Inwood Art Works On Air

Welcome to this Inwood Art Works On Air podcast artist spotlight episode featuring visual artist, Francisco Alvarado. Francisco Alvarado is an internationally recognized New York artist born in Honduras, has had over 50 individual and 90 group exhibitions. His artwork is represented in various permanent museum collections including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Evers...

Welcome to this Inwood Art Works On Air podcast artist spotlight episode featuring playwright and TV writer, Monet Hurst-Mendoza. Monet Hurst-Mendoza is from Los Angeles and lives in Inwood, NYC. Her plays have been developed with The Alley Theater, Rising Circle Theater Collective, Astoria Performing Arts Center, WP Theater, The Public Theater, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Westport Count...

This is a special concert edition of Live N’ Local featuring the String Orchestra of New York City (SONYC) performing NORTHERN LIGHTS – a chamber concert program of string music focusing on composers from Northern Europe whose music brings vibrant, unique colors to the stark landscapes. It was recorded live on March 30, 2025 at the Church of the Good Shepherd to a full house.  Program: G. Bacewicz...

This is a special On Air Culture Cast Edition of Inwood Art Works On Air. Three of our favorite local artists were invited to share their thoughts and reflect on the state of the arts in Inwood and Northern Manhattan.  Our guests are plein air painter, Elissa Gore, filmmaker, actor and comedian, Adam Elliott, and muralist and painter, Daniel Bonilla. Each of these artists are longtime residents of...

Welcome to this Inwood Art Works On Air podcast artist spotlight episode featuring costume designer, Barbara Erin Delo. Barbara Erin Delo is a Costume Designer and Artisan working in dance, theatre and opera. A New York native, she has previously designed costumes for Williamstown Theatre Company, Bay Street, Berkshire Theatre Group, Theatre at St Clements, Judson Church, The Flea, Hideaway Circus...

Welcome to this Inwood Art Works On Air podcast artist spotlight episode featuring filmmaker, Yuby Hernandez. Yuby Hernandez is a New York City Native from Washington Heights and has over a decade of experience in non-profit management experience. Besides her non-profit work, she has a passion for documentary film having co-directed Venticinco: El Domino and Un Trabao Honesto, and directed Un Bizc...

Welcome to this Inwood Art Works On Air podcast artist spotlight episode featuring culturemaker, Jana La Sorte. Jana La Sorte has lived in Washington Heights since 2007 and in NYC since 1999. Her background is in arts & culture, community engagement, politics and park management. She joined NYC Parks in 2020 as the Administrator of Historic Harlem Parks before becoming the Administrator of nor...

Welcome to this Inwood Art Works On Air podcast artist spotlight episode featuring actor and filmmaker, Hannah Eakin. Hannah Eakin is an Arkansas-born, New York City-based actress, singer, writer, and filmmaker. She is a member of Actors’ Equity Association, holds her BM in Music Theatre from Oklahoma City University, works regularly with the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players, and has perfo...

Welcome to this Inwood Art Works On Air podcast artist spotlight episode featuring poet and culture maker, Porfirio Figueroa. Born and raised in New York City, Porfirio Figueroa is a former triple threat who was fortunate to have danced for the legendary Jerome Robbins, and the great Michael Bennett in shows such as “West Side Story” (having played both Chino and Bernardo) and “A Chorus Line” (hav...

Matt O'Shea was born and raised in NYC and attended local schools. A high school media class sparked his interest in film production which led to enrollment at Boston’s Emerson College. Without a compass pointing into any specific medium, he wound up working almost exclusively on the production of television commercials with occasional assistance to friends who needed help making short and long fo...

Barbara A. Jones serves on the board of The Harlem Swing Dance Society (THSDS), the premiere Harlem non-profit organization with the purpose of promoting, propagating, protecting and preserving the Lindy Hop dance and various forms of Swing Dance culture in its Harlem birthplace. She longs to see the Harlem area once again embrace their signature cultural dance and energize community youth to be t...

Carlos Lample is a Washington Heights native and first generation Dominican American. He attended Bronx Community College where he majored in Media Technology, then went on to Hunter College where he continued his film studies to embark on a career in media. He has worked for companies such as All Mobile Video, Broadway Video, HBO, My Three Sons Productions, Disney and MTV. In 2018 he created Lamp...

