"2013 Sophomore/Collector's Edition!

A Spin-off Arts & Cultural Publication from our free Hell's Kitchen NYC Open Studios weekend Festivals, Founded 2009:

At The Edge An Independent Art Publication Devoted to Emerging Artists Worldwide.

A Division of

Media Exposure & Press Features:

The Hells Kitchen Artist Festival was advertised, writen about and mentioned in many places prior to the festival in order to get the word out the best we can. Here is a few link highlights as well as a list of the several other places the word was spread through. For full list of links please see: www.artistsinthekitchen.org/media-placements

Features & Cover Stories: -HK Open Studios Festival

p. 214-218 + Map 159-162. Enchanting Cultural Creative Cornucopia Weekends: Midtown West Murals p.18-21. Plein Air Par Excellence! Biagios Tattoo Gallery p. 28-29 p. 32-33, 182.

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- Masthead TheannualHK:ArtiSTFestival(est.09)&"AtTheEdge"Magazine,(est. '11) are productions of Hell's Kitchen Artists Guild & Hell's Kitchen Artists Association (HKAG/HKAA). Both Sole Proprietorships of Festival Founder/CEO & Publisher Michael Marcus Felber. The latter formerly Fiscally Sponsored under the national non-profit artist service organization Fractured Atlas since 2009, bequeathing 501(3)c federal tax exempt status for select charitable organizations. Web site: www.ArtistsintheKitchen.org.

-A Profoundly Human Urge:

Multiple NYTimes features Inc. in Arts & Leisure 09-12! International Women Artist Salon Blog womenartsalon.blogspot.com/2012/05/iwas-to-partner-third-time-with-hells.html
NYTimes.com www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/arts/06spare.html?_r=0 Broadwayworld.com www.broadwayworld.com/article/The-1st-Annual-HellsKitchen-Artist-Studio-Tour-To-Be-Held-1168-20091014 Times Square Chronicles www.t2conline.com/hells-kitchen-arts-festival-may18th-20th-2012 Thirteen.org www.Thirteen.org/metrofocus/tag/nyc-arts Heedmag.com www.heedmag.com/Online/2012/06/21/hot-in-the-kitchenthe-hells-kitchen-artist-festival-showcases-the-work-of-nyc-artists Artslant.com www.artslant.com/ny/venues/show/33575-hells-kitchen-artists-festival-2012 globalnewsmen.com globalnewsmen.com/events/162-4th-annual-hell-skitchen-art-festival Also 100s of U.S. multi-media News Wire reports: TV/ Radio/Press coverage. Reaching 60 million daily visitors.

-Dripping Designs Unique Apparel by theFelbs

Stephen Morrow p. 40-47.

-Travel Revelry/Revelations: Mystical India-NYC. -Our Nirvana New Age Story/Store: Cover Artist Wizards
Joe Wippler p. 60-61, 141, James Groeling p.172-173.

www.ArtistsInTheKitchen.org
~ Synopsis of At The Edge Media Kits & 12 Fest Press Release ~
Become a Patron of At The Edge + Hells Kitchen Art Fest & Enter Business Heaven. About us & whats in it for you: With the semi-annual 13 Collectors Edition of At The Edge Arts & Culture Magazine, we continue a remarkable promotional opportunity, appealing to lovers of art, artists & great writing. We proudly announce a new partnership with renowned industry leader Disticor, the 5th largest U.S. + #1 Canadian distributor! Now we are sold at 100s of North American newsstands & bookstores including Barnes & Noble; also through wholesalers such as Hudson News: even marketed through innovative branded digital app. technologies including on Apple/Ipad & Android! A breathtakingly designed original style, & hyper-focused, multifaceted ad platform. Our large HK: ArtiST festival also promotes Sponsors in numerous ways! Find much effective targeted distribution per capita, specially focused on Manhattan. We hand delivered & mailed internationally 1000s of our premiere issue, also available at many NYC commercial & cultural venues-shared by many more artists, consumers & tasteful art aficionados. Our literary content continues the well wrought stories about the local NYC arts & cultural scene...& beyond! The emphasis remains upon personal perspectives, honesty & drama, featuring the tales & triumphs of cutting edge artists & institutions, including: fiction, poetry, profiles, photography, interviews, reviews, & more. Our images are beautiful: Striking, Detailed, Surreal &/or Visionary.

Good Patrons Go to Hell!

-Hells Kitchen Living! Artists, Performers, Authors... -Surrealist Masters & Romantic Magic-A Love Story.
Sir Alex & Gloris Schloss p.107,109.

At The Edge Magazine Credits 13:

Founder / CEO / Publisher / Creative Dir .
Michael Marcus Felber Mike theFelbs Felber

John Amadeo 70-71, Nadine Charleson 88, Phil Harris 98-100, Judy Negron 151, Janet Restino 22, Dave Scalza 19-20. Scott Goodwillie p.102-104, Artem Mirolevich 11,13 A. Kirov 194-196.

Page Designers:

Editor in Chief / Lead Designer Editors:

Michael Marcus Felber Vivian Riffelmacher Stephen Gambello Fred Quintiliani Wamara Mwine Matt Abuelo Marz Giarrizzo Mike Boyd

Ben Samra Alida Verduzco Lisa Hoffman Claudia Nagy Mark Kielinski Douglas Manson Guillermo P Lorente Perez .

-Scintillating Gotham City History w/Transcendent Artistry: -Rubin Museum:, NYC: Himalayan Art, Buddhist/Tantric WisdomSeven Floors of Ancient Scolls, Mendalas & Sculptures p. 110-111. -Paradise + Innocence Lost & Found: Sex, Psychedelia & Rock n Roll. Joseph Maurico p. 112-116. -Hot Pants: A Memoir Triumphant.
Johnny Cathcart p.146-148.

Sponsor/Media Kits composed by 3 Mikes: theFelbs, Mike Felber & Mike Wolf Front & inside back cover design (excluding other artists images used in windows) Created by Joseph Wippler for the Motion Picture Don Peyote, a film by Don Fogler - Back Cover design by Artem Mirolevich, with Dragon by Bahman Akhavan. - All unlabled backgrounds in mag courtesy of theFelbs.

At the Edge will have abundant yet demographically targeted distribution, sold at dozens of fine & independent bookstores, + placed at
-Cont. p.5

Select List of Media Feature Stories & Listings:

HK 12 Open Studios Festival Credits:

Michael Marcus Felber- Founder/CEO/Publisher , Ofer Caspio- PR Director, Johnny Cathcart- Director of Film/Video, Tricia Stukes- Director of Social Media, Lauren Patterson- Director of Special Events, Carlos Couto- Operations Manager, Sean Devney - Street Teams, Ben Samra - Webmaster, Lawrence Adler Grosberg - Biz Guru/Advisor, Mike Boyd- Traffic Manager, Mike Meyers - Transportation, Phil Harris, Valdes family, Karen Chen, Stephen Gambello, Dorothy Krakauer, Mike Millis, Katherine Morena, Heidi Russell, Nadine Charlson, Y asmar Cruz.

HK: Artist Core Team

An All Free NYC Weekend Art & Cultural Extravaganza: Hell's Kitchen's Artists in Studio Tours (HK: ArtiST) Festival & exhibition at 130 + venues! Visit Homes, Open Studios, Theaters, Galleries, Gardens, Taverns, local businesses: with 30 hours of parties over 3 evenings! Featuring all genres & of shows- rollicking revelry, music, art, drama & dance drama, performance art, readings, even donated local cuisine & drink. A startlingly Epic Opening Party: 10 hours, 3 floors 10 spaces; a 10 ring circus including 4 full Theaters! A Legendary Historic Districts new Tradition! A grass-roots social movement, a permeating underground murmur erupting: the independent & FREE HK: ArtiST festival is established as one of NYCs prominent art & social events!! 5th annual festival 5/17-19: For 3 entrancing spring daaaze 1000s of artists, performers and revelers open their studios, biz., clubs & streets; supported by gutsy local venues + a few visionary and generous finance & realty staples the vision has expanded & thrived. A mapped & self-guided tour-artists emerging or honored careers. 3 nights & 2 days of a culturally insatiable, Dionysian Art Bacchanalia of all visual forms & mediums; fine art, sculpture, theater, music, fashion, multimedia, film, photography, dance, comedy, body painting, public spectacle galore. 5 Parties over 30 hours, featuring continual entertainment of all genres! Raw & refined local vibrant talent (and in some cases epicurean local cuisine donated) at venues from classy lounges to murky speakeasies to intimate art salons, patrons and visitors rockin at soirees/shows of music, art, drama & dance. Batteries of blazing artists, from raging social commentators to crisp ex/impressionists to sly, depraved surrealists!

American Art, AOL Finance (752k visitors), Time Out NY, Daily News, Promotions on numerous national TV affiliates of NBC, CBS & ABC, + Joe Franklin Biz. of Show Biz., Bloomberg Radio., Nyc-arts.org, Washington & Wichita Biz. Journals, 200k daily visitors NonsenseNYC.com, Artcards.com, Manhattanstyle.com, Theskint.com, Geminiandscorpio.com, Luso-Americano newspaper: article (print), Citylimits.org, www.nyc.com, Nyfreeguide.com, Events.nydailynews.com, Artcalendr. com, Entitiz.com, Eventsnearhere.com, Eventorb. com, Eventful.com, Zvents.com, myeventguru.com, breitbart.com, Forbes.com, Wktvu.com, Nycarts.com

-From Mystery & History/Myth through the Sensual Sublime:

International Women Artists Salon p.156-159.

-The News Factory: Notes from a Dying City: NYC Poems, Paeans & Pain Matt Abuelo p.169. -Gone Beyond MFA: Paintings Classic Tavern Virtuosos.
Stephen Gardner p.176-177 & Benjamin Enzfelder p. 14. Oscar Rivera p. 131, 178.

Graphic Designers:

Mike theFelbs Felber - Director of Graphic Design, Salma Jane - Lead Designer, Mike Boyd, Mike OReily, Shannon Lamb, Maggie Ruder, Allan Vaca, Diana Williams, Ben Enzfelder

Join At The Edge & HK: ArtiST Festival!

May 17-19 is our 5th Annual all free weekend celebration! Would you like to volunteer, exhibit art, perform, &/ or work on or submit to this magazine? Venues provided, including group & solo shows. 30 hours/ 3 evenings of soirees to entertain & network at! Write ArtistsintheKitchen. org/Volunteers, scroll down for roles to intern & gain skills, friends & connections. Rewards range from gratis registrations & issues to prime space; free large ads designed for Directors, + much other credit/promotion. Positions open in PR, Parties/Special events, Social Media, Graphic Design, Artist Liaisons, Street Team, Marketing, Film/Video, Web...Also assist with Sales, Editing, &/or layout here! Top commissions paid for procuring patrons, ads, & expanding in store + online platforms! Shape 2 great Midtown NYC cultural institutions. ALL types of referrals, art, entertainment, writing & support, Professional through reliable yet eccentric, are welcome! As are calls to me; Odd Leader Mike Marcus Felber- 212-582-2990 or Sirrealizest@gmail.com!

-Quiet Storm Photography

-Inner Visionary Spirit-Muse, or Only Commercial Soul: Arts Integrity Sacrificed? Aladddin Ullah p. 179-181. -Glad to be a Road Warrior: My Knights & Days/Daaaze with Gladys Knight. Mark Rhatigan p. 184-185. -Art for Healing Gallery NYC- Loren Ellis & Co. p. 188-197. -Philosopher-King of Zen Projections, Sound & Feeling: The S. Brian Adam Interview. Mike Marcus Felber p. 198-213.
See news / updates / comments on our Like page: Facebook.com/AtTheEdgeMagazine. Press/Patrons/Advertsers, + Work on Magazine &/or HK: ArtiST Festival-Submissions/Exhibit/Perform.

Sponsors - At The Edge + HK ArtiST 1 Festival: 2

Disticor Roy Arias Studios, T , rump Hospitality Holdings, Alcone, Bar Nine, Clinton House, Cinema Verite, Dripping Designs, Producers Club, Fountian Gallery, T obacco Road, Merilu Pizza, Nirvana NYC, One Sandwih At A Time, Quiet Storm Photography, WSNA, International Women Artists Salon, The Set Shop, Lallegria, The Delta Cafe, Playwright Celtic Pub, Adriatic Wines, Kashkaval, Quiet Storm Photography/Oscar Rivera, The Gin Mill

For Premiere & expanded online editions of At The Edge, its Sponsor/Media Kits, Press Features, stories & listings, 4 Social Media (Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter & Flickr), Press Releases, Business Plan, many versions of HK: ArtiST Festival Maps, Postcards Invitations, Ads, Videos/youtube channel, official forms & more, see: www.artistsinthekitchen.org/Promos.htm.

Magazine launch parties held at Empire State Bldg. bar 3/1 & The Gin Mill, Kearny NJ 3/2. Details: ArtistsintheKitchen.org. - Special Thanks- Publisher: Shweiki Media 11-13! -

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Nature Collage: Giorgio Casu, Carmela Tal-Baron, David Scalzas Garden, & others!

