10-Year old Chase Balay has a malignant brain tumor. This beautiful 4th grade boy from my town Cresskill, NJ, an accomplished young artist with a special creative spirit, is battling something that is hard to put into words and frankly represents the nightmare we all dread as our worst possible…

  Supporting the Arts means Supporting Artists.  This year, we will show artwork from eight amazing contemporary artists in our two schools in Englewood and Allendale that includes: JJ Manford. Austin Eddy. Catherine Haggarty. Pat Berran. Matthew Fisher. Matthew Phillips. Ryan Johnson. Michael Berryhill. Our new school in Frisco, TX will…

April is National Autism Awareness Month and we are trying to shed some light on the mission of supporting those with Autism in America. Despite all of the efforts that have been made over the last ten years, Autism remains a great mystery with no clarity around the cause and…

  I don’t want to be political here…I simply want to talk about the NEA because they provide support to something that is at the center of my heart and soul. Arts and Culture. We are living in a moment of time where there is so much noise.   It is really…

Why do we freak out about the weather? Sometime ago, people would set out by land or sea and get utterly crushed by the unpredictable force of nature. Today, we track weather models a good 15 days in advance with amazing certainty. So, what is it about us and our…

Johannes VanDerbeek is one of the most compelling young artists in the world and I want to tell you a little more about him. But, before I do, I also want to tell you right at the top of this note that his new exhibition opens this Thursday at Marinaro…

Next Sunday we open a new exhibition at One River School Englewood with artwork from Caroline Larsen. Caroline lives in Brooklyn by way of Toronto, Canada and she is doing some things with paint that you simply have to see. When you first look at Caroline’s paintings, you think they…

  No we are not starting a college. But, last Friday I visited Michael Rees and The Center for New Art at William Patterson University and I was so happy to see the innovative approaches to teaching art at the college level that exist right here in our backyard. Michael…

When we started One River School four years ago I was trying to figure out how to create a cool place in suburbia that made learning digital art fun. DONE…we have taught thousands of students and I believe we are becoming the first choice for innovative art classes in Bergen…

We took 11 teen students. Gave them a studio of their own. Connected them with a mentor / teacher. Asked them to make an original body of artwork…akin to a professional assignment. We told them we would exhibit the work in multiple locations. They did the work …and we are…