Greenwich House

Ceramic Sidewalk Sale
2021-08-21 11:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Need a new piece of artwork to spice up your living room? Looking for the perfect wedding gift? Stop by the Pottery this weekend to browse handmade ceramics priced to sell. You’ll also have a chance to watch live wheel throwing and handbuilding demonstrations by Pottery faculty, staff, and community members. This event is presented in conjunction with New York City’s Homecoming Week.
All works for sale were generously donated by members of the Greenwich House Pottery community and proceeds directly benefit GHP’s operations.
Greenwich House Pottery is a nonprofit ceramics center that has been supporting artists and promoting the field of ceramics for over 110 years. Starting with clay modeling classes in the earliest days of Greenwich House as part of its Handicraft School, the Pottery flourished with the help of the community and philanthropic support from patrons like Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. GHP remains a stalwart of innovation and art.

A Village Gathering: To Honor and Remember
2021-09-11 17:00 - 18:00 | New York City AIDS Memorial Park, 76 Greenwich Ave, New York, New York, 10011
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(Image credit: Meredith Jacobson Marciano from Village Preservation’s Historic Image Archive.)

On the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Art2Action, Greenwich House Music School, The New York City AIDS Memorial, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and Village Preservation will hold A Village Gathering at the New York City AIDS Memorial Park. It will be a space for reflection, remembrance, and creative expression. This event, held under the shade of the AIDS Memorial, and surrounding park grounds will offer attendees and passersby a communal experience to mark this day. There will be an opportunity for community members to record their own stories as part of this event.
We will invite a host and artists to lead the community in songs and expression. There will be space for ritual and story sharing.
This project stems from a broader effort by these organizations to engage the West Village community in arts programming in new ways. This anniversary finds our city in yet another moment of mourning and recovery. We hope this event can create space to remember those we lost and honor the resilient spirit that will enable us to move forward.
Host: Troy Anthony
Selections from: Andrea Assaf’s 11 Reflections on September, Ash Morinaccio’s 20 Years Later, and James Scruggs’ Severe Clear.
Music: Scott Johnson and Victor Caccese
Co-presented by:

"Coil Pot Show" Opening Reception
2021-11-19 17:00 - 19:00 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
From left to right: Ellen Pong, Prop, 9” x 9” x 13”, glazed stoneware, 2021; Natalia Arbelaez, Mayu Chimpay-Iskay, 16” x 11” x 16”, terracotta with majolica, 2021; Flor Widmar, Somos Dignos, 17” x 5” x 5”, colored porcelain, gold luster, 2021. Photo: Alan Wiener.
Coil Pot Show
Natalia Arbelaez, Trisha Baga, Yoonjee Kwak, Cathy Lu,
Anina Major, Michiko Murakami, Sara Nishikawa, Ellen Pong,
Leena Similu, Shino Takeda, Flor Widmar
curated by Anjuli Wright
In-Person Opening Reception | Friday, November 19, 2021 | 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.

Join us for our first in-person artist reception since 2020!
The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition curated by Anjuli Wright. A fundamental of ceramics, coil building is used by beginning artists, experienced ceramicists, and all creators in between. This technique, though universal, is a direct reflection of the human hands behind it and consequently intensely unique to each maker. In her curatorial debut, Anjuli invited eleven artists to contribute a coil pot—however each artist personally defined it. The variety of answers to this prompt shows the versatility of the coil pot and the ingenuity of its makers. Read More.
All attendees must bring proof of vaccination or a negative PCR test taken within the last seven days for entry. To comply with Greenwich House’s COVID policies, only small groups will be allowed in the gallery at a time, but an additional reception area will be provided in the studio.

Holiday Sidewalk Sale
2021-12-11 11:00 - 16:00 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Join us on Saturday, December 11 from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.!
Mark your calendars for our much-anticipated Holiday Sidewalk Sale! There’s no better time or place to pick up handmade ceramics for your loved ones this holiday season. We’ll have a wide selection of pots, cups, bowls, and more, all priced to sell.
We have a Sunday, December 12 rain date in the event of inclement weather.
All works for sale were generously donated by members of the Greenwich House Pottery community and proceeds directly benefit GHP’s operations.

Uncharted: Adi Meyerson Trio
2022-04-07 20:00 - 21:00 | Greenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
ADI MEYERSON: Dark Matter

