Tis' The Season To Be Thankful & Give A Little If You Can: We Suggest Phoebe Legere's Arts Education Nonprofit

Yes! This is the season of giving to those less fortunate! We are sharing the Facebook post from the EventHampton Account. The group covers happenings, history & more on the eastern end of Long Island, NY known as "The Hamptons."

Read what they had to say about Phoebe Legere's arts education nonprofit Foundation for New American Art: (it's easy to donate and no amount is too small!)

This is an organization we can all get behind during this season of thanksgiving and holiday celebration! Please consider supporting The Foundation for New American Art (FNAA), a nonprofit 501c3, founded by multidisciplinary artist Phoebe Legere.

Phoebe is one of our favorite artists and musicians and we've been fortunate to have her here for many seasons holding court at Bobby Van's, Stephen Talkhouse and fabulous events, parties and happenings.

Phoebe recognized a dire need to provide arts education programs to children living in low-income, underserved communities. Public schools in these districts suffer from having very low or absolutely no budgets for art/music/dance & theater curriculum.

Phoebe Legere’s FNAA provides after-school programs, creates and hosts festivals, concerts, and community gatherings, offers free music and art classes, invites caregivers and grandfamilies to participate in creative arts sessions, and offers a haven for children who have no opportunities to express their artistic selves.

Originally formed as the New York Underground Museum, a place to archive and showcase the works of both recognized and unrecognized artists of the community, the organization evolved into the Foundation for New American Art to offer much-needed cultural equity to children and families with little or no access to the Arts.

We are happy to be making a donation to support the wonderful programs of Phoebe's FNAA, and want to add that no amount is too small. Please give what you can to this noteworthy and much needed nonprofit organization. All donations are 100% tax deductible. https://www.paypal.com/donate/...

The Foundation for New American Art offers the promise that neglected neighborhoods can achieve a considerable degree of much needed cultural equity.

About Last Night: Phoebe Legere * Museum of the Moving Image: NYC * Toxic Avenger *

 From Phoebe Legere's Insta & Facebook:

Nov. 7 - 6:30 PM - "Mr. Melvin" - new edit - Museum of the Moving Image, NY

Tonight I sat in a movie theater hearing my own voice — song after song — rolling through those massive movie-house speakers. The film looked like a million bucks. It was prescient, funny, glamorous - environmental art - full of politics and hope! The whole theater was laughing and cheering. If I’d known how great it would look, I might have dressed up — but no one cared. They wanted my autograph anyway, even though I was wearing a T-shirt and sneakers.

It was one of those rare, surreal moments that make you stop and say: Well, that was a life worth living.

There is beauty in riding through the Rockies on a Dugati clinging to Hunter Thompson.

There is beauty in singing with a Tibetan shaman at 18,000 feet among wolves, yaks, and snow leopards.

And there is the quiet, aching beauty of reading the letters people wrote to me while I lay, with no insurance, dying in Beth Israel Hospital one hot New York summer.

But tonight was a different kind of beauty — sharp, cinematic, and strangely holy.

There I was at Kaufman Astoria Studios — the same place where my best friend, Dennis Daugherty, once worked as a maintenance man. Dennis died at 33. And now, all these years later, I found myself back in that same building, watching myself on the big screen as Claire — the girlfriend of Melvin, a maintenance man transformed into the Toxic Avenger, a hideously deformed superhero born from a vat of toxic waste.

Art reflecting life, life echoing loss — and out of both, somehow, #transformation.

On screen, there’s a line where Lloyd cites Greed as the reason they split one movie into two. And yes — Greed is probably why they didn’t use me for the voice of the Saturday-morning cartoon, even though they lifted my look, my costume, my voice, and my accordion — wholesale. It was a time when everyone wanted to exploit me, but no one wanted to develop me as an artist.

And yet, there it is — that moment when my Amazing Grace kicks in - just accordion and organ - and later my song Turn to Me, under the end credits. It sounds like a total banger — produced by Chris Lord-Alge, by the way, as poetic payback for screwing me out of a decent mix when I was on Epic Records.

So, to my "friends" who not only didn’t come, but who somehow feel superior to the Toxic Avenger:

You missed it. This new edit proves that Lloyd Kaufman is a shaman and genius.

Fortunately, I had my fans there.

Fans - God Bless them - they show up.

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Phoebe Legere Off To LA for Hilary Knight Birthday Fest!

 

FROM PHOEBE LEGERE'S FACEBOOK PAGE: 

Happy Halloween, my dear Facebook friends!

While the ghosts, princesses and goblins are out, I’m taking flight to Los Angeles for a different kind of magic: the 99th birthday party of one of my best friends, the great American illustrator, Hilary Knight.

