May 2008

May 1 Multi-Venue Go Art! Student Art Show
Join us as we salute student artists in our district-wide Student Art Show, on view in all of our galleries: GO ART! Cultural Center, 201 West Main Street, Batavia; Batavia Senior Center; Albion Satellite Gallery, 121 North Main Street, Albion; Medina Satellite Gallery, 433 Main Street (Rt. 63), Medina.

May 8 - 12 • Advanced Fused Glass Fritography & Kiln Casting
9 am - 5pm. O-AT-KA School of Glass, 56 Harvester Ave., Batavia.
A method of painting that was pioneered by the instructor, Michael Dupille (www.michaeldupille.com), and is the main focus of this workshop. Working in a fused glass panel format, learn to control glass color density, shading, line work, as well as the principles of multiple firing. In this 5-day workshop we will review the aspects and technique of Fritography and delve deeper into the process creating unusual shapes with special volume and color effects. Using these pieces as base materials, we will create bas relief molds for slumping and casting to give the Fritography work unique dimension and a character all its own. Fun and informative! The instructor asks that only those with previous fusing experience take this class. For more information, contact Lance Taylor at 585.230.7626 or email ltaylor18@rochester.rr.com or visit www.oatkaglass.com.

Visual Arts In the Geneva/Canandaigua Area - Posted May 6, 2008
Mondays through June 9th - Drawing From Life - 9:00-10:30 am. St. Peter's Community Arts Academy, 149 Genesee St., Geneva. $120 for six week course, materials included. A new 6 week Art Class for Adults. Class group will be meeting outdoors, sketching and painting what we see. Using water colors and producing several small finished paintings. Class is for Beginner or Intermediate level artists. www.StPetersArts.org.

Tuesdays through June 17 - Open Studio - 3:30-5:00 pm. St. Peter's Community Arts Academy, 149 Genesee St., Geneva. $20 a class. St. Peter's Community Arts Academy encourages you to join an Open Studio Art Class for people 12 years old and up! An open modeled class where the students can choose a medium they would like to explore and then work at their own pace to develop their own style in a supportive environment. www.StPetersArts.org.

May 6 - Opening Visions Through Needle and Lens - Tuesday-Friday 10 am-4 pm, Saturday 9 am-3 pm. Yates County Arts Center, 119 E. Elm St., Penn Yan. Free. The quilts of Nancy LeVant and The Photographs of Howard LeVant. Nancy LeVant comes to needlework naturally through a family of women who made lace, knitted and hand pieced quilts. Nancy took her first quilting class from a traditional quilter and learned to piece and quilt entirely by hand. Later she learned the benefits of rotary cutting fabric and using the sewing machine to piece and quilt. Howard LeVant is a graduate of the Institute of Design, Chicago, a school created out of the Bau Haus in Germany. After a time as studio photographer in Cleveland and commercial photographer in Chicago for such clients as United Air Lines, Sara Lee, Gerber Baby Products, Kimberley-Clark Medical Products, Beltone, Visa/Bankamerica, he came to Rochester in 1978 to teach advertising photography at RIT. He is now Professor Emeritus working with the Alumni of the School of Photography. From 1983-93, he operated the in-house illustration studio for Wegmans Foods. www.ycac.org.

May 6 -Workshop: Mosaics with a Twist RESCHEDULED FOR JUNE 27 - 3:30 and 7 pm. All Things Art, 65 S. Main St., Canandaigua. $12 + approximately $6 materials. A mixed media form of art to simulate mosaic! www.ocarts.org.

May 10 - Opening Doll is Art Show - 2 pm. All Things Art, 65 S. Main St., Canandaigua. Central New York Doll is Art Guild Show. Our second year to WOW folks on how the doll is an art form. www.ocarts.org

May 13 - Open Rug Hooking - 5:30-8:30 pm. All Things Art, 65 S. Main St., Canandaigua. $2. Come join us for chatter and craft. All good hookers can manage more than one thing at a time! www.ocarts.org

May 13 - ICE It! - 7 pm. All Things Art, 65 S. Main St., Canandaigua. $3. Clay. 5/13 make a clay plaque. 6/10 paint it. Let us know if you'd like to come! www.ocarts.org