EMBRACE CREATIVITY AREA
The Embrace Creativity Area at the Arts Community’s second annual COTA (Celebration of the Arts) will be a little something different. This new offering gives adults the opportunity to create art and not just be a viewer (kids are welcome but adults are the focus). Look for the Embrace Creativity Area near the Hudson Valley Materials Exchange (HVME) Reuse-a-Bus.
Green Complete Landscaping and Yard Care and HVME will host COTA’s the new area. The hardworking guys from Green Complete Landscaping are hauling in rocks for the public to create sculptures that will remain in the Embrace Creativity area throughout the day. HVME, dedicated to the redistribution of arts, education, and building materials rescued from the commercial waste stream, will be donating materials for our Found Sculpture table and our Trashion Show. They will have additional materials for sale throughout the day. HVME, is a non-profit community warehouse, that has just relocated their operation to the New Paltz Recycling Center and views COTA as its Homecoming Party.
Event goers are encouraged to make a scultpture or an article of clothing for wearing from the recycled materials. We encourage you to flaunt your Trashion during the event (and after if desired).
At the end of the day, Green Complete Landscaping will recycle all sculpture rocks into stone-work and patios across the Hudson Valley. Show your green spirit – wear and create with "reused."
For more information contact Embrace Creativity Coordinator: Marta Porras at mporras52@gmail.com or 845-389-9755.
FOOD VENDORS
Caribbean Cuisine
Soul Dog
Wagon Wheels Deli
PODS INSTALLATIONS
Also new this year will be PODS (portable-storage containers) converted into public art spaces by local artists. One POD will be used as a film viewing space while the other two will house art installations.
The FILM POD film presentations will be curated by Betty Greenwald. Artists who would like to submit a film should complete the following form and mail as directed Film Application Click Here.pdf. For more information contact Betty at fleur_bee@yahoo.com.
Betty has a BFA in Painting from SUNY New Paltz and MFA credits from Bard College. Coming from an arts family, Betty was put into many art classes as a child. Her younger sister had a gift for dance, her father was a WPA photographer and documentary filmmaker, and her mother was a classical pianist. As a teen she studied in private art classes with established artists, sculptors and painters. She left for college at 17 to become an art teacher. In her mid-twenties she had a pottery studio. Betty has exhibited from Albany to New York City. Though she still draws and paints, more recently she has been exploring photography. Since 1987
she has been working with traditional film, around 2008 she started working with digital photography, which allows her to explore her art and still keep working.
HABITATS FOR ARTISTS INSTALLATION
With a focus on innovation, COTA will be twice as big as its first year with 100+ artists. Organizers are collaborating with artist and curator, Simon Draper, to showcase "Habitats for Artists." Currently installed at Spire Studios in Beacon, NY, these 6' by 6' sheds are a collaborative exhibition project sponsored by ecoartspace, Amy Lipton curator.
Simon will be moving several of his artists' studios to COTA as well as working with COTA artists to create new pieces. Draper explores the relationship between the artist, their studio, and the concepts of reduce, reuse, and recycle in these sculptural installations. COTA Habitats artists are Marnie Hillsley, Stephen Walls, Todd Sargood, Kathy Feighery, Richard Bruce, Ryan Cronin, Pete Forsythe, and Christopher Albert. Matthew Slaats will be a Habitat artist doing a site specific piece with a new collaborative shed.
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