Schedule
Co-presented by The Clemente, in partnership with El Taller Latino Americano
Free Entry
The Clemente, Flamboyan Theatre (107 Suffolk St, NYC)
November 10
LES Gallery
6:00pm
Doors open
6:30 pm
Film “One Long Painting” – Video Installation
Low Tone Sounds featuring the didgeridoo: w/ Craig Harris, Bill Cole, William Parker, Stephen Haynes, Jackson Krall, Taylor Ho Bynum
Flamboyan Theatre
7:00 pm
Film by J Maya Luz featuring the wall of faces: “Chile•NewYork•Gaza”
Speakers: Patricia (Arts for Art) & Jennifer Pliego (El Taller)
Speaker (Zoe Schlanger)
Spirit World
w/ Michael Wimberly – drums / William Parker – bass / Dave Sewelson – baritone sax / Joe McPhee – alto / Lisa Sokolov – vocals
Oliver Lake Poetry
Cooper-Moore – mouth bow
Fred Moten poetry
Jason Kao Hwang presents Mountain Song by Will Connell jr. for Jeff
Gwen Laster, Rosi Hertlein, Dave Soldier, Johnna Wu, Jean Cook, Sarah Bernstein – violin / Melanie Dyer, Jason Hwang, Stephanie Griffin – viola / Ken Filiano – bass / Tomeka Reid, Teddy Rankin-Parker – cello / Andrew Drury – drums
Michael Lucio Sternbach speaks (longtime friend and videographer)
Presents film of Jeff speaking
Julius Hemphill: The Hard Blues: In memory of the deep friendship of Jeff and Julius
Marty Ehrlich -Director and Alto Sax / Sam Newsome – Ingrid Laubrock – Soprano Sax / Cleve Guyton, Ned Rothenberg -Alto Sax / Jeff Lederer, Ras Moshe- J. D. Parran- Tenor Sax / Andy Laster, Lisa Parrott – baritone Sax
Family speaks
Lisa Sokolov – acapella
William Parker “Living inside a Painting”
Rob Brown, Aakash Mittal- alto / Alfredo Colon – tenor/ Taylor Ho Bynum – cornet / Stephen Haynes- trumpet / Colin Babcock – trombone / Eri Yamomto – piano / William Parker – bass / Juan Pablo Carletti, Jackson Kroll – drums
film of jeff playing the didgeridoo
“Music as color, inked on paper shaped by the sounds blown across the page. Jeff Schlanger is the musicWitness. He was present where the music was happening. He was the visual improviser, transforming music into painting. His wall of ceramic faces Chile•NewYork•Afghanistan•Gaza forever protests the brutality of War”
– Patricia Nicholson Parker
Remembering & Celebrating Jeff Schlanger 🌀musicWitness (1937 - 2026)
Every brushstroke, every interaction with clay, was a critical action illuminating our humanity. Jeff was a master artist. His clay work speaks to his connection to all humanity, especially to those who suffer.
Jeff Schlanger was a major witness to the Vision Festival art community and beyond, catching the colors of sound with his eyes and giving them a kind of permanence.
He was born in March 1937 in NYC. He lived his life in boundless creative expression and interaction. With paint and clay, with music and communities of artists, he shared his deep love of humanity.
We share our condolences with his family and close friends, who are feeling his loss on a deeply personal level, including his wife, painter Anne Humanfeld; his two sons, Raphael and Jordan Schlanger; and his grandchildren, Zoe Schlanger and Mikolo Schlanger.
Let us continue to listen, and take the time to look and see what is beautiful and complex, and sometimes terrible. By doing this, we can strive to understand and learn from Art lessons in love, dedication, and an unconquerable spirit.