Thursday, April 7
Doors at 7:30 pm, Show at 8:00pm
$15

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With the recent release of her sharply realized, thematically varied and gently psychedelic sophomore album, I Want to Sing My Heart Out in Praise of Life, the bassist and composer Adi Meyerson had only just announced herself as one of the brightest voices of the modern generation of jazz. Then COVID happened. “We certainly weren’t able to tour,” Meyerson says, “but I think that in coming out of it, I’ve gained a sense of direction and hopefully a better understanding of who I am as an artist. I’ve started thinking about what I can leave behind as my legacy.” The next step toward the building of that legacy starts with her newest project, Dark Matter, premiering April 7 at the Greenwich House Music School Uncharted concert and residency series.
“Dark Matter is an idea that has been brewing for quite a while,” Meyerson tells us. “I have been engaged in more complex productions for several years; now I want to strip my orchestration down and channel it through an acoustic trio. The band’s instrumentation will be bass, drums and alto saxophone, with the occasional addition of a spoken word collaborator.”
“The music is composed as a kind of space and time travelogue, creating tension and exhalation in silence and cacophony. As a continuation of Sing My Heart Out, the intention with Dark Matter is to offer the listener a place for calm reflection on our immediate moment through the synthesis of lyricism and more abstract sound. Stylistically, I’m exploring the boundaries of free jazz, while still making room for structured vocals.”
As the improvisatory nature of Meyerson’s new work will require considerable tinkering, she is particularly happy to be supported by Uncharted’s residency program, which offers paid rehearsal time, free rehearsal space and extensive technical and professional support. Meyerson says, “I expect this project will continue well beyond this show but, without a proper launchpad, it’s hard to imagine how we would begin. Having a welcoming facility is incredibly important in the process of creating a work that, by design, has to spring out of experimentation. I’m grateful to Greenwich House for providing that support. They’re a great community and I’m honored to be a part of it.”
Adi Meyerson is an Israeli-raised and NYC—based bassist, composer, arranger, and educator. Meyerson moved to New York City to study music in 2012. Since then, she has played in such highly renowned local venues as Mezzrow, Smalls, The Jazz Standard, Smoke, and more alongside artists including Joel Frahm, Joe Magnarelli, Steve Nelson, Charli Persip, SEENA, Verite, The Side Project, Fielded, MUMU, Melissa McMillan, Camile Trust, Doe Paoro, Kimbra, and many more. Meyerson is a member of the pop chamber orchestra Little Kruta and has recorded and performed with them on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, as part of The Hum Series at National Sawdust, and at many other venues around NYC. In September 2017, her band recorded their debut record, Where We Stand, containing nine of her original compositions. Meyerson’s music was referred to as “Intuitive and perspicacious… display(ing) a musical maturity that belies her newcomer status,” by Downbeat Magazine.

GHP Artists Exhibition 2022
2022-04-08 10:00 - 2022-04-30 16:00 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Left to right: Ann Rothman, Truck; Daryl Brook Kraus, Looking Through Windows 3; Paul Morris, Untitled.
GHP ARTISTS EXHIBITION
Online Opening Reception | Friday, April 8, 2022 | 5:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Exhibition on view April 8 – 30, 2022

The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition recognizing the talented artists who contribute to the Greenwich House Pottery (GHP) community. This exhibition showcases the artistic range of makers, each of whom uses the Pottery’s extensive resources to express their own creative voice in clay. From functional ceramics to sculpture, this exhibition is as diverse and as interesting as the artists themselves.

GHP is the oldest non-profit in the country dedicated to the inquiry and advancement of the ceramic arts. Key to the development of technical skills and innovation, GHP provides an all-encompassing educational program for over a thousand students a year. Artists and students learn from professional faculty and staff proficient in a range of topics from wheel throwing, hand-building, and mold-making to glaze chemistry and slip casting. GHP also hosts workshops and lectures by leading ceramic artists from around the country and offers children the opportunity to work in clay through Greenwich House’s Youth Community Center. The artists in this exhibition represent the continuous achievement, exploration and passion for ceramic arts that GHP has fostered for over 117 years.

GHP Artists Exhibition Online Opening
2022-04-08 17:00 - 18:00 | Online, NY, United States
Left to right: Ann Rothman, Truck; Daryl Brook Kraus, Looking Through Windows 3; Paul Morris, Untitled.
GHP ARTISTS EXHIBITION
Online Opening Reception | Friday, April 8, 2022 | 5:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Exhibition on view April 8 – 30, 2022

The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition recognizing the talented artists who contribute to the Greenwich House Pottery (GHP) community. This exhibition showcases the artistic range of makers, each of whom uses the Pottery’s extensive resources to express their own creative voice in clay. From functional ceramics to sculpture, this exhibition is as diverse and as interesting as the artists themselves.
Join us online to celebrate the impressive works in this exhibition and hear the award winners announced!

Uncharted: Michael Mayo
2022-04-14 20:00 - 21:00 | Greenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Michael Mayo
Thursday, April 14
Doors at 7:30 pm, Show at 8:00pm
$15

