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Congratulations to

2008 Broome & Chenango Decentralization and Individual Artist grant recipients! View the Grants link to the left for this year's recipients of $62,500 in cultural funding!

Join us this Sat., May 3rd:

ALLEGRO RUN FOR THE ARTS- 9am Click on the Special Events section to the left for more information.

THE KENTUCKY DERBY PARTY- 5-8pm Click on the Special Events section to the left for more information.

THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN A COMMUNITY LIVING WILLOW INSTALLATION!

The public is invited to come and be a part of a community living willow installation in Guernsey Park, Norwich. The public will design as well as the construct the living structure.

Bonnie Gale is the artist who will lead this project. She is a willow artist living in Norwich and is the recipient of an Individual Artist grant to fund this project. This funding is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, administered by the Chenango County Council of the Arts. Her work is focused on spatial definition and containment and she has made her art and taught for the past 25 years. In the last five years, her work has moved from making baskets and other vessels to using large living rods that are planted in the ground and woven into structures that grow and become green. Structures have included living fences, domes, arbors, arches, sculpture and large-scale thematic installations. She has completed 10 installations to date, most in community and school settings. Local structures include the Lodge at the Rogers Center in Sherburne, the Arches on the grounds of Cornell Cooperative Extension Offices in Norwich and the Dome at the Susquehanna School in Binghamton. Her work can be viewed on the web site <www.bonniegale.com>.

Guernsey Memorial Library is proud to partner with Ms. Gale in order to bring a living structure to Guernsey Park and give the public a great opportunity to be a part of the design and construction of the installation. Participation is free and will be exciting. Planting will commence in early May. There will be a follow up maintenance session in August.

Come and be a part of this exciting living structure in Norwich this Spring!!

Please contact Bonnie Gale at 607.336.9031 or bonwillow@frontiernet.net with your questions or for more information.

~In the Gallery~

COUNCIL OF THE ARTS ANNOUNCES STUDENT ART SHOW WINNERS

The Chenango County Council of the Arts has announced the winners of the 2008 Congressional Art Show, “Artistic Discovery”. This annual competition for Chenango County high school art students is sponsored by Congressman Michael Arcuri and is part of a national competition. Winners from local exhibits go on to compete with others from around the state in Utica, and one winner’s work is chosen from each state to hang in the halls of Congress for a year.

Schools participating in this year’s Artistic Discovery are Sherburne-Earlville, Norwich, Afton, Oxford, and Unadilla Valley. The exhibit was coordinated by Norwich High School art teacher Wayne Franklin and was juried by Carl Houghton and Lynne Berry.

In the 2 dimensional category first place awards go to: Juliet Morin, Sherburne-Earlville; Sarah Powell, Norwich; and Paige Wissenbach, Sherburne-Earlville. Second place awards go to Ayla Martin, Afton; Joe Mettler, Sherburne-Earlville; Christi Baker, Oxford; and Mark Jensen, Unadilla Valley. Honorable Mention awards go to Alexis Blatcher, Norwich; Michael Cogswell, Afton; Julia McDermott, Sherburne-Earlville; Sarah Powell, Norwich; Craig Berg, Norwich; Jessica Johannes, Unadilla Valley; and Mariane Domingos, Sherburne-Earlville.

Three dimensional award winners include Mark Ross of Norwich, Pasquale Dabbraccio, Norwich, and Monica Roser, Norwich.

The five students chosen by the judges to move on to the Utica competition are: Julia McDermott, painting, Sherburne-Earlville; Ayla Martin, painting, Afton; Juliet Morin, one painting and one mixed media piece, Sherburne-Earlville; and Paige Wissenbach, photography, Sherburne-Earlville. Only two dimensional work is accepted for the next phase of the Congressional Art Show.

Eighty four students from around the county have work displayed in the show, which is open to the public and runs through April 17.

Local sponsors for Artistic Discovery are Peter and Virginia Chaplin, the George and Elisabeth Mead Foundation, and Golden Artist Colors.

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