Acker Awards Hosted By Phoebe Legere: Standing Room Only

 

Phoebe with Clayton

Patterson

From Phoebe Legere's Facebook Post: 

Muchisimas Gracias to all my darling amors who came out to the ACKER awards at Theater for the New City last night. You can taste some of the electric creative energy of LAST NIGHT today at the ACKER ART SHOW at CLTV Gallery -209 East 3rd St. -- TODAY is the LAST day of the show! I'm profoundly honored to have a painting in the ACKER ART show. 

The Acker Art Show includes the astonishing art of Clayton Patterson, brilliant Graffiti legends Mers One, DUKE9 and James TOP (HipHop Hall of Fame) as well as legendary Tattoo artists like Richie Fie. It is a beautiful beautiful beautiful show curated by Acker winner Jim Muscarella. My painting is next to a David Lynch on the back wall. Here's a photo of me LAST NITE - with Clayton, the Godfather of the Lower East Side - at the Acker Awards. photo by Didi Champagne *Thank you*

Phoebe with Jim Muscarella, Curator & Acker Award winner.

Phoebe with fan discussing her painting of Nick Zedd, upper left.

Phoebe Legere's Foundation for New American Art Nurturing Women Artists of Tomorrow!

Phoebe Legere's Foundation for New American Art, a nonprofit 501c3 dedicated to nurturing the visionary artists of tomorrow, celebrates International Women's Day!

From Phoebe's Facebook post:

Happy International Women's Day! Here at the Foundation for New American Art aka The Cool School we nurture and educate the world changing women of tomorrow! Learn more about our social impact artistry at www.foundationfornewamericanart.org and register your child 8 -12 for our free programs at the T Building in Queens, NY 82-41 Parsons Blvd. 11 am Community Room 1

Latest Art Happenings for Multidisciplinary Artist Phoebe Legere: Happy International's Women's Day!

 

Phoebe Legere has a painting in this show! Learn more at: https://vandagallery.com/exhibition/celebrating-women-who-tell-our-stories/?fbclid=IwY2xjawI5U5JleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHZRX5lwwxPlCAgLYGwO-x4jbHmdoptlCr32HjGCUplKu2SlVJLTrQX-MYQ_aem_QMv_NUyHe3noQus_NG8mUQ

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From PHOEBE'S Facebook post:

This Monday! Don’t Miss the Acker Awards!

Clayton Patterson and I will be hosting the Acker Awards at 6 PM in the Johnson Theater at Theater for the New City (155 First Ave). This is your chance to experience the incredible depth and variety of Lower East Side social impact artistry.

Here’s a special moment—me singing with the legendary John Sex, a posthumous Acker Winner. Thank you, Michael Marcos, for capturing and sharing this tender memory of one of the sweetest, most creative souls in the East Village pantheon. I pair the Danceteria live performance shot with my drawing of John's last brave performance, in Miami. John's spirit lives on in my song "One Hot Minute" from my first album Phoebe Legere (Dead Dog Records, 1991)

Come celebrate the true icons of our community! See you Monday!

#AckerAwards #LowerEastSide #Artistry #JohnSex #EastVillageIcons #NYCEvents Please tell your friends - the Acker Awards are good edutainment.

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Phoebe Legere To Emcee ACKER AWARDS! Theater for the New City, March 10th!

Phoebe 

Legere

hosting 

the Acker

Awards

Once again multidisciplinary artist and wonder Phoebe Legere has been tapped to host and emcee the Acker Awards. Named after the experimental novelist, playwright, essayist, and postmodernist writer Kathy Acker, Clayton Patterson created the award in 2014 to “embrace the whole spectrum” of downtown avant-garde creators. Each recipient of the Acker receives a box which contains a contribution from each of the winners, as well as a pair of posters designed by other award winners . 

