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SUMMARY:LIFE IS ART IS MOTHERHOOD IS ART: Closing Reception & Mother Artist Salon
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on July 26\, 2025\, from 3 – 5:30 pm (doors open 3 pm\, program starts 3:30 pm)  for the Closing Reception for the exhibition LIFE IS ART IS MOTHERHOOD IS ART. At the reception\, mother artists Sita Chay (violin) and Rema Hasumi (keyboards) will perform and join a conversation with the exhibition artists on the exhibition’s themes. The event will take place at Tenri Cultural Institute of New York. Admission is free and no RSVP is required. Families with children are welcome! \nFollowing the conversation\, Vietnamese mother artist and author / peacemaker / philanthropist Le Ly Hayslip will share her thoughts and weave them into a larger conversation about the lessons not learned from the American War in Vietnam — this year marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the war as well as the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII — and the need to envision a society where the value of inspiration\, creation\, mutual care\, and unconditional love is recognized and integrated into every aspect of life\, without discrimination. \nThe event is the last of a series of Mother Artist Salons being held in conjunction with the exhibition LIFE IS ART IS MOTHERHOOD IS ART. Check the exhibition announcement or CRS calendar for details. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \n\nSITA CHAY is a violinist\, composer\, and performance artist who won a 2017 Latin Grammy Award for Best Mariachi Album\, as violinist of the Flor de Toloache. She is an awardee of New York Foundation for the Arts Women’s Fund\, NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship\, New Music USA’s Creator Development Fund\, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Creative Engagement Grant\, and Foundation for Contemporary Arts\, and was invited for residencies at the Stone\, Joe’s Pub\, and the Cell Theatre for various projects she is envisioning. Her collaborators include Satoshi Takeishi\, Shoko Nagai\, Sidra Bell\, and Leo Genovese and with them she performed in numerous festivals such as Progressive Chamber Music Festival 2023\, Outfest 2024\, and Multicultural Music Festival 2024. \n\n\nHer most recent project\, “Multidimensionally Human\,” is an interdisciplinary series that she collaborates on with Dr. Nikolai Chapochnikov\, a neuroscientist and psychotherapist. Through this project\, she weaves the psychotherapy modality Internal Family Systems using narrative\, dance\, visual art\, and music as a performance artist. \n\n\nIn 2023\, she released a music narrative film “Ritual of Le Sac” which tells a story of a fish-like life of a baby swimming inside the womb. This project was inspired by her recent journey of becoming a mom and experiencing the kindness and gentle curiosity from various strangers on the street for carrying a life inside. She intended this film to reflect and rediscover the innate human capacity and desire to care and honor life. \n\n\nMs. Chay is the director and a founder of the Korean Shaman Music Ritual\, SaaWee\, which international critics have called as a “delicate powerhouse.” For SaaWee\, she has interwoven her theatrical experiences from Broadway shows\, folkloric spirituality from Korean shaman rituals\, and contemporary music flair from New York jazz scenes. SaaWee’s Return of Songbirds debuted at Lincoln Center as part of #Restartstage project in 2021 and was invited to Ars Electronica Festival 2021. SaaWee won the California Music Video Awards 2022 in Best World Music category. \n\nhttps://www.sitachay.com \nREMA HASUMI is a New York-based sound designer and improviser\, whose eclectic background spans classical\, jazz\, and experimental music. The foundation of her music is grounded in a wide range of pianistic expressions that are at times contemplative and at others assertive. Her recent work involves compositions and improvisations with analog synthesizers\, electronics\, and vocals. Hasumi’s music has been described as one that “is able to capture those elusive moments when silence becomes music and music becomes silence” (Jakob Baekgaard\, All About Jazz) and that “begins with a delicate piano rumination\, wandering\, searching\, finding a state of gentle deliberation that suddenly fades” (Dan McClenaghan\, All About Jazz). Her musical influences span across various musicians\, including Alice Coltrane\, Sun Ra\, Masabumi Kikuchi\, Paul Bley\, Terry Riley\, Arthur Russel\, and many more. \nHasumi’s “Mothers\,” a seven-track album dedicated to the collective experience of motherhood\, will be released digitally on July 1\, 2025. The music represents the journey of mothers striving to protect their creative paths while navigating the deep emotions that come with parenting and the process of redefining their identities. Each track explores a different emotional landscape\, yet all share excerpts of piano improvisation from a single recording session\, which serves as an undercurrent throughout the album. This undercurrent reflects the ongoing\, profound\, and dynamic experience of motherhood. The album features a series of collaged soundscapes\, consisting of synthesizers\, piano\, and vocals performed by Hasumi\, with contributions from Austin White on electric bass and synthesizers on three tracks. Each track’s sound elements are improvised separately and then combined using a collage approach rather than traditional composition. The final mix is designed to offer a three-dimensional\, holistic\, and stimulating listening experience. The album will be available for digital download and streaming\, with a beautiful cover photograph by Aline Müller. Her works\, including the album cover photo\, are part of the Life Is Art Is Motherhood Is Art exhibition. The development of “Mothers” was made possible\, in part\, by a grant provided by CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing). \nhttps://rema-hasumi.com/ \nLE LY HAYSLIP is an internationally known Vietnamese-American author\, philanthropist\, peace activist\, speaker\, and mother. She grew up in Ky La (now known as Xa Hoa Quy)\, Vietnam during the American-Vietnam War. She wrote two best-selling memoirs—When Heaven and Earth Changed Places and Child of War\, Woman of Peace\, based on her painful and ultimately triumphant journey from a traumatizing childhood in war-ravaged Vietnam to her new life in America. Having grown up in Central Vietnam as a woman\, Le Ly shares a perspective that is unique when it comes to the Vietnam War. She received raving reviews for both books\, including from The New York Times and The Washington Post. