Summer Shorts

Inwood Art Works is proud to present a curated selection of award-winning short films from our 5th Annual Inwood Film Festival. Enjoy a selection of award-winning and poignant short films that showcase the resilience, creativity, and multi-cultural diversity of Northern Manhattan.  Pre-show stand-up comedy performance by Kevin Berry begin at 8:00pm.

Featuring:

The Replacement. Directed by Michael Pizzano

An Invitation to Tea. Directed by Desiree Abeyta

Tumbling Towards Home. Directed by Imelda O’Reilly

Where the Rivers Meet. Directed by Libby Stadstad

Desert Shadows. Directed by Robin Zerbe

Food and drink is available for purchase at the venue. Capacity is currently limited to 200 people and admission is free only with RSVP ticket. Unclaimed tickets will be released to the walk-up wait list ten minutes before the film starts. Seating for 80 people will be provided on a first come, first served basis, but you can also bring your own folding chairs if you prefer.

Presented by Film Works Alfresco, New York City’s only English and Spanish language free outdoor cinema series. This important film program expands public access to professional filmmaking in Northern Manhattan, and presents as diverse an array of films as the community it serves.

5th Annual Inwood Film Festival (Postponed)

Inwood Film Festival 2020

Join us for a weekend of short films, feature films, seminars, and networking events at the 5th annual Inwood Film Festival to celebrate the diversity of Inwood and the talent of its local filmmakers. THE FESTIVAL HAS BEEN POSTPONED. NEW LATE-SPRING DATE TBD.

The festival includes a special Opening Night Benefit on Friday, March 13, at 6.30pm featuring a special presentation of the Past, Present, and Future of the Inwood Film Festival plus delicious food and beverages from Indian Road Café, Dyckman Beer Company, and ChocNYC.

For a full Festival schedule visit our 2020 Film Festival page.

Tickets

$15 Single Tickets (On Sale February 17, 2020)
$50 Festival Pass
$85 Pre-Sale Benefit Ticket / $125 Day of Benefit Ticket
$125 Benefit Ticket & Festival Pass (On sale until Festival Passes sell out)

*Special discount for local students. Email info@inwoodartworks for promo code and attach proof of current valid ID.

Festival Events

OPENING NIGHT BENEFIT
Friday, March 13, 6:30-10:00pm

Special presentation of the Past, Present, and Future of the Inwood Film Festival!  Featuring the history of Hollywood filmmaking in the ‘hood, award-winning shorts from our previous festivals, an exclusive preview of our 5th anniversary festival, special guest interviews with the inaugural Inwood Filmmaker Fund grantees, and a special “state of the arts address” by local artists with a look to the future of the arts in Inwood.  Plus, an exciting special announcement from Inwood Art Works!

Plus, delicious food from Indian Road Café, refreshing beer from Dyckman Beer Company, delectable desserts by ChocNYC complimented with a champagne toast to celebrate our first five years!

$85 pre-purchase.  $125 day-of, and at the door, if space allows.

RED CARPET COMMUNITY ROOM
Saturday, March 14 and Sunday, March 15

The Red-Carpet Community Room is a hip hub to connect filmmakers and audiences. It is for the exclusive use of all Inwood Film Festival ticketed patrons before and after each screening.  Enjoy a glass of wine from Indian Road Café or a Dyckman Beer and come to connect with neighbors before the show, stay afterward to discuss the films, meet like-minded folk, and hob-nob with local movers n’ shakers.

POST SCREENING CONVERSATIONS

Saturday, March 14 – 8:05pm – Hear first-hand from local filmmakers Carylanna Taylor and Jacob Akira Okada about how they made their feature film following the presentation of ANYA.

Sunday, March 15 – 6:35pm – Join local filmmaker Dileepan Ganesan for a post-screening conversation about his adventures following the screening of the feature of Sometimes Why.  

INDUSTRY SEMINARS

Stykz Digital Animation for Kids – Saturday, March 14 – 12:05pm
$25 Lab fee – Laptop provided. Appropriate for 3rd to 6th grade students. (Cap of 15 students).

Dr. Rurik Nackerud will teach you the basics of animation using open source software suitable for Windows or Macs to create your very own animated video short.

Sound Design for Documentary Filmmaking – Saturday, March 14 – 5:05pm (pay-what-you-can)

Learn the ins and outs of designing sound from the pros!  Hosted by Jonathan Bell.

Filmmaking A to Z – Sunday, March 15 – 5:05pm (pay-what-you-can)

Are you interested in creating a film and it’s your first time?  Have you already made a film but are looking for ways to make the process more streamlined?  Here is what you need to know.

Samantha Farinella facilitates the conversation with established filmmakers Erin Greenwell and Megan Rossman on important information that gets overlooked in film schools and can only be learned on the job including: choosing your topic/subject, understanding the basics of pre-production/production/post-production and what they really entail, establishing relationships / picking your team, raising funds, applying to festivals, and more!

Join Inwood Art Works to hear how industry professionals tackle these questions and more (for both narrative and documentary).