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Whether Michael Mayo is performing with his band, as a guest, or alone with a looper pedal, the LA native’s commanding and otherworldly vocalese is quickly gathering critical and commercial acclaim around the globe. Born to two successful musicians, Mayo grew up just a little more than 20 feet from the likes of Diana Ross, Luther Vandross, Earth Wind and Fire, and Stevie Wonder. This proximity helped Mayo create a musical path centered around elements of R&B, Soul and Jazz, forging his musical identity long before he hit the stage. Mayo attended the acclaimed Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance, only the third vocalist to be accepted into the 20-year-old program, where he learned from the likes of Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock.
Now living in Brooklyn, and still in his 20s, Mayo is a veteran international performer whose highlights include singing at the White House, the Kennedy Center and Renée Fleming’s American Voices Festival, as well as the Panama Jazz Festival. Most recently he has recorded and performed with Herbie Hancock, Jacob Collier, Kneebody, Gretchen Parlato, Josh Groban, Ben Wendel, and Becca Stevens among many others. His own band performance was a standout at the 2019 Playboy Jazz Festival, Atlanta Jazz Festival, and Monterey Jazz Festival. Signed to Mack Avenue/Artistry Records, Mayo’s debut record Bones, produced by Grammy Award-winning producer Eli Wolf (Norah Jones, Al Green, The Roots) was released on June 4th, 2021.
For his solo Uncharted performance on April 14, the versatile performer will present the debut of a new electroacoustic set, expanding his use of live vocal looping, keys, programming, samples and drum machine. Mayo will be taking advantage of Greenwich House Music School’s warm acoustics and intimate space to take some risks, explore his boundaries and show off his skills as a producer, composer and performer.

Uncharted: Alea
2022-04-28 20:00 - 21:00 | Greenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Alea
Thursday, April 28
Doors at 7:30 pm, Show at 8:00pm
$15

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The Colombian-born, New York-based singer-songwriter Alea’s most recent album, 2021’s Alborotá, was shortlisted as among the Best Latin Music of the year by both Rolling Stone and NPR. That acclaim was especially meaningful for an artist whose songs blossom from a personal place. “The ideas for Alborotá came out of an intimate exploration of my own roots,” Alea says. “I wanted to write about topics that are integral to my experience as a Latina and as an artist: feminism, pride of self, fear of failure, immigration, abuse and harassment. Translating the expression of this album into a fully-considered live event should be more than going through a setlist. I want this concert at Uncharted to give the audience the same feelings of excitement and release that making Alborotá instilled in me.”
For this premiere presentation of “Vivir Alborotá” at Uncharted, Alea will be integrating the tracks from her acclaimed album alongside pre-pandemic tunes and new, never-before-heard songs, all with an emphasis on stylistic diversity. Alea tells us that she “was brought up with exposure to a lot of different music; my parents would play salsa, cumbia, jazz and blues around the house. Today that music still excites me, but I’m also engaged by the broader history of Latin American folklore, so you’ll hear the influence of vallenato, Afro-Caribbean, ranchera, porro and currulao. I’m interested in merging the breadth of those sounds with modern Latin Alternative, both in service of original tracks I’ve written and for unique arrangements of traditional classics. A vital part of that tradition is dance and audience participation, so that’s the direction I’m evolving into as a performer. There’s vulnerability in exploring your passions and beautiful things can flow out of that.”
Greenwich House Music School’s Uncharted Series prides itself on providing a platform for engaging exactly that sort of vulnerable creative exploration. “With arts closures and funding restrictions, it is harder to perform to a live audience, which I feel is one of my strengths as an artist,” Alea tells us. “The staff at Uncharted have gone out of their way to provide the resources that this work requires, including time for rehearsals, coordinating musician schedules, free marketing engagement and hands-on professional production and tech. That support allows time for us to prepare and practice something that can have broader aspirations. It’s an asset that I generally don’t have at this stage of my career.”
Pandemic closures necessarily limited Alea’s ability to workshop the album live. She tells us that “COVID has been a hard phase to navigate. It’s made me question the nature of what I do entirely. Fortunately, music as an art form lasts beyond the musician themselves. I have been humbled and heartened to hear how my work has continued to impact people over the past two years. Even so, I’ve missed the stage terribly. So, from now on, there will be no holding back; I’m ready to bring it all in.”
Alea’s band for the evening will include Juancho Herrera (guitar, bass, vocals), Franco Pinna (drums), Berta Moreno (saxophone, clarinet) and George Sáenz (accordion), along with dancers Argelia Arreola and Maricarmen Betancour and her Alborotá producer and regular collaborator Sinuhé Padilla Isunza as Music Director. “We are a big family,” Alea says, “and we look forward to having your family join ours.”
With a welcoming sound that embraces cumbia, vallenato, rancheras, jazz and American pop, the singer-songwriter Maria Alejandra Jiménez aka Alea moves her audiences with messages of the spirit, calls for social change and free-flowing love. Originally from La Guajira, Colombia, Alea’s performance encompasses an entire generation of ethno-futuristic and folkloric music accentuated by buttery vocals, deep-rooted grooves and uplifting guitar. Alea’s in-person performances are powerful encounters of the spirit, passionate travelogues that link downtown New York to a tropical Colombian cantina. They are celebrations of Latin America and new definitions of what “Latin Alternative” can be.
Her latest album, 2021’s Alborotá, was favorably reviewed by Rolling Stones, NPR, SongLines Magazine, El Espectador, La W Radio, Shock, Radio Nacional de Colombia, Jazziz Magazine, NTN Tenemos Que Hablar, and was added to NPR World Café’s “The World Café Best New Latinx” Playlist.
Alea is a graduate with a focus in Jazz Composition and Performance from Berklee College of Music in Boston and a finalist in the John Lennon Songwriting Competition. She has performed extensively in concert (and online during the pandemic) at Two River Theatre (New Jersey), Listen to Womxn Online Fest (Worldwide), Saldremos Adelante Fest (Worldwide), Joe’s Pub (NYC), Kimmel Center’s La Noche (PA), Musikfest (PA), Tito Puente Latin Music Series (Boston), The International Literature and Culture Fest (Medellín, Colombia) and Worcester Mechanics Hall (Worcester, MA). Alea has shared the stage with such Grammy-award winning artists as Mireya Ramos (Flor de Toloache), Smarty (Burkina Faso), Totó La Momposina, Nella Rojas, and Sergio Mendoza (Los Hijos de La Montaña y Orkesta Mendoza).

