Calendar of Exhibits in Cortland NY
Beard Building Gallery
The Beard Building Gallery, 9 Main Street, in historic downtown Cortland is a collaboration between the Cortland Downtown Partnership, the Cultural Council of Cortland County and SUNY Cortland. The first floor gallery is open Monday through Friday between 10 am and 4 pm. The gallery is free and open to the public.
- May 1-30, Iterations 2008
Opening reception May 2, 5-7:30 pm. Iterations is back for a 2008 exhibit with fresh new concepts to keep this original arts initiative of Cortland vibrant and relevant. Fourteen completed works will be on display at the Beard Building Gallery.This year, seven works of art on canvas, and seven works of art on paper of varying sizes from 4’ x 2’ to 8” x 28” have been circulating to area artists age 2-93. Seven of the pieces began with children painting from their memory and imaginations. The other seven pieces are a photomontage of Cortland County contemporary and historical photographs thanks to local photographers and the Cortland County Historical Society.
Conceiver of the project, Reagen Troutman, decided to use this year’s compositions to generate local folklore as a unique approach to Iterations 2008. Each piece of art has a story to tell that brings together different parts of Cortland’s richness and history to life.
Iterations 2008 is made possible by sponsorship from the Cortland County Convention and Visitors Bureau, The Cultural Council of Cortland County, The Downtown Partnership, Pinstriped Pokadots, YWCA of Cortland, with partial funding by a NYSCA DEC Grant, and the creative talent of Cortland County!
All 14 works of art will be auctioned off online at: cortlandarts.cmarket.com. The online auction begins on May 2 and concludes on May 31. Bids start at $45 dollars per piece of artwork. All works of art have between 5-8 artists collaborating on them and over 20 hours of work into each piece. Last year’s Iterations project was a complete sell out. Proceeds for the sale of Iterations 2008 will go to fund next year’s project.
Dowd Fine Arts Gallery, SUNY Cortland
Gallery hours are Monday - Saturday, 10 am to 6 pm. For more information, call 753-4216 or contact the gallery director, rackerb@cortland.edu. All programs are free and open to the public.
- "An Atlas"
curated by Lize Mogel and Alexis Bhagat
March 25-May 5, Dowd Fine Art Gallery Rm 162, SUNY Cortland. Opening Reception March 25, 4-6pm. An Atlas is a traveling exhibition of artists working with "radical cartography"a practice that uses maps and mapping to promote social change, and that is part of a cultural movement that links art, geography, and activism. The participating artists, architects, and collectives in the exhibition play with cartographic convention geographic shapes, wayfinding symbols, and aerial views in order to take on issues from globalization to garbage. An Atlas is organized by artists Lize Mogel and Alexis Bhagat. It is a companion exhibition to the publication, "An Atlas of Radical Cartography," (2007, Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press, Los Angeles.) For more information, please visit www.an-atlas.com/exhibition.htm.
Borg-Warner Morse TEC Art Gallery, Center for the Arts in Homer
Borg-Warner Morse TEC Art Gallery, 72 S. Main St., Homer. Hours 12 5 pm Monday Friday or by appointment. For more information call (607) 749-4900 or e-mail info@center4art.org.
- "Imagination Celebration"
Art show for students in Cortland County Schools, in the gallery and the community room from April 10 - May 1, 2008. This is the third year that the entire county’s art teachers will have the opportunity to show off the “best of the best” of their students art work. This annual event showcases area students’ artistic talents. This show has been partially funded this year by the Cultural Resources Council and the NYS Council on the Arts.
An opening reception and awards ceremony for the participants and their families will be held by the Center 4 the Arts on Thursday evening, April 10 from 6:30 - 8 pm. Refreshments will be served from 6:30-7. We hope that the public will join us in celebrating this wonderful and creative event that features our children’s imagination.
CPF Gallery
A new show, “Small Work in Metal”, will be opening at Cortland Picture Frame Co. on Friday, March 28. The exhibit features the work of nine artists whose work is predominantly done in metal and is, in most cases, smaller than 12 inches.
The show includes a variety of work including figurative work cast in bronze, small functional objects and abstract sculpture. The artists have used both innovative and conventional approaches to metalsmithing resulting in an interesting and varied selection of pieces.

The exhibit includes work by Gerald DiGiusto (b.1929 d.1987), an acclaimed artist whose work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. He also served as Chair and Professor of Art at SUNY Cortland, and a number of his larger sculptures are on exhibit in various locations on the SUNY campus. Bryna Silbert, from Dryden, will be exhibiting small, bronze figurative sculptures in which she captures gestures of emotion in the human form.
Jaroslava Prihodova will present several small objects both abstract and functional with a combination of non-traditional materials and their use resulting in playful design. Vaughn Randall, Assistant Professor of Art and Art History, is currently teaching sculpture at SUNY Cortland. He will be exhibiting some of his smaller, structural pieces. Mackenzie Brown from Marathon, is a sophomore with a jewelry and metalsmithing major in the Fine Arts Program at Syracuse University. His work explores the unexpected in both theme and materials.
Kathleen Griffin is a lecturer and sculptor at SUNY Cortland in the Art & Art History Dept. who has done a series of pieces with the horse as subject matter. David Huffman is including several pieces in which he investigates the sculptural content of wearable art. In these works he has combined his fine art background with traditional jewelry-making techniques in an exploration of form and materials. Jessica Penny is a student in the fine arts program at SUNY Cortland. Richard Mitchell, although known best as a painter, is showing a couple of pieces cast in bronze from his early years as a sculptor and welder.
