On Thursday, February 24th join Women of Culture, a community designed to help professional women have more art-full & socially connected lives, for a very special private gallery night (our first of 2022!), featuring an exclusive, after-hours walk-through of featured galleries at High Line Nine, one of NYC’s most unique and exciting new gallery spaces — plus a private performance by The Dancers of the Met!
With a vision of daring to reimagine, High Line Nine is an interdisciplinary and dynamic collection of nine skylit exhibition spaces located in Chelsea’s premier gallery district. It is a place where the city’s top cultural institutions are invited to present art in all its forms and stages—from rotating salient exhibits, to ongoing curated live performances, to artists creating live in the space.
For just one night, this beautiful space will open its doors for the Women of Culture community, and we will have private access to 4 current exhibits: Kerry Irvine: Behind the Veil, Nyama Fine Art, The Mynt, and Djivan Schapira Design Studio presenting his latest collection Les Fleurs.
Following our walk-through of the galleries, take a seat and enjoy an exclusive, personal performance by the Dancers of the Met.
This is a unique opportunity to experience the best of NYC’s contemporary fine art and dance world, up-close and personal!
Wine, snacks and plenty of opportunities for networking with fellow art-full New Yorkers.
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Full Schedule:
6pm | Arrival
6:30pm | Opening remarks & guided walk-through of the galleries
7:30pm | Seated performance and Q&A with the Dancers of the Met
8pm | Close
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More information about the artist, performers & galleries:
Kerry Irvine is an abstract expressionist painter living and working in New York City. Highly expressive, her work is infused with light, color, motion, and a bit of mysticism. In curating “Behind The Veil,” the artist pulled from her Roman Catholic upbringing and the influences of the patriarchal world, and the ways in which these forces push women toward the unattainable purity of Mary, the virgin mother.
The Mynt, a new lab of NFTS will host a gallery during the month of November exploring traditional art and the digital contemporary. The lab recently developed and premiered, "Influences" an immersive digi/physi art experience. Expect special events, live performances, and curated works from both prominent and emerging artistic voices. There will be new drops throughout the month, including the unveiling of The Mynt's first in-house NFT project.
Djivan Schapira Design Studio presenting his latest collection Les Fleurs: Schapira embarks on his greatest design feat to date, incorporating all of his years of learnings & experience, as well as the entire ‘dead’ Les Fleurs collection, into a new collection. Growing from the ashes into five major pieces of collectible design, Les Fleurs includes a 12-person dining table, a center table, a lamp, and more. Les Fleurs represents the life that is born out of death. The magic that arises when all hope is lost. The beauty that blooms from the darkest of times.
Dancers of the Met is an independent collective that formed in 2020 when a group of Met dancers came together to brainstorm creative ways to keep the Met Dancer community connected during the pandemic. Their mission is to expand accessibility of dance within opera, to promote the visibility of the company and to support and connect members of the Metropolitan Opera community.
Dancers: Maria Phegan is one of the founding members of the Dancers of the Met(DotM), and is currently one of their Creative Directors. Ms.Phegan wason the leadership team for their 2021 Open Culture performances, andshe curated and produced their first livestream performance presented byArts ON AIR. Last fall, she was awarded a City Artist Corps Grant by TheNew York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), The NYC Department ofCultural Affairs (DCLA), with support from the Mayor’s Office of Mediaand Entertainment (MOME) and the Queen’s Theatre.
Hsin-Ping Chang, was born in Taiwan and moved to the U.S.in 1988. She received her B.F.A. in Dance from The JuilliardSchool. Hsin-Ping has been performing with TheMetropolitan Opera as a dance soloist in ‘Madama Butterfly’since 2006 created by Oscar winner Anthony Minghella andCarolyn Choa, and She has also been performing in‘Turandot’ by Franco Zeffirelli and Chiang Ching, ‘Parsifal’and ‘Der Fliegende Holländer’ by François Girard andCaryolyn Choa , ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by Tony winner BartlettSher at The Met Opera.