Uncharted: Val-Inc aka Val Jeanty
2022-05-05 20:00 - 21:00 | Greenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Thursday, May 5
Doors at 7:30 pm, Show at 8:00pm
$20

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Val-Inc aka Val Jeanty
Evoking Prayers: Soundscapes
An accomplished musician and academic whose creative work has been exhibited in major museums and staged at concert halls around the globe, the artist Val Jeanty, also known as Val-Inc, creates musical performance art that engages timeless beats sourced from her Haitian roots with the same ease as it accesses contemporary experimental electronic composition. Following a recent glowingly received set at Big Ears, a residency at Roulette Intermedium, and a Toulmin Fellowship, Jeanty continues to evolve and refine her sound. Tonight’s multimedia event as part of Greenwich House Music School’s Uncharted series finds her in a typically expansive and empathic mode, responding to our current dramatic moment of global conflict.
“I had initially planned a dance-oriented piece for this performance,” says Jeanty, “but the ongoing global wars and recent crisis in Haiti have deeply shifted my perspective. I felt the need to adjust my plans to better cope both artistically and personally.” Her revised soundscape, Evoking Prayers, is the premiere of Val’s newest solo work, performed simultaneously with electronic instrumentations including a Korg Wavedrum, a Kaossilator Pro, the Roland Handsonic, Sunhouse’s Sensory percussion drums with reverie kit and a RaneONE turntable. Jeanty tells us, “Evoking Prayers focuses on peace and healing for myself, our audience and the world.”
BIO
Val Jeanty, also known as Val-Inc is a Haitian electronic music composer, drummer/turntablist, and professor at Berklee College of Music. Jeanty is a pioneer of the electronic music sub-genre called Afro-Electronica (also called “Vodou-Electro”), incorporating Haitian folkloric culture with digital instrumentations. She uses technology to lead listeners into her dream-like expressionism of Afro-Electronica Soundscapes. Jeanty’s performances include The Whitney Museum, The Museum of Modern Art and internationally at The Venice Biennale, Saalfelden in Austria and Haus der Kulturen in Berlin. She is the recipient of various grants including the Van Lier Fellow in 2018, the New York State Council of the Arts/ New Music USA grant in 2019 and the Toulmin Fellowship in 2022.

Uncharted: Raquel Acevedo Klein and Friends
2022-05-12 20:00 - 21:00 | Greenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Thursday, May 12
Doors at 7:30 pm, Show at 8:00pm
$15

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Named by The Washington Post as one of “2022’s classical composers and performers to watch” and a “force to be reckoned with,” Raquel Acevedo Klein finds her greatest joy collaborating with an eclectic array of artists. “Much of my work is about audience engagement and musical exploration,” Acevedo Klein says, “I’m building stories and songs that are meant to help engage empathy for communities or ideas outside of the listeners’ immediate experience. The desire for that sense of connection often draws me into creative collaboration as a performer, conductor, and as a composer. For my Uncharted performance, I wanted to offer a charcuterie plate of different kinds of music and different sonic approaches in celebration of the community of performers and audience members alike who also embrace that same sort of diversity.”
For this showcase, Acevedo Klein offers insight into her process with a presentation of several new originals. The show begins upon entry with the playing of her introspective vocal symphony “Polyphonic Interlace,” made from 40 overlapping and glitching layers of Acevedo Klein’s voice, whispered and boomed by multiple speakers throughout the room and visually scored by a bespoke abstract digital animation by Alex Van Gils. Attendees are encouraged to move around the Greenwich House Music School Recital Hall to find where the song resonates best for them.
The evening continues with three dual composition premieres including selections that embrace Puerto Rican and Arabic music. The first is a collaboration with the theatrical raconteur and musical maximalist Sxip Shirey, who most recently worked with Acevedo Klein at Bard’s Fisher Center for their immersive, site-specific choral and movement extravaganza The Gauntlet, co-created with choreographer Coco Karol. Acevedo Klein will then sing a series of composed pieces evoking the traditions of jazz and opera with her longtime teacher Fiona Bicket. The event closes with a mix of live and recorded vocal performance with electronics, accompanied by the percussionist Nathan Repasz.
This concert is particularly meaningful to Acevedo Klein as it represents something of a homecoming. She says, “Greenwich House Music School is where I performed many of my childhood piano recitals. Coming back with my name on the marquee, as it were, is a really special opportunity for me; one that I’m excited to share with my friends both onstage and in the audience.”
Raquel Acevedo Klein is a conductor, vocalist, composer, instrumentalist, and visual artist. Acevedo Klein has premiered works and operas by Philip Glass, Caroline Shaw, John Adams, Nico Muhly, Paola Prestini, Bryce Dessner, and George Lewis, to name only a few. She has recorded and performed with dozens of artists, including Anthony Roth Costanzo, Glen Hansard, Arcade Fire, Bon Iver, The National, Grizzly Bear, Sufjan Stevens, and the New York Philharmonic. In 2021, as part of the NY PopsUp initiative, Acevedo Klein curated a four-week festival entitled NYC FREE, celebrating the opening of the Pier 55 public park, Little Island. As part of that festival, she premiered her original, audience-interactive vocal symphony “Polyphonic Interlace,” made from 40 recorded layers of her voice that audiences could accompany using their phones. Some of the other highlights of Acevedo Klein’s live music history include vocal and instrumental performances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Radio City Music Hall, The Town Hall, BAM, St. Ann’s Warehouse, the Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival, the NYC Guggenheim, Rockefeller Center, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, WNYC, National Sawdust, and Bard Fisher Center. She counts the Grammy Award-winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Beth Morrison Projects, and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra as among the many groups and orchestras that she conducts for. Over the course of her young career, Acevedo Klein’s performances and curations have already caught the attention of The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Time Out New York, The Wire, and Hyperallergic.

