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Yonkers, N.Y. – The Hudson River Museum presents an eclectic selection of programs and exhibitions in July.
PROGRAMS
Unless otherwise noted, all programs are free.
The Hudson River Museum is actively working on plans to reopen this summer in compliance with CDC and New York State phased guidelines. We look forward to welcoming visitors back to the Museum as soon as it’s safe to do so. Updates will be posted on our website at hrm.org/visit and on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
Tuesday, July 7, 11:30am-12:15pm
Virtual Planetarium Show for Kids: Planets
Do your kids love the Planetarium? We do too—and since we can’t get together under the dome, we want to bring the Planetarium to you! Once a week, we’re putting on virtual planetarium shows just for kids. This week the theme is planets. We’ll be using a planetarium simulator for the night sky and introducing your kids to the planets they’ll be able to spot this summer. Just like programs in the Planetarium, we’ll be able to take questions—this time through chat and comments during this Facebook Live event. Recommended for ages 6–10.
Wednesday, July 8, 11:30am
Art Project LIVE: Awesome Abstraction
Explore and learn about Norman Lewis’ work Untitled (Subway Station), 1945, in this workshop for families. Experiment with creating your own work of abstract art in a guided drawing session recommended for ages 12+. Just bring a pencil and paper. Registration required.
Image: Norman Wilfred Lewis (American, 1909–1979). Untitled (Subway Station), 1945. Oil and sand on canvas. On loan from Art Bridges. Art Bridges, © Estate of Norman W. Lewis; Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY.
Thursday, July 9, 5pm
LIVE From Tandem Press: The Making of Derrick Adams' Self-Portrait on Float
Derrick Adams’ monumental acrylic on paper, Floater 80 (Self-Portrait), 2018, is one of the signature works in the HRM’s current exhibition Derrick Adams: Buoyant. Last year, the Museum acquired the 2019 print Self Portrait on Float, which is based on the painting. To create this artwork, Adams collaborated with master printers Jason Ruhl and Joe Freye from Tandem Press. Join Ruhl and Freye on Instagram Live from the Tandem Press studio at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as they discuss and demonstrate the process of making the print—from the breakdown of the image, to the creation of the puzzle-cut blocks, to the inking and printing of a run.
Exhibition programs are supported in part by Dr. Sharon Brangman and Charlie Lester, Cheryl Calegari, Michael Hoeh, DeWayne N. Phillips and Caroline Wamsler, PhD, Lisa Simonetti and Robin Jenkins, Everette Taylor, and friends of the Museum.
Image: Derrick Adams (American, b. 1970). Self-Portrait on Float, 2019. Woodblock, gold leaf, collage (edition 10/50). 40 × 40 inches. Museum Purchase, 2019. © Derrick Adams. (2019.12)
Thursday, July 9, 7pm
The Sky Tonight: Live-Streamed Planetarium Show
We may not be able to sit together under the Planetarium dome, but you are invited to join our science educators from the comfort of your home for this live-streamed "The Sky Tonight" show. Learn about the summer constellations in the night sky through an online planetarium simulator, get tips on spotting the planets, and hear about the latest space news and discoveries. Just like programs in the Planetarium, we'll be able to take questions during this Facebook Live event, this time through chats and comments.
Support provided by Entergy
Saturday, July 11, 12pm
Conversations Around Constellations: Frances Hynes’ Skyscapes
Tour Frances Hynes: Constellations virtually with the artist Frances Hynes and Marc Taylor, HRM’s Manager of Planetarium and Science Programs. Together, they will take a close look at this collection of charcoal and pastel skyscapes, and then place them in their celestial context with a virtual planetarium show. Hynes will discuss her inspiration for these images and her depiction of the geometries of architecture and the arrangement of the stars. Frances Hynes: Constellations will be on view at the HRM through January 10, 2021. Registration required.
Image: Frances Hynes. Constellation Series #5, 1986. Compressed charcoal and pastel on paper. Courtesy of the artist.
Sunday, July 12, 11:30am
Nybelwyck Hall: A Mega Miniature Virtual Tour
Join us for a virtual tour of Nybelwyck Hall, the extraordinary miniature mansion on display in Glenview, the Hudson River Museum's historic home. Miniaturist and gallerist Darren Scala from D. Thomas Fine Miniatures will be hosting an online visit to the 24-room dollhouse built by Mark O’Banks. Scala will share images and video of the miniature rooms and tiny treasures that fill the house and tell O'Banks' whimsical story about the Van Nybelwyck family who reside in the home . . . and how they’ve been coping with shelter-in-place. This is a great way to get to know the dollhouse before seeing it in person at the Museum! Registration required.
