While children socially distanced with their families and attended school from home throughout the pandemic, their crafty and interactive learning activities were restricted within their virtual classrooms. As parents have searched for new ways to engage their children in story time and interactive play, the new Reading Rainbow Live virtual series aims to serve as
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Jade Zaroff: Empowering the Next Generation of Impact Artists
In a world that can feel so bleak and overwhelming, it can be hard to find hope or inspiration for the future. More and more youth are dealing with issues like climate anxiety and the pressures of social media. Here is where singer, actor, producer, educator, and entrepreneur Jade Zaroff steps in to not only
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STILL NY ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: TYLER BROWN DANCE CENTER
STILL NY is interviewing New York-based artists in an effort to celebrate their talents and experiences as these artists fight for their dreams while surviving and thriving during the Covid-19 pandemic. This month, we had the privilege of sitting down with TYLER BROWN. Ms. Brown is a teacher and business owner whose resume includes being a
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Still NY Artist Spotlight: Emma Pittman (Winner of “The Search for Roxie Hart”)
Emma Pittman, a proud Wagner College graduate, is a teaching artist and actor based in New York City. Emma is most recently known for being the winner of Chicago and Broadway.com’s “The Search for Roxie Hart”. She is expected to make her Broadway Debut at the Ambassador Theatre in 2021. Nectar News in collaboration with
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Artist Interview: Joel Shackleford @dontlookoutside
Joel Shackleford is a visual artist from Buffalo NY. In this series visual artist Gracen Hansen sits down (over zoom) to interview Joel about making art during Covid-19 and the role of the artist today: Gracen: Let’s just jump right in. So first off, where did your artistic career begin? Joel: I think it started
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Hank Amber and Amber Bradshaw Interview
Hank Kimmel – Board President/Flobel Advisor Amber Bradshaw – Managing Artistic Director/Flobel Adviser Nectar News Reporter: Michele Baldwin We are here with Hank Kimmel and Amber Bradshaw of the Working Title Playwrights (WTP) Group in Atlanta. WTP was informally started in Atlanta in 2000 by a group of six playwrights who were part of the recently-disbanded
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Grace Roselli: Documenting female artists in her new project ‘Pandora’s BoxX’
Grace Roselli is a Brooklyn based visual artist combining performative actions with painting and photography. In her latest project, Pandora’s BoxX, an extensive photography portrait series, Roselli has set out to document a representative group of women who have been working in the fine art field since the 1960’s. The project celebrates and recognizes women’s
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Jack Herschorn: From Music to Bagels to The Sacred Space.
“Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do” reads a Rumi quote on the stunningly curated Instagram page of The Sacred Space. Nothing could be more true of Jack Herschorn and his wife Rose who built their business The Sacred Space out of a mutual desire to be of service by creating
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Harry Haun: Movie Quote Master and Veteran Entertainment Journalist
Harry Haun may not be a face you recognize but if you have followed entertainment journalism over the last 45 years you have certainly read his features. That is because Mr. Haun has built a prolific career as a writer covering stage and film for some of New York’s most prestigious publications including Playbill, The
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Tony Adler: Wisdom from a Lifelong Career in Film & Television
by Gracen Hansen Tony Adler started his career in the entertainment industry from the bottom and worked his way to the top. From the first time he stepped on a set as a 21-year-old college graduate he knew he had found where he was meant to be. It was that moment that led him to
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Arts in the Andes
Ric Dragon is an artist and musician, and marketing and business consultant. He is also a serial entrepreneur . He began his career at SUNY/Purchase, where he studied visual arts with Nicholas Marsicano.
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Anti-catcalling
COMMUNITY MAN ENOUGH Ian McGregor Moran, co-owner of I to Z Photo + Video and recent graduate of the NYU Tisch Film School, is an innovative videographer and photographer based in New York City. Moran uses his videography and photography for a variety of socially conscious projects and he recently published a new anti-catcalling PSA entitled, “Man Enough”.
