Volume 37 Issue 3 May and June 2011

YATES COUNTY ARTS CENTERYATES COUNTY ARTS CENTERYATES COUNTY ARTS CENTERYATES COUNTY ARTS CENTER

“On the Move” Campaign is Up and Running Anonymous Donor Offers $10,000 Matching Gift

Your gift to Yates County Arts Center’s On the Move capital campaign could be twice as valuable! An anonymous matching gift to encourage the next $10,000 in donations to YCAC’s renovation project will effectively double the impact of every gift made until the $10,000 threshold is reached. “We’re very excited about this generous gift,” YCAC board president Sandra Murrin told supporters at a March 25th campaign kick-off event. “We need to raise $85,000 in order to fund the renovations needed to transform the Maxwell Building into a multi-functional art center. This is certainly a big boost in the right direction.” More than 100 area residents gathered at YCAC’s East Elm Street gallery to celebrate the formal start of the On the Move campaign. Thanks to several generous donors and unanimous financial support from board members, On the Move has already raised over $30,000. The campaign is officially up and running, off to a great start! At the March gala, supporters enjoyed wine generously supplied by Hunt Country Vineyards, hors d’oeuvres provided by a number of volunteers, and music from pianist Tom Foulkes as they perused preliminary sketches of the work to be done on the Main Street building.

Board members explained that the first floor plans provide for expanded gallery space, while the sec-ond floor will be dedicated to studio and classroom use, enabling YCAC to consolidate activities into an active downtown arts hub. “We’re confident,” says Murrin “that this project is good for Penn Yan, good for Yates County, and good for the arts. That’s why On the Move needs everyone’s support.” You can make your tax deductible gift to YCAC’s On the Move capital campaign in person at the East Elm Street Gallery, online at www.ycac.org/support or by mail addressed to YCAC Capital Campaign 119 East Elm Street Penn Yan, NY 14527. Remember, thanks to a very generous donor, the next $10,000 in gifts will be twice as valuable . So show your support for this exciting project today!

PAGE 2 VOLUME 37 ISSUE 3

YCAC Board Members:

Class of 2011 Sam Castner Ginny Deneka

Howard LeVant Bill Bailey

Class of 2012 Joan Belles

Fred Brockway Dave Coon

Daniel Crozet Janis Long Mary Mann

Kent Salisbury

Class of 2013 Dick Barney

Ann Dunmore Caryl Flickinger Tammy Ladd Dick Murphy Sandy Murrin

Charlotte Wytias

Newsletter Editor Bonnie Barney

YCAC‘s programs are supported in part with public funds from the

New York State Council on the Arts.

The mission of YCAC is

to enrich the quality of life of Finger Lakes

residents, artists, and visitors by providing

opportunities for active participation in the arts.

To this end, we plan, promote, and develop

art programs and projects; coordinate,

schedule, and publicize events; develop & main-tain physical facilities.

Programs of YCAC are supported by an annual

grant from the Yates County Legislature, from

commissions collected on Gallery

sales, and by memberships .

Attic Cleaning? Attic Art Sale! I know we are all thinking Spring...cleaning! That of course reminds me of our Attic Art Sale which we will hold in August this year. This sale is a fund raiser for Community Arts Grants. Members of the community receive a monetary incentive to involve art activities in a number of places. Programs for children, adults, and seniors have all experienced an artful happening through this grant.

As you spring clean, consider donating your unwanted artistic valuables to the cen-ter for someone else to enjoy. We seek artwork, antiques, fine linens, crystal, china, jewelry, pottery, silver, and small furnishings. You can drop your items off at the Center, but please call in advance so someone can assist you. If you need items picked up, you may call me (536-5947) or email me (smmurrin@roadrunner.com) and we will be happy to do that. This will be our first Attic Art Sale right on Main Street and we want to show all the main street passersby our fine fare. Sandy Murrin

New Board Member

Dick Barney has been elected to fill an unexpired term on the Board of Directors. A Penn Yan resident, Dick is a software developer who spends his free time playing tennis and promoting the Penn Yan Rac-quet Club.

