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Schweinfurth exhibition features friends who focus on the natural world

Martha Deming and Mary Murphy, both from Oneida County, met as teacher and student

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Lake Placid artist paints a different view of Adirondack residents

September 7, 2023

Painter Susan Hoffer, who lives in Lake Placid, is featured in a solo exhibit, “Rural Voice Rising: Can Art Subvert Media’s Narrative?”, on display at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, NY, from Sept. 1 to Oct. 15, 2023. Her paintings of North Country residents draw attention for her process as well as their descriptive titles and explanations.

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“Member Show 2023” highlights talent of Schweinfurth members

August 31, 2023

Schweinfurth Art Center’s “Member Show 2023,” which runs Sept. 1 through Oct. 15, 2023, includes 120 works from 128 people this year. The show contains a wide variety of mediums, including photographs, watercolors, collages, and even a dress made from palm fronds. It also has drawn entries from as far away as California and Florida.

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Two blue outdoor lamps and their reflection into the white wall behind them

Moravia photographer reflects on a lifetime of making art

August 29, 2023

Moravia, NY, photographer Fred Price’s solo exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center comprises his entire life’s work. But the pieces on display mirror his focus on reflections.

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Rochester-area artist’s work travels the yellow brick road

June 25, 2023

Kevin Carr began dabbling in fabric as a medium while at Alfred University, and cemented his love for textiles when he inherited boxes of denim scraps from his grandmother

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Renowned quilt maker Nancy Crow to show her work at Schweinfurth

June 25, 2023

The artworks featured in well-known quilt maker Nancy’s Crow’s exhibition, “Nancy Crow: Sequences, Riffs, and Drawings,” represent three directions her process has taken her based on her lifelong challenge of staying focused. After many years of creating art in many directions, Crow said it’s coming together.

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Artist seeks to bridge gap between science and mysticism

June 25, 2023

Buffalo-based artist Gary Sczerbaniewicz builds beautiful wooden pedestals that have small windows. Look inside and you’ll get a peek into the artist’s mind as you view miniature dioramas of a normal bedroom – until you notice the arm of an enormous insect reaching in through a window.

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Detail from one of Tyrone Johnson-Neuland showing the red outline of a mostly blue head surrounded by bright yellow paint

Tyrone Johnson-Neuland finds balance between work and art

March 21, 2023

He is this year’s first Emerging Artist to be featured in both the Schweinfurth Art Center and Cayuga Museum of History & Art from March 25 through May 28, 2023

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The view looking upward at bare deciduous trees with a flock of birds flying overhead

Nature inspires “Made in NY” artists in many different ways

March 15, 2023

Many of artists featured in “Made in NY 2023,” which opens March 25 at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, have been inspired by nature.

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A closeup view of white and beige ribbons attached to a fishing net and hung on a gallery wall. One clearly reads, "You don't look Hispanic."

Theda Sandiford releases everyday microaggressions through her art

March 12, 2023

She invites gallery visitors to release their own microaggression burdens by adding to the “Free Your Mind” public art installation and depositing objects that represent their microaggressions into her baggage carts

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