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places was included in the 1990 edition of Reader’s Digest’s Today’s Best Nonfiction. Her memoirs\, having been published in 17 different languages throughout the world\, are now used in several universities as course material to study women in history\, the American/Vietnam War\, and other topics. In 1993\, the books were adapted into the film “Heaven & Earth\,” directed by the award-winning director Oliver Stone and starring Hiep Thi Le and Tommy Lee Jones. \nLe Ly’s life as a humanitarian began after she arrived in the US in 1970 and became a US citizen\, but she returned to her native Vietnam in 1986. Her shock from the devastation\, poverty\, and illness left by the war became the impetus for her two philanthropic organizations\, East Meets West Foundation and Global Village Foundation. Both organizations dedicate their efforts to humanitarian relief\, education\, and development to help rebuild Vietnam through providing basic needs (shelter\, clean water\, medical facilities\, education)\, establishing revolving loan programs\, and finding homes for several hundred orphaned children. Hayslip continues to lead groups and delegations in cultural and anthropological studies in her home village. \nABOUT THE EXHIBITION \nLIFE IS ART IS MOTHERHOOD IS ART is an exhibition of five artists who are mothers of different generations — Daniela Kostova (Bulgaria)\, Aline Müller (Brazil)\, Quynh “Alex” Nguyễn (Vietnam)\, Katie Heller Saltoun (USA)\, and Satomi Shirai (Japan). Curated by CRS co-founder Christopher Pelham\, the exhibition will be on view at Tenri Cultural Institute of New York from July 21 – 26\, 2025. \n“Being an artist is to experience a vigorous\, experimental life of the mind and of the senses. Parenthood is another enriching experience: primal\, haptic and life-affirming. Why are the two still seen as incompatible?” — Jeffrey Boloten and Juliet Hacking\, Forward to How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (and other parents) \nThis exhibition highlights the inspiring works being created worldwide by mother artists and examines the multifaceted relationship between motherhood and art-making. Through their diverse photography and 2D works\, we invite you to consider the challenges that working mother artists face and reflect on motherhood and child-rearing as fundamentally creative acts\, inseparably intertwined with art-making\, deserving of our loving attention\, respect\, and support. Learn more… \nEXHIBITION HOURS\nMonday\, July 21 – July 26\, 2025 (closed July 25)\nMon – Thu 12 – 6 pm\, Sat 12 – 3 pm \nTENRI GALLERY LOCATION\nTenri Cultural Institute of New York\, 43A W 13th St\, New York\, NY 10011\n212.645.2800
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SUMMARY:LIFE IS ART IS MOTHERHOOD IS ART:  Mother Artist Salon with Layale Chaker and Maeve Gilchrist
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on July 24\, 2025\, from 7 to 9 pm for an Artist Salon featuring live music and conversation with Layale Chaker (violin) and Maeve Gilchrist (harp)\, two artists who balance active tour schedules with the demands of caring for their young children. The event will take place at Tenri Cultural Institute of New York. Admission is free and no RSVP is required. Families with children are welcome! \nThe event is one of a series of Mother Artist Salons being held in conjunction with the exhibition LIFE IS ART IS MOTHERHOOD IS ART. Check the exhibition announcement or CRS calendar for details. \nABOUT THE PROGRAM \nChaker and Gilchrist come together in an exploration of the threads that stitch our inherited worlds—the whispers of old tales passed down by grandmothers\, the shadowed weight of mythologies\, superstitions\, and lullabies\, scattered across time and distance. \nDrawing from the musical vocabularies of their respective lineages—Celtic and Levantine—this new duo traces melodic and rhythmical contours shaped by centuries of oral memory. They search for the places where their stories overlap: fields of exile\, haunted lands\, and songs that carry coded truths. \nThis is not a reimagining of the past\, but an exploration of a shared present—an exploration of what flows through us unseen\, like smoke through veins. This suite of music invites the audience to step into a newly formed world\, rooted in the past but written for the present day—a brand new mythology. \nABOUT THE EXHIBITION \nLIFE IS ART IS MOTHERHOOD IS ART is an exhibition of five artists who are mothers of different generations — Daniela Kostova (Bulgaria)\, Aline Müller (Brazil)\, Quynh “Alex” Nguyễn (Vietnam)\, Katie Heller Saltoun (USA)\, and Satomi Shirai (Japan). Curated by CRS co-founder Christopher Pelham\, the exhibition will be on view at Tenri Cultural Institute of New York from July 21 – 26\, 2025. \n“Being an artist is to experience a vigorous\, experimental life of the mind and of the senses. Parenthood is another enriching experience: primal\, haptic and life-affirming. Why are the two still seen as incompatible?” — Jeffrey Boloten and Juliet Hacking\, Forward to How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (and other parents) \nThis exhibition highlights the inspiring works being created worldwide by mother artists and examines the multifaceted relationship between motherhood and art-making. Through their diverse photography and 2D works\, we invite you to consider the challenges that working mother artists face and reflect on motherhood and child-rearing as fundamentally creative acts\, inseparably intertwined with art-making\, deserving of our loving attention\, respect\, and support. Learn more… \nEXHIBITION HOURS\nMonday\, July 21 – July 26\, 2025 (closed July 25)\nMon – Thu 12 – 6 pm\, Sat 12 – 3 pm \nTENRI GALLERY LOCATION\nTenri Cultural Institute of New York\, 43A W 13th St\, New York\, NY 10011\n212.645.2800 \nABOUT THE MUSICAL ARTISTS \nLAYALE CHAKER\, violinist\, singer and composer \nComposer and violinist Layale Chaker was raised on the verge of multiple musical streams in her native Lebanon. Her complex sound universe\, described by NPR as “beguiling” with “bright and beautiful strands… gorgeous\, wine-dark swirls\,” lies at the intersection of classical contemporary music\, jazz\, Arabic music\, and improvisation. Her practice is committed to art as both sanctuary and crossroads—a place where ancestral narratives meet contemporary voices in a continuous reimagination of the world we inherit\, live in\, and bequeath. A 2020-2022 Jerome Hill Fellow\, Chaker is also the recipient of the 2022 Opera America Discovery 2022 Award\, among many other accolades. \nIn 2024\, her work Qarar/Jawab premiered at the Venice Biennale\, and Dawning\, a double concerto\, premiered with the New York Philharmonic. Her debut chamber opera\, Ruinous Gods\, premiered at the 2024 Spoleto Festival before its European debut at Wuppertal Opera. She also recently released a double portrait album on In a Circle Records\, featuring both her classical works and chamber jazz quintet\, Sarafand. \n“Haunting yet quietly rigorous…” — The New York Times \nhttps://layalechaker.com \nMAEVE GILCHRIST\, harpist\, singer\, composer and producer \nEdinburgh-born harpist and composer Maeve Gilchrist has been credited as an innovator on her native instrument and taken the Celtic (lever) Harp to new levels of performance and visibility. Currently based in Kingston\, NY\, Maeve tours internationally as a solo artist and composer. She is a member of the Grammy-winning Silkroad ensemble and of Arooj Aftab’s Grammy-winning Vulture Prince Ensemble. She has performed and recorded with such luminaries as Yo-Yo Ma\, Frankie Gavin\, Esperanza Spalding\, Ambrose Akinmusire\, and Solas.  \nAs a composer\, Maeve straddles the worlds of folk and classical music with pieces that include two original concertos for symphony Orchestra and Celtic Harp\, along with various works for harp and string quartet that have been played by such acclaimed groups as the Scottish Chamber Orchestra\, the Virginia Symphony Orchestra\, and the Aizuri String Quartet. She is a regular visiting artist at Berklee College of Music and has had several instructional books published by Hal Leonard and 80 Days Publishing. Maeve has released a number of albums under her name and is a featured soloist on the Dreamworks blockbuster movie soundtrack\, “How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.” Her most recent album\, “The Harpweaver\,” has garnered international acclaim\, including a five-star review from the Irish Times\, which described it as “buoyant\, sprightly and utterly beguiling….a snapshot of a musician at the top of her game.” Maeve is the Artistic Director of the Rockport Celtic Festival\, an innovative new festival focused on cross-curation and the outer fringes of Celtic music. \n“Both Fascinating and Absorbing in equal measure\, an Original Voice” — Scotsman \nhttps://www.maevegilchristmusic.com
URL:https://crsny.org/event/250724/
LOCATION:Tenri Cultural Institute\, 43A W 13th St\, New York\, 10011
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SUMMARY:LIFE IS ART IS MOTHERHOOD IS ART:  Mother Artist Salon with THIS IS A MOVEMENT
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on July 23\, 2025\, from 7 to 8:30 pm for an Artist Salon with THIS IS A MOVEMENT (TIAM) featuring live music by mother artists Goussy Celestin and Amma Whatt\, and conversation with the artists and Niama Safia Sandy\, co-founder of TIAM. TIAM is an initiative launched in 2022 seeking to create a more equitable music industry through an intersectional Black feminist lens\, centered upon non-hierarchical\, collaborative and imaginative modes of creation and organization. \n This event is one of a series of Mother Artist Salons being held in conjunction with the exhibition LIFE IS ART IS MOTHERHOOD IS ART. Check the exhibition announcement or CRS calendar for details. \nThe event will take place at Tenri Cultural Institute of New York. Admission is free and no RSVP is required. Families with children are welcome! \nABOUT THE MISSION OF THIS IS A MOVEMENT \n THIS IS A MOVEMENT (TIAM) was conceived in 2021 by a set of musicians\, scholars\, and leaders who often crossed paths and noticed a fragmentation in the field. The #MeToo movement had activated conversations and actions around gender justice\, but the efforts were more disparate – artists were organizing\, gathering\, and taking action on the bandstand\, educators were creating curriculum and writings within the academic space\, and producers and presenters were raising standards and focusing on diversity. TIAM was launched with the hope that it could be a centralized place for this community to discuss different perspectives\, share resources\, and advance conversations around equitable representation. The