EN
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THE WOMEN ARTISTS of RIVINGTON SCHOOL
WARS
From Then To Now
The Contributions of Women Artists
to Society
PART 1
05 March – 03 April
with
A – Arleen Schloss | Victoria Alexander | Margaret Bazura
Margalit Berriet | Tobey Crockett | EiLeen Doster
Nina Sobell | Maggie Ens
PART 2
April 11 – May 8, 2025
OPENING NIGHT
April 11, 2025
Friday
PRESS:
12:30PM
PUBLIC:
7:00pm – 9:00PM
with
Andrea Legge | Ingrid Lindfors | Gloria McLean | Orange Pritchett Neuman | Maggie Reilly | Sue Strande | Teressa Valla | Sally Young | Suki Valentine
20H *
LIFEDRAWING
Gloria McLean – Life Body Drawings | Dessins Corporels –
+ Eugenie Kuffler – Music – Performance
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NOCTURNE
Saturday, April, 26 2025
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM*
Parisian Artists of the 1980s-90s: Video Portraits
Videographer: Jacques Elie Chabert
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Documentary
– It’s A to Z: The Art of Arleen Schloss –
by Stuart Ginsberg
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book
Wednesdays at A’s – Book
by Guillaume Ettlinger, Baptiste Brévart, Edition Anamosa
*For details
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© Jeff Day/ | Gloria McLean, & Ken Hiratsuka 1985
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W.A.R.S.
was independence.
It is thanks to it that individuals were able to become
what they are, unique and free to create.
Clayton Patterson
www.womenartistsofrivingtonschool.com
From Then to Now
The artists of W.A.R.S. embody the resilience and power of creation in the face of social upheavals,
offering works that combine personal depth
and political commitment.
March 8, 2025 April 5 & 11 April – May 8, 2025
For two months – in two parts –
Mémoire de l’Avenir (MDA) | Humanités, Arts et Société (HAS)
brings together women artists from diverse backgrounds,
working across various mediums of expression,
to highlight their invaluable contributions
to society.
weaving connections between past events,
their historical documentation,
and their contemporary resonance.
An informal collective of like-minded creators,
the W.A.R.S. (Women Artists Reshaping Society),
emerged during the vibrant 1980s,
one of the most transformative periods in New York’s cultural history.
At that time, the Lower East Side was a true laboratory of artistic innovation,
an environment where hundreds of abandoned buildings and vacant urban spaces
became grounds for radical experimentation.
These women challenged the realities of their time, including the devastating pandemic (AIDS),
and the mainstream art world.
The revolutionary work of these artists blossomed in alternative cultural centers
such as ABC No Rio, the Sculpture Garden, the Salon d’A on Broome Street, Shalom Neuman’s studio,
The Fusion Arts, Jim C, Freddy the Dreamer, No Se No, among others…
These artists continue to work today,
responding to current social challenges.
From Then to Now
Tobey Crockett
PhD Paso Robles, CA
Curator : Margalit Berriet
Co-curators : Victoria Alexander, Helen-Margaret Giovanello
avec Maggie Reilly & Andrea Legge
The ARTISTS | PARTS 1 + 2
Excellence has no gender – Life and art are inseparable…
— Eva Hesse
A – Arleen Schloss
A pioneer in the arts, Arleen Schloss founded The A Space, an interdisciplinary loft in New York that became a central hub for musicians, visual artists, performers, filmmakers, and video artists from the East Village. Active since the 1970s as a performance artist, Schloss also directed and organized numerous art events in Lower Manhattan.
She co-organized exhibitions at Danceteria and Storefront for Art and Architecture, launching the careers of many artists and performers through The A’s.
In the 1990s, A’s Wave became a platform dedicated to digital media and web-based works.
artofarleenschloss.com | @artofarleenschloss
archive.newmuseum.org/oral-histories
© It’s A to Z: The Art of Arleen Schloss
© Victoria Alexander
Victoria Alexander
In 2017, Victoria Alexander received the Cathy Acker Award for her contributions to the avant-garde arts community and continues to exhibit internationally in various venues across the United States, Canada, Europe, and the United Kingdom.
A multidisciplinary artist and prolific creator, she works with a variety of mediums.
Her work, deeply symbolic, is constructed like a personal diary of everyday experience, imbued with memory and meaning.
Margaret Bazura
M. Bazura is a pioneer in immersive imagery, with some of her photographs reaching 2.5 million viewers.
Her work is both conceptual and performative. She is particularly drawn to 360° photography of events, places, people, and objects that intrigue her or possess a macabre element.
