Artists in the Kitchen
Hell's Kitchen Artist Studio Tour!
HK:ArtiST
Hell's Kitchen artists open their studios and local businesses and venues host performers for a weekend showcasing the creativity of artists living and working in the dynamic and historic Hell's Kitchen community in the heart of Manhattan!
The first HK:ArtiST took place Nov. 6th - 8th, 2009. The next event is tentatively scheduled for May, 2010. Planning meetings will begin in February, 2010.
Whether you are an artist, a community member, a business owner, all or none of these, we invite you to get involved in the next HK:ArtiST weekend. Email Michael Felber if you would like to receive notice of upcoming planning meetings, when the next artist registration begins, and more.
Thank you to everyone who participated & made the 1st HK:ArtiST a success!
Contact
Michael Felber
info_artistsinthekitchen.org
212.582.2990
Artists in the Kitchen is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions in behalf of Artists in the Kitchen may be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
Call for Artists!
Are you an artist or performer living or working in Hell's Kitchen?
We invite you to participate in the next HK:ArtiST, scheduled for May 21st - 23rd 2010!
Email to be added to the list for updates, including when registration begins.
Art by Michael Felber
About HK:ArtiST
Next Event: May 2010!
Hell's Kitchen Artist Studios Tour (HK:ArtiST) is a weekend long opportunity to visit local artists in their studios, to view works-in-progress as well as completed work, and to talk to artists about their creative process and the agony and ecstasy of the creative life in New York.
On view will be the latest creations of dozens of artists working in the mediums of painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, mixed-media, textiles, and more. In addition to providing a view into how and where the visual art that surrounds us in New York originates, the day will include dance, music, theater, and other performances presented both within artist studios and at various local venues.
Above: watch an interview with
Artists in the Kitchen founder Michael Felber
HK:ArtiST-09 will be a family-friendly weekend for local community members to connect with one another, and for visitors from beyond Hell's Kitchen to explore one of New York's most exciting neighborhoods.
Call for Sponsors!
Would you or your business like to support the community of Hell's Kitchen in exchange for limitless thanks and exposure to new customers?
ContactMichael Felber for more information!
Renaissance Diner
Mercury Bar
Joshua Tree
Bombay Express
Register today!
As a registered artist you will be listed on the participating artist page of this website (with a link to your website if you have one) and in printed promotional materials, including the HK:ArtiST event guide and map.
Sponsorship registration for HK:ArtiST is simple. Email the information below with "registration" in the subject line. In addition, make a $40 tax-deductible payment to help cover the costs of organizing and promoting HK:ArtiST.
Include in your email:
--> Your NAME
--> Your EMAIL
--> One .JPG of your work
--> Your WEBSITE (if you have one)
--> The LOCATION where you will show your work
Pay Online
HERE!
Note: The location can be your home, your studio, or an alternative location that you arrange to show your work (such as a local gallery, cafe, real estate office, or other Hell's Kitchen business). If you do not yet have a place to show your work, write "unknown." We will do our best to help you find a location.
You can pay the $40 sponsorship registration (fully tax-deductible) online, or mail a check, payable to Fractured Atlas, to: Michael Felber; 792 9th Avenue, #3RS; New York, NY 10019
You can pay the $40 sponsorship registration (fully tax-deductible) online, or mail a check,
payable to Fractured Atlas, to: Michael Felber; 792 9th Avenue, #3RS; New York, NY 10019
Oil Painting
Patricia Wersinger
Cartoonist, Singer, Actor
Nico Boccio
Vintage & New Jewelry & Accessories
K.Charles, Inc.