name – This Is A Movement – was chosen to signal that a larger movement is happening in the field and to hold the organizers accountable to the mentality and long-term commitment that movement-building requires. \nThis Is A Movement asks what transformation looks like\, with the goal of creating a robust community network that will work to cultivate a liberated music industry\, placing equity at the forefront. \nWomen\, those of underrepresented gender identities\, and their allies are claiming a space that challenges the status quo of the jazz and creative music scene. This movement is changing ways of thinking\, ways of working\, and ways of living while confronting structural inequities based on gender\, age\, race\, and culture. It is asking the essential question: What does a freer\, fairer\, and more representative music industry look like? To reimagine and remake our ecosystem\, we invite numerous organizations\, institutions\, and individuals\, bringing together artists\, activists\, organizers\, and creatives to share their experience\, their dreams\, and their plans. \nThis Is A Movement offers historical context\, academic data studies\, relevant dialogues\, and special guest speakers to an engaged and diverse audience of industry professionals\, educators\, students\, performers\, and the general public. This Is A Movement invites those leading change in the field\, as well as those for whom these conversations are difficult. It aims to create an incubator for new ideas that will bring about the future change we need in our cultural spaces. \nhttps://www.thisisamovement.com/ \nABOUT THE EXHIBITION \nLIFE IS ART IS MOTHERHOOD IS ART is an exhibition of five artists who are mothers of different generations — Daniela Kostova (Bulgaria)\, Aline Müller (Brazil)\, Quynh “Alex” Nguyễn (Vietnam)\, Katie Heller Saltoun (USA)\, and Satomi Shirai (Japan). Curated by CRS co-founder Christopher Pelham\, the exhibition will be on view at Tenri Cultural Institute of New York from July 21 – 26\, 2025. \n“Being an artist is to experience a vigorous\, experimental life of the mind and of the senses. Parenthood is another enriching experience: primal\, haptic and life-affirming. Why are the two still seen as incompatible?” — Jeffrey Boloten and Juliet Hacking\, Forward to How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (and other parents) \nThis exhibition highlights the inspiring works being created worldwide by mother artists and examines the multifaceted relationship between motherhood and art-making. Through their diverse photography and 2D works\, we invite you to consider the challenges that working mother artists face and reflect on motherhood and child-rearing as fundamentally creative acts\, inseparably intertwined with art-making\, deserving of our loving attention\, respect\, and support. Learn more… \nEXHIBITION HOURS\nMonday\, July 21 – July 26\, 2025 (closed July 25)\nMon – Thu 12 – 6 pm\, Sat 12 – 3 pm \nTENRI GALLERY LOCATION\nTenri Cultural Institute of New York\, 43A W 13th St\, New York\, NY 10011\n212.645.2800 \nABOUT THE MUSICAL ARTISTS \nBrooklyn-born Haitian-American artist GOUSSY CÉLESTIN interchanges the roles of pianist\, composer\, vocalist\, dancer\, educator\, and arranger with ease. \nWhile managing WeBop\, an early childhood music program\, Goussy is raising two sons\, her “greatest creative compositions\,” leading workshops\, composing for her ensemble\, in addition to holding a faculty position at BerkleeNYC. \nGoussy’s awards include\, Laundromat Project: Create Change Fellow\,  Queens Council on the Arts\, Gardarev Residency\, Field Leadership Fund\,  Space @ Ryder Farm Residency\, NYC Women’s Fund\, and received a commissioning grant from Mutual Mentorship for Musicians.  \nShe’s recently been awarded the Jazz Leadership Fellow by the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music and a New York State Council on the Arts’ Support For Artists Award\, for her KongoNola project. \nhttps://www.goussycelestin.com/ \nhttps://www.instagram.com/goussycelestin_ayitibrass/ \n \nVocalist\, performer\, and activist AMMA WHATT is a dynamic force in music. Praised by the New York Times for her ‘silk-infused vocals\,’ she effortlessly captivates audiences. Her musical story began with learning African chants and West-African dance from her performing parents\, and blossomed into her writing and performing with acclaimed bands like Grammy-nominated Nate Smith and Kinfolk\, empowering children through self-expression and rhythm\, and gracing stages across Europe and the US!  \nAmma was recognized by Pop Matters magazine as “a distinctive soul singer who absolutely seduces your ear\,” and her latest music represents a fusion of modern pop with Soul\, Afro-Caribbean styles\, House\, and Jazz\, featuring evocative storytelling on themes of love\, pain\, and hope. Her viral a cappella videos dedicated to the religious music of Orisha worshippers worldwide exemplify her dedication to incorporating 29 years of faith as a Yoruba-Lukumi priest into her artistic expression. \nWhile she balances music and her family life in New York\, Amma is deeply engaged in global social justice causes and serves as vice president of the executive board of the Egbe Iwa Rites of Passage program. Through her volunteer work and musical activism\, Amma seeks to leverage her voice as a powerful tool for advocacy and allyship. \nhttps://ammawhatt.bandcamp.com/ \nhttps://www.instagram.com/ammawhatt/ \n\n\n\nNIAMA SAFIA SANDY is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist\, curator\, and change agent. \nSandy’s work across disciplines delves into the human story through the application and critical lenses of culture\, healing\, history\, migration\, music\, race\, and ritual. Her creative practice often is an examination of the ways history\, economics\, migration\, and other social forces and constructs have shaped modern realities. Her aim is to use the visual\, written\, and performing arts to tell stories we know in ways we have not yet thought to tell them and to lift us all to a higher state of ontological and spiritual wholeness in the process. \nShe is a co-founder of THIS IS A MOVEMENT. She  currently teaches graduate and undergraduate students at Columbia University\, School of the Arts\, and Pratt Institute\, School of Art. \nhttps://www.instagram.com/___niama___/ \nhttps://www.thisisamovement.com/ \nhttps://www.instagram.com/this.is.a.movement/
