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The Arts Center of the Capital Region presents
The Fence Show: Members’ Salon
The Fence Show got its name 43 years ago when members’ artwork was exhibited on the iron fence surrounding Washington Park in Troy, New York. Today the Exhibition represents a wonderful cross-section of artists and media. To be part of the Fence Show, artists must be Members of The Arts Center. Exhibiting artists, ranging from youthful novices to seasoned professionals, have their work viewed by thousands of visitors. During a four-week long Salon period, all artwork entered by members is displayed and the invited jurors select works for the Fence Show. These Fence Select Works 2008, some of which are for sale, are then displayed for more than a month in the Arts Centers Main Gallery. See the prospectus, guidelines, and entry form at the Arts Center’s website.

Teaching for a MultiCultural World
SUNY New Paltz
Fee: $200; registration deadline: May 12.
with Bill Bigelow, Oregon HS teacher, author, and Rethinking Schools’ editor, and Beverly Braxton, NYS ES teacher. Geared to upper ES and secondary social studies/language arts. Registration: Christine Waldo-Klinger, 845-257-3034. Program details: Nancy Schniedewind, 257-2827, or Terry Murray, 845-257-2828.

NYS ARTS present a RURAL WORKSHOP:
Strategic Planning
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Chenango County Council of the Arts, 27 West Main Street, Norwich, NY, 607-336-2787, info@chenangoarts.org
Cost: $10
The workshop will include the basics, plus new approaches and trends in strategic planning for rural arts councils. Instructor: Anne Ackerson

Northern Forest Center announces
Ways of the Woods: People and the Land in the Northern Forest
2008 Tour
Saratoga County Fair, off Interstate 87 in Ballston Spa, NY
For more information, contact Carolyn Graney, cgraney@northernforest.org
The Center’s mobile museum about the changing relationships among people and the land. This traveling exhibition combines interactive displays with live performance and demonstration to showcase the history, culture and heritage of the Northern Forest. In 2008, the tour visits schools, forestry expos and logging festivals, recreation and heritage events and a host of state and county fairs. For additional dates and locations, see the 2008 Tour Schedule.

NYS ARTS present a RURAL WORKSHOP:
Show Me the Money: Arts Funding in Rural Areas
4:00 - 7:00 p.m.
The ARTS of the Southern Finger Lakes, 32 West Market Street, Corning, NY, 607-962-5871, executivedirector@eARTS.org
Cost: $10
A panel presentation and discussion on funding resources and mechanisms in the Southern Tier. Panelists will include representatives of private and community foundations, large and small businessses that support the arts, successful individual donation campaigns, and government — supported programs. The workshop will also explore the role of partnerships and collaborations in building funding support and the role of the local arts council in building support for area cultural organizations and artists.

Northern Forest Center announces
2008 Tour: Ways of the Woods: People and the Land in the Northern Forest
Bicentennial Days Keene Valley, NY
For more information, contact Carolyn Graney, cgraney@northernforest.org
See July 15-20 listing above for more information

Teaching the Hudson Valley presents
Summer Institute: “Teaching Hudson Valley Diversity: Culture, History, and Nature 1609-2009
Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site and the FDR Presidential Library and Museum Day 1 will focus on whether a Dutch “ethic” of tolerance shaped the Valley’s culture and identity and, if so, its limits. Day 2 will explore interactions, connections, and interdependencies between racial, ethnic, and religious groups living in the Valley. Day 3 will examine diversity and tolerance in today’s Valley, and ask whether schools can/should play a role in moving us beyond tolerance to acceptance and equity. See website for more details and registration materials.

Community Art$Grants for not-for-profit organizations Community Art$Grants for Organizations is a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program, created to encourage and promote the development and strengthening of arts and cultural activities in local communities throughout New York State. Grants of up to $5000 are available to qualified not-for-profit organizations and municipalities in Albany, Rensselaer and Schenectady counties, to provide arts and cultural programming of high artistic quality. Deadline grant for 2009 programs is Thursday, October 9, 2008. Application seminars will be held throughout the three counties beginning in July. For more information on these seminars and to download a copy of the guidelines and application, visit http://www.artscenteronline.org/grants/orggrants.aspx or call 518/273-0552x229.

