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Shari Werner, Fracture (detail), 2022.

Quilts=Arts=Quilts artists make statements with their materials

A fifth of participants in this year's art quilt exhibition use reclaimed fabric in their work

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Schweinfurth exhibit draws record number of senior artists

January 28, 2025

The Schweinfurth Art Center’s “Both Ends of the Rainbow” exhibit has always included artwork from both kindergarten to 12th grade students and senior citizens. But the number of seniors participating has jumped 47% since last year.

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An art quilt showing circles shifting from black to pink to gray

Quilts=Art=Quilts artists make statements with their materials

October 30, 2024

Canadian fiber artist Fuzzy Mall and at least 10 other artists featured in “Quilts=Art=Quilts 2024” at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn use reclaimed fabrics – thrift store clothes, discarded upholstery scraps, damaged vintage quilts – in their work.

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Images from construction

October 30, 2024

View images from the Schweinfurth’s part of the construction of the West End Arts Campus

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Fall exhibit is open while construction continues

September 15, 2024

With the completion of the walkway at the front entrance, we are fully open with our new exhibit “Beyond the Surface: Contemporary Artists and Printed Textiles” now on view.

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An excavator piles up sections of concrete removed from the front of the Schweinffurth Art Center

Schweinfurth to reopen Aug. 31 with nationally significant exhibit

August 27, 2024

Schweinfurth’s front entrance construction is mostly completed in time for Saturday’s opening reception

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Schweinfurth hosts groundbreaking exhibit of printed textiles

August 7, 2024

This fall, Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, NY, will display a nationally significant exhibit that highlights the practice of printing on textiles in the exhibit “Beyond the Surface: Contemporary Artists and Printed Textiles.”

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Schweinfurth Art Center Pauses Exhibits During Summer Construction

May 15, 2024

Schweinfurth is closing its galleries as constructions begins for the West End Arts Campus, while the art center remains open for classes, clay studio, and gift shop sales.

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Schweinfurth’s annual “Made in NY” features diversity of mediums, topics

March 19, 2024

The artworks in “Made in NY 2024” at Schweinfurth Art Center represent a diverse set of mediums: a foam sheep covered in printed pink fabrics, a painting of a rural road partially covered with water, and a moody night photograph of a diner, its lighted sign beckoning people to come inside, for example.

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Marcellus artist Eric Shute paints his watercolors en plein air

March 8, 2024

You can usually find Marcellus artist Eric Shute outdoors, painting with his watercolors. “I am most often attracted to natural motifs: rock ledges, trees, streams, and waterfalls; partly because I love painting outdoors but also because I am fascinated by the effects of sunlight on the objects,” he said.

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