members-only exhibition
- Opportunities to organize exhibitions and programs
- Listing on our Arts Calendar
- Notification of special art opportunities
Yearly membership dues are $35.00
For more details, go to Blue Door Artist Association
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Public Art
New Sculptures Emerge
Yonkers City Hall
Shelley Parriott
"Color Field with Indigo"
Lori Nozick
"Hudson River Marker Series"
Anthony Krauss "Wizard" |
Art From A New Perspective
 Art has moved beyond the traditional means of pencils, pens and paint in the studio. As artists we are faced with new and exciting avenues to incorporate technology into the art process. Yes, learning this process may not be second nature but exploring the possibilities are intriguing.
To many of us, the use of technology is a necessity in life. Think about the ways technology has pathed the way for artists to communicate by online galleries, blogs, and even e-newsletters.
Bill Allen describes his digital image stating, "I used the paint program on the computer to do it. It's called UNRED and it's inspired by a scene from the Hitchcock film North By Northwest. I simply changed the main color from blue to red."
How has technology influenced your artistic journey?
Celeste Walls-Kepler |
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Community Outreach
Yonkers RiverFest 2008
Call for Volunteers and Donations
Blue Door will once again have a table  at Yonkers RiverFest, Saturday art
project. Last year's event was a huge success, and we hope to bring the arts into the community once again at RiverFest. This is also an important event for Blue Door to increase our visibilty within the community.
We are asking all members to volunteer some time at our table: a minimum of two hours between 11am and 5pm. We are also looking for donations of art materials: glue, collage materials, etc. Please contact Courtney Puciata if you can donate or
volunteer: cpuciata@yahoo.com.
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Youth in the Arts
Yonkers Students Join
Forces to Put Together
the ARENA Gallery
The ARENA gallery, an art gallery founded by four Yonkers International Baccalaureate High School students (Daniel Boccato, Julieta Cardenas, Guadalupe Maceda, Nikolla Mernaci), had its first exhibition from June 6 to June 13. Rightfully entitled "Collective Struggle," this exhibition had an opening reception on Friday, June 6. It had the elegance of an actual art gallery, inside a school building. The event brought together students, family members, faculty, and the school's principal Mr. Vigliotti. Important figures from the art world were there to show support for the event, such as Barbara Segal, director of Yonkers Arts, Inc., and acclaimed artist and educator Tim Rollins. A sense that this was only the beginning, and that many more ambitious projects would arise, hovered in the air.
To see pictures and videos of this event, you may visit the "Collective Struggle" exhibition site:
http://arenagallery.net/e_collective-struggle_info.html
Everything started with the four student's flaming desire not to be apathetic and idle. "We do not want to conform ourselves to the neutral lifestyle of this world, which drives the passive, stagnant masses into a self-destructive and perverse system. We call ourselves intense people, because we see limitless potential in the resources we have access to, and we will do something with them. The 'something' in itself is not our concern; the verb is the essence. Nouns are temporary; verbs are eternal."
To know more about this project and of upcoming events, visit www.arenagallery.net
- ARENA gallery crew
(Daniel Boccato, Julieta Cardenas,
Guadalupe Maceda, Nikko Mernaci)
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Artist Spotlight
Anne Bobroff-Hajal On Portraiture
Anne has a new blog entry, "Portrait Composition: Old World vs New?" that has gotten a lot of favorable response from top portrait artists. See it at http://blog.annebobroffhajal.com/
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Newsletter Management Team
Celeste Walls-Kepler
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