Meet Chris Job: Advanced Teen Artist @ One River School
It’s about people. What we do everyday is about getting inside people’s brains to scratch around a bit. You don’t just wake up one day and become a great artist…or writer…or musician. It takes time, patience and some god given talent. And if you reinforce the right things along the…
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When Worlds Collide @ One River
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…
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Birdman—Art At Its Finest!
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…
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Daniel Gordon And Chocolate Soufflé
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.…
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Meet 3D Jack
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…
Read More2014 Two River Exhibition
One River will be celebrating the beginning of our third year by presenting our 2014 Two River Exhibition. Two River celebrates Brooklyn as the capital of today’s emerging artworld. As part of this year’s survey, we have included veteran artists who clearly inspire the handful of Brooklyn based emerging artists we have paired them with. I am…
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Students are required to complete a Foundation Course that provides a generalized introduction to the programs fundamentals. Within this 8-week / 90 minute class, students explore the creative and technical principles of their program. Upon completion of the Foundation course, students are prepared to enter the backbone of our program, One River’s Project Series.…
Read MoreFull Moon
Last night I was driving home and was fascinated by the full moon, aka Super Moon. Did you see it? It was outta control…larger, clearer and brighter than I have ever seen it in NJ. Apparently this was a phenomenon that everyone saw over the last week and Huffington Post (scroll down…
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New Documentary Film Course
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…
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The Roots Of One River
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…
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