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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https://x.com/Legere/status/1981193275878056080

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."

Up Here Magazine Feature Hails Phoebe Legere's Climate Change Anthem: 2 PIANOS

Phoebe Legere’s “2 Pianos“ is the planet, talking to you. With its mixed French and English lyrics, the music unfolds as a lament, one where Legere’s voice and piano serve as a conduit for Mother Earth’s grief, longing, and timeless heartbeat. It’s a rare pop moment that feels intimate and cosmically resonant, a chance for you to lean in and feel the weight of our world’s silent cries.

“2 Pianos“ sets a stark but tender scene. Legere’s piano playing is at once precise and touchingly human, imbued with the kind of emotional weight that can make listeners stop and think. The arrangement is relatively spare voice and piano, but this is where Legere’s craftsmanship comes in. The sparseness allows every subtle inFection in her vocals to resonate, giving each chord the space to linger, a heartbeat of the planet itself.

And Legere never let the metronomic sway of her notes seem old. In addition to piano, she performs on accordion, guitar, cello, and an instrument of her own creation, creating textures that suggest both melancholy and hope. Her performance is as much spiritual as technical, deeply human, conveying emotion in ways that seem both personal and universal. The cover art, which maps her face onto the planet, aIirms this intimacy she integrates with the earth.

From Carnegie Hall to CBGB’s, from The Blue Note to Birdland, from The Public Theatre to your faculty lounge, Legere is a consummate accompanist and soloist, and her pale Nre will inspire and enlighten whoever is lucky enough to experience “2 Pianos”. But this song sounds unvarnished in the best sense, as if the songs themselves were live creatures, breathing and reacting in real time. It is tailor-made for playlists searching for dark, melancholic, or climate-oriented, piano-led emotional pieces, and holds its own in today’s pop landscape.

“2 Pianos“ is short, sweet, and weighty and a petite little gem. It’s a song that serves as a haunting reminder of the beauty and fragility of everything in our world, above all, a track that begs you not simply to hear, but to really listen.

Listen to “2 Pianos” now and allow a planet to sing through Phoebe Legere’s standout vision.

Connect with Phoebe Legere on Instagram – @phoebelegere

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THE ARTICLE : https://upheremagazine.com/phoebe-legere-laments-for-earth-with-new-single-2-pianos/

PHOEBE LEGERE ATTENDS ANDY WARHOL/VICTOR HUGO EXHIBIT AT WESTWOOD GALLERY

 

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Phoebe Legere Art Sells To Collector

 

Phoebe Legere Announced on Instagram that her Painting "Looking East," selected for the official National Association of Women Artists @NAWA "Art of the Everyday" show, Oil, 27 x 28 x 2 framed._2023 _$1400 has sold before the show opened.

Collectors clamored for the artwork and the sale was concluded one day prior to the official opening of the show, June 17th. 

Says Artist Phoebe Legere: "This is an everyday American landscape dripping and shining and radiant with spiritual qualities and the fragile dazzle of an all American wetland. #painting#landscape #oil #detail #sablebrush The pale magenta is from Mulberry Paint I made from Mulberries I gathered on East 11th St in New York City. The view is Rhinebeck looking toward the @HudsonRiver #muhheakunnukriver #environment#wetlands #nystate #phoebelegere #artgallery "

Said Legere,"Thank you dear Instagram friends for your kind comments about my painting "Looking East." The painting #SOLD yesterday. This photo is a polaroid snapped of me lying on my painting in a @Vogue feature about #Phoebelegere #Art, #feminist philosophy #Visionary #Fashion and @the.annawintour @officialanawintour "

For More Information, visit: phoebelegere.com

Hauntingly Beautiful Video Clip of Phoebe Legere's Exhibit in Chelsea Highlighting Climate Reality

 

View Phoebe Legere's video on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/EvQiS_w6F1s

Learn more at: https://www.phoebelegere.com

ARTIST Phoebe Legere * Blick Chelsea Artist In Residence * Make Your Own Paint From Berries

 From PHOEBE LEGERE's Facebook Page:

"Hey #artists! Go grab some mulberries from 11th St ASAP! #ripe #juicy Make you own paint. Have fun, talk to the trees, and stay healthy! I am the Blick Chelsea Artist in Residence 2023 July & August my works using handmade paint will be featured in their windows.

"My opening is July 1. That's right! 7/1/2023 I'll be performing on 7 instruments right out there on 23rd street. BTW! I buy my honey and gum arabic from BlickArt. The honey is made by an awesome nonprofit called Bee Cause! If you need more tips on DIY paint DM me! Ask me anything! hey I gotta go - Meet me at the #Chashama gala RIGHT NOW. It will be fun. This video was filmed last night with my left hand while mashing and painting at my #Chashama studio on Seventh Ave. right next to Fashion Institute of Technology"

See PHOEBE's DIY video on how to MAKE PAINT FROM BERRIES:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxl4FuerdlI

Follow PHOEBE on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/phoebelegere

Phoebe Legere One Woman Show March 16 - April 24 * Phoebe Legere Performance March 16 at 7 pm

 Phoebe Legere one-person art show March 16 - April 24 at ARTHAUS Gallery in Allentown, Pa. 

