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HVCCA will be open by appointment only July 28th - September 12th. The museum will return to regular hours SAT & SUN 12:00pm - 6:00pm beginning September 13th.
Tours available upon request
1701 Main Street
PO Box 209
Peekskill, NY 10566
tel: 914.788.0100
fax: 914.788.4531
email: info@hvcca.org

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The Language of Reverence: A Series of Conversations on Art and
Spirituality - with Galen Guengerich, Amy Myers, Steven Burke

Moderated by Helio Fred Garcia*

Friday, November 3, 7pm:___Galen Guengerich

Admission per event: Member $8   Non-Member $12

Friday November 3, 7:00 PM: Guest Speakers: Galen Guengerich & Amy Myers
Jazz performer: Steven Burke

Galen Guengerich is Co-Minister of All Soul's Church in Manhattan and founder of their Jazz and Poetry Evening Meditation Series. The program has attracted famous Jazz musicians from the greater NY Metropolitan area and beyond. Reverend Guengerich has appeared on National Public Radio in "All Things Considered" and on Fox News' "In Depth and on Religion". He is featured semi-monthly on WQXR's "Morning Meditations". A graduate of the Princeton Theological Seminary, and holding a PHD from the University of Chicago, the Reverend Guengerich serves on the Board of the Interfaith Alliance Foundation and is on the Advisory Board of Musica Viva in NY. Please note: The November 3rd event is part of First Fridays in Peekskill. The event features a traveling dinner, with cocktails and hors d'oevres (5:30-6:45 PM) at Maxwell Fine Arts, a light dinner and the evening program at the HVCCA (7:00-8:45) and an 'ice cream' special and open mike at Studio Two in Peekskill (9:00-10:30). Free Shuttle Bus transportation (courtesy of The City of Peekskill) originates at the Train Station and the Gazebo.

Amy Myers is a featured artist in 'reverence'. Born in Taylor, Texas, she received her BFA from Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri and her MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. She has had one person shows at Rona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago, Danese Gallery in NY and the Hosfelt Gallery in San Francisco. Ms. Myers is currently represented by Michael Weiss Gallery in NY. She has been featured in many museum group shows, including the Berkley Art Center and the Johnson County Gallery of Art. Ms. Myers work has echoes of her father's profession as a physicist but rather than science, uses the rhythm of her pencil to create meditative imagery that reflects on the human body and its interrelationships with other human beings and with the world around it- a cosmic motion that brings music to the canvas.

Steven Burke was recently cited by the American Academy of Letters as a composer of rare creativity and uniqueness. He holds degrees from Sara Lawrence College, Yale and Cornell. He has worked with such notable composers as Steven Stucky, Roberto Sierra and Lucas Foss. Among his recent honors are a Guggenheim Fellowship and residencies at Yaddo and McDowell. He was awarded the Morton Gould Young Composer Award. He has received many commissions for compositions, among them from the National Symphony Orchestra and the Albany Symphony. His work "Clockwise" in memory of Jacob Druckman, was premiered by the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and the ASCAP Foundation. "A man of many moods, Burke creates already his own musical universe." Cited from the American Academy of Letters

*Helio Fred Garcia is the President and Founder of the crisis management firm Logos Consulting Group, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Friends of the Neuberger Museum of Art, a member of the Associate Faculty of the Starr King School for Ministry in Berkley, California.

Admission per event: Member $8   Non-Member $12


The Language of Reverence: A Series of Conversations
on Art and Spirituality - with Eleanor Heartney

Moderated by Helio Fred Garcia*

Sunday, December 3, 4pm:___Eleanor Heartney

Admission per event: Member $8   Non-Member $12


Eleanor Heartney, acclaimed art critic and author of the highly acclaimed Post Modern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art (NY: Midmarch Press, 2004), will be speaking to the universality of some religious iconography and religious carnal imagery as a way of opening the door to a clearer understanding of the use of this imagery by contemporary artists. Eleanor Hearney is known as a authority both nationally and internationally for her several books and numerous articles addressing the use of sexuality, death and religion in contemporary art. She is a regular contributor to Art in America and The New York Times.

In her critique of Post Modern Heretics, Maureen Mallarky writes: 'This book is an exploration of the carnality of the Catholic imagination as a way of bridging an understanding of controversial art considered to be blasphemous or transgressive. Deep views of Catholic Spirituality inform the very art that religious conservatives love to hate.'

*Helio Fred Garcia is the President and Founder of the crisis management firm Logos Consulting Group, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Friends of the Neuberger Museum of Art, a member of the Associate Faculty of the Starr King School for Ministry in Berkley, California.

Admission per event: Member $8   Non-Member $12