A community arts center located in the Village of Pomona, offering changing bi-monthly exhibits, as well as music, poetry and special events. Programs at the cultural center are sponsored by the Mayor and the Board of Trustees of the Village. The Cultural Center encourages participation by all age groups and is open to the public.
Flower arrangement by Gde
(Spring 2007)
Flower arrangement by Gde
(Summer 2007)
Flower arrangement by Gde
(Winter 2009)
The Pomona Cultural Center announces the Summer exhibition, A Collective in Black & White June 20 - August 1, 2009.
Black and white represents the elements of Rwa Bhineda. Rwa means two and bhineda means different; the two differences are like positive and negative; dark and light; good and evil; love and hate; and hope and despair. The two opposite forces are necessary to maintain a balance, not only in our lives but in humanity as well.
If the magnitude of the two opposites are fighting to gain control, it can affect or imbalance our lives creating struggles within ourselves. Generally speaking, at first the negative side always prevails. Our current world is imbalanced in many ways; especially with the environmental and economic crisis, most people in the world are experiencing these eco-blues. Despair and worry haunts our lives and even wisdom is intoxicated by it.
The hope, in the Summer 2009 exhibit "A Collective in Black & White", is to create harmony within the opposite of black and white. The artists in the Black Jack 21+1, offer their creativity to our spirit in an effort to maintain beauty and integrity and bring contentment to our meaningful lives. At least the manifestation, through artistic expressions in black and white, will help stabilize the Rwa Bhineda forces in our society; rather than just having black be so dark that we see nothing, or white being so bright while having nothing to see.
I strongly believe that all forms of artistic creation, not just visual but sound, movement, literature, and even culinary arts, are the best stimulus weapons to keep our spirits and lives content and in balance. Of course without the blessing from Uncle Buck, everything will collapse, our heads will be pounding, our stomachs growling, and our eyes will see nothing because it is too dark or too bright. Hopefully at the end of the tunnel, the force of good will overcome the force of evil and the spirit of Rwa Bhineda will be in balance. Ultimately however, it is nothing, and yet it is everything. Go figure!
Tjokorda Gde Arsa Artha ~ Curator
Participating artists are the Black Jack 21+1: Andrew Cronan, Carl Opalek, Peggy Opalek, Mark Gordon, Mark Weiss,
Andrew Mollica, Sharon Falk, Walt Farrell, Marjorie Farrel, Robert Egart, Steve Buckley, Bob Lieberman, Bruce Tetson,
Jon Davis, Mike Goscinsky, Jody Gonzalez, Cristina Biaggi, Marcia Nacht, Allison Meyers, Andy Golub, Tjok Gde Arsa Artha
and Kenneth Licht. The exhibition will beon view fromJune 20 August 1, 2009; featuring black and white photographs,
digital print, paintings, drawings, sculptures, mobile objects and wire sculptures.
Opening Reception | Saturday, June 20, 2009, from 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Live Music Performance by Jeremy Wall & Friends
Jeremy Wall was a founding member of the jazz fusion band Spyro Gyra. He contributed to the group as a pianist, producer, and composer. He is currently an assistant professor in the Music Industry department at SUNY Oneonta.
Wall formed Spyro Gira in the mid-1970s with classmate Jay Beckenstein. Although each took time off to attend college, the band stayed intact. Wall left Buffalo to attend California Institute of the Arts, graduating with a B.F.A. in Music Composition. He later received an M.M. in Studio Composition from Purchase College in 2001. He has recorded extensively as producer, keyboardist, composer and arranger in all genres of music and has released over 70 of his own compositions. Wall has also been nominated for several Grammys as a producer, pianist and composer. His composition "Shakedown" was nominated for Grammy award for "Best Pop Instrumental." He was the featured soloist at the Shenandoah Bach Festival in 2004.
Wall worked as an adjunct professor at both Ramapo and Purchase colleges before ending up at SUNY Oneonta, where he teaches on courses relating to contemporary issues in the music industry, songwriting, and leads the jazz funk band. These classes draw upon Wall's history with Spyro Gyra and his experience in the music industry.
Source: Wikipedia
