Calling all animal and art lovers!
You are invited to my upcoming hybrid art talk on “A Magnificent Menagerie: Animals in Art” at the Scarsdale Public Library on
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 – coming up fast!
4:30pm – 5:30 pm.
Light refreshments following
This is my third art talk to the Scarsdale Library community. Previously I spoke on Food in Art and Flowers in Art. While my personal focus has been on painting food, and more recently making Ikebana flower creations, I have returned to many other subjects, including animals, periodically. And I am thrilled to be revisiting to my art history roots once again with this exciting journey through a magnificent menagerie of animals in art – both fantasy and real!
Registration Requested
Click here to register to come In-Person or attend Online. It’s especially important to register in advance if you’re attending virtually to receive the zoom link an hour before the presentation begins. And it will begin on time. Registration closes 3:00pm on Tuesday, October 7.
Bring a bit of an appetite since Bonnie, my younger daughter, is serving light refreshments. A rough head count will help her plan quantities of “bites” and drinks.
And how could we not serve food? It’s a long standing tradition at any Shipko event.
Bring Your Family and Friends!
The more, the merrier. Please feel free to invite your friends and family – especially animal lovers both kids and adults – by forwarding this email with the link. This is a public event.
Hope to see you this Tuesday, October 7th at 4:30!
Transportation
The Scarsdale Public Library is located at 54 Olmsted Road, in Scarsdale, NY right off Boston Post Road in Southern Westchester Country. For those who plan to drive, parking is plentiful in the library lot and on the nearby side streets. Because of the positive response to this talk, and other simultaneous library events, parking could be more challenging than usual. Please allow extra time to park.
For non-drivers from NYC, the Scarsdale train station is on the Metro-North Railroad’s Harlem Line from Grand Central Station. The station is fairly close (1.6 miles or 5 minutes) and easily accessible by taxi, Lyft or Uber.
Questions?
Finally, for additional information, please go to the website at scarsdalelibrary.org or call (914) 722-1302. You can always contact me directly at beverlyshipko@mac.com or 914-954-7779.
Now the question for me is how is to organize and condense a massive amount of material on this epic topic. We’ll be covering a lot of ground, from prehistoric times to the present. I hope you’ll let me know how I did afterwards…
As always, I am looking forward to seeing you on October 7, and ushering in the fascinating world of animals!
