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Sunday, May 19th, 2024 12-4pm

Chris Verene, Associate Prof of Photography at CUNY introduced students to serious photography subject matter using the cellpone as the entry level tool. Students learn how to create a project from their own life experience. A slideshow of students work will be curated by Chris and viewed at The Capa Space in the future.

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December 9 - April 7, 2024

John Shearer wa an acclaimed photojournalist who captured iconic images of major historical events in the 1960s-1970s. Shearer leveraged his unique perspective as a Black photojournalist to document these turbulent decades. The Capa Space featured over 30 of Shearers powerful images.

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Sunday, March 24th at 4:30

Muhamad Ali starts as himself in this dramatized version of hsi life story up to the late 1970’s. It includes his Olympic triumphs as Cassius Clay, his conversion to Islam, his refusal of the army draft and his legal battle after being stripped of his World Title.

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SATURDAY, FEB 24th at 5pm - SOLD OUT

A live jazz tribute to John Shearer, performed by his daughter, saxophonist Alison Shearer, surrounded by photographs taken during his illustrious career.

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APRIL 8th thru OCTOBER 8th, 2023

An exhibition of over 50 photographs taken by famed war photographer Robert Capa. Over the course of twenty years, his camera and adventurous spirit brought home the grim realities of five different wars. In between his wartime exploits, Capa's frankness and likability forged friendships across the spectrum of war, art, literature, and celebrity.

Click here to read an article in Musee Magazine about the exhibit

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October 15th, 2023

As part of our programming for the ‘THIS IS ROBERT CAPA!’ exhibition, we invited those who served in the military to contribute to a participatory project by sharing photographs taken during the time they served.

Click here to view the video, When They Served

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AUGUST 6th, 2023

Robert Capa, LIFE Magazine, and Visual Culture after WWII

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Below is a link to the full length video

A dramatic performance which tells the true story of George and Ruth Watt, newlyweds separated by war. The story is told in their words, adapted from letters they wrote to each other while George served as a volunteer in the Lincoln Battalion. The performance, directed by Katie Schmidt Feder, includes a singer/guitarist who reveals the cultural context of the time with songs of the Spanish Civil War.

This project was made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Westchester.

Click here to view George & Ruth video

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DECEMBER 10th 2022 thru February 25th 2023

The Capa Space, 2467 Quaker Church Road, Yorktown, NY

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FRIDAY, JUNE 10th 2022

Filmmaker and Yorktown resident Melissa Haizlip will introduce the film.

“From 1968 to 1973, the public television variety show SOUL!, guided by the enigmatic producer and host Ellis Haizlip, offered an unfiltered, uncompromising celebration of Black literature, poetry, music, and politics—voices that had few other options for national exposure, and, as a result, found the program an improbable place to call home.

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JANUARY 7th thru JANUARY 29th, 2022

At Bethany Arts Community, 40 Somerstown Rd, Ossining, NY 10562

At Ossining Library February 1 - February 28

PHOTOGRAPHS INSPIRED BY THE VOTING RIGHTS MOVEMENT

“This Far and No Further” is an exhibition of powerful photographs by William Abranowicz that records his journey through the American South. The photographs are contemporary images of the ordinary places that shaped the civil rights movement. Through symbolism and metaphor image and text, Abranowicz uncovers stunning stories of brutality, sacrifice and redemption.

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