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Claudia Nagy

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Ben Samra

Aaron Corbit Aaron Krosner Adam Brobjorg Adam Weisman Aladdin Ullah Alejandro Merle Otero Alexander Ebrahimzadeh Allan Reddick Amia Amy Fukes Anastassia Menshikova Anna Leah Jacobson Anna Malta Annie Mitchell Anthony Kirov Anthony Leyro Ariel Ruvinsky Art For Healing Artists Artem Mirolevich Artist Unknown ArtSnapper Arturo Zamora Bahman Akhavan Batya Wise Ben Henderson Benjamin Enzfelder Beth Macriorowski Biagis Tattoo Gallery Bivas Chaudhuri Bob Sell Brent Leopold Carla Cubit Carliss Retif Carlos Couto Carmela Tal Baron Carmen Figueroa Carolyn Weltman Cassidy Rae Limbach

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Celeste Duboise 82 Charlie Hubbard 17 Chris Kinch 23, 34 Chris Kull 18, 20 Chris Riggs 26 Chris Wallin 117 Christian Tai Leach 68 Cynthia Reed 68 David Gerbstadt 69 David Scalza 19, 20 David Tobey 69 Deanna Masselli 51 Dee Solin 50 Demi Davis 128, 129 Diana Becerra 125 Diana Williams 52 Dominique Perez 59 Dorothy Krakauer 126 Dr. Swapan Basu 129 142-143 Dripping Designs 182 Eileen M. Begley 157 Ekaterina Aksenova 133 Elain Shamache Ebrahimzadeh 193 Emily McHugh 36, 37 Eric Booth 131 Erica Schreiner 16 Erin Dinan 82 Father Frank Sabatte 54-55 Fernando Silva 138-139 Fran McGee 124, 125, 127 Fred Quintiliani 130 Georgi Kandelaki 48 Georjana Macri 52 Giorgio Casu 49 Grace Musser 186 Grigorios Athonasis Kritkos 24-25 Guillermo Lorente 118-119 Heidi Russell 51,158 Hells Kitchen Murals 18-21 Holly Overton 48 Ingvild Waerhaug 167 Intl Women Artists Salon 156-159 Jack Cesarco 23 Jacy Topps 23 James Groeling 173-174 James Humphry 174-175 Jamie Martinez 53 Janet Restino 22 Jason Covert 53 Jason Fairchild 56 Jason Jackson 48 Jason Rafferty 49 Jeffery C. Wright 27 Jeffrey Blaine 58 Jeho Bitancor 190 Jene Youtt 186 Jennie Yip 38 Jessica Cooke 26, 27 Jill Austen 35 Jill Slaymaker 57 Jiri Mesicki 152 Jo Jo Austria 192 Joaquin Goldstein 61 Joe Mauricio 112-116 Joelle Circ 159 John Amadeo 70-71 Johnny Cathcart 146-148, 169 Jon Epstein 183 Joseph Wippler 60-61 Judy Negron 151 KC Tidemand 187 Keiko Tokushima 35 Kenneth Burris 101 Klone Killa 19, 57 Kwane & the Uptown Shakedown 171 Laura H. Cannistraci 116 Lawrence Rosenberg 155 Lillian Gottlieb 152 Linda Lerner 35 Lisa Zilker 151

Index of Designers:

Loren Ellis 188-189 Lori Pirone 163 Lorraine LaPrade 38-39 Louis Mangiapia Jr. 197 Lourdes Ramirez 30 Maira 163 Marcia Haufrecht 72 Marco Riha 73 Maria Petroskaya 168 Mark Lee Blackshear 73 Mark Rhatigan 184-185 Mary Clark 117 Matthew Abuelo 169 Michael Marcus Felber 84-85 Michael Swiskay 168-169 Mike Boyd 34 Milena Oda 123 Monica Riera 89 Nadine Charlsen 88 Nancy Pacheco 122 Narell Thomas 117 Nico Boccio 31 One Love 153 Oscar Rivera 178 Paul J. Botelho 120-121 Peach Jin Tao 175 Peter Valentyne 66-67 Philip Harris 98-100 Philip Tsai 89 Phillip Giambri 98-99 Pranada 62 Rafael Martinez 67 Raquel Fica 62 Rick Krieger 63 Rob Thompson 64 RoByn Thompson 150 Roger Duvernoy 65 Rubin Gonzalez 23 Russell Chartier 120 S. Brian Adam 198-213 Sabina Pieslak 157 Salma Jane 218 Salma Shamy Chiu 121 Scott Goodwillie 102-104 Scott Wilson 91, 92 Sean Devney 91 Shalini 90 Sir. Alex & Gloria Schloss 107, 109 Sofia Bachvarova 106 Sprezanna 21 Stan Fine 92-93 Stefano Losi 86, 96, 97, 105 Stephen Gardner 165,176-177 Stephen Morrow 40-47 Tahiti Steve 5 Tammy Winward 166 Tatiana Korinfsky 35,36 Ted Walner 76 The Amazing Amy 217 The Rubin Museum 110-111 The Slut Junkies 149 theFelbs 30, 32-33, 153 Tiffany Zern 36 Tom Blatt 78 Toni Silber-Delerive 94, 105 Valentine Aprile 100 Victoria Kovalenchikova 95,96, 105 Vid Son Doz 105 Virginia Ross 149 Vivian Riffelmacher 154 Wen-chi Chen 87 Whitney Anderson 97 Will Chiapella 166 Yasmar Cruz 86 Yu Zhang 97 Yuka Hasagawa 50 Zaynap Zub 52

Sponsor/Media Kit Synopsis- Cont.

100s of popular tourist, leisure & culture centers. To be pickedup by both upscale & curious residents & visitors. Including many key Broadway Theaters, scores of Restaurants, Festival Venues, Hotels, Offices, Boutiques

Random Sneak Peak of Literature/Tales, Art + a Professional-Features Tease!

was born in England and studied art at the Cornwall college of art graduating in 19823, he both worked in Germany and freelanced in London, England up until 1989 where he moved to New York City to further his career as an illustrator and artist. He became a member of the Society of illustrators in that same year. Gardner has painted the covers of over two hundred book covers and painted countless baseball cards for both Topps and Upperdeck. His painting for the movie posted Unforgiven is part of the permanent collection at the Society of Illustrators and his portrait of Joe DiMaggio hangs in the baseball hall of fame. Gardner started his bar painting series as part of his MFA studies at FIT where he graduates in 2001 and now teaches.
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Stephen Gardner

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& Art Supply shops in the dynamic neighborhoods of Hells Kitchen, Times Square, Midtown East, Chelsea & Greenwich Village. The magazine will reach a wealth of readers via our website: In addition, the inaugural & the next collectors edition supports the established HK: ArtiST free festival weekend, which draws so much more interest to our neighborhood.

Sponsors receive gratis: a full advertising campaign supported by our superb, established annual HK: ArtiST cultural weekend extravaganza! Since this publication precedes & mutually enhances our arts festival, ads promoted in At The Edge will enjoy these extra rewards at no expense: Your custom-made ad designed by us or in collaboration with you,. Your business name/logo on up to 25,000, full color, two-sided postcard invitations, many over-sized 6 x 9, distributed well before, during & at 100s of venues & events at our 5th annual May 1719 HK: ArtiST 13 Free W eekend Art F estival. Name & logo on our state-of-the-art website ArtistsintheKitchen.org, in hyperlink form on our homepage, taking visitors directly to your web site. Prominently featured name & logo on 1000s of our HW ornately crafted Event Guides/Maps. A considerable boost for all our advertisers through endorsement in our newsletter to 10k+; & at our many busy soirees & Social Media hotbeds: Facebook, Twitter, Flickr & Tumblr.

-View his feature on p.165, 176-177

About the Author: is a performer teacher life coach author living in Baltimore. A veteran of thousands of shows as an actor comedian and improv performer Joseph is the founder of LIFEWORK Personal Performance Coaching, helping performers professionals and private clients recognize empower and project their personal voice into a public arena. Joseph studied theater at Emerson College acting with Uta Hagan writing with Allen Ginsberg performance with Anne Waldman and meditation with Sakyong Mipham and Pema Chodron . Joseph is a senior teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition and the author of soon to be published Waking Up In Chaos: A beginners Guide to Enlightenment, and Blood, Sweat and Buddha: Confessions of a Dharma Chef.
-View his feature on p.112-116

Joseph Mauricio

Unique, Daring, Brash Editorial Content

Lisa Hoffman Guillermo Lorente 124-148

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You will find an emotively raw, always enthralling glimpse directly into thet front line & established art world, often via the artists turbulent souls. Revealing the dramatic inside stories of HK: ArtiST elite &At the Edge , artists & performers.

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Martin Cohen

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Masters & bold new artists for an inner muse/museums palette. Read/see us cooking in dynamic midtowns Hells Kitchen hood. Get an inside track on NYC & U.S. art trends, street to top galleries. Our complimentary festival weekend tours + 30 hours of parties always draw a cornucopia of visitors & copious media to collect 5 figures of our branded non-profit propaganda Thus coupling your PR campaign with our specially designed ad in At The Edge is a successful strategy to support (y)our good cause! Explore: ArtistsintheKitchen.org. For full Sponsor & ad info, rates, plans, demographics & more, check www.Artistsinthekitchen.org/files AtTheEdgeMagazineCorporateMediakit. pdf.

A Wondrously Inventive World Lurks Within:

Mark Kielinski

Tahiti Steve designs by Steven A. Weiss.

Nandi Riguero (also circle image above)

My passion is marketing. A Travel Club I started in 87 was a great joy & way to network & build lists of friends & customers. One in the pets! biz. asked me for a tropical line of clothing for animals. I used the Islands I twice visited, falling in love w/the people, culture & atmosphere. I place my images on towels, T-shirts & beach wear. This summer join a group exhibit I am hosting on L.I. in NY. Inquire at: tahitisteve@aol.com.
Background images: Tahiti Steve

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By: Michael Marcus Felber ...For a few years to start a free Arts Festival for my beloved neighborhood the legendary Hells Kitchen. Tremendous history, tumult & drama: the west side of Midtown Manhattan, site of draft riots, prohibition, (breathe deeply, with feeling): hardscrabble existence orphanages shipping industry glory Damon Runyon(esque living) immigrants galore, elevated coal train open air markets Westies gang-& finally a historic district in 73, labeled Clinton Hill. Astonishing that this area has such a community feel: zoned for mostly 5 story buildings despite being next to Times Square & the Theater District, containing restaurant row, & east of the corporate canyons of NYC! Home of innumerable celebrities, largely actors, & the intersection of eccentric glamour, fact & fantasy + its rough hewn side is exemplified by both John L. Sullivan & Sly Stallone having originated here.

attended my SUNY at Buffalo Alma Matta precisely 20 years earlier, I started HK: ArtiST. Hells Kitchen Artists in Studio Tours. Joined & migrated from a fiscal sponsorship under the umbrella of Fractured Atlass non-profit umbrella, formed Sole proprietorships under the names inscribed on the fantastical buildings used on the front cover on our premiere issue last summer: Hells Kitchen Artists Guild, & Hells Kitchen Artists Association. See: there is a sort of business guru, managed Warhol, Ali, started & helped run major & non-profit affairs, even the 1st NYC swing club before Platos Retreat! An associate of his suggested a magazine to monetize things, help not only make the festival more successful, but promote more effectively our mission: increase the fortune of artists, make this arts & theater burgeoning area more renowned as an arts destination, invite folks into shows in our very homes. While inexorably, at least incrementally influencing the paradigm of NYC to move as much as possible more towards a love of the arts & the non-material, our spiritual/ emotional, humane aspects of our existence. Hence a Dionysian & heartfelt Arts & Culture magazine you are holding, At The Edge, followed by an expanded online interactive edition. Though the irony has been seeking sponsors/ads to make this successful, there were a couple of relatively large donors, Holiday Inn 57th Street, the commercial & residential giant Worldwide Plaza. Yet most are local businesses that usually show art, often for weeks or more, for artists who have no places here, galleries, arts venues or schools, a local printer or who did our maps in trade...ALL are welcome to contribute, & the 1st issue featured some of these artist impresarios, the Rabbi from

The Actors Temple, a man (who did our cover now) who runs a new age store, residents from famed 46 story Manhattan Plaza for artists of all stripes, etc... All these efforts are profoundly homemade & rely overwhelmingly on volunteers & artists to build it: departments for special events/our now 6 parties over 30 hours, our 4th Annual event May 18th-20th. PR, Street team help, graphic designers to do ads (including for our major assistants), liaisons for artists & venues...& of course editors! There are so many to thank, review our masthead for that, but for what you read now, I must give special recognition to our Editor in Chief for our 1st issue, Charles J. Rosenthal, & our current tireless layout whiz, Michael Boyd. And not to be schizophrenic, but fate decreed that a Craigslist ad recruited a graphic designer who said you will not believe this, but I have the same name... Mike Felber, unrelated! So I made him master of that realm! What hath we wrought? Big plans to expand to other mainly Manhattan communities, perhaps fostering separate periodicals. But either way, in the words of a campaign I wish to properly pitch (their creative involvement & support with) to PR giant Ogilvy & Mather whose headquarters moved from one HK structure to another: proving print is not dead. With all the wonders but alienation inherent in this often only virtual world, the sensual experience of real magazine well recapitulates the virtues of personal & artistic connections, real shows, sharing, depth & resonance of building bonds of emotion, artisanal/aesthetic, professional & personal collaboration.

