Jurors:  Todd McGrain & Sylvia de Swaan

The Art Center has issued a call for entries for our annual juried exhibit Made in NY 2009.  The exhibition will be on view June 6 – August 22, 2009 and the 2009 jurors are artists Todd McGrain of Ithaca, NY and Sylvia de Swaan of Utica, NY. 

Made in NY is open to all artists living in NYS, 2 & 3-dimensional work will be accepted including, but not limited to, painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, ceramics, fiber and media art.  Artists may submit up to two artworks for consideration. Entry is free for members and $25 for non-members. NEW Entry Deadline:  March 6, 2009. 

Todd McGrain exhibits both nationally and internationally.  His early work is defined by the marriage of distinct materials, wood, steel, cement, iron, in objects and installations of dreamlike forms, which speak to the physical memory of diverse processes.  His current work, the Lost Bird Project, immortalized North American birds that have been driven to extinction in modern times.  The large-scale bronzes and pencil and ink paintings can be seen at the Cornel Lab of Ornithology.  McGrain has been a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome and has received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.  An associate professor of art at Cornell University, he has been an educator for 20 years, receiving numerous teaching awards.  He currently lives and works in upstate New York.

Sylvia de Swaan has lived and worked in Central New York since the late seventies and has had a multitude of involvements in the region––among them as an internationally exhibited practicing artist; founding director of Sculpture Space, Inc.; independent curator; advocate for the arts; visiting faculty in the art department at Hamilton College. Previously she lived and worked in New Orleans, Mexico City, New York City and Western Europe. She was born in Romania.

Her photographic projects have been supported by the Aaron Siskind Foundation, ArtsLink, Light Work, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art;  Austrian Ministry of Culture and Anderson Ranch Art Center, among others. She is a three-time recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Photography Fellowship.