Uncharted: Dana Lyn, Charlie Burnham + Marika Hughes: Songs About Communal Living
2022-05-18 20:00 - 21:00 | Greenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Wednesday, May 18
Doors at 7:30 PM, Show at 8:00 PM
$15

DANA LYN, CHARLIE BURNHAM + MARIKA HUGHES:
Songs About Communal Living
Composer, violin-viola player and bandleader Dana Lyn’s COVID years were undeniably, frustratingly productive. “On one hand, I got a lot of writing done and I tackled some overdue animation work I would never have fit into my schedule otherwise. But as an active musician who is accustomed to and grateful for a full performance life in the city, I really missed playing with people and being a part of the community of artists that develops when you’re creating new work. As soon as we were able to meet in person, I reached out to Charlie and Marika to make music together. We’ve been friends for over a decade, so the project came out of an impulse of recovery.”
Lyn and her bandmates, cellist Marika Hughes and vocalist-violinist Charlie Burnham, are all busy and much-in-demand session musicians. Their friendship provided the backbone of this collaboration. “Charlie asked me to write a few duets so we would have some basic structures to play around with,” Lyn says. “We asked Marika to join us, which was an organic choice given how much time we spend together, just as friends. The hunger that I had for community during the pandemic imbues this music with a feeling that any listener could relate to as genuine and heartfelt. We’re not aiming to impress. We play to engage, firstly with each other and now with our audiences.”
This recently-created trio is a step into the spotlight for these superstar side-people. “None of us present as traditionally ‘classical’ musicians, with all of the baggage and presumption that comes with that label,” Lyn tells us. “Charlie hails from a blues and jazz background; Marika and I both were classically trained but ditched that path long ago to become improvisors and creative musicians. I wouldn’t classify what I write as ‘new music’ in the classical sense, and contrary to a lot of contemporary classical music, I still write melodies and harmonies. I also wrote this music specifically for Charlie and Marika, to highlight their respective skill sets, so there is also a great deal of improvisation written into these pieces. I think our notion of a string ensemble is likely to sound different from what many might expect.”
“For our Uncharted show, we will be performing a set of my compositions, mostly written during the pandemic. A few of them are meditations on the weirdly quiet New York City landscape we suddenly found ourselves in, but most are explorations of reconnection: being closer friends and co-creators, reclaiming our lives again as social beings and finally back to our roles as live performers. We have plans to record at the end of the summer, so this will give us a chance to try these songs out in front of an audience, some for the first time.”
Multi-instrumentalist and composer Dana Lyn has been commissioned by Brooklyn Rider, A Far Cry and Palaver Strings and regularly performs with Stew, actor Vincent D’Onofrio, and performance artist Taylor Mac. She is a 2020 NYFA Women’s Fund Grant Recipient and a 2021 Sundance Composer Fellow.
Violinist and singer Charlie Burnham is legendary for his thick, soulful sound. He has graced albums by James Blood Ulmer, Living Colour, Cassandra Wilson, MTO, and Medeski Martin & Wood among many others.
Native New Yorker, cellist, singer and storyteller Marika Hughes “makes a joyful noise at the intersection of classical, jazz and experimental avenues (Mark Corroto, All About Jazz).” She has worked with Whitney Houston, Anthony Braxton, Adele, Henry Threadgill, Idina Menzel, and Taylor Mac.
All three are improvisers and active participants in the vibrant Brooklyn musical community. Their respective friendships stretch back for over fifteen years. In 2021, Lyn, Burnham and Hughes came together as a string trio when Lyn was inspired to write music that contrasts the frenetic energy of pre-pandemic life with the eerie calm that settled over much of New York City during the spring of 2020.

