Saturday, January 7, 2023

Opera Fans Catch the American Opera Project

Happy New Year!!


Thank you so much for your support with our end of the year fundraiser! Thanks to all your donations- big and small- we can continue to give voice to new opera, singers, instrumentalists, training, and community!


Wishing you a wonderful 2023,

The American Opera Project

A personal thank you from Takesha Meshé Kizart-Thomas, Director of Development and Greater Impact at The American Opera Project:

It’s never too late to Give Voice…

Please Donate!

Join us for Six Scenes!

We would be honored if you started your new year with us and joined on either January 8th (Manhattan) or January 10th (Brooklyn) for Cycle 11’s Six Scenes Program. Six Scenes is just one of many AOP programs made possible by your generous support.


Tickets are $25.

Sunday, January 8th, 2023

7:30 PM

National Opera Center

Rehearsal Hall

330 7th Avenue, 7th Floor

New York, NY, 10001

Reserve tickets for January 8th

Tuesday, January 10th, 2023

7:30 PM

South Oxford Space

The Great Room

138 South Oxford Street 

Brooklyn, NY, 11217

Reserve tickets for January 10th

Cycle 11 Composers and Librettists


Jeesun Choi / Librettist

Isabella Dawis / Librettist

Troy Defour / Librettist

Gabrielle Herbst / Composer

J.E. Hernández / Composer

Raquel Acevedo Klein / Composer

Paul Pinto / Composer

Tidtaya Sinutoke / Composer

Ania Vu / Composer

Six Scenes Singers:


Justine Aronson / Light Coloratura Soprano

Emily Mwila / Lyric Soprano

Max Potter / Mezzo-Soprano

Aaren Rivard / Tenor

Phillip Bullock / Baritone

Kofi Hayford / Bass


Six Scenes Music Directors:

Mila Henry

Kelly Horsted



Six Scenes Stage Directors:

Matt Gray

Kimille Howard

SCENE DESCRIPTIONS:


SE LEVANTA – Raquel Acevedo Klein (composer and librettist)

The relationship between a brother and sister living in two separate worlds is reshaped by a series of natural disasters and the cultural dissonance between the US mainland and Puerto Rico.


MAZE – J.E. Hernández (composer) and Troy Defour (librettist)

A chamber opera, Maze details an allegorical space where recovering substance addicts battle a relapse.


LITTLE DUGONG AND HER SEAGRASS SONG – Tidtaya Sinutoke (composer) and Isabella Dawis (librettist)

Off the coast of the island of Phuket in southern Thailand, a lost young dugong (a type of manatee) sings in search of her mother. When a monkey and an elephant arrive at the shore, frantically searching for a lost jade bracelet, the three animals must learn to put aside the destructive behaviors they’ve picked up from humans, and to find what they’re looking for together.


THROUGH THE DOORS – Ania Vu (composer and librettist)

A young girl Odessa and her father, an obsessive metronome-maker, live together remotely and peacefully. One day, a soldier arrives to deliver some news that will change the course of the characters' lives forever. 


BRUNCH ANGELS – Gabrielle Herbst (composer and librettist)

Brunch Angels is set in a New York City restaurant and shares the experience of three servers in a fancy, fast-paced atmosphere – the food and drink, the camaraderie and complications, and sometimes, the loss and grief felt while on the job.


INFLUENCE – Paul Pinto (composer) and Jeesun Choi (librettist)

When social media influencers Tommy and Sally reboot their account after a shocking fallout, their ex-partner Gorgo hijacks their livestream to jolt them out of their sponsored lifestyle.



Please note that masks are required at all performances.

ABOUT COMPOSERS & THE VOICE:


Steven Osgood / C&V Artistic Director

Mila Henry / Head of Music

Matt Gray / Head of Drama


AOP's Composers & the Voice is a two-year, tuition-free fellowship for composers and librettists that provides experience writing for the voice and opera stage. The Composers & the Voice training program is a competitive biannual fellowship offered to composers, librettists, and composer/librettist teams. Created and led by Composers & the Voice Artistic Director Steven Osgood, the two-year fellowship includes a year of working with the company’s Resident Ensemble of Singers and professional instructors followed by a year of continued promotion and career development through AOP and its strategic partnerships. Since launching in 2002, C&V has fostered the development of over 75 composers & librettists.


Find out more at https://www.aopopera.org/composers-voice.



SEE YOU THERE!

Composers & the Voice is made possible in part by a generous multi-year award from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and a Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Hoffmann + Maler + Wallenberg is pleased to announce the exhibition of Yanyan Huang: Atlas

Abyss, 2022
Acrylic and ink on canvas
160 x 140 cm

Yanyan Huang: Atlas


Hoffmann + Maler + Wallenberg is pleased to announce the exhibition


On view: 
January 7–February 12, 2023

Hoffmann + Maler + Wallenberg
Villa Poulido 9, Avenue Salonina, 06000 Nice

This is the gallery’s first exhibition with Huang. The show features a large selection of paintings on paper and seven acrylic and ink paintings on canvas, all made in 2022. Atlas is the result of the artist’s three-month stay in Aix-en-Provence, France.

