My Talented Friends:
An Evening of Short Documentaries by Marta Renzi

With Brief Performances by Special Guests:
          Arthur Aviles
          Doug Elkins
          Cecil MacKinnon

Thursday, December 15 at 7:00pm 
Free to the public (space is limited and reservations are suggested)

Join us for a film screening of rarely-seen documentaries by filmmaker and choreographer, Marta Renzi. A series of documentary films featuring talented artists who just happen to be filmmaker Renzi's friends and colleagues. Each has graciously agreed to appear in a brief live performance, and /or exhibit their art. Films include: Arthur & Aileen, Dancing is an Old Friend, The Circus According to Cecil, Where the Dance Is, and Cathy & Harry. This event is in partnership with Rivertown Films. . . .

For more information or to register, call (845) 358-0877 or visit www.rocklandartcenter.org

The Women of South Mountain Road

Thursday, November 3 at 7:00pm

Free to the Public

Reservations are required.

Maxwell Anderson, Kurt Weill, Henry Varnum Poor, Morris Kantor … All of these men who lived and worked in the mid-twentieth-century artists’ colony on South Mountain Road gained international respect and renown. But what about the gifted female artists and intellectuals who made “The Road” their home?

Susan Deeks, executive director of the Historical Society of Rockland County, introduces ten of these women—Mary Mowbray-Clarke, Ruth Reeves, Lotte Lenya, Bessie Breuer Poor, Martha Ryther, Marjorie Content, Anne Poor, Hesper Anderson, Eva Zeisel, and Lita Hornick—to explore their unique achievements and make a case for why they should have a more prominent place in the history of American arts and letters.

This program is in conjunction with The Women of South Mountain Road exhibit on view at RoCA, October 17–November 23, 2022.

The Women of South Mountain Road exhibition and related programs are made possible thanks to essential support from Kenneth Jay Linsner, in Memory of Dr. Carole Weaver-Linsner.

Oil and Water
Honoring Indigenous Futures with Storytelling
A film screening & community conversation with
Brooklyn Demme & Ramapough Lenape Water Protector,  Aaron Davis

Thursday, October 27 at 7:30pm, FREE to the PUBLIC

Stories can help us come together and honor the connections which we share with the rest of the world.

Honoring Indigenous Futures with Storytelling: Oil & Water is a program of short documentary films on water, land, and indigenous sovereignty which will bring viewers from the Lakota Standing Rock Reservation, to the Split Rock Sweetwater Prayer Camp of our Ramapough Lenape first peoples in the Hudson Valley, to the Achuar community of Wachirpas in the Amazon.

The first film is Protection Not Protest: The People of Standing Rock, the final short film by Academy Award^â winner, Jonathan Demme. Following, we will see The Place Where the People Gather and The People of the River Wachirpas.

This restorative screening event is in collaboration with Truth 2 Power, the Sweetwater Cultural Center, Rivertown Films, and the Gordon Center for Black Culture and the Arts. A conversation led by filmmaker Brooklyn Demme and Ramapough Lenape Water Protector Aaron Davis will complete the evening.

The Martin Luther King Multi Purpose Center Invites Families to a FREE event at RoCA in conjunction with the Charles White: Influences exhibition.

Saturday, May 21
3:00–5:00pm
Children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

This event is in partnership with the Gordon Center for Black Culture and Arts, the CEJJES Institute, and Rockland Center for the Arts (RoCA).

Spend the day with the family making art together with Kanitra Perrault (art teacher at both MLK & RoCA) and learn about Charles White. This fun-filled day will include a gallery tour of the exhibitions, refreshments, as well as wood sculpture and painting art workshops! Socially conscious, politically active, inspirational, Charles White was one of the most important African-American artists working in the twentieth century. Best known for depicting people of color in both heroic and realistic ways, White's portraits reinforced the dignity, humanity and beauty of the black figure.

Also on view: "See, Observe, Think, Reflect, Internalize" Photography by Collette V. Fournier.

This program is free of charge, but registration is required. A shuttle bus will take families from MLK to RoCA at 2:30pm and will depart from RoCA at 5:00pm to return to MLK.

To Register, call (845) 358-0877, or visit www.rocklandartcenter.org.

This project is made possible with funds from the ReStart the Arts, a regrant program of ArtsWestchester with support from the Office of the Governor, the New York State Legislature and the New York State Council on the Arts.

The Martin Luther King Multi Purpose Center Invites Families to a FREE event at RoCA in conjunction with the Charles White: Influences exhibition

Saturday, May 21
3:00–5:00pm
Children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

This event is in partnership with the Gordon Center for Black Culture and Arts, the CEJJES Institute, & Rockland Center for the Arts (RoCA).

Spend the day with your family making art together with Kanitra Perrault (art teacher at both MLK & RoCA) and learn about the artist, Charles White. This fun-filled day will include a gallery tour of the exhibition, refreshments, as well as wood sculpture and painting art workshops!

This program is free of charge, but registration is required. A shuttle bus will take families from MLK to RoCA at 2:30pm and will depart from RoCA at 5:00pm to return to MLK.

To register, call 845 358-0877 or visit our website, rocklandartcenter.org.

Charles White: Influences
Special Preview Event: Friday, April 1, 7:00-9:00pm

Guest speakers, wine and hors d’oeuvres.All proceeds from this event will benefit the Gordon Center for Black Arts & Culture and RoCA.

 Tickets: $45 (adults)
$35 (students & seniors)

$150 VIP (includes a copy of the book Charles White: Black Pope by Esther Adler and reserved seating for the play Charles White: Stroke of Genius (June 11)

Masks and proof of vaccination are required.

Exhibitions on view: Charles White: Influences and "See, Observe, Think, Reflect, Internalize" Photography by Collette V. Fournier

Charles White: "Stroke of Genius"

A Film by Samuel Harps
Saturday, June 4 at 7:00pm
(free of charge, masks & proof of vaccination required)

Program registration begins Saturday, May 21

The film screening will be followed with a Q&A with Samuel Harps and Dimitri Dewes, Jt.

A young art student from Hampton Institute interviews Charles White about his mural "The Contribution of the Negro to Democracy in America" which the artist painted on the walls of the Historically Black University. With Dimitri Dewes, Jr. and Paris Campbell.

This free program is in conjunction with the Charles White: Influences exhibition in partnership with the Gordon Center for Black Culture & Arts and the CEJJES Institute. The exhibition is on view April 2 through June 11, 2022 in the Emerson Gallery @ RoCA.

This project is made possible with funds from the ReStart the Arts, a regrant program of ArtsWestchester with support from the Office of the Governor, the New York State Legislature and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Wheel Throwing Workshop for Families (ages 9 to adult)

Wendy Morris     $90 per person

Don't you sometimes wish you could try wheel throwing without enrolling in a full class? Well, here is the chance for families or couples to learn ceramics together. It is recommended for children to be in the 4th grade or older and accompanied by an adult. Materials and firing fees included.

THIS CLASS IS FULL! No new registrations will be accepted at this time.

S26 2 sessions Sun. April 26 10:00am-1:00pm & Sun. May 17 10:00-12:00pm (glazing)