Tuesday, July 14, 11:30am-12:15pm
Virtual Planetarium Show for Kids: Constellations
Do your kids love the Planetarium? We do too—and since we can’t get together under the dome, we want to bring the Planetarium to you! Once a week, we’re putting on virtual planetarium shows just for kids. This week the theme is constellations. We’ll be using a planetarium simulator for the night sky and introducing your kids to the starry pictures they’ll be able to spot this summer. Just like programs in the Planetarium, we’ll be able to take questions during this Facebook Live event—this time through chat and comments. Recommended for ages 6–10.
Wednesday, July 15, 11:30am
Family Art Project LIVE: The Little House
Join us as we read the classic work of children’s literature by Virginia Lee Burton, The Little House. Then, develop your own work of rural, suburban, or urban landscape art in a follow-up activity designed for children ages 5+ and their families. Materials: paper and pencil, colored pencils, markers, crayons. Registration required.
Thursday, July 16, 7pm
The Sky Tonight: Live-Streamed Planetarium Show
We may not be able to sit together under the Planetarium dome, but you are invited to join our science educators from the comfort of your home for this live-streamed “The Sky Tonight” show. Learn about the summer constellations in the night sky through an online planetarium simulator, get tips on spotting the planets, and hear about the latest space news and discoveries. Just like programs in the Planetarium, we’ll be able to take questions in this Facebook Live event—this time through chat and comments. Recommended for general audiences, ages 8+.
Support provided by Entergy
Saturday, July 18, 11:30am-1:30pm
Collaging Our Everyday: LIVE Art Workshop with Tijay Mohammed
Create a mixed-media collage about your daily experiences—such as shopping, sports, parties, and other social occasions—while discussing the ways in which institutional racism affects how diverse groups experience these events. While recognizing the existence of historical barriers to full and carefree participation in everyday activities, HRM’s Teaching Artist-in-Residence, Tijay Mohammed, will encourage us to enter into a celebratory atmosphere with Derrick Adams’ series We Came to Party and Plan and works from Self in the City: Highlights from the Collections of the HRM and Art Bridges, such as Archibald Motley’s Bronzeville at Night, 1949. Registration required.
Support provided by Art Bridges
Sunday, July 19, 2pm
Author Talk: Gretchen Sorin on Sojourns in the American City
Gretchen Sorin, Ph.D., Director and Distinguished Service Professor, Cooperstown Graduate Program, talks about her recently released book, Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights, and how the automobile fundamentally changed African American life. Her perspective brings into focus the true history beyond the Hollywood movie, The Green Book, showing travel as a political act.
Today, the annual guidebook, The Negro Motorist Green Book, published from 1936-1966, and popularly known simply as The Green Book, serves as a poignant artifact and reminder of the importance of equality during a time in which the ubiquity of racial inequity continues to negatively shape the lives and experiences of many Black Americans. In 2018, Derrick Adams’ installation Sanctuary, at the Museum of Arts and Design, treated the same subject through mixed media collage, assemblage, and sculpture. Following the presentation, join us for Q&A with Dr. Sorin.
This program is pay-as-you-wish. Your support provides essential funds to enable HRM to support our staff, artists, and quality programming. Registration required.
Support provided by Art Bridges
Tuesday, July 21, 11:30am-12:15pm
Virtual Planetarium Show for Kids: The Moon
Do your kids love the Planetarium? We do too—and since we can’t get together under the dome, we want to bring the Planetarium to you! Once a week, we’re putting on virtual planetarium shows just for kids. This week the theme is the Moon. We’ll be using a planetarium simulator for the night sky and introducing your kids to the Moon’s phases, as well as the personality of our planet Earth’s constant companion. Just like programs in the Planetarium, we’ll be able to take questions in this Facebook Live event—this time through chat and comments. Recommended for ages 6–10.
