Living art entertainment8/5/2023 TLR Staff Take the road less traveled.# Cooper Union # French Army # Hudson Valley # LaBella Pizza Bistro # Natalie Minewski # New Paltz Arts Community # State University of New York at New Paltz # Teaching # The Living Theatre # Woodland Pond retirement community Posted in ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT, CULTURE Tagged # A Giraffe and a Half. “I don’t want to go to Florida,” she said. Though she has traveled around the world New Paltz is as ingrained in her as much as her art is, Minewski said. She also teaches a watercolor class for senior citizens. She recently had her art displayed in LaBella Pizza Bistro and still has art shows all around the Hudson Valley. She is also one of the founding members of the New Paltz Arts Community, which teaches a variety of art classes for people of all ages. However, she felt many don’t and therefore create art just because they can do so easily, without passion or emotion.Īfter leaving her teaching career, she worked for local newspapers as an art director and designing ads. Minewski said if people use it in the right way, it could be an asset. She had trouble adjusting to the new technology and said that the computer can both help and hinder art. “The computer put the delete button on my career,” she said. However, things changed when computers came into the art world. ![]() This was because the program was directly connected with the theatre arts department, which the school had never done before. She then taught at New Paltz in the now-disbanded, innovative studies department, which she described as extraordinary. While in town, she decided to go back to school and she earned a degree in art education from New Paltz. in 1967, a time that she described as crazy and unpredictable. ![]() The two got married and moved to New Paltz, N.Y. She helped Silverstein with his popular novel, A Giraffe and a Half. She then moved back to the states and worked with some of the most popular children’s authors, Shel Silverstein and Maurice Sendak. It was her job to draw the supply lines for the army’s defenses with exact precision. She had many jobs, including working as an illustrator for the French Army. Minewski’s European experience was not limited to theatre arts. “It was one of the greatest experiences of my life.” “I just went there with hardly any money,” said Minewski. While there, she began traveling with The Living Theatre, an avant-garde theatre troupe. She graduated from Cooper Union in 1947 and immediately started working as a display designer on Fifth Avenue for Helena Rubenstein.Īfter that, she decided to go to Europe, spending most of the 1950s in Paris. She was born in the Bronx in 1927 to a family of artists. However, Minewski has had her fair share of successful art. “There is a scholarship in his name now at the school.” ![]() Paintings are hung on every open surface, some hers’ and some made by her well-known husband Alex Minewski, who was also a notable artist. Walking into Minewski’s apartment is like entering a museum. I think it might have been one of my husband’s students’ paintings,” she said, adjusting her glasses to get a better look at the multicolored art piece.Īlthough Minewski, a former professor at the State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz, hasn’t taught in years, her contributions to the New Paltz art community have helped shape the way in which different generations view art in the small town. Her small, fragile frame rose surprisingly quickly when she spotted the large painting coming through the front doors. Natalie Minewski, 83, sat patiently in the lobby of Woodland Pond retirement community in New Paltz, N.Y.
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