At the Jamie Forbes Gallery, with Ketcham Inn Foundation "Environmental Reflections" with Ty Stroudsburg, Janet Culbertson, Carol Hunt, Anne Seelbach are on display through September 9th. the timeless Environmental Concerns "Artists for Peace and the Environment" are shown at the Jamie Forbes Gallery through October 31, 2019 .

 Opening on August 10th, "Environmental Reflections" with Ty Stroudsburg,  Janet Culbertson, Carol Hunt, Anne Seelbach are on display through September 9th. 

Carol Hunt and crew at our opening of "Environmental Reflections, at the Jamie Forbes Gallery, Aug. 10th. 

Margery Gosnell-Qua,, Roz Diamond, friend, with Woodstock Art Collection.

TY Stroudsburg

Wegner, Siv Cedering art for Woodstock, Artists for Peace and the Environment 

“Artists for Peace and the Environment”  debuted in summer of ’99 in Rome, NY at the reunion festival for Woodstock. Artists works were collected with the support and agreement of Michael Lang and Robert Kennedy Jr. “Not your parents Woodstock” was the slogan of the event. While curating the collection, I titled the exhibit “Artists for Peace and the Environment.” Calls for peace were not significant that year, peace accords and been signed for Bosnia. The luster of environmental causes was waning somewhat as the glamor of the rally to save the Amazon forest had died out. The Columbine High School massacre lent a picture of an emerging profile of youth in America. Youth and violence. Artists for Peace and the Environment got lost in the shuffle of the violence which surrounded the third Woodstock event. Still, with the help and support of many, I was able to collect what I have called the  Woodstock ’99 Collection. The rising tide of warmth, peace, love and rock and roll of the original Woodstock Nation and all of the hallmark signature anthems were never associated with ’99.

IN an effort to capture the attention to change environmental perceptions the displayed  Graffiti artist Anthony Austang, sculptors Steve Zaluski, and Bob Wade, painter/musicians known and unknown contributed to “Artists for Peace and the Environment”. Capitalizing the importance of peace, love, rock, and roll and Mother Earth these images, new forms of descriptive metaphor addressed the immense magnitude of the issues facing each person then and now. Peace and the Environment are timeless canvases, messages form a simple fundamental universal language, as a collection. The messages that “Now—more than ever—Peace and the Environment go hand in hand.

Opening on August 10th, "Environmental Reflections" with Ty Stroudsburg,  Janet Culbertson, Carol Hunt, Anne Seelbach are on display through September 9th.   

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Artists for Peace & The Environment at NYC Contemporary Art Fair

ARTISTS FOR PEACE & THE ENVIRONMENT

@NEW YORK CITY CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR

JAVITS CENTER NORTH OCT. 25-27, 2013

“Artists for Peace and the Environment grew out of the 1960s peace and love movement which were the roots of the original Woodstock. The social context may have varied but the issues and ideals essentially remain the same today. The intent is to carry the message from generation to generation.”

— Jamie Ellin Forbes

“Art is an eternal and essential cornerstone in the process of creating great musical events. Art and music are connected to the soul. This has been fundamental throughout all of the

Woodstock Festivals starting in 1969 and continuing with monumental art walls in 1994 and 1999.”

— Michael Lang

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“Themes of peace, the environment and love never go out of style when coupled with
Rock and Roll as delivered via Woodstock in a lasting cultural impression no one can deny.”.

A major cultural exhibition, ARTISTS FOR PEACE & THE ENVIRONMENT, will be on display in all its revolutionary and artistic glory at The New York City Contemporary Art Fair, Oct. 25-27 in the stunning new Javits Center North pavilion. Developed with Michael Lang (one of the primary forces behind the epic Woodstock Festival of 1969) and directed and curated by Jamie Ellin Forbes, publisher of Fine Art Magazine, “Artists For Peace & The Environment” is comprised of paintings expressly created for Woodstock on 4’ x 8’ canvasses

Originally this broad body of work by notable artists, musicians and show business personalities and a new generation of artists was exhibited at Woodstock ’99, in Rome NY. Paintings by Hog Farm luminary Wavy Garvy in collaboration with Trixie Garcia (Jerry’s daughter), Tico Tores (Bon Jovi’s drummer), Wade Smith, Lorraine Bracco (of The Sopranos), Stan Natchez, Christo, and Steve Kerner (among many others) are featured along with works by noted Graffiti artists Craig Cartwright, Ron English, Anthony Ausgang, Zephyr, Ward Sutton and Van Arno. All were installed for exhibition in the Art Tent erected on site in the Woodstock ’99 Art Park.

