Team Showcase – Victoria Navarro
Tell us a little bit about you and your background. I am a Yonkers native with a big family and strong love for the arts. I graduated from Manhattanville College in 2020 with a BA in Theatre Performance. I have been performing both in Westchester and in NYC for over…
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Project Snapshot – Intertwined Entities
Art Focus®: Drawing Intertwined Entities Grades 3-5 Overview: Students learned to establish texture for form through inking, and how to convey nature realistically. Students learned about essential fundamentals in drawing, including creating a balanced composition and using inking techniques to convey nature realistically. They also learned how to incorporate elements…
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Student Showcase – Meet Ella!
Ella B., 9th Grade One River School Clark (NJ) How long have you been a student at One River School? 1 year. Tell us a little bit about your journey as a young and developing artist. My Aunt is an artist so I always went to do projects with her…
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Yasmeen Abdallah Part 2
Yasmeen Abdallah Part 2 The following is a conversation I had with Yasmeen about her work, life, and influences, along with images of her new works. John: To get started, could you tell us something about your work and background as an artist, and if there’s any advice…
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Drawing Hoaxes
Drawing Hoaxes In our current political environment, fundamental scientific truths are often called into question for political gain, through propaganda fueled by a biased media and the proliferation of journalistic sensationalism. The president says something that is blatantly untrue, and people believe it, despite the facts. When something false…
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Leslie Roberts – ‘Drawing Instructions”
Leslie Roberts – ‘Drawing Instructions” Leslie Roberts makes diagrammatic works that revel in the space between drawing and painting. They also excitingly explore the spaces between looking, seeing, and thinking (or decoding, problem solving, “figuring out”). Her works translate often serendipitously found texts into patterns. Within the parameters of…
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Yasmeen Abdallah: Fettuccine, Linguine, Martini, Bikini
When I first met Yasmeen Abdallah at Pratt Institute in the mid-2000’s, she was lugging gallon jugs of water from her thesis exhibition. Why she was doing this? Was it part of her work? A labor of the everyday that would result in an exquisitely tough piece of art? Or…
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Artist Feature: Nikki Maloof
Nikki Maloof is a painter based in South Hadley, MA and is represented by Jack Hanley Gallery in the Lower East side. She holds an MFA from Yale and a BFA from Indiana University, IN. Her recent solo show at Jack Hanley Gallery, titled ‘Caught and Free’, featured 8 large…
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Looking At Art
In the world of social media and the internet, one can see hundreds if not thousands of works of art online. We sift through hundreds of years’ worth of art through clicks and swipes, but in the end, are we really seeing and understanding how and what they are communicating?…
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Cameron Welch – One River School
2019 Emerging Art Award
At the beginning of May, for those of us who teach, we being the final weeks of the academic semester. We bid farewell to the BFA and MFA candidates who are about to embark on one of the toughest and most gratifying assignment: life as artists. Elsewhere in the art…
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