RoCA – 3 Fall Exhibits – Opening Reception

UPCOMING SEPTEMBER EXHIBITS
September 7 – 28, 2023
Opening Reception:  September 9th, 1:00-4:00pm
Free to the Public
Contemporary Rockland Artists: RoCA Faculty
Emerson Gallery
RoCA celebrates its teaching artists who continually inspire students of all ages and skill levels.  The exceptional faculty actively creates, teaches and exhibits throughout the Hudson Valley, and all fifty United States.  They are award-winning artists, professors, grant recipients, and artists in residents who share their knowledge and talent with RoCA students. We are proud to showcase these accomplished teachers.
Abandon Places
Gallery One
K. Elevitch (she/they) builds on the themes of Abandon Places: Sights Stories and Sound. What is the feeling of home? What marks does it leave? Is home created outside us or from within? These are just some of the questions Nyack, NY based K. Elevitch explores in this exhibit. Interdisciplinary storytelling, songwriting, improvisational performance, sound design and multi-media installation art. Elevitch turns inside out the process of (be)coming home – both of self and art – revealing quiet yet powerful worlds of universal human being-ness: Intimate glimpses of longing, isolation, connection, freedom, love.
This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by ArtsWestchester.”
Perfectly Imperfect
 Gallery Two
RoCA’s ceramic students create work inspired by a rare Korean treasure – the ‘Moon Jar’.  Originally created during the latter years of Korea’s Joseon dynasty (1392-1910), Moon Jars are primarily white porcelain vessels created from two hemispherical halves, joined together to form a spherical hollow vessel resembling a full moon.  The imperfect nature of the Moon Jars makes them distinct and uniquely Korean, as no two jars are exactly alike.  While the moon may or may not be referenced, the original concept from the Korean culture and                                                                      tradition is revered and respected.