Scan the QR code in the “control bar” at the bottom of the screen and use pinch-to-zoom.
@ worldwide panorama : Press “Z” to zoom in, “A” to zoom out, use arrow keys to navigate, or click and drag. See HERE:
© Margaret Bazura, Franklin Farmers Market – Sue, 2005,
© Margalit Berriet
Margalit Berriet (Then Lubling)
Director and founder of Mémoire de l’Avenir (MDA) and Humanities-Arts-and-Society (HAS), in partnership with UNESCO-MOST, CIPSH, and other organizations, she is dedicated to multidisciplinary collaborations that blend the arts and sciences, as well as intercultural exchanges. Her goal is to promote the impact of the arts on inclusive, sustainable development, grounded in an aesthetic and ethical vision within society.
Artist-researcher affiliated with the Instituto Politécnico de Tomar (www.ipt.pt).
margalitberriet.com | memoire-a-venir.org | humanitiesartsandsociety.org
Tobey Crockett
A conceptual artist, writer, and philosopher, her work spans fine arts, digital media, environmental activism, and social sculpture.
With a PhD from the University of California, Irvine, she has built a multidisciplinary career combining art, activism, and education. Notable projects include Tobey Crockett’s Wild Frontier, a 3D virtual world supported by a NYFA grant, and YES 2 EARTH NOW, an artistic and humorous campaign aimed at raising environmental awareness and encouraging community self-reliance.
Advocating for the concept of “participatory transformation,” her practice encompasses performance, sacred theater, and critique.
www.tobeycrockett.com | www.yes2earthnow.org
youth2power.com |
© EiLleen Doster
EiLeen Doster
is an American painter, poet, and community activist who lives and works in New York.
She creates intensely saturated compositions, using images as tropes: symbolic metaphors that are not meant to be realistic representations but to form the elements of a deeply American artistic vocabulary.
Her works reflect a love for the ongoing relationship between humans and the natural world.
The entirety of her artistic production establishes a dialogue between shapes, gravity, and space, where color – and joy – are revealed with clarity.
newbrunswicksoutlawpoets.weebly/eileen-doster
@/eileendosternyc | canvasrebel.com/meet-eileen-doster | Poems-with-Paintings
Andrea Legge
Her work expresses a desire to respond to the commodification, capitalization, and ongoing destruction of nature.
In 1998, she earned a Master of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She then co-founded Legge Lewis Legge LLC (LLL), a collaborative studio dedicated to public art and design. LLL’s projects have been awarded numerous design and architecture prizes.
She also continues a solo practice. In 2022, she conducted research in Norway during an Art and Science expedition with the Arctic Circle residency, supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Andrea Legge lives and works in New York.
© Andrea Legge
Maggie Ens
A dedicated educator, she teaches woodworking to children at a progressive private school in Greenwich Village, New York, where Jackson Pollock once taught.
She studied psychology, theater, and fine arts, drawing inspiration from Jay DeFeo and the feminist Beat Generation. She worked as an assistant for Mary Beth Edelson as well as for Marian Zazeela and La Monte Young at the Eternal Theatre of Music of the Dia Art Foundation. Active in the Lower East Side art scene, she launched her clothing and accessories line, What Are You Wearing To The Revolution?
treesofnerveendings.net | @maggieens_art | Maggie Ens Art Installtion#1 + #2
© Maggie Ens
© EiLleen Doster
Ingrid Andresen Lindfors
A passionate surfer, mother, traveler, artist, and photographer, she has explored numerous countries, studying various art forms and cultures. From 1983 to 1987, she extensively documented the raw energy of the Rivington School.
Working both above and below water, her unexpected images reveal the vitality of nature and free individuals through an unusual blend of mediums.
Her work is inspired by her Scandinavian upbringing with the vivid colors of the ocean, mixed with her immersion in the urban subculture of the 1980s.
She is also involved with the Surfrider Foundation, a nonprofit environmental organization dedicated to protecting waters and beaches.
newbrunswicksoutlawpoets.weebly/eileen-doster
@/eileendosternyc | canvasrebel.com/meet-eileen-doster | Poems-with-Paintings
Gloria McLean
Choreographer, dancer, and teacher, founder of LIFEDANCE, she has taught at universities such as Keimyung, UW/Madison, and George Washington. Her works have been presented in New York (92nd Street Y, Alvin Ailey, La Mama, The Kitchen) and at Squid Studio, which she directed from 1994 to 2005.
