Author Archives: Dawn Siebel

Commissioner Cassano Visits Better Angels

On Tuesday evening, New York City’s Fire Commissioner, Sal Cassano visited BETTER ANGELS.  Here Ron Siarnicki and I join him for the cameras.   Cassano with two of our Tuesday volunteers, Tom Neary and Al Cerro, who both drove from … Continue reading

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9/11 Memorial out my Window

I was looking out my window for quite a while before I realized I also had a view of the 9/11 Memorial Pool.  This one in the footprint of the South Tower.  

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New York Day Two

I am so honored.  Here I stand with New York City’s Fire Commissioner, Sal Cassano, and Ron Siarnicki, Executive Director of the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation at the BETTER ANGELS exhibit in New York.  Thank you to the entire fire … Continue reading

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HERE WE GO

Monday Morning 8AM….

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INSTALLED IN NEW YORK – READY FOR MONDAY

With many thanks to Brookfield Properties for providing this spectacular space. Through those windows I myself have looked down over “the site” for many years now when I have visited NY.   The audio self-tour I took with the Tribute … Continue reading

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BETTER ANGELS IN NEW YORK

The view is from the 20th floor just south of the WTC site.  The Memorial Pools amid the green mark the footprints of the towers. Tomorrow morning we will be setting up BETTER ANGELS on the ground floor of the turquoise-roofed … Continue reading

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FIVE DAYS TO NEW YORK CITY

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Pictures, Pictures, Pictures

I don’t have a lot of pictures left that haven’t already been posted. Here’s my work table in Bearsville.  The colors on the palette are black, white and raw umber – the only colors used in the paintings.  The brush … Continue reading

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Memorial Day

A few weeks ago in Texas, a woman told me a survivor story similar to the one I had heard (and blogged about) in Florida last November.  Her father-in-law worked on the 70-something floor of the North Tower and started … Continue reading

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Adding Names

For the last week the NFFF and I have been working to update the wall for New York. The non-painting side of the exhibit wall is filled almost end to end with the names of all the firefighters on the … Continue reading

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