"Uptown Art Stroll" (or, "arts stroll")

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I was walking through Washington Heights/Inwood today. Strolling, actually. Had a papusa at La Cabana Salvadorena Restaurant, 4384 Broadway (corner 187th Street).
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Is it "art stroll" or the hard-to-say "arts stroll"? They're everywhere now. Did these things exist 50 years ago?
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http://www.artstroll.com/2005/about/
On 23 November 2003, the first Uptown Arts Stroll saw local merchants and institutions host local artists' exhibitions, and other local artists opened their studio doors to the community to showcase work in this creative neighborhood. More than 50 venues showed artists' work.

The success of that event led Artists Unite, Community Board 12, The Manhattan Times, Washington Heights & Inwood Online, and other collaborators to increase the publicity for the Arts Stroll and make it a regular event to draw arts patrons from all over the city. This is our third year!
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http://newyork.clubfreetime.com/vieweventdetails.asp?ID=44251
"Uptown Art Stroll?
June 18, 10:00AM to 3:00PM
Annual event celebrates local artists from Washington Heights/Inwood area who exhibit their work in area venues. This year exhibit includes photographs of Carl Nunn, whose works are shadowy black and white images of people and places in Harlem.

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http://turnertourigny.tripod.com/whie/index.blog?from=20050227
Uptown Art Stroll is back for 2005! Poster contest!
This summer's Stroll will occur June 14-19th. Like last year, there will be a kick-off opening reception at Highbridge Park, with live music, food, a preview show and for the first time a benefit auction of artwork. A sponsor is being sought for the fireworks display.

The Uptown Arts Stroll committee is sponsoring a poster contest for the third annual Arts Stroll in June. The winning design will be used as a poster and other promotional materials.

The deadline for submissions is 3/25/05 5pm

For details or questions of the specifications of the poster, please email Peter Ferko at
peterferko at artistsunite-NY.org or call
212-923-5535
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Heavenly Sites And Irish Eyes
Pamela Kessler
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6 May 1988
The Washington Post
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EVENING ART STROLL
Taking advantage of longer days and balmier nights, 18 galleries in the Dupont Circle area - in other words, most of them - will be open until 8 Friday night for "An Evening Art Stroll." Refreshments will be served.
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She's hooked on hiking
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15 September 1991
The Milwaukee Journal
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(Copyright 1991)

SEEING metropolitan Milwaukee from the inside of a car and experiencing it on foot are as different as night and day, says veteran walker Cari Taylor-Carlson. And, she adds, this is the perfect season to do something about it.
Her newly self-published book, Milwaukee Walks, is the outgrowth of lots of worn-out shoe leather. Her view of Greater Milwaukee changed drastically, she says, when she explored, mapped out, researched and wrote the book. "It opened my eyes to the tremendous ethnic diversity in Milwaukee" and greatly enhanced her appreciation of the city and its suburbs, the 52-year-old author says.
Her book contains essays on 20 Milwaukee-area walks with maps, directions and mileage, ranging from a Riverwest art stroll to a Wauwatosa walk. Autumn, she reminds readers, is the ideal time for a tree walk. The crisp air and "the auburn and gold leaves of the maples are spectacular."
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Church of Scientology should pay taxes Series: LETTERS
1,005 words
21 November 1992
St. Petersburg Times
CITY
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(Copyright 1992)

Editor: Did anyone else notice, or was it just me? Last Saturday night, the city of Clearwater was alive. In my 15 years here, this was the first non-Jazz Holiday event that showed the true potential of Clearwater.
Thanks to the organizers of the Arts Colony and the Saturday night Art Stroll, Clearwater looked a lot like Ybor City - except for the ever-present Scientologists.
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HOT TICKETS FOR THE WEEKEND
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19 March 1993
The Salt Lake Tribune
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(Copyright 1993)

Art stroll tonight
The Salt Lake Gallery Association will hold its monthly gallery stroll tonight from 6 to 9.
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Art stroll in works
The Grand Rapids Press
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15 August 2000
The Grand Rapids Press
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(Copyright 2000)

Not content to keep their art image based on what they already have, some Saugatuck residents are putting together an outdoor art project that will be up year-round, creating an "Art Stroll" for interested people.
Gayle Lipsig said she got the idea from a similar project in Grand Junction, Colorado. The idea is to have outdoor art loaned by artists placed all over the Saugatuck-Douglas area, with a map to guide people to the sites.
At the end of one year, the pieces are sold, and the Art Stroll committee gets 25 percent of the proceeds to help fund future years.
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The City Weekly Desk; SECT14
NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT: UPPER MANHATTAN
Far From Fifth Avenue, a Homegrown Museum Mile
By SETH KUGEL
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16 November 2003
The New York Times
Late Edition - Final
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(c) 2003 New York Times Company

It won't exactly be Museum Mile. But if an event planned for next Sunday is successful, a 60-block stretch of upper Broadway will be lined with ad hoc exhibition spaces showing the work of local artists, and visitors from inside and outside the neighborhood will be poking their heads in to take a look.
The event, officially known as the Uptown Arts Stroll, is a response by local businesses and art enthusiasts to something of an anomaly. Although artists have been moving to Washington Heights and Inwood steadily over the last decade, these northern Manhattan communities have virtually no loft space and few galleries. As a result, local artists must display, and sometimes create, their work elsewhere.
''It just seemed like there were all these groups of artists floating around and nobody getting them together,'' said Mike Fitelson, a photographer who is the editor of Manhattan Times, a local newspaper, and the person who conceived the event.
The idea coalesced in September at a meeting of the economic development committee of Community Board 12. Letters were sent to 51 organizations and businesses, and artists were recruited through groups like Artists Unite, a local organization formed last year.
Work by more than 40 artists will be shown in spaces between 159th Street and 218th Street that have been provided by local businesses and organizations.
These range from neighborhood mainstays like Coogan's, a venerable local bar and restaurant, to Cafe 7, a month-old cafe in Inwood whose owner, Robert Robles, happened to be applying for a beer-and-wine permit at the committee meeting where plans for the stroll were discussed.
Mr. Robles thought immediately of the big blank right wall in his cafe. ''I was like, we don't have to wait for an art stroll to put up art,'' he said. The week before the event, mixed-media images of Inwood Hill Park by Elissa Gore had already been hung; they will remain after the exhibition day.
The hope is that walkers and bus riders will roam the neighborhood streets, savoring the oils, photographs and children's art while patronizing local businesses. The hope is also that the stroll will be the first of similar neighborhood-wide events.
''I don't think we necessarily see ourselves yet as an arts community the way Williamsburg does,'' said Peter Ferko, president of Artists Unite. ''And hopefully that's what's emerging now.'' SETH KUGEL
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NY Night Schedule
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9 June 2004
12:24 pm
Associated Press Newswires
6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Fireworks display kicks off the 2nd Annual Uptown Arts Stroll in Washington Heights and Inwood; Highbridge Recreation Center, 2301 Amsterdam Ave., at West 173rd Street, Washington Heights.
--Contact: Monica Arvelo, 212-505-6633.
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Leisure/Weekend Desk; SECTE; PT2
Spare Times
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17 June 2005
The New York Times
Late Edition - Final
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UPTOWN ARTS STROLL, a series of events in Washington Heights and Inwood with a spoken-word presentation at Our Saviour's Atonement Church, 178 Bennett Avenue, at West 189th Street (tonight at 7:30), and live music along Broadway, at Fort Tryon Park (Sunday from 4 to 6 p.m.). Information: artstroll.com.