Gallery and Public Art

ARTS IMPROVE

WELLBEING

EXPANDING PERSPECTIVES THROUGH THE ARTS

2019 was a year of memorable arts programming that engaged diverse audiences and expanded ArtsWestchester’s capacity to serve the greater Westchester community through exhibitions, performances and public art. Opening the exhibition season was Modern Families, a photography exhibition that focused the camera lens on the “families we’re given and the families we choose.” Rarely-exhibited group portraits by Harlem Renaissance photographer James Van Der Zee were presented alongside contemporary photographers who illuminate the diverse definitions of family in our communities. The exhibition was supported with a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Also supported by the NEA with a $30,000 grant, DATAISM featured artists who use data and data collecting in their artistic practices to probe present realities and reimagine the future. In addition to our in-gallery activities, ArtsWestchester’s curatorial staff worked with the private and public sectors to expand public art in Westchester. They worked with the New York State Thruway Authority to identify artists for 10 commissioned works of art for the shared use path of the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge. Winners were also selected for large-scale public sculpture commissions at 42 Broad Street with Alexander Development Group in Mount Vernon, and at 50 Main Street with Ginsburg Development

Companies (GDC) in White Plains. In addition to the sculpture commission, ArtsWestchester worked with GDC to acquire interior sculptures, paintings and prints by Hudson Valley regional artists for its 50 Main Street property. Rounding out the organization’s public art efforts for 2019 was a mural project with LMC, a Lennar company, which brought six colorful murals to the temporary construction walls of 60 South Broadway in White Plains.