Events

CSMA Gallery Exhibition
On view November 1 – November 25th

Hilando Fino / Finespun

José Buenaventura González and Paulina Velázquez Solís

A dialogue between traditional and contemporary textile art 

Un diálogo entre obras de arte textil tradicional y contemporáneo 

One medium and two very different artists, both stemming from the deep, complex roots of Latin American culture. Hilando Fino / Finespun brings together the textile works of master weaver and organic dyer José Buenaventura González, an indigenous Zapotec artist from Oaxaca, Mexico, and Mexican-Costa Rican visual artist Paulina Velázquez Solís. Their work engages us in a conversation that explores the human relationship with nature and history, and the interplay of permanence and change in the lived experiences of the artists as individuals and as members of the larger indigenous and mestizo, Mexican and Central American, Latin American and American, globalized communities of which they are part.

Please join us on Gallery Night at 6:00 PM for a guided tour of the exhibition led by the artists, and at 7:00 PM for a special presentation in celebration of the Day of the Dead / Día de Muertos. Hosted by the Latino Civic Association of Tompkins County and ¡Cultura! The exhibition is supported by the Latino Studies Program of Cornell University, and made possible in part by funds from the Tompkins County Tourism Program, and the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and
administered by the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County.

The show will remain on view through November 25.

Come sign up and join Joe Crookston for this 3-hour printmaking
workshop at CSMA. The Saturday after Thanksgiving. Create handmade prints
for yourself and to give as gifts. Think you are not creative? Think
again. Printmaking is fun, full of surprises, and is guaranteed to bring
out the artist within you. This workshop will be fun, meaningful, and we
will explore the external world of inks, paper and stencils, as well as
the internal world of creativity and fear of not being good enough. Snacks
provided. Joe will play and sing. And we will get down and dirty and
surprise ourselves with what we can make in 3 hours. Sign up now. This
workshop is limited to only 20 participants.

THE PRICE FOR THIS WORKSHOP is $60    All materials are included. You will
leave with at least 2-3 images matted in sleeves ready for gift giving!
Wear appropriate messy clothes!

For questions & TO REGISTER FOR THIS WORKSHOP Please email:
eharrod@fleetfingered.com  or VISIT: joecrookston.com

Facebook Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/467634837161989/

The Arts and Mental Health- Presented by Suicide Prevention and Crisis Service of Ithaca

December 13th at 7:30 PM

The Ithaca Children & Youth Chorus will be holding placement auditions for Winter 2020 at CSMA (330 E. State St, Ithaca) on January 6th from 4:00-6:00 pm. Children that participated this year do NOT need to re-audition, but if you have younger or older siblings, friends from school or other activities you participate in, we would LOVE to have them join us this fall. New faces are ALWAYS welcome! Children interested in joining the newly formed Dolce Choir (ages 5 and 6) also need not audition.

Auditions are brief (approximately 10 minutes) and consist of a little vocalizing, some pitch memory exercises, and some basic harmony exercises. We aim to make auditioning a very low-key and comfortable experience for all singers.

Minimum age for participation is 5, but our ensembles go right up through middle and high school. The rehearsal schedule is as follows:

To schedule an audition time, call CSMA at 607-272-1474.