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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

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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