AWARD CEREMONY

Sunday, March 15 – 8:00pm – Following the final screening at approximately 8pm

Join us in the Theater for the announcement of the Inwood Film Festival’s Awards for Excellence in Filmmaking by Manhattan Borough President, Gale A. Brewer.

AFTER PARTIES

Saturday, March 14 at 10pm & Sunday, March 15 at 9:00pm at Indian Road Café

Following the post-screening discussion on Saturday and the Award Ceremony on Sunday, join filmmakers, film aficionados, and the Inwood Art Works team at Indian Road Café (600 West 218th Street) to raise a glass to our Inwood community and its vibrant arts scene.

Broadway Off Broadway – Shana Farr: The Best of the Tonys

Inwood Art Works and Indian Road Cafe presents the inaugural performance of a new cabaret series, Broadway Off Broadway, featuring
Shana Farr performing The Best of the Tonys, accompanied by Jonathan Bell.

Inspired by songs from Tony Award-winning musicals, Shana Farr weaves together an evening of songs that represent some of the best remembered songs of Broadway by Rodgers & Hammerstein, Lerner & Loewe, Cole Porter, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stephen Sondheim, Bock & Harnick, Jerry Herman, and more.

Seating begins at 7pm. $10 Table or Bar Seat Reservation online and at the door and $20 house minimum purchase at the cafe.

Shana Farr  is a classically trained actress/singer and award-winning cabaret/concert performer who has played at Carnegie Hall Weill Recital Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center Rose Theater, Feinsteins at The Regency, Feinsteins/54 Below, and Birdland, as well as Londons Crazy Coqs and most recently The Pheasantry.

She has performed leading roles in musical theater, operetta and plays. Highlights are: The Music Man, The Merry Widow, Sweet Bird of Youth, Oklahoma!, Love Letters, Princess Ida, The Student Prince, The Pirates of Penzance, and The Yeomen Of  The Guard at venues including New York City Center, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, McCarter Theater, York Theatre Company, Rhynsburger Theatre.

Her debut album Out Of The Shadows was released in November 2012 with a live performance and celebration held at The Players with a glowing review from the Wall Street Journal saying “Her voice is bright, strong and true. . .and Ms. Farr is probably the most convincing younger American to sing Noel Coward.”

For more information about Shana visit www.shanafarr.com

Inwood Art Works’ Broadway Off Broadway series offers unforgettable performances by local Broadway and professional theater artists in a picturesque dining setting. Inwood is home to an incredibly talented bastion of professional musical theater artists.  Why travel to Times Square, when you can experience the brilliance of Broadway steps from your home?

Broadway Off Broadway is co-curated by Mary Illes and Aaron Simms.  If you would like to be considered for a show, get in touch at submissions@inwoodartworks.nyc 

Beyond the Sea – Photographs of the British Seaside

See unique images of the English seaside as you’ve never seen it before as photographer (and Inwood resident) Kathleen Holloway evokes a bygone era of beach huts, deck chairs, Punch & Judy shows, and ice cream under gray, brooding skies.

Artist Statement

After marrying my husband, Clive, in 2016, I visited his family in England, and traveled around the south coast, capturing snapshots of life and nature in the beautiful county of Dorset.

My photographic style blends well with the tradition of the British seaside. The vibrant colored doors on beach huts against gray skies, the sharp lines of the roof peaks, and graphic striped deck chairs that dot the rocky shores all help create a fairy tale world of yesterday. 

Adding layers of encaustic wax to my photographs adds to the vintage feel of the work. Encaustic, or painting with wax, has been around since the ancient Greeks who used wax and colored pigments to paint funeral portraits as tribute to the departed. Layering encaustic wax over photographic images gives each piece a translucence, with added depth and texture enhancing the photos. It also provides an archival quality to the photos.

Biography

The daughter of a commercial artist, Kathleen Holloway grew up with an appreciation for multiple art forms including painting, drawing, and photography. 

Taught the basics by her father, her passion for cameras and film grew. Kathleen studied photography at junior college then continued her education at The Art Institute of Seattle, WA. Additional study was pursued through workshops and portfolio reviews with some of the leading photographers in the fine art field. She went on to pursue a career as a photo editor in publishing and network television and has now been in this field for over 25 years. 

Fusing traditional techniques with modern elements, Kathleen shoots black and white film then digitally enhances them to give the impression of a hand tinted landscape or coats them in encaustic medium to give the image more depth. She has traveled throughout Europe, the U.S., and Japan seeking out moments that excite her. 

Ms. Holloway currently lives in Inwood, works in midtown, and loves New York City.

All works for sale.  Contact artist.

Web: www.kathleenholloway.com
Email: kathleen@kathleenholloway.com 

Curated and presented by Inwood Art Works

DAYDREAM EXPRESS by David Santos Coelho

During my commute to and from work I doodle like I’m in class. Even though it’s been years since high school, I still daydream to pass the time. In the 30 – 60 mins, I’m waiting on the train I’m completing this puzzle that flows from the imagination; starting with a few small line patterns then adding until it becomes a larger, complex piece of art. The process is calming and the result is unique, and best of all, it fits right into my daily schedule.

