Carnival Time
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Despite changeable skies on Saturday May 12, all five elementary schools held their carnivals with a combination of indoor and outdoor activities. Each school had individually themed events with stuffed foxes in evidence at Fox Meadow, a train ride and a pony ride at Edgewood as well as the annual talent show at Greenacres and karaoke at Heathcote and Quaker Ridge. Scarsdale firefighters visited each carnival to demonstrate how to use the fire hose, safety techniques and to offer up the fire truck for photo opps.
Scarsdale High School Senior Becky Schwartz toured all five and sent in these lovely photos of the children of Scarsdale having a blast at their carnivals.
If you would like a copy of any of these photos, email us at [email protected] and we will forward it to you.
Can You Fight Poverty with a Five-Star Hotel?
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Is the International Finance Coporation (IFC), the World Bank’s investment arm, an experiment run amok? Do billionaires and massive multinational corporations really need help from the World Bank and do their projects support or detract from the World Bank’s purpose? Cheryl Strauss Einhorn, financial journalist and adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, addresses these questions as she speaks about her investigation into the IFC’s chosen investments.
Although the IFC’s mission is to create opportunity for people to escape poverty and improve their lives, the IFC appears to be more in the business of giving loans to billionaires and massive multinational corporations to finance projects that do not help the needy. As Einhorn explains, the IFC has been financing luxury hotels and high end shopping malls in poverty-stricken areas such as Ghana, and supporting gold and copper mines and oil pipelines to benefit primarily the corrupt authoritarian regimes that control them in Cameroon and Chad.
Hear Einhorn discuss her findings, which echo the criticisms made by a broad array of academics, watchdog groups, and grass roots organizations in the poorest countries, that the IFC has been subsidizing projects that have little impact on poverty and could just as easily have been undertaken without IFC funding. Find out what else has happened since her article on this topic was published in Foreign Policy Magazine earlier this year.
All are welcome to this special event on Thursday, May 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the Scott Room of the Scarsdale Public Library. The lecture is co-sponsored by the Scarsdale Public Library and the Scarsdale Adult School in celebration of SAS’s 75th anniversary. Admission is free of charge but a suggested donation of $10 to the Scarsdale Adult School would be much appreciated to help sustain continuous quality programs.
Scarsdale Art Association Offers Artwork For Rent
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Looking to spruce your space up? Not sure what kind of artwork you truly love or how a piece will look in your home? Scarsdale Art Association has a solution... a totally new and different program that offers artwork for rent. This concept allows art to be rented and tried at your home or office before you make a purchase. Paintings by various artists are on display in the Leahey Galley at the Girl Scout House. These paintings are offered for rent, or for purchase (should a piece speak to you immediately!). Each painting on display is clearly marked with the rental fee and direct contact for each artist. Try it out and live with it for up to three months. And as a bonus, all rental fees paid are credited toward the sale price of each piece. And, a percentage of any sale will be donated to the Girl Scouts.
The rental fees as well as the sale prices are very reasonable and allow anyone to consider decorating their 
home with art they truly love. This is a great chance to try out artwork in your home before committing to purchase.
For more information please call Nancy Abbe at 914-723-1708 or Marie Murray at 914-779-3505.
Pictured at top: Bottles, Oil by Marie Murray
Pictured at right: Seascape by Nancy Abbe
Art Festival Returns to Scarsdale Village May 18 and 19
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The art festival returns to Scarsdale Village for its fourth year on the weekend of May 18 and 19 when 65 artists will display their work on Chase Road. Hosted by the Scarsdale Chamber of Commerce, the event brings painters, sculptors, photographers, jewelers, digital artists, glass, fiber, ceramic and mixed media artists to the Village.
You can meet the artists who will be on hand throughout the event and purchase their original, hand-made artwork.
Hours of the Westchester Festival of the Arts are Saturday May 18th from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday May 19th from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free. The show is located on Chase Rd. with free garage parking. The show is conveniently located near the Scarsdale Metro North Station.
For more information about the festival visit their website or contact Bill Kinney at 631-421-1590.
Open Studio Weekend for Artist Jill Krutick
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Abstract artist Jill Krutick will host an open studio weekend at her home at 32 Tisdale Road in Scarsdale on May 10, 11 and 12 from 4pm to 7 pm daily. A former investment analyst and media executive, Krutick has transitioned into the art world and is now focused on creating value on the canvas rather than in the portfolio.
Influenced by her love of art masters both old and new, such as Van Gogh, Monet and Gerhardt Richter, Ms. Krutick produces work that is both abstract and imaginative. "An exploration of my works should reveal as much about a viewer's emotional state as it does mine. The oil painting may be abstract or it may be representational, but what makes the painting come to life is the interplay of light, colors, textures, shapes and spaces," Ms. Krutick suggests.
Since turning her full time attention to art, Ms. Krutick has had numerous solo and group art shows. Recently, Ms. Krutick was selected to exhibit her works at a gallery housed in the SOHO-based offices of Splashlight, a leading producer of fashion photography and e-commerce content. Among Splashlight's top clients are ALDO, Ann Taylor + LOFT, Bloomingdales, Jockey, Macy's and Nordstrom. Splashlight's North Hall Gallery has presented many award winning artists and photographers, such as Peter Ruprecht, Storm Thorgerson and Eric Demarchelier. She was chosen by Artsicle, a leading online art website that encourages emerging artists, as a "Trending Artist" -- based on the number of artworks users have "favorited". In addition, she was selected by the offices of Partner's International and A.T. Kearney -- two well-recognized consulting firms -- to have several of her works in residence.
Krutick's exhibition at her studio located at 32 Tisdale Road will include dozens of her paintings. To attend, please R.S.V.P. by phone at 914-522-042-, by email at [email protected] and visit her site at www.jskartstudio.com to learn more.
