Archive for February 2012
Saturday May 5, 2012 – Saturday May 5, 2012
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Enjoy the first Saturday in May in the Big Apple and support the Arts Council. A bus trip leaving at 6:30 am from Huntingdon to arrive around 11am in New York is scheduled for May 5. Drop off will be in Midtown Manhattan and the return trip will leave the City at 7 pm for arrival before midnight in Huntingdon. The cost is $50 per person. Please register by calling the Arts Council at 814-643-6220.
The Huntingdon County Arts Council is introducing Elody Gyekis at the Art Space on March 16 with the exhibition “Expectations and Relocations – Selected Works by Elody Gyekis”. Elody, is a native of Lewisburg, graduated from Penn State with a Bachelors of Fine Art in Painting and Ceramics, including numerous awards for her creative and academic work. She currently works as resident artist at the Green Drake Gallery in Millheim.
The exhibition is but the beginning of collaborative work between the arts council, Elody and the Huntingdon Community. The artist has been chosen to create a mural in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Huntingdon County Arts Council on the north wall of the Art Space on Fourth Street in Huntingdon. Elody has been the creative force behind community murals in Millheim, State College and Williamsport and Harrisburg. Her approach to mural design includes the entire community, from collecting ideas to painting in the design. The Arts Council is looking to the community to provide input in regards to the role the arts and arts council play in the community. In a public meeting at the Art Space scheduled for Sunday, March 18, participants can contribute their ideas, reflections and thoughts on forty years of the Huntingdon County Arts Council. Elody will then design a mural, translate it as a ‘paint by number’ design onto parachute cloth, and the community will have the opportunity to swing a paintbrush as we complete the mural in color. Upon completion, the mural on cloth will then be pasted onto the wall of the Art Space. Opportunities to participate in the painting will be scheduled during events such as Mayfest, and offered to area art clubs and organizations.
The Huntingdon County Arts Council is opening its February art show on Friday, February 10 with a reception starting at 6 pm until 9 pm in the Art Space on Fourth Street in Huntingdon. The Arts Council designated February as Fiber Arts Month, and the exhibit will feature examples of fiber arts from Pennsylvania and around the world.
With help from the Redbud Quilt Guild, who have provided a variety of quilts and quilted projects for display, organizers have gathered fabrics and fabric art pieces, including Malaysian batik, South American Mola and fabric dolls as created by Steve and Jamie Isenberg of Huntingdon. Woven examples include an eastern European Kilim, a Moroccan weaving, a section created on a South American backstrap loom and various traditional woven throws.
Pam Kavanaugh and Ginny Mutti display their recent works knitted from wool raised near Altoona and Huntingdon. Information on various fiber art groups will be available at the exhibition. The Arts Council will host a spinning and weaving demonstration later in February.