North Hempstead’s BTDC to Co-Host Art Exhibit and Seminar

The Town of North Hempstead’s Business and Tourism Development Corporation  has announced a partnership with the Long Island Development Corporation’s Long Island Small Business Assistance Corp. Division and the Amsterdam at Harborside, a Port Washington senior life care retirement facility.  

The BTDC will co-host an art exhibit, and a free breakfast seminar.

The pair of early August, art-driven events planned under the auspices of the BTDC are:

• The Aug. 6 opening “Meet the Artist” reception at the Amsterdam, 300 East Overlook (off Fairway Drive) Port Washington will run from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. The reception kicks off a weeklong art exhibit featuring paintings and poems by Ruth Poniarski.

• And the August 8 free breakfast seminar, “The Business of Art,” at the Amsterdam from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., emceed by Angela Susan Anton, CEO, Anton Publications. Featured speakers Charlee Miller, Executive Director, Art League Long Island, will give a presentation on “Art as a Marketing Tool for Business, Regina Gill, executive director, Great Neck Arts Center will discuss “Art as a Community Revitalization Tool” and Dr. Michael Schantz, executive director and CEO of the Heckscher Museum of Art will talk about “The Business of Museums and Their Impact on Communities, Economic Development and Quality of Life.”