Sanctorum of wealth & fame at the crossroads of commerce, fashion, art, theater, technology... there are so many unknown & toiling hard for mere survival. Does anyone question that our nations support & opportunities for art is almost inversely proportional to its real & potential wealth? The artist has little hope of leaving the 99%, & so much supposedly geared towards even any exposure for them is exploitative, mercenary, or intrinsically ghettoized. Yet the spirit of art, writing, theater, dance & all expressive human ventures cannot help transcend its limitations, however long the arc of history takes to bend towards justice. To paraphrase MLK. Enjoy & pass on this sophomore issue supporting our live-meet-the-artists kaleidoscope of shared visions. Our preference is more towards the surreal, sincere, personal, in depth, unusual, pathos & epiphany-laden explosions of creative invention & confessions. And something I wish that is akin to just pure Love. I can individually & en masse solicit & almost literally harangue & entreat literary + visual content from f(r) iends & strangers, local art & cultural leaders to much effect, but missing reliable & very competent specialized Professionals, the result would be no more than a mismatched incomplete mishmash of a raw product. Perchance more similar to At The Edge pointless if weirdly evocative anagrams such as Get Hat Ted Hate eat Eg or Thee Gated or Heed Date G or Heat Gheed or Heath Geed or G Head Tee or Hedge Gate or Gee, Tea DHT Anywho-

I had 1st worked with in 87 in my Sheep Meadow Central Park, NYC 1st post college F/T teaching/social service position, found a rent stabilized place on 9th Avenue in 95. Then I discovered Art Walks: largely in hallowed Brooklyn hoods, DUMBO, Williamsburg, Park Slope Gowanus Bed Stuy, Fort Greene Wallabout Red Hook Carroll Gardens... Harlem, Tribeca, Noho-& even in New Jersey. In 09 after the good fortune of being able to attend to a surviving parent in her final days, I returned from Long Island & met a young lady who, with her partner/man, helped start the most successful non-corporate art crawl, in Bushwick. So that summer with them as consultants & with help more than anyone from one dedicated young man who

The index tells you about our wondrous local, metropolitan area & beyond contributors. Like the artists, I personally recruited many who impress with their brilliance &/or unique flavor & feel for art & literary efforts. Sold online & exploring select commercial venues, we reinforce both the value & nobility of the adored individualistic, highly quirky loner AND celebrate the collectives perpetuating expressive & practical success: & art for its own seeds of contemplative, societal & emotively reflective, cathartic & beauty-infused sake. While we savor the bittersweet irony that amongst the very Santum

Lets start with thanking our Publisher contact Jennifer from Shweiki Media, a patient & sweetly responsive advocate for our cause. She was planning to attend our magazine launch party, & arriving from Texas for HK: ArtiST 12----> before our 3 Floor, 6 studio, 4 theater 10 ring circus of continual performances (Roy Arias Studios). If you need really well done jobs, deadline savvy experts, yet offering very affordable print materials from an ultra modern/ efficient plant & warehouse, contact www.shweiki.com!! (see ad p. 162) What you hold would be impossible to construct absent the help of the Editors credited in the masthead. Though I must single out those who helped a lot from the inaugural issue, great volunteers from mid 11 & again this issue/ Spring, despite a full schedule & assorted personal obligations. Thank you gentle & kind big guy William Farmer, we all enjoy working with you. Vivian & Matt Abuelo have been great helps & intellectually rigorous forces, while attending meetings, including at great housing activist employers/group show venue West Side Neighborhood Alliance. Cindy Horowitz did so much as an Editor & Traffic Manager for the 1st outing. And then there were two (main & indispensable forces). I received a call from a Craigslist ad seeking help in many areas, including Graphic Design. I dont know if you will believe this, but my name is also Mike Felber. Yes, unrelated, though an uncommon last name. Spiraling into the (good) looking glass it was! So of course I had to make him Director of the Department! On call waiting an ex GF thought I had finally cracked, gone from eccentric to Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs: I cant talk right now Cathy, I have Mike Felber on the line, I cannot keep Mike Felber waiting! But besides all the related japes about how you can always count on him/me...He has excelled at helping shape the design & Branding of major documents like the Sponsor/Media Kit, promotional page, getting the best cutting (At The) Edge yet warm look & feel for this new periodical, while putting up with the synthesiaprone, nothing succeeds like (Surreal) Excess overload aesthetic of his larger & older namesake here! Highly creative & ethical, he continues to grow. Now running up to 8 simultaneous C.L. ads yielded another gem of good fortune: Mr. Michael Boyd, Editor in Chief. Just above NYC, a markedly gifted manipulator of images & designer, his facility & imagination with layout & organization abilities are Legion. I could not have hoped for a better Professional, & he has worked around the clock with family obligations & an absurdly adorable 5 year old son, Harlem. His willingness & initiative to volunteer while providing great print options are a bit dazzling. Somebody hire these gentleman while they are not engaged full time in their fields: you will be Uber-fortunate to have them! Seriously. Mike@theFelbs.com. Grenlends@ gmail.com. Craigslist is not just the den of flakes & perverts! Overflowing submissions & huge organizational tasks led me to place 2 ads in the last few daaaze before D(eadline) Day! To get the magazine back before & have at the festival. Luckily Wamara Mwine responded. White House Correspondent for Politicsincolor.com, & covered politics for UPI, NBC, CNN, published, adviser to attorneys, politicians, Church leaders in crisis-media & PR. A Remarkable ability to work remotely & absorb, recall, edit very quickly while

respecting & implementing a highly specific artistic layout vision. I would like to graciously thank all designers who worked on this mag including: Alida Verduzco, Lisa Hoffman, Ben Samra, Claudia Nagy, Guillermo P Lorente . Perez, Mark Kielinski, Douglas Manson, and of course my namesake Mike thefelbs Felber!! Our final product is much better with the dedication to your work & personal care! Thanks for reading this lead in by a confessed writeaholic! (sic). For our elaborately designed Sponsor/Media Kits, ads, many videos & youtube channel, social media (fb, twitter, tumblr, flickr, earth dance), last & elaborated digital editions, maps, postcards, business plan, forms, press releases: formal & crackpot Dreams, whimsy & altruistic Schemes: see http://www.artistsinthekitchen.org/Promos.htm. And please reach out directly to join us, support us, question, rant &/or rave after perusing our offerings from masters to emerging arts impresarios!!

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Hells Kitchen Murals-David Scalza commissioned this huge mural on the back of a great HK: ArtiST Festival sponsor, Holiday Inn 57th Street. He is the creator of a large, 3 courtyard wide sculpture garden of recycled & found art, & in 09 had Mr. Cull spend 3 months on this great mural of a combination of nature & astronomical related scenes I puckishly entitled Cosmic Travelogue. There was an opening party for both projects in late summer 09. -Publishers Note.

Chris Kull

Anastassia Menshikova

Holey Cream Mural -796 9th Ave.

David Scalza
Constructed of Recycled, re-purposed & donated objects, a plein air master Fresco, painted p a tio , inno v a tiv e walkways/bridges, every sort of modified furniture, industrial & household item imaginable. Umbrella tables, whimsical & unlikely objects strung up high overhead & on walls, creative seating, & the hand built stage rigged for sound when necessary. Mike since you insist on making a spectacle out of me you ought as well add the 10 years of continually building flower boxes out of re-purposed wood acquired at construction sites around Hells Kitchen, developing my front of building sculpture garden, changing it to suit the season, such as X-mas themes/lights. Also maintenance on this & projects on my block + in this community: painting watering plants and flowers, donations from neighbors and myself, flowers mostly purchased from local farmers market, etc...

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...It brings to light various famous paintings and sculpture from human The current trend is to history. However, art has and always will be a part of our lives. The consider tattoo as something oldest form of art known, are the other than art. The time has cave paintings from 32,000 years come for that trend to change. ago. This is some of the earliest evidence of our existence during Bringing art and tattoo full circle, these times, showing that art, Biagios Tattoo Gallery in Denville, NJ, has been a part of the human embraces art in all of its forms. condition before we were even Biagios Tattoo Gallery is a unique able to record the events of what experience. The atmosphere is clean, we do. The oldest mummified crisp, warm, and welcoming. A place man that was discovered, is where art of all forms can be expressed the furthest that we can look and viewed by anyone interestted. There is back to see how humans art on the walls that have lived in the past. show off rotating Otzi, the 5,300 year old featured artists, as ice man, shows us a little well as the owners of his own art. Otzi was work, Leilani and tattooed! Tattooing is said Biagio. The Tattoo to go back, through oral is a performance. tradition, some 10,000 Tattooing is performed years. Just like art, tattoo has been a part of our prelive in the middle of the historic lifestyles and will continue to be so. Like painting gallery and displayed and sculpture, tattoo is art. True art no matter what the on widescreens for visitors to view the process of media; paint, marble, tattoo, etc., comes from the soul body art happening in real-time. of the creator to be appreciated by the observer or owner. The intriguing, meaningful, and creative art B.T.G.s mission is to open the world to the are that ones that creative side of the human mind. All of the get remembered, art on the walls display creativity through even treasured. In experimentation, intellect, and skill. The showcased our time, we should artists will always have these attributes. The body art take a note from clients help broaden this creative awareness by bringing our ancestors and ideas to the artists to create their tattoos. Each tattoo choose to live with artist that works at Biagios Tattoo Gallery will put forth the art in all its forms. effort to design a custom tattoo for the client to receive. Trends in art come Skill, creativity, and great customer service will be the tools and go, as trends of each artist will use to make each design a work of art. what is considered art come and go.

Biagios Tattoo Gallery opened its doors to the public on February 10th 2011 with their Grand Opening on April 30th. The day was full of festivities in a family friendly environment. Children were entertained by face painting, cotton candy, and other assorted goodies leaving parents, along with other adults, free to peruse the arts. The guest were discussing tattoo ideas and mingling with the artists of the various displayed work. The crowd, diverse as the art in the gallery, was privee to live musicians strumming original and familiar songs in acoustic sets. Even when no vocalist was performing, random collective singing erupted sporadically throughout the day/evening. The grand opening also doubled as a fundraiser for the Leilagio Arts Scholarship. All proceeds from work done that day along with donations totaled $842 and were put toward the $1000 fund for a lucky William Paterson University art student!

www.BiagiosTattooGallery.com - (973)620-9944 - 3138 State Route 10 West, Suite 1, Denville, NJ 07834.

An Observation of 2012 -Biagio Pagliarulo

All body art will be performed live on display for viewers to gaze upon just as they would the work on the walls. Breaking the image of the typical tattoo, Biagios Tattoo Gallery invites people to experience just how different the tattoo and the experience can be.

Feeling the Weight of Responsibility -Biagio Pagliarulo

B.T.G. also travels and feel conventions are a great way to see new places and meet new people. Since B.T.G.s ultimate goal is to showcase great art, they really enjoy performing tattoos at tattoo conventions. Conventions are also a wonderful way to meet other artists and view art from around the world!

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Im an artist un-noticed for most of my life until I started to use my art-like super-abilities to shift my career towards a decent living salary. I once worked as a shipping receptionist for a screen printing sporting supplys company, while I freelanced my artwork to that company and a few tattoo artists to help pay for my commute to Westchester Business Institute in White Plains, New York (later to be called the College of Westchester). I soon graduated in 2001 with a Associates degree in Digital Media. For the next decade I spent with a global giant printing company as a Scanner Operator/ Retoucher working on images for many well-known publishers world-wide. In 2010, I left this company and started freelancing as a graphic designer under the name of grenlends as a solo artist helping others in the digital media industry to achieve and understand imaging for their printing needs. Mixed-media is my choice of art expression but my most useful method is painting.... watercolors paintings, airbrushings, photoshop CS4, illustrater, inDesign, Corel5, Power Point & any 8+ megapixel digital camera.