He enjoys music, dance, paint-ings...none of which he can pro-duce, but all of which he appreci-ates. His support for the arts is obvi-ous when you see him carting and setting up his wife’s tent for an

Summer Intern

Get ready to welcome our new summer intern! Ayuko Sakuri is finishing her freshman year at Keuka College. A na-tive of Japan, Ayuko attended high school in Switzerland and has traveled extensively in Europe. She was at-tracted to Keuka because of the small size and the focus on experiential, hands on learning. An art major, Ayuko likes working in jewelry and beads and is also interested in acting, films and music (she

plays the flute). You can see a couple examples of Ayuko’s work in the student art show at the Lightner Gallery at Keuka. She starts at the Gallery in June.

Acting Executive Director

The Board of Directors of Yates County Arts Center is pleased to introduce Kristine Pearson, as the Center’s acting interim Executive Director. Kris resides in Branchport with her five year old chocolate lab appropriately named Éclair. Kris has years of experience in proposal development and grants ad-ministration. She brings a strong non profit background in managing opera-tions, finances, programs, and planning to the Center. After completing a Bache-lor of Arts in Rhetoric and Sociology de-gree from Bates College in Lewiston

Maine and graduate courses in Educa-tional Philosophy and Educational Ad-ministration, Kris began her career in many rural settings in Michigan, New York and Vermont. Her last job responsi-bility included Director of Development at Keuka College. Kristine has shared with us that she is a passionate amateur pho-tographer, canoeing instructor and proud aunt of three; Molly, Abby and Jack. We are delighted that Kristine has agreed to support YCAC through this transition as Acting Director because she is exactly what we need as we move into a busy season, building plans and our existing Capital Campaign. Please visit the Center where Kris will be busy in the office creating sea-sonal classes and workshops both in Penn Yan and Sunny Point, helping with our building progress and fund development and in general keeping us organized.

PAGE 3 VOLUME 37 ISSUE 3

WHEELS Featuring Paintings by Bob Gillespie and Photography of Sid Mann

Reception Friday, June 3, 5:00-7:00 PM

June in Penn Yan is Cruisin’ Night (June 17), so what better way to ramp up for that than to feature “Wheels” for the Yates Gallery exhibit beginning June 3, continu-ing through July 16.

The opening reception: Friday evening

June 3 from 5-7 PM with wines from Glenora Winery.

Drop off for artists will be Tuesday, May 31st

Photographer Sid Mann's Interest in the World of Automobiles

In 1950 as a young boy I first attended the races at Watkins Glen. Armed with an Argus C3 camera I walked the streets of the village shooting the sleek cars assembled there to participate in a race through the village and across the countryside. This is my earli-est memory from a continuing fascination with exotic automobiles. I remember Dave Garroway, a television personality, in his Jaguar, Miles Collier in his MG and Jim Kimberly in his Ferrari. There were also cars in town for show in addition to those destined to race. There were Bugattis, Deusenbergs, Cord, Auburns, names which today mean little to most people but to this young high school student they were an introduc-tion to a lifetime of fascination with antique and foreign cars. During my second Glen Gran Prix the next year I was further enraptured by being asked to help with the race scoring. since, in those days scoring was done by hand and not with fancy timing instruments. I was among several boys assigned to call out the numbers of the race cars as they sped past the scorer's stand on the court house steps. By this time I was reading all I could about foreign cars and collecting information in a scrapbook which contained some of my earliest photo-graphs of cars. As I matured and gained training in both pho-tography and art I began to see elements of automo-biles as designs with shapes, colors, and textures in addition to being machines of sophisticated engineering and amazing performance and elegance. I have recently been intrigued with isolating ar-tistic compositions using automotive elements in my photography. These shots frequently present the viewer with a photo which, if not so selectively presented, might never have been appreciated.

