Expert will discuss strategies

Ron Kavanaugh (photo provided)
Ron Kavanaugh (photo provided)

Ron Kavanaugh, social media coordinator for the Bronx Museum of the Arts and executive director of the Literary Freedom Project, will speak at the Center for the Digital Arts in Peekskill at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 1, on how artists can use social media to market themselves and their work. Kavanaugh manages the Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Vine, Tumblr and Pinterest accounts for the museum.

The talk is free but reservations are required. Email [email protected] to reserve a seat. The center is located at the Peekskill Extension Center of Westchester Community College at 27 N. Division St.

The center also opens a new exhibit on March 1 by the New Haven-based artist Paul Theriault, Often Software, with a reception scheduled for 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and a gallery talk at 6:30 p.m. The show continues through April 9. It features digitally constructed artwork displayed on laptops, desktop computers and video monitors, including a series called Scanner Paintings, in which oil paint was applied to the scanner bed.

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