Deliberate Pace, Rachel Eng
2022-05-20 17:00 - 2022-06-17 18:00 | Jane Hartsook Gallery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Rachel Eng, “Deliberate Pace” (detail), porcelain, concrete, projection, sound, 2022. Image: Alan Wiener, courtesy Greenwich House Pottery 2022.

Deliberate Pace
Rachel Eng
Meet the Artist Install Week | Monday, May 16 – Thursday, May 19, 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. (or until install is complete)
Online Artist Talk and Opening Reception | Wednesday, June 1, 5:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Exhibition on view May 20 through June 17, 2022

The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present Rachel Eng’s New York City solo show debut. In this installation, Eng has ripped a hole in time, creating a “fissure” in the gallery floor that she has filled with forms referencing Ediacaran fauna modeled out of raw clay. These soft-bodied organisms lived on Earth 635 million years ago. By bringing these ancient lifeforms into the present day, Eng invites viewers to contemplate the vastness of geological time and puts humanity’s relatively short existence into perspective. Ediacaran fauna emerged just before the Cambrian explosion, a massive proliferation and diversification of life on Earth. These organisms were unique in that they used and recycled the resources around them, existing in an ecosystem in which organisms were neither predator nor prey. By creating her Ediacaran fauna out of raw clay that she will recycle at the end of the exhibition, Eng considers the ephemerality of all living things and how we could learn from both human and non-human regenerative processes.

Rachel Eng is a Pennsylvania-based artist working in clay, video projection, and sound. She earned her MFA from University of Colorado Boulder and her BFA from Pennsylvania State University. Eng has shown her work at The Clay Studio (Philadelphia, PA; 2020), Flecker Gallery (Long Island, NY; 2020), and Sykes Gallery (Gettysburg, PA; 2019). She has held residencies at Studio Kura (Itoshima, Japan) and Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts (Newcastle, ME), among others. Eng was selected as a NCECA Emerging Artist in 2017. She is currently Assistant Professor of Art and Art History at Dickinson College.
Images: Alan Wiener, courtesy Greenwich House Pottery 2022.

That's My Buzzer: A Comedy Gameshow
2022-06-04 14:00 | Greenwich House Theater, 27 Barrow Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
That’s My Buzzer: A Comedy Gameshow
Comedy for 18+ by Comics 50+
In 2020, comedian Jo Firestone started teaching a weekly stand-up comedy class at Greenwich House Older Adult Center. When the pandemic hit, they continued to meet online to riff, joke, and work out their bits. This motley crew was featured on Peacock in a docu-comedy special “Good Timing,” and was nominated for a Critics Choice Award. We are excited to welcome this class to the stage of our very own Greenwich House Theater for a one time only comedy event! Jo Firestone hosts That’s My Buzzer: A Comedy Gameshow featuring the hilarious members of Greenwich House Older Adult Centers with some New York City’s finest comedians.

Jo Firestone is a comedian, actor, and writer whose work can be seen on Joe Pera Talks With You, Ziwe, Teenage Euthanasia, The First Lady, Shrill, and more. She co-hosts the podcast “Dr. Gameshow” with Manolo Moreno on the Maximum Fun network. Her album “The Hits” is available on Comedy Central Records. She has created 3 specials, “Good Timing with Jo Firestone” on Peacock, “Rate The Cookie” on Adult Swim, and a half hour for Comedy Central. She is the co-creator of the best-selling card game “Punderdome: A Card Game for Pun Lovers.” She lives in New York.
June 4th at 2 pm (doors open at 1:30 pm) at The Greenwich House Theater
Tickets $10 online or at the door.

Symphonie Fantastique 2022
2022-06-08 18:30 | Greenwich House Theater, 27 Barrow Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Greenwich House Music School is thrilled to welcome back a live audience for this year’s ballet recital. Presenting “Symphonie Fantastique,” an evening of dance using iconic pieces of classical music. The performance will showcase the hard work and progress made by each level. We hope you and your families will join us June 8th at the Greenwich House Theater!
Greenwich House Music School Ballet Recital
Wednesday, June 8 at 6:30 pm (doors at 6 pm)
Greenwich House Theater, 27 Barrow Street, New York, NY 10014
Tickets $40 Adult / $15 Children (ages 3 – 18)
*children 2 and below who do not need a seat, do not need a ticket
Tickets go on sale Monday, May 2 at 10 am and may be purchased via phone at 212-242-4770 or in person at Greenwich House Music School on Mondays-Fridays 9 am to 8 pm. You may pick up your tickets in person, or have them at will call the day of the recital. Due to space constraints, each student is limited to 4 tickets. If you need more than 4 tickets, you can put your name on a waiting list. We will release extra tickets for sale on Wednesday, June 1 at 10 am.

