THANK YOU TO OUR 2012 ARTS AWARDS SPONSORS!
Platinum Sponsors: Orange and Rockland Utilities
Gold Sponsors: Crystal Run Healthcare
Silver Sponsors: Jacobowitz and Gubits; Stanley Marks and Company; Horizon Family Medical Group; St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital
Bronze Sponsors: Thomas and Marianna Kennedy, Jack Berkowitz, CPA; Mechanical Rubber; Gillin Home Interiors; Key Bank and Real Estate Solutions
TONIGHT: Workshop: Using Social Media to Connect and Promote
Wednesday, October 10th at 7pm
Neil Alexander, musician extraordinaire and Social Media guru, will be here at the Arts Council offices to talk about how artists and non-artists alike can use Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus & more to promote themselves, build audiences, educate and raise awareness. Guest artists will appear via Skype. This is a pot luck event so bring something to share! Neil will perform tunes as well. Donations accepted – “Pay what you think its worth” at the end of the evening. Please RSVP by Friday, October 5th if you are interested in attending. Facebook Event Invite
Creative Placemaking Discussion
Tuesday, October 16th at 7pm – Free and Open to the Public
The Orange County Arts Council will host a Creative Placemaking discussion led by Leo Vazquez, Director of Arts Build Communities, in the Seligmann Studio at 23 White Oak Drive in Sugar Loaf. Mr. Vazquez, AICP/PP, has more than 15 years of experience as a community and economic development planner, and has special expertise in creative placemaking, cultural competency, leadership development, and strategic communications. He is the author of Leading from the Middle: Strategic Thinking for Planning and Community Development Professionals; co-editor of Dialogos: Placemaking in Latino Communities; and author of dozens of essays and articles on creative placemaking, diversity, leadership and urban planning practice. Arts Build Communities helps communities and arts-related organizations make better and more cost-effective decisions about community and economic development related to creative industries. The Arts Council hopes to inspire and motivate municipal leaders, artists and community members to learn more about how creative placemaking can help build and grow our Orange County communities. For more information, please call the Orange County Arts Council offices at 845-469-9168 or email dawn@ocartscouncil.org.
SPARK
Wednesday, October 17th at 6pm at Arrow Park in Monroe
SPARK provides an opportunity for everyone to be a Patron of the Arts for an evening and is designed to use community-driven financial support to democratically fund local art-makers.
The theme for this upcoming SPARK event will be high school and college student-initiated projects and the Arts Council is encouraging students to propose collaborative projects that will benefit the community. Here’s how it works: Anyone with an arts project concept can submit a brief description (500 words or less) to the Arts Council and request SPARK funding to help get it off the ground. At the SPARK event, all attendees pay $10 at the door towards the SPARK fund for the evening. Food and refreshments are served; project proposals are distributed and those people who are looking for funding are given 2-3 minutes to talk about their project. Everyone votes for their favorite project and the winner gets all the SPARK money collected that evening to assist with their project. The more people that come, the more money we get to give away. Anyone who has a project proposal they would like to submit should send it to jen@ocartscouncil.org by October 15th. A proposal template can be downloaded from the Arts Council website at www.ocartscouncil.org or requested via email.
Open Studio Tour Booklets now available
October 13 & 14 and 20 & 21
The Open Studio Tour covers all of Orange County this year and will take place over TWO weekends. The Open Studio Tour provides a rare opportunity for the public to observe working artists during the creative process and also presents artists with an opportunity to market their work to the local community. A printer-friendly version of the tour can be downloaded from our website at: Open Studio Tour East and Open Studio Tour West. If you are interested in learning more about the Open Studio Tour, please call 469-9168 or email at jen@ocartscouncil.org.
You can also invite people to each event on Facebook at Facebook Event Invite East and Facebook Event Invite West. Please help by sharing the event with your friends.
Orange County Art Awards Gala
Friday, November 9th at 5:30pm at the Powelton Club in Newburgh
It’s that time of year again! Please join us at the exclusive Powelton Club in Newburgh to honor some of the Orange County Art Community’s most talented and influential people. Our honorees this year are: Individual Artists: Ron Gee and Gar Wang; Arts Organization: SUNY Orange Community Orchestra; Arts in Education: Wally McGuire; Champion of the Arts: David Collens; Corporate Champion of the Arts: Greater Newburgh Partnership; Salute to Veterans: Walter Bill; Youth with Exceptional Promise: Toya Dubin (dance and costume design); and Lifetime Achievement: Eddie Dirr (musician). Tickets are $50 for Arts Council members and $55 for non-members and can be reserved and/or purchased by calling the Arts Council offices at 845-469-9168 or email dawn@ocartscouncil.org.
Not a Member yet? Why not?
Please consider helping us in our mission and become a member of the Orange County Arts Council. Funds from membership directly support the Council’s programs and services. The Arts Council and its members are committed to supporting arts in education, encouraging the arts as an economic engine in the county, promoting the arts, building new relationships between the arts and other aspects of community life, collaborating with other organizations and uniting our community through the arts. For membership information, please call 845-469-9168 or email info@ocartscouncil.org.
