Artists of the East Village / Lower East Side — ARTS – COMMUNITY – ENVIRONMENT
Tuesday, May 21, 2024 6:30pm
Church of St. Mary, 440 Grand St
(between Clinton Street and Pitt Street)
Entry to event space is ramp at the righthand corner (east side) of the church.
Sponsored by:
Lower East Side Preservation Initiative
Art Loisaida Foundation
Cuala Foundation
New York Irish Center
Church of St. Mary
FREE IN PERSON event
Registration is required; register HERE.
February 13 – April 17, 2023
Ryan John Lee is a photographer/filmmaker based in New York City. He is a longtime resident of the East Village.
Street photography is a lifestyle, with my camera as a silent, omnipresent partner. I approach street photography in two ways: hunting and waiting. I hunt for potential moments and respond accordingly to photograph their image. Additionally, I wait for ideal photographic scenarios (a beam of light, an interesting composition), and I linger until a subject approaches and interacts–sometimes for hours.
These ten photographs represent hunted or anticipated moments I’ve been fortunate enough to capture. They depict the subjects I’ve encountered in both everyday life and while traveling. Some are humorous or touching, while others are heartbreaking. I hope these images transform the ordinary into something more magical. I strive to highlight the calm within the chaos of the urban landscape.
ALF.Surviving Covid Artist Program – Read/Print
ALF.Surviving Covid Artist Program – Read/Download
This remarkable collection of contemporary photographs, shot by photographers whose artistic roots in the East Village, shows unique and beautiful portraits of a now familiar neighborhood. This collection reminds people of our neighborhood’s beauty, wonder, and individuality and calls out for the preservation of its invaluable, irreplaceable legacy, for our own and future generations.
Helping your life story bloom
Garden Stories: Leadership Workshops provides interactive programs for children designed to:
Garden Stories: Leadership Workshops works collaboratively under the ALF program umbrella.
At the end of the spring semester we created book from our drawings to show anyone and everyone and especially our parents everything that we learned. Both Scott and Nicole’s classes created a book. Please download and look at all of our accomplishments this spring.
A multidisciplinary art exhibit at Theater for The New City with works by 26 artists which runs from November 5, 2018-to January 2, 2019. The Gallery is open from 4-to 10pm Monday through Saturday and Sunday from 12-4pm.
The celebration known as Day of the Dead. It is not nearly as scary as it sounds.
We didn’t just create the pizza, we grew the veggies!
Gnocco’s staff showed the children how to create a pizza. We then all created pizzas together using herbs and vegetables we grew at Campos community Garden: oregeno, basil, thyme, marjoram and tomatoes.
Claudio and Rossella shows us how to make the pizza dough.
The dough is super elastic. Rosella stretched and stretched a little ball of dough to make a big pie. The dough was squishy when I poked at it.
The pizzas sure tasted super good. The children documented the process by drawing and writing in their notebooks.
You can see some of our drawing in the book we published at the end of the year:
Thse working bees are all girls? That’s fantastic.
Dan Rothchild came by and introduced us to bees. Did you know that all of the bees are girls? The queen bee lays all the eggs and the workers bee do all of the work. The drones freeload and the only thing they do is inseminate the queen at the very beginning of her life. Isn’t that typical. This is what Dan said.
Dan had the children draw different parts of the bee to understand how they work.
Dance Photographs using mixed lighting.
