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 

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. 

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. 

Date: Thursday, February 27, 2025

Time: 10:30am

Where: The Hiram Blauvelt Museum 

705 Kinderkamack Rd, Oradell, NJ 07649

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

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!

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!  

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. 

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

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

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.

NOTES: 

• Please arrive with your own supplies such as paper, drawing materials.
• Clipboards, stools, etc. are not necessary to participate, but bringing them can offer more options.
• There will be no formal art instruction. 
• Bring water and your lunch or a snack.

Please RSVP to Cathy Gutterman at westchester@nycurbansketchers.org

Looking for us? Call/text: Cathy at (914) 625-0766.

February 15, 2024-Sketch the Museum of the City of New York

 February 15, 2024-Sketch the Museum of the City of New York

The Museum of the City of New York is a history and art museum in Manhattan, New York City, New York. It was founded by Henry Collins Brown, in 1923 to preserve and present the history of New York City, and its people.

When: Saturday Feb 15, 2025 10AM

Where: 1220 5th Ave, New York, NY 10029-Meet in the Lobby

The museum is a pay what you wish for NY residents

We will lunch at 12:30 in the cafe on the 2nd floor and have show and tell there too at 3PM.

Should you have any questions, concerns, or can't find the group, contact us. This sketch event is being hosted by Kimberly Hall 917 566-7714 and Frieda Christofides 917 747-6060

February 12, 2025. Weekday Sketchers at AMNH Gilder Center

Weekday Sketchers at AMNH Gilder Center

Glider Center

We have all been to the American Museum of Natural History to see the dinosaurs and the dioramas.  But how many of us have explored the Gilder Center in the recently constructed addition along Columbus Avenue?  This week let's take an in-depth look at this interesting place.  Built to look like and underground cavern. (my opinion! What;s yours?) this area houses the gem collection, the Insectarium and the newest fossil (can a fossil be new?) the Apex Stegosaurus.  

Not interested in bugs or gem stones? No problem.  The rest of the incredible museum awaits you and your sketchbook!

For more information about the AMNH click here: https://www.amnh.org/?_gl=1*dx2zuy*_gcl_au*Nzk0NzY1MjkuMTczODg4NTc1Mg..*_ga*MzkwNDI1MTAyLjE3Mzg4ODU3NTI.*_ga_J0SCEJCMH8*MTczODk1NjgyMy4yLjEuMTczODk1Nzg2MC42MC4wLjM2NzY1MzczNw..

Thanks to Carol Krieder and Meryl Greenblatt for suggesting this location. 

DATE: WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 12, 2025

STARTING TIME: 10:30 AM

LOCATION: AMNH GILDER CENTER

                        ENTRANCE ON COLUMBUS AVE AT 79th Street

TRANSPORTATION: B OR C TRAIN TO 81ST STREET/AMNH

NOTES

• Please RSVP directly to Raylie Dunkel at President@nycurbansketchers.org
• Looking for us?  Call or text Raylie at 201-273-0445
• We will meet near the entrance of the Glider Center on Columbus Ave and 79th Street
• There is an entrance fee of Adults $30, Seniors $24. However there is a pay what you wish policy for NY State residents and the museum accepts many organization membership such as AAM.
• Water, food and bathrooms are available. 
• Be prepared to work in dry materials
• Bring a stool