Bob Gillespie and Watkins Glen Bob’s first trip to Watkins Glen when he was 11 years old instilled a love of the sport of auto racing. His childhood sketches became focused on the sleek shapes of the cars he enjoyed so much .Gillespie’s work steadily matured and now, as a member of the American Automotive Artists Society, his recent paint-ings of Watkins Glen racing history not only capture the details of the racing cars, but the action and ex-citement of each event. In these works, the spectators and landscape have equal importance to the cars and drivers. Relying on the advice of local historian Bill Green, he has produced a body of art that appears in collections on both sides of the Atlantic. During the past few years, Hybrid gas/electric cars and Alternate Fueled Vehicles (AFVs) have caught Gillespie’s attention, as they have appeared increas-ingly on the road and in the news. Interest in this new breed of vehicles has also rekindled this artist / edu-cator’s environmental awareness, resulting in his or-ganization of the first “Green Grand Prix” in Septem-ber of 2005. This year’s Green Grand Prix was held at Watkins Glen International Speedway and received interna-tional media coverage including the NY Times and the Washington Post. For details, please visit www.greengrandprix.com.

PAGE 4 VOLUME 37 ISSUE 3

Saturday, June 11 - 7:30 PM Pre-season Concert by Richard Auldon Clark's students at Hunt Country Vineyards

Saturday, June 18 - 7:30 PM: Brahms Bombshell Opening Concert at Hunt Country Vineyards, Branchport Richard Auldon Clark and Special guests, Russian String Quartet Brahms Quintet in F major Brahms Quintet in G major

Sunday, July 3 - 6:00 PM Picnic, 7:30 PM Concert: Safe Sax Americana Concert and Picnic under the big top at Hunt Country Vineyards Saxophone and Strings will play Gershwin, Alec Wilder, Duke Ellington, more

Sunday, July 10 - 7:30 PM: Piano Delig hts Concert at Norton Chapel, Keuka College Brahms Piano Quartet in A major Arthur Foote Piano Quartet

Wednesday, July 13 - 6:30 PM: Bach to Rock Free Concert in the Penn Yan Courthouse Lawn Series Electric Keyboard, Strings, Drums South American music, Klezmer, Celtic, American

Fiddler, Classic Rock, (Beatles, Kansas, Cream), Bach, Paganini. World Music, Jazz, Tangos

Friday, July 15 - 7:30 PM: Flute Favorites Concert at Penn Yan First Baptist Church, 224 Main Street, Penn Yan Flute Quartet playing Mozart, Rossini, Boccerini, Hooper

Saturday, July 16 - 7:00 PM: Ashokan Farewell Concert by Jay Unger & Molly Mason of Ken Burns "Civil War" fame Norton Chapel, Keuka College Yates County Historical Society Event Combined Concert Weekend Special Offer: July 15 & 16 package, two concerts for $28.

Saturday, July 23 - 7:30 PM: The Strings Weave the Tale Concert at Hunt Country Vineyards, Branchport Schubert's "Death of a Maiden", Dvorak, Gordon Jacob

Sunday, July 31 - 7:30 PM: Winds & Strings Sweep into the 20 th Century Concert at Norton Chapel, Keuka College Violin, Viola, Piano, Flute, Clarinet, Oboe Bloch, Durufle, Thompson, Loeffler, more

Finger Lakes Chamber Music Festival 2011

The big top is back for an Americana picnic and concert July 3...amps and electronic strings will be heard for a free Wednesday night concert at the Yates County Court House Park...a weekend concert package is planned with the Yates County Historical Society “Ashokan Farewell” with Molly Mason and Jay Unger.

Go to www.FingerLakes-Music.org for more details and to purchase tickets. FLCMF concert tickets are $18, students FREE. Members (making a $50 donation or more) may purchase 6 tickets for the price of 5. Tickets are generally available at the door. Reservations for the July 3 picnic must be made by June 25. Adult picnic/concert $33, Age 6-10 $7, younger children free. The July 15 & 16 combination ticket is $28 for the two concerts. Ques-tions? Leave your number clearly at 315-536-0383 and we’ll get back to you.

WANTED Artists for “Sundays at Sunny Point”

YCAC kindly invites artists to participate on “Sundays at Sunny Point” scheduled for Sunday, July 10 and Sunday, September 11 from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM.

On Sunday July 10, the theme for the day is “3 P’s at Sunny Point”. Dedicated to the visual arts of painting, printmaking, and photography, artists will have the opportunity to exhibit and sell their work. Sunday, September 11, jewelry designers, clay artists and sculptors will gather to exhibit and to sell their art. The theme for this Sunday is “Hands On”.