MILESTONE & GERSHWIN

To mark this milestone, I’ll be singing a very obscure Gershwin song Hilary requested: “Ask Me Again.” It’s a song written at the very end of George’s life, with words by Ira—"Ask Me Again" was discovered by the great Michael Feinstein, who will be there, along with a constellation of stars: William Ivey Long, Alan Eichler, Howard Mandelbaum, Douglas Colby and others.

Our friendship has withstood every assault—even when a now-canceled Lena Dunham tried to usurp my place as Hilary's protégé, cartooning us in her absurd HBO movie. Our relationship shuddered gloriously when Marlene Dietrich herself called -- during the Marlene tribute show Hilary masterminded for me at The Ballroom - demanding: "Who is this kid?" (Alas, the video of that show and all our other ephemeral masterpieces burned to ash in the Altadena fire. A tragedy!) A few excerpts, filmed by Hilary, can be seen on my Youtube channel.

HIGH AMERICAN ART

You have to understand, Hilary’s art is not "illustration." This is High American Art. His father, Clayton Knight, was friends with George Bellows, and Hilary studied with Reginald Marsh. His line is a living thing—a vibrating, vibrant, virtuosic electric wire, elegantly delineating his ever-so-playful and ingeniously delightful wit.

I am so blessed. So honored to have moistened my soul in the font of American Art greatness.

It all began, as the best things do, with a book. My childhood friend Jenny Wylie and I would spend hours studying our "Eloise."

BOBBY VAN's

Years later, I met Hilary at Bobby Van’s. He presented me with a signed first edition containing a beautiful drawing of Eloise looking at a poster of me, captioned: "It is me - Eloise." My retinas and my heart melted. And we became friends. Very good friends.

You may ask, how does one live to be 100? My friends, the answer is simple: Do what you love. And Make Art.

Here are just a very few of the hundreds of drawings, posters, and designs Hilary has made of me over the decades. Now I am flying to LA to sing for my friend.

Here’s to 99 years of genius, and to the art of friendship.

HilaryKnight #Eloise #AmericanArt #Gershwin #Broadway #Cabaret #Illustration #Friendship #HappyBirthday #Halloween #phoebelegere #phoebe #cabaret

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Phoebe Legere * Troma Studios * Museum of the Moving Image * November 7

 PHOEBE LEGERE Says:

" I stunt with fire, play accordion, and survive toxic male chaos.

"A brand new compilation of my work at Troma Studios: #Troma #Toxic Mr. Melvin

Q&A with director Lloyd Kaufman

Première à NY • 7 nov • 18h30 • Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria, NY"

Phoebe Legere To Attend Prestigious Artist Residency in France

 Phoebe Legere on X/twitter:

"I've been awarded the The Denis Diderot Grant to attend this artist residency at Château D'Orquevaux. I am deeply honored."

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WOW! MONDAY, OCT. 6 , 7 pm at PERFORMANCE SPACE NYC: PHOEBE LEGERE

 

October 6! PERFORMANCE SPACE! EAST VILLAGE! Phoebe Legere & Sarah Shulman & Karen Malpede!

 

From Phoebe Legere's Facebook Page: (follow Phoebe at:

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553756645583 )

Performance Space poster just dropped

Karen Malpede, M. Lamar & ya gurl P. Legere… like??? #freakpower we’re back babyyy serving the #REAL American zeitgeist realness Monday Oct 6 · 7PM

NY Performance Space (PS122)

Coming home to the stage where I once stood with Jack Smith + Ethyl Eichelberger.

Opening night of Sarah Shulman First Mondays.

Sarah = Lioness. Novelist. Playwright. #Beloved Gay activist. #Revered AIDS historian. #Fearless truth-teller.

I’ll be reading from my new novel.

Comedy = performance art.

Reading = theater.

It will sell out.

People will be swinging from the rafters. order your tix now.

CELEB SPOTTING: Phoebe Legere in the East Village

 

Spotted in the East Village: me in full leopard regalia, sneaking into a gluten-free café with a painting under her arm. (Follow Phoebe Legere on Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553756645583)

Tonight Phoebe Legere, Painter/Artist/Musician/Playwright/Filmmaker/Philanthropist delivered an oil painting "Deeply Human" to one of the amazing donors to Phoebe's arts education nonprofit www.foundationfornewamericanart.org. 

Said Phoebe Legere, "Our donors help us bring free art and music lessons to kids in underserved communities — and in return, they receive original works of art that will only grow in meaning (and value!) over time. Huge thanks to Ivan Steiger Galette for making the donation."