February 2013 Snow Storm--East Coast

Last week (February 8, 2013), North Jersey and New York received at least 12 inches of snow--Eastern Long Island and New England got a lot more, however. I took some pictures while the snow was falling on Friday and then some more pictures on Saturday.

On Sunday, I visited The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY (just north of Poughkeepsie). The pictures that I took there are of the Hudson River, which is behind the school.

The Rhythm of the East

On Saturday evening (February 2, 2012), I attended the opening reception of an art exhibition—The Rhythm of the East—by Mr. Zhiyuan Cong at the Riverside Gallery in Hackensack, NJ. The ink paintings exhibition runs from January 29 to February 18, 2013. The closing reception will be held on February 15, 2013.

Zhiyuan Cong has taught at William Paterson University since 1994. Professor Cong earned an MFA in printmaking from Indiana University in 1994. In the United States, a Master of Fine Arts is considered to be the highest degree in its field. Prior to his arrival in the United States, he earned a BFA (1980) and MFA (1986) in Chinese Painting from the Nanjing Arts Institute, China.