~ WINTER ~ SUMMER ~ SPRING ~ AND ~FALL!
2024 CENTRAL PARK AND READing!
- Author Fran loves to celebrate Children and Reading!
- March 2024: Watch Author Fran celebrate Child Life Month at Bellevue Hospital in collaboration with Reach Out and Read!(c)
- Follow Author Fran's Advice: Get a LIBRARY CARD - and enjoy a Culture Pass in your home town
LEARN ABOUT CENTRAL PARK'S LATEST SCULPTURES
MONUMENTAL WOMEN BY Meredith Bergmann - American
Permanent Installation
Made of bronze, this 14 foot tall bronze statue of suffragists Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton arrived in Central Park on August 26 2020. Details of the sculpture include Susan B. Anthony's handbag, Sojourner Truth's shawl and a scroll containing quotes from 20 other suffragettes. This $1.5 million sculpture includes $135,000 in funds from former Manhattan borough presidents, Gale Brewer and Helen Rosenthal.
Located on the Central Park Mall
A Gold Cube Sculpture for a day!
Artist, Niclas Castillo, Germany!
Celebrating Crypto Currency, this foot and a half 410 pound cube made entirely of 24 carat gold worth $11.7 million arrived at the Naumberg Bandshell in Central Park. It was displayed- with great security - for one day.
Diane Arbus, photographer
Artist: Gillian Wearing, British
This 5''6" tall bronze sculpture by artist Gillian Wearing of photographer Diane (Nemerov) Arbus, born in New York City in 1923, is located near 60th Street and 5th Avenue - but only temporarily to coincide with Wearing's retrospective exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum which ends August 14, 2022. Read more about New Yorker Diane Arbus at The Gothamist.
Photo credit: The Public Art Fund
materials for the arts
Free Third Thursday - 6:30 - 8:30 PM
In line with our mission of inspiring imagination through creative reuse, please join Fran Quittel, author of The Central Park Lost Mitten Party (Regent Press, 2nd printing 2019), at our January Third Thursday Sock Puppet Making Workshop. This free event, open to the public, will take place on January 16, 2020 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm at Materials for the Arts
Perfectly attuned to fall, winter, and the experience we all have of losing something we love, Quittel’s book, The Central Park Lost Mitten Party demonstrates how through imagination and creativity, we can transform events we do not like into springboards for creating something completely fresh and new. At our Third Thursday workshop, attendees will learn to create sock puppets or other works of art, transforming one of life’s bumps in the road into a new adventure.
Sock Puppets and Making Art with Author Fran Quittel
Third Thursdays 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
MFTA Third Thursday
3300 Northern Boulevard
New York, NY 11101
Materials for the Arts. NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, NYC Department of Education
marin- museum of contemporary art
National Family Day - Museum Store Sunday
Please join Fran Quittel, author of The Central Park Lost Mitten Party (Regent Press, 2nd printing 2019), for a Holiday Book Signing at 500 Palm Drive at the historic Hamilton Field in Novato, California. The museum has a main gallery as well as the Ron Collins lobby gallery, the Second Floor gallery, a museum store, an education program, and artist studios. Over 60 artists have working studios in four buildings that provide an atmosphere of creative energy in which contemporary art flourishes. Excellent programs for artists, families and children.
Inside this Book
The story of The Central Park Lost Mitten Party begins at Greywacke Arch in Central Park
with one lost glove, and weaves its way through some of Central Park's most
memorable sculptures, terraces and meadows.
Notice that the story begins in the "real world," of black and white.
But The Lost Mitten Party is celebrated in a world ablaze with color in the spectacular settings of Bethesda Terrace, Gothic Bridge, Greywacke Arch, Paul Manship's Group of Bears, Belvedere Castle, the Delacorte Clock, the Carousel, Bow Bridge, and the
Angel of the Waters and Alice in Wonderland sculptures.
Here, in this drawing, the shoes and galoshes are having
a dance party at the historic Naumburg Bandshell.
Deep Inside Central Park
Central Park is the first urban landscaped park in the United States and the most visited urban park in the world. An iconic landmark, the Park exemplifies the urban public parks movement and ways in which big cities can incorporate parks into people's lives.
This particular drawing takes place in delightful Sheep Meadow
with its beautiful West Side skyline.
Look carefully! How do we know the location? Of course,
because there are sheep!
This artwork is based on happy memories . . .
Library Cards, museum admission buttons, subway tokens and subway cards all dance happily into America's first urban public park, while the hats on several of the "Lost Mittens" and their companions refer to the hats of the world-famous Radio City Rockettes!
CREATe YOUTH ART @ EMERYVILLE'S CELEBRATION of THE ARTS
Emeryville's 33rd Celebration of the Arts
Author Fran Participating as an Author and "Artist" since 2019
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This year's event included an expanded youth art program where students from age five to high school senior interact with art and create their own. The program was available to take place at the gallery OR at each school. Each student receives an "Artist in Training" Badge and a chance to exhibit their art in City Hall. Chair, Fran Quittel.