This past Saturday was a truly special day. In celebration of our new exhibition 12”, we had teens from the School of Rock in Tenafly play an acoustic set at the gallery. It happened to be during our Advanced Teen Art Class and it gave us a chance to have…

Watching TV is a huge challenge for me no matter how innovative the show may seem. Last night I sat down to watch Homeland (episode 4…I’m behind) and found my thoughts drifting away every ten minutes. No matter how hard they tried to build drama, I just wasn’t going to…

Part of my mission at One River is to close the cultural gap by sharing the stories of inspiring artists with our students and our community at large. Last year, I was walking through the Frieze Art Fair in NY and stumbled onto something that stopped me in my tracks.…

Most of our students love to draw or paint but struggle when creating sculptural or 3-D artwork.   Often times, they have a harder time rendering their visual concepts in a three-dimensional form. One of the great things about our “Art Shuffle” programs is that they integrate all of these…

New Documentary Film Course I love documentary films on so many levels. The simplicity to the story telling and the “everyman” subject matter often connects with me. I have sat and watched documentaries about artists, athletes, politicians and topics as diverse as our food supply and scaling Everest. Our first…

Yesterday was my first Father’s Day without my Dad.  Herb Ross died last September, a year after we started One River.  My father was an interesting guy because he loved the visual arts, painted and illustrated, collected things with a passion, but rarely shared it with others. He was inspired to draw…

Folk art is a category that Wikipedia describes as: “art produced from an indigenous culture or by peasants or other laboring tradespeople. In contrast to fine art, folk art is primarily utilitarian and decorative rather than purely aesthetic.” In today’s art world, it is super hard to receive credibility from…