We invite you, for a fee of $25, to participate and help YCAC continue the tradition of promoting local and regional artists in a setting surrounded by the lake, hills and summer breezes. Please contact Janis Long at (215) 297-0696 or email her at janis.l.long@gmail.com for additional information and to request an application. Applications may also be downloaded from www.YCAC.org. Deadline date for applications is June 15, 2011.

PAGE 5 VOLUME 37 ISSUE 3

Artists: to set up your FREE

personal listing on YCAC’s

website, send up to six photos

(.jpeg or .gif please) of your art

and one of yourself (optional)

to ArtsCenter@YCAC.org and

we’ll do the rest.

Yo, Artists...

Here’s the show schedule for 2011 for you to clip and tape to your refrigerator :

“Wheels” Drop off: Tues. May 31 Opening: Fri. June 3, 5-7PM

“Local Life” Drop off: Mon. July 18 Opening: Fri. July 22, 5-7PM

Penn Yan Art Guild Exhibit Drop off: Tues. Sept. 6 Opening: Fri. Sept. 9, 5-7 PM

“Natural Abstraction” Drop off: Tues. Oct. 11 Opening: Fri. Oct. 14, 5-7 PM

“Celebration 2011: Wood Works” Drop off: Mon. Nov. 14 Opening: Sun. Nov 20 1-3PM Pick up: Dec. 27-30

**Pick up work on the next show’s drop-off date.**

Keuka Arts

Festival

June 11-12

Cleanup Day at Sunny Point . 868 East Lake Road, 8 miles south of Penn Yan

Cleanup Day at Sunny Point: Saturday, May 14, from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. Spring is in the air and this work day is a great way to enjoy the fresh air and lake view with group of friends and neighbors while exercising those gardening and cleaning muscles! We will spruce up the facilities and grounds of this gorgeous property to prepare for the summer’s three Sundays at Sunny Point, the summer workshops, the artist in resident and host residency programs.

Many hands make light work! Hope to see you there…bring a lunch and if you have them, your garden tools. Breakfast coffee, juice and donuts will be provided. For additional infor-mation and to RSVP, please contact Janis Long at (215) 297-0696 or email her at janis.l.long@gmail.com. (Look at Arianne Tepper’s dirty knees!)

YATES COUNTY PHOTOGRAPHY CLUBYATES COUNTY PHOTOGRAPHY CLUBYATES COUNTY PHOTOGRAPHY CLUBYATES COUNTY PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB President Gene Parsons 315-789-4563

Vice President Lyle Conrad 607-868-4673

Dues are due, $5.00 per person, $9.00 for a family. Anyone interested is welcome to join. The Club will meet at 7:00 P.M., June 16th at the Gallery. We will hold a display and critique of spring flower photos and or na-ture photos taken by those attending the meeting. Anyone interested is welcome to attend.

The Yates County Photography Club will meet at 7:00 P.M., May 19th at the Gallery, 119 East Elm Street, Penn Yan. The program will be a presentation of "Photographs I Am Proud Of'“ by club members and anyone else attending. These can be film or digital, prints snap-shots or slides. This will be our annual meeting.

MASTER DISASTER: 5 NEW Strategies for Outstanding Paintings

Susan Webb Tregay – Artist Instructor

PAGE 6 VOLUME 37 ISSUE 3

and added "and when I came I thought that I knew everything!" This is what she and many, many others have learned. This course is taught in watercolor, but the strategies and the confi-dence that they inspire apply to all artists in every media. 1. Learn a secret technique for cor-recting and adjusting your painting 2. Learn how to creatively deal with boring spaces 3. Learn what makes "mud" and dead colors, how to avoid them, and how to use color strategies to express content 4. Create an indispensable "flip book" for organizing both color and design strategies 5. Learn what is content and why it is the secret ingredient in fine art. Through painting, demos, discus-sions, power-point programs, and one-on-ones, participants will work though these five simple steps to take any painting to a full-bodied, exciting completion. Throughout this course artists will be experi-menting on a couple of unfinished paintings. Ugly, problematic paint-ings are the best! Everyone will go on to create paintings in his own style and areas of interest.

