Colorscape Chenango Arts Festival
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~~~NEWS AND UPDATES~~~
Welcome!
In this issue
- Color Dash registration deadline
- Artists preview
- Student Art Exhibit
- Colorscape Cares Exhibit
- Francis K. Wilcox Emerging Young Artists Scholarships announced
- Poetry Slam with critically acclaimed poet Jon Sands
- Chenango Arts Council exhibit: American cartoonist Randy Glasbergen
- Peggy's Stage, schedule
- Surprise!
- NBT Main Stage music preview
- THANK YOU to our media sponsors
- Wait, there's more!
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It's just cornstarch with food-safe pigments. You could eat it, but we think you should save your appetite for the Culinary Court at Colorscape later in the day!
Runners of all ages (over 5) and skill levels will enjoy this 5K walk/run starting at 9 am on Sept. 10. It's an all-new course beginning and ending at the Chenango County Fairgrounds. Wear white to catch the color, and consider sunglasses and a bandana to protect your eyes and nose/mouth.
Find more info and register online here by August 26 to be guaranteed a T-shirt.
Thank you Color Station sponsors NBT Bank, Chobani, ACCO, NCYM, and SUNY Morrisville.
Thank you Water Station sponsors Frontier, Excellus, Electron Coil, and Dr. Karen Banks-Lindner.
Thank you additional sponsors Benedict Corporation, Professional Teleconcepts, LLC of NY, Norwich Elks Lodge #1222, and Family Planning of South Central NY, Inc.
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Artists preview
Michael Price
Art Baird
Natalie Baldwin
Leslie Green Guilbault
Lis Barsuglia-Madsen and Michael Madsen
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Student Art Exhibit
Over $1,000 in cash awards will be given, thanks to the generosity of the Otis Thompson Foundation, Inc., the R.C. Smith Foundation, Preferred Mutual, and Stewart's Shops.
Please spread the word to encourage submissions.
Art Specifications
Art must be original and completed within the last year.
Kits, copies, and ceramics from commercial molds are not acceptable.
Art categories: painting, drawing, 3D sculpture, mixed media/graphics.
Size limits: 18"x24" on paper/canvas, etc., or maximum 3" in any direction for 3-D art (like sculpture).
Art should be framed and ready to hang if possible; no glass.
Include the form below.
Drop off and pick up
Drop off art at The Artists' Palette, 17-19 S. Broad Street now through Aug. 30th, and again Sept. 3-7, Tuesday through Friday between 10 am and 5 pm.
Pick up work on Sunday, Sept. 11 between 3 pm and 5 pm at The Artists' Palette.
More information
Contact Jill Kraft at jkraft1213@gmail.com, or 607-244-1445.
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Colorscape Cares Exhibit
As long as space is available, the artwork meets size specifications (nothing bigger than 20"x30"), and it's appropriate, submitted art will be exhibited
We want to see the art made by you and your loved ones. Please spread the word to encourage submissions.
For more information, contact Jill Kraft at jkraft1213@gmail.com or 607-244-1445.
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Francis K. Wilcox Emerging Young Artist Scholarships announced
Both artists will be showing their paintings and drawings at Colorscape in downtown Norwich Sept. 10 and 11. Each will receive a $350 cash award and $100 Golden Artist Colors gift certificate.
Last year's winner, the remarkable Stefan Foster, will also be exhibiting as a regular artist this year.
Stay tuned for more information about each of these artists.
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15th Annual Competitive Poetry Slam
To register, contact Rich Bernstein at 607-244-9739.
We are also delighted to welcome Jon Sands, a poet whose work has been featured in the New York Times and anthologized in The Best American Poetry 2014. He's known for his electric poetry readings and for his work in new media, including "Verse: A Murder Mystery," an award-winning web series. Jon is also a cofounding poet-founder of "Poets In Unexpected Places," a pop-up group that brings New York's poetry slam community and performance artists into unexpected public spaces. He is a youth mentor, creative writing teacher, published poet, and compelling reader whose spoken word readings are long-remembered.
(Photo credit: Jonathan Weiskopf)
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Randy Glasbergen exhibit September 9 - October 17, 2016
The Chenango Arts Council is pleased to announce a fall exhibit of the work of American cartoonist and former local resident Randy Glasbergen: September 9 - October 17, 2016.
Randy Glasbergen (February 20, 1957 – August 11, 2015) was an American cartoonist and humorous illustrator best known for three decades of newspaper syndication and a freelance career. He considered himself first and foremost, a writer.
