A few weeks ago I went to an event at the New York Federal Reserve titled "Investing In The Creative Workforce For A Strong Economy." It was a wonderful afternoon with so many wonderful speakers and panels, and a roomed filled with Artists and Art Administrators, Curators and Creative Art Small Business owners among many other people who make, support, and champion art of all kinds.
As I was leaving I met a lovely young woman in the elevator who it turns out had a show currently at a ChaShaMa art space in Manhattan. As I've written in these pages before I've had many wonderful experiences with ChaShaMa over the years, as a performer and Artist myself as well as with other friends who are Artists, small business owners and founders of not for profits. The Artist I met in the elevator and I exchanged cards and I reached out to her, noticing as I did that her name was Kelly Olshan, a reminder of another woman withe the same last name who I worked with many years ago who had a boutique public relations company and who I learned so much from that I still remember and treasure in my life and work today.
Kelly Olshan's show is in one of the ChaShaMa spaces in the lobby of an office building, and she invited me to one of her private VIP viewing evenings. There was one that weekend coming up, and though my schedule has been really very busy and the weather forecast was not the best, I decided to make the time to go because my schedule may be getting even busier, and I wanted to take the time to see her work in a space where it could be seen at its best.
The show is a beautiful one, and the evening inspiring. I took a short video to share here as the work itself is so multifaceted and layered that it seemed best to allow the viewer to see it in the way that I saw it, walking through an open space on a February evening in a building that was brought to new life with the art that is being shown inside it.
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