the Transparent Watercolor Soci-ety of America, and she teaches workshops around the country. Tregay is the author of many arti-

cles and the book and DVD, Master Disaster: Five Ways to Rescue Desperate Watercolors. Check out Susan’s web-site at

www.susanwebbtregay.com. During this workshop, based on her book, "Master Disaster: Five Ways to Rescue Desperate Water-colors", Susan Webb Tregay will share her secrets for making mas-terpieces out of potential disasters. This course is built to inspire confi-dence in new and experienced art-ists painting in any media. Never again will you ask yourself "what should I paint" or "now what do I with this painting!" One very ex-perienced artist exclaimed how much she learned from the course,

Yates County Arts Center is pleased to host a 5-Day Susan Webb Tregay Watercolor Work-shop in Penn Yan the week of July 11-15, Monday through Friday, from 9:00-4:00. Register early so you won't miss out on this won-derful opportunity. Check out the YCAC website at www.ycac.org to find more information and print out a regis-tration form. You may also call the Arts Center at 315-536-8226 to register or have a registration form sent to you. Payment is expected at time of registration. Cost of this work-shop is $250 for YCAC members; $300 for non-members. Tregay is a nationally recognized artist, participating in international exhibitions, and recently winning an award from the Society of Acrylic Painters. Thirty-eight Cor-porations have her paintings in their collections. She is originally from Buffalo, NY but now resides in Hendersonville, NC. She is a signature member of the National Watercolor Society and

Bike by Susan Webb Tregay

Red Jacket Writers’ Group

Yates County Arts Center is orga-nizing its 2011 Artists Studio Tour and Art Sale scheduled for Satur-day, August 6 and Sunday, August 7, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm. Besides the many artist studios open to the public, both Saturday and Sun-day, artists will also be clustered at Yates County Arts Center's Gallery in Penn Yan, YCAC's Sunny Point loca-tion on E. Lake Rd, The Art Barn on Blue Spruce Lane, and other sites on or near Keuka Lake. These art clusters provide ease for the visitor and greater expo-sure for the artists. Artists have more visitors when studios are clustered. Consider creating a cluster of studios by inviting art-ists in your area to participate with you or if you have space in your studio offer to host one or more artists to share your space. The Tour would also welcome various centralized outdoor loca-tions that could accommodate

artists’ 10’ x 10’ tents. YCAC will help connect artists who wish to participate with those with indoor or outdoor space to share.

Participating art-ists are greatly encouraged to provide demon-strations of their artistic process during the YCAC Artists Studio Tour and Art Sale. If not actually cre-ating art during the Tour, it is highly

recommended that each studio have an actual art production area (materials and tools dis-played, works in process, etc.) open to the public. Be-sides the art, this is what the public comes to see during a studio tour. Join the fun and excite-ment of the YCAC Art-ists Studio Tour & Art Sale and this great op-portunity to meet and

greet your public, sell direct, and network. More information along with the Registration Form may be found on the YCAC website Stu-dio Tour page. For further infor-mation call Carol Conti at 315-730-0207. Fill out the registration form, attach the necessary membership and registration fees, and mail to YCAC Artists Studio Tour & Sale, 119 E. Elm Street, Penn Yan, NY 14527. Registration is due by May 1st to ensure inclusion in the Artist Stu-dio Tour brochure. Registration forms submitted after that date are welcomed but may not make the printing deadline for the Studio Tour Brochure.

Artists, please act now to reserve your place and be included in the publicity material.

Monday, May 16, 3-5pm: The Property Deed

Monday, June 20, 3-5 pm:

The Hand-Drawn Map

Questions? Call Barb Wohl-schlegel 585-526-5787

EVERYONE’S WELCOME!

