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Foundation Receives STAR Award from OSilas Gallery

On March 1st, Concordia College’s OSilas Gallery presented its first annual STAR Award to the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation.  Judith Sobol, Executive Director of the Foundation, accepted the Award at the Gallery’s annual Gala.  The Star Award recognizes organizations that have shown a strong commitment to the arts and have supported the OSilas Gallery in achieving its mission:  to integrate the visual arts into the cultural and educational life of the campus and community by providing quality exhibitions and programs that are diverse in style, content, and media; memorable, thought-provoking, and spiritually enriching; and of artistic originality, integrity, and excellence.

The Cantor Foundation loaned an important group of Rodin portraits to OSilas in the fall of 2013 and the Gallery created a lively exhibition around it.  Its show, The Bronze Age, included demonstrations of artists modeling portraits and of bronze casting, as well as a trip to Philadelphia to visit the Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania (which was exhibiting concurrently a large group of Rodin’s figures, also loaned by the Cantor Foundation) and the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Rodin Museum.

During October 2013 — National Humanities Month — Bronxville, New York, home to Concordia College and its OSilas Gallery, celebrated the Rodin exhibition by changing the name of the village to Bronzeville!