For more information and inquiries: www.santoscoelho.com | @santos_coelho

Curated by Inwood Art Works.  Projection times may vary at the discretion of the management.

ALCHEMY OF PLACE: PROJECTIONS – ART WORKS by EVA NIKOLOVA

ALCHEMY OF PLACE: PROJECTIONS  

Art Works by Eva Nikolova  

Artist Statement 

Since 2012 Bulgarian-born, Northern Manhattan-based Eva Nikolova has been creating hand-drawn, cameraless gelatin silver photographs that blur the lines between drawing and photography. Experimenting with a vast inventory of substances, chemicals, and vintage gelatin silver papers, her prints contemplate place, memory, transformation and destruction through the prism of architecture and landscape.  “Alchemy of Place: Projections” presents Nikolova’s latest series of cameraless prints inspired by Balkan vernacular architecture. Drawings created on a recent trip to the region were transformed through two 19th century photographic processes – the cliché-verre and mordançage (AKA: Bleach-etch), which combine to bring forth visions of structures that hover between reality and dream. 

Biography 

Eva Nikolova works in drawing, printmaking, handdrawn animation and cameraless photography exploring themes of memory and identity in relation to place. She holds a BFA in Painting/Printmaking from Southern Illinois University and MFA in Printmaking from Indiana University, Bloomington. Her work, which is in the permanent collections of Temple University, The Amity Art Foundation, Manhattan Graphics Center, Arkansas State University, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, has been exhibited nationally as well as in Germany, England, Canada, Scotland, and India. In 2018-19 her work was included in group exhibitions at NYC’s Flatiron Building; Manhattan College; Inwood Art Works’ “Stack Galley”; Walnut Hill Fine Art in Hudson, NY; Art Intersection in Gilbert, AZ; Emporia Arts Center in Kansas; and Ohio’s Artist Archives of Western Reserve, the Rutherford B. Hayes Library and Museum, and American Frame. Nikolova is the recipient of numerous scholarships, fellowships, grants and awards, and has participated in fully funded residencies at VCCA, Millay Colony, Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. 

All prints are for sale for $12or $210 framed. 

www.evanikolova.com   

On exhibition through January 5, 2020 at 181 Cabrini @ 854 W 181st St. All Works for Sale. Curated by Inwood Art Works.

Alchemy of Place is made possible in part with funds from Creative Engagement from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with City Council and administered by LMCC.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

Uptown Silhouettes by Sharese Ann Frederick

Uptown Silhouettes by Sharese Ann Frederick 

Projected from 8pm-12am through December 1 

Artist Statement 

As a street photographer, I like to capture moments that we often overlook as we go about our daily lives. It’s so easy to forget what is around you instead of pause, observe, and absorb. As a Bronx native and a member of the Washington Heights and Inwood community, I find that it is incredibly important to capture and appreciate these moments, knowing how much our spaces are changing and evolving, before they become distant memories. 

For more information and inquiries: www.sharesefrederick.com | @sharesef 

Curated by Inwood Art Works.  Projection times may vary at the discretion of the management.

www.inwoodartworks.nyc | @inwoodartworks 

Colors – Art Works by Takashi Harada

See a unique vision of nature through the paintings of Japanese “Nihonga” artist, Takashi Harada, and learn more about the beauty and craft of this style of Japanese art that is often characterized by the use of natural pigments derived from minerals, shells, corals, and even semi-precious stones, along with the use of “sumi” ink, wood, silk, and paper.

Artist Statement
I believe that all the natural things include human beings have a sort of common structure form, and each of them exist having the equal value of a molecule or an atom.

It is my opinion that when we as humans place our body among all natural things, such as rocks, air, water and other living organisms, the information for existing as a living thing is recorded inside of the body, and part of our essence dissolves into the natural object – becoming a part of it. I want to create artworks that can evoke such a feeling.

Biography
Takashi Harada is a Japanese Painting (Nihonga) artist and currently lives and works in Manhattan, NY. He was born in a small porcelain-making town, Arita, Saga, in Japan.

After completing the PhD program of the Graduate School of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (currently Tokyo University of the Arts) without a dissertation in 1998, he moved out from Japan. Since then he had stayed in Germany, France, and Canada, before arriving in U.S in 2001. He was granted fellowship “Japanese Government Overseas Study Programme for Artists” from the Agency for Cultural Affairs (Bunkacho), Japanese Government in 2005. He has been exhibiting his artworks in Japan and US numerous times over 30 years.

Staying outside of Japan made him to face the identity of himself being Japanese, and at the same time, it gave him opportunities to contemplate about the connection between human beings and other natural matters while collecting the images of nature in other countries.

He is represented by Scott White Contemporary Art in San Diego, California and has had many Solo and Group shows. Most recently he had a solo exhibition at Dyckman Farmhouse Museum in Inwood, Manhattan in New York City in 2018.

www.takashiharada.com | @studiotakashiharada

Meet the Artist!  Join us for a reception with Mr. Harada on October 3, 7-9pm. 

On exhibition through November 3, 2019 at 181 Cabrini  @ 854 W 181st St.  All Works for Sale.  Curated by Inwood Art Works.