Remarkable Women
Feature Films & Discussion Program
After the Deluge
Free | RSVP required
30 Nov. 2024 | 3pm
After the Deluge (2024)
Directed by Tara Young
Introduction by Program Curator Jane Applegate
A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, a scrappy expressionistic painter, finds respite from the isolation of her small apartment on a park bench, where she stations herself to paint. When a self-possessed lone traveler encroaches, angry sparks fly until the two find unexpected common ground. Based on a play written by John Patrick Shanley and directed by Tara Young.
Program will feature an in-person discussion among Jane Applegate, Director Tara Young, and Producer Simone Pero focusing on the challenges of making films by and about women.
Following the screening of AFTER THE DELUGE, Producer Simone Pero will share two clips from the films THE TALE (2018) directed by Jennifer Fox, and LILLY (2024) directed by Rachel Feldman.
Tara Young | Director
AFTER THE DELUGE marks the narrative directorial debut of longtime nonfiction filmmaker, NYC-based Tara Young. She has directed and edited arts and culture media for diverse organizations, including Sundance TV, the Criterion Collection, Alaska Dispatch News, and Etsy.
Simone Pero | Producer
Emmy-nominated Producer Simone Pero is founder of For Impact Productions whose portfolio includes highly lauded films THE TALE starring Laura Dern (HBO Films), THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING with Geena Davis (Starz), the upcoming narrative film LILLY starring Patricia Clarkson, an Yvonne Russo's documentary VIVA VERDI!, and the Onyx/Hulu doc-series VOW OF SILENCE: The Assassination of Annie Mae. Simone is a sought-after producer, advisor and consultant on philanthropy, hybrid financing models, and social impact campaigns for films, creators and the arts.
Remarkable Women
Documentary & Discussion Program
VIVA VERDI!
Free | RSVP required
7 Dec. 2024 | 3pm
VIVA VERDI! (2024)
Directed by Yvonne Russo
Curated by Jane Applegate | Introduction by Jane Applegate and Yvonne Russo
VIVA VERDI! offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of the celebrated opera singers and musicians living out their third act at Milan’s Casa Verdi retirement home built in 1896 by the most influential Italian opera composer of the 19th century, Giuseppe Verdi. With aging bodies and timeless passion, these distinguished guests of Verdi, ranging in age from 77 to 103, prove age hasn’t dulled their love of music or relentless drive to create: They are still actively creating, performing and mentoring the 16 gifted music students from around the world who study and live among them.
Award-winning filmmaker Yvonne Russo is the director of VIVA VERDI!, a feature documentary that she also wrote and produced. She is the director/producer of VOW OF SILENCE: THE ASSASSINATION OF ANNIE MAE, a true-crime docu-series debuting on Hulu in November. The series is also produced by Amy Kaufman and Caroline Waterlow. Most recently, she directed, produced and wrote the PBS animated short MINNIE’S WAR BONNET. A producer on KELLY’S BAR, an indie feature with Casey Affleck’s Sea Change Media. Russo worked as Production Advisor on WOMAN WALKS AHEAD, starring Jessica Chastain, and as Production Liaison/Advisor on HBO Mini-Series Lewis And Clark. She served as producer on Gale Anne Hurd’s feature documentary TRUE WHISPERERS: THE STORY OF THE NAVAJO CODE TALKERS, and on the feature film NATURALLY NATIVE; she was Co-Producer on THE RESCUERS: HEROES OF THE HOLOCAUST. Russo worked for 15 years on a diverse slate of domestic and international television and film projects for such companies as HBO, National Geographic Channel, Discovery/TLC, and the CBS/Smithsonian Channel. She has a television development deal with Handmade Films to adapt the 1989 cult classic film POWWOW HIGHWAY, based on a novel by David Seals, and has been contracted by Warner Media and Bad Robot as an executive producer on a new untitled television series in development. A member of the Academy of Television and Sciences, she is also a member of the Producers Guild of America where she formerly served on the Board of Governors. A Board Member of NYWIFT, Russo divides her time between New York and Los Angeles, and is a member of the Sicangu Lakota Tribal Nation. She is also a member of the Directors Guild of America.
Artists in Residence
Open Studios: Katherine Sepúlveda and Capucine Bourcart
8 Dec. 2024 | 12-4pm
Our current Artists in Residence (AIR), Katherine Sepúlveda and Capucine Bourcart, who also our first Open Call AIR Recipients, will be opening their studios to the public during their residency. This is a unique opportunity to witness their work in progress and gain insights into their creative process.
Chie Fueki | Petal Storm (Okasan) | 2023 | Acrylic and colored pencil on mulberry paper on wood | 60 x 48 in
Chie Fueki | Photo by Joshua Marsh
David A. Ross
Artist Talk and Gallery Walkthrough
Artist Chie Fueki in conversation with curator David A. Ross
Free | RSVP Recommended
8 Dec. 2024 | 4pm
Join us for an artist talk and gallery walkthrough in our current exhibition Chie Fueki: Petal Storm Memory. Artist Chie Fueki will be joined by curator David A. Ross for an in depth look at her current installation which deals with issues of place, memory, and longing in ways that are complex both technically and philosophically.
Light Refreshments provided.
Chie Fueki (b. 1973) lives and works in Beacon, NY. Fueki was born in Yokohama, Japan, and raised in São Paulo, Brazil. She earned her MFA at Yale University and her BFA at The Ringling College of Art and Design. She is a recipient of the Pocantico Prize, Rockefeller Brothers’ Fund (2024), UMOCA's Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting (2023), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2022), Joan Mitchell Fellowship (2021-2026), American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Purchase Prize (2021, 2004) and Rosenthal Family Foundation Award (2004). Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,TX; San Jose Museum of Art, CA; the Hirshhorn Museum, D.C.; San Francisco MOMA, CA; UMOCA, Salt Lake City, UT; and Orlando Museum of Art, FL. She is represented by D.C. Moore Gallery, NY and Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles.
David A. Ross (b.1949) is the Chair of MFA: Art Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He founded this program after a long career in Art Museums. In 1972 he was Curator of Video Art at the Everson Museum in Syracuse, New York. Following that he was Deputy Director at the Long Beach Museum of Art, Chief Curator and Associate Director at the Berkeley Art Museum, Director of The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He has been on the jury and organizing committee of a number of major exhibitions including the Carnegie, the Salon Nacional de Bogotá, International and the Venice Biennale. In addition, he has served on grant and award selection committees for the National Endowment for the Art, The New York State Council on the Arts, The Rockefeller Foundation and the Tiffany Foundation. He currently serves on the board of the Emily Harvey Foundation.
Exhibition
KinoSaito Annual: Community Art Benefit
13-15 Dec. 2024
With this 3-day exhibition, we aim to highlight the wealth of talent and skill in artistic ability that can be found in our local community. Artists in all stages of their careers from the Hudson Valley and beyond submitted their works to be included for this special opportunity.