Meeting on the third Monday, from 3-5 PM at The Yates Gallery, 119 E Elm St, the Red Jacket Writers gather to read from current writing projects, whether fiction, non-fiction, poetry, mem-oir, mystery. If you can’t think of a topic, let your imagination loose on one of these topics:

Seeking Artists for 2011 Studio Tour and Art Sale

Hannelore Wolcott Bailey in her studio on the 2010 Tour

Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all. De-accession euphemisms. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky. Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague. ~William Safire, "Great Rules of Writing"

PAGE 7 VOLUME 37 ISSUE 3

Barb and Eric Havill at their pottery studio

PAGE 8 VOLUME 37 ISSUE 3

YCAC Spring Classes and Workshops Workshop Space temporarily at Yates Gallery, 119 East Elm Street, Penn Yan

Unless specified as Sunny Point, 868 East Lake Rd. (Rte 54), Dundee

Intergenerational

Stamping Fun Instructor: Kathy Wheat Mondays, May 16 & June 20, 5:00pm to 7:00pm $10.00 Members or Non-Members Age Group: All Ages Come learn some creative stamping techniques while creating cards and other paper crafts. Projects are beginner friendly. Class meets on the 3rd Monday of every month. Please register in advance as class fills quickly

Youth

Anything but Flat Instructor: Robin Secrest Tuesdays, May 10 - May 31 Session 1- 12:30-2:30* Session 2- 3:30-5:30 $20.00 Members or Non-Members Age Group: Ages 8 and up. *Session 1 - no charge for LEAH/Homeschooled students Let's discover the three dimensional with carving, building, molding, shaping and sculpting. We'll investigate new materials each week. Who needs flat when you can build 3-D? Students will design and construct 3-D objects coming off a flat surface, learn composition, and be inspired by extensions into space. Collage for Kids ages 8 and up Instructor: Robin Secrest Tuesdays, June 7- June 28 Session 1- 12:30-2:30*; Session 2- 3:30-5:30 $20.00 Members or Non-Members Assemble pictures with layers of papers, create a distinct look, try a unique approach. Open your eyes to seeing in a fresh way! Students will create images with a variety of torn papers: transparent, patterned, solid. Each week will feature a new approach and new activities. *Session 1 - no charge for LEAH/Homeschooled Students

Adults

Basket Making (May Basket) Instructor: Joan Belles Saturday, May 14, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm Location: Joan’s Waterfront Weavery (directions on our website, or call 536-8226) $36.00 Members $48.00 Non-Members Create a basket for May flowers using natural materials under the direction of master basket weaver Joan Belles. Materials fee paid directly to instructor. Class reserva-tions must be made 2 weeks in advance to order materi-als.

Silk Scarf Design Instructor: Sandi Cirillo Saturday, May 21, 1:00pm to 4:00pm $20.00 Members, $30.00 Non-Members Students will learn about Shibori, the Japanese resist method for creating designs on silk using a PVC pipe. Students will be given the opportunity to paint directly on silk. Wearable artwork! Materials fee $10 payable to instructor Creative Collage for Adults Instructor: Charlotte DiGennaro Wednesday. June 1, 9:00am - 3:00pm $30.00 Members , $40.00 Non-Members Instructor will lead students on an exploration of collage using torn papers, stained and painted tissue paper, textured and other materials to create unique and creatively designed pieces. Color Fun for Adults Instructor: Robin Secrest Tuesdays, June 7 - June 28, 6:00 - 8:00pm $48.00 Members, $64.00 Non-Members Participants experiment with various sophisticated color palettes. Learn mixing for value and contrast. Open to all levels from beginner to advanced. The properties of color will be explored. Teenagers welcome at half the adult fee. Please call 536-8226 for more information. Wood Sculpture Instructor: Marc Freedman Sat.—Tues., June 11- June 14, 10:00am - 3:00pm Location: Sunny Point $120.00 Members, $160.00 Non-Members The class is geared toward wood (recycled and re-claimed) and will involve both hand and power tools. Marc Freedman will also demonstrate making concrete bases

YATES COUNTY ARTS CENTER CREATIVE WORKSHOP REGISTRA TION FORM Student Name: ___________________________________________ Phone: _____________________

Member _______ Non-Member _______

Address: ______________________________________ City, State, & Zip: _______________________________

Home Phone: ____________________ Cell: ____________________ Email: ______________________

Course Titles:__________________________________ Fee: _______ Materials Fee? _______________ ___________________________________ _______ _______________

METHOD OF PAYMENT Total $ ______________

* CHECK (payable to YCAC) * MASTER CARD * VISA

CARD # ______________________________________ EXPIRATION DATE: _____________

Signature__________________________________ Mail to: YCAC, 119 E. Elm St., Penn Yan, NY 14527

Registration Info /Refund Policy

· Full class fee is required at registration. Absolutely NO partial class fees. One may make up missed class if available. · Class size is limited; please register early to avoid closed classes. · Enrollment is on a “first come first served” basis. · Classes with inadequate enrollment are cancelled 1 week before the first class meeting so please register early . All fees re-funded when YCAC cancels a class. · Refunds of class fees, less $10 administrative fee, are made for withdrawals prior to 2 business days before to first class or 2 weeks prior for full week workshop. · Contact the Arts Center at 315-536-8226 if you have any questions. You may register by phone with a credit card, or send a check to YCAC, 119 E. Elm St., Penn Yan, 14527.

