I'm a fiber artist working with materials and embroidery to create texture, expressive pieces. Drawing inspiration from nature and personal stories.

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As an artist my greatest joy is seeing others discover or rediscover their own creative selves. My own artistic journey has been ebbing and flowing my entire life, but it has consistently brought me joy and taught me life lessons along the way.

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As a photographer I love capturing the moment combined with creative imagination. Which has perked my interest in Composite Photography while infusing imagination within reality.

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My work, whatever the medium, is pretty much always, at it’s heart, Storytelling. My story, a story I heard, an idea expressed through storytelling–storytelling is one of the highest forms of communication, and humans have used this practice as long as we have been able to form words.

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The world is confusing. The arts can offer some clarity to what it means to be human.

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An eclectic collection of prints, photographs, and paintings curated over a period of 40+ years by Sherburne resident Chris Hoffman, who was quite possibly a cat herself in a previous life.

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Housed in our East and West Galleries, the Quilt Show highlights the local quilters. This is a beloved annual event.

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My work fuses the raw material of music into visual, emotional and intellectual forms by drawing with cut paper, shaping and layering positive and negative space into rhythms. 

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Myths have the power to both reflect and effect the psychology of their contributing cultures. Through a developed creative language, mythology allows the human psyche to create the world anew, showcasing the human propensity towards imagination.

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Painting is my first language. Words don't come naturally to me. A simple brushstroke says more of what I need to say than a thousand words ever could.

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What inspires me and my art is helping others. Because of my past I see the world in a different way than many of the people I grew up with and family.

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I’m fascinated by movement as it’s frozen– reaching hands and gnarled branches, their momentum clear even when they’re drawn and pinned to a wall. I draw from shadow theater, art history, and personal video recordings to conjure large shaped installations.

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 I am primarily a painter of various aspects of the rural landscape, such as trees, streams, barns, cows and lakes.  That’s where my heart is and it’s the focus of my art. 

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The human experience and my quest for meaning has been the inspiration for my sculptures.

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“Small Wonders: Intimate Landscapes in Pastel” is a series of diminutive works exploring the landscape through texture and color using a combination of various media including pastels, monotypes watercolor and linoprints.

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Bringing people or animals into these scenes further imbues the painting with aesthetic and narrative function.

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Over the years I’ve worked with charcoal, pastels, acrylics, and darkroom photography. I felt an immediate shift when I I bought myself an iPad and an Apple Pencil…I never looked back. I love the immediacy of using digital painting and collage with my images.

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In Home Body, I explore imprints of time and family on my boyhood home - and on me. This 120-year-old house in a small upstate New York village has been the family home since 1960. My parents raised my sister and me here. I lived elsewhere for two decades. In 2003, my wife and I moved back in.

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My work responds to the idealism and anxiety of endless striving, grappling with a relentless fixation on a better elsewhere. My 3D paintings and site-responsive installations invite the viewer to navigate an imagined landscape

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Housed in our East and West Galleries, the Quilt Show highlights the local quilters. This is a beloved annual event.

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 I've titled this show "A Tale of Tangled Textiles" Like my writing, my felt pieces speak to the varied experience of magic: from a vivid dragon who'd love to snare you in a conversation, to landscapes of subtle enchantment.

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“Face to Face: Portraits from the Precipice” seeks to explore and acknowledge the diversity and richness of our upstate community through portraiture. It is also a subtle reminder that as the voices of hatred and intolerance seek to divide us, that as a community, we share much more that unites us than separates us.

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Steph is an artist and researcher gathering moss in Leipzig, Germany. Through situated encounters and installations with material and temporal elements, such as textiles, objects, performances, videos, or audio pieces, Steph centers the aesthetics and affects of subjective and interdependent relations.

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I have been taking pictures and studying photography since I was eight years old with an old Brownie. I graduated to a Kodak Duaflex and then in high school to  a 4 x 5 Speed graphic which was used for the school newspaper and yearbook. I used the Speed Graphic in college and finally, in my senior year was able to graduate to a Kodak Retina IIc – a 35 mm gem. During this time, I loaded my own film cassettes and developed and printed my own prints.

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One reason I like to paint these dark rides is because of the paintings on the outside of the rides. They are done with a lot of color and movement to attract customers. I also like that they are self contained trucks that unfold into a ride. I enjoy the home made creatures that light up and pop out of the dark rather then the more professional animatronics. I like the cars on the rides and how they move on the tracks. One of the best times on the ride is just as the car pushes open the doors and total darkness hides what awaits inside.

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I believe that natural beauty is all around us, no matter where we live. We just need to learn to see, appreciate, and enjoy what I call "beauty in the ordinary". It doesn't need to be an exotic animal or a rare plant, beauty is present in our everyday lives, but we need to change our way of looking for and seeing that beauty.

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Bill McLaughlin is a contemporary American Tonalist landscape painter. Largely self-taught,

Bill works in oils, pastels and watercolors on a variety of surfaces. His landscapes are explorations of Nature's most subtle moods. Bill lives and paints on his organic homestead in New Berlin, NY, where he tends his heirloom apple orchard and weedy gardens.

In many of the paintings, my intention was to give the viewer a glimpse into a peaceful moment in the Italian sense of capriccio. In others, particularly those which make use of funerary statuary, one is left questioning aspects of human solitude.

The Earlville Opera House will be hosting its coveted annual Quilt Show from September 11 through November 13, 2021 to celebrate Central New York’s rich regional and contemporary quilting culture combined with the talents of interested national and international quilters. We invite you to participate!