Opening reception first day of show, 5-8 pm. Gallery hours: Monday - Friday, 10 am - 5:30 pm & Saturday, 10 am - 2 pm. The gallery is located at Cortland Picture Frame Co., 9 N. Main St., Cortland. For more information call (607) 756-6499.
East End Community Center
“History of Fire Fighting in Cortland County” Exhibit. 11:30 - 2:30 and 4:30 - 7:30 pm, Monday through Friday, East End Community Center, 46 Elm St. The display includes collections from the Cortland, Homer and McGraw fire departments. These extended hours will be in effect from Monday, April 7 through Sunday, May 18, on which day, a special “Tribute to Firefighting” program will be held at the Center. Exhibit is co-sponsored by The East End Community Center, the Cortland County Bicentennial Committee and the Cortland County Historical Society. For more information, call the Cortland Youth Bureau at (607) 753-3021 or the County Historian, Jeremy Boylan at (607) 753-5360. For more information visit www.eastendcenter.org or call the Cortland Youth Bureau at (607) 753-3021.

Pictured here are members of the Water Witch Steamer and Hose Company No. 1, the oldest volunteer fire company in the history of the Cortland Fire Department. The company was organized on the 5th of June 1854. This photo, circa 1880, was provided by Duke Glover, the Cortland Fire Department’s historian.
Cortland Free Library
April, Cortland Art League. The exhibit may be viewed during regular Library hours at 72 Church St.: Monday - Thursday, 9:30 am - 8 pm, Fridays 9:30 - 5:30 and Saturdays, 9:30 - 4:30 pm. Visit their web site!
Cortland Arts Trail
For a map with location of art exhibits in Cortland view the Cortland Arts Trail Map.
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Alliance Bank, Groton Ave. Office
1125 Groton Ave, Cortland
Ed Woodworth
Alliance Bank, Main St. Office
65 Main Street, Cortland
Karen Atkins, David Beale, David Blatchley,
Amy Hnatko, Allen Phillips
Audiology Consultants of Cortland
9 Church St, Cortland
Andrea Wilkinson, Chris Xenakis
Beard Building Gallery
9 Main St, Cortland
Dyan Lombardi
Blue Frog Coffeehouse
64 Main St.
Chris Zenakis
Carbon Copies
87 Main St, Cortland
John Downey
Center for Ethics, Peace and Social Justice
140 Old Main, SUNY Cortland
Bob Baumeister
Center for the Arts of Homer
72 S Main St, Homer
Jerry Doolittle, Lisa Heider
Cinquanti Real Estate
77 S West St, Homer
Ed Levine
Cortland County Convention and Visitors Bureau
37 Church St, Cortland
David Beale
Cortland Free Library
32 Church St, Cortland
Sylvia Nye, Donald Hull
Cortland Eye Center
1160 Tompkins St, Cortland
Karen Atkins, Kathie Beale, Cheri Sheridan
Cortland Mayor Tom Gallagher
25 Court St, Cortland
Allen Phillips
Cosimo's Italian Carry Out
3 Huntington St, Cortland
Joan Niswender
Country Inn and Suites
3707 Rt 281, Cortland
Amy Hnatko
Cummins Real Estate
324 Tompkins St, Cortland
Kathie Beale, Allen Phillips, Ed Woodworth
DigiPrO Photography
129 Main St, Cortland
Marilyn Ponty
Fabio's Italian Restaurant
179 Homer Ave, Cortland
Reagen Troutman
Ferris Real Estate
223 Tompkins St, Cortland
Thomasine Jacobs, Carlton Manzano
Goldwyn Boyland Physical Therapy
1105 Rte 13, Cortland
Amy Hnatko, Marilyn Strang
Hage Real Estate
4070 West Rd, Cortland
Chris Zenakis
Hairy Tonys
102 Main St, Cortland
Ralph Turturro
Kristen Clark-Lowell D.M.D.
15 Clinton Ave, Cortland
K J Hunter Neff
Lamont Memorial Library
5 Main St, McGraw
Nolan McLaughlin
Linani's Cookie Factory
5 S Main St, Homer
Anne Bishop
MD Deli Central
18 Central Ave, Cortland
Lyla Phillips
Michael Arcuri
16 Church St, Cortland
Carlton Manzano
Peck Memorial Library
24 Main St, Marathon
Michelle Gingrich, Laurie Seamans, Cheri Sheridan
Phillips Free Library
37 South Main St, Homer
Marilyn Palmer
Place Insurance
2 North Main St, Cortland
Russel Spillmann
Rainbow Wafer Insurance Agency
243 Port Watson St, Cortland
Nolan McLaughlin
Sheridan's Jewelry
6 Main St, Cortland
Joan Goldwyn
State Senator James L. Seward, 51st District
45 Church St, Cortland
Karen Atkins, Harry Davis, Lisa Heider, Carlton Manzano
The Stone Lounge
South Main St, Cortland
Todd King, Allen Phillips, Laurie Seamans
Uncle Louie's Backyard
294 Tompkins St, Cortland
David Blatchley, Jae Harris
Wall St. On Court St.
25 Court St, Cortland
Kathie Beale, Neb Hage, Thomasine Jacobs, Chris Xenakis
Warren Real Estate
17 Tompkins St, Cortland
Tom Haskell, Lyle Pierce, Millie Sherwood,
Marge Weston, Marian Strang
YWCA of Cortland NY
14 Clayton Ave, Cortland
Carrie Contento, Tyler Bogardus
