Meet James Mikhel Emerson
James Mikhel Emerson is an artist in residence at Main Street Arts! He’s working in one of our two studio spaces during the month of August 2016 (you can stop by the gallery to see his studio and work in progress). We asked James a few questions about his artwork, life, and more: Q: Where are you from? A: I’m from a real small […]
Dennis Revitzky
Born and raised in northwestern Pennsylvania, I graduated from Gannon and Mercyhurst Colleges with a degree in art education in 1969. I did graduate study in Fine Arts at SUNY Brockport and taught art for 33 years, most of that time in the Livonia, NY school district. Along with teaching I was also a professional […]
Nick Marshall
Hi everyone, my name is Nick Marshall. My recent work, _e_scapes, is included in Main Street Art’s exhibition “Ink and Paper” and this post will hopefully give you a little more insight to my practice. _e_scapes started with a series of photographs I made in 2012-13. The images depict found snapshots of seaside vacations that are floating […]
Amanda Chestnut: Exploring Racial Identity Through Artist’s Books
Growing up out side of Binghamton, New York afforded me a bucolic, nonpareil childhood that combined a rigorous academic environment with a loving and supportive community. Largely sheltered from cultural strife, these seemingly unobtainable ideals are part of my motivation in asking difficult questions through my artwork. Why can’t life be perfect? Where does this historic […]
Peter Sowiski: Papermaker
I was born in Pittsburgh, trained as a printmaker in Ohio, and spent my teaching career at SUNY Buffalo State. I began making paper for prints almost forty years ago, and since that time have been led down a road of broadened involvement with paper as a medium. The work has been a personal affirmation […]
Candace Hicks
My studio is starting to look like a depot for packing materials. I have had a lot of work out lately, and it’s all come back at the same time. These boxes held wooden boxes with illusionistic rooms inside. The rooms are constructed so that the cloud that floats back and forth appears to shrink […]
Alicia Taylor
One of the best ways I’ve found to focus my scattered mind is to allow myself to be completely captivated by the elements of the earth. I grew up in a house overlooking a large body of water and my fascination with water and the power that it can contain will never cease. I observe […]
Emily Glass
I spent my childhood outside in rural Vermont, taking care of animals and watching wildlife grow. As a kid I photographed my surrounding world extensively, always documenting, always looking. I loved art classes in high school and first worked with oil paint at the State University of New York Potsdam in 2004. I found the […]
Emily Falco: Creating a Watercolor Still-Life in 5 Steps
Hello fellow art lovers – It’s a warm, rainy, December evening here in Ithaca; not too typical of western New York this time of year! It’s this type of inclement weather that for me, forecasts a painting night. For my introductory post, I wanted to give you readers out there a little more than an “about the […]
Jody MacDonald: Connection is Key
Hello, my name is Jody. Welcome to my studio! First, let me share a few biographical tidbits to put my work into context: When I was a child I liked to engage in role-play, often as animals and insects. I attended the famed bealart program in London, ON, Canada (1986-89), double-majoring in textiles and printmaking. […]