Bands to Perform for Fundraiser
The Cattaraugus County Arts Council (CCAC) has announced a fundraising benefit to help fund the Southern Tier Biennial (STB) art exhibition on Saturday, March 28 from 6-10pm at the Other Place tavern on Main Street in Allegany, NY. The evening will feature music by Dave Dorson, Andy Hannon and Bill O’Connell’s Wild Rovers, and the Mojo Hand Blues Band. Free pizza will be served and a portion of the bar receipts will go towards the fund. Tickets at the door are $10. All event proceeds will go to the close the budget gap for this year’s Southern Tier Biennial exhibition.
In early January, the Cattaraugus County Arts Council (CCAC), producers of the STB contemporary art exhibition, were informed that there would be no funding for the 2009 Biennial. The STB endowment fund, managed by the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation, had dropped well below the original investment and according to law would be frozen until the fund recovered. Through careful strategizing and many donations of services and cash from supportive partners, sponsors and community members, the 2009 Biennial has been preserved with artist stipends, cash prizes and catalog intact. The benefit will help close the remaining small funding gap.
For the past five years, the Southern Tier Biennial (STB) has offered an opportunity to enter a juried contemporary art competition and exhibition to artists of the rural eight counties of New York State’s Southern Tier. “Once again, we’ve had a tremendous regional response to the Biennial,” commented Anne Conroy-Baiter, Executive Director of CCAC. “More than 110 artists have applied and the show will be juried shortly by Holly E. Hughes, Associate Curator of the Albright Knox Art Gallery and Leonard Urso, of the Rochester Institute of Technology. We’re looking forward to seeing who will be chosen for the 2009 exhibition.”
The show will open in the Olean Public Library Gallery and on Jamestown Community College’s Olean campus on May 9, 2009 and continue until June 20th, 2009. The Southern Tier Biennial is a collaboration among the Cattaraugus County Arts Council, Olean Public Library, Jamestown Community College, and the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation.
In early January, the Cattaraugus County Arts Council (CCAC), producers of the STB contemporary art exhibition, were informed that there would be no funding for the 2009 Biennial. The STB endowment fund, managed by the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation, had dropped well below the original investment and according to law would be frozen until the fund recovered. Through careful strategizing and many donations of services and cash from supportive partners, sponsors and community members, the 2009 Biennial has been preserved with artist stipends, cash prizes and catalog intact. The benefit will help close the remaining small funding gap.
For the past five years, the Southern Tier Biennial (STB) has offered an opportunity to enter a juried contemporary art competition and exhibition to artists of the rural eight counties of New York State’s Southern Tier. “Once again, we’ve had a tremendous regional response to the Biennial,” commented Anne Conroy-Baiter, Executive Director of CCAC. “More than 110 artists have applied and the show will be juried shortly by Holly E. Hughes, Associate Curator of the Albright Knox Art Gallery and Leonard Urso, of the Rochester Institute of Technology. We’re looking forward to seeing who will be chosen for the 2009 exhibition.”
The show will open in the Olean Public Library Gallery and on Jamestown Community College’s Olean campus on May 9, 2009 and continue until June 20th, 2009. The Southern Tier Biennial is a collaboration among the Cattaraugus County Arts Council, Olean Public Library, Jamestown Community College, and the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation.
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