Michael Lang has had an ongoing commitment to the visual arts dating to the original Woodstock in 1969 which was officially called “The Woodstock Music and Art Fair — An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music”, and continued as the “Wall of Peace” for the 25th Anniversary of Woodstock held in Saugerties New York in 1994 followed by the Artists For Peace and the Environment exhibition at Woodstock ’99. Jamie Ellin Forbes co-founded Fine Art Magazine in 1975 and remains as its publisher to this day.

“The time is now for another look at this amazing and wonderful collection of art,” she recently stated. “After the Boston Marathon bombings, I sat down to reflect on the Columbine High School murders that occurred the day Michael and I met to develop the exhibition. Flashing back to 1969 it occurred to me how the more things change, the more they remain the same. Back the there was Vietnam and various ecological travesties. Today we have the Iraqi and Afghanistan conflicts, rampant terrorism, the World Trade Center disaster, the BP oil spill and nuclear plants melting down in Fukushima. I understood this exhibition with the very pure and idealistic energies of the artists, is more relevant than ever. The work needed to show and be understood as timeless. The concepts of peace and the environment had come full circle making this Exhibition of Artist For Peace and the Environment an important artistic collection and statement.

NYC Contemporary Art Fair director Richard Rothbard, with special insight into the significance of the body of work, is a primary sponsor of the exhibition along with Fine Art Magazine. The breadth and depth of the collection of work, is a vibrant antidote to the negative forces at play in the world today. By offering space for the complete exhibition, Rothbard elevates re-emphasizes the importance of he complete exhibition at the Jacob Javits Convention Center, October 25-27. The entirety of the collection will be hung as created on 4’ x 8’ canvasses expressly for ” Artists for Peace and the Environment”, Woodstock ‘99

Mr. Rothbard notes: “The Contemporary Art Fair is special, the perfect place to display Artists for Peace and the Environment”. As the founder & director I am so glad that we achieved the success that has made it possible to showcase this as well as other special events. We are an art fair that features the works of emerging artists; painters & sculptors who share the spotlight with an exceptional juried selection of fine crafts artists.

“We love that the show has brought together such a wonderful mix of fine art and fine craft along with artists in action, working at the potters wheel , creating amazing thought provoking installations, graffiti artists, and an opening party with great music; all wrapped up into one fabulous day for the entire family.”

ARTISTS FOR PEACE AND THE ENVIRONMENT has been displayed in it’s entirety or partly in museums and additional galleries and venues in the United States and abroad. A partial list of exhibitions follows: The Berlin Exhibition ‘99, the “Young and Free Festival”, Nuremberg on behalf of the children for UNICEF in association with Dieter Schneider, the Steps Organization, 2005, The Nassau County Museum of Art, The Blue Poodle Gallery Blues Festival, SunStorm Celebration of the Arts Festival in Lake Placid, The Toolwood Summer Festival in Germany, in conjunction for the World Cup ’06 and on the Intrepid Museum in New York City.

In retrospect, Michael Lang, as well as all of the artists and contributors were ahead of their time establishing a usage of music and art to promote an expansive cultural horizon and a general public awareness for peace and the environment. This process of public and personal awareness through the arts is as relevant today. It is timeless. An optimism realized through artist participation can be seen in the art panels from Woodstock ’99 as well as the ’94 Wall of Peace.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, in an Official Proclamation said, “It is a great pleasure to welcome everyone to the 4th Annual Contemporary Art Fair NYC and American Fine Craft Show NYC. As the home of some of the world’s finest museums and art galleries, our City is proud to be known as an international cultural capital. This weekend, some of the most talented painters, photographers, sculptors, and artisans from around the world will gather to showcase their work for thousands of attendees.”

Exhibited artists include: Eric Galandak, Bradley Arthur, John Grubacs, Jim Franklin, Ishbel Macintosh, Steve Lavaggi, Jill Lynne, Ali Golkar, Michael Bradley, Van Arno, Michael Shapiro, Regina Tolomeo, Michael Knigin, Zephyr, Connie Harris, Wavy Gravy/Trixie Garcia, Matthew Smith, Mike DiMisa, Dawn Cesare, Shen, Ulana Zahajkewycz, Michael Shapiro, Nancy Morris, David Lawrence, Ken Chaya, Anthony Ausgang, Ron English, Steve Kerner, Steve Cerio, Ward Sutton, Thomas Durand, Francis Pavy, Rory Skagen, David Gerbstadt, Samuel Orellana, Ellen Frank, John Planas, Steve Zaluski, Siv Cedering, Tico Torres, Paul Wegner, Django Voris, David Sorrentino, Alexandre Sazonov, Mark Gagnon, Craig Cartwright, Tom Cain, Kevin Kelly, R.S. Wade, Phyllis Sims, Simon Bull, Andrea Keen, Royi Akavia, Ron English, Michelle Esrick, Alexander Zakharov, Yuri Gorbachev, Stan Natchez, Fiona Smyth, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Steve Kaufman, Christine Dumbsky

