

Urban Art & Design’s event planners ensured that the celebration was all about the Bat Mitzvah girl with her name projected onto screens throughout the room and emblazoned on the dance floor with a custom monogram and beautifully captured by Milestone Images. Tables were outfitted in rivers of hot pink linen sprouting blooms in bright colors - magenta, bubble gum, and violet paired with pure white lilies. While the mood was definitely pink at this New York Bat Mitzvah, the design team at Stonekelly Events made sure to break up the bright hue with rich purples and pops of white. Let us help make your next event or art experience a reality! We explore, brainstorm, design, redesign and collaborate until the event / artwork mirrors their vision. I love what I do, whether it’s executing a once in a lifetime event or helping people unleash their creativity.Įvery client or student has a vision that I help bring into focus. Classes are designed to expose students to art in a casual studio environment and provide an opportunity to explore museums and galleries in NYC. Combining my two passions was a natural progression, so I began to offer private and semi-private seasonal art classes. While I enjoyed producing events, I missed teaching art and being a part of that crucial stage of development in an individual’s life. In 2000, I left the classroom and began producing and designing high-profile trade shows and special events at Piers 88, 90, 92 and 94 in New York City (Disney, The Armory Show, The Affordable Art Fair, fashion shows, Fox and NBC). Teaching art for more than 20 years affirmed my belief in the value of art and creativity in a person’s life.

I have been immersed in the world of art and design my entire life. Today, the suede or leather construction, dropped shoulder line, and fringed capelet haven’t budged a stitch.Urban Art & Design was launched in 2011 as a creative design firm where I could capitalize on my experiences and artistic eye to conceive, design and execute events and teach art classes. By the early 1800s the American buckskin hunting jacket, a hybrid of the two styles, was de rigueur for cowboys, Indians, and Europeans imitating the latest New World fashion. The more cowboys and Indians got to know and loathe each other the more their clothes began to look alike. Ranch meets range in the hunting jacket, a style created when early frontiersmen, wearing loose open-collar “farmer’s smocks,” trampled over Native Americans in their fringed deerskin tunics. Of course, Kogan’s covered buttons and twill slacks tip us off she’s no country caballero but a smart city slicker dressing the part. It’s the sort of getup roughriders usually save for rodeos a plain old curve-pocket snap front does fine for serenading stray cattle.

Riding tall in the saddle is a dress western shirt with the traditional contrasting yoke and embroidered curlicues. Was this outfit branded OK Corral or did it ride out of the Badlands? They lassoed her look to study the markings up close. She even managed to follow all three commands of the drive: go west, dress like men, wear cows.īut our Fashion Vigilantes, always on the lookout for mavericks, were suspicious. Her trappings yippee-yi-yayed a tune called Urban Cowboy as she followed the path beaten by the fall Glamour and Mademoiselle stampede. Attorney Carin Kogan came galloping down Michigan Avenue saddled up in cowboy couture.
