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The Summer Arts Camp is a multidisciplinary arts experience in a day camp format for children ages 9-13. The 2008 program runs July 28-August 1, 9am-4pm, at Al Lorenz Park in Mount Morris. The fee is $150/week and a sibling discount is available. Advance registration is required. Please print, complete and submit the application to GVCA to reserve your child's space.
40 4 40 Arts Challenge
To participate in the 40 4 40 arts challenge, select this link to print your challenge form.
To nominate an individual for our 40th Anniversary Star Walk (also known as 40 Stars for 40 Years), select this link to print your nomination form.
Artful Holidays
Artful Holidays is a boutique-style juried fine arts and crafts show and sale. The 2008 show is scheduled for November 7 and 8 at The Campus House, 17 Main Street (Route 39) in Geneseo (14454) with our Members Only Presale and Reception on November 6.
Exhibitors participate by invitation of the Artful Holidays Committee. The committee looks for high quality arts and crafts produced by artists from Livingston County and the surrounding region. The committee aims to exhibit a variety of media and styles without putting artists in competition with one another. Items for exhibit and sale are not limited to visual art and crafts; Artful Holidays may also feature books, recordings and videos by local artists, and artisan food products. The committee limits the number of exhibitors to 40. To have your work considered, complete and submit the appropriate application by May 31. New exhibitors must also provide:
Artful Holidays is a boutique-style juried fine arts and crafts show and sale. The 2008 show is scheduled for November 7 and 8 at The Campus House, 17 Main Street (Route 39) in Geneseo (14454) with our Members Only Presale and Reception on November 6.
Exhibitors participate by invitation of the Artful Holidays Committee. The committee looks for high quality arts and crafts produced by artists from Livingston County and the surrounding region. The committee aims to exhibit a variety of media and styles without putting artists in competition with one another. Items for exhibit and sale are not limited to visual art and crafts; Artful Holidays may also feature books, recordings and videos by local artists, and artisan food products. The committee limits the number of exhibitors to 40. To have your work considered, complete and submit the appropriate application by May 31. New exhibitors must also provide:
- photos of your work
- retail prices, and
- a copy of your New York State sales tax ID form
The Artful Holidays Committee will notify accepted applicants on a rolling basis, at which time the exhibitor fee is due in full. The fee is $100/GVCA members or $115/non-members; the latter includes a one-year membership in the Genesee Valley Council on the Arts at the basic level. Additionally, a 20% commission will be taken on sales exceeding $500.
Registered exhibitors will receive complete instructions for product delivery/pick up and labeling/pricing in early fall.
Policies and Procedures - print, read and save
Application for First-time Artists/Exhibitors - use this form if you have never appeared in Artful Holidays
Registration for Returning Artists/Exhibitors
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Folk Arts
The Folk Arts Program at the Genesee Valley Council on the Arts supports our area's living cultural heritage through documentation and public programming of traditional arts. Folk arts are the ways a group maintains and passes on its shared way of life. They are usually learned informally, yet remain important expressions of a community's sense of beauty, identity and values. They range from verbal "lore" like local ghost stories, children's rhymes or family sayings, to material arts like woodcarving, quilting or fly tying, to performance arts like fiddling, break dancing, or square dance calling. Your family, your church, your neighborhood – these are all groups that practice and maintain creative traditions that give meaning to everyday life.
Since the early 1990s our program has hosted a Traditional Music Series, a variety of events throughout the year. Our annual Round and Square Dance in the spring brings dancers from far and near, supporting a long tradition here of live music and eastern-style square dancing. Our Old Time music concerts have featured music of Irish, Italian, Polish, German, and Macedonian origins, accompanied by fiddles, accordions, banjos, mandolins and other instruments both familiar and uncommon. We have recently developed programs featuring holiday and life traditions of our Hispanic neighbors in Livingston County, including the Christmastime celebration of Three Kings Day, and an exploration of the quinceañera tradition for fifteen-year old girls.
For 2004-2006 we are looking at occupational folklore associated with the Retsof Salt Mine and surrounding communities, in collaboration with the York Historical Society. We are inviting miners, their families, and community members to share their memories, personal experiences, traditions, local legends, jokes, work customs and activities, stories, photographs, clippings, documents, items and other information about life in and around the salt mine. We are also interested in similar items relating to Little Italy (the original “company town” in Retsof) and the Genesee and Wyoming Railroad. If you’re interested in the project, please contact the arts council by phone, letter or email. We’ll be collecting and interviewing throughout 2005, and our folklorist is available to meet with you at your convenience.
The program is administered by Staff Folklorist Karen Canning, and also enjoys the expertise of SUNY Geneseo ethnomusicologist, James Kimball. Ms. Canning may be reached through the arts council office, or may be e-mailed at karen@gvcaonline.org. Our programs are supported largely by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts Folk Arts Program and GVCA Members.
Arts Leadership Awards
The Genesee Valley Council on the Arts established its Arts Leadership Awards in 1998 to honor the exceptionally talented, hardworking and generous people who make Livingston County so rich in arts and culture. Each year, the Board of Directors selects a committee of its current members who determine the categories and criteria for which awards will be given, solicits nominations from GVCA members, constituents and the general public, and selects the awardees. Awards are presented at GVCA's Annual Dinner.
Generally the nominations deadline is in early June. Watch our website for award qualifications and the nomination form.
Please click here for a download printable form you can use to submit your nominations to the GVCA Board of Directors.
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Folk Arts
The Folk Arts Program at the Genesee Valley Council on the Arts supports our area's living cultural heritage through documentation and public programming of traditional arts. Folk arts are the ways a group maintains and passes on its shared way of life. They are usually learned informally, yet remain important expressions of a community's sense of beauty, identity and values. They range from verbal "lore" like local ghost stories, children's rhymes or family sayings, to material arts like woodcarving, quilting or fly tying, to performance arts like fiddling, break dancing, or square dance calling. Your family, your church, your neighborhood – these are all groups that practice and maintain creative traditions that give meaning to everyday life.
