Catch Yonkers First Thursday Gallery Hop. April 5, 2023, 5:30-7:30 PM

Event Details April 6, 2023 5:30-7:30 PM Enjoy Yonkers' diverse art scene by visiting downtown galleries featuring regional and world-renowned artists. During the First Thursday Gallery Hop, many downtown restaurants are providing special discounts off food and drinks to gallery visitors. List of participating restaurants listed below exhibition information. The First Thursday Gallery Hop has moved to a quarterly schedule so mark your calendars for April 6, June 1 and October 5, 2023. FEATURED ART GALLERIES   Blue Door Art Center 13 Riverdale Avenue | Yonkers Exhibition: Yonkers Thru The Lens, A Photographic Perspective March 11 - April 15 Join the Blue Door Art Center for a photography exhibition of our hometown Yonkers, New York. View perspectives on "The City of Gracious Living." Curated by Co-Executive Director, Julie Cousens, and talented photographer, Omar Kharem. Come and enjoy contemporary and historic photographs of Yonkers. All are welcome! Blue Door Art Center is dedicated to bringing the arts to local communities throughout Westchester that are currently underserved by art programs and exhibition venues. We do this through exhibitions in our gallery, educational programs, workshops, public art projects, poetry readings, performances, and special events.

Riverfront Art Gallery Yonkers Public Library 1 Larkin Center, 4th Floor | Yonkers Exhibition: Breathe in The Sky April 6 - May 25 Breathe in the Sky, a solo show featuring photographs from Hasna Muhammad, the daughter of renowned civil rights activists Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis. Her parents' activism provides important context for Muhammad’s work that spans over many years, capturing intimate memories with family, alongside monumental historical events. This exhibit is curated by Haifa Bint-Kadi. Muhammad was taught that dreaming was insufficient and that it was her duty, alongside her family, to take action if she truly wanted to invoke and see change. She captures the personal and the political through strikingly poignant photography from raw moments captured at her own father’s funeral in Final Days (recently exhibited at Sarah Lawrence College), to the ordinary and beautiful lives of Harlemites of all ages in Harlem Before My Eyes, to her budding personal passion for guitars in My Life with Guitars, and her poetic view of the world in Breathe in The Sky. Muhammad has documented socially and historically significant moments, inviting audiences into her innermost personal sphere.

Drummers in Front of The Apollo

Hasna Muhammad is a visual artist, writer, and educator whose work focuses on family, social justice, education, and the human condition. Her work has been displayed around the United States and she recently had her first book published, Breathe in The Sky: Poems Prayers & Photographs (Birthmark Media, 2023). She received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and completed her M.A. and Ed.D. at Teachers College, Columbia University. Hasna is also a 2018-2019 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Fellow and a 2022 Moth Storyteller.

Riverfront Art Gallery exhibits contemporary, nationally, and internationally acclaimed artwork. The mission of the gallery is to stimulate and encourage the study and presentation of fine arts and the public’s interest and participation therein; To foster and support the arts in the community and to serve as a portal to the arts for residents and community members; To create opportunities for the public to encounter and explore art that they might not otherwise be exposed to, increasing access to the arts in the City of Yonkers and surrounding communities.

Urban Studio Unbound Warburton Galerie 16 Warburton Avenue | Yonkers

Exhibition: Paintings & Works on Paper March 18 - April 22 Continuing its commitment to bringing the public exemplary art exhibitions featuring both emerging and established artists. Warburton Galerie is pleased to present a solo exhibition of Paintings & Works on Paper by artist Stephanie DeManuelle. Stephanie's work is nature inspired and semi-abstract-beginning with a continuous drawing process that accretes layers of paint as the artist follows a visual trail through the motif. Her desire in painting is to get beneath the surface of the outward appearance of things to reveal what is significant, but not readily visible. A root or a shell will offer an opportunity to explore shape, line and movement that echoes emotional states that are otherwise inaccessible. The resulting works are experienced through the voice of the material-the use of thickly textured and viscous earth toned mixtures that suggest anthropomorphic or geographic imagery. What is dominant is movement and turbulence. The relationships in the paintings are a 'stand in' for the invisible forces, sensations and tensions that govern our consciousness.

Blues, 44” x 29”, Oil & Charcoal on Canvas, 2022

Stephanie DeManuelle grew up in south Louisiana and spends summers in the Adirondack mountains of New York state. She feels the influence of both locales in her work.   Stephanie has been an art educator for the past 35 years, teaching at Parsons School of Design and Fashion Institute of Technology. She served as Chair of the Department of Fine Arts at FIT from 2006-2016 after which she retired from teaching.

US+U’s strength of purpose is to combine emerging and mid-career artists in a partnership to embrace a wide range of artistic approaches. This unique relationship creates a community of people who learn from each other through shared ideas and common goals. Warburton Galerie is a 4000 sq. ft. space dedicated to bringing the public exemplary art exhibitions via collaborations with curators, art advisors and creative organizations.

Receive 10% off food and drinks during the First Thursday Gallery Hop. Stop by any participating art gallery for the code. Participating restaurants include: La Bella Havana Dolphin Francey Brady's Giovanni's Pizza Guapo Cocina Mexicana Khangri Sushi Off the Hook TaqueRio Taco Bar Lost Borough Ice Cream X20 Yonkers Brewing Co. Zuppa

Yonkers Gallery Group is an alliance of the downtown Yonkers Arts Organizations sponsored by the Yonkers Public Library. First Thursday Gallery Hop was creatively conceived by Riverfront Art Gallery curator Haifa Bint-Kadi as a way to welcome the community and audiences beyond to visit the downtown creative venues while also supporting local restaurants. #youkersgallery#fineartmagazine#fineartfun