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    Figment Wins Hearts of a Skeptical Community
    Rachel Dowling
    • Jun 14, 2019
    • 7 min

    Figment Wins Hearts of a Skeptical Community

    A shimmering, larger-than-life unicorn, propelled by a human-powered go-cart escorting a mounted human at a soaring height, with its...
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    Islanders to Showcase Participatory Art at Figment Festival
    Briana Warsing
    • May 31, 2019
    • 4 min

    Islanders to Showcase Participatory Art at Figment Festival

    Many Islanders and Island organizations heeded the call from Figment NYC, the two-day free participatory arts event being held here this...
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    Snapshots: Exploring Your Freedom: Uniting a Nation Murals Displayed in Motorgate Gallery
    briana644
    • Apr 9, 2019
    • 1 min

    Snapshots: Exploring Your Freedom: Uniting a Nation Murals Displayed in Motorgate Gallery

    Despite it being a cold and rainy evening (there were heat lamps!), artists and art lovers assembled in Motorgate last Friday evening to...
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    Exhibit At Four Freedoms Park Explores Meaning of Freedom From Fear
    Briana Warsing
    • Apr 8, 2019
    • 4 min

    Exhibit At Four Freedoms Park Explores Meaning of Freedom From Fear

    “I think it is essential that we, as Americans, not take our freedoms for granted,” explains artist Setsuko Winchester about her Freedom...
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    Vernissage XVIII- The Newest Group Show at RIVAA Gallery
    Rachel Dowling with photos by Alexandre Tolipan
    • Mar 19, 2019
    • 3 min

    Vernissage XVIII- The Newest Group Show at RIVAA Gallery

    The month of March has brought yet another exciting and eclectic art exhibit to the RIVAA (Roosevelt Island Visual Arts Association)...
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    What You Missed at RIOC's March Board Meeting
    Briana Warsing
    • Mar 8, 2019
    • 4 min

    What You Missed at RIOC's March Board Meeting

    Blackwell House The nine-person board might be four board members down but there was still plenty to get done at last night’s meeting of...
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    Coler Based Reality Poets Publish Anthology and Host Poetry Share
    Lauren Blankstein
    • Feb 22, 2019
    • 4 min

    Coler Based Reality Poets Publish Anthology and Host Poetry Share

    Artists’ and the neighborhoods where their careers took flight can become inextricably linked – Allen Ginsberg and the East Village,...
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    Get Your Inner Artist On and Make Way for Figment
    Rachel Dowling
    • Feb 21, 2019
    • 7 min

    Get Your Inner Artist On and Make Way for Figment

    Things are going to start to get colorful around here come June, and it won’t just be the typical color of summer abloom. Roosevelt...
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    RIVAA Celebrates Black History with 'Cultural Preservation' Exhibit
    Rachel Dowling
    • Feb 11, 2019
    • 5 min

    RIVAA Celebrates Black History with 'Cultural Preservation' Exhibit

    The RI Jazz Collaborative Band, featuring Lynn Beville, provided live music at the opening, by Alexandre Tolipan This year’s annual Black...
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    Teen Production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream Opens Friday
    Rachel Dowling
    • Jan 29, 2019
    • 3 min

    Teen Production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream Opens Friday

    This weekend, Islanders will be treated to Shakespeare comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream, acted by the local teens in Main Street Theater...
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    Four Freedoms Announces Sketch Contest Winners
    Briana Warsing
    • Dec 1, 2018
    • 3 min

    Four Freedoms Announces Sketch Contest Winners

    Four Freedoms Park Conservancy announced the winners of their second annual sketch contest, Sketch 4 Freedom last week. The contest, held...
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    Join us on Sunday for Reimagine RI
    Briana Warsing
    • Oct 23, 2018
    • 3 min

    Join us on Sunday for Reimagine RI

    The Main Street WIRE is one of many community sponsors of a panel and arts showcase on Roosevelt Island that is part of the first...
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    Well-known Art Event Ditches Old Digs for Roosevelt Island
    Lauren Blankstein
    • Oct 13, 2018
    • 4 min

    Well-known Art Event Ditches Old Digs for Roosevelt Island

    Meredith Monk chose Roosevelt Island for a site-specific performance in 1994 called American Archeology No. 1: Roosevelt Island, which...
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    Snapshots: 2018 Fall for Arts Festival
    briana644
    • Oct 7, 2018
    • 1 min

    Snapshots: 2018 Fall for Arts Festival

    Creativity was in the air Saturday as Islanders came out for the annual Fall for Arts festival, which included dance lessons, yoga,...
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    Octagon Trades an Art Gallery for Rental Office Space
    Rachel Dowling
    • Oct 6, 2018
    • 4 min

    Octagon Trades an Art Gallery for Rental Office Space

    Although it is still listed as one of the “amenities” on the Octagon website, the 10-year old art gallery in the historic landmark insane...
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    Making a Day of Long Island City
    Rachel Dowling
    • Aug 16, 2018
    • 7 min

    Making a Day of Long Island City

    Traveling via ferry is to experience New York City in all its glory. We get to observe from a distance, see the relationships of...
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    Hardly an "Island of Art"
    briana644
    • Jun 25, 2018
    • 1 min

    Hardly an "Island of Art"

    To the Editor: A favorite public garden on the Island is now fenced off. Plopped down in the middle is a piece of junk sculpture – rusted...
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