Community artists take over during second P.C. Arts Festival
June 5, 2024 at 11:15 p.m.
Alison Barreto of Poningo Street helps her 3-year-old son Owen Lalvay make a craft project at the Port Chester-Rye Brook Public Library as part of the second annual Port Chester Arts Festival for all ages throughout Port Chester and Rye Brook on Saturday, June 1. See additional photos on page 20. (Jananne Abel/Westmore News)
Exhibiting artist Helen Marder of Tamarack Road holds Elliot, one of two cockatoos Port Chester resident Eve Deitz and her husband brought to Crawford Mansion Community Center for the art show staged there as part of the second annual Port Chester Arts Festival throughout Port Chester and Rye Brook on Saturday, June 1. See additional photos on page 20. (Jananne Abel/Westmore News)
Nine-year-old Alex Calman admires the pop culture-inspired art in the lobby of The Castle, the 201 Willett Ave. building he lives in. It was just one of many locations throughout Port Chester and Rye Brook where art of all varieties was displayed, practiced and performed during the Port Chester Arts Festival on Saturday, June 1. (David Tapia/Westmore News)
Port Chester artist Marcella Zanetti poses with several of her “wearable art” pieces on display at Museo Pardo at 112 N. Main St. (David Tapia/Westmore News)
Yonkers resident David Daykin (left) listens intently as Serdar Arat, a Turkish artist who lives on Hobart Avenue, describes how he combined fiberglass, wood and other materials to create his piece ‘Departing Skies and Fallen’ at the Neptune in June exhibit at 33 New Broad St. (David Tapia/Westmore News)
Grant Street residents Guadalupe (left), Delfina and Hector Conde watch a short film about American jazz musician Alice Coltrane being screened at Spank! Studios, located at the top of the Simons Building at 181 Westchester Ave. (David Tapia/Westmore News)
Angel Alsina (front) teaches a salsa class at Jeté Dance Studio on Pearl Street. Among the dancers are Robin Wolfson (back left) of Port Chester, Andrew Wolverton of Greenwich (front left) and Ana Provenzano of Rye Brook (front right). (Jananne Abel/Westmore News)
Sarah Craighead, 10, and her mom, Danielle, of Sleepy Hollow Road, Rye Brook, study a collage called “The Worried” created by Tara O’Reilly, a student at Rye Neck High School, in an upstairs room at Crawford Mansion Community Center where artwork of students from Port Chester, Blind Brook and Rye Neck schools was displayed. (Jananne Abel/Westmore News)
Larry Reina of Port Chester and Jessie Lizotte appear in a scene from The Manhattan Project’s “Alice in Wonderland,” directed by Peter Green of Port Chester, staged for the Port Chester Arts Festival at Museo Pardo on the third floor at 112 N. Main St. (Jananne Abel/Westmore News)
Therese and Matthew Cherian of Westchester Avenue, Port Chester, make peeps, small figures out of yarn, at a booth set up by Arianna Christopher (right) of the Port Chester Beautification Commission in front of the Carver Center at 400 Westchester Ave. She was also recruiting volunteers to participate in a Community Art Initiative. (Jananne Abel/Westmore News)
Elmsford resident Leonell Rothmaler, 12, sketches out a graffiti design after viewing the Neptune in June art exhibition at 33 New Broad St. (David Tapia/Westmore News)
Lisa Johnson of Byram dyes a white sweater a wine color at Spank! Studios in the Simons Building where owners and artists Joe Owens and Claire Hallett of Greenwich had set up dye baths as their first activity of the day. (Jananne Abel/Westmore News)
Ann Ribuffo of Maple Place looks at math art created by Shiying Dong of Greenwich at Crawford Mansion Community Center. The artist, who said “Everything I do is math inspired, but I try to make it pretty,” shows Ribuffo additional pieces she has made on her cell phone. (Jananne Abel/Westmore News)