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SUMMARY:LIFE IS ART IS MOTHERHOOD IS ART: Opening Reception & Mother Artist Salon with pianist Eunbi Kim
DESCRIPTION:Photo: a still from ‘Saturn Years’ video by new media artist Xuan \nPlease join us on July 21\, 2025\, from 7 – 9 pm for the Opening Reception for the exhibition LIFE IS ART IS MOTHERHOOD IS ART. At the reception\, mother artist Eunbi Kim will give a solo piano performance and share musings on the transformative connections between motherhood\, music\, and identity. Kim and her husband just welcomed their second child. \nThe event will take place at Tenri Cultural Institute of New York. Admission is free and no RSVP is required. Families with children are welcome! \nThe event is the first of a series of Mother Artist Salons being held in conjunction with the exhibition LIFE IS ART IS MOTHERHOOD IS ART. Check the exhibition announcement or CRS calendar for details. \nABOUT THE ARTIST AND PROGRAM \nPianist Eunbi Kim explores childhood\, family\, and identity through multimedia programs that combine music\, visual projections\, and spoken text. She creates sonic memoirs that invite audiences to meditate on their past\, present\, and future selves and how they all coexist. In “it feels like a dream\,” created shortly after becoming a new mother\, she asks the audience\, “What are the dreams we carry? What are the dreams we pass on?” Working in close collaboration with cutting-edge composers and artists of different mediums\, she creates projects that offer audiences the opportunity to tap into their unconscious pool of memories\, dreams\, and desires. \nhttps://www.eunbikimmusic.com \nABOUT THE EXHIBITION \nLIFE IS ART IS MOTHERHOOD IS ART is an exhibition of five artists who are mothers of different generations — Daniela Kostova (Bulgaria)\, Aline Müller (Brazil)\, Quynh “Alex” Nguyễn (Vietnam)\, Katie Heller Saltoun (USA)\, and Satomi Shirai (Japan). Curated by CRS co-founder Christopher Pelham\, the exhibition will be on view at Tenri Cultural Institute of New York from July 21 – 26\, 2025. \n“Being an artist is to experience a vigorous\, experimental life of the mind and of the senses. Parenthood is another enriching experience: primal\, haptic and life-affirming. Why are the two still seen as incompatible?” — Jeffrey Boloten and Juliet Hacking\, Forward to How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (and other parents) \nThis exhibition highlights the inspiring works being created worldwide by mother artists and examines the multifaceted relationship between motherhood and art-making. Through their diverse photography and 2D works\, we invite you to consider the challenges that working mother artists face and reflect on motherhood and child-rearing as fundamentally creative acts\, inseparably intertwined with art-making\, deserving of our loving attention\, respect\, and support. Learn more… \nEXHIBITION HOURS\nMonday\, July 21 – July 26\, 2025 (closed July 25)\nMon – Thu 12 – 6 pm\, Sat 12 – 3 pm \nTENRI GALLERY LOCATION\nTenri Cultural Institute of New York\, 43A W 13th St\, New York\, NY 10011\n212.645.2800
URL:https://crsny.org/event/250721/
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception for the Exhibition “Love Planet” by yukko*
DESCRIPTION:CRS invites you to an Opening Reception on July 7\, 2018 from 5 – 7 pm for the exhibition Love Planet —  sending love of the plants all over the world through photography\, by photographer yukko＊. There will be live music by the artist. The exhibition will open Saturday\, July 7\, 2018 and will remain on view through August 30\, 2018. \nExhibition Concept \n‘Love Planet Project’ was created by photographer yukko＊ to share love of plants all over the world through photography. \nThe aim of this project is for the plants in yukko＊’s photo postcards to be delivered all over the world by those who join this project by ‘pay-it-forwarding’. \nIn this show the original prints of the postcards and posters of the 16 selected photos used for the project postcards as well as the actual postcards themselves will be displayed. \n All her photos were taken with a film camera\, and none of them have been re-touched by the computer. \nArtist Statement \nPlants have always seemed to be very close to me since I was a child.  Without recognizing it\, I started taking photos and naturally I became a photographer specializing in pictures of plants. Gradually I noticed that I always felt the affection and graciousness of the plants while taking photos\, and started to want to try to transform the plants’ energy of love into light through photography. At the same time I started to talk to the plants when taking photos saying\, “Please let me deliver your love to those who need it.” \nHaving seen visitors to my photo exhibition shed tears while looking at my photos\, it became certain to me that the wave of love of plants can be passed on to us human beings\, and I decided to deliver the love of plants all over the world through photography.  