Allentown Arts Commission

Allentown City Hall
435 Hamilton Street, 3rd Fl

Allentown PA 18101

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Phoebe will be doing a Performance Art performance on March 16 at 7 pm. 

Paintings can be seen at www.phoebelegere.com.

Darrell Thorne Joins Phoebe Legere's "Paintbrushes Not Guns" Program at Materials for The Arts

 

From the Social Media Posts of

Phoebe Legere:

The first Master Teaching Artist joining us in our Paintbrushes Not Guns Spring '23 course for young artists ages 8 - 12 will be Darrell Thorne one of the most important installation/performance artists of our time. Do you think he will inspire our children? Materials for the Arts @InternationalTeachingArtistsCohort NYC Arts in Education Roundtable@NY Department of Cultural Affairs Foundation for New American Art Group MoMA The Museum of Modern Art Whitney Museum of American Art Queens, New York Queens Museum

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Multidisciplinary Artist Phoebe Legere is the founder and president of Foundation for New American Art, a 501c3 dedicated to bringing cultural equity to underserved communities in low-income neighborhoods. 

Phoebe's nonprofit is the proud recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a grant from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs to further her work.

Phoebe Legere to Host Love N' Courage Benefit for Emerging Playwrights

 From the Facebook post of multidisciplinary artist Phoebe Legere:

I’m Master of Ceremonies at the Love N'Courage Benefit at the Players Club in NYC Feb 13th to raise funds for Emerging Playwrights. I received a Theater for the New City Emerging Playwright grant for my musical about the first African America female President of the US “Hello Mrs President” —- I’ll be playing a medley of music I wrote for that show!

https://thevillagesun.com/tnc-to-honor-eduardo-machado-raise-funds-for-emerging-playwrights-at-love-n-courage-benefit

Painter-Composer-Artist-Musician-Playwright Phoebe Legere to Host Acker Awards

Tonight, Phoebe Legere will once again host the prestigious New York Acker Awards, celebrating the contributions of writers, musicians and artists of the avant grade in the greatest city in the world.

Phoebe, a former Acker Award winner herself, for her contributions to art, music, composition and writing, has hosted the Ackers for seven years by popular demand. 

In Phoebe's social media post she announced, "The Acker Awards! Theater for the New City. Come! Support art superhero Clayton Patterson and the winners of the 2023 Acker Awards! #culture #avantgarde #excellence 155 Second Avenue 7pm  

"The Cavalcade of Geniuses will make your hair stand on end! ...Thank you Leonard Abrams of the East Village Eye and Anthony Haden Guest of the Royal Family for your essays in praise of the Mighty Acker Award! Folks call a funeral memorial a 'celebration' now... so join us in this celebration of the Lower East Side Avant Garde! #FREE and open to the public."

Program for the New York Acker Awards

Phoebe Legere & Her Magical ART LAB STUDIO

 

"My new studio overlooks the legendary Amster Yard of Pushpin Studio fame. Hilary Knight brought me into this beautiful garden landmark to show it to me. Ir is a shrine to the lost art of drawing."  ~~ Phoebe Legere

Media Covers Phoebe Legere Retrospective at The Bundy Museum: Evanescent Landscapes/Vanishing Women

 On June 3 The Bundy Museum in Binghamton, New York opened RETROSPECTIVE: The Art of Phoebe Legere. The Gallery Opening was followed by a Concert in the Bundy Theater featuring original music by Multi-Disciplinary Artist Legere. 

NBC and ABC news affiliates carried interviews and features on Phoebe leading up to the Opening.

Watch the News Channel 34 feature here:

https://youtu.be/Fw3BafPqqVw

Earlier in the day, Phoebe appeared on NPR

"The Heart of the East End," Hosted by Award-Winning Journalist Gianna Volpe:

WLIW-FM 88.3.fm 

Listen to the interview here:

https://www.wliw.org/radio/2022/06/03/heart-of-the-east-end-june-3rd-2022/

Phoebe Legere is the first artist and musician to highlight and document the missing Native Women and Girls from North America who have vanished. 

“Across the U.S. and Canada, native women and girls are taken, vanishing at an alarming rate,” said Legere.

According to the group, NATIVE HOPE. Org, thousands of women and girls have gone missing in the past few years, but there is No Single Source For Tracing and compiling the data on these cases.

 

The Urban Indian Health Institute, a research and advocacy organization focused on health in Indigenous communities, found that while the National Crime Information Center tallied nearly 6,000 reports of missing Indigenous women and girls in 2016, only 116 cases had been logged into the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, or NamUs, database.

 

“My series VANISHING WOMEN is dedicated to raising awareness for this horrible, staggering negligence,” said Legere.

 

To learn more:

Urban Indian Health Institute:  U I H I . org

 

MMIWG  Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls:   nativehope.org

 

Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women:  CSVANW.org