2006 Archives

Artworks by Contemporary African-American artists

Toph, Aleathia Brown, Tracey Moore, Maxwell Kofi Donkor

-- paintings, drawings, sculptures --

A celebration of Black History and Heritage

Opening Reception:
Saturday, January 14 3-5:30pm
Sankofa Drum & Dance Ensemble will perform at 4pm

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Then and Now

A Black & White Photographic Essay of Orange County

Presented by the Orange County Citizenship Foundation

Sponsored by SUNY Orange

Reception: Friday, March 3 4:30-6:30pm

Music provided by the Chris Parker Trio

Orange County Vistas

Watercolors of Scenic Vistas and Historic Buildings by Mary Evelyn Whitehill

Reception: Friday, March 3 4:30-6:30pm

Music provided by the Chris Parker Trio

Exhibit of works by SUNY Orange students: art, honors, education

Reception: April 11 3-5pm

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Middletown Art Group 2006 Spring Exhibition

Reception: Sunday, May 7 1-4pm

Painting demonstration by Rusty Coehlo 1:15-2pm

Music by Beverly Poyerd, pianist 2-3:45pm

Awards presentation 3:45-4pm

My Escape - Paper, Canvas and Clay

pastels/oils/sculptures by Anne W. Kelly

Reception: Sunday, May 7 1-4pm

Painting demonstration by Rusty Coehlo 1:15-2pm

Music by Beverly Poyerd, pianist 2-3:45pm

Awards presentation 3:45-4pm

River Valley Artists Guild Summer Show

Opening Reception:
Friday, June 16 6-8pm

The River Valley Artists Guild Summer Show is slated for June 16 through July 13, 2006 at Orange Hall Gallery.

Artworks in various styles done in watercolors, oils, acrylics, pencil, and pastels will be on display.

The River Valley Artists Guild was started by the late Bernie Kilbourn, along with Matilda Grech, Paul Horsman, Elaine Tedesco, and Elizabeth Hayes all of Port Jervis. The present president and show chairwoman is Joan Kehlenbeck of Cuddebackville. Although, most of its sixty members come from communities bordering the Delaware River, many come from Middletown, Poughkeepsie, and Monroe as well as Branchville, NJ and Milford, PA.

Exhibit hours are 9am to 5pm Monday through Friday.

The Opening Reception will be held from 6 to 8pm on Friday, June 16, 2006.
Music will be provided by Beverly Poyerd, pianist, of Washingtonville.

Under the Awnings at Grey Towers
medium: watercolor

by Jane Koeck

Solo Show of Paintings by Genevieve Arnault

Works in oils, acrylics, pastels, and collage

Opening Reception:
From 6 to 8pm on Friday, June 16, 2006

Music will be provided by Beverly Poyerd, pianist, of Washingtonville.

Born in France, Genevieve [GARN] Arnault has lived in the United States since 1948, mostly in the tri-state area.

She self-taught herself painting, and then, perfected her skills by attending classes at the Arts Student League in Manhattan. Well-known for bright colors and exciting compositions in her interpretations of landscapes, still lifes, and figures, her paintings are testament that she is not afraid of color.

Exhibit hours are 9am to 5pm Monday through Friday.

"Unembedded" - Photographs by Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Kael Alford, Thorne Anderson, and Rita Leistner

Exhibit hours: Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm; free and open to the public

Reception: Sunday, August 6, 2006 2:30 to 5pm; free and open to the public

Introductory Commentary Presentation by Kael Alford on the exhibit and companion book: 2:45pm

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North East Watercolor Society Members’ 2006 Show

Pre-Reception with slides: Wednesday, September 6, 7-8:30pm

Reception: Sunday, September 17 1-4pm

• Demonstration by Thomas Valenti 2-3pm
• Music provided by Judith Hosmer Garrett, pianist
• Awards presentation: 3:30pm

The Art of the Landscape: Curator: Susan Miiller

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 30, 2PM - 5PM; free and open to the public.   

Exhibit: Open 9am - 8pm Monday - Thursday and 9am - 5pm on Friday, and also 2pm - 5pm on Sunday, October 15 and Sunday, October 22; free and open to the public.   

Eleven professional artists working in several media and producing works from small to large sizes are displaying landscapes in realistic, impressionistic, and abstract styles.