As a start\, I have launched this ‘Love Planet Project’ in New York through this photo exhibition at CRS. \nBio \nyukko＊ was born and raised in Sapporo\, Japan. She became interested in different cultures when she saw a lot of foreign guests at the winter Olympic games in her hometown when she was a child. She kept this interest in the world and became an English translator at the local government after she studied at Kings College\, London. During her career as a translator she came to understand the cultural diversity as well as re-recognizing the spiritual nature of Japanese people. \nBeing transferred to the suburb to work as a staff in charge of tourism she started to take photographs as a part of her work. It did not take long for her to be absorbed in photography and she came to recognize that photos reflect what the photographer sees and feels. \nShe experienced depression during her next career in the government and decided to quit\, and started her new career as a photographer in Osaka. \nNow she holds photo exhibitions in various places in Japan as well as photo classes and portrait shooting.  She also works as a personal fashion-consultant and also as a singer.  She is an integrated artist supporting people to live honest to their nature. \n 
URL:https://crsny.org/event/love-planet-opening-180709/
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception for Happy Peace —  Paintings by Kimi Tea
DESCRIPTION:CRS invites you to an Opening Reception on February 8\, 2018 from 8:30 – 9:30 pm for the exhibition Happy Peace\, paintings by CRS A Course in Miracles student Kimi Tea (Kimiko Tsukada). Wine will be served. Please feel free to bring some light refreshment to share. \nAngels\, dancers\, healers\, mermaids\, animals\, and lovers populate Kimi’s dreamy landscapes\, evoking the fanatical delights of the inner world of childhood — or perhaps an idyllic adulthood liberated from anger\, guilt and fear. The paintings will be on view from February 8 – March 8\, 2018. \nA web designer by trade\, Kimi was sent by her office to Los Angeles in 2014 and was diagnosed with cancer shortly thereafter. Faced with this challenge\, she decided in March 2016 to begin something she had always wanted to pursue: painting. Her newfound passion became her prayer\, for herself and for the world. As her painting developed\, she began to receive opportunities to share her work. Last fall her illustration graced the poster and program cover of Zai\, a live dance/music/theatre production created by members of the CRS community. While Kimi was recently referred to hospice\, the beauty of her creations continues to inspire\, demonstrating that love’s power transcends any limitations of the body. \nhttps://www.facebook.com/pg/hapiePeace \nhttps://www.facebook.com/kimitea
URL:https://crsny.org/event/opening-reception-happy-peace-paintings-kimi-tea/
LOCATION:CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)\, 41 E 11th St 11th Fl\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception for the Exhibition: Nagi — Photographs by Tomoko Iki
DESCRIPTION:CRS announces Nagi\, an exhibition of portraits of pregnant women by photographer Tomoko Iki. The exhibition will be on view from February 2 – April 5\, 2017. You are invited to attend an opening reception with the artist with performance by dancer Lale Sayoko\, one of Iki’s subjects\, and her young children on February 4 from 6 – 8 pm. \nIki greatly enjoys her work and approaches her subjects with joy and reverence. As is evident in her portraits\, Iki is able to bring her subjects to a place of stillness and self awareness\, enabling them to accept\, explore and share the divine feminine within themselves. Iki does not appear inside the photographs but her loving presence is implied in the soft\, radiant expressions of her subjects. We don’t usually think of calmness as energetic\, but through these serene portraits we can bear witness to the limitless power\, strength and presence of spirit preparing to give birth. You can see more of her work at http://www.frauphoto.com. \nTHE ARTIST’S CONCEPT \nMystical\, primitive energy exuded by pregnant woman reminds me of the feeling I get when surrounded and embraced by mother nature. \nEqually powerful and inspiring pure gratitude emerges\, and I feel a sense of hope and light. \nThrough mysterious pregnant women there is a feeling of layers of life history and life force. \nThe word “Nagi” has two meanings.\nIn an old Native American language it means “soul.”\nIn the old Japanese language it means “calm and silence.” \n______ \nARTIST STATEMENT \nI started doing photography and dance when I was a university student. Inspiration from dance influences my photography. Above all\, I am interested in femininity and the modern human’s relationship with nature. I have been taking woman’s portraits and photographs of nature since the beginning. \nIn 2011\, I was really impressed by the beauty and power of my pregnant friend when I took her portrait. That was the impetus for launching my own studio for pregnant women. Since then\, I have taken portraits of more than 1000 pregnant women. \nIn 2016\, I moved to NY\, and I am continuing to create photography incorporating the themes of femininity\, nature and dance. \n______ \nBio \nBorn in Japan (1984) \nGraduated from Department of Human Environment Design\,\nSchool of Life Studies\, Sugiyama Jogakuen University.\nActivities now based in New York. \n2016 received the KAWABA NEW NATURE PHOTO AWARD in the category of Art in Nature.\n2013\, launched her own studio “Photo Salon Frau” in Tokyo.\n2013\, solo exhibition “mother” held at the Rhythm Warp in Nagoya.\n2011\, exhibited at the group exhibition “foto-n 2nd exhibition” (X Gallery at the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art).\n2011\, launched her own studio “Photo Salon Frau” in Nagoya.\n2010\, solo exhibition “stile brau” held at the Valentine Drive in Nagoya.\n2007\, exhibited at the group exhibition “Kodo (Pulse)” at the Plastic Factory in Nagoya.\n2007\, started activities as a freelance photographer.
