Organist Colin Lynch - In Concert at St. Peter's

June 14 Update: We have a new date for this event, July 21 at 5! We'll still be at St. Peters. Find out more here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/new-event-date-for-in-concert-with-masterwork-awardee-colin-lynch-tickets-366515436537

Join us for a special concert from this year's Masterwork Music and Art Foundation Premier Awardee, Colin Lynch, at the historic St. Peter's Espiscopal Church in Morristown, New Jersey.

The concert will be held on Saturday, March 19 at 4:00pm and will run for an hour. 

Following the concert there will be a reception, where Masterwork will toast Colin and honor local community arts leader, Tom Werder, Executive Director of Morris Arts. 

Tickets to this event are free, though donations to the Masterwork Music and Art Foundation are encouraged. VIP donors will enjoy reserved seating and event recognition.  A portion of the proceeds from this event with go to the Morris Arts organization in a special grant. 

Attendees are encouraged to secure their tickets in advance here!

About Colin

Colin Lynch is currently the Associate Director of Music and Organist for the Trinity Church in Boston, which he juggles alongside a solo performance career. He holds degrees from Oberlin, Yale and Northwestern.  You can find out more about Colin at: https://www.colinlynchorgan.com 

About St.Peter's Episcopal Church

St. Peter's Episcopal Church has been ministering the Morristown community for over 200 years, spreading the Gospel through preaching, music, education, and outreach. For more about St. Peter's, visit: www.stpetersmorristown.org 

About Masterwork Arts

Masterwork Music & Art Foundation was founded more than 60 years ago in Morristown, New Jersey. Today, Masterwork Arts supports excellence in the arts through a variety of grant offerings, a zoom series on 'A Life in the Arts' and virtual classes that are open to all. To find out more, sign up for our enewsletter on www.masterworkarts.org.

Free Zoom Dance Classes

February 2022

Has the cold weather and short days got you down? Break out of your winter funk by moving more. 

Masterwork Arts offers free open dance classes that are available to anyone who is interested in getting stronger and feeling better. Of course, the dancing part is fun, too! 

Join us!

About the Class

The format of the hour and a half long class offers a forty five minute warm up that pulls from a number of dance disciplines and includes some floor exercises meant to strengthen back muscles.  There’s a section on across the floor technique and a small choreography at the end. Participants are encouraged to modify exercises and may opt-out of any section they choose. 

 

Classes are offered on Saturdays at 10:30am and Tuesdays at 6:00pm. Zoom invites are sent out early the day of each class. 

Email masterworkarts@gmail.com to receive an invite. 

 

About the Instructor

Todd Whitley began his dance career as an adult, accumulating live, broadcast and film performances while maintaining a career as a digital strategist for nonprofits. He has received grants for a number of community based choreography projects and has been teaching classes for the past eight years. He feels strongly about the benefits of dance, both physical and as a tool to unlock creative thinking and problem solving.

 

About Fees

These classes are FREE! 

 

There are no fees for class. However, participants are encouraged to support three community-based organizations that support the arts:

• The Masterwork Music and Arts Foundation ( www.masterworkarts.org )

The Masterwork Music and Art Foundation

PO Box 1116

Madison, NJ  07940

• The Friends of Beattie-Powers ( www.beattiepowers.org ) 

Friends of Beattie-Powers

P.O. Box 453

Catskill, NY 12414

•  The Athens Cultural Center  ( www.athensculturalcenter.org ) 

The Athens Cultural Center

24 Second Street

Athens, New York 12015

 

Each of these organizations is promoting this offer in-kind. 

 

As with any dance class or school, neither The Masterwork Music and Art Foundation, nor the instructor are liable for individual injuries sustained in or out of class. 

 

For more information and to be receive class invites, email masterworkarts@gmail.com . 

 

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The Winter Series of 'A Life in the Arts'

February 2022

We’re thrilled to announce the roster of our winter series of interviews for ‘A Life in the Arts,’ where we interview people who’ve dedicated their lives to the arts in various capacities. 

Our winter series offers a wide range of remarkable guests. Here’s the schedule: 

•  Monday, February 28, 2022: Tlisza Jaurique - Tlisza Jaurique is a Mexican/Latinx multidisciplinary artist, scholar, and educator. She uses her inherited indigenous upbringing and aesthetics intertwined with her background in Philosophy as a foundation for her artistic practice.She has a B.A. in Philosophy from Vassar College. She has a Master’s in Art Education from ASU and continued with her Doctoral studies in Education in Curriculum/Instruction. She teaches, lectures and builds curriculums in Studio Art, Art History, Philosophy, World Religions and History with special emphasis on Native American Cultures, past and present. She has consulted, exhibited, lectured and worked with the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, the Smithsonian Latino Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (she was the first Mexicana/Xicana to exhibit at the Met), David Rockefeller Center for Latino Studies at Harvard, the Latino Cultural Center at Yale University. She received the prestigious Community Scholar Award from the Smithsonian Native American Awards Program at the National Museum of Natural History. She was a resident scholar and visiting artist for the Southwest Borderlands Initiative Chicana/o Studies Department at ASU. She received the Artists’ Fellowship Grant. In 2020 she was the recipient of the NDN Collective Artist Grant and the United States Artist Grant. 

Later this year she will be exhibiting with fellow artist Marcus Zilliox at Unison Arts in New Paltz ( https://www.unisonarts.org/) 

•  Monday, March 7, 2022: Michael F. McBride and Samuel Roberts - Michael and Samuel are married performers who met during their tenure as principal artists at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Both continue to create and perform - exploring new genres working as freelance artists.

For more information about Michael, see: www.michaelfrancismcbride.com. For more information about Samuel, see: www.samuelleeroberts.com) 

•  Monday, March 14, 2022: Betsy Jacks — Betsy is the Executive Director of the Thomas Cole Historic Site (www.thomascole.org) and has been responsible for elevating awareness of the founder of America’s first art movement internationally, while ensuring his legacy remains vibrant and relevant today. 

•  Monday, March 21, 2022 Wayne Walters — Singer, Teacher, Composer, Conductor — Wayne’s contributions to music are extraordinary. Somehow he also managed to found the Morris Choral Society (www.morrischoralsociety.org )over forty years ago, touring the world and conducting for this group as recently as last December. 

About ‘A Life in the Arts’ 

 'A Life in the Arts' is a Zoom series celebrating those who have committed their lives to excellence in the arts. Our hope is that this series also illuminates how to navigate a career in the arts to up and coming artists. Interviews are conducted by Masterwork Board member Joseph White and run a half hour, with fifteen minutes dedicated to a q and a with attendees. Join us - or watch our sessions on the Masterwork Youtube Channel!  

About Masterwork Arts  

Masterwork Music & Art Foundation was founded more than 60 years ago in Morristown, New Jersey. The Founders, Shirley May and David Randolph, were passionate about the arts and understood the importance of nurturing developing artists, and making the arts available to a broad audience. Generations of artists were influenced by the years of concerts, theatrical events and fine arts projects Masterwork Arts funded and produced.   Today, Masterwork Arts supports excellence in the arts through a variety of grant offerings and awards, a zoom series on 'A Life in the Arts' and virtual classes that are open to all. To find out more, sign up for our enewsletter on www.masterworkarts.org.