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East Meets West : Watercolor Paintings By Midge Bremer and San-San Yu

Opening Reception: Sunday, November 5 at 2PM - 5PM; free and open to the public

Exhibit: Open 9am - 8pm Monday - Thursday and 9am - 5pm on Friday.

Watercolorists Midge Bremer of the Town of Walkill and San-San Yu of the Town of Greenville will display 75 works demonstrating distinctly different styles. The interesting surprise is that Midge Bremer uses watercolor in the technique of Oriental brush painting, while San-San Yu paints in the method of western watercolor.

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The Art Of Collage : Artworks By Carole O'Connor, Jacky Sharkey, Leslie Waxtel

Opening Reception: Sunday, November 5 at 2PM - 5PM; free and open to the public

Exhibit: Open 9am - 8pm Monday - Thursday and 9am - 5pm on Friday.

Carole O'Connor and Jackey Sharkey are residents of Warwick; Leslie Waxtel lives in Cornwall. Although these artists are focusing on collage for this show, they also create artworks in many other media.

To Salt or not to Salt - a lecture concerning winter salting of roads

Environmental Implications of Road Salting - Hardening of the Watersheds and the High Salt Diet

a lecture with Power Point by Peter Groffman, PhD, Microbial Ecologist, Institute of Ecosystem Studies

The Writings of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and the American Conscience

a lecture by Vincent F. A. Golphin,
Professor of Creative Writing/Literature/Cultural Studies, Rochester Institute of Technology

Vincent F. A. Golphin Biography

Ice Age Mastodons of New York State: New Discoveries of Old Friends

a lecture by Warren D. Allmon, PhD, Director, Paleontological Research Institution; Adjunct Associate Professor of Geological & Biological Sciences, Cornell University

• Founder and developer of the new Museum of the Earth, a major new public exhibits and education facility associated with Paleontological Research Institution.
• Founder and editor of American Paleontologist, quarterly magazine on paleontology that is of interest to lay public and professional paleontologists alike.
• Exhibit and publication on mutual relationships between natural history and art (with Rob Ross), using dinosaur art as a case study.
• Created video and publications on teaching Earth science by inquiry, using ordinary round rocks as a means to think about how current processes guide our understanding the history of rocks
• Created and participated in workshops, wrote and edited publications, on problems in maintenance of natural history (particularly including paleontological) collections

BA, Geology, Dartmouth College
PhD, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University

His research specialties include the systematics of Cenozoic gastropods and the interaction between ecology and macroevolution, particularly speciation and biodiversity.

Franz Kafka and His Influence

a lecture by Maria Luise Caputo-Mayr, PhD

Professor Emerita, Temple University, Director of the Kafka Society of America

Prague City and its Vicinity

a lecture-slide presentation with discussion by Tomas Svoboda, MA, composer, conductor, pianist

Europe ~ USA: A Religious Divide

European Secularism and American Fundamentalism

a lecture by Ian Buruma, writer, journalist

sponsored in part by Sara M. Morrison and the Social Sciences Department–International Studies, SUNY Orange

Music- The Precious Memory: The Basis of One's Connection With Music: tomas Svoboda

Lecture: 7:15 PM; free and open to the public

Tomas Svoboda, MA is a Professor Emeritus, Portland (Oregon) State University.  Born in Paris of Czech parents, he was considered Czechoslovakia's most important young composer by the early 1960s. He composed and had his first symphony premiered at age 16.

The Unique vulnerability of new york city to hurricane destruction: Dr. Nicholas K. Coch, PhD

Lecture: 7:30 PM; free and open to the public

With the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina just past and clean-up and reconstruction still going on in Louisiana and Mississippi, the realization of the power of hurricanes is still in the forefront of our memories.  News media have reported that some scientists feel that the New York Metropolitan Area could be a likely site for “the big hit.”  What would a category 4 or 5 hurricane do to this densely populated region?

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Harold Clurman, The Group Theatre, and His Influence on Broadway: Dr. Jane T. Peterson, PhD

Lecture: 7:15 PM; free and open to the public

Dr. Peterson is the Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance, Montclair State University where she teaches Theater History, Literature, Criticism and Theory courses in the undergraduate and graduate programs. She has also served as Dramaturg for numerous university and professional productions.
She received her BA and MA in Theatre from Tulane University and her PhD in
Dramatic Literature and Criticism from the University of Missouri. 