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Fine Art Magazine | Woodstock’s Wall of Peace Comes to Germany

By JAMIE ELLIN FORBES

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Helpful assistance hanging art in Nuremburg

 It was hot in Germany, this summer. Forty degrees Celsius in the shade. Which is the equivalent of 104 Fahrenheit for the entire two days of the Young and Free Festival in Nuremberg, Germany.

We were on the festival grounds where Hitler held his Reich rallies prior to any and all invasion forces having been deployed by ’39. The bucolic beauty and the elegance of the Nuremberg landscape had been the backdrop where all of Leni Riefenstahl films where produced. The propaganda machine hammered out it’s iconic statements here in this field. No better place for the “Woodstock Wall of Peace” and The Artists for Peace and the Environment” art panels, I thought to myself as I first walked the grounds.

There was nothing to hear but the resounding dead memories that rang in the air. No music, that was to come. More of a lack of sound. A pity they, the unheard sounds of the many, cluttered and vied with the earthy perfume of an ancient Bavarian beauty, that must have always prevailed here. Let intolerance slug it out with “Love, Peace and Rock and Roll”. 

I had brought images of Jimi Hendrix. One painted by an unknown and the other by Tico Torres the consummate drummer for Bon Jovi. The backdrop was a most beautiful clear blue sky. Hail Hail Rock and Roll.

Stan Natchez

The beastly hot weather usually followed these “Woodstock” works. I gathered the wood art panels that Michael Lang had commissioned, and Mel Lawrence had overseen, for the ’99 Woodstock show, in Rome NY. The weather had been ninety-five the day I was in the warehouse collecting 27 images for shipping to DieterSchnieder this year. I was remembering the heat of the installation days at the Griffith’s Air Force Base in ’99. Always this scorching heat in the nineties. Few panels had survived the show and the search through the warehouse was particularly dusty, black and thick after six years of sitting. I reflected upon the day Mel Lawrence and I had met in Kingston NY to review the ’94 wood panels. Another hot day in a warehouse. My dogs, Fluffy and Pearl were with me then. That was the day we decided on the “Peace, Art and The Environment” theme. This year Pearl had been too old to take upstate. Fluffy’s been gone for a while.

Stan Natchez

Months of negotiation had culminated with the shipping of the works for display at the “Young and Free Festival.” I was to be a guest of the Schneider’s and the Bavarian Government representing Michael Lang and Woodstock. This was a vision Dieter had seen in ’99 at the outset. We had spoken of it back then when his “Get Back” photos by Lisa Law, Elliot Landy and Henry Dietz, were displayed in the tent Michael had erected for the “Environment” canvases. Dieter had held the vision.

Funny, I always viewed Michael’s concepts as stellar and amorphic, difficult to define or contain but far-reaching. Perfect fodder for art. First we had peace and love closing the thruway in New York State in ’69. Then we had the reliving of nostalgic peace and love in ’94 creating over half a mile of wooden art panels. This later developed into the “Not your Parents Woodstock” of 1999 with another set of art panels surrounding the outer parameters of the show grounds.

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Tico Torres Still Here, Woodstock ’99, 48” x 48”

The festivals definitely had their own personas. The last was what I considered to be a precursor of a world about to change. Energy and movement are more easily conveyed in music and art than any other form.

Herr Freller The Bavarian MInister of Culture and Jamie Ellin Forbes

This is what I thought Michael had reflected. Woodstock events channeled the currents of change. Michael is a great editor of the generational exchange as Aristotel would have seen it. Simply a mirror image of the idea.

Michael offered a stage upon which ideas could find a meeting ground with people. Pretty impressive and open minded if you ask me. It was my hope this would be true in Nuremberg. So I had packed with the aid of my friend and partner Anatoli, thirty canvas panels in three cylinders, which I carried on the plane. The packing was a strategic accomplishment and Anatoli was great. They were now to be unpacked and displayed on these famous grounds.

Mr. Borhm, founder “People to People” after signing, additional art panels, painted by the children of Nuremberg for the continuing Peace Wall. Charitable donations were made online during the festival for “People to People”, matched by Siemens Computer.