Jazz/Pop vocalist
Leena Conquest
Mixed Media
Melissa Bruner
Poet
Lori Pirone
Rhiannon Miller
John Monteiro
Nicole Lindheimer
Lauren Gohara
Michelle Bellici
Marina Reiter
Jason Bowman
Al Nozario
Carl Lawrence
Nov 2009 HK:ArtiST Page 1
Mud, Sweat & Tears
Jill Slaymaker
Janet Restino
Sean George
Dorothy Krakauer
Val Nov / Fat Pig Brand
Mark Vincent
Cai Marshall
Claudia Casais
James Garland
Painting
Healing & Artistic Practices
Rebecca Scott
Performance Artist
Joseph Mauricio
Joseph Donoso
Painting, Music
Chris Cavalari
Natasha Hanina
Poets in the Kitchen
Viviana Grell
Joey Slade
Nov 2009 HK:ArtiST Page 2
Sheree Sano
Celeste Macbeth Duboise
David Scalza
Anna Bartos Vocal Studios
Alexis Portilla
Morgan Lappin
Nov 2009 HK:ArtiST Page 3
Marcia Haufrecht
Heidi Kole
Jene Youtt
Judy Negron
Secret Service
Cynthia Karalla
Scott Goodwillie
Nov 2009 HK:ArtiST Page 4
Fountain Gallery
John LaRocca
Gloria Schloss
Sir Alex Schloss
Ensemble Studio
Theater
Common Ground
Rolando Gori
Nadine Charlsen
Nov 2009 HK:ArtiST Page 5
Alexandra Gomez
Philip Martoglio
Jadite Galleries
Jessica Chen
Yorgo Valyrakis
Marner Architecture
Marie-Christine Katz
Stella Lillig
Medicine Show Theatre
Nov 2009 HK:ArtiST Page 6
Valerie T. Kirk
Karytza Vergara
Art For Healing NYC
Lillian Gottlieb
Guillermo Vidal
The Tank
Margaret Zox Brown
Omar Prince
Nov 2009 HK:ArtiST Page 7
Ezra Cohen
Domus
Erica Schreiner
Marcelo Lupis
LMZ the Artist
Miriam Berkley
Kelly Merlino
Andre Spatz
Nov 2009 HK:ArtiST Page 8
Kaylina K. Holman
Lindsey Nobel
Chris Kull
Adrian "Viajero" Roman
Gallery MC
Alta Berri
Janene Gentile
Nov 2009 HK:ArtiST Page 9
Chantal Mariani
Carolyn Forsman
Map
Side 2
Thanks to our sponsors for supporting the artists
& community of Hell's Kitchen!
Bar Nine
Art for Healing
Cleo"s Bar / 9th Ave Saloon
K Charles Inc.
Skyline Hotel
The Joshua Tree
Mud, Sweat and Tears
The 1st Annual Hell's Kitchen Artist Studio Tours took place November 6th - 8th, 2009.
Read about it here: Broadway Worldand hereTangerine Living.
Nov 2009 HK:ArtiST Press Release: A New Tradition in one of Manhattan's Oldest Neighborhoods
Friday, Nov. 6th: Opening Night Party, Bar Nine, 807 9th Ave (b/w 53rd & 54th)
Saturday, Nov. 7th & Sunday, Nov. 8th 12pm - 6pm Open Studios (throughout Hell's Kitchen)
Free Self Guided Art Tour To Promote The Artists and Galleries of Hell's Kitchen
The First Annual Hell's Kitchen Artist Studio Tour is a free event where dozens of artists open their homes, galleries, and studios for a self guided tour. Participating artists include individuals with well established and honored careers, as well as emerging artists, and all mediums will be represented: including painting, sculpture, photography, theater, dance, and much more. Information and tour maps will be available online a few days in advance of the event at www.artistsinthekitchen.org On November 6th - 8th, printed versions will be available at participating artists studios and businesses.
HK:ArtiST: The tour was created to expose and promote the work of local artists and create an event that recognizes the often ignored art scene right in the heart of New York City. The tours other purpose is to show the connection between the storied history of Hell's Kitchen and the current creative expression: an area often dismissed as a mere adjunct to, and overlapping with, the business and theater districts.Says Hell's Kitchen artist Sean George, "The Hell's Kitchen open studio tour is a great event for local artists to show their work to the community. This event will showcase great artists from the best city in the world."
After enjoying open studios all over the metropolitan area, Artists in the Kitchen founder Mike Felber recently decided to start a non-profit artists organization for the community where he has lived and worked for decades. In a matter of weeks many artists and volunteers have added their efforts to make this first event a success, and a preview of much bigger art events to follow. As an artist himself, Mike Felber's paintings have been included in various group shows, including the Art Student's League which he attended on scholarship. Although professionally Mike's career has mainly been in social work (foster care, teaching, activism), he is bringing countless hours and limitless enthusiasm to forming Artists in the Kitchen, an organization that aims to strengthen the ties between Hell's Kitchen artists and provide opportunities such as HK:ArtiST.
Hell's Kitchen History
Hell's Kitchen is perhaps unique in being the both a huge economic & entertainment engine, supporting & part of the Midtown Business & Theatre districts, while undeniably possessing a tremendously storied, romantic past. Somehow combining this flavor In the very heart, the sanctum sanctorum of the biggest, richest City in America. Featured from Damon Runyon tales to Neal Simon's Capeman play. Vital with immigrants, most notably Irish, longshoreman, markets...& gangsters preceding & informing the Westies & West Side Story. Rough it was: draft riots, bootlegging, gangs, orphans running amok, corruption, danger, poverty, overcrowding- these things gave rise to rumors about obtaining our colorful moniker, where a grizzled Cop amended a rookie's suggestion that this was Hell. The veteran said "Hell is a mild climate compared to here. This is Hell's Kitchen". It was rags more than riches, murder not being a rare beast...
