I am a member of an community-based arts organization called  ArtHouse. And I wanted to let you know about another collaborative art opportunity. ArtHouse has a booth in the infield this year at the 20th Grassroots Festival of music and dance in Trumansburg, NY. Join us in making tiles that we will fire and be bringing to the Spencer Picnic on Saturday August 21st to glaze. ArtHouse will fire the tiles again and create a mosaic in a public place. Stay tuned to find out where. Or send in your ideas about a public place (it will need to be indoors) where you would like to see this collaborative work of art hang in our community. Thursday July 22 from 2-6pm, Friday the 23rd, Saturday the 24th, and Sunday the 25th from10am to 6pm. Making a tile is free with your admission to Grassroots and glazing a tile is absolutely FREE at the Spencer Picnic! Make sure you sign the guest book so that your name can be included as an artist in the dedication of the final mosaic and so that we can invite you to the unveiling celebration.

See you there!

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Maybe you came out and helped assemble this mosaic, maybe you have noticed the wall in "Art Alley" behind the Commons has been re-painted, maybe you have been hearing the buzz from your Ithaca student friends that a really large mosaic, made by many, many hands, and sponsored in part by the Ithaca Public Education Initiative and the Fine Art Booster Group, is being installed very soon. Well, it's true! We are on target for an unveiling at Ithaca Festival. Friday, June 4th at 4:30pm the mayor will be on hand to help us celebrate and reveal this massive mosaic that depicts the Cayuga Lake watershed at the southern end of the lake, the Ithaca end. Please come and join in the fun and be one of the 1st to see this community made public art!

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Calling all volunteers: come make art together!

Students from all of the schools in Ithaca have been cotributing to a huge mosaic mural that will hang on the wall of the parking garage behind Mate Factor, just off the Commons. Tiles are coming in from all directions and now is the time to put it all together. And we'd love to have your help. You don't need any special skills just a willingness to work. We are working in the artroom at Belle Sherman Elementary School at 501 Mitchell St. Sat 9-5 and Sunday-Wed from 1-5. (Due to school rules students can help out from 9-noon on Sat. and all weekdays. Adults can help out anytime.) Food will be provided. Be able to say that YOU helped make this public art mural!

 

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