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