Photo by Christina deRoos
It is more than relatively tame now, yet zoning laws prevent wholesale destruction of its low slung, largely late 19th century "Old Law" style architecture, with a mostly 5 story & historic infrastructure, or the emasculation of its unique character. It is "mainstream" in the sense of supporting the commerce & transportation to all of NYC & its surroundings. Port Authority, Lincoln Tunnel, Jacob Javitz Convention Center, Circle Line, The Intrepid Museum... Home of many T.V. shows, largest U.S. dedicated dance center of Alvin Ailey, innumerable actors & ethnic restaurants, the massive 9th Avenue Int'l Food Festival where there once ran an above ground coal fueled train, Troma Studios, The old Madison Square Garden, now home to Worldwide Plaza, Theaters, huge Corporate powers...An arguably surreal contrast w/the revolutionary artist residences of Manhattan Plaza buildings. Actors, artists, schools, social services, blue collar ethos, & Beautiful Dreamers especially leaven our recipe.
The ravages of criminal enterprise, heroin, & neglect have faded. Though a largely well preserved Historic District o'er blessed w/charms from lofts through industry, new massive residences are constructed towards the great river, near where the now completed backbone park connecting the West side runs. This is the true Crossroads of every sort of group, wild & oft unrefined, reviled humanity, + simmering with personal & business dreams galore. Yet having a distinct & hallowed small neighborhood feel. Innumerable public figures, marked more by reflecting deep character & grit than empty celebrity, have been born, bred & "cooked" in our peculiar "Kitchen" incubator. Come see how we are still brewing up perhaps randomly, rampantly spiced up cultural creativity. Come on into my Kitchen.
Member Events
Upcoming events involving members or supporters of Artists in the Kitchen.
There are no upcoming events at this time. Watch for updates.
MUSIC 'N MUSES
Listen to the Artists in the Kitchen theme (love) song. Original version by the legendary Robert Johnson, rumored to have bargained w/the Devil for his musical genius at a dark & lonely Mississippi Crossroads at Midnight.
Links to other versions:
A superb acolyte of the Blues:
Scott Ainslie
Two rock versions, but with tones faithful to the original spirit. One recorded right near Hell's Kitchen, the other at a mythic festival site:
Allman Brothers Band
Climax Blues Band
Son of the President of Columbia records, recording going on 50 years:
John Hammond
Now it would not be complete without a take by the putative object of desire, an incarnation of the Feminine Divine:
Kristine Jackson
The original version by the
legendary Robert Johnson.
Make a tax-deductible donation!
Support local artists!
Artists in the Kitchen is strengthening the Hell's Kitchen community by introducing artists to one another, facilitating collaboration between artists and local businesses, and providing a forum for community members to share what makes their corner of New York unique and interesting.
Every day artists contribute to the vibrancy and liveability of their neighborhoods. More often than not artists do not recoup the monetary investment in art supplies and other costs associated with making art, much less receive any compensation for their time. Lack of financial renumeration doesn't stop the creativity, however, because if you are an artist, being creative is just something you have to do.
Hell's Kitchen artists are shouldering most of the costs for HK:ArtiST themselves, but to keep the burden on artists as low, as possible, and to enable artists who cannot afford to pay contribute financially, we need to raise additional money.
Painting by Thomas Bell
Show your support by making a donation of $10, $25, $50, $100, or whatever you can afford. A small donation makes a big difference!
Donate Online
Click HERE!
Donate online or mail a check, payable to Fractured Atlas, to: Michael Felber, 792 9th Avenue, #3RS; NY, NY 10019
Donate online or mail a check, payable to Fractured Atlas, to:
Michael Felber, 792 9th Avenue, #3RS; NY, NY 10019
Artists in the Kitchen is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions in behalf ofArtists in the Kitchenmay be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent
permitted by law.
In The Media:
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http://www.nyc-arts.org/events/5958/hell-s-kitchen-artist-studio-tour
http://www.chashama.org/home.php
http://newyork.going.com/event-685339;Hells_Kitchen_Artist_Studio_Tour_FREE_PARTIES
http://www.blogcatalog.com/blog/postcards-from-hells-kitchen/62d50d81461e6fddc62ac36c2605b5d8
http://minidocs.com/magic/
http://marywehrhahn.wordpress.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-York-NY/Marner-Architecture/141580504366
http://www.thesubwaydiaries.com/blog/the-wall/
http://fuzzypictures.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/hells-kitchen-artist-studio-tour-nov-7-8-2009/
http://www.betweenthetrees.com/2009/10/11/things-coming-up-in-new-york-city/
http://ourtownny.com/?page_ide1
http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/nudibar/65309-56th-street-mural-project-another-mans-tresure.html
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http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/The_1st_Annual_Hells_Kitchen_Artist_Studio_Tour_To_Be_Held_1168_20091014
http://tangerineliving.com/tangerineculture/4135
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06spare.html
Founder Mike Felber's long interview on James Chladek's seminal MNN Cable show, "The New Yorkers"
The Clinton Chronicle Article, October issue.