Lace, the Spaces Between: Domestic Lace making and the Social Fabric of the Italian American Community in Corning
Presented by the ARTS of the Southern Finger Lakes and the Corning Painted Post Historical Society
Benjamin Patterson Inn Museum, 59 W. Pulteney St., Corning, NY
For more information, please call the Corning Painted Post Historical Society, 607-937-5281 or The ARTS, 607-962-5871 x222
You are invited to share the joys and hardships of the Italian American immigrant experience through the practice of lace making. Lace, the Spaces Between: Domestic Lace making and the Social Fabric of the Italian American Community in Corning. Domestic handmade lace is a metaphor for the Italian American experience in Corning. It symbolizes cultural continuity as well as the cultural change. It carries social meanings about the role of women, beauty and cleanliness, the home, the immigrant experience and tradition. Rejecting domestic lace is a means of embracing modernity and Americanization. Lace is a way to tell the particular story of Italians in Corning and the common story of change through immigration and between generations.
February 22 - December 19, 2008

Long Island Museum presents
Bohemian Paradise: David Burliuk, Nicolai Cikovsky and the Hampton Bays Art Group
Wed.-Sat., 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Sun., Noon - 5:00 p.m.
Long Island Museum, 1200 Route 25A, Stony Brook, NY 11790
For more information, telephone 631-751-0066, or e-mail mail@longislandmuseum.org
Cost: $7/adults, $6/seniors, $3/students 6-17
Exhibition includes original paintings by various 20th century Russian and European emigre artists with similar ideologies and very different styles who met in NY and established a flourishing summer art colony on Long Island’s east end.
April 1 - July 13, 2008

The Mapping of Ukraine: European Cartography and Maps of Early Modern Ukraine, 1550-1799
The Ukrainian Museum
222 East 6th Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues), New York, NY
Wed. thru Sun. 11:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
(212) 228-0110, info@UkrainianMuseum.org
The Mapping of Ukraine: European Cartography and Maps of Early Modern Ukraine, 1550-1799, includes 42 original maps published by European mapmakers over a 250-year period. A majority of the maps in the exhibition are from the Museum’s Marie Halun Bloch Collection, which consists of 52 maps bequeathed to the Museum by the Ukrainian American writer of children’s books upon her death in 1998. Dr. Bohdan Kordan, the curator of the exhibition, is Professor of International Relations and Chair of the Department of Political Studies, St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon.
See May 9 calendar listing for concert of Ukrainian ballads held in conjunction with this exhibit.
April 20, 2008 - October 5, 2008

UNDER OPEN SKIES: “Painting Nature Past and Present”
Presented by the Genesee Country Village & Museum in partnership with Genesee Valley Plein Air Painters, Inc.
John L. Wehle Art Gallery, Genessee Country Village & Museum, Mumford, NY
10 a.m.-5 p.m. weekends, holidays and Tuesday-Friday in July and August
10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday in June (beginning June 3) and September
Closed Mondays, except for May 26, Sept. 1 and Oct. 6.
For more information, contact Shirley Figueroa, 585-538-6822 x260 or Shaunta Collier-Santos, 585-538-6822 x249
Admission Fees (subject to change): Art Gallery Only: adults $6, seniors 62+ & students with ID $5, youth (ages 4-16) $4.
The 5,000-square foot exhibition offers breathtaking vistas of nature captured by artists past and present, from the late 18th-century through the 21st-century. The exhibit unites the rarely seen collections of the Rochester Historical Society with stellar sporting art collected by Genesee Country Village & Museum founder, John L. Wehle. Complimenting the 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century art will be the 150 juried paintings from the Genesee Valley Plein Air Painters, Inc., a locally based artist association who continue the 19th-century passion for “plein air” painting, or painting outdoors in the open air using natural light. Artist members of the Genesee Valley Plein Air Painters began this themed project of capturing 19th-century urban and rural life in spring 2007. They have focused on the regional farming industry (grain production, animals, fishing), transportation systems (Erie Canal, river, railroads, Finger Lakes), 19th-century urban industry and business (historic sites, homes and structures in Rochester, Buffalo and historic towns and villages), the War of 1812 (lighthouses, on shore location of battles).
May 11 - October 13, 2008

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