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Linda Lerner

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A day like any other

grenlends@gmail.com michaelboyd1974@gmail.com grenlends.artistswanted.org

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No Horses
(Background: Tobianne Felber)

in downtown Brooklyn, the usual lunch hour crowds searching for what to put between two pieces of bread, make it through the rest of this cold, rainy Thursday another week without being laid off, look for a sale to wrap around frustrations of never having enough, foreclosed lives caught in some invisible mud slide who may or may not have heard rumors of an angry crowds convening on Wall street, major traffic disruptions theyll cause, and if while heading to the gym, school, their usual appointments think about it all, its to get home without any trouble caused by those building levees to halt the slide for those who say, live every day as if....yada, yada, yada.. what if its a day the toilette backs up you cant reach the super, the floor is getting flooded, and you must leave for work Should you even try

Pierre Hudson River

Chris Kinch
Christophers works are predominantly intended to create a strong visual impact, with occasional plays on social commentary and humor. In addition to his classical training (School of Visual Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts), Christophers works are strongly influenced by his slanted view of s o c i a l norms and customs.

a day when you have a raging toothache, probably infected, your health insurance wont kick in for two more months and you cant afford to pay the dentist, Whats the point as youre cleaning up the shit in your life struggling to clear a place to do what keeps your heart beating the reason you put up with the daily tedium of jobs, endless chores have enough energy to hear your own voice through everyone elses leave your imprint on something more than a W2 form I say, refuse to live any day as if it were your last: live your own life, which is...
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Jill Austen

Sea World Army

I came to New York in 2006 to pursue a career in Illustration. I use textile patterns in my work and this has become my signature. The pattern not only breathes life into my painting but it also allows my work to tell stories.

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The creative journey has taken me from Australia to Japan to New York to London, where I have variously lived, studied, and worked. My Muse has inspired me to express myself in the areas of photography; theatre (playwriting, directing, producing, acting); poetry (mainly Haiku in English); art (water colours, oils, pencil sketching, Japanese black ink painting). I have been profoundly influenced by the Japanese aesthetic, and consider Kyoto to be my spiritual home.

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Emily McHugh

Tiffany Zern
FREE WILL: See youre right, the BIG difference is this, the Light to the Dim. I focus on Me, We are all the same, and Nobody can see it that way. Then clutter arranges and once again, I capture the maze. I form the pieces to begin, again and again. My heart bounces, ticks, inside of my chest, because I have the desire. Free will in the country, who said this themselves. I will walk with confidence, while others may tremble to their feet. I stand tall, and I dont stoop for all. I am made to shine, Yes, I am made to shine.

Jadite Galleries owner Roland Sainz opened his first art gallery in Hells Kitchen in 1981. Born in Cuba, he came to New York in 1959 and worked as a Wall-Street business man for twenty-one years, but Roland says he got tired of making money and decided [he] loved art. Opening a gallery on 50th st. and 10th Avenue was, at the time, a risky decision. Home to the merciless Irish gang The Westies and burdened with the memory of a century of unchecked brutality, even by the 1980s, Hells Kitchen was still a rough and lawless neighborhood. It was not, to say the least, a place most aspiring gallery owners were eager to open doors. So, Roland paid a visit to a police captain on 54th st. and told him he was living on 55th st. between 5th and 6th Avenues, but considering an apartment on 52nd st. and 8th Avenue. The captain said simply, Well, the thieves live in Hells Kitchen, but they go and rob where you live now. So, much to his wifes dismay, Roland bought the apartment in Hells Kitchen and took his wife to the middle of the street and pointed to Radio City, Rockefeller Center, 5th Avenue, St. Patricks Cathedral, and asked her, how long do you think that is going to take for that good part of Manhattan to come this way? In spite of what Roland foresaw for Hells Kitchen future, the reality of those initial years was true to the neighborhoods reputation- deeply troubled. On the day he bought his condominium in 1981, Roland remembers, a client was buying a lottery ticket at a candy store on 8th Avenue and 52nd when a guy came in to rob the place and killed the client. That same night on 9th and 52nd st., the police had like twenty guys up against the wall with shotguns and everything because they were drug-dealers. When Roland told some of his more affluent neighbors on 42nd and 8th about his gallery and frame-shop, they said to him when you get out of the building, you turn east. You go east. And he did. He kept to himself, closed up shop at 6 oclock each night, and lived in a relatively safe area, so he never had any problems. Running a gallery for twenty-some years in New York is no small feat. When Roland was first thinking of opening Jadite, he went to see a well-known art consultant who told him, If I were you, I would open a pizzeria, a coffeeshop, something like that. I would not open an art gallery because art galleries, they go out of business in a year, and if they do make a little money, if they do survive, they dont actually make money until after the second year. Contd ->

Roland says this hurt him tremendously because he had pride, he was very proud and cocky, a Wall-Street character, and he had made a lot of money on Wall-Street so he figured he would do the same thing in art. But he was determined, despite the odds, to open a gallery, so he rethought his whole approach and, sure enough, he started making money after the first six months. But in his twenty-eight years in the business, he has seen countless galleries go broke and close. So, what was the key to his success? Hells Kitchen. He looked at Chelsea, at Soho, but the spaces in Hells Kitchen were cheap, which attracted artists, and kept his prices competitively low. By now, the galleries in Soho have mostly been pushed out by boutiques, and as Chelsea becomes out-of-price, expensive, [the art community] is moving this way, into Hells Kitchen. Sometimes his clients go to Lees Art Shop and they charge them 500 dollars for a couple frames, and then they come to [Jadite] and I charge them 300, and they want to know why I am so inexpensive- is my material inferior to Lees Art Shop? And the answer is no. There are only half a dozen companies that sell frames in the area. The same company stops at Jadite and then continues on to 57th st. and drops material at Lees Art Shop. But the low cost of living in Hells Kitchen, the rent and services, allow Roland to offer his clients discounts on framing and art. Roland has seen Hells Kitchen undergo tremendous change over the years. Much of older generation has disappeared and buildings like the Manhattan Plaza and the Worldwide Plaza have appeared on the horizon, giving way to a younger population of professionals who can afford the sky-rocketing costs. Roland says these changes are great for the middle class but the ones who remain poor, they have to move out, basically. Some were lucky enough, however, to buy apartments when the city was selling them for two-hundred dollars and continue to live in Hells Kitchen today. So even as the neighborhood develops and its community morphs, a piece of its mythic past remains. Roland hosts a lot of local Hells Kitchen artists in his gallery. When I asked him what kind of art he looks for, he said he tries to focus on the positive and the beautiful and the great, what art is all about. I try to stay away from the tragedy of political ugliness. I would call it ugliness, because some of it is nice, okay, but a lot of it is ugly. As someone who has lived through and witnessed the rougher days of Hells Kitchen past, Roland Sainz continues to house the light, the transformation, the salvation we so often find in art.

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Jennie Yips beautifully rendered artworks evoke a dreamy and sensual elegance of exquisite artistry. Her talent and business acumen have landed her international recognitions working with world renown clients such as LOreal USA, Revlon, McCann Erickson Worldwide, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, Coors Brewing Co, to name a few. Her illustrations have been used for T.V. commercials, national ad campaigns, as well as on licensed products. She has completed a high profile book Eva Scrivo on Beauty for celebrity hair & beauty stylist, Eva Scrivo and published by Atria/ Simon & Schuster, April 2011. Several of her fashion & beauty illustrations are successfully licensed by FDV Artfolio, wall art decor publisher. Work with award-winning menswear designer, Joseph Abboud/ HMX Group. Ms. Yip is also represented by Just Looking Gallery, a fine art gallery in San Luis Obispo, CA. Among her achievements and recognitions are three national juriedexhibitions from the Society of Illustrators Museum of American Illustration, NY and a retrospective with the Fashion Art Source & Fashion Institute of Technology in 1999. Shes owner of Jennie Yip Studio & a partner of Fashion Art Bank, Inc. She holds a BA with honors from Marymount Manhattan College and graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Fashion Institute of Technology. All artworks Jennie Yip www.jennieyip.com

Jennie Yip

I make it my business to attend at least one Pride festival every year. Whenever I go, it is always the same: I graze every table looking for candy, lip gloss, pens, notepads and other free stuff, but what I usually end-up getting are ziplock bags full of condoms. Sometimes I take these things because I am curious about how they might feel, taste. Hmmmm banana. Other times I grab these things because I feel obligated. To not take a condom packet at one of these tables almost seems that I am announcing to the three volunteerswhose organization probably just wants to get rid of the three hundred plus condoms they have stashed around the office from Prides pastthat I am not practicing safe sex, or worse, that I am a virgin. The dreaded V. I dont mind, usually Generally, I brandish my V like a suit of armor. The last V standing in a room full off people doing it, or have done it and lived to tell the tale. I feel wonderfully, foreign, new, like a story that no one has written. But when I am at Pride, I often dont feel so proud. I feel as if my queerness depends on me having done it (more so with a woman than the pretty men I find myself eyeing during the festivities). I feel as if others are judging me when they sense my inexperience. As if they are thinking that there must be something terribly wrong with me if, even when folks are frolicking through the streets semi- or completely naked, I cant get a date or a hookup. Aghhhh. Once, I was bold enough to decline an offer to take a bowl full o condoms home with me. The woman at the table

had instructed me to Take as much as I like. So I replied that none was plenty, I dont really have any use for those, I tried to explain. We have dental dams, she pushed. Yeah, but I dont really engage in those activities, I continued with an awkward grin. Oh, she says with eyebrow raise. I move on, uncomfortable. Being a V is like coming out all over again! So, now I just take the condoms whenever they are presented to me. I shove them in my bag, forget they are there, and while in the grocery store fishing for my wallet, I end up pulling out a Durex. My book bags protected. But what do I do with these condoms? I have condoms from 2006 when I attended my first pride in Baltimore. I have condoms from my first Black Pride in Harlem (where I also received my first flavored dental dam). I have condoms that come with a small packet of lube. There are condoms that are pre-lubricated, ones that are flavored, clear ones, purple ones, red ones, blue ones, sensitive, NYC, Durex, Lifestyles, old ones, new ones. Which I could probably keep in a box, near my socks, and culottes or I can be a little more creative: Need to keep your produce fresh? Condoms over your zucchini, squash cucumbers may protect them! And just imagine all the fun things you can do with them as you wait for them to ripen! Better yet; penile water balloons that make for extra slippery fun! Protect yourself from air-borne disease during the flu and cold season by using a dental dam to cover your nose and mouth! Dont like it when your dog kisses you on the lips? Use a dental dam to protect your mouth from his question one! As a bonus, hell enjoy the flavor and think you are treating him! Cant get the key to go into or come out of the lock? Try a little Astro Glide and see if it will slide right out! Forgot your lip gloss, ladies? Dab a on a little lube and keep stepping!

Artist Unknown

Oh, my favorite: The Wall O Condom. Wall paper your place from head to toe with multicolored, unwrapped condoms. You will be reminded of safe-sex every where you look. And when a special some one comes around, and the mood is right (sing), pull one down, and go to town! Creativity! Functionality! No? Then what else can you do with a box full of condoms? Oh, have sex.

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Sofia Bachvarova's artistic universe resides within an eternal twilight. Her works generate perpetual enigma. The paintings, objects, and installations possess an enthralling magnetism that draw us into a haunting, mysterious, and mystical dream space that is as deep as it is disturbing. I find myself lost inside a land of lingering enchantment and at the same time, like a fairy tale, there is a palpably unsettling eeriness. Ambiguous and obscure, her art evokes traces of gothic romanticism with an undeniable beauty that brims with the baroque and bizarre. Hers is the work of a seductive sorceress excavating from primitive sacred rituals and transforming them into a kind of 'urban witchcraft'. There's a feminine force underlying the creations, one feels as if she has secretively accessed the depths of her unconscious in order to paint us a unique realm hidden behind some distant corner of her imagination. Bachvarova plays with our eyes; her paintings reveal as much as they conceal, much like how one sees (and doesnt see) at dusk. The paintings are partly figurative so we find ourselves in a world that is somewhat recognizable but then not really; and herein lies their intrigue. They convey the mysterious, macabre, and magical. Her sculptures and objects that hang in real space are frequently found with her painting worlds. Bachvarova's obsession with suspension, objects hung and suspended, floating in midair, seems to be a metaphor for the way in which her artwork leaves us-- in suspense.