As an actor, Lauren Sowa has been featured on FBI (CBS), The Plot Against America (HBO), and the recent cult release Terrifier 3. Other film credits include The Rainbow Experiment (Paramount+), The Devil's Well (Amazon Prime), and Paris is in Harlem (Slamdance ’22).    She is the co-founder of Form & Pressure Films, a production company dedicated to impact and inclusion. Its first film, Mariso...

Tom Nelson is a pianist, composer, arranger and bandleader. He is a busy freelance musician, performing with some of the top jazz and classical musicians in New York City. He is also the house pianist at the University Club. Tom performs all styles of music ranging from classical to jazz to rock to Broadway, but is especially fond of the Great American Songbook repertoire featuring such composers...

As both a composer and singer, Kristin Norderval is inspired by hybridity, interactivity and the idea that everything we do is site-specific. In her operas, chamber works, sound installations, and music for dance and theater, she blends acoustic and electronic sound, de-tuned instruments, voices, machines, and the acoustic resonance of space. Having trained in both composition and classical voice,...

Keena Gonzalez moved from Hollywood to NYC in 2000 to pursue her work as a photographer. In 2008 she earned her BFA from the School of Visual Arts where she was mentored by singer-songwriter Anohni and interned for world renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz. Since graduating Keena has worked closely with the artist collective Openings, has had her photographs exhibited, and in 2023 she directed a...

Mateo Vintimilla is an Ecuadorian born Classical Guitarist who has performed in venues across the globe giving recitals in Dominican Republic, Iceland, United States, and Ecuador. A recipient of the Augustine Foundation Scholarship, he has collaborated with the Brooklyn Composers Society, premiering new music at Brooklyn College and commissioned and premiered works from several Ecuadorian composer...

The Boys of Kingsbridge from Grammar School to Ground Zero is a documentary film by Thom MacNamara that recounts the childhood friendship between five boys as they grew up in Kingsbridge and how they were drawn back together by the events of Sept. 11, 2001. Enjoy this exclusive live post-screening conversation from the 2024 Inwood Film Festival with Daniel McNally, Mike Hussey, Brendan Carroll and...

This is our 2024 Live N’ Local Seasonal Sampler – Volume 2. It’s where we recap and take a look back at the second part of 2024, and chose to highlight a musical performance from each Live N’ Local podcat that has appeared throughout the first half of the fifth season of our On Air podcast. This Seasonal Sampler is less of a greatest hits, and more of a critic’s pick. A curated mixtape of clashing...

Inwood Art Works presents On Air Concert: Selections from The Nutcracker A holiday concert performed by the Inwood Chamber Players with arrangements by Inwood resident, Gilbert Dejean. This concert was recorded on December 8, 2024 at 2pm at Good Shepherd Auditorium – 620 Isham Street. Program: Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky Excerpts from The Nutcracker · Overture miniature · Waltz of the Flowers · Marc...

Inwood Art Works presents On Air Concert: Birds, Bees and Electric Fish Enjoy this flute and percussion concert "Birds, Bees and Electric Fish" featuring Caballito Negro + Friends. Caballito Negro: Tessa Brinckman, flutes, Terry Longshore, percussion with Lisa Cella, flute and Dustin Donahue, percussion. Carlo Lopez-Speciale provided Spanish translation. This concert was performed on October 27, 2...

Enjoy our The Magic of Mozart concert featuring Inwood Chamber Players in a performance of arrangements by Inwood resident, Gilbert Dejean. This concert was performed on September 22, 2024 at 2pm at Good Shepherd Auditorium.   Program: The Magic Flute Overture Arias: ·        Der vogelfanger bin ich ja (I am the bird catcher) ·        Hm! hm! hm! (Papageno's mouth is locked) ·        Du feines Tau...

Welcome to a special concert edition of Live N’ Local featuring Dominican Folkloric Squad perform at Film Works Alfresco at The Hudson in Inwood on August 19, 2024. To watch this concert, check out the video version on Inwood Art Works YouTube Channel.

Welcome to a special concert edition of Live N’ Local featuring EDGE perform at Film Works Alfresco at The Hudson in Inwood on August 12, 2024.  To watch this concert, check out the video version on Inwood Art Works YouTube Channel.

Tessa Brickman is one half of the bi-coastal duo Caballito Negro, along with multi-percussionist Terry Longshore, it is known for its creative and compelling performances, and draws their name (“dark little horse”) from Federico García Lorca’s poem, Canción de Jinete (1860). Their first recording, the EP Songlines (2016), was praised for its “absolutely gorgeous tone”, “understated virtuosity” (Jo...