Produced at ADF and in international festivals, her video Twice Marked was exhibited at the Brattleboro Museum (2008) and at ADF (2009).
gloriamcleandance.com | @peridance.com/faculty/gloria-mclean
© Kazuko Miyamoto, Gloria McLean
© Orange – Karen Pritchett Neuman
Orange – Karen Pritchett Neuman
Orange – Karen Pritchett-Neuman is an artist and professor in the Design Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
She has illustrated numerous children’s books.
She runs Nature’s Way Market in Easton, Pennsylvania, where she supports local farmers and promotes sustainable development between humans and nature.
Maggie Reilly
An artist, art therapist, educator, and community activist, Maggie Reilly explores psychosocial and environmental landscapes, believing that art can be a powerful vehicle for social and emotional change.
As an art therapist with the Organization of Independent Artists in 1980 and 1981, she led RAM STUDIO in Harlem, New York, where she printed and bound artists’ books and printed editions while teaching the city’s youth. Awarded the Kathy Acker Award in New York in 2025, she is also a member of Plexus International.
© Maggie Reilly
© Nina Sobell
Nina Sobell
A contemporary sculptor, multimedia artist, and performer, Nina Sobell has been a pioneer in the use of EEG technology, closed-circuit television, and the Internet within the art world. Since the 1970s, she has boldly explored how technology shapes perception and transforms social interactions.
Her *Brain-Wave Drawings* (1973), created in collaboration with engineer Mike Trivich, translated participants’ brainwaves in real time, opening the door to silent and innovative communication.
Through performances, installations, and interactive projects, her work fosters a unique dialogue between art, technology, and the audience.
Sue Strande
Her work is rooted in the analysis of fragments of daily life. Body art, creative movement, and dance influence her aesthetic choices in relation to figuration.
She seeks to evoke shared memories in viewers, emerging from her own experiences.
She is a lifetime member of Artists Equity.
© Sue Strande
© Teressa Valla
Teressa Valla
Growing up in Vermont, Teressa developed a deep connection with the land from a young age, a bond that has nourished her inspiration and provided comfort both personally and artistically.
Valla’s paintings, sculptures, and photographs explore the harmony between nature and urban space.
Her work reflects a deep reverence for humanity, movement, space, and life, while celebrating the unity and musical lyricism that connect them. Her creations are inspired by themes such as dance, community, nature, and architecture.
Suki Valentine
Artist, activist, writer, and poet.
Born into a family of artists, clairvoyants, and political dissidents in the tumultuous New York of the 1970s and ’80s.
She lived through a time marked by violent upheaval, the influence of the Pink Panthers, the AIDS crisis, and the protests led by ACT-UP.
Her work seeks to highlight what is common in the human experience.
Her artistic practice follows in the tradition of artists who have explored the inherent potentials of the human condition.
Suki’s works have been exhibited internationally.
© Suki Valentine
© Sally Young
Sally Young
Her work explores the transformation of Manhattan, formerly called Mannahatta in the Lenape language, between natural and urban landscapes.
A resident of Lower Manhattan for 32 years, she maps the rooftops, water towers, and fire escapes in her paintings, blending history, memories, and dreams.
Inspired by Hurricane Sandy, her vision captures the ephemeral and ever-changing essence of the Lower East Side and the Bowery.
Mars 2025
A – Arleen Schloss
Victoria Alexander
Margaret Bazura
Margalit Berriet
Tobey Crockett
EiLeen Doster
Nina Sobell
Maggie Ens
Avril 2025
Andrea Legge
Ingrid Lindfors
Gloria McLean
Orange Pritchett Neuman
Maggie Reilly
Sue Strande
Teressa Valla
Sally Young
Suki Valentine
*OPENINGS 1+2 & EVENTS
RENCONTRES
Details
© photo Jeffrey Day, Teliospore, Lifedance and Rivington School Artists, 1985
Volet 1
March 8, 2025 – Saturday
7:30 PM to 10 PM
PROGRAM
6 :30 PM Exhibition Opening
7:30 PM The W.A.R.S. Artists – 15 min
7:45 PM – 9 PM Public Discussion and Dialogue
7:45 PM Teaser Screening of the Documentary -5’min
It’s A to Z The Art of Arleen Schloss
by Stuart Ginsberg
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Book Presentation
with
Guillaume Ettlinger & Baptiste Brévart – @ ANAMOSA – artist and writers
Marie-Pierre Lajot -Editor at Éditions Anamosa
Pauline Chevalier – Art Historian, Associate Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté, and Scientific Advisor
Guillaume Loizillon – Composer and musician specializing in electronic music and sound poetry, Associate
Professor in the Music Department at the University of Paris 8, and professor of electroacoustic music
Olivier Villepreux – Journalist
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Guest : Joseph Nechvatal – merican painter, visual artist, and digital artist
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Music : Eugenie Kuffler – ‘Moving in’ – 8 min
Poetry : EiLeen Doster – 8 min
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9 PM – 10PM15
Documentary feature film Screening
It’s A to Z The Art of Arleen Schloss – 1h13min
* Warning: The film may contain sensitive scenes.