Alex & Gloria Schloss

- Deborah Zafman, Ph.D. Zafman-Greenberg Art Advisory

(Background- Sofia Bachvarova)

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Seventy years can be considered a long life. For the lucky among us, it can be a lasting love story - one that included a world war, celebrity, a royal vacation, and never least, New York City. This is the story of Gloria and Sir Alex Schloss, two lovers sharing a life full of chance moments that defined their character, shaped their future, and forever touched the lives of those fortunate enough to notice and feel their unique gift of art. Their story began in high school, in 1939, when Alex was an undefeated Golden Gloves Boxer. Among those who witnessed one of his many victories was Babe Ruth, who saw him win so decisively in a Police Athletic League fight that he was compelled to congratulate Alex personally after his walloping victory. This was a proud, if not uncharacteristic feat for a man who began portrait painting as a child. It would not be the last of such triumphs. After high school, in August of 1941, Alex decided to move to Virginia to work in a U.S. naval base. When his girlfriend Gloria showed reluctance to accompany him, he proposed. And so there would be no mistake, Alex clarified: if you dont marry me now, youll never see me again. Alex and Gloria eloped in Jersey City before moving to Virginia. In December of 1941, Alex was in the U.S. Army, preparing to go to war. When Alex joined the Army, he was branched Infantry, and knew soon after that this was not the right job for him. Determined to shape his own fate, he tested for the U.S. Air Force, and became an Air Force mechanic. This was no ordinary change of events. The Infantry unit to which Alex had been assigned took over 90% casualties in the invasion of Normandy. As he wrote his own history, he served instead in the Philippines, where even war could not assuage his artistic passion. Soon enough, Alex gained steady work from his fellow Airmen painting their bomber jackets with their respective unit insignias and mascots. His business was so successful and kept him so busy that he was the last to realize that the island where his business thrived had been occupied by enemy Japanese. Surviving the war unscathed, Alex returned home to Gloria, and the two moved to Brooklyn, on Myrtles city housing for veterans. Even this was no ordinary event. During their stay here, Alex tried to join the Art Students League, but classes were full and he could not enroll. One of his neighbors was attending hair dressing school, and recommended Alex join him. Alex did join him, and stood out among his peers. He went on to work for Richard Hudnuts on 5th Ave. and soon opened his own salon, Alex and Robert, also on 5th Ave. At the height of his success, Alex employed 22 workers, and gained the distinguished honor of being selected the hair dresser for the Miss America and Miss Universe beauty pageants. Alex and Gloria had two children, and when they went off to college, Gloria had difficulty finding work as a millinery, making hats. It was at this point that Alex encouraged her to go to the Village and sell some of her work. Gloria had been creating 3D portraits with plaster, cloth, and wire figures on collage backgrounds. She made portraits of musicians, dancers, matadors, but it was her sports figures that sold exceptionally well. Soon she would be making custom portraits, and her work has been collected by legendary sports figures such as Muhammad Ali, Lawrence Taylor, and George Steinbrenner, among so many more. Gloria is also an accomplished sculptor. She has studied at the Art Students League, the National Academy of Fine Arts, and the Brooklyn Museum. After working for Miss Universe pageants, Alex returned full time to portrait painting. He became known for a unique fresco technique using marble dust, sand, and oil paint presented as stucco painting, achieving very heavy and dramatic textures. His favorite theme has always been nude portraits, although he became famous for portraits of royalty, celebrities, politicians, financial moguls, and their respective families. New York City landscapes are also well represented in his collective body of work, among which some of the best are winter paintings of a snow covered Plaza. Alex did go on to study at the Art Students League, National Academy of Fine Arts, and the Brooklyn Museum. In 1970, Alex signed a lease for the gallery at the Plaza Hotel. The gallery became a showcase of his unique style and ability to a vast and diverse audience of affluence and influence. As a result, Alex has painted portraits of Chuck Woolery, King Hussein of Morocco, the children of Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, Robert Goulet, Chief John Big Tree (the model for the Indianhead Nickel), and countless others. In many cases, he painted family portraits of Plaza patrons, and would go on to paint family portraits of their grown children with their own families. Particularly noteworthy became one special admirer of Alex, Count Bonifazi of Italy and Monaco. The Count has collected over 20 of Alexs works, and, during a two week vacation to his castle in Monaco, Count Bonifazi knighted Sir Alex Schloss, who now is written into history in Italys Royal Book. Arleen Schloss is Sir Alex and Glorias daughter, and an accomplished artist in her own right. She studied at the Art Students League, Parsons School of Design, and graduated from NYU. Her work is represented in public and private collections throughout the world, and has been exhibited in institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. She is a critically acclaimed performance artist and is well known for creating As, a collaborative performance art workshop that encourages the experimentation of disparate art forms. Sarah Schloss is Sir Alex and Glorias grand-daughter. She has attended the Milwaukee School of Art and Design and has published a book of original stories and illustrations called Burry Me Deep 5 stories about childhood, love, and loss. Gloria Schloss, now 90 years old, was widowed last year after 70 years of marriage. She now resides in Sir Alexs former studio in Hells Kitchen, a gorgeous, light filled salon of both their art covering every wall, resembling a French Impressionist moment in modern time. Each drawer in the studio now archives pictures, scrapbooks, correspondence, newspaper articles, seemingly endless memories of a singular life lived by two artists whose mutual love and support took them on a most fantastic journey throughout the world, among eccentrics, bohemians, royals, but grounded, always, in our very own, Hells Kitchen. (Background- The Schlosss Apartment) - Carlos R. Couto

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On January 29, 2011, the noted and poignant painter, Sir Alex Schloss, passed away at the age of 89. As a New York native, he developed a unique style by achieving a near three-dimensional effect with the swift of his brush strokes. His uniqueness lay in mixing oil paint with sand and marble dust, allowing him to capture the essence of his subjects and perfecting the art of painting portraits.

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Anna Gabriela Malta was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1975. She graduated from Cidade University, RJ, with a degree in Marketing and has an MBA in business from IBMEC, RJ, and post-graduate degrees in Philosophy, So Bento College, RJ and in Image, Memory and Communication from Candido Mendes University. Currently she attends the Photojournalism and Photo Documentary Program at the ICP -International Center of Photography, NY. For the past 10 years she has been the owner of a bookbinding design studio. She has been part of multiple collective exhibitions and has had two solo exhibitions in Rio de Janeiro. She is currently working in two projects: one about young poets from the South Bronx - Power Writing; and another about book culture and its changes.

Anna Malta

Fire-Spinning during HK: ArtiST '10 Opening Party, outside Skyline Hotel Ballroom Outside Demon Feeding Scene mural created during Inaugural '09 Festival!! Anna is a very talented performing artist, video documentary producer, Cinematographer + belly & fire dancer! She is also well grounded, kind & just gorgeous. She was so gracious in her willingness & enthusiasm for performing at various points during our Open Studios-she was met after our 1st Festival in the Fall of 09. Pictured here is her enchanting show when we led everyone out of our main Opening Soiree in 10-better the safety & drama of playing with fire at night outside the great mural we created during our 1st event. We collaborated on a couple other events that night with the historic Times Square Arts Center, providing entertainers & a beautiful hostessbut this was are biggest party, 500 + guests over the course of the night, free as all of our events, gratis food from Brownstone catering, & all manner of bands & song, DJ, body painters behind a screen when NYU dancers were shy about even artistic nudity, even sword dancing into the wee small hours.

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Bivas Chaudhuri

Gloria Schloss, 90- 3D Sports Artist

An award winning international artist, Bivas Chaudhuri studied art at the University of Kolkata, India, and obtained an MFA in Fine Arts from Brooklyn College, New York. He has exhibited extensively in South Africa, Norway, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Spain, Zambia, India and the US. His bicultural background and knowledge add a rich mosaic of ideas to his creative work. Bivas states "My current work is involved with space, which is full of energy. I use repetitive visual elements and meditative process to energize the whole space. The highly structured, slowly changing imagery is a close resemblance of my deep state of mind. It is emblematic of modern times mixed with personal feelings and impressions." His work is represented in many public and private collections and has appeared in Udresfeabifen, Chitrali, Art News Artspiral, Art Forum and Art in America. His teaching experience includes an Adjunct Professorship at City University of New York, Queens Museum, New York and a stint as Visiting Artist for Pratt Institute. Bivas lives and works in New York.

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Jiri Mesicki The Burn

Our bodies collect dust, and impurities build, and will build substantially if not counteracted in some way. Some dust, just on the surface, whilst others lay deep below layers of. Dust stuck deep does not creap out willingly, part of me, and needs more harsh treatments to be rid of this time.

Human figure in its environment has always fascinated me the most. The struggle to apply itself with all of its talents and wants, is the human state of existence I want to depict. New feelings, fears, and insecurities shape our psyche today: How long will the world around us look the way we know it? How will our culture change when we will not be able to afford todays lifestyle? At the same time, we want to surround ourselves with beauty and create an ideal, just and safe world. I, we, live with these thoughts in the back of our minds and this creates a conflict, a tension between the ideal and the reality. The way we see ourselves in the paintings is the way we may choose to believe we are. In this way an artist influences the audience and, in turn, the audience changes the world.

The fire exists to bring forth light to this subject. To burn, to rid of dust buried deep inside forming impurities, must have heat, burn i must to keep the factory clean! But take care of the unending flame, must not stay. Balance is needed to keep the interior from burning too long.

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The Beach Tom Wolfe

The Critic

Ms. Gottlieb conceived the character of Anabel, who is known for her stylish image and insightful quotes, in the late 1990s. She attributes her success in propelling this character to getting out of her own way and allowing her creative side to show. Her professional affiliations include the International Women Artists Salon and the Alliance of Queens Artists Inc. When not working, Ms. Gottlieb enjoys reading and playing the guitar. She also volunteers with The Fresh Air Fund.

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One Love
A native New Yorker, ADAM SCOTT, professionally known as ONE LOVE, started his musical career at a young age. Not surprising, coming from a music background as his grandfather played the trumpet with the Glenn Miller Orchestra. At age nine, Adam was on the road to becoming an accomplished drummer and by the age of 14, he was well sought after by local bands. At the age of 17, he picked up the guitar and was a natural. Never being interested in covering songs, the guitar became his personality to write and sing, and again he proved to be a natural. He has been on two tours with Big City Lights, playing lead guitar and singing harmonies. Adam met producer/engineer JON CASTELLI, who immediately recognized Adam's talents, and gave him the opportunity to write and record what is now his first single release entitled "Get Up And Go". John's partner, producer EVAN SCOTT SMITH came into the mix and One Love's music came to fruition, and as a result, a six-sing EP was completed. "ONE LOVE" is not just a name, or even an idea; ONE LOVE is a movement." Adam states. "And not just for me and my band, but for everyone. I didnt start ONE LOVE, the idea; I wanted to start ONE LOVE- the movement." And so he did. ONE LOVE has captured the attention of many fans and is currently on a Northeast Tour with his live band. While on tour, ONE LOVE has been writing and recording his upcoming LP and is planning to release a "Live Album" by year's end. Adam will be turning 24 in May 2013.

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NOTORIOUS V.I.V.
A lifelong artist, V.I.V. has always been drawn to organic forms and shapes. I was never interested in drawing or painting cars or houses or inanimate objects. People, faces, figures, trees and growing things, the beautiful subtlety of how lines curve in nature were much more interesting. Veteran of 1956 is a portrait of someone I knew who had fought in the Hungarian revolution and lived in exile in the US for 40 years one countrys revolutionary is another countrys terrorist. A common theme in the saga of the Hero is the well-intentioned, over life size protagonist who is literally consumed by the forces of evil he battles in his life. This man survived many battles but at a terrible personal cost to himself and anyone in the near vicinity. The blues, purples and bloodshot reds were originally intended as an underpainting but I liked the effect and adding anything else seemed anticlimactic.

Chasing Klee

Lawrence Rosenberg
Foreward by: Derek Vidal In the years that I have been fortunate enough to partake in Mr. Rosenbergs artistic gifts, I have found his work to possess deep artistic roots of influence - namely, those of Picasso, Matisse, and Klee, to name a primary triad. For instance, in his The Cookie Jar, Mr. Rosenberg takes a mundane object dart and, through mere simplicity, color, and solid presence alone, most successfully transports us into that delectable world familiar to us all - caught with our fingers (child- and adult-like) in the perennial cookie jar, with all the ramifications that that implies, which Mr. Rosenberg underscores subliminally with such apparent ease. His other pieces, though, are more abstract than this one. However, veering from verisimiltude, they nonetheless contain equal and meaningful substance with each final viewing. I thank Mr. Rosenberg for his deliberate efforts to pursue his neverending artistic journey!

Vivian and her husband- writer and poet Matthew Abuelo, have been community activists with West Side Neighborhood Alliance (WSNA) since its inception in 2006.

Veteran of 1956

Chairmen of the Apocalypse is a series of portraits of the often jolly and harmless looking old men who have spent the last 30+ years dismantling all the social networks so carefully constructed in the US in the early and mid 20th century.

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Lawrence Rosenberg is a native New Yorker and a graduate of Queens College where he received his BFA. He worked as a stylist and Three Teeth textile designer in the home furnishing and bed and bath industries. He ran a design studio, Open Home Designs, for ten years. Lawrence has painted his entire adult life and has exhibited in venues in Hells Kitchen where he has been a fixture since 1995. He has worked almost exclusively on paper for years with mediums ranging from oil stick to gouache to colored pencil. I The Cookie Jar #3 love working with oil stick. Its where drawing and painting can combine beautifully. Theres no really good painting without good drawing. Though he finds a kindred spirit in the European painters of the early 20th century, he also greatly admires the American abstractionists of the 40s and 50s.Process is everything. I like to find the painting rather than know every detail of a picture plotted in advance. Though he often sees himself as a landscape painter, he also gets inspiration from the city at night, religious themes, and personal objects.

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Postcards & Promo Material from Years Past

Background image part of Monster Mash: Demon Feeding Scene created on Skyline Hotel during 1st HK: ArtiST Festival 09-- See pages 16-19 for full coverage of Open Studio Tours Murals!

