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Featured Artist: Stephen Palmer “Mixed Media and Oil Paintings”

The Broome County Arts Council presents the works of Stephen Palmer.

 

Stephen Palmer, professor, fine artist, designer and animator will show his oil paintings and mixed media works at the Broome County Arts Council. Palmer is a resident of Kirkwood, New York and is employed at Binghamton University.

On his art Palmer has said “When a client or viewer can look at my work and see my vision, I am creatively satisfied and rewarded. I strive to use this theory in my teaching by applying solid methodologies. My students need to feel rewarded by their hard work – this will help them to achieve their goals. And when a student keeps me updated in their success of their goals, I am filled with a sense of achievement.´ and “Human emotion is contrasted with nature vs. industrial surroundings. What affects our thought processes? What do we yearn for? Is it nature's sustenance and beauty? Or is it materialistic and greed?"

2018 United Cultural Fund Campaign

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Broome County Arts Council Kicks off the 2018 United Cultural Fund Campaign

                  The Broome County Arts Council announces the kickoff of the 2018 United Cultural Fund Campaign. The United Cultural Fund, now in its 30th year, supports the Arts in Broome County through general operating and program grants to Arts organizations, individual artists andcommunity organizations who conduct arts events and programs. In 2018 the United Cultural Fund will surpass 10 million dollars in grants to the arts since its inception.

                  BCAC Board President, Susan Appe says  “The United Cultural Fund (UCF) is the way to support all arts in Broome County from the world-class performances of the Tri-Cities Opera to the cutting edge multi-media presentations like Installation|Music. Funding through the UCF encourages students in the Emerging Artist program and the Binghamton Youth Symphony, as well as supports the musicians of the Binghamton Community Orchestra, the Downtown Singers and the Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition, it further sustains the performances at EPAC, The Goodwill Theater, the Summer Savoyards, SPARE Productions, the ART Mission and Theater and S.R.O. Productions. The UCF funded the poetry of the Binghamton Center for Writers and individual artist like Scott Danzig, Lori Dayton and Brian Murphy to present to works to our community.”

Arthur Garrison, BCAC Interim Executive Director adds that, “Through the UCF the arts are brought to many more people by collaborative efforts with organizations like the Boys and Girls Club, Kopernik Society, the Phelps Mansion and the Southern Tier Solar Works. It helps produce art exhibits at the Roberson Museum, Vestal Museum and Nanticoke Valley Historic Society which are available to the entire community. In addition, at the Broome County Arts Council, we provide exhibit space to local artists, deliver seminars on the business of art and promote artists and arts events.”

The Campaign Goal for 2018 is $282,000.

Contributions to the United Cultural Fund may be made through the Broome County Arts Council website, www.broomearts.org  or can be mailed to BCAC, 81 State Street, Suite 501, Binghamton NY 13901.

 

Public Artists Nominated for Heart of the Arts!

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BC Arts Council announces Heart of the Arts Winners on August 10th

Every other year the Arts Council members vote on nominations for the Heart of the Arts award for extraordinary accomplishments in the previous two years. This year, Peg Johnston of the Dept of Public Art, Cooperative Gallery, and the Bridge has been nominated, as well as Emily Jablon, who has created several mosaic public art installations.

Johnston is nominated for "making blight the inspiration for art" for the original murals affixed to boarded up buildings in Binghamton, for managing the "Birthplace of Virtual Reality" murals in the Water St. Parking Ramp, and for "sparking" an arts renaissance and transforming a derelict block into "State of the Art St." And for coordinating 50 volunteers for Mural Fest 2015.

Jablon is nominated for creating the ""Confluence Arts Project" installing mosaics, and for engaging at risk and underserved populations and people with disabilities in artistic activities.

Other nominees are Susan Ashbaker Director of the Tri Cities Opera for leading the organization from financial and organizational challenges, and for introducing "opera writ large";  Harold and Toby Jean Manker, Program Directors of the Phelps Mansion Museum for chartering the Phelps as a "house museum" and initiating musical events; Alvin Williams III of Classical Pianists of the Future for "Helping young talented classical pianists follow their dreams."

Voting is open to members of the Arts Council until July 29th. Membership is $35/year.

The Broome County Arts Council will announce winners of its 2016 Heart of the Arts and Lifetime Achievement Awards during a news conference at 10am,  Wednesday, August 10th at the at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel’s Sun Briar Court in downtown Binghamton
 
Awards will be presented Monday September 19th at the 11th Heart of the Arts Award Celebration, DoubleTree Hotel Grand Ballroom, downtown Binghamton.  Tickets are $55 for general admission and $50 for arts council members. For more information  
e-mail information@broomearts.org or call 607-723-4620.
 

 

Broome County Arts Council Announces Grants

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BCAC ANNOUNCES $232,815 IN GRANTS FOR 2016
 
On Wednesday, March 16, 2016, the Broome County Arts Council (BCAC), located at 81 State Street, Suite 501, Binghamton awarded $232,815 in United Cultural Fund (UCF) grants this year to 22 local arts organizations, community non-profits, and individual artists.   BCAC announced the funding at a10:30am news conference today.  For 2016, UCF grants will help support the operations of 7 major arts organizations, as well as 15 community non-profit and individual artist projects.  Funded projects range from choral music to dance, classes to concerts, photography to printmaking, theatre productions to poetry and film festivals.
 
Established to sustain the arts in Broome County, the UCF is the only active, locally-funded, combined campaign for the arts in south-central New York, and one of only 7 such programs in New York State.  Major donors who invested in BCAC’s campaign for UCF 2016 include the Hoyt Foundation, Broome County government, Decker Foundation, Gaffney Foundation, M & T Bank, IBM, other local businesses and corporations, and a host of individuals.   The 2016 Campaign raised a total of $278,459 85% of which is allocated to this year’s grant awards.  BCAC receives 15% for administration.   Last year, UCF grantees collectively returned more than $4.6 million dollars to Broome County’s economy.   For more information, call 607-723-4620, e-mail lkdavis@broomearts.org or visit BroomeArts.org.

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