URL:https://crsny.org/event/nagi/
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SUMMARY:Metamorphosis Opening Reception + Weaving Demonstration
DESCRIPTION:CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) announces an Opening Reception with the artist\, Nobu\, for the exhibition Metamorphosis on October 22\, 2016 from 5 – 7 pm. During the reception\, attendees will have an opportunity to learn about and try weaving on a SAORI loom like the one used by Nobu to create the works on view. \n“Saori\, the Zen Art of Weaving\,” a 20′ documentary about the SAORI hand-weaving method and its creator\, Misao Jo\, will be shown at 5:30 pm\, followed by a brief talk by Loop of the Loom Founder Yukako Satone introducing the SAORI ARTS NYC non-profit organization (saoriartsnyc.org). \nThe exhibition opens on October 6 and will remain on view through November 30\, 2016. This\, the second exhibition of SAORI fiber art at CRS\, aims to demonstrate the potential for using the SAORI therapeutic approach to weaving to explore one’s emotional and creative impulses deeply enough to create works of striking imagination\, originality and visceral impact that can be appreciated as art and serve as a vehicle for liberation for both creator and viewer. Learn more….
URL:https://crsny.org/event/metamorphosis-2/
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception — Photographs by Satomi Shirai
DESCRIPTION:CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) announces “Home and Home: New York in My Life\,” an exhibition of photographs by Satomi Shirai. These seven works reveal\, in boldly playful as well as subtle ways\, a newly arrived immigrant’s strategies to create a sense of home and to discover what those strategies are. From the outset\, CRS has sought to provide a creative and spiritual home to artists and seekers from all over the world\, and we believe that this exhibition speaks directly to our mission and the experience of so many members of our community. \nThe exhibition will open on October 19\, 2015 and be on display through November 28\, 2015. An opening reception with the artist will take place on Friday\, October 23\, 2015 from 7:30 – 9:30 pm. \nWhile the photographs in this exhibition look like documentary-style records of the often messy and alien life that an immigrant lives prior to acquiring furnishings and fully settling in (does an immigrant ever fully settle in?)\, the photographs are actually meticulously staged with a highly controlled mastery of mis-en-scene and craft. This creates a tension between order and chaos\, reality and artifice\, into which the artist places herself and her own child and friends as models\, challenging our initial impulse to label the life depicted as disordered. The more we look\, the more we recognize objects\, symbols\, behaviors\, relationships that give meaning and context to the home depicted. We recognize that we carry home within us and carry on a never-ending process of using our minds in diverse and complex ways to anchor ourselves and project our sense of home into our habitat\, making it our own even in the midst of constant change. \nAbout Satomi Shirai \nSatomi Shirai is originally from Tokyo\, and currently lives and works in New York. She completed the full-time Certificate Program at International Center of Photography in 2007\, and received her MFA from CUNY Hunter College in 2010. Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally including at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography\, National Portrait Gallery in London\, and Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. Her photographs are in the collection of Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and Kiyosato Museum of Photographic art. \nhttp://www.satomishirai.com \nArtist Statement \nWalls with windows and doors form the house\,\nbut the empty space within it is the essence of the house.\n— from The Uses of Not\, Lao Tse \nIn this body of work\, Home and Home: New York in My Life\, I explore what constitutes the concept of home\, as an immigrant who chose to live in New York. Tangibility versus intangibility are brought up\, and added to the discussion. How do we assess or assume home? \nMy relocation to New York is not about overcoming a culture that is distinct\, but encountering and understanding cultural disparity and similarity. Living in NYC highlights the intangible aspects of cultures today that include language\, myth\, mind-sets\, daily customs\, social class issues\, and identity. The diverse sense of femininity provides me other vantage point to examine the collective consciousness in the cities. \nI am bringing up positions of custom\, holiday\, architecture\, dress\, food\, location\, and home design as a means to explore how culture is being inter-mixed or is remaining unchanged at a microcosmic level\, and how national identity and sensibility are maintained or relinquished through living in a cross-cultural city life. The more understanding of cultural contrasts I have\, the more I feel closer to the U.S\, and so my space in New York is psychologically being expanded. \nA new point of view has been added to my life and work. I gave birth to my baby in New York and became a mother. This has enormously shifted my state of mind and lifestyle. The project or new chapter will be continued with the unknown transitions. \n 
URL:https://crsny.org/event/exhibition-photographs-by-satomi-shirai/
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception for Whispering Lights — Art by Erika Mizukami
