2025 Participating Organizations + Businesses
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Clay Art Center is a nationally recognized 501c3 non-profit dedicated to the advancement and practice of ceramic art. Katherine Choy, a leader of the Newcomb pottery aesthetic, joined by master potter Henry Okamoto, founded the center as a communal studio in 1957. At one time a lone beacon of clay artistry on the east coast, CAC became a haven for clay artists, many of whom pursued significant careers in ceramics and influenced contemporary ceramic practice. Today Clay Art Center is the largest and most active ceramic facility in the tristate area. Each year CAC serves over 12,000 people in-person and virtually with exhibitions, classes, workshops, volunteer opportunities, and exposure to the rich world of handmade ceramic art. Over 500 full and partial scholarships are awarded each year. Clay Art Center is one of the founding organizers of the Port Chester Arts Festival.
www.clayartcenter.org
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Neptune in June, formerly known as Ice Cream Social art space, is an artist-run curatorial and community project based in Port Chester. It bridges emerging artists with the national art industry while strengthening local conversations and opportunities in the arts. Neptune in June curates exhibitions locally and across the U.S., offers free interdisciplinary public events, and provides educational programs to schools and families throughout Westchester. For more information and to subscribe for updates on upcoming events, visit the website below.
www.neptuneinjune.com
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The Castle is an extraordinary apartment community located in the heart of Port Chester, NY. With a plethora of amenities, every detail has been thoughtfully planned to enhance the lifestyles of its residents. From the elegant lobby with its grand entrance to the rooftop terrace featuring grills and lounge areas, you'll be greeted with sophisticated style at every turn.
www.castleapts.com
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Founded by Eugene Posniewski in 2011, Eugene's Music & Learning Studio offers extra-curricular music education to students of all ages in-home, in-studio, and online with a group of over 70 teachers. Eugene started teaching in Westchester when he moved to the area in 2012. He has continued to grow his private studio with amazing families and students who have helped build a beautiful, musical, and learning community.
www.eugenesmls.com
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Jete Dance studio offers classes in creative ballet, ballet, jazz, hip hop, tap, contemporary, salsa, and zumba for ages 2-adult. In addition to classes and Summer camp, Jete also runs a series of dance companies that feature its students. A hidden gem in Port Chester, Jete creates a supportive and comfortable environment for students to find their confidence and self-expression through dance.
www.jetedancestudio.com
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LawnChair Theatre began in 2006 as a Port Chester summer youth theatre project, and evolved a larger mission, becoming a multi-generational theatre company in which the building of community is as important as the art it produces. LawnChair believes in theatre’s power to shine a light on our common humanity and raise the level of empathy in our world. While LawnChair’s Summer Shakespeare productions are on hiatus, the organization remains committed to supporting local theatre artists, sponsoring performances, workshops and classes.
www.lawnchairtheatre.org
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The Larchmont Mamaroneck Lions Club is part of the largest service organization in the world, with over 1.4 million members in more than 200 countries. Lions members participate in projects to make their home communities and the wider world a healthier, safer and friendlier place to live.
www.lmlionsclub.org
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Miranda Arts Project Space, formerly Miranda Fine Arts, was founded in 1991 and re-founded in 2012 as a project space by artist, curator, and educator Patricia Miranda. MAPSpace is an artist-owned and artist-driven space for curatorial exploration, exhibition, collaboration, and the gathering of ideas across discipline, philosophy, and art form. It exhibits painting, sculpture, prints, video, installation, performance, and engages in a dialogue with the fields of social practice, DIY, circuit bending and Maker movements, and collaborative projects. MAPSace is committed to bringing critical contemporary art and discourse beyond the centers where art is expected into communities beyond.
www.mirandaartsprojectspace.com
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Museo Pardo is a place where all are welcome. Inside one of Port Chester’s last-standing landmarks, hides a historic space for our neighbors, tourists, and visitors to find. In-between the Village’s legendary attractions The Pardo Museum serves as a grounding locality and stage for artists to collaborate and develop their visions. Come and experience guided workshops, private events, and gallery collections in an 1800’s auditorium right in the heart of downtown.
