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Dogwood Festival arts residency with Amy Rich
May 7-11, as part of Dogwood Festival 2012, IN UNUSUAL PLACES. We’ve invited artist Amy Rich to help 3rd graders throughout the county transform bits and pieces of outgrown clothing into “little story people.” As the children work they’ll have the opportunity to share their our own stories. We’ll emphasize how their stories are really little histories. Over the weeks following the workshop the “story people” will appear almost magically “In Unexpected Places”-declaring themselves and their student creators as an important part of our community as a whole.
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In Unexpected Places
Opening Saturday May 5, noon-5pm runs through June 30 at the Pomerene Center for the Arts “In a most unusual manner and with the most unsuspecting of materials, Melissa Vogley Woods creates Delightful works of art based in inventive re-configuring traditional quilt patterns.” excerpt from HERE and Beyond: curated by Margo A. Crutchfield, Senior Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland Amy Rich extends traditional quilting techniques in new directions. Out of materials gathered from thrift stores, auctions, yard sales, attics, closets, gutters, and nature–she brings together traces of what has been left behind and who has touched them. IN UNEXPECTED PLACES is part of Dogwood Festival 2012. In celebration of the visual and performing…
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Crow Wall
This is a photoshop image of CROW WALL panels superimposed onto the the old Park Hotel wall. The panels were created by students in Karen Snouffer’s “Painting Redefined” studio class in collaboration with the new Gund Gallery at Kenyon College and inaugural exhibition artist Diana Cooper (NYC). We’re working on the logistics of enlarging the panels to billboard size for pasting onto the raw plaster walls clinging to the brick.