The Paris Film Awards has selected her film GENDER SYMPHONY to receive the
GOLD AWARD in the INDIE SHORT FILM
Category.
GENDER SYMPHONY was Written and Directed by Phoebe Legere.
Phoebe Legere on Instagram (@phoebelegere):
Phoebe Legere ON FACEBOOK:
"I am submitting my film to festivals now. I need a film poster that makes Festival panels want to watch my film. My film was all shot in VENICE. It is a 14 minute, 7 second film written and directed by me, all costumes are made of paper and junk fished from the canals, plus there are 9 original songs and compositions.
"The film stars Ivan Galietti, (Fellini's Casanova) and Lorenzo Pozzan (fresh from his role in William Burroughs' 'Queer' with Daniel Craig) and artist/culture leader Kathy Brew.- Thanks for your help. I deeply appreciate your feedback. I shot the film while in residence at the Emily Harvey Foundation."
Multidisciplinary Artist Phoebe Legere was selected to be a Blick Artist in Residence, Chelsea. The famed art haven displays Legere's animatronic art engines and paintings in the window through August 31st. The installation exhibit is located at 237 West 23rd Street at Chelsea Blick.
Says Phoebe Legere, "Thank you to my beautiful friends who came to my Art Exhibit Reception at Chelsea Blick and joined in the fun at the Chelsea Hotel dinner and performance celebration."
Upper Photo: From left to right standing: Yolanda Hawkins, William Niederkorn, Andy Pratt, Phoebe Legere, Marie Ruggirello, Ron Gustavson, Susie Rakowski, Ivan Galietti. Front row: Keat Foong, Kate.
Wonderful feature on the Festival for New American Art, a collaboration by Phoebe Legere's Foundation for New American Art, and Ron Gustavson, Medfield Cultural Council, by Reporter Madison Butkus
To read the post in the newspaper, please visit: https://hometownweekly.net/medfield/new-american-art-at-the-forge/?fbclid=IwAR0MOmVM7etDD2NF4E037h0gJzxVV7Tgp1OWbCEy9vWng4fb64MCv_oUBj4
(Robin Lane, Left, and multidisciplinary artist, Phoebe Legere)
Foundation for New American Art & Medfield Cultural Council
Phoebe Legere #Art Opening - 5 - 7, Friday, Sept.24th Medfield.at Dwight Derby House, 7 Frairy Street, Medfield, MA 02052
Phoebe Legere #Music Concert - 4 pm - Saturday, Sept. 25 - Medfield State Hospital Concert Stage, 100 Service Road, Medfield, MA. Special Guest: George Leonard
Multidisciplinary Event Curator: @RonGustavson.
Phoebe Legere announces, "I'll be on the Hartley Pleshaw #radio show @WCAP Sept 25 from 12:05 - 1pm talking about the ongoing Charles River Restoration as well as talking about my celebrity lovers, my visual philosophy, and the importance of good songs in a post-music world.
"Sam Kopper, legendary music director from #WBCN, will be spinning my music at #WRIU 90.3 (New Englands most important non-commerical radio station.) We are blessed, we are honored, we are amazed by the power of art & friendship. I have two more One-HUMAN ART & MUSIC shows coming up: Allentown Art Haus in March and Bundy Museum in Binghamton, NY in June
FREE, #FREEWINE
Here is my painting list:
Queen Weetamoo’s Dream
River Afternoon
The Art Lovers
Sunrise on the Charles
Ron with Dancing Dinosaur
Medfield Fireman
The Old Tree Near the Quinobequin River
Horse in Party Hat at Norfolk Hunt Club
Swimming Toward Paradise
One-Eyed John Saves Mary Rowlandson’s Scalp
Design for new Bonnet Fountain at Bonnet Park
Strong River, Twilight
Medfield Bacchanal
Here is my song list:
Hot Dogs and Firemen
Freedom Loving Heart
The Right Kind of Crazy
You're Awesome
Hot Sicilian Pizza Boy
Blue Canoe
French Canadian Blues
OK Cupid
Let's Get Creative
Thank You for Being Who You Are
Shadow Child
Mama
Sub Atomic Particle Blues
I Love Myself When I'm With You
Bye Bye Cutie Pie
The Color Wheel Theme Song
Dr. Phoebonacci
A Time Before Twerking (I Remember)
In Shipwrecks, Pianos Always Float
Said Phoebe Legere, "Sept. 25 I play for one hour and that's it. Then I sit in my lawn chair with my friends, eat Tofu Pups, and enjoy the view of the Quinibequin River from the grounds of the former Medfield Hospital for the Insane."
PHOTO OF PHOEBE ON GUITAR BY YASHA GOLDENTYER
Phoebe Hemenway Legere’s Art of the #CharlesRiver Watershed ***(9/24) Phoebe Hemenway Legere, Medfield Cultural Council grantee (2020), will be showing her art at Dwight Derby House.
Journey to the Heart of Hometown USA:
Phoebe Hemenway Legere’s Art of the Charles River Watershed w/ Musical Performance to Follow
Artist, Composer, Educator, Phoebe Hemenway Legere, Medfield Cultural Council grantee (2020), will be showing her art at Dwight Derby House.