Design Elegance
11 Postcard and Map v.1

Image by James Groeling & HK Artists, featured (with edits) as front cover of premiere editon "At The Edge".

2 sided '11 & '12 Festival Maps & Postcard Invitations have up to 4 variations each + 20K runs. also crafted for '11-'13 issues for front, back, & inside back covers.

Hell's Kitchen Artists' Guild/Association (HKAG/HKAA) Presents Graphic Design Masterpieces of Altruistic Printed Proselytism! HK: ArtiST (Artists in Studio Tours) Festival promotional material, 2009-2013. Plus Propaganda Supporting Proud Progeny Publication "At The Edge". For exhaustive representation of our documents, see www.artistsinthekitchen.org/Promos.htm. This includes Flagship, expanded, & current editions of At The Edge. Its fb page, Corporate/NYC & local/HK Sponsor Media Kits with complete background, plans, advertising & demographic information. Dozens of Press Features & listings for the HK: ArtiSt Festivals, 09-present. Many variants of postcard invitations, maps, ads, videos/youtube channel, social media (Facebook Tumblr Twitter & Flickr), Business plan, official forms, & more!

Humble Beginnings

09 Postcard and Map

Full page ads run over 2 weeks in May in 5 NYC papers. Proroting HK: ArtiSt Festival 10 & featuring Sponsors (as always on postcards & maps also). RUn in NY Press, Clelsea Clinton, The Westsider, West Side Spirit, & Our Town through Manhattan Media.

Version 1 12 Postcard (for map see p. 159-162.)

Stephen Gardner
Creative & late night collaboration of 2 Mike Felbers, improbably unrelated. Guild, Festival & Magazine Founder & CEO Michael Marcus Felber, + Director of Graphic Design & Editor in Chief Mike "theFelbs" Felber.
Whimsical mock front & back covers replaced by actual one of Initial (Summer '11) issue for the Sponsor/Media Kits. Replaced by Actual covers of Seminal Arts & Cultural Magazine. Based upon 1st Festival mural created during first, '09 festival weekend on Skyline Hotel: "Monster Mash: Demon Feeding Scene". By Sprezanne & Klone Killa. Also as in this spread, other assemblages of HKAG/ HKAG members & festivals.

10 Postcard v.1 and Map

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Since then, I've continued my career as an art-whore, and have been a part of a few other group projects, as well as other illustrations for companies, and the experience has been nothing but a benefit. Murals, comics, and set design have also become a pretty solid part of what I do regularly, as well as logo designs and some other graphic imagery. A lot of these things I'd never really considered being along the lines of what I could be doing for a living, but the joy of creating something new all the time has been a hugely positive part of my career as an artist.

Bouquet of Dreams

All stemming simply from a common question"What do you do?"

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See whole mural, used as background for this feature at http://jamesgroeling.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/townhouse-art-gallery-mural.

Youre a what?...

You can see more of James' work and read about upcoming projects at www.JamesGroeling.com

NYC Paintball Mural

"What do you do?" It's a question that many are asked when meeting new people. Sometimes it's because small talk tends to focus on work, other times it's just more polite then what people are actually thinking to ask. The answers can be widely varied, and some of them are pretty selfexplanatory. "I'm an accountant.", "I'm a fireman.", "I collect cans.", "I pick my nose in the dugout of a professional sports team.". Most of these answers don't really need any additional details, and some you'd probably rather not know. One that does however is, "I'm an artist". What do I do? Everything I can. Short answer, easy, explanation over. Right? Not so much. If you were to ask this particular artist, the answer would be some variation of, "I'm an 'art-whore' ", this is a self-stylized term that I've been using since,.... since, I can't remember, but a long time now. What it means is, any form of creative work that someone asks if I can do. I answer "yes". This approach means that every new project is a challenge, not simply because it's the creation of a new visual, but because often, the surface, execution, size, etc, are completely different from past projects. New projects mean figuring out how to accomplish the task, and every day becomes a learning experience on how to create things more effectively with new techniques.

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Publishers Note

An example of this happened last year while working with the HK art group 'Artists in the Kitchen'. The man in charge saw my work either online, or at a show, and asked if I would be interested and able to work on a cover for 'At the Edge magazine'. For an artist trained as an illustrator, starting to get their career moving, there was a very simple choice, "yes".

Sirens Kiss

Getting artists to focus & complete projects can be like Kali herding cats! But in his work to complete most of the Seeking front cover of the premiere issue of "At The Edge", James Groeling was steadfast. I had gathered artists from mural through even mosaic together for a 1st meeting at The Renaissance Restaurant, graced by work from a great Hell's Kitchen artist, festival volunteer & Theater Design Professor. I had a vision of a variant of the 1st mural we did for inaugural HK: ArtiST Festival '09 on the Skyline Hotel, where we had our biggest party in their ballroom in '09. This had demons gleefully cavorting, holding humans, with fork & knife + playfully pouring salt on one...A sort of monster's pod of eggs-but I had in mind the central devilish figure stirring a pot where heat was simulated as arising from a low vent below. My informal business guru managed Warhol, Ali, helped start & run high power Co's.:Bondage Through Heat & I was willing to go with his related vision of it holding a giant paintbrush, but using windows & water for reflections...

Surrender

successfully, and others, less so.

Over the next few weeks I had one of the more interesting educational experiences of my early freelance life. Before then I'd been working one-on-one with clients to do paintings, drawings, tattoo designs, and even murals for business owners. This was the first time that the client was a group of people all adding their own input on a visual I'd be building the foundation too. At first, there was some confusion, as each person would chime in an idea that made sense on it's own merits, but not necessarily something that would work well with the other elements already decided on. So the best way to explain this from my end became sketching, and visually showing everyone what they were asking, and what of those suggestions and requests would look best. It works well interacting with one client, so it seemed that this would be the same, just with more people around. It was the first time I've ever shown a group of people what their joint ideas would look like the best I could put together. The feedback was great, the ideas started to flow, and there was actually a group vibe in a sense. Simply because they could now see a sample of what the piece would look like, and understand why specific ideas could be integrated

The idea(l) evolved to include a nubile & nude she devil with goat feat at a 3/4's angle, painting in an elegant brownstone's large a store window, with an arch shaped window above containing 6 separate segments, all parts showcasing our artist's work ! Between beautiful large gaslights above her, baby demon discretely dancing in or as the flame. Ironically I used for reference antique style real gaslights that were at the nearby residence of Nadine Charleson, whose aforementioned Photographic quality watercolors have been hanging where we met-for several years & festival weekends. James was patient with another artist who was in crises, yet trying to collaborate with via drawings exchanged virtually. He added lush red/brown saturated color, patient with my additional suggestions & for reflections in glass such as an elegant spiral staircase. Pixie-like mischievous mini-demons cavorting amongst or inside the she-devil's paint pots. Undulating concrete pillars between a lush brick construction, the semi-circular vault inscribed with my "Hell's Kitchen Artist's Association Collector's Edition" legend & organization. All designed within a giant oval, outside of which I fed our most intriguing images for beyond this perimeter. Used for several versions each of 10's of 1000s of postcards & maps for our May '11 Open Studios, before our initial publication emerged that summer! THANK YOU James for your selfless commitment to these eccentric & altruistic causes! Now I make good on your shy request besides developing your ad: of course I wanted to build you a spread & celebrate your striking & so well rendered visionary art & story! You do so much excellent work, individually, for galleries/ murals, join, support, & lend your considerable talents to great collective endeavors. You are exactly who & what type & paradigm of art I most prefer encourage to represent! As your Blog & artistic mission amply & James Groeling with his Townhouse literally illustrate, training, discipline, & originality abound with your many amusements, muses & soul. for the original issue Gallery Mural (Park Slope Bk. NYC) Enjoy Mr. Groelings sublime front coverp. 164-165 ______ of At The Edge-& assorted genres of literary & HK: ArtiST Festival marketing exaltations-see

Creating the piece after that was simple, working with the wealth of the ideas that had been discussed and blending them with the visuals in my mind's eye. The image formed together, some ideas had to be adjusted or dropped, either from a visual approach because they wouldn't work with what was already there, or because the group decided against using certain concepts. Of my part, the painting became a basis for the editors to build the lettering around (locations which we'd discussed in meetings) and include segments of other visuals to create a collage of visual imagery where it would work best for the cover. It was the cornerstone to a great 172 image, and something that I was glad to have been a part of.

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The public house is a first aid post in which human beings receive treatment for injuries sustained in the battle with life As an Englishman, drinking culture has always been a big part of me life and when I came to New York some 23 years ago as an illustrator looking for new challenges, it was in the multitude of Manhattans bars that I first started to feel a sense of belonging.

This body of work began in 2005 as part of an MFA program I undertook at the Fashion Institute of Technology. I had gone back to school to reinvent myself as an artist and illustrator as I had come to a kind of creative crossroads. One of the very first assignments we were given by our drawing professor Melanie Reim was to carry a sketchbook with us at all times and have a theme to the work. I immediately chose Fanellis bars as my theme and set about drawing with the kind of enthusiasm that I hadnt felt in many a year. Indeed I had forgot the joy of drawing from life and the fact that I was able to combine two passions, drinking and drawing made it all the sweeter. I remember another of my colleges chose bridges for his theme and very quickly started to struggle and come a particularly cold November he wasnt out sketching bridges; he was sat in a bar with me. I started the process by going into what ever bars I came across, ordering a pint and just sitting and drawing what was in front of me, Ive always loved the characters that bars produce people watching is just a great part of New York life in general but I very soon realized that all bars were not created equal and that some bars were unbelievably rich in both dcor and history. I started to gravitate to New Yorks old bars, the ones that just dripped with story telling opportunities, the bars that had survived the prohibition era. The first one on my list being McSorleys, I think it would be possible to fill me life drawing and painting it that bar alone, it is a veritable living museum but I also started to think about all the other great old bars Id visited over the years such as Pete McManus, Chumleys and the Ear Inn and as I would talk to friends a n d fellow bar flies I was given many other suggestions of great old bars to visit. For a bar to fit my definition of great it has to have a neighborhood vibe, an indigenous population, if you will, nobody in New York wants to drink with tourists, thats why they invented Houlihans. Finding these real bars became a mission and once you start to look there was just so much material to work with. Soon I became something of an expert in the bars and their respective histories. After filling a multitude Milanos of sketchbooks I began to convert some of my more successful drawings into paintings, the first one being Early Bird at McSorleys for which I received the Stevan Dohanos from the Society of Illustrators in 2009, this was the first painting award of my career and I needed no further encouragement. I felt for the first time in what had been a rather unpredictable career as an illustrator that I had finally found my own voice.

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I have subsequently taken it upon myself to document as many of these old pubs and taverns as possible and it seems a though there is a never ending supply. In my 23 years of living in this city I have seen so many changes, not all for the better and some of my favorite drinking holes have already gone, most recently Bills 90s Caf on 54th and Madison lost its lease after 88 years and now this former speakeasy has been stripped and gutted to make way for a new speakeasy style bar, Im very sensitive to what I see as the homogeneous crap that seems to be creeping in to the city. I certainly dont enjoy the Disneyfication of 42nd street, there used to be some real character there and now its all corporatized and sanitized. It seems that the character of the city is being throttled out of existence in favor of some corporate ideal. Dont it always seem to go that you dont know what you got till its gone? A few years ago we lost Chumleys in the west village another survivor of the prohibition era but it could not survive the ravishes of time. I had the privilege of sitting and sketching in this particular tavern on many an occasion, it was one of my favorite place to take my English friends when they visited, there is just no way to recreate the atmosphere and the feeling of history in these places anymore than you can create a 30 year old scotch in a week. Gone, yes but not forgotten. I consider it my challenge and my purpose to try and capture these places and to convey my love for both the bars the traditions that they Rhomans represent. As for the paintings themselves, my aim is always to try to be, as true to the nature of each specific bar as possible in terms of lighting color and clientele, I will sit for hours and observe the customers and the bartenders and try to do justice to what Im experiencing. Each place has its own signature and idiosyncrasy, its own style and story-

Milanos

What more could an artist ask for?