Articles Needed!
The Orange County Arts Council would like to post your article on our website! If you have an educational article that you would like to share, we would be happy to post it. Articles should be no longer than 500 words and can also include a picture. Send articles to dawn@ocartscouncil.org. Please note: we reserve the right to edit articles, as well as determine if and when any article will be posted. Thanks in advance!
For more upcoming arts events, click here for the Arts Council Calendar.
Opportunities
Hudson Valley Performing Arts College Fair: October 14
Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center
The Hudson Valley Performing Arts Foundation is hosting a Performing Arts College Fair on October 14th, 2012 at the Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center in Sugar Loaf, NY. Twenty of the top Performing Arts Colleges and Conservatories from across the country will be in attendance at this FREE event. Contact Dan Chester at info@hvpaf.org or 845-721-8043. www.hvpaf.org
Arts Community Grants for 2013 Funding
Arts in Orange is pleased to announce the availability of three separate grants to support arts and cultural projects taking place in 2013 in Orange County. Arts Community Grants (ACG), Arts Education Grants ( AEG) and two Individual Artist Grants (IAG) are local regrant programs of Arts in Orange. The deadline for submitting the IAG application is 4pm Tuesday, October 16, 2012; the ACG application is 4pm Tuesday, October 23, 2012; AEG application is 4pm Tuesday, November 6, 2012. Please call the Arts in Orange office at 845.956.0005 or email Suzanne Schubert at info@artsinorange.org for more info.
Call for Artwork
Orange Regional Medical Center: Deadline November 2
Orange Medical Center is seeking to exhibit original artwork at our hospital located in Middletown, NY (Town of Wallkill). This call is open to all artists working and/or residing in Orange and Sullivan counties, the primary service areas of Orange Regional.
Consistent with our mission, Orange Regional is seeking artwork of the highest quality that will provide a life-affirming, healing and supportive environment for patients, families, caregivers, students, faculty and staff. The duration of the art exhibits will be approximately six weeks. If you are interested in displaying your artwork in Orange Regional’s future art exhibitions, please submit the information identified below via email: Please email up to 10 images, in JPEG format, 72 PPI, to ORMCart@gmail.com; Title your image files with the name of the piece; In the same email, please include your name, email, phone number, address, the photo file names, dimensions of each piece, price and few sentences about yourself and your work.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: November 2, 2012. All submissions and questions should be sent to ORMCart@gmail.com. The artwork will be exhibited outside the Conference Center and Cafeteria on the ground floor of Orange Regional Medical Center.
Scenic Hudson Issues Call for Work for Traveling 50th Anniversary Photographs Exhibition: Deadline Friday, November 16
To help celebrate these successes during its 50th anniversary year in 2013, Scenic Hudson is creating a major, curated exhibition of photographs to tell this inspiring story of the valley’s people and communities. The exhibition will travel to approximately six significant public spaces throughout the Hudson Valley during 2013. Professional and serious amateur photographers are invited to submit photographs that speak to the valley’s magic and complexities as well as the enduring love so many feel for the region. Entries must be received by Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, and should strictly follow guidelines available at: www.scenichudson.org/
Call for Crafters: Unitarian Universalist Congregation
Deadline October 15
The UUCRT is currently signing up people to participate in their annual Craft Show for five continuous weekends from November 24th through December 22nd, 2012. They are looking for high quality crafters in all media and ask that you send 3 pictures of your work, and one of your display (if you have it) no later than October 15th. Please email all pictures and requests to be part of this show to Craft Show Coordinator Roberta Green at the following address: rgclaycreations@aol.com.
For additional Artist Opportunities including Auditions, Call for Entries and Grant Opportunities log onto the Arts Council website atwww.ocartscouncil.org.
Get Involved:
Marketing Committee
Would you like to help the Arts Council market itself as well as the collective arts here in Orange County? If so, please consider joining the Arts Council’s Marketing Committee. This group will be discussing a new format for our eblast, website modifications, social media outlets and any other interesting marketing ideas. Contact Dawn at dawn@ocartscouncil.org or 469-9168 if you are interested.
Arts and Healthcare Summit
The Arts Council is planning a county-wide Arts and Healthcare Summit at Orange Regional Medical Center on March 20, 2013. We are in the process of identifying sponsors, speakers and artist participants. If you are an artist who would like the opportunity to present your workshop or art to the healthcare community OR if you are interested in working with us on this event, please contact Dawn at dawn@ocartscouncil.org.
Arts in Education
We have eleven students who are now part of our new Student Arts Council Board! If you know of a high school student (Junior or Senior as of September 2012) who appreciates or creates art of any kind (visual, performing, literary), wants to meet other students who share their interests AND would like to have a voice in the development of Arts Council policies and activities, download the application here and have them give us a call!
Log onto our website at www.ocartscouncil.org and post an event to our calendar for FREE!!!!