My tent was very hot and my helpers young, hopefully free. All had come full circle in my world. We had less than two hours to hang and no hanging material. This was also the “karma” that haunted the canvas panels. My helper went in search of metal clips. There is a Staples in Nuremburg.

Two visitors to our exhibit from the German cast of Queen

Fiona Smyth’s mantra of tantric design seemed to speak to me on this July 27,2005 in the city of Nuremburg inside the hot tent of the coliseum. Her canvas picture appeared to have been painted with this setting in mind. I reflected if it was possible for Fiona to have had a meditative moment and seen the Documentation Center, Reichsparteigelande in Nuremberg, down the road. Her work a small microcosm with in the great Macro-cosmos. I decided yes.

Fiona Smyth’s Woodstock ’99 canvas, 8′ x 4′

Here two distinct ideological concepts, existed side by side, in direct opposition, housed and displayed on old cultural cross roads. Peace and love and the other. The same beautiful pool of reflection that is seen in Fiona’s painting is in the center of the city. A lake where at night, in the evening Nuremberg shadows, dancing with the moon, I could imagine some beautiful nymph emerging to help a hapless or hopeless fellow find true meaning or love. The lake and the history of the city had brought the Reich , to hold it’s rallies. Dieter Schneider had had brought the wall of peace to be a reminder of tolerance.

Kids were beginning to pass in front of our tent as we finished. Just like in ‘99 the young people came in and out to see the art. To witness the visual voice of creativity. I though in ‘99 and once again now . Michael Lang’s plans for several days of a “Musical Antiquarian Festival” had rocked a nation, a generation, and the world in 69’. Lets see what it would do here. I looked at the canvases as we finished and spent some time admiring Stan Natchez’s “ I Will Fight No More Forever” A homage to the slaughter of Sioux women and children by the US Calvary at “Wounded Knee”. Their transgression had been Ghost Dancing. Stan’s was a personal favorite of mine. This painting too seem to have a special meaning here. Not all peoples are tolerant at all times. To this I have been a witness.

Steve Zaluski’s tribute to a friend, Woodstock ’99, 48” x 48”

There was such a small voice I heard my inside person saying , “Not all canvases had come”. My mental rhetoric began to build. Then I remembered the about the ‘Light behind the Mind’ and my favorite poem “The thunder, Perfect Mind”.

In this poem the embodiment of the feminine divine as viewed by the Gnostic Christians of the 2nd century is given a voice of poetry. She bellows out a powerful directive, regarding the fate of those who stand in the path of love, light and knowledge.

This poem is not distinctly Jewish, Christian or Gnostic, but proclaims the voice of the transcendental , the incomprehensible the unfathomable greatness inherently surrounding us all at all times. I looked at the traditional Russian folk art painting done by Yuri Gorbachev, the “Cross of Flowers” by Kevin Kelly. My eyes traveled the room, I took in the great Pop work of Ron English. I saw that all of art looked as if the pieces could have been commissioned for this setting.

Almaz and Kharlhienz Borhm, with their presentation donation photo on behalf of Much-en de Much-en “People to People” ,Mr. Borhmʼs foundation which aids the children of Ethiopia in cooperation with UNICEF.

Each had a relevance to the events in a universal way reminiscent of the summer of Love, and the 1969 event, a reminder that Dieter Schneider wanted the school children to be exposed to. Sometimes the simplest statements are the most difficult to make. As John Lennon stated so clearly “All we are saying is give peace a chance.”

Steve Matrick of Better Music

They would be seen by the German cast of Queen, the Minister of Culture, Herr Freller, The Corporate sponsor of Seidmans Computers, my most gracious host of the tent. They would be the photographic back drop of the presentation thanking Michael Lang and Dieter Schneider for affording me the opportunityto share this art with you. This is “art in process” of a good many people and a great work effort over a long period of time. It has been with the assistance of Steve Matrick and Victor Forbes that I was able to pursue this path for this last six years. I seemed to be the only fool to be out in the noon day sun without a hat, watching the sky for signs of art life. Feeling the earth under my feet for acceptance. I always think I have found both. I am lucky to have friends who have supported and put up with my pursuits.

It is the hope and plan of Dieter to have this art forum continue and expand. We will bring this work, show and extrapolate, to development further with school children in Germany, the US and other additional panel and show sights. The “Wall of Peace” that the award winning documentary film maker Mel Lawrence started has wings and will soar to distant lands. There is a distinct possibility that the “Wall of Peace” will extend and reach around the world. All this takes is a vision, and a good mental plan.

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