ACWC Displays Local Color
- By WENDY SCHREINER-
“Broken” is the theme for the Arts Council for Wyoming County’s 2021 “Local Color” Annual Members’ Exhibition
The exhibition opened on January 8th and runs through February 13th in the council’s Main Gallery at 31 S. Main Street in Perry, New York.
Popular themes featured people, flowers and animals as well as pretty sceneries. Several medias were used to create the artwork including acrylics, oils, charcoals, paper, beads, ceramic, pottery, wood and fiber among others.
The COVID-19 Pandemic theme was apparent in some of the works. There was a painting with four pigs with a roll of toilet paper in each of their mouths labeled, Piggy Piggy, you know who you are. Stealing toilet paper from near and far. Bad for us, shame on you. Do onto others is still so true.
Those attending the Local Color Exhibit will help to determine the “People’s Choice” winner when they visit between January 8 and February 13. An artist’s talk as well as a presentation of awards will take place from 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm on February 26th at the closing reception. A hybrid reception and all social distancing protocols will be observed as a result of the current COVID-19 Pandemic.
Upstairs Gallery Hosts Rising Star exhibition
ACWC’s Rising Star Andrew Foster’s work can be found in the upstairs Members’ Gallery. Foster, a BFA graduate from Houghton College (December 2017) majored in Studio Art. He specializes in Ceramics. Along with a home studio, he is a member of Flower City Art Center where he fires and glazes his pottery.
For more information on exhibits and other events at the ACWC, please contact the ACWC directly at (585) 237-3517.
Wendy Schreiner resides in Warsaw, NY with her husband Dave and two adorable shih tzus Daisy Mae and Paisley Rae. She is a freelance writer for Warsaw’s Country Courier and is a substitute teacher at Warsaw Central School District. She also facilitates Warsaw’s Write Connection writing club at the Warsaw Public Library which is in its tenth year. She is a periodic Owl Light contributor, including “Where Trees Outnumber People,” about her Aunt Adele that can be seen in our 2020 Owl Light News online archive.