45-Minute Discussion
Open dialogue with the audience
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330 Broome St. NY 1979-1981
Baptiste Brévart, Guillaume Ettlinger
Guillaume Loizillon, Pauline Chevalier
2021
Part 2
OPENING – HAPPENING
April 11, 2025
Friday
PRESS: 12:30 PM
PUBLIC: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Gloria McLean
Choreographer, dancer, and teacher. Alongside her career with Erick Hawkins Dance Co (1982-1993), she founded LIFEDANCE, a wholistic vision of life and art, presenting work in New York (92nd Street Y, Alvin Ailey, La Mama, The Kitchen) and internationally (Japan, China, Korea, Ireland, France, Germany). She has taught at universities such as Keimyung, UW/Madison, and George Washington; ran Squid Studio from 1994 to 2005 in NYC and now at Squid Farm in Andes, NY offering workshops, performances and events with partner sculptor Ken Hiratsuka.
Produced at ADF and in international festivals, her video Twice Marked was exhibited at the Brattleboro Museum (2008) and at ADF (2009).
© Yi-Chun Wu, Gloria McLean
WITH
Eugenié Kuffler
Musician based in Paris since 1967, Eugenie Kuffler is a multi-instrumentalist skilled in flutes, tenor saxophone, and voice. She has directed radiophonic works for Radio France and created theater-music productions in Paris, San Francisco, Woods Hole, and Havana.
She has been a member of several collectives of composers, performers, and poets, including GERM, 010, Hot Chills, Les Toboggans Poétiques, and the Krk Krk Ensemble.
© Damien Kuffler, Eugenie kuffler
NOCTURNE
April 26, 2025
Samedi
19:00 – 21:00
Theme: Parisian Artists of the 1980s-90s
Feature: Video Portraits
Jacques Elie Chabert
Chabert is a multifaceted creator:
Graphiste, author, director, broadcaster, producer, editor, and consultant.
He is the founder of LALOCALE Television (1999-2015),
a free television platform dedicated to all communities.
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Documentary feature film Screening
It’s A to Z: The Art of Arleen Schloss – 1h13min
* Warning: The film may contain sensitive scenes
© Photo credit Marilou Chabert
Jacques-Elie Chabert
Jacques-Elie Chabert
A digital pioneer and multimedia artist, Jacques-Elie Chabert designed JEF (Journal Électronique Français), the first electronic news platform on Minitel in France. He collaborated with agencies such as Publicis, Siquier Courselles, and Alice for clients like 20th Century Fox, Hermès, Apple, EDF, and L’Oréal. Between 1981 and 1985, he published four interactive Minitel novels, including L’Objet Perdu for the Centre Pompidou.
At the 1986 Venice Biennale, he presented an interactive installation before showcasing Mur Image in East Berlin. Before the advent of the web, he introduced a networked graphic imaging course at ENSAD (1987). He created the French Revolution Bicentennial campaign (1989) and won an award at the Marseille Scientific Film Festival (1995). Founder of the local TV channel LALOCALE (1999-2015), he launched PARI (Panafrican Applied Research Initiative) and Gooroo Mobility Group, a tech startup, in 2019.
Jacques-Elie Chabert
Stuart makes his directorial debut with It’s A to Z: The Art of Arleen Schloss. He previously served as associate producer for two independent feature films. Followers (2000), the first of the two, received national distribution by Castle Hill Productions and he later served as the associate producer for Shockwave, Darkside (2014), an independent science fiction film.
An adjunct professor at Montclair State University’s School of Communication and Media in Montclair, N.J, Stuart enjoys writing for and performing in storytelling and improv shows. He has performed at The Magnet Theater and the Greenwich Village Comedy Club in New York City. He began his career in public relations promoting independent films, TV specials, and Broadway shows and holds a B.A. from American University and an M.A. from The New School.
REMERCIEMENT
à
Jacques-Elie Chabert,
Adeline Lucien
Florence Valabrègue,
Sabesan Muruguna Thapillai,
& Fred Sarah