@museopardo
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Draw Paint Clay Mixed Media Maker Space Fine Motor Exercise Sensory Play Social and so much more! Art + Discovery classes, workshops, camps, parties and events for creative and curious kids, teens, and adults. Welcome to a bright, happy, artfully fun, friendly, inspiring and nurturing space. Our focus is empowering artists of all ages as the unique individuals they are in a collaborative studio environment. Emphasis is on exploration, building confidence, life skills, meaningful connections with others and expressing yourself through the creative process and making art.
www.oodlemonkeyart.com
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At the 2023 Port Chester Arts Festival, the Village of Port Chester & Port Chester Beautification Commission introduced the Port Chester Community Art Initiative, a framework developed by the Beautification Commission to increase public art in the Village. With its adoption, the Board of Trustees takes a significant step to enhance the Village's arts and culture community, and fulfill many objectives of the Village's Comprehensive Plan.
www.portchesterny.gov/330/Beautification-Commission
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The Port Chester Historical Society has always been housed in the Bush-Lyon Homestead, a historic residence dating back to approximately 1760 and continuously lived in until the 1990s. After a period of inactivity that lasted about 25 years—during which time the Homestead fell into disrepair—the Society began its revival in 2018, thanks to the efforts of a local Girl Scout who helped spark renewed interest in both the Historical Society and the Homestead. That same year, a local Boy Scout started an inventory of the Homestead’s contents. Ever since then, we have been active and growing! Our programs and events are designed to respect the rich traditions, experiences, and heritages of our community while sharing Port Chester’s story in diverse and inclusive ways. History has frequently excluded some groups and underrepresented others; we work towards addressing all barriers to full inclusion as we find them. In recent years, we have worked to preserve and catalog our collection, hosted a variety of exciting events at the Bush-Lyon Homestead, created a digital “twin” of the Homestead for virtual tours, and built strong partnerships with local organizations and student groups. We sponsor community celebrations and discussions throughout the year, including commissioning works of art that bring our local history to life. We invite you to join us!
www.pcnyhistory.com
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The Port Chester-Rye Brook Public Library began its years of service to our community in 1876, on Main Street in the Brundage Building. The three story building was given to the newly formed Port Chester Free Reading Room by Jared Valentine Peck, a wealthy Port Chester lumber and building supplies businessman and a representative to the New York State Assembly and the United States Congress. The Brundage Building housed Lambert’s Dry Goods Store on its first level, the library on the middle floor and the Mamaro Lodge of Masons on the top floor. The income from the rents of the first and third floors supported the library during these first years. On April 14, 1877, the library was incorporated as “The Library and Reading Room of the Village of Port Chester.”Fifty years later, the Library building was dedicated in its present location at Haseco and Westchester Avenues. Read more about the history of the Library at: www.portchester-ryebrooklibrary.org/history
www.portchester-ryebrooklibrary.org
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The Producer Coffee Studio is a specialty coffee shop in Port Chester founded by a DJ/music producer who blended his two passions of coffee and music. A harmony of taste, vibe, and sound within our shop, The Producer aims to provide the community with a welcoming atmosphere that inspires “creativity through caffeine”. A place to smell and taste the best specialty coffee, tea and baked goods, while you unwind and relax or innovate and create.
www.theproducercoffee.com
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WASH! is a multi-media, participatory art and social change platform that uses laundry – a universal human activity – as a grounding example and metaphor to honor the significance of women’s work in the building of connected, collaborative and caring communities. WASH! honors the contribution women have made by emphasizing the oral histories of women the role they played down at the riverbank and in their backyards, at the communal wash houses and in their neighborhood laundromats. It is a grounding metaphor that celebrates collective consciousness of women. Since the beginning of time, women have gone down to the river bank and out to the back yard, washing their clothes, hanging their laundry, trading stories and support and sharing their wisdom. Working side by side in a stream of laughter, tears and words, mothers and daughters, sisters and friends have been coming clean, conversing about life and what it means to be human and feminine. Wash! It is a multi-layered conversation and large-scale, participatory art project and platform for social change through which the collective contribution of our mothers and foremothers at the washline is recounted, fully experienced and amplified in order to make a difference.
www.thewashline.com
Sponsors
This project is made possible with funds from Arts Alive, a regrant program of ArtsWestchester with support from the Office of the Governor, the New York State Legislature and the New York State Council on the Arts.
We thank ArtsWestchester, the State of New York, and all our sponsors.