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Aladdin is a veteran of stand-up comedy. He has been featured on Networks such as: Comedy Central, MTV, BET and PBS. Acting credits include, regular cast member on Uncle Mortys Dub Shack (IATV), American Desi, and more recently as the voice of Hanuman in the award winning animated feature, Sita Sings the Blues which was hailed by critics such as Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times (thumbs up!) and A. O. Scott of the New York times (Tour de Force). As a playwright, Aladdins Plays have been featured and performed in workshops throughout the world- The Halal Brothers (The Public Theater. The Labyrinth, Lark Play Development Center, Classical Theater of Harlem) He is a member of the Public Theaters Inaugural Emerging Writers Group Where he developed Indio which also had workshops at New York Theater Workshop, Cape Cod Theater Project, NY Stage and Film, and Shakespeare in Paradise Festival at the Bahamas.
When I spoke to Paul Mooney at Carolines a while ago he told me of an incident when we was producer and head writer of the Richard Pryor show in the 70s. Mr. Mooney was Pryors writer and close friend for years. NBC wanted Pryor to tone down the satire. Pryors sketches were not just gut busting funny, they were putting up a mirror to white America and NBC was scared shitless. They insisted Pryor play it safe, but Pryor was defiant. He was not willing to compromise. The show was shortly canceled afterwards. Fast forward to years later-Paul Mooney was approached by Comedy Central to become the head writer/producer for Chappelle show. All of Dave Chappelles so called friends stayed on the show even after Dave Chappelle defiantly left. Pauls response to Comedy Central was I cant do that! Dave is my friend. I often wonder if more comics had the loyalty and courage of Mr. Mooney, how much progress could be made. The Chappelle show was subsequently canceled and there was a void in that time slot. Comedy Central couldve moved in a direction of giving that time slot to a show that was more progressive. Instead Comedy Central gave Carlos Mencia (whom every comedian knows has made his career stealing material from fellow comics (look up Joe Rogan vs. Carlos Mencia on youtube) that time slot. His show consistently displayed stereotypical sketches that pandered to a xenophobic audience. Comedy Central couldve done the right thing after Chappelle left but instead delivered comedy targeted to the lowest common denominator. This industry has a legacy of this kind of discrimination. Double standards are obvious but when we object to an executive, producer, or casting director we are labeled difficult. How can anyone not object to this nonsense? Women have to endure it was well as men; the absurdity in films where non-white women are constantly trying to hook up with a white guy? So a white guy can be horny for a hot black, Latino, Indian or Asian girl, but my character has to like boys if I want to work in film? You talk about a double standard! The exotification of black/Latino/Indian/Asian women has been going on for years and continues to in Hollywood. Whether its Halle Berry getting sodomized by redneck Billy Bob Thornton in Monsters Ball or Parminder Nagra falling for her white coach in Bend it like Beckham Hollywood loves its redundant theme of exotic women falling for white men. Its been going on for decades and not about to change anytime soon. So I abandoned this notion that film and TV were going to change. They never were going to because it is a cultural thing. It is high time that we put our destiny in our own hands. I decided to spend more time writing and less time complaining. When I decided to be a writer and challenge some of the racist /misogynistic status quo roles, I was awarded artist in residency in some of the biggest theaters in New York and throughout the country to develop plays. I had this nave idea that theater is the last place an artist can be authentic. There is nothing more captivating than watching a great live performance onstage. I could develop my stories and characters that were nuanced and layered. I learned, unfortunately, that in these institutions, develop is where it begins and ends. Theater in many ways is worse than Hollywood. With Hollywood and comedy you get what you see. It wasnt always like that. Once upon a time in New York it was different. Once upon a time man named Joseph Papp, from the late 60s up until the day he died, opened his doors to the Public Theater to emerging writers, actors and directors to embrace the counter culture, embrace diversity, and never, ever fear the truth. He is known for being the founder of Shakespeare in the Park but more notorious as the champion of new, bold, daring plays as he nurtured some of the most innovative voices in theater. He developed and produced some of the most groundbreaking plays in American Theater. Plays that spoke to the current events of the day: race, anti-war, immigration, gay rights, the hippie counter culture, etc. That beautiful mission of giving a voice to those who could not be heard was what changed the landscape of theater. This movement was happening not in some far off place in Europe or Australia but in my hometown of New York. It is no coincidence that the first play that premiered from that ground breaking theater was Hair, an anti war counter culture musical that had the pulse of the nation and rocked the house each night it was staged. Growing up in NY Ive seen dozens of plays there. Ive watched many plays like Miguel Pineros Short Eyes to Suzi Lori Parks Topdog Underdog and left floating after each show. When I saw Reuben Santiago Hudsons Lackawanna Blues I was floored watching a solo show performer doing his monologues accompanied by a blues guitarist. It was life altering to see what innovation and such profound, moving performances from Joseph Papps mission, which continued with George Wolfe carrying on that legacy even after Mr. Papp Passed away. The beauty of the old Public Theater is you could be a first hand witness to how theater can challenge an audience to rethink a subject. The plays there inspired audiences to rethink the world, that anything was possible.

I felt the Public Theater was where I belonged so I pursued that dream. I found out that Joseph Papp is dead, George Wolfe is gone and so is their vision for this kind of theater. So as Hurricane Sandy sets its sights on my favorite city, my place of birth, I wonder what happened? Why is it that arts in New York are losing its courage, its swagger, its vision of diversity, its backbone, and its voice like the one Joseph Papp sought? In theater today, they pretend to be progressive and even get money- grants for promising diversity, but they are just limousine liberals who talk a good game. Most of these theaters allow white artists to get produced and some even create shows about other ethnicities like Mike Daisey who created a show about Steve Jobs and the exploitation of Chinese factory workers who manufacture Apple products. Its well documented by a reporter on NPRs This American Life that Mr. Daisey lied about his tales of China. While I applaud Mr. Daiseys noble attempts to expose the horror and injustice of those factory workers I cant help but wonder if these institutions believe only white folks can tell stories about Asians, African Americans, Latinos etc.? Why is there such a huge disparity of white and non- white writers? So are artists of color dismissed in that discussion? Is art only palatable, does it only work when white folks tell it? For the record my beef is not with Mike Daisey, but institutions of these theaters that are putting on work that is out of touch and doesnt challenge what is going on today the 99 percent, Occupy, Mass incarceration, bullying in schools, anti immigration, police brutality, Islamaphobia, race, etc. Its corporate theater run by folks who say they are progressive, even communist but its all rhetoric. These institutions are not allowing a level playing field. None of these theaters have the courage, the balls to champion work by artists of color and women that have the pulse of what is going on. Nothing proves that point as much as the following story Im about to tell. As a comedian we sometimes preface by saying true story and this travesty is stranger than fiction. In 2008 the Public Theater produced a musical called Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. Its about the infamous 7th president of the U.S. as an adolescent. It portrayed him as a rock star and hero to America. While this musical had him dancing like a hipster and making him seem so likable, the reality is Jackson was notorious for his treatment of Native Americans with the Indian removal act, leading to the trail of tears killing many Native Americans as one of the most inhumane leaders of our time. He violated every treaty and was far from being a nice guy! He was a dictator, a racist, and not a rock star as portrayed in this absurd musical. The public Theater that once began as a progressive counter culture institution promoting anti-war with plays like Hair has now sunk so low that they were championing works of men that were deplorable as Andrew Jackson. So now plays written by Asians, Blacks and Latinos were absent, but there is room for Andrew Jackson to be portrayed like a rock star? Joseph Papp is probably rolling over in his grave, heartbroken that Native Americans are protesting his theater. The same theater that would once champion the injustices done to Native Americans is now championing the man who killed their people? Way to go! Beautiful! All this at a theater where there is STILL NO room for artists of color. You cant make this stuff up! I wrote my own show traveled the country, traveled out of the country but does it makes sense all my work is about New York, takes place in New York, yet I cant produced in NY? So you would think that same theater gets it and hires more artists of color but instead we are nowhere to be found. What do writers and artists do? Say nothing! Oh Aladdin I dont want to burn bridges. The greatest sin of our time is not the few who have destroyed but the vast majority who sat idly by --- Dr Martin Luther King Jr If there were solidarity in the arts we would see a better product instead of being shut out of these institutions. Instead these institutions monopolize the grants that smaller theater companies lose out to. They get funding to build multimillion-dollar theaters and have fancy wine and cocktail opening nights, boasting about diversity yet the blackest ones in the room are the catering staff. Diversity is an illusion in their theater. Dont take my word, see for yourself. Action speaks louder than words and the voice of the people are silent in these institutions. Instead, it is a bunch of safe, elitist decision makers that have sold their soul so they can pretend they are creating work that matters, while the only ones attending these pretentious shows are rich New Yorkers who dont know what the fuck is going on in the real world. Theater, film, arts is out of touch because the folks who run these institutions are out of touch. Whether its the Board of Ed, Public Theater, or your day-to-day life, New Yorkers are having a tough time surviving and the arts are not reflective of that reality. It is under representing us; the working class! Although confronting the race problem should be a priority, these issues boil down more about class than race. Occupy Wall Street had the right intention but American government will beat the shit out of you if you object. Hollywood, health care and the Board of education works the same way. Fall in line or we will make life miserable for you. And voting for two corrupt politicians that dont give a damn about the 99 percent is NOT THE ANSWER! Ive watched people: Doctors, nurses, teachers, artists stay silent and tell me its great you are speaking up Aladdin, but I cant say anything because I dont want to burn bridges. No one wants to do anything that costs them something and in the process we are all selling out. Well lets stop sleeping with compromise and lets have an orgy with integrity!

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Music can take you in many different directions, for me it took me to the road. The road can take you anywhere and everywhere if you let it and thats just what I did for about 20 years. One day you can be playing music with the biggest stars in major cities and the next you find yourself surrounded by a bunch of wannabe's in a small town. Its the definition of living life in the fast lane. Opportunities fly in and out as connections and friendships are made, you meet all types of people and experience all sorts of things. You may not start your career out wanting to be a sideman or a pit player but stuff like that can just happen, or at lest thats what happened to me. I'm a composer and I have a strong background in theory which allows me to play any range of music styles and improvise on a whim. Early on, when I started auditioning, I would use this gift to only play stuff that I wrote. I pushed my own signature of playing on to the people that listened. Most didnt like this tactic but I just wanted to show them what I could do. Finally a group of brilliant Jazz players that played for everyone from Stevie Wonder to Gladys Knight, Mary Wells, and even Little Anthony wanted me to play with them. It worked out for both of us as they needed me for studio work, (jingles, soundtracks and songs); in return I got to play with them in the pit for many of the artist they backed up. In the eighties many artist who toured couldn't afford to keep a full company with them at all times so instead, they hired musicians that were already on the road. We would play a concert for thousands one night then be playing in a casino lounge for a few out of money gamblers the next. We played when they paid and that was all there was to it; that and our love for music. When a band is hired for a tour, the first night can be crazy. You don't know the entertainer except for the celebrity they put on; and they don't know you. This happened to me when I first played for Gladys Knight back in the eighties. Her opening act that night was Little Anthony and the Imperials and Mary Wells. Mary was the problem because her piano player/ bandleader was stuck in Philly and I had to fill in. Mary had no charts with her and I had no idea who she was. She came over to me twenty minutes before curtain rise to go over her songs. My bandleader forgot to mention anything to me about who she was and what songs she would be performing. The venue was filling up, two thousand plus and Mary looked out and said, We don't have too much time, let's go over my hits. I said fine, but who are you and what is your song? She fired me on the spot, and yelled to someone to get her a real piano player. See I wasnt being arrogant; I simply was innocent of all charges. We never rehearsed her stuff and I really never heard of her, from what I remember at lest. All I knew was that I was there to play for Gladys and little Anthony. My bandleader Dave Danna Dame over and said in a whisper You idiot, you don't know Mary Wells? No! I said. He then started to play and sing her song. Hey I know that song! By following his hands on the guitar I got the chord changes and started to play the song as though I wrote it. She turned back and came to the piano asking, Are you messing with me? You know my song! I said Well I guess I donow. She said Wrong key, bring it down and I did. We quickly wrote up charts and got through the set. In the end, Mary didn't need me to know her song, I could just follow her, because she was that good and, I guess, so was I. The tour went on and we were in Oklahoma City at a very fancy hotel. They gave us the lounge during the day to rehearse new songs or just jam for tourists that where staying there. It was just the band, not the stars. We would eat and drink at will, we were treated like kings at least we thought we were. Even Bill Cosby came in one afternoon and listened, he was performing in town and staying at the hotel. It felt like the top of the world, buying rounds of drinks for women and dropping names all over the place. We even played for Bill as he sang an old standard in front of a group very pretty woman. I was 28 and felt like Mister Big Shot. This was 1986, and the hotel lounge charged twelve dollars for a bottle of Bud, it just went up from there with the drinks. See I was just a working musician and not rolling in dough, but no one knew or cared; Mister Big Shot I was. We were there four days and, unknowingly, ran up a nice bill. On Sunday when we were getting ready to check out and go, the road manager Steve came to us and said, "Your pay for these show will almost pay your tab". After all our pay was gone we still had a balance of four hundred and eighty dollars. The best part was that not only were we negative money but this all happened in front of my new former girlfriend. She watched as me, Mister Big Shot had to go into his pocket and scrounge up all remaining money just to pay my share. I remember the girl giving me a look as she quickly left with her failed dreams of being Mrs Mr.

