Thirty five young talents from the West Side neighborhood of Syracuse will be the featured authors, illustrators and composers of Imagine Me… a new show opening at Point of Contact Gallery this spring. The featured artists will join in a live chorus performance at the exhibit’s opening reception on Saturday, May 2nd, from 1:00pm to 3:00pm. This event is the culmination of Point of Contact’s art education program, EL PUNTO Art Studio, an interdisciplinary arts program offered to local youths at no cost every spring since 2010.
Imagine Me… is the result of a 6-week contemporary art workshop where children explored themes related to identity and imagination. The show will include a collection of 65 watercolor pieces: self-portraits and illustrations created for original stories written and narrated by the children. The exhibit, which runs through June 26, 2015, includes a sound installation in the Vault area of the gallery, where visitors will be able to listen in on the children’s narrations of their own original stories, accompanied by their own music scores composed especially for each of those stories. Light refreshments will be served at the opening. The Point of Contact Gallery is located on the Cantor Warehouse Bldg., at 350 W Fayette St, Syracuse, NY.
The 2015 edition of this contemporary arts program was especially designed and facilitated for Point of Contact by Syracuse-based artists, educators and graduate students from Syracuse University’s Music Education and Illustration programs, SU Drama and Illustration. EL PUNTO Art Studio was once again joined by its community partners in this spring program: the Spanish Action League of Upstate NY, and La Casita Cultural Center.
This program is possible thanks to the support of Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences and the New York Council on the Arts (NYSCA).
