Wells College receives $20K for artist program
The Citizen staff
Wells College in Aurora has been awarded £20,000 from the New York State Council on the Arts to support the college’s Visiting Artists Program. Through the program, Wells arts faculty and staff will bring writers, artists and performers to the community. Events include the college’s Visiting Writers Series workshops and readings, exhibits in the college’s String Room Gallery, an annual Book Arts Summer Institute and free performances by the college’s theater department.
The funding will also help the college continue its new Filmmaker-in-Residence Series, which was launched this fall. “I tend to think that every time we plan a future exhibition, invite a visiting writer or bring a performing artist to campus, we’re thinking in terms of the new: How can we continue to expand our idea of what is possible in the arts?” said Anna Ialeggio, Wells art professor, String Room Gallery director and Visiting Artists Program committee member, in a news release.
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English professor and department chair Dan Rosenberg, another committee member, added: “A couple of weeks ago, I was walking with one of my students between two different events featuring a visiting writer. … She said to me, unprompted, that she was so grateful for the opportunity to meet these writers, to learