"A thriving arts community needs more than just artists..."
Read Stephanie Fazio's article in Syracuse's New Times' September "Art" issue here.
7/28/09 Eagle Press:"CNY Arts Covenant Launches As Part of Arts Week" by Nancy Keefe Rhosdes here.
2/17/09
Post-Standard article:
Arts group seeks logo through contest
CNY Arts Covenant wants people to participate in area's rich arts
scene.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009 By Greg Munno Staff writer
A thriving arts community needs more than just artists. It needs a
community of people who enthusiastically support the arts, with their attendance
at concerts, their patronage of galleries and their appreciation of the contributions
artists make to the quality of life of a region.
That idea is the driving force behind the CNY Arts Covenant, an emerging
movement in Central New York to create a fun, interactive way for people to
express their support for the arts.
Organizers are encouraging people to make four voluntary commitments to the
arts each year.
The commitments could range from buying art as a present, to volunteering
for an arts organization, to attending an opening.
The group of organizers behind the effort wanted to reach into the community
early in the process and invite the public to help define and design the effort.
It is running a logo contest, and offering prizes for the best submission
in two categories: adult and youth. The project is being run through The Post-Standard's
CNYSpeaks civic engagement project, which will collect submitted logos and
forward them to the organizers. The organizers will then select the three best
logos in each category. Those will be posted to CNYSpeaks, blog.syracuse.com/cny-speaks,
where the public will vote to choose the winners.
"Our effort is designed to engage the public from the beginning, and we thought
the public should have a chance to reflect on just what an arts covenant means
and to play with the idea visually," said Mary Stanley, one of the organizers. "A
logo is a founding act, like a constitution, and what we are looking for is
as many people to participate in the formation of this constitution as possible."
Greg Munno can be reached at gmunno@syracuse.com or 470-6084.
Tell us how you plan to keep your Arts Covenant.
Join us Thursday, 18 February for a special Th3 event :
Link Gallery Community Gallery (in The Warehouse)
18 February 18, 2010
5-8 pm
Opening Reception and Performance
Selections from Syracuse Stage’s Backstory production,
“Dreamprints: A Conversation with Harriet Tubman.”Directed by Lauren Unbekant starring Ashleigh Awusie. Preformances start at 7:30
Tell us YOUR story. We want to hear how you are doing with your Arts Covenant pledge. Come to the Link Gallery and tell us. Completed your AC? Pick up a T-shirt!
Central New Yorkers have turned out in numbers to sign up with the Arts Covenant and place their handprint on four quilts. These quilts will be displayed throughout central New York.