DESCRIPTION:CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) is pleased to announce “Whispering Lights\,” an exhibition of art work by Erika Mizukami. \nFinding inspiration in light\, she began making art on her own and is self-taught. So far\, she has made more than 100 works in this way. We selected about 10 works from all\, and will show them at CRS. The works represented here are colorful oil pastels in complex patterns\, created by scratching\, reminiscent of mandalas. Their purpose is to invite unity and harmony into the mind and also a sense of playfulness. \nAn Opening Reception with the artist will take place on Saturday\, July 11\, 2015 from 6 – 8 pm. ​ Pianist Maurizio Najt will perform. \nThe exhibition will remain on display through August 17\, 2015. \nAbout the Artist \nBorn in New York and raised in Tokyo\, Erika Mizukami has been drawing since 2010. \nAfter experiencing self-hypnosis and guided meditation several years ago\, Erika started experiencing beautiful visions every night as she was lying down. Images were like the ones in a kaleidoscope\, vast\, spacious\, unlimited\, smooth\, a continuation of simple motifs within a slow movement. She was fully aware of her surroundings\, never tired from sleepless nights\, leaving her with a clear mind and emotional detachment. \nFully connected with the presence of Love\, Freedom\, and Stillness\, Erika explored the idea of capturing these images and wanted to share with others not only the images but the senses of healing she had in the experience. Drawing them on a sketchbook with a pencil was not an accurate way of sharing them. \nA year after\, she met a Mandala artist who recommended to her a book on how to draw a mandala. The instructions of drawing were so complicated for Erika\, so she placed the mandala interactions away and started playing with a compass to draw one simple circle in many ways. She loved it! However it was not quite yet able to reflect her visions. \nDuring the same year Erika took a course on Metaphysical Science. She had an assignment of expressing emotions in art. She picked oil pastels to do the project. It struck her! Since then she uses oil pastels and compass to draw the images. “When I scratched off the line\, the color appears underneath of black coated paper. It’s like the light appears in the dark.” \nEven though her artwork does not exactly mirror the images she sees in her mind\, “What I have experienced with drawing these particular artworks is far beyond my imagination. I just took inspired action every each moment to create shape and even choosing color.” \nThese artworks are teaching and guiding Erika in so many different aspects of understanding meaning in life and leading her to the original pure essence. When she completes a piece\, she looks at it with completely detachment\, neither like nor dislike\, leaving her for a couple of days with an empty mind\, no sense of judgment but deep love and joy! \nRelationship with all my creation is just being a witness of a process of unfolding flowers. When you see beauty in nature you go speechless\, with no words to express\, a kind of shock\, all thoughts and emotions become powerless and fade a way and I replace them with total acceptance\, being fully connected with something beyond my five senses \nRealizing that her art invites the viewers to the experience of reuniting with the universe as a whole\, Erika has been creating her artworks for people across any boundaries. \n“Creativity enriches my life. I love to inspire people and let them know how life is enjoyable just by taking a little time with the creativity we are all born with!” \nArtist Statement \nThe process of creating my work is one of returning myself back to the original nothingness. Choosing motifs\, colors\, and patters for each little step of drawing in a long\, simple repetition is made possible when I perceive a subtle and quiet inspiration coming from within. In drawing\, I let self-talk bubble up to consciousness from the innermost realm within\, and gently liberate each of them into the light. \nOnce the work is finished\, I realize that I have been experiencing the authentic nothingness. Which means no words\, no critiques\, no voices\, and no emotions emerge from my work toward me when seeing it for a couple of days after the completion. It seems as if a physical relationship between “me” the creator and my work the created\, which had been supporting the process of my creation\, reveals its real nature:  the original nothingness. \nAfter the experience of nothingness\, my consciousness gradually returns to the world of words and emotions where my work visually expresses its beauty. \nEvery time I finish my work\, I deeply feel that my creative process strengthens the mutual trust between my Self and what’s beyond my Self\, namely divinity. Not only my finished work but every little piece of the work\, every event I went through in the process of creating it\, every color\, and every figure outside the work now tell me the truth of the universe in a totally different way. The entire universe\, including my work and myself\, plays a role as catalyst to enrich the bond\, or a mutual trust\, between me and what leads me to create my works. This bond\, the trust\, is an experience of oneness between my singularity and the entire universe. My works are a series of invitations to this oneness.
URL:https://crsny.org/event/opening-reception-for-whispering-lights-art-by-erika-mizukami/
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