Local-grown artist and author Maira Kalman mentions her hometown, Riverdale, in her latest “And the Pursuit of Happiness” Opinion blog about the shared and ever-evolving journey to America on NYTimes.com.
A Link to today’s “I Lift My Lamp Besides the Golden Door” is here: http://kalman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/i-lift-my-lamp-beside-the-golden-door/
We all may not know Kalman’s name, but we all have seen her work. Kalman’s former NYTimes column “The Principles of Uncertainty, May 2006-April 2007, has been turned into a book; she’s designed New Yorker covers and fabrics for Kate Spade and Isaac Mizrahi and her work is part of Riverdale’s own fabric — she created a mural of Wave Hill shown in the Perkins Center and her designs of birds and flowers decorated the signature T-shirts, capts and tiles sold in Wave Hill’s gift shop.
A look at her Wave Hill mural is here: http://www.wavehill.org/visit/visitorcenter.html
