There is no Art with Coffee this Saturday the 12th. The AAO gallery will be open as usual from 10–1 pm. The shows are Lost But Not Forgotten, Paul Garland’s landscape paintings, and the late Sandy Clift’s mixed media artworks.

If you’re a current AAO and member (or would like to be), you’re invited to participate in our 9th Annual Holiday Sale. There is no charge for a space; the AAO will collect a 15% commission from anything you sell.

This is not a holiday-themed sale; spring landscapes, summer flowers, fall animals, non-objective art, ceramics–all are welcome!

We welcome donated items for raffles to be held during the sale too. Or if you’d just like to donate artwork for the sale, that would also be great.

If interested, please contact Theresa Bower at bower@oswegoarts.org as soon as possible. She will give you all the details.

Pick-up day is Sunday, October 13, 4–6 pm.

If you contributed work for the highly successful LOST exhibition, please come by the AAO to pick it up on October 13, 4–6 pm. If you’re not able to pick up your work then, please make arrangements with us at info@oswegoarts.org.

Paul Garland Show
If you purchased work from Paul Garland’s show, you can pick up that work on October 13 as well. You can pay the Treasurer at that time (check, cash, or PayPal).

Thank you for contributing to two excellent shows!

October 15, 2024, 6 PM
at the Art Association of Oswego,
30 Barbara Donahue Drive, Oswego, NY

Please join us for our first meeting of the Art Association’s Community Relations and Membership Committee. AAO committees are tasked with making recommendations and providing guidance to the Board of Directors. The Community Relations and Membership Committee is looking for ways to reach out to the Oswego community and to increase membership and donations.  Most importantly we are looking for new ideas and creative thinking to make the AAO into an integral organization that provides artistic direction, education, and inspiration.

If you are interested in contributing or just want to know what this committee is all about, please stop in. If you would like to attend remotely via Google Meet, please email me directly at prisco@oswegoarts.org.

See left for the tentative agenda. Please email me with any agenda suggestions.

Thanks and hope to see you there!

Margaret Prisco,
Community Relations and Membership Committee Coordinator

Opening reception is Saturday, October 19, 7–9 pm.

This show will spotlight  SUNY Oswego’s art department and the tools it has provided students in furthering their skill sets and careers.

The Art Association of Oswego is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibition The Poetry of Place at the Art Association of Oswego with a reception on Saturday, October 19th from 7 to 9 pm. The show runs through November 17th. Featured are Madeline Corsaro and Bill DeMott who share a passion for landscape as a subject and a love for printmaking, especially the monotype process. Monotypes allow the artist to work freely on the printing plate and produce a single unique print.

Madeline Corsaro is an emerging artist of the Finger Lakes region. She received her BFA in printmaking from Nazareth College in 2018. When she isn’t painting or printmaking, she manages The Cheshire Union, a 1915 4-room schoolhouse turned art center in Canandaigua, NY. Madeline has exhibited at Main Street Arts Gallery in Clifton Springs, RIT, SUNY Fredonia, and Alfred State University.

Bill DeMott is an artist and educator from Oswego, NY. He has undergraduate and graduate degrees in Printmaking and Drawing from SUNY Oswego and Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He teaches at colleges and art venues across Central New York and has been the exhibition coordinator for the past 25 years at the Art Association of Oswego.

The Art Association of Oswego (AAO) is pleased to announce the upcoming opening of a new exhibition: “IF IT SPEAKS, LISTEN” by Paul Garland showing in the first floor’s Kirk Beason Gallery. The exhibition runs through October 13th.

An opening reception for the exhibition is scheduled for Saturday, September 14th, 7–9 pm. 

Paul Garland returns to AAO for a solo exhibition of 23 new landscape paintings titled IF IT SPEAKS, LISTEN. Garland’s first exhibition of paintings at AAO, then known as the Oswego Art Guild, was a two-person show with fellow SUNY Oswego art professor Richard Zakin in 1969. Since then Garland has had many solo exhibitions in major cities, including NYC, Toronto, Buffalo, and Chicago. In 2022 Rochester’s highly regarded museum, the Memorial Art Gallery, presented a career survey exhibition, Intuitive Progression, that showcased Paul’s paintings from 1968 through 2022. With the new landscape paintings, Garland responds to our extraordinary upstate environment. During his daily walks, often in Fair Haven State Park, sudden visual jolts SPEAK to him. Mixed metaphors be damned, the jolts are found in unexpected places and in unexpected ways. The speaking jolts may be hushed whispers or searing screams. Some of these experiences lead directly to paintings.

Instructor: Marybeth Sorendo

This class will introduce students to the potter’s wheel; preparing clay, learning to center, and creating a cylinder. Once a cylinder is achieved, students will learn about basic utilitarian shapes through demonstrations. Students will also learn about drying clay properly, trimming the base of pots, kiln firing, and basic glazing techniques. Students who have taken one class are welcome to continue in order to improve their wheel skills.

This 6-week class meets on Sundays, 4–6:30 PM,
from September 8–October 13

• Class size limit: 6
• Age and/or skill level: adults = 16+, no prior ceramics experience necessary
• Cost: Members: $200 / Nonmembers: $230
• Class fees include ONE free Open Studio session per week for the duration of the class, and 2 free Open Studio sessions to be used after class ends to finish up projects made in class. These studio allowances are offered on a “use it or lose it basis” – they may not be carried forward to another week. Additional Open Studio time must be paid for at the current going rates.

To register for this class, click here.