Monday is Memorial Day, so if you work a job that
gives you banker’s holidays off, you have a three-day weekend. Good for you. If
you don’t, sorry, but maximize that weekend with some fun events, anyway. Here
are a few of our suggestions; for more events, check out the listings in our calendar.
Kick off your weekend on Saturday
morning with a trip to the Public Market, and stop by The Yards (50-52 Public
Market) to check out Shawnee Hill’s
pop-up solo show. Hill will present more than 75 original artworks and
prints available, depicting elegant women and birds, ominous anatomical
studies, and mythically charged mixtures of all of the above. The space is open
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and admission is free. For more information, visit facebook.com/theyards.
Since it’s a holiday weekend, consider a day trip. Corning
Museum of Glass (1 Museum Way, Corning) recently opened a massive exhibition
devoted to ancient mold-blown glass. “Ennion and his Legacy: Mold-Blown Glass from
Ancient Rome,” which runs through January 4, 2016. With 129
works, which includes pieces drawn from CMoG’s own
collection as well as borrowed items, the show explores the diversity of Roman
mold-blown glass in size, shape, and decoration, which was traded across the
Mediterranean world. Carefully preserved through the ages, these fragile vessels
— perfume bottles, flasks, and what are
believed to be souvenir glasses from chariot races and gladiatorial combats —
provide a glimpse into Roman life, with regards to religion and mythology and celebrity
culture surrounding gladiators and Roman empresses.
An educational section of the exhibition will describe the
different techniques used to create mold-blown glass forms. And an
exhibit-within-the-exhibit, “Ennion: Master
of Glass,” organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, brings together
24 of the 50 known, still-surviving works by Ennion,
a glass artists who transformed the industry, as the first glass artists to
sign his works. This part of the exhibit will be on view through October.
CMoG is open daily from 9 a.m. to
8 p.m. Admission is $18 for the general public, $9 for Corning residents, and
free to members and kids ages 17 and under. For more information on the exhibit and related events, visit cmog.org
Spectrum Gallery (Lumiere Photo,
100 College Avenue) has extended its current show, “Jane Walker:In
Search of Things We May Have Lost…,” through June 14. In each of her tender
black and white images, Walker’s subjects — rural farmers in the Southern
Tier — pose for her with the animals they love.
In one image, a young woman in flip-flops stands on a gravel
road, towing a turkey by a leash. A younger girl decked in winter wear cradles
a downy hen, its lizard-like claws gripping her coat, and a man seated on a
trash can in the threshold of a dark barn proudly hoists a turkey in one hand. “The
people in these photographs, their animals, and the places they inhabit are my
world — the world I love — and there is nothing better than sharing what one
loves with others,” Walker says.
Lumiere Photo is open Tuesday
through Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Admission is
free. For more information, visit spectrumgalleryroc.com.
This article appears in May 20-26, 2015.