Yoko Yates Concert
2022-06-11 20:00 | Greenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Yoko Yates is a Japanese born and NYC based pianist, composer and educator. She is the celebrated composer of the soundtrack for the award-winning documentary film Mothers’ Way, Daughters’ Choice filmed in NYC. She is also a teacher at Greenwich House Music School. Yoko will be releasing her debut ensemble album Mystic Life on April 15. Listen to Yoko Yates’ interview in the Neon Jazz radio program.
Yoko Yates will perform at the Greenwich House Music School in support of her album release on Saturday, June 11 at 8 p.m.
Ticket Prices:
Adults: $22 in advance (*$25 at the door)
Youth (18 and younger): $15 in advance and at the door (same price)
Adults with 1 CD purchase (CD includes the liner note by Grammy Award-winning jazz journalist, Neil Tesser): $ 38
Tickets go on sale April 25.

All concert goers must follow Greenwich House Music School’s ‎Covid-19 policies.
Mystic Life Press Release.
Mystic Life Downbeat Press Release.

Juneteenth Jubilee
2022-06-17 16:00 - 17:30 | NY
photo by Juan Patino
Juneteenth Jubilee
Friday, June 17
4:00-5:30 pm
Block Party in front Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones St (between West 4th & Bleecker)
Celebrate Juneteenth with us–the day we were ALL free! Kiddos and their grown-ups will experience an interactive performance. This performance will lift-up the cultural contributions of Black Americans with music, dance, puppetry, and storytelling. Hop on the train, boogie and sing along with us as we jam towards Destination Freedom! This event is curated by Alphonso Horne and Marija Abney, produced by Greenwich House, Ars Nova, Little Mozart Foundation, The Door, and The Soapbox Presents.

Cathy Lu: Artist Talk
2022-08-11 17:00 - 18:00 | Online, NY, United States
Cathy Lu will give a talk about the project she worked on during her summer fellowship at Greenwich House Pottery.
Cathy is a California-based artist who explores experiences of immigration and cultural hybridity from an Asian American point of view. Cathy creates sculptures and installations that often draw from traditional Chinese imagery and objects to problematize what it means to be both Asian and American without being fully accepted by either culture. She currently teaches ceramics at Mills College and California College of the Arts.
Cathy earned an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute in sculpture and ceramics, and a BFA in ceramics and a BA in Chinese language, history, and culture from Tufts University. Lu has shown her work at the American Museum of Ceramic Art (Pomona, CA; 2020), Front Gallery (New Orleans, LA; 2019), A-B Projects (Los Angeles, CA; 2019), and Irving Street Projects (San Francisco, CA; CA; 2018), among others. Lu has held residencies at Bemis (Omaha, NE; 2021), LPP+ at Minnesota Street Project (San Francisco, CA; 2019), and Anderson Ranch Arts Center (Snowmass Village, CO; 2016).
During her fellowship, Cathy will work on a project called American Dream Pillows, inspired by a tradition in ancient China that believed that resting on specific pillows could influence both your dreams and your future. She will create ceramic pillows that meditate on Asian American experiences, specifically the tension between the American dream and the lived experience.
This event is free and open to the public.
Register here.

Artist Reception for "Dirty Work" Exhibition
2022-08-24 08:00 - 17:00 | NY
DIRTY WORK
Itzel Alejandra, Eric Preston Alexander, Daniel Barragán,
Sanié Bokhari, Lizzy Chemel, Jill Cohen-Nuñez,
Tracy Lee, Andrés Monzón-Aguirre, Didi Rojas,
Karen Tepaz, Anastasia Warren, Jinsik Yoo
curated by Edward Salas
In-Person Artist Reception | September 16, 2022 5:00 – 8:00 p.m.
The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition of ceramic work by interdisciplinary New York City-based artists curated by Edward Salas. Each of the twelve artists uses the medium of ceramics as a vehicle to illuminate and unpack layered personal histories. Looking forward or backward in time, the artists are working to understand the present and create hybrid artifacts that will help future generations understand our complex histories. Read More.

Opening Reception for Wansoo Kim: Vessels
2022-11-04 17:00 - 19:00 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Wansoo Kim: Vessels
Artist Talk | November 4, 2022 | 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
In-Person Reception | November 4, 2022 | 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Exhibition on view through December 16, 2022

120th Anniversary Gala
2022-11-15 18:30 - 21:30 | NY
Join us to CELEBRATE 120 years of service, support, and enrichment.

Winter Ceramic Sidewalk Sale
2022-12-10 11:00 - 16:00 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Join us for all your holiday shopping!
Handmade ceramics of all shapes and sizes priced to sell, are available just in time for the holiday season! All works for sale are generously donated by members of the Greenwich House Pottery community and proceeds directly benefit GHP’s operations. There’s nothing better than the gift of handmade pottery!
*In the event of inclement weather, the sale will be postponed to Sunday, December 11.

A Figure Enters Artist Reception
2023-01-20 17:00 - 19:00 | Jane Hartsook Gallery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Photo: Alan Wiener, courtesy Greenwich House Pottery 2023.
A Figure Enters
Paul Narkiewicz
curated by Megan Mi-Ai Lee
Artist Reception | Friday, January 20, 2023 | 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Join us for an artist reception in the Jane Hartsook Gallery to celebrate Paul Narkiewicz’s solo exhibition as curated by Megan Mi-Ai Lee. Read more about the exhibition here.