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America's Scramble For African Energy In An Era Of Deepening Crisis - The New Source Of OIl: A LEcture By Richard hull, PhD, Senior Professor of African History, NYU

Lecture: 7:15 PM; free and open to the public

Is foreign oil dependence at the root of US foreign and domestic policy problems?
Come and listen, question, and discuss this topic when Dr. Richard Hull comes to
Orange County Community College to speak on the first day of November. Richard Hull is a resident of the Town of Warwick, received his PhD from Columbia University, and is a Senior Professor of African History at New York University. He has written several short books about local history. However, his long, investigative, intensive, first-hand field research has been devoted to Africa which he has visited several times for months at a time.

ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY - STRATEGIES FOR ACHIEVING MORE SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS: AN ILLUSTRATED PRESENTATION WITH QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION

Presentation: 2:30 PM; free and open to the public.

“Over 40% of all U.S. energy use is in buildings, and the price of oil and natural gas are likely to continue to rise substantially. Yet there are many ways to reduce one’s dependence on non-renewable energy supplies,” according to William J. Makofske, PhD. Dr. Makofske, who is a Professor Emeritus of Physics at Ramapo College of New Jersey. He will give some practical ideas on how to incorporate cost-effective sustainable energy technologies and methods into homes. He has personal experience as his house in Warwick, NY, which has been on the National Solar Energy Tour for the past few years, has been made energy efficient through the methods he will explain.

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LIVING IN NATURE'S REALM: THE ARCHITECTURE AND DECOR OF HISTORIC HUDSON RIVER VILLAS

Lecture: 7:15 PM; free and open to the public.

A lecture with slides by Barrymore Laurence Scherer sponsored by the New York Council for the Humanities, Speakers in the Humanities

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Pandemic and Public Health :What is it? How prepared are we? Bird Flu, West Nile, and Lyme Disease

Lecture: 7 PM; free and open to the public.

Dr. Jean Hudson will give an overview of preparations for a possible pandemic. Each panelist will explain his/her position in relation to the topic. Moderator Beverley Marchesani will facilitate the panel and take questions which will be answered by panelists.

Panel-Forum Participants:

• Dr. Jean Hudson, MD, MPH, Commissioner, Orange County Department of Health
• Seamus Leary, MPA, CEM Director of Public Health Emergency Response, Orange County Department of Health
• Carol Tunney, RN, Director of Nursing, Elant at Newburgh, Inc.
• John R. Hunziker, MPS, MT, CIC, Board Certified Infection Control Practitioner, Consultant and Educator
• Major Richard Cichy, RN, BSN, Keller Army Community Hospital, West Point
• Moderator Beverley Marchesani, MS, APRN Division of Nursing at SUNY Orange

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Visual Voice

an art master class with demonstration by Aleathia Brown, artist with discussion on making it as an artist while preserving culture/heritage

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Jazz Master Class

by Oscar Hernandez, Grammy Award Winner, pianist, arranger, composer

Communication Between a Composer and the Audience

by Tomas Svoboda, MA, composer, conductor, pianist

Being A Poet: Motivation, Discipline, Getting Published

a poetry master class by Stephen Cramer, poet

Communication between a composer and the audience: tomas Svoboda

Lecture: 10:00 AM; free and open to the public

Tomas Svoboda, MA is a Professor Emeritus, Portland (Oregon) State University.  Born in Paris of Czech parents, he was considered Czechoslovakia's most important young composer by the early 1960s. He composed and had his first symphony premiered at age 16.

Art of Transformation: Ronald Rand

Workshop: 2:30 PM; free and open to the public.

Ronald Rand demonstrates how an actor immerses himself into a role and embodies the character both physically and mentally.

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Encaustic Painting Technique: A Demonstration By Laura Moriarty, Encaustic Painter And Printmaker

Demonstration: 11AM; free and open to the public

Encaustic paints are wax based and produce vivid colors. It is a type of paint that dates back to ancient times, circa 5th century BC. The consistency of pigment sticks is like a soft lipstick, almost butter. With the aid of electricity, the paint is heated easily. Heating adds a new dimension because the paint can be moved and the image changed. The wax in encaustic makes this medium more versatile.

Encaustic painter and printmaker Laura Moriarty will demonstrate how encaustic paints are applied directly to a surface from pigment sticks without the use of brushes.

The class will afford attendees a close look at the many uses of encaustic and the technique involved in its application.

