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Saturday, February 22, 2025

Weekday Schedule for March and April

Finally thinking ahead to warmer weather and being outdoors; soon, soon.. but for now we will still have a number of indoor venues to explore.

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Hip Hop Museum

In an effort to help you plan to attend the Weekday Sketching sessions, here is the proposed calendar for March and April. Be aware that these venues can change due to various factors so please check the weekly announcements for accurate information.

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The Big Reuse

Wednesday March 5, 2025 The Morgan Library

THURSDAY March 13, 2025 Resurrection Church

Wednesday, March 19, 2025 NYPL New Yorker Exhibit

Joint meeting with Westchester

Wednesday March 26, 2025 Asia Society

Wednesday April 2, 2025 Noguchi Museum

Wednesday April 9, 2025 Bronx Terminal Market/Hip Hop Museum

Joint meeting with Westchester

Wednesday April 16, 2025 The Big ReUse

Wednesday April 23, 2025 Cherry Blossom Location

Wednesday April 30, 2025 Cherry Blossom Location

Noguchi Museum

Friday, February 21, 2025

February 26. 2025 Weekday Sketchers at Transit Museum

Weekday Sketchers at Transit Museum

Family on a Vintage Train - Courtesy of the New York Transit Museum - New York Transit Museum

The Transit Museum is a mix of nostalgia and futuristic travel. Housed in a decommissioned subway station the collection takes us back in time to experience the history, art and artifacts of the transit system, while giving us a glimpse into the future for commuter travel.

Unique to museum visits, the Transit Museum is experiential as well as educational. Come, sit in and sketch the subway cars and busses through time. Or, explore the extensive technology displays that demonstrate how the system keeps running. Or, explore the exhibit Ticket to Ride to find out how the subway fares have been collected through the ages, walk through the evolution of turnstiles and learn about the enormous task of collecting the fares and insuring that they get to where they need to go.

For information about the museum, click here: https://www.nytransitmuseum.org/

DATE: WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 26, 2025

STARTING TIME: 10:30 AM

LOCTATION: Entrance to the Museum is through a subway station entrance on the northwest corner of Boerum Place and Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn

TRANSPORTATON: 4, 5, train to Borough Hall Brooklyn. Check a transit map for other train lines.

Poster showing a man with feet on the seat next to a woman on the subway, text says "BAD MANNERS"

NOTES

Please RSVP directly to Raylie Dunkel at President@NYCUrbansketchers.org
Looking for us? Call or text Raylie at 201-273-0445
There is an entrance fee of $10 for Adults and $5 for Seniors. The museum accepts many affiliate memberships as well.
NO FOOD is allowed in the museum
Water and bathrooms are available
Bring a stool
Be prepared to work in dry materials

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Saturday February 22, 2025-Sketch the Museum at FIT

Sketch the Museum at FIT

FASHIONING WONDER: A Cabinet of Curiosities

You’re invited to join us this Saturday at an inventive exhibition, FASHIONING WONDER: A Cabinet of Curiosities, which explores the fascinating connections between cabinets of curiosities and fashion. It features nearly 200 garments and accessories, many on view for the first time. Each one is sure to pique curiosity through their rarity or beauty, and certainly for their originality.

LOCATION:

The Museum at FIT

(not to be confused with the FIT Art & Design Gallery across the street)

227 Seventh Avenue (SW corner of 27th & 7th)

New York, NY 10001

DATE:

SATURDAY, 2/22/25

STARTING TIME: 10:00 AM

Running late? Come anyway. We'll be here

MEET-UP SPOTS:

Upon arrival: Find the group within the museum exhibition

Lunchtime: Grab a bite nearby when you get hungry

3:00: Show and tell in the lobby of the Art & Design Gallery across the street (NW corner of 27th & 7th)

ADMISSION:

Free

HOUSE RULES:

Sketching in pencil only
No food or beverages in the lobby or galleries
No luggage
Photos ok, but no video

YOUR HOSTS FOR THIS EVENT:

Frieda Christofides & Min Lee: Should you have any questions, concerns, or can't find the group, contact Frieda at 917.747.6060 or Min at 917.829.0160

NJ sketchers Thursday 2/27 Blauvelt Museum

New Jersey Sketchers at the Blauvelt Art Museum Wildlife Art Wows Guests at Hiram Blauvelt Museum Reception « Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey

Wildlife Art Wows Guests at Hiram Blauvelt Museum Reception « Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey

Join us for a day of sketching at The Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum.

Established in 1957 to promote the need for wildlife conservation and habitats, this unique institution offers us plenty to sketch, either inside or out.

Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum - Picture of Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum, Oradell - Tripadvisor

Originally a carriage house, this turreted building has woods and interesting sculptures around it. Inside, is a beautiful room with the original paddocks, chandeliers, sculptures and the desk of Mr. Blauvelt. The Blauvelt is a natural history museum with

wildlife art and big game collections (taxidermy, a museum with wildlife artifacts and an art gallery for contemporary wildlife art.