Sara Nishikawa In-Person Artist Talk
2023-02-01 16:00 - 17:00 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Sara Nishikawa
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
In-Person Artist Talk, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Sara Nishikawa will give an in-person talk about the project she is working on during her residency at Greenwich House Pottery.
Sara Nishikawa is an artist whose work focuses on domestic objects, the intersection between designed tools and food, and on the relationship objects have with narrative. What does it mean to live in a world that not only has melon ballers, but also ice cube trays designed to make ice the perfect size for a specific water bottle? In addition to her art practice, Nishikawa was recently Co-Director of the BULK Space Artist Residency and currently runs the Mostly Butter artist residency.
Nishikawa is based in Detroit. She earned her MFA in ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art, her MA in ceramics from California State University Northridge, and her BA in psychology at Loyola Marymount University. Recent exhibitions include Spaysky Fine Art Gallery LLC (Chicago, IL; 2022), Greenwich House Pottery (New York, NY; 2021), and Korean International Ceramic Biennale (Gyeonggi, South Korea; 2019).
During her GHP residency, Nishikawa will create hyper-specific dishes for her favorite foods—the foods her grandma made for her. Together, these foods will create a self-portrait of the artist. Nishikawa will carry out research in New York City’s grocery stores and restaurants and then create dishes or holders for each food. The series may include a set for a piece of har gow with a dipping container, a holder for homemade rice crispy treats, or a dish for the uneaten pit of a mango.
This event is free and open to the public.
It will take place in-person at Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, NYC.

February 2023 Ceramic Sidewalk Sale
2023-02-11 11:00 - 15:00 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Join us for our ceramic sidewalk sale on Saturday, February 11, 2023!
Handmade ceramics of all shapes and sizes priced to sell, are available just in time for Valentine’s Day! All works for sale are generously donated by members of the Greenwich House Pottery community and proceeds directly benefit GHP’s operations. There’s nothing better than the gift of handmade pottery!
*In the event of inclement weather, the sale will be postponed to Sunday, February 12.

GHP Artists Exhibition Artist Reception
2023-03-24 17:00 - 19:00 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
From left to right: Ian Crofts, Gaining Momentum, glazed ceramic.; Joel Hunter, Rolling Waves Jar, porcelain, 2022. Koren Christofides, For Wine Cup Series – Nutbowl, porcelain, 2021.; Jung Choi, Untitled, T1 paperclay, 2021-2022.
GHP Artists Exhibition
March 17 – April 21, 2023
Artist Reception| Friday, March 24, 2023 |5:00 – 7:00 p.m.

Hongmi Kim Hoog Artist Talk
2023-04-12 17:00 - 18:00 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Hongmi Kim Hoog
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
In-Person Artist Talk, 5:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Hongmi Kim Hoog will give an in-person talk about the project she is working on during her residency at Greenwich House Pottery.
Hongmi Kim Hoog is an artist who creates vessel forms by layering earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain to create unique visual patterns. For Kim Hoog, the juxtaposition of different clay bodies emphasizes the natural beauty of each material and is a metaphor for the benefits of diversity.
Kim Hoog is based in New Jersey. She earned her MFA in ceramics from The City College of New York, her MA in studio art from New York University, and her BFA in ceramics from Ewha University. Kim Hoog’s work has recently been shown at the Indianapolis Art Center (IN; 2022), the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts (TX; 2022), and the Cape Cod Museum of Art (MA; 2021).
During her residency, Kim Hoog will continue her layered-clay vessel series. Often referred to as agateware, nerikomi, or neriage—depending on the methods and the art historical tradition an artist is referencing—this technique is exceedingly difficult. She will hone her technical skills and experiment with new forms during her spring residency.

Shaping the Future: GHP @ HB381
2023-04-27 10:00 - 2023-04-30 18:00 | NY
Join Our Pop-Up in Tribeca

Greenwich House Pottery is teaming up with HB381 Gallery for a three-day pop-up exhibition and sale of exclusive and rare ceramic pieces!
Don’t miss the opportunity to view and own one-of-a-kind pieces by renowned artists like Toshiko Takaezu, Roberto Lugo, Nicole Cherubini, Robert Sperry, Linda Lopez, Peter Lane, and others.
As intended by the donors of these pieces, proceeds from the sale will support the long-term longevity and sustainability of Greenwich House Pottery by helping fund a renovation and expansion of the historic facility.

Charles Schwab Volunteers serve Lunch
2023-05-02 12:00 - 14:00 | Center on the Square, 20 Washington Square N., New York, NY, 10011, United States
Charles Schwab Volunteers will help serve you lunch. On the menu is Chicken Parmesan, Penne Pasta, Broccoli. Vegetarian fare: Ziti with Vegetables and Mixed Green Salad.

Movie and Discussion: "80 for Brady"
2023-05-04 14:00 - 16:30 | Greenwich House Westbeth Older Adult Center, 155 Bank Street, New York, 10014, United States
In this film, a group of older friends make it their life-long mission to go to the Super Bowl to meet superstar Tom Brady. This film will be followed by a short discussion and reflection.
