Yonkers Arts Weekly

08/31/2026

08/31/2026

😍 Did you know that as part of our latest and current exhibition, “Starry Summer Nights” we have added a Kids Art Scavenger Hunt in the gallery. We invite you, young ones, family and friends to come explore, get to know the art work, learn about the local artists and have some fun. Come in this week!

✨ Starry Summer Nights celebrates the wonder, warmth, and imagination inspired by summer evenings. From glowing skies and moonlit landscapes to memories, dreams, music, and abstract expressions of light and movement, artists are invited to interpret the theme in their own unique way.

🎨 Featured here:

UNDER THE SUMMER STARS
Olga Manthos (Olga Manthos)

🗓️ Exhibition Dates: August 8 – September 12, 2026. In gallery and online 👉 https://starry-summer-nights.artcall.org/pages/web-gallery

Blue Door Gallery Hours:
🕒 Thu & Fri: 3 - 6 PM
🕐 Saturday: 1 - 6 PM

📍Blue Door Art Center | 13 Riverdale Ave. | Yonkers, NY 10701 (between Main St. & Hudson St.)

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08/31/2026

08/31/2026

“Creativity is oxygen for our souls. Cutting off our creativity makes us savage. We react like we are being choked.”
📝 Julia Cameron

🍁FALL Pottery Classes start SEPT. 8th~ Classes are filling
🏺Registration 🔗in bio
*Adults & Teens
* Evening & daytime options
• Easy make ups for missed classes
•Instructional classes include wheel, sculpture & hand-building techniques
•Easy street parking
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www.yonkerspottery.com
Classes, Space Rental, Paint Nights, Gift Shop.
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08/27/2026

🎸 Big update for Mayor Spano's Summer Concert Series — tonight's free concert featuring BonJourneyNY has moved indoors due to weather!

📅 Thursday, August 27 | 7:00 – 8:30 PM
📍 E.J. Murray Memorial Skating Center, 348 Tuckahoe Road

Same great free show, new location. Bring your friends and family! For more information, call (914) 377-6450.

08/26/2026

Rest in peace to American country singer, philanthropist, and literacy advocate, Dolly Parton.

Dolly has always understood the importance of fostering a love of reading in children. She launched the Imagination Library in 1995 under her nonprofit, The Dollywood Foundation, and it remains the world’s leading early childhood book-gifting program.

The program has gifted more than 300 million free books to children across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Ireland, strengthening children’s early literacy skills and family reading habits on a global scale.

"My dream has always been to help children love books and love learning, no matter where they live." — Dolly Parton

Dolly's legacy lives on in all those who continue to carry out the mission of nourishing children's love of reading.

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08/20/2026

Get ready for something new and spectacular!

Interdisciplinary artist Borinquen Gallo Studio will transform our Community and Partnership Gallery into a lush, site-specific installation that explores the consequences of disposable consumer culture and its complex effect on the environment, opening September 18! 🌿

With help from the public, Gallo will create an immersive artwork from familiar discarded materials—including netting, caution tape, and plastic bags—into dense, textural weavings. The installation will also include animated projections of butterflies and jungle critters that expand visually onto the surrounding gallery walls.

Plus, YOU are invited to witness and participate in her process firsthand, learn about her practice, and even contribute to the evolving exhibition at the HRM.

Public viewing hours from 12–3pm on:
Wednesday August 19
Friday, August 21
Wednesday, August 26
Friday, August 28
Wednesday, September 2

Learn more at hrm.org/exhibitions/borinquen-gallo

Support for the exhibition is generously provided by Art Bridges

Additional support is provided by Sound Associates, Inc and Materials for the Arts

The animated projections were developed in collaboration with Optical Animal a creative video design studio based in Brooklyn.

Exhibitions are made possible in part by assistance provided by the Westchester County Government and the The City of Yonkers