Downtown Riverhead will be the place to be on August 11.
The arts will hold center stage as East End Arts JumpstART artists unveil their public arts projects, an artists’ reception for the Nature Redux gallery show opens and music brightens up Main Street during Alive on 25.
The evening of free events will feature murals, performances, live music, dance, interactive projects, art installations and more all adding their glitter to downtown Riverhead.
JumpstART 2016 is in its third successful year of a professional development program designed to support local artists and bring their art installations to downtown Riverhead. Pat Snyder, the executive director of East End Arts, says JumpstART “has been such a major success, not only for the Town of Riverhead, but for the artists themselves.”
This year’s artists include Katherine Criss, whose mural depicting the rebirth of downtown will be installed on a public facility near the riverfront, Jenny Intravia, whose permanent exhibit about bees will be installed in the River and Roots Community Garden and Holly Williams, whose identification guide to local wildlife will become a part of the boardwalk area of the riverfront. (See story here.)
Click here to see a map of all the JumpstART exhibits taking place.
East End Arts and Thirty and Twenty West Main are collaborating on a contemporary photography exhibit and sale titled Nature Redux at 30 W. Main Street. The Nature Redux exhibit will run from August 11 through October 30, 2016.
Nature Redux features two award-winning local photographers: Katherine Liepe-Levinson of New York and Southampton, and Paul Dempsey of Southampton. In this exhibit, these two photographers reconsider the concept of ‘representing nature.’ A Wildlife Awareness Installation curated by Paul Dempsey will also be on view at Twenty West Main, located at 20 W. Street, next door. Twenty West Main is another new office building featuring state of the art workspaces by developer Georgia Malone, LLC.
The public is invited to meet the artists at the opening reception to be held Thursday, August 11, 2016, from 5 to 8 p.m. Complimentary craft beer by Twin Fork Beer Co., local wines and hors d’oeuvres will be served at the reception. This event is open to the public. Click here to learn more about the artists.
All artwork is available for purchase during the show by contacting the East End Arts Gallery at 631-727-0900 or info@eastendarts.org, as at the evening of the reception.
Also, that evening is the Alive on 25, a free street festival in Downtown Riverhead,
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