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Big Shot. So we played Oklahoma City in front of thousands and ended up negative four hundred and eighty dollars. On to the next town and more life learning experiences and the stories go on and on; buses breaking down and spending a long night in a truck stop bar trying to get the bartender to run away with me and see the world. As temping as that was for her, she could not leave her insane husband/ cousin that would track us down and do really bad things that I didn't want to deal with. So off to the next town south of the boarder where the folks there believe the Civil War is still on and New Yorkers are (I don't have tell ya). I was young and playing music for great entertainers, crossing the country and learning the craft. When you go to a show to see someone you love like Gladys Knight or any stars, its magic. When you play in the pit night after night it's just a job; as great as it is. When youre off from the show you let off steam usually in places where you probably shouldn't be. In the end I have some amazing memories to hold on to, and a few I have chosen to forget. The buses and truck stop, the hotels and motels and your new best friend is waiting in the next town. You become a true nomad; traveling from city to city taking in all you can, the history of each place and the different lifestyles of people in our country. It can be dangerous on the road if you let your guard down; especially in night clubs, where you can be a target on stage of a jealous boyfriend, that doesn't like the eye contact you're having with his girlfriend and to this day I keep stuff in a suitcase and not in my closet. The road will always be a part of me and I will forever hold on to the stories, people and places I have been. For now I am settled back in New York running a music venue getting ready for my time to write the great American musical or something along that line. You can take the Musician off the Road but you can never take the Road out of the Musician.

Mr. Mark Rhatigan is an accomplished keyboard player & sideman, & amongst his musical accomplishments is being a long time Road warrior with Gladys Knight. At last count he manages five bars in & east of Hells Kitchen, which included the one we held parties with continual performances (stand up, music/bands, readings, fire spinning & belly dancing...) during HK: ArtiST 10, & scheduled to close the 12 Festival weekend. This particular establishment was Port 41-formerly variously a gay & hippy-esque tavern-& under his steady guidance morphed into the musical showcase of Tobacco Road, possessing a beautiful backline for the eclectic shows he has developed, including dueling pianos. We appreciate his wry good humor & patience in accommodating our events & stocking our map & postcard propaganda during our events, & his fatherly guidance is beloved amongst his employees. We had looked forward to the planned makeover for this venue, & wonder if the one consistent feature of most all its incarnations at the tail end of Port Authority would remain: the comely bar staff clad as its subtitle has suggested: The Bikini Bar. Feminine charms various & sundry brightening historically colorful if rough-hewn surroundings. -Publishers Note

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with stain glass, ultraviolet mural painted on a semi-circle, large World War1 era memorial. Virtually all scheduled performed as planned, & a couple of 1st timers broke their proverbial cherry. Including my coincidental namesake, Our since early 11 Director of Graphic Design & map design savior whose talent for layout made his assumption of Chief Editor Duties a blessing! But amongst all the good fellowship, pub food & drinks opened specially for us again on their usual day of rest-their are always waves, levels of perception & a flow of energy felt only by some. The truly appreciative audience sanctifies what the shows signify, fleshing out the meaning, forming more with their degrees & quality of feeling. Their were some very talented groups, though I must single out Karen & Joe, an interracial couple who met cute when the lady asked her future partner for a ride to a gig...Her blues voice, power & subtlety of intonation I perhaps in the Love in Vain vein felt nobody else really completely could sense. But the Beast of Feelings & well earned epiphanies she conjured & embraced were transcendentally touching & powerful. And her lovely feminine strength suffused sweet nuances coupled with the implacable force of Sympathy for the Devil would make Mick Jagger weep. I know I did. After Midnight into Monday morning-well, folks do not show much for these shifts. So the 5 Bar Manager who long played keyboards on the road for Gladys Knight & I brow beat & pleaded writing from, including that Tobacco Road where we were will play another day. Maybe at our this year or next part of MakeMusicNY.org over 1000 concerts on the Summer Solstice event-we have a legendary local park for 12 hours, & can use the remaining paints again donated by Alcone. Their is an unavoidable practical dual strategy & irony: nothing is more valuable than the ethos spotlighting art, drama & culture for its own sake, emotional rewards, lessons, immersion in & enlightenment of the viscera of the human condition. Yet being in the moment, inventiveness & incisive feeling tones must be balanced against & support raising awareness & the fortunes of artists, musicians, actors, dancers-& the exponentially more creative & long tamed neighborhood at the very Heart & Soul of NYC.

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Best of HK: ArtiST Festival 12. Mad Midtown NYC Art Explosion
By: Michael Marcus Felber We unfurled our latest freak flag May 18-20th, all free for 4 years running! The 1st 2 stuffed 6 months apart, full page ads taken out in 5 NYC papers in 10, these last 2 summarized in this periodical for our revitalized creative gusher of a historic community. Hells Kitchen greets the world, see what we hath wrought!

Dozens of features, listings, & media attention, from press through TV radio & online/Blogs a-plenty: http://artistsinthekitchen.org/ , media-placements. ; 3 daaaaze of events, walking tour expanding annually to somewhat north of 130 venues for the art crawl. The intimacy of artists met in homes, studios, galleries, theaters, businesses such as eateries, lobbies, live public projects/painting, murals done by us, others, original art of interest already there put on the map, now interactive to mobile devices. Some work left up for weeks or indefinitely, gracefully & organically hung & coming down. Any sales profiting the artist. Nobody pays over $25, those absent adequate funds nothing. A free copy of this issue & original art offered for all participants & writers. The particulars? Many of them accrue during the 10 hours of parties Friday-Sunday (technically Monday, since all scheduled 6 PM till 4 AM). Why so much? Cause I never know just how many folks will register & follow through, & the evening events are for when all can gather in one place, network, & PERFORM for each other & the public in cathartic, networking & emotional bonding + Dionysian Glory! This is Giving & really hearing fellow artists & entertainers more than self indulgence. Some highlights: opening night was 10 hours at Roy Arias Studios, we had use of 3 floors & most of the time 10 spaces, some full theaters, expanding & consolidating as the crowds did. We hashed out logistical quandaries on the spot, & peak traffic had simultaneous skilled bands, a video laden play, a Hawaiian themed Exquisite Corpse (a modern variant of the Surrealist parlor game) room with plenty of body & other painting, hours long shows by the 350 + strong member International Woman Artists Salon (who also had one of the large group show spaces during the day art walk)...& somewhat more revelry.

How can there be so much culture unknown in the midst of business & theater district riches & newly ascendant many ringed tourist & native saturated Times Square? It is akin to a pre-fire n wheel nonhoax primitive tribe discovered in the middle of a 7 figure metropolitan area. The mind reels, boggles, & finally snaps-to attention. Cannot be adequately stressed: how the priorities & support for the non or not merely material suffer so grievously in modern day America. So join us next year & issue. Hells Kitch-en. We are far more than just the Kitch. And in in the sense of both the inside/center of commerce, art, culture-& the irreducibly inspirational mystery & interiority of individual + collective experience. Come on into my Kitchen, to borrow from the legendary Blues icon Robert Johnson, overwhelming talent famously rumored to have been acquired during a Mississippi midnight bargain at an unholy seminal crossroads with the Devil/Legba himself. Apologies for the cross(roads)-pollinating metaphorical appropriation, but it is apropos for us also: At The Edge of the Crossroads of the World.

Phillip Harris & friends Host HK: ArtiST 12 Festival Party 5/19, Clinton House

Curtis Becraft playing guitar @ Playwright Tavern

Saturday night like last year I reserved a multi-room & garden space that is hard to fathom as an SRO, Clinton House amongst several dozen housing organizations under one banner. We had great readings, acoustic & electric shows, Yoga contortions set to Blues music & belting, water tossed from above, shows indoors & out where you could stand between & watch both: & I Killed them with donated food from local merchants. Kashkaval Mid Eastern delicacies to Merilu Italian basics, Cases of Adriatic Wine, salads & the last trip with a requisitioned shopping cart desserts in admirable quantity & some variety! The after party was a last minute replacement-thank you Playwright Tavern for donating your whole long 2nd floor restaurant space! The die hards (sic) joined as blues melded n melted with Irish/Celtic traditional fare, more comedy, sing alongs, another so cute young lady boogeying to chosen & now sung music. All of this occurring parallel with the massive 9th Avenue International Food Festival. Countless masses, multiples of 6 figures along closed off streets: & our Sunday Party right on the Broad & (as it had just ended) dirty Boulevard. Apologies to Lou Reed. This special event was especially charming-3rd time I selected Bar Nine. Not because it is 1 minute from my since 95 home. But they have stage & plenty of seating, + a long plushly furnished & banquet laden L-shaped back area blessed

Summer Solstice Festival Wrapup!!

One of over 1000 Concerts on the Summer Solstice all around the 5 boroughs of NYC as part of MakeMusicNY .org, our spot was a fabled & gracefully tree laden Hells Kitchen park. Kiddie play areas, ground fountains /sprinklers, in back B-ball & handball courts-& in the center we set up for our line up of performers on a wide range of styles, some late cancellations & substitutions, such as the lovely classical violinist who ended up....leading off things! For 7 some hours we had great entertainment & fellowship, children frolicking, adults enjoying powerful vibrations of all ilk, & directly serving up the donated Italian cuisine!

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We were one of over 1000 NYC concerts on the Summer Solstice as part of the free, egalitarian, ambitious & unique sonic cultural extravaganza: MakeMusicNY .org! Thursday 6/21 in Hells Kitchen Park, 3-10 PM on 10th Avenue between 47th/48th Streets! On an insanely hot day where the PA system was stacked high & 1-man wheeled in-was day of free music of many genres. Offers to improvise/jam with us, Local donated cuisine, yoga/contortionist, & an after party at a classic Restaurant Row Tavern! This served as a post HK: ArtiST 12 Festival meeting, many friends who neighbors socializing & network, suggestions, idea(l)s, plans & offered to bring instruments to jam! Schedule below. So much fun in a beatific heart & soul of Hells Kitchen idyll in front of basketball & handball courts, playground surrounding, benches ideally suited for an audience, that we did not even get to the face painting remaining from our HK: ArtiST Festival from 1 month prior! THANKS to www.setshop.com. Though they sell mostly photo backgrounds, seamless paper & expendables, they not only had by far the cheapest generators, but donated it with delivery & pick up! And this great local Italian restaurant donated a huge portion of pasta with delectable red sauce, asking nothing. http://lallegriarestaurant.com. Hence both their gratis ads (we design for almost all advertisers) herein! As if ordained by The Gods, an Open Studios Alumni & great frienemy met a French national on his last day in Central Park: he was a professional sound man for the Theater! Just what we needed with the usual Special Events/sound man indisposed! We appreciated also our lovely last minute classical violinist replacement.

Background image (excluding other artists images used in windows) Created by Joseph Wippler for the Motion Picture Don Peyote, a film by Don Fogler

Schedule for Summer Solstice Concert:

Before 3:45 PM AND Substitute/Alternate/Striker for inevitable unavoidable later cancellation: Hells Kitchens own Sandra Small & the Smallworld Band. Soul/Funk/Rock/Jazz. www.sandrasmall.com. Before 3:45 PM & throughout when opportunity presents, including last set below:: David Scalza & his multifarious & ethnic musical instruments improvisation with/distributed to audience. Djembe drums, flutes, geee-tar, more. 3:00-3:45 PM 3:45- 4:40 PM 4:40- 5:45 PM 5:45-6:50 PM Emily Salmon, Classical violinist www.emilysalmonviolin.webs.com One Mic/ Krhazey80, Hip Hop. onemicartists.com & art-start.org One Love. Pop, Acoustic Guitar. www.oneloveny.com fb.com/oneloveny The Buzz Clips, 90s Rock Covers. www.facebook.com/thebuzzclips

6:50-8:00 PM Karen and Joe. Rock & Blues. http://www.reverbnation.com/karendavis (original tunes) http:// www.reverbnation.com/karendavis 8:00-9:10 PM Curtis Becraft and the Dilettantes. Rock,Blues, Traditional/Irish. Facebook/CurtisandtheDilettantes accompanied by Amazing Amy, Yoga Contortion Dance Jam, who ALSO is free to perform throughout! 9:10-10 PM K-Joe. Hip Hop & Jam! joeville@gmail.com 10:00 PM till late: After Party at OFlahertys Tavern. No Cover, Live Music, Garden...Feel free to bring instruments & play with us & house musician!

Aaaand: we only locked 1 (Dali-esque mustachioed San Fran expatriot walkabout-inclined Photographer!) person in the park! Well, we/I did not know that he was retrieving his bike, & later he found his way back to the residence of Yours Truly, having scaled the only vertical & pointed atop bars impressively!
Puncture wound limited to sneakers, I treated 'em to 'scream where we did a donuts & ice cream mountain full wall mural 2 years back. Apres after la after party, my guest was woken by dawn so we could await the parks dept. unlocking & thus entry + bike liberation! It would not be the same valence of off kilter creative gravitas absent a denouement of a harmless accidental predation-caper misadventure! ;)

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Salma Jane

Salma Jane is an art lover, who is active in the visionary art and holistic/shamanic spiritual community within NYC. She started getting involved in the Hells Kitchen Arts magazine project in order to expand her exposure to grass roots arts initiatives and the people in those movements, within the city. Visit my website www.Souldish.com!