Cool Phoebe Legere

is the Founder and 

Executive Director

of the

Foundation for New

American Art, a nonprofit

501c3 dedicated to

bringing arts education programs

to underserved children attending public schools where the budgets for art, music, dance, theater have 

been cut or drastically reduced. Learn more at FoundationForNewAmericanArt.org

Happy Valentine's Day From Phoebe Legere

 HAPPY 

VALENTINE'S

DAY

The Cool School, The Afterschool Arts Education Program Hosted by Foundation for New American Art is Open & Serving Students Hungry for Art, Music, Dance & Theater

The Cool School is an arts education after-school program created and hosted by the nonprofit Foundation for New American Art. The school is open in Poughkeepsie, NY & NYC and serving dozens of students in each session. Art, Music, Dance and Theater classes are free to students and are taught by professional artists, musicians and teachers. The Cool School program is sponsored in part by a grant from NYSCA. 

Take a look inside one recent afternoon at The Cool School:

https://phoebelegere.substack.com/p/foundation-for-new-american-art-school

According to Foundation for New American Art Executive Director Phoebe Legere:

"The Cool School is a free afterschool program for children 8-12. We teach real life art skills to creative children to get them ready for the dog-eat-dog art world. Every child learns how to draw a cube, a sphere, a cylinder and a pyramid with both a pencil and an iPad! 

"Every child learns some music theory. Every child learns dance basics.

"We have programs in upstate NY and in NYC. Thank you NYSCA for funding our free cultural educational initiative for the children of high need, low-income communities."

Learn more at: http://foundationfornewamericanart.org

Back By Popular Demand: Phoebe Legere to Host Love n' Courage Benefit February 18

 

Once again Phoebe Legere will host the Love n' Courage Gala on behalf of Theater for the New City's Benefit for their Emerging Playwrights Program.

The multidisciplinary artist Phoebe Legere will dazzle the crowd with her witty, engaging banter as she presents an entertaining evening of guests there to honor Peter Schuman.

Get your tickets at: https://theaterforthenewcity.net/donations/tncs-love-n-courage-benefit-2/

Nora Burns Presents Phoebe Legere In New York Stories At Stonewall Jan. 29

New York Stories : 

Celebrity Encounters Edition!

Get ready for another fun night of fabulous New York stories told by an amazing line-up of dazzling NYC denizens

Wed Jan 29th 7pm

Stonewall Inn, $10 suggested Donation

Featuring Phoebe Legere, Michael Musto, David Drumgold, Pamela Willoughby, Bob Morris, Fiona St. James, David Ilku, Lola Flash

 

Phoebe Legere Reflects on Los Angeles Fires & Friendship With Hilary Knight

From Phoebe Legere’s Facebook Page:

(follow Phoebe: https://www.facebook.com/PhoebeLegereInternational)

 

"Hilary Knight, America's Greatest Artist (98 years young) was evacuated to a hotel with his cat. His niece Lily Knight, the great actress, is in a hotel. I spoke to Lily last night. She fears the Altadena houses are gone. I stayed with Lily in Altadena in November. I was in Paradise! The house is surrounded by hundreds of heritage fruit trees & gorgeous flowers. Oh California! Land of Illusion! I walked in wonder around Altadena.

"I vowed to Hilary that I would move nearby, to a certain place I love in the Pacific Palisades.* Oh consuming flames! Spare my loved ones and their treasures. The Knight house in Altadena holds many, many priceless art works by Hilary, by his father Clayton Knight and his mother Kathryn Sturgis - a trio of magnificent American artists. The world around us is on fire, burning with anger and desire! --- 

"Here, Hilary Knight's cover of my #jazz album Ooh La La Coq Tail.

"IF YOU WANT TO HELP please volunteer and give generously:

World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/

World Central Kitchen, the nonprofit global food relief organization , is already on the ground in Southern California to aid first responders and evacuees. 'Our teams have mobilized across the region to provide immediate relief in the form of sandwiches and water.'

California Fire Foundation Wildfire & Disaster Relief 

Link to donation page: 

https://cpf.salsalabs.org/disasterrelief/index.html