East Village Arts Festival Bonanza!

As part of our fifth annual East Village Arts Festival, on Thursday, December 2nd from 2 to 7 pm we are happy to have local writers and artists showing their work. 

Come! Meet the Artists! Support the amazing arts scene in our East Village neighborhood!

Participants:

B Scene Zine is a tiny neighborhood publication with the goal of documenting, perpetuating and illuminating the arts and commerce of the Avenue B corridor and its surrounding environs. We cover art, culture, business, personalities, music, poetry, photography, lifestyle and other topics with an emphasis on the many galleries and gathering spots that bring our artists and art lovers together. We're on our third issue and, so far, we've been able to make enough to keep us in ink and on a monthly publishing schedule.

Carpo is an Australian-born artist who lives in NYC. Carpo enjoys making unsolicited additions to existing artworks, photos and postcards with a touch of humor, rebellion and occasional social commentary.

DeliaAnneArt.  As an abstract artist my goal is to embed my own raw emotions into my paintings - the nature of my abstract designs dance and move across the canvas as I add layers of vivid colors, building with every brushstroke a mesmerizing fusion of textures to communicate  the characteristics that are unique to each of my collections. 
Creating original works of art in a variety of sizes, my work consists of energetic colors; I am most drawn to hot pinks, Caribbean blues and lavenders. My color choices pull from my childhood, gravitating towards my Sea Green and Carnation Pink Crayola’s, offering not only lively energy to my pieces, but a touch of nostalgia to a more simple, carefree time.  Adding contrasting colors to accent the bold and rich textures, I also add embellishments that sparkle with hints of metallic, or a touch of glitter, to enhance my work.  I recently launched my own Art Show at 3rd & B’Zaar, located in New York’s East Village. I cofounded this curated shop in January 2020 with four other creatives. Delia's Website, Instagram 

Delphine Le Goff. Delphine is a East Village based artist who started to sketch during lockdown. It all started from "let's do something to improve myself!"she drew her apartment. She posted on social media and people liked it. From there, she drew people's living room,  then buildings from the neighborhood. She was lucky to have a story in EVGRIEVE and a talk at the Tompkins Public Library. Now, she had a solo show at Interchurch Center and multiple group shows. You can find her selling prints in the streets, at 3rd&B'zaar ( she is one of the Co-founders), and, very recently,  at Bergdorf Goodman! Delphine will display her prints and calendars.

Eve Packer. Eve will present her latest book, No Mask No Talk Corona Poems 2020-2021 (w/photos) (autonomedia press). It is really a shorthand portrait/diary of those 18 months, mostly Downtown, you will recognize the streets--from Pier 45 to Hamilton-Fish pool, from Houston to 14th streets, a glimpse of 42nd, and beyond. Eve will be glad to read a poem or two, and if you walk by, you can do the same. 

Frank New (@manyourstyle) is a multi-hyphenate creative force, from display artist to fashion historian to self-taught clothier, shop an assortment of face masks, totes, and fabrics + trims for custom orders.

Greg Masters. When he arrived in Manhattan’s East Village in the mid-1970s, Greg pounded rock and roll drums in basement dives, “alternative” spaces, CBGB and Irving Plaza and attended readings and workshops at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. He co-edited the poetry magazine Mag City from 1977-1985. In 1977-78, along with a crew of poet comrades, he produced a cable TV show, Public Access Poetry. From 1980-83, he edited the Poetry Project Newsletter. Over the last decade, he has published nine books of his writing with Crony Books. His two latest books of poetry are Collaborations and It Wasn't Supposed to Be Like This. Author photo by Kate Previte.

Kat Georges and Peter Carlaftes. Three Rooms Press is a fiercely independent New York-based publisher inspired by diversity, dada, punk, and passion. Founded in 1994 by editors Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges, Three Rooms Press serves as a leading independent publisher of diverse, cut-the-edge creative, including fiction, memoir, biography, young adult, LGBTQ fiction and nonfiction, and fiction and nonfiction by underrepresented voices in the literary world. We also publish MAINTENANT, an annual international journal of contemporary dada writing and art.

Ron Kolm.  Ron worked in neighborhood bookstores for many years, including The Strand and St, Mark’s Bookshop. He is a contributing editor of Sensitive Skin magazine. Ron is the author of Divine Comedy, Suburban Ambush, A Change in the Weather, Welcome to the Barbecue and Swimming in the Shallow End. He's had work in Abwarts, And Then, Feuerstuhl, Great Weather for Media, Local Knowledge, Maintenant, Live Mag!, and many more. Ron’s papers were purchased by the New York University Library. 

Ron will feature copies of Public Illumination Magazine, originally published on the Lower East Side, his books, Duke & Jill and Night Shift, as well as several anthologies he's edited: From Somewhere to Nowhere, Gathering of the Tribes, etc. He will also feature some recent books from Autonomedia; ones by Carl Watson and Wanda Phipps.

Ruth Oisteanu is a collage artist who has been living and producing art in the East Village for 40 years. She creates collages through an uncontrolled creative process that selects a combination of images inspired by surrealism, Dadaism, impressionism, pop art, and fellow artists. Logic and reason are switched off, so the associations, feelings and thoughts flow unconsciously into her art
work. Her collages have been published in magazines and used as book cover art, as well as in galleries in NYC and upstate NY. She works only in analog form using scissors, glue and a free spirit of meditative montage.

Sara Ann Rutherford. Sara grew up in St. Louis, Missouri and rural Western Pennsylvania, and she currently lives in Bedstuy, Brooklyn with her partner. 

"My interest in creating began at an early age, and after high school, I studied painting independently, honing my style. I like to describe my painting process as stream of consciousness, with each painting often being completed in one intense session. In 2018, my partner and I visited St. Louis for my grandfather’s 90th birthday. At that time, I had not painted in several years. I found some of my old work in my grandparent’s basement and something sparked in me. I felt compelled to start creating again. As I finished new paintings, I shared them on social media, and was met with loving support and inquiries to purchase my work. Since then, I have sold original paintings and commissioned pieces for clients all over North America. My work has been featured in the inaugural issue of Dumbo Living Magazine and the second issue of Gallery M International Art Magazine. Currently, I have a solo exhibition at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn and have work displayed in The Bean in Manhattan."

Valery Oisteanu, poet and artist, has been creating artworks since the 70s, mostly drawings, collages and watercolors. He has been showing his art in NYC and abroad in galleries and in literary/art publications. Among them original one of a kind book-collages, archival prints on canvas and watercolors. He participated in several dozen group shows and had five one man shows that were received with critical acclaim. His art is considered surrealistic, haunting, humorous and metaphysical. In The Collage Handbook by John and Joan Digby published by Thames and Hudson (1985) authors noted: Stimulated by media images Oisteanu makes collages of photographic prints derived from video and television. He is an authentic master collagist.
One of his collaborative pieces is now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of the world longest Exquisite Corpse initiated by Ted Joans, in the show titled: Surrealism Beyond Borders.