September 24th, 5 pm to 7 pm, Dwight Derby House: You are invited to attend the Art Opening.
The following afternoon, Sept. 25th, Medfield Day, interdisciplinary artist Phoebe Legere will be playing her original songs at 4pm at Medfield Hospital.
Legere’s “Journey to the Heart of Medfield” began with Richard DeSorgher, President Emeritus of the Medfield Historical Society.
Legere says: ”Richard told me fascinating stories about the history of Medfield. I learned about Medfield’s dedication to culture, to the environment, & to social justice. I was deeply touched by Medfield’s respect for and commitment to the humane care of the mentally challenged.
“I’m from Massachusetts, so I knew that the crème de la crème of 19th century American painters spent time in Medfield. Like Innes, Bunker and Sargent, I was carried away by the dance of sunlight on the Charles.”
Phoebe Legere’s “Hometown USA” paintings include:
~ Captivity Narrative author and Puritan icon Mary Rowlandson runs, a ghostly apparition in a gorgeous field.
~ A handsome white stallion from the Norfolk Hunt Club prances in a party hat.
~ A Maenad from Medfield Hospital floats out of an upper story window to join an ecstatic Bacchanal.
*Artist Ron Gustavson of Medfield will also be showing his art in the Hometown Show at the Dwight Derby House.
Ron is a member and former president of the Medfield Lions Club, the chair of the Cultural Council, and graduate of Medfield High School, attended Vesper George School of Art, and U. Mass Dartmouth.
*Also appearing on the inaugural music stage on Sept. 25 at Medfield Hospital will be Medfield virtuoso and educator, Shane Wood.
*All proceeds from sales of Phoebe Hemenway Legere’s Journey to the Heart of Hometown paintings go to her Foundation for New American Art, a 501(c)3 that brings free art and music lessons to the children of low-income communities.
www.foundationfornewamericanart.org
Phoebe performing George Gershwin’s “Our Love is Here to Stay.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7tnrOU1gQ8
PHOEBE LEGERE BIO
Phoebe Legere is a Juilliard-trained composer of Native American, Acadian and Mayflower descent who plays seven instruments. She has a degree in art from Vassar College, an MFA from New York University and teaches Feminist Art at NYU’s Gallatin School. She is leading the way in the Art/Music/Math/Science/Painting/Animation/Metaphysical worlds with NFTs, and says, "NFTs are very short art movies that you own and trade."
Ms. Legere was a student of John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet and Morton Subotnick. She has collaborated with some of the most creative minds of our time: Joni Mitchell, Billy Joel, David Bowie, and many more. She opened for her friend David Bowie on his National Sound and Vision Tour.
She has written a wide variety of hit songs including: “I Will Wait” for Kelly Chan (Certified Platinum, Sony) “Amazing Love” (Random Records, and “Marilyn Monroe” (Island)
Phoebe has had numerous academic appointments including the School of Visual Arts where she invented a musical instrument, the Sneakers of Samothrace, a wearable computer for disabled children. She won the Buddy Baker Film Scoring Fellowship, the Acker Award and is a NYSCA and YADDO fellow.
She co-wrote a work called “The Waterclown” about water issues and water rights which she sang with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony (nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Music).
She received a NYSCA grant to write “The Queen of New England, an experimental multimedia opera about the Massachusetts Native American Holocaust.” In 2004, Legere revived her 1992 political play with music: “Hello Mme. President” about the first female President of Color.
Her 2017 album Heart of Love went to #18 on the National Roots Music Radio chart.
Ms. Legere has recorded for Mercury Records in England and Epic, Island, Rizzoli, Funtone, Bernard Stollman’s legendary ESP Disk and Einstein records in the United States. She has been featured on CBS, ABC, NBC, PBS and HBO and prime-time television around the world.
"Phoebe Legere is an American original, she's fun, she's funny, she's smart, but the main thing about her is SHE’S GOOD" - Studs Terkel, National Public Radio.
“Legere plays the piano with enormous authority in a style that encompasses Chopin, blues, ragtime, bebop and beyond, and she brings to her vocal delivery a four octave range, and an extraordinary palette of tonal color and meticulous phrasing.” – The New York Times
"Phoebe Legere is a Transdisciplinary Artist. Her Multi-Format Artworks issue from a powerful and intimate internal voice, reaching out to connect to Being in all its multiplicitous forms.” - The Brooklyn Rail
In a previous post, we were lucky to see a preview of how the Medfield Cultural Council is honoring the work of Phoebe Legere with her beautiful painting, "Chuck Paints The Charles."
Here is a preview of more from the upcoming show and celebration of Phoebe, in the artist's own words:
"Last year, at the height of the Pandemic, when all my gigs were canceled and my career was
kaput, Ron Gustavson (one of my Patreon Patrons) and the Medfield Cultural Council gave me a grant to paint the wetlands and iconic landmarks of Medfield.
Thank you RON!
In these paintings you see the Charles River, Medfield Hospital, Ron Gustavson and my design for Bonnet Park. (Medfield employed thousands of young girls in a factory that made Bonnets.)"
1. Dino at the Funny Farm
2. Ron Tells Me A Story
4. Nobody Wears a Bonnet Anymore
