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    Islanders Enjoy Fall for the Arts Festival
    Words and pictures by Alexandre Tolipan
    • Oct 5, 2019
    • 2 min

    Islanders Enjoy Fall for the Arts Festival

    Despite the summery weather, with temperatures in the 80’s, the Island celebrated its Fall for the Arts festival last weekend. The...
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    RIOC and RIRA Meet on Back to Back Evenings Last Week
    Alexandre Tolipan and Briana Warsing
    • Sep 9, 2019
    • 5 min

    RIOC and RIRA Meet on Back to Back Evenings Last Week

    After a summer hiatus, both the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation, and the Roosevelt Island Residents Association held their first...
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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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    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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    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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    What you Missed at RIOC's December Board Meeting
    Briana Warsing
    • Dec 15, 2018
    • 5 min

    What you Missed at RIOC's December Board Meeting

    The Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation spent much of Thursday night's Board of Director's meeting getting their ducks in a row as...
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    Oculus Sculpture Trades Octagon For Island House
    Briana Warsing
    • Nov 3, 2018
    • 5 min

    Oculus Sculpture Trades Octagon For Island House

    When the historic Octagon building, formerly an insane asylum, reopened in 2006 as an apartment building, Victoria Thorson’s sculpture,...
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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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    RIOC Unveils New Public Art
    Briana Warsing
    • Jun 8, 2018
    • 4 min

    RIOC Unveils New Public Art

    On Wednesday morning, a few dozen Islanders and art lovers sat in front of a podium on the hill that connects Good Shepherd Plaza with...
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    A Night of Art and Poetry That’s Bigger Than the Chair That Binds Them
    Briana Warsing
    • May 12, 2018
    • 3 min

    A Night of Art and Poetry That’s Bigger Than the Chair That Binds Them

    Andres “Jay” Molina is tired of talking about his wheelchair. As part of the Open Doors program, he and a small group of fellow Coler...
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    RIVAA Puts Black Artists in the Spotlight
    Briana Warsing
    • Mar 11, 2018
    • 3 min

    RIVAA Puts Black Artists in the Spotlight

    “I call it American history – black history is part of American history,” said curator Lorraine Williams in her remarks at the opening of...
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    From Gallery to Community, with a Dash of Jazz
    Susheel Kurien and Briana Warsing
    • Nov 11, 2017
    • 6 min

    From Gallery to Community, with a Dash of Jazz

    When was the last time you heard two upright basses play a Mingus tune? Or a guitar trio? How about a vocalist with a quartet behind her?...
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    Contrast and Harmony at RIVAA Member Show
    Piaskowski
    • Oct 18, 2017
    • 2 min

    Contrast and Harmony at RIVAA Member Show

    The non-profit Roosevelt Island Visual Art Association (RIVAA) was established 16 years ago to establish and encourage the arts on...
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    Snapshots: Fall for Arts 2017
    briana644
    • Oct 5, 2017
    • 1 min

    Snapshots: Fall for Arts 2017

    Despite a scorching heat wave, Islanders came out to enjoy a day of art, exercise, dance, and music at the Fall for Arts Festival on...
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    Island of Art
    Briana Warsing
    • Jun 11, 2017
    • 5 min

    Island of Art

    Two wave statues temporarily placed on the Island as part of the City-wide La Mer Wave Walk project may be the most recent art...
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    La Mer Wave Walk Makes a Splash at Two Island Spots
    Briana Warsing
    • May 29, 2017
    • 3 min

    La Mer Wave Walk Makes a Splash at Two Island Spots

    Two new sculptures will grace Roosevelt Island for the next month as part of the City-wide art installation project La Mer Wave Walk, a...
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    Teen Theater Takes Aim at Modern Love
    Kelly Turner
    • Apr 30, 2017
    • 3 min

    Teen Theater Takes Aim at Modern Love

    The search for love – in all its messy, joyful, aching, hopeful forms – will be on display this weekend at the Main Street Theatre &...
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    Opening Doors and Minds After Gun Violence
    Dana Agmon
    • Apr 29, 2017
    • 3 min

    Opening Doors and Minds After Gun Violence

    Set against a backdrop of the magnificent, vibrant colors of Ioan Popoiu’s paintings at Gallery RIVAA, poets recited works full of...
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    RIVAA Celebrates Its Past
    Dana Agmon
    • Mar 25, 2017
    • 2 min

    RIVAA Celebrates Its Past

    Sixteen years ago, after nine Island related victims perished in the 9/11 attacks, the newly formed Roosevelt Island Visual Arts...
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