Photos at Hiram Blauvelt Wildlife Art Museum - Art Museum in Oradell

Date: Thursday, February 27, 2025

Time: 10:30am

Where: The Hiram Blauvelt Museum

705 Kinderkamack Rd, Oradell, NJ 07649

Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum - Picture of Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum, Oradell - Tripadvisor

Water and bathrooms are available. No food service. Bring your lunch and stool. Dry materials inside.

The Blauvelt is easily accessible from NYC by public transportation via NJ Transit within walking distance from the Oradell Station

Rsvp to: margaret.casagrande@gmail.com

646-515-9913

Sunday, February 16, 2025

WEDNESDAY, February 19, 2025: Westchester Sketchers at Mamaroneck Public Library

SKETCHERS AND BOOKWORMS, A WINNING COMBINATION

Join us for a community event at the Mamaroneck Library where we will have the opportunity to sketch and interact with other library patrons, offer good words and encourage others to to learn about urban sketchers. The library features historical paintings, views of Mamaroneck and an artists' display case. If weather permits, we may go out on the terrace to sketch. It is requested that we do not sketch the library patrons but of course we can draw each other.

DETAILS

DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 19, 2025

START TIME: 10:00 AM. We will meet in the lobby of the Library.

LOCATION: Mamaroneck Library, 136 Prospect Avenue, Mamaroneck, NY.
Phone: 914-698-1250. (Next to the Emelin Theatre).

DIRECTIONS: https://www.mapquest.com/us/new-york/mamaroneck-public-library-1298266

TRANSPORTATION By TRAIN (From Grand Central Terminal, NYC):
Take the Metro-North New Haven Line to the Mamaroneck Train Station. Walk east along Mamaroneck Ave. about 5 blocks to Prospect Avenue before you get to Boston Post Road.

PARKING: Parking can be had at the municipal lot across the street from the library and the police station on Prospect Ave on the perimeter of the top tier. for 50 cents per hour, a maximum of 4 hours. After 4 hours you can add to the parking machine either by coins or credit card.

Lunch: 12:30 PM: Bring your own, or purchase from a selection of good eateries directly down the block from the library. We will eat lunch and hold show and tell in the community room.

NOTES:

There are lots of chairs in the library, but you own stools may be used as long as they are not in the way of walking.

Please RSVP to Cathy Gutterman at westchester@nycurbansketchers.org

Looking for us? Call Cathy at 914-625-0766

All skill levels welcome!

Friday, February 14, 2025

February 19 2025. Weekday Group at Little Spain Mercado

Weekday Sketchers at Little Spain Mercado
Join us this week as we take a quick trip to Spain!

Mercado Little Spain at Hudson Yard - YouTube

Under the massive Hudson Yards complex is a corner of Iberia call Little Spain. This complex of restaurants, food courts and retail shops is a marketing enterprise bringing the colors and flavors of Spain to NYC. The neon signs, food displays and merchandise will give us plenty to sketch. Bright colors, fun decor and lots of people will provide context for our drawings.

Thanks to Meryl Greenblatt for this suggestion.

Hudson Yards Update: Mercado Little Spain from José Andrés Is Now Serving Paella - Eater NY

DATE: WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 19, 2025

STARTING TIME: 11:00 AM

LOCATION: LA MERCADO

LITTLE SPAIN

Entrance on 30th Street near the corner of 10th Ave

TRANSPORTATON: 7 TRAIN TO 34 ST/HUSON YARDS or A, C, E train to 34 STREET AND 8TH AVE

The making of Hudson Yards' Spanish market: Meet the team behind Mercado Little Spain | 6sqft

NOTES

Please RSVP directly to Raylie Dunkel at President@NYCurbansketchers.org
Looking for us? Call/Text Raylie at 201-273-0445
Bathrooms, water and lots of food available
Plenty of seating, no need to bring a stool
We will meet in the food court in front of La Barra

Sunday, February 9, 2025

FRIDAY, February 14, 2025: Westchester Sketchers at the Bronxville Public Library

Come join the Westchester Division of the NYC Urban Sketchers for a fun and supportive day of sketching in the beautiful setting of the Bronxville Public Library. Draw inspiration from books, paintings, art objects and indoor scenery. This this event is meant to be an opportunity for people to relax, create art and make new friends.

The Library is justly proud of its fine art collection, which includes two small Hudson River paintings. Most of the oils and prints in the collections were executed between about 1890 and 1930, and all are by American artists. They represent works by Bronxville painters and sculptors, who began to move to the Village in the late 1890s, and their colleagues, who were fellow National Academicians or affiliated with the same summer art colonies (Old Lyme, for example).

DETAILS

DATE: FRIDAY, February 14, 2025.

START TIME: 10:00 AM

LOCATION: Bronxville Public Library, 201 Pondfield Road, Bronxville, NY 10708

Phone: (914) 337-7680

DIRECTIONS: https://www.google.com/maps/dir//201+Pondfield+Rd,+Bronxville,+NY+10708/

PARKING: Parking is free on Library Lane behind the Library for 90 minutes (enter from Midland Avenue). Parking is free (two-hour limit) directly in front of the Library on Pondfield Road. You may need to move you cars after those time limits. Car pooling is recommended.

Lunch: 12:30 PM. Lunch will be followed by Show and Tell.