My Soul Is A Witness

Theatre presentation by the JENA Company

admission: $10 adults; $8 senior citizens, alumni, faculty, staff; $4 non-SUNY Orange students and children; free SUNY Orange students; group rates

sponsored in part with funds by Orange and Rockland

An Evening of Latin Jazz – The Oscar Hernandez Quartet

with Oscar Hernandez, Grammy Award Winner, pianist, arranger, composer

admission: $10 adults, $7 senior citizens and SUNY Orange alumni, faculty, staff; $3 non-SUNY Orange students; free SUNY Orange students; group rates

Mammoth Follies

children's theatre performance by the Hudson Vagabond Puppets

admission: $6 adults; $5 senior citizens, alumni, faculty, staff; $3 children; free SUNY Orange students ; group rates

Study guide available

Music from Bohemia

A Piano Recital by Tomas Svoboda
composer, conductor, pianist

admission: $7 adults; $5 senior citizens, group rates; free all students

A Piano Recital of Russian works by Russian Ilya Yakushev

selections by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, and including Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.

admission: $5 adults; $3 senior citizens, group rates; free all students

Read Ilya Yakushev's biography

Music from Bohemia : A Piano Recital by Tomas Svoboda

Performance: 3:00 PM; Admission: $7 adults, $5 for senior citizens, alumni, faculty, staff; free all students; group rates.

Tomas Svoboda, MA is a Professor Emeritus, Portland (Oregon) State University.  Born in Paris of Czech parents, he was considered Czechoslovakia's most important young composer by the early 1960s. He composed and had his first symphony premiered at age 16.

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urban ballet theater: Artistic Director: Daniel Catanach, Executive Director:  Alex Erikson

Performance: 3:00 - 5:00 PM; Admission: $10 adults; $8 non-SUNY Orange students; $9 senior citizens, group rates; free all SUNY Orange students

Cultural Affairs at Orange County Community College is pleased to present a performance by the Urban Ballet Theater.

Artistic Director Daniel Catanach has developed the dances performed by the Urban Ballet Theater from a storyteller's prospective.  The dances are influenced by his Hispanic heritage as well as the Native American cultures of the Southwest.

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Let It Be Art! Harold Clurman's life of Passion : A play starring and created by actor Ronald Rand

Performance: 3:00 PM; Admission: $8 adults; $7 senior citizens, alumni, faculty, staff; $4 non-SUNY Orange students; free SUNY Orange students; group rates.

Ronald Rand brings Harold Clurman to life with all the humor, boldness, and fervor of the man heralded as "the elder statesman of the American Theatre." Rand presents Clurman at age 79 looking back and traveling his roller-coaster career in the arts.

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Piano Recital of American Music : Selections by Gershwin, Nevin, Foote, MacDowell, Griffes, Joplin, Beach, Aufderheide, Giblin, Anderson, Copland

Performance: December 3 at 3PM; Admission: $7 adults; $5 Seniors/Faculty/Alumni/Staff; free all students; group rates

Pianist Ruthanne Schempf holds a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in piano from Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with Marc Silverman. She has a Masters Degree from Manhattan School of Music, studying under Robert Goldsand and Constance Keene. She earned Bachelors Degrees in piano and music literature at Michigan State University, where her teacher was the 1962 Van Cliburn Competition winner, Ralph Votapek. She is on the faculties of SUNY New Paltz, and Marist College in Poughkeepsie. She teaches piano, music history, and theory. She is also a co-founder of the Hudson Valley Society for Music which produces an annual BachFest weekend and Potluck chamber music concerts during the year.

An Evening Reading by Poet Stephen Cramer

Selections from "In the Arms of Words: Poems for Disaster Relief": Poet-readers:  Roberta Gould, Donald Lev, Mary Jo Martin, and Amy Ouzoonian

Reading: 11:00 AM; free and open to the public

The anthology is dedicated to the late James Lynch, PhD.

The book is a compilation of over 90 works by different poets, one poem per poet. Contributing poets are residents worldwide, and some poems are written in French, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, and Serbian as well as English. A few notable contributors are Ravi Shankar, Brett Axel,  Marilyn Chin, Diane Di Prima, Diane Ackerman, Ellen Bass, Marge Piercy, Sparrow, Kirpal Gordon, James Warner, and Mary Jo Martin. Amy Ouzoonian, the editor, is a graduate of Orange County Community College.

aN eVENING OF pOETRY

Reading: 7:00 PM; free and open to the public

Poets:

• Robert Milby
• Michael Sciarretta
• Janet Hamil
• Mary Makofske
• Joan Siegel
• Joel Solonche
• Donna Reis
• Sandra Graff
• Ruby Castiglione
• German Restrepo
  

Dreams

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Talk to Her

Director: Pedro Almodovar

Divided We Fall

Director: Jan Hrebejk

Run lola run

Director: Tom Tykwer

Jean de Florette

Director: Claude Berri

Manon of the Spring

Director: Claude Berri

Silent Film Series: The General

Showing: 7:15 PM; Admission: $2 for general public and senior citizens; all students free.