PAGE 9 VOLUME 37 ISSUE 3

for the work, adding this as an additional medium. Par-ticipants will learn how to identify the potential of using found and recycled objects in sculptural design and util-ize inventive methods for executing it in a finished form. Explore conceptual ideas for expression and organiza-tion in three dimensional objects to produce a final piece of work. Students must have safety glasses, dust mask and (optional) gloves. New Techniques in Watercolor Instructor: Charlotte DiGennaro Wednesdays, June 22 - July 6, 9:00am to 12:00noon $55.00 Members , $72.00 Non-Members Instructor will explore a variety of watercolor techniques with all levels of painters. Creativity will be encouraged while having fun with the medium. Wet into Wet Watercolor Instructor: Ed Steinhilper Saturday, June 25, 9:00am to 3:00pm Location: Sunny Point $45.00 Members, $55.00 Non-Members Using large brushes and a limited palette, students ex-plore the wet into wet method for clean transparent and lively paintings. A truly evocative watercolor results. Additional topics include composition, toning paper, lift-ing pigment for retaining crisp whites.

Solar Printmaking Instructor: Roger Hyndman Tues.—Thurs., June 28 - June 30, 9:00am - 2:00pm Location: Sunny Point $96.00 Members , $128.00 Non-Members Participants will enjoy making printing plates in the sun and developing them with ordinary tap water. No acids are used in this process.

PAGE 10 VOLUME 37 ISSUE 3

The Penn Yan Art Guild offers mutual support for local artists, dabblers to pros. Co-Presidents Phyllis Maciag (607-243-7191) and Char DiGennaro (315-531-8201) welcome the public to any PYAG events. Membership costs a mere $15 per year to be eligible to display your art at the annual exhibit in the Yates Gal-lery. An associate membership is $10. Membership chair is Fran Bliek (607-227-2475) and Treasurer is Sally Thomas (3598 Sid White Rd., Keuka Park, NY 14478).

Next Program On Wednesday, May 18, 7:00 PM. The PYAG will meet at Yates Gallery, 119 East Elm Street, at 7:00 PM. The program will be a presentation by Brett Steeves of the Somers Art Gallery in Hammondsport. He will do an airbrush demonstration, showing how it can produce quick and realistic shadows and highlights, be used to

add depth to more abstract pieces, or by spraying through various materials can create interesting textures. On Wednesday, June 8, at 9:00 AM the PYAG will meet for plein air painting at Borghlum’s Iris Gar-dens, 2202 Austin Road, Geneva. Follow signs from the intersection in Hall. Save Tuesday, July 26, for a summer plein air painting date.

Volunteer in the Spotlight Fred Brockway lives in a modest apartment in a reno-vated building across Seneca Street from the Smith Opera House in Geneva. When he is not patrolling the Smith, Fred spends his time in Penn Yan with the Yates County Arts Center, where he sits on the board of directors, chairs the workshop committee and is integrally involved with the pending renovation of the Maxwell building. He also sat on the Geneva Community Projects com-mittee that facilitated the incredible Kenneth Millington

mural on Castle Street, depicting the history of Seneca Lake. Well, what do you expect? Fred is only 79, which in his case is the new 39. He is inde-fatigable, always smiling and even-tempered. Peo-ple like him, and he likes people. His only disease is a chronic case of vol-unteerism. Fred retired in 2003 from

