Laura Straus
© 2000 Karl Fakhredine
Public Programs launches its first community residency with Laura Straus, 2002 NYFA Photography Fellow, through a partnership with the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, the Groton Public High School, Tompkins Cortland Community College, and the Groton Public Library.
Public Programs invites photographer Laura Straus to lead its first artist residency linking such towns and cities as Groton, Dryden, Ithaca, Cortland, Binghamton, and New York City. From on-line chats between students and the artist utilizing the Johnson Museum’s digital museum and area photo shoots, to visits to colleges and museums and public discussion, touring exhibit and catalogue, the Residency celebrates an artist and a contemporary sense of community in the act of discovery and creation.
The project also features NYFA Outreach and Artists' & Audience Exchange activities. The Outreach Artists’ Meetings are made possible through the support of The Community School of Music and Art, Community Arts Partnership, The Art Mission, Southern Tier Celebrates!, 171 Cedar Arts Center, and The Arts of the Southern Finger Lakes; Artists of Color Initiative, and NYFA Fellows Thomas Glave, Megan Roberts, and Raymond Ghirardo.
Special thanks to Laura Straus; residency partners and staff Joann Morrison, Pat Neal, Steven Woodward, Nicolai Klimaszewski, Cathy Klimaszewski, Linda Price, Catherine Davidson, and Erika Fowler-Decateur; GHS and TC3 photography students; Susan Robey, Peter Marcus, Mamta Popat, Janet Steck, Xanthe Matychak, and Gail Ann McKenzie and David Neal; Groton merchants and organizations Main Street Pizza, Brittany Station, Walpole’s, First National Bank, Wilson Farms, Groton Fire Department, Ben Conger Inn, the Groton Residential Care Facility, The Groton Business Association, the Groton Rotary Club, and the Artists Rights Society.
Schedule of Events
Student Gallery
Road Shots
About Residency Partners
Artists' Meetings
Calendar of Events
Past Projects
Christine Slevin, Artists' & Audiences Exchange
David Terry, Outreach
Jeanette Vuocolo, Public Works Residency Producer
The 2 Project is made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
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