Huang was born in China and grew up in the United States, and today operates in a long tradition of Western painters being influenced by Chinese ink painting and Oriental motifs more generally. She speaks of her practice as dancing with time—both the time it takes to make the work, and the long historical gap between the earliest Chinese calligraphy, made around three thousand years ago during the Shang dynasty, and US Abstract Expressionism, which emerged in the 1950s, both of which are abundantly evident as influences. And indeed, the work dances between ink and acrylic paint, between thick and delicate strokes and swirls, between peaceful gestures and expressive strokes of bright color soaring around the canvas. Huang lets her abstractions act as signifiers of her own subjectivity, which she braids together with contemporary influences as diverse as ceramics, fashion, and advertising. In its intertwining of the generic and the specific, the universal and the unique, the handmade and the disposable, Huang’s project becomes—in its uniquely abstract way—a portrait of selfhood today.

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Thursday, December 29, 2022

Call. to Artists: Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen Spring Fine Craft Fair at Rittenhouse Square!


Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen Spring Fine Craft Fair at Rittenhouse Square Spring Fine Craft Fair at Rittenhouse Square
May 12-14, 2023
Application Deadline 1/1/23
Call to Artists
WHAT: PA Guild of Craftsmen Spring Fine Craft Fair at Rittenhouse Square
WHERE: Rittenhouse Square - 18th & Walnut Streets, Philadelphia, PA
WHEN: May 12-14, 2023 | Fri & Sat 11am to 7pm | Sunday 11am to 5pm
NOTEWORTHY AMENITIES:
  • Prior day or early morning setup
  • Limited to 150 fine craftsmen
  • Police security
  • Booth sitters
  • Jury Fee $30
  • Booth Fees:
  • 10x10 inline Booth: $525.00
  • Two sides open: ADD $125.00 (inline booth w/ extra 5 feet of space shared with neighbor)
  • Premium Corner: ADD $250.00 (on major entrance to the park)
  • Membership: ADD $75

Fine Art - paintings, printmaking, etchings and sculpture ARE NOT ACCEPTED to the Guild's Rittenhouse Square Fine Craft Fairs. 

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS on ZAPP
Application Deadline: January 1, 2023
Artist Notification: January 18, 2023
Booth Fee Due: February 1, 2023

If you have any questions, please contact Carol Heisler-Lawson, Fine Craft Fair Manager at paguildshows@gmail.com or call 610-570-2343
Our Spring Fine Craft Fair unfolds in the heart of Philadelphia’s historic Rittenhouse Square. It is a thriving, walkable area of the city, alive with restaurants, offices, high-income residents, businesses, museums, and universities. Rittenhouse Square is a well-known, upscale tourist area convenient to public transportation. This highly attended event draws from Philadelphia and its surrounding suburbs, as well as New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland. Through a partnership with the Friends of Rittenhouse Square and in conjunction with Philadelphia Parks & Recreation, this Fine Craft Fair typically brings more than 150 fine craftsmen from across the country to downtown Philadelphia. Admission is free.
 
The PGC's Rittenhouse Fine Craft Fair is established among artists and buyers as a premier event in Philadelphia. The Fine Craft Fair is open to artists from across the country.
 
You do not have to be a member to apply to a Fine Craft Fair, however PGC membership must be paid and current for an exhibitor to participate in a Fine Craft Fair. The PGC reserves the right to cancel acceptance to a Fine Craft Fair if the artist’s annual membership is not current (paid in full) at time booth payments are due. You may apply to any Fine Craft Fair and pay annual membership upon acceptance to the event.  

For more information visit our website at https://pacrafts.org/
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Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Happy New Year from Toni Silber-Delerive Gallery!!!


Happy New Year from New York!

ManhattanRoof48X48

Manhattan Rooftops, 48" x 48"

Another fresh new year is here.

Another year to live!

To banish worry, doubt, and fear,

To love and laugh and give!

Best Wishes for 2023 
Toni Silber-Delerive

  

  

Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Happy Holidays from the Charles Wildbank Studios!


HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

"Silent Nights" Oil on canvas, 60" by 80"





 Wishing all a great new year of blessings and abundance!



"Winter Lights" Oil on canvas, 24" by 48"


"Peppermint Undertow" Acrylic on canvas, 48" by 60"



Book your appointment for a visit and view his extensive collection of original art and prints at Jamesport Studio

Please text: 631 255-0574
email: wildbank@wildbank.com

NOW BOOKING PRIVATE PAINTING LESSONS
CONTACT US!

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