Sponsored by James H. Ottaway, Jr.

The General is a 1927 silent comedy about a bumbling Confederate engineer (train driver) who pursues Union spies who steal his beloved locomotive, The General, which incidentally also carries his estranged girlfriend, Annabelle Lee. Buster Keaton starred in the film and co-directed it with Clyde Bruckman. It was adapted by Al Boasberg, Bruckman, Keaton, Charles Henry Smith (uncredited) and Paul Girard Smith (uncredited) from the memoir The Great Locomotive Chase by William Pittenger.

Silent Film Series: Boudu

Showing: 7:15 PM; Admission: $2 for general public and senior citizens; all students free.

Sponsored by James H. Ottaway, Jr.

Boudu Saved from Drowning (French: Boudu sauvé des eaux) is a 1932 French film, directed by Jean Renoir. Renoir wrote the film's screenplay with Albert Valentin, from the play by René Fauchois. It stars Michel Simon as Boudu.

After well-to-do bookseller Edouard Lestingois (Charles Granval) rescues a tramp, Boudu, from a suicidal plunge into the Seine, his family adopts the bum and dedicates itself to reforming him. Boudu (Michel Simon) shows his gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations, challenging the hidebound principles of his hosts and seducing them with his anarchic charm.

Silent Film Series: Nosferatu

Showing: 7:15 PM; Admission: $2 for general public and senior citizens; all students free.

Sponsored by James H. Ottaway, Jr.

Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens ("Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror" in German) is a German Expressionist film shot in 1922 by F.W. Murnau. He had wanted to film a version of Bram Stoker's Dracula, but his studio was unable to obtain the rights to the story. Murnau decided to film his own version and made only slight changes to the story. The resultant movie has many similarities to Stoker's original tale. "Dracula" became "Nosferatu" and the names of the characters changed, with Count Dracula changed to Count Orlok. The role of the vampire was played by Max Schreck. Other major actors in the film were Gustav von Wangenheim (as Thomas Hutter/Jonathan Harker), Greta Schröder (as Ellen Hutter/Mina M. Harker), and Alexander Granach (as Knock/R.M. Renfield).

Silent Film Series: Safety Last!

Showing: 7:15 PM; Admission: $2 for general public and senior citizens; all students free.

Sponsored by James H. Ottaway, Jr.

Safety Last! is a 1923 comedy silent film starring Harold Lloyd. It includes one of the most famous images from the silent film era: Lloyd clutching the bending hands of a clock on the side of a building as he dangles from the outside of a skyscraper above moving traffic. The film was highly successful and critically hailed, and cemented Lloyd's status as a major figure in early motion pictures. It is still popular at revivals, and is viewed today as one of the great film comedies.

Silent Film Series: The Birth of a Nation

Showing: 7:15 PM; Admission: $2 for general public and senior citizens; all students free.

Sponsored by James H. Ottaway, Jr.

The Birth of a Nation is the famously controversial film directed by D.W. Griffith, which was released on February 8, 1915. It was one of the most popular films of the silent era among white audiences, and was important in cinema history for its innovative technical achievements. The film attempts to provide historical justification for segregation. In the sympathetic depiction of the lynching of a black man by a white mob, the film affirms and promotes the cultural milieu that supported the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, which led mobs of white people wearing white sheets and hoods over their faces in the lynching of black people.

Silent Film Series: The Circus

Showing: 7:15 PM; Admission: $2 for general public and senior citizens; all students free.

Sponsored by James H. Ottaway, Jr.

The Circus is a 1928 silent film which finds Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp character being chased by a policeman at a circus. The ringmaster thinks his antics are hysterical, and hires him, but finds that The Tramp can't be funny on purpose, so the ringmaster makes him a janitor who always happens to be in the ring when things start happening. It stars Chaplin, Al Ernest Garcia, Merna Kennedy, Harry Crocker, George Davis and Henry Bergman.