Randy began his professional cartooning career at age 15. While still in high school (Sherburne-Earlville Central School), his cartoons were published regularly in many major magazines, including Saturday Review, The Wall Street Journal, Kiplinger’s Changing Times, Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, Weight Watchers, Reader's Digest, Good Housekeeping, Barron's Magazine, Harvard Business Review, and New Woman.
After two semesters of journalism studies at Utica College of Syracuse University, he left school in 1976 to pursue a full-time career as a freelance cartoonist. In addition to cartooning, Randy wrote text for hundreds of greeting cards for Hallmark Cards, American Greetings, and others.
His comic panel The Better Half was syndicated by King Features Syndicate for 32 years, starting in 1982. At the end of syndication, The Better Half was appearing seven days a week in approximately 150 print and online newspapers around the world. With newspapers losing more and more readers to the Internet, Randy retired The Better Half at the end of 2014 to devote more time and energy to his cartoon licensing operation, Glasbergen Cartoon Service, which his family continues to operate today.
More than a dozen collections of Randy’s cartoons have been published in paperback and hardcover book form in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, and China. He is also the author of three bestselling North Light Books about the art and business of cartooning, Getting Started Drawing and Selling Cartoons, How To Be A Successful Cartoonist, and TOONS!
Randy lived in Sherburne with his wife and three basset hounds. He worked at home on the third floor of a very old house that once served as a boarding house for local school teachers. He was the father of four children: Jennifer, Sam, Candace, and Christie.
Randy died on August 11, 2015 of cardiac arrest.
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Peggy's Stage
Retired Executive Director Peggy Finnegan received an uncommon honor from the Colorscape Chenango Board of Directors: they named a stage after her! Read about it on our Facebook page.
Here's the scheduled lineup for Peggy's Stage, formerly known as the West Park Stage. We like it better this way.
Saturday, Sept. 10
Meena Conant Singers: 10 am
Phoenix Project Dance: 11 am
Taz Yanink, jazz: 12 pm
Martha Ryan and tango/ballroom dancers: 1 pm
Phoenix Project Dance: 2 pm
L.J. Gates: 3 pm
Drumzzone: 4 pm
Sunday, Sept. 11
Hilby, the Skinny German Juggle Boy: 11 am
Rob Norris: 12 pm
Martha Ryan and tango/ballroom dancers: 1 pm
Meena Conant Singers: 2 pm
L.J. Gates: 3 pm
(Schedule subject to change)
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Surprise!
If you weren't sure how cool Professor Louie is, now you know. To be really sure just check out the video below.
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Preview: music coming to the NBT Main Stage
We also know Professor Louie as the producer behind "Jericho," The Band's first album of new music in 16 years, and the whole Crowmatix as musicians who worked with Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, and Levon helm for 15 years.
They are in a variety of halls of fame, but we most appreciate that this band inspires other main stage performers to gather stage-side, listening.
Upstate Rubdown is a band whose members come from across New York State (hence, "Upstate"), all of whom have the uncanny ability to make a stage swell with energy and verve. Poughkeepsie Journal says, "Imagine the Andrews sisters fronting a band that swings with the dizzying drive of gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. That's the pulse, the emotion, the roar, the tug and the eras evoked by Upstate Rubdown, an eight-sometimes nine-piece ensemble based in New Paltz that, while utilizing amplification, relies on acoustic instruments and a three-piece female vocal section with harmonies as thick and sweet as syrup."
Go here for more of the NBT Main Stage lineup. (Schedule subject to change.)
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THANK YOU to our sponsors
Thank you to major sponsors NYSEG, Price Chopper, NBT Bank, Preferred Mutual, Chobani, Golden Artist Colors, and Rapid Productions.
Thank you to media sponsors Hibu, WSKG, and WRVO.
Colorscape Chenango Arts Festival is made possible, in part, by the Broome, Chenango & Otsego Decentralization Program, administered by the Chenango Arts Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
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Wait, there's more!
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Colorscape Chenango Arts Festival
Join us for a FREE festival, rain or shine, that includes two days of work by 125 juried artists; live music, all day long on both days by international recording artists; three stages of music, performance, and activities; and dance, poetry, literary arts, a competitive Poetry Slam, puppetry, demonstrations, culinary arts, and free interactive arts activities for children and adults.
Email: info@colorscape.org
Website: www.colorscape.org
Location: East and West Parks, downtown Norwich, NY
Phone: (607) 336-3378
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Colorscape-Chenango-Arts-Festival-133325240064166/
Twitter: @ColorscapeFest