ACTION PLEASE!

Christmas and The New Year gifts from Arts Covenant!

Starting from now, when people sign up for Arts Covenant at the CNY Artists Gallery, they are automatically eligible for a drawing of two gifts from Arts Covenant and the CNY Artists Gallery. The winner of the drawing will be notified around new year!! Arts Covenant is making effort to bring you a warm and sweet 2012~

So, ACTION PLEASE!!!

P.S. The CNY Artists Gallery is located at the second floor of Shoppingtown Mall.

The CNY Arts Covenant is Re-energized!

Hello! CNY Arts Covenant Signers, Supporters of the Arts and Potential Members of the CNY Arts Covenant Community

Original art, great cultural and artistic experiences await you!

 The CNY Arts Covenant is re-energized. We need you on board.

Here’s what’s new:

1.       YOUR REWARD made easy! We’ve set up an easy way to redeem your reward (a small original piece of art OR an Arts Covenant T-shirt) for completing your four arts covenant agreements.  Go to the CNY Artists Gallery at Shoppingtown Mall on Erie Blvd. in Syracuse after December 1st, 2011 .  The Gallery is right near the Food Court.  Ask the Salesperson for an Arts Covenant completion form when you arrive.  Fill it out, give it to the Salesperson and S/he will give you your reward.   While you are there, look around, enjoy the broad range of arts and crafts created by CNY artists and crafters and maybe you’ll find a gift you need or something YOU like for yourself.

2.       ART ALERTS.  We have a fine new Intern from Syracuse University’s Graduate Museum Studies Program.  Her name is Mengya He.  She is from Beijing and loves the arts.  She’s interned at the Albright Knox in Buffalo and other galleries in CNY.

She will be sending you lists of arts and cultural events that are coming up in CNY.  They will be organized by the four Arts Covenant agreements so that you can easily find ways to complete your Arts Covenant agreements.  And even if you have completed them, you’ll learn about great opportunities to “take part in art” in Syracuse and CNY.

3.       SOCIAL MEDIA. Mengya is also revitalizing our social media and the CNY Arts Covenant Webpage. CNY Arts Covenant Facebook will become more useful in alerting Arts Covenant Friends of art and cultural events and perhaps stimulating arts conversations.  Mengya will also be Twittering the arts.

4.       ARTY VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES with the Arts Covenant.  We need to reach more people willing to commit themselves to supporting the arts through the Arts Covenant. If you would like to help with outreach and quilt signings PLEASE let us know at artscov@gmail.com.  This is FUN.  Lots of paint and mess and laughter.

Thanks again for your on-going support of the arts and culture in CNY.  In tough times, the arts, artists and cultural organizations need our support more than ever.  The arts keep our CNY alive, creative, and thoughtful. The arts help us understand the dynamic vitality and diversity of the peoples and communities in our region AND they contribute to community and economic development.

Thanks again!

The CNY Arts Covenant

And the Winners Are!

The CNY Arts Covenant is pleased to announce the winners of the CNY Arts Covenant Rewards Competition Grants.

We thank all the many artists and crafters who entered their work. We were excited by the quality of the entries and delighted with our winners. Once again, we discover just how talented a community of artists CNY has.

The winning art will be used as a way to encourage people to complete their four CNY Arts Covenant agreements.It will be showcased at the Syracuse Stories Festival at the Everson Museum on Saturday, July 30th, the Saturday of ArtsWeek.

Drum roll! And here are our winners in each category.

1. The winner in the Category, 50 pieces of art valued at $20 each, is the Sudanese Cow Project. The cows are made by members of the Sudanese community in CNY and reflect their effort to use a craft to capture the cows of their memory/homeland. Their work reflects the Arts Covenant agreement to visit a new cultural space through the arts.

2. The two winners for the 10 pieces of art valued at $100 are:

A) Larry Hartle, a local woodworker. The person who completes her/his four Arts Covenant Agreements and wins one of Larry’s pieces in a drawing gets to select a wooden plate with the CNY Arts Covenant logo burned on it or a hand-tooled wooden bracelet. The wood is mixed and can be salvaged wood to reflect environmental concerns. The logo and the woods used reflect the local dimension of the CNY Arts Covenant.

B) Vanessa Johnson, Story-Teller and Artist. The winner of the drawing featuring Vanessa’s work will receive a one-of-a-kind handmade quilt, framed collage or fetish using fabric and found objects. Vanessa’s work represents West African traditions and will incorporate West African cloth,found objects and stories. They reflect the Arts Covenant effort to use the arts to encourage people to explore the arts of diverse cultures and tocelebrate creativity.

3. The winner of the 4 pieces of art at @$250 each is Wendy Harris, member of CNYArtists.  Wendy believes that her work reflects her and our covenant with nature and our efforts in CNY to appreciate the glorious colors and natural surroundings of our region. Wendy tries to capture both in her art. In her own words: “My covenant is with Mother Earth on behalf of future generations. I want to do my part to protect and preserve Mother Earth, the source of my wellbeing and sustenance, our only home. People tell after living with my art they see the world afresh; the common place becomes alive and often with greater color appreciation.”

 All signers of the CNY Arts Covenant have a chance to receive one of these award-winning pieces of art. We are awarding a piece of original art, our award-winning and charming ceramic cow from the Sudanese Cow Project, to the those who complete their four Arts Covenant agreements until we have awarded all fifty. After that we will have periodic drawings from among all those who have completed their Arts Covenant agreements. Once a person completes her/his four Arts Covenant agreements she/he will be continually eligible for a $100 piece of original art! For special CNY Arts Covenant events, we will hold drawings for the four pieces of original art valued at $250.

Call for Artists: Update on the Arts Rewards Contest!

ArtsCov/CNY Artists Rewards Contest

ArtsCov/CNY Artists Rewards Contest

Take part in art and and bring on the Spring!  Time to work on your four CNY Arts Covenant agreements.  Get an original piece of art once you complete all four. We’re inviting all CNY artists to enter a competition to design Arts Covenant rewards. And you can help. And you can get one!

The CNY Arts Covenant is launching a competition for ALL artists in Central New York to design the rewards that YOU will receive once you finish your Arts Covenant Agreements. In keeping with our effort to support the arts and artists we are inviting artists to design a reward for you that expresses the spirit of the CNY Arts Covenant.

So here’s the deal.  If you know an artist OR are an artist, review the attached information on the CNY Arts Covenant Rewards Competition Call for Art and send it on to your artist friends OR enter the competition yourself. The grants to artists are SUBSTANTIAL and in three categories.

Complete your four agreements to be eligible for the original art that will be produced by CNY artists.  If you need help thinking about things to do in order to fulfill your Arts Covenant agreements or if you’ve forgotten what they are go to www.artscovenant.com.  Check out the CNY Arts Covenant Facebook.  You can also find out what’s going on in the arts by going towww.cnyartists.com.  If you sign up with CNYArtists you’ll get “Art Blasts” about art events.

The first 25 Arts Covenant participants who complete their four agreements starting NOW, will get one of the small piece of original art. ALL CNY Arts Covenant participants (including the first 25) who finish their four agreements will be eligible for monthly drawings for pieces of art valued at $100 each.

What you have to do to be eligible for a piece of original art:

1.            Finish your four agreements.
2.            Fill out a brief e-form describing what you did to fulfill the agreements.
3.            Tell us the story of what it was like to fulfill ONE of the four CNY Arts Covenant agreements.
Contact us at artscov@gmail.com and we’ll tell you how.

VOTE on the art you like. Even if you haven’t finished all four agreements we need you to vote on the artwork submitted to the competition. Go to the CNYArtists Website (www.cnyartists.com) after May 15th and vote for the design you prefer in each category. You have an interest in what the arts rewards are!!! The Arts Covenant website (www.artscovenant.com) will link you to  CNYArtists website so you can vote.

OPTIONAL BUT FUN: We’re gathering stories about how Central New Yorkers engage the arts in our community.  These stories will be shared live during the Syracuse Stories Festival in July 2011.  If you like to tell stories and think you might like to participate, check out the attached information about Syracuse Stories. We’d love to have you tell your “art” story during the July 30th Event at the Everson Museum of Art. It’s during the Downtown Arts and Crafts Festival/ArtsWeek.

We’ve looking for brief, funny, sad, moving, stories about you and your experience with art @ three minutes in length.  Let us know via email at artscov@gmail.com.

Click here for Artist submission info