a career in education in upstate New York and came to Geneva in 2008 to be near his older brother and sister and their families. With a mod-est lifestyle and time on his hands, he was soon, in his own words, “bitten by the volunteer bug.” Fred is also an exhibiting artist at the Yates Gal-lery, where his wood working treasures are avail-able for sale. He loves making structures ready for rehabilita-tion, and he’s in his element to be sure as YCAC seeks to raise $85,000 to gut and renovate the former Village Court building on Main Street in Penn Yan. Meanwhile, Fred has seen the family deal with the recent passing of his older sister. Through all of this, Fred’s good nature and energy seem boundless. President George Herbert Walker Bush called it “a thousand points of light” — that remarkable ten-dency of Americans to give of themselves even when there is nothing to give but themselves. When economic times are bad, especially for the arts, survival of places like the Smith and Yates Arts Center depend on the good will of many vol-unteers. But some of those points of light burn so bright as to defy all reasonable — or even unrea-sonable — expectations.

Benefactor $500 Patron $250 Tom Snow & Karen Meri-wether Sponsor $150 Claudia Sullivan Business $100 + Keuka Arts Festival Longs Cards & Books David Schirmer DDS Doug & Arianne Tepper, Fin-ton’s Landing Contributor $100 Dr. & Mrs. William Darrow Mindy & Nick Misnick Associate $50 Sheldon & Diane Berlyn Paul & Kathy Danielson Richard & Sylvia Eisenhart Gwen McCausland

Seneca Lake Duck Hunters Elaine & Stan Stefanik Individual and Family $35 Liz & Robert Armstrong Debbie Bierworth Sandi Cirillo Stephen J. Cooper Bob & Sharon Corcoran Roy & Susan Franks Les & Susan Friske Doug Goodman Norma Hood Doris Hooker Michele Howland & Bill Ba-naszewski Janis Long Stephanie Olsen & John Creamer Molly Pearse Norma Rugg Joanne Searle & Bruce Bor-glum Bud & Peggy Stenzel John L. Strong Mary Geo & Ron Tomion

John & Betty Wahlig Wyant Family Senior $20 Llarilyn Buckingham Carol Crain Helen Sherin Duffy Nancy Gillette Norm & Diane Hayes Margaret Kirch Josephine Kjar Marion C. Louden Beverly Lyon Louise Payne Hildegard Schoeller Ed Steinhilper Trudy VanBuskirk Barbara Welles Lucia Wheeler Jack & Judith Wilbert Check the mailing label for your renewal date. Please let us know if we have forgotten someone.

New and Renewing YCAC Members February 15– April 15, 2011 We thank you for your continuing support of the Arts in Yates County.

PAGE 11 VOLUME 37 ISSUE 3

Sundays at Sunny Point

Located on the eastern shore of Keuka Lake, YCAC at Sunny Point welcomes everyone to enjoy art, entertain-ment, and refreshments from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM on three fun filled Sundays. These Sunday festivals will include an exhibition of local artists designed to show-case their work and an introduction to adult and youth summer workshops, and artists in residency programs. We invite you to participate. Just pick a Sunday to enjoy YCAC’s tradition of promoting local and regional artists, workshops and residency programs in a setting sur-rounded by the lake, hills and summer breezes. For additional information please go to our website at

www.ycac.org; contact Janis Long at (215) 297-0696 or email her at janis.l.long@gmail.com Sunday, July 10, 2011: “3 P’s at Sunny Point” – Painting, Printmaking, Photograph Entertainment provided by the Melody Rescue Squad

Sunday, August 14, 2011: “Calling all kids – a day of Fun and Art at Sunny Point” – children of all ages will enjoy a puppet show, storytel-ling and create works of art Sunday, September 11, 2011 “Hands On” - Pottery, Jewelry and sculpture Entertainment provided by the Crooked Lake Fiddle Club

Yates County Arts Center 119 East Elm Street Penn Yan, NY 14527

Open Tues-Fri 10:00-4:00, Sat 9-3

315-536-8226 E-mail: ArtsCenter@YCAC.org

PRSRT STD US POSTAGE PAID PENN YAN,NY 14527 PERMIT NO. 169

David C Schirmer DDS 6 Stoll Street Dundee, NY

Our practice is working together to realize a shared

vision of uncompromising excellence in dentistry.

Cannariato & Driesch

Family Medicine

Rooster Hill Vineyards Route 54 Penn Yan