Since the early 1990s our program has hosted a Traditional Music Series, a variety of events throughout the year. Our annual Round and Square Dance in the spring brings dancers from far and near, supporting a long tradition here of live music and eastern-style square dancing. Our Old Time music concerts have featured music of Irish, Italian, Polish, German, and Macedonian origins, accompanied by fiddles, accordions, banjos, mandolins and other instruments both familiar and uncommon. We have recently developed programs featuring holiday and life traditions of our Hispanic neighbors in Livingston County, including the Christmastime celebration of Three Kings Day, and an exploration of the quinceañera tradition for fifteen-year old girls.
For 2004-2006 we are looking at occupational folklore associated with the Retsof Salt Mine and surrounding communities, in collaboration with the York Historical Society. We are inviting miners, their families, and community members to share their memories, personal experiences, traditions, local legends, jokes, work customs and activities, stories, photographs, clippings, documents, items and other information about life in and around the salt mine. We are also interested in similar items relating to Little Italy (the original “company town” in Retsof) and the Genesee and Wyoming Railroad. If you’re interested in the project, please contact the arts council by phone, letter or email. We’ll be collecting and interviewing throughout 2005, and our folklorist is available to meet with you at your convenience.
The program is administered by Staff Folklorist Karen Canning, and also enjoys the expertise of SUNY Geneseo ethnomusicologist, James Kimball. Ms. Canning may be reached through the arts council office, or may be e-mailed at karen@gvcaonline.org. Our programs are supported largely by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts Folk Arts Program and GVCA Members.
Arts Leadership Awards
The Genesee Valley Council on the Arts established its Arts Leadership Awards in 1998 to honor the exceptionally talented, hardworking and generous people who make Livingston County so rich in arts and culture. Each year, the Board of Directors selects a committee of its current members who determine the categories and criteria for which awards will be given, solicits nominations from GVCA members, constituents and the general public, and selects the awardees. Awards are presented at GVCA's Annual Dinner.
Generally the nominations deadline is in early June. Watch our website for award qualifications and the nomination form.
Please click here for a download printable form you can use to submit your nominations to the GVCA Board of Directors.
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Grants Awards Reception
At the beginning of each year the Genesee Valley Council on the Arts brings together all of the artists and organizations that were awarded funding through our regrant programs. This includes Community Arts Grant awardees, Individual Artist grantees, and Artists in the Schools recipients. We also invite our state legislators, who are directly responsible for the state funds that support these programs, GVCA board members and local government officials who are very supportive of our work in the community.
For the past several years, the ceremony was held in the Supervisors Meeting Room of the Livingston County Government Center in Geneseo.
All-County Student Art Exhibit
The All-County Student Art Exhibit is a show for high school art students. Art teachers are invited to bring 40 pieces of student art work to the SUNY Geneseo MacVittie College Union Ballroom. There it is judged by college art faculty and retired high school art teachers. Works that receive Best of Show and First Place are exhibited in the Bertha V.B. Lederer Gallery.
The day long exhibit in the ballroom is also a networking opportunity for the art teachers and art students in the area.
The exhibit is sponsored by the SUNY Geneseo Student Art Association, KeyBank and the members of the Genesee Valley Council on the Arts.
The 2008 exhibit is scheduled for May 31 with the best of show pieces hanging in the Lederer Gallery from June 4-11. A closing reception will be held on June 11. These events are free and open to the public. Visit our events calendar for times.
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Elementary Student Art Exhibit
GVCA’s first Student Art Show specifically for area children in grades K-8 was held May 21, 2005 at Mount Morris Central School.
Oaks in our Valley was developed in conjunction with the Genesee Valley Conservancy events that celebrated the organization’s fifteenth anniversary in 2005. This was an opportunity for young artists to explore the wonderful oaks in our region, whether producing a landscape, woodcut, carving, or piece of furniture or cabinetry. Two- and three-dimensional work was displayed, either via students’ art teachers or from the student directly. All students received a ribbon for entering work in the show.
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Artists of the Genesee Valley Studio Tour
The GVCA has sponsored four Studio Tours during mid-October
(2004-2007) and its next tour is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, June 7 and 8, 2008, from 10am-5pm both days. This is an opportunity for the public to view area artisans’ work, observe artists working at their craft, and purchase artwork directly from the artists. Most of the participating artists have year-round studio hours, which can be confirmed by calling or emailing the artists directly.Maps for this free, self-guided tour encompassing several communities in beautiful Livingston County will be mailed to GVCA members and the Studio Tour guest list in May. Not on our mailing list? Call 585/243-6785 or use the contact link below to email us. The map is posted here for download.
Country Inn & Suites of Mount Morris is the Corporate Sponsor for
the 2008 Studio Tour. They are offering 10% off guests' stay for the studio tour weekend and 10% off dinner at the Genesee River Hotel Restaurant. Call 585.658.4080 and ask for the
Studio Tour Package. The hotel is located at 130 North Main Street (Route 36), just south of the Genesee River and the entrance to Letchworth State Park. It is a short drive from I-390, Exit 7.
the 2008 Studio Tour. They are offering 10% off guests' stay for the studio tour weekend and 10% off dinner at the Genesee River Hotel Restaurant. Call 585.658.4080 and ask for the
Studio Tour Package. The hotel is located at 130 North Main Street (Route 36), just south of the Genesee River and the entrance to Letchworth State Park. It is a short drive from I-390, Exit 7.-- Top of page --