Art Talks

Join us for my Happy Spring “Flowers & Art” Talk!

Spring fever is in the air! Every year colorful blossoms slowly emerge, bringing us happiness and joy.

This year I’m excited to be welcoming spring with a talk on flowers and art. This upbeat subject will inspire and uplift us all.

You are invited!

The Scarsdale Public Library graciously invited me to return to present Creativity in Bloom: Flowers and Art on Tuesday, March 25 at 4:30pm. The event will last an hour – 45 minute talk plus questions, followed by refreshments.

The flowers topic is a bit of a change from my previous food presentation at the library called A Bite-Size Talk of Food in Art, which was well received, and included an exhibit of my food paintings. Edward Patrick Grigg will be exhibiting travel related pieces at the library during the month of March.

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, March 25.

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.

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 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. I hope you’ll let me know how I did afterwards…

As always, I am looking forward to seeing you on March 25, and ushering in the delightful world of flowers!

https://www.scarsdalelibrary.org/event/hybrid-flowers-art-99705

Take a Byte out of my YouTube Channel – Watch my Bite-Size Food Art Talk

Come take a bite with us!

For those of you who were unable to join us in May at the Scarsdale Library or on zoom, I invite you to watch the video below of my talk, A Bite-Size View Of Food in Art.

As you will see, the talk covers many highlights of the long standing, irresistible tradition of incorporating food in art, going back thousands of years to the present, including my own work. This bite-size view provides the context of how I see my own paintings, with a brief nod to Ikebana.

A Bite-Size View of Food in Art with Beverly Shipko

This video marks the inauguration of my very own YouTube channel. It was surprisingly easy to set up with Bonnie’s help. Thank you for leading me into the 21st century!

So come take a byte out of my YouTube Channel! You’ll have good time salivating over numerous food images and won’t put on any weight by watching. And as I promised a gentleman in the audience, it won’t raise your insulin levels.

Enjoy!

Come Take a Bite With Us at this Exciting Food Art Talk & Show!

I hope you can join us for my Bitesize View of Food in Art Talk and Solo Art Exhibit at the Scarsdale Public Library on May 7th from 4:30-6pm (54 Olmsted Road, Scarsdale, NY 10583).

This is a chef’s tour of food in art history from prehistoric and ancient times, the Golden Age of Dutch Still Life, to contemporary art. All in 45 minutes. So are you up for the challenge? I promise it will be entertaining. Only I’ll put on my artist’s beret instead of a chef’s cap. Plus I’ll tap into my aspirations to be an art history professor.

Along the way you’ll see how I view my own work in this context.

A reception will follow the talk. While the official event ends at 6pm, I’ll hang out at the library until 6:30pm.

The exhibit will run from Wednesday, May 1 through Wednesday, May 22.

Registration

Click here to register and scroll down to the bottom. Select your preferred option. Note you can come back and change this if needed, or re-register.

While we are asking you to register, please don’t let this stop you from coming the last minute. Just come right over. The more, the merrier! If you don’t receive the zoom link by 3:30pm on May 7th, please call the Scarsdale Library Reference Desk at 914-722-1302. They will email the link directly to you.

Parking

It’s plentiful!

With Gratitude

Thank you to the Scarsdale Public Library for hosting this event. I’ll begin with a shoutout to a very special lady and friend, Claudette Gassler, Programing Librarian. A year ago, Claudette came up with the idea of a combination talk and solo show. And she waited patiently for my torn meniscus to heal. In addition, thanks to Roberta Ham-Stein, Support Services Administrator/Librarian who helped coordinate the logistics. Last but not least, kudos to David Sadoff, Programming Librarian, who creatively used his tech abilities to make this a hybrid event and bring me out from behind the podium, onto the stage, and into my comfort zone.

Now I would be remiss if I didn’t thank my daughter, Bonnie Sloofman. After a hard day’s work, she is providing refreshments following the talk at the reception.

As always, I appreciate hearing from you. So please let me know if you have any questions, comments or ideas about the topic.

I look forward to seeing you – one way or another – on Tuesday, May 7th at 4:30pm!

I Always Wanted to Be An Art History Professor…

And now I can from the comfort of my own home!

During the pandemic, I attended a plethora of art lectures on everything from prehistoric art, Street Art to Alice Neel. I thoroughly enjoyed all of them. It was amazing how much excellent free content there was from all the museums, libraries, performance venues and associations. I didn’t know what to watch first!

Along the way, I was asked to give a number of art history lectures both because of my artist experiences and strong art history background. As a graduate student in art history at the University of Michigan, I eagerly anticipated planning my lectures (in the slide room, believe it or not!) and delivering them each week.

I thought I found my calling – until the depression came to Detroit along with double digit unemployment. Fast forward through my MBA and marketing career. Now I’m back in my element talking about art once again – and making it too.

Motherhood In Art

I re-presented one of my favorite recent talks – Motherhood In Art – courtesy of the Yonkers Public Library (YPL) who recorded the video below. Simply click on the visual/box to watch.

Click Here for the Motherhood In Art Video

FYI. Here’s the flyer the YPL put together which made the whole event feel so real and professional.

Thank you for joining me on this epic journey celebrating women and mothers through art. I hope you learned something new, which is my goal whoever I speak.

I look forward to seeing you at future talks, whether in person or online, and to fulfilling my college dream of being an art history professor albeit in this unanticipated and untraditional way. At the very least, I feel a Fatherhood in Art talk coming on for June, 2024…

P.S. I realize now that I missed a speaking opportunity during my Food for Thought show last fall. But I have a plan in the works to make up for that. Stay tuned.