Wednesday, July 22, 11:30am
Art Project LIVE: Past Worlds / Future People
Explore how contemporary artist Derrick Adams rearranges old archival documents to tell new stories for the future, and experiment in making your own mixed-media futurescape. Materials: Paper and pencil; mixed media like cardboard, magazines, newspapers, and photographs; glue or tape; optional: colored pencils, markers, or crayons. Recommended for ages 10+. Registration required.
Exhibition programs are supported in part by Dr. Sharon Brangman and Charlie Lester, Cheryl Calegari, Michael Hoeh, DeWayne N. Phillips and Caroline Wamsler, PhD, Lisa Simonetti and Robin Jenkins, Everette Taylor, and friends of the Museum.
Thursday, July 23, 5pm
Hip Hop Workshop: From Sidewalk to Stage
Do you know the difference between Popping & Locking, Breaking, Boogaloo, Souja Boy, and The SpongeBob? Find out in this live virtual workshop with the NYC hip-hop group the Dynamic Rockers. Hear about the history of hip-hop dance and then learn the moves in a lesson. Dynamic Rockers have been performing since the early 1980s. Their members have traveled around the globe sharing hip-hop culture through local battles or foreign tours. Registration required.
Support provided by Art Bridges
Thursday, July 23, 7pm
The Sky Tonight: Live Streaming Planetarium Show
We may not be able to sit together under the Planetarium dome, but you are invited to join our science educators from the comfort of your home for this live-streamed “The Sky Tonight” show. Learn about the summer constellations in the night sky through an online planetarium simulator. Get tips on spotting the planets, and hear about the latest space news and discoveries. Just like programs in the Planetarium, we’ll be able to take questions in this Facebook Live event—this time through chat and comments. Recommended for general audiences, ages 8+.
Support provided by Entergy
Sunday, July 26, 1:30pm
Curator Tour from Home: Derrick Adams Selects
When Derrick Adams sought to paint scenes of Black people engaged in pool-side recreation, he was surprised to find that there weren't any such images online. Delving deeper into his research, he discovered images of Martin Luther King Jr. relaxing on vacation with his wife Coretta and wondered why this side of the Civil Rights leader’s life is so little known to the general public. Join Laura Vookles, Chair of the HRM Curatorial Department, on a virtual tour of Collection Spotlight: Derrick Adams Selects, with works selected by Adams from the permanent collection to complement his exhibition Buoyant. The works in Derrick Adams Selects highlight our interactions with water: visual, physical, and emotional, and exude the themes of leisure and celebration present in Adams’ work. Registration required.
Exhibition programs are supported in part by Dr. Sharon Brangman and Charlie Lester, Cheryl Calegari, Michael Hoeh, DeWayne N. Phillips and Caroline Wamsler, PhD, Lisa Simonetti and Robin Jenkins, Everette Taylor, and friends of the Museum.
Tuesday, July 28, 11:30am-12:15pm
Virtual Planetarium Show for Kids: Spacecraft
Do your kids love the Planetarium? We do too—and since we can’t get together under the dome, we want to bring the Planetarium to you! Once a week, we’re putting on virtual planetarium shows just for kids. This week the theme is spacecraft. We’ll be using a planetarium simulator for the night sky, and we’ll give your kids some ideas about how they can make a space explorer of their own. Just like programs in the Planetarium, we’ll be able to take questions in this Facebook Live event—this time through chat and comments. Recommended for ages 6–10.
Wednesday, July 29, 11:30am
Art Project LIVE: Bird’s Eye Fly High
Join us for a reading of artist Faith Ringgold’s fantastical story, Tar Beach. Then, develop your own work of birds-eye-view art in an activity designed for children ages 5+ and their families. Materials needed: paper and pencil, colored pencils, markers, crayons. Registration required.
Support provided by Art Bridges
Thursday, July 30, 7pm
The Sky Tonight: Live Streaming Planetarium Show
We may not be able to sit together under the Planetarium dome, but you are invited to join our science educators from the comfort of your home for this live-streamed “The Sky Tonight” show. Learn about the summer constellations in the night sky through an online planetarium simulator, get tips on spotting the planets, and hear about the latest space news and discoveries. Just like programs in the Planetarium, we’ll be able to take questions in this Facebook Live event—this time through chat and comments. Recommended for general audiences, ages 8+
Support provided by Entergy
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Image: Archibald John Motley, Jr. (American, 1891–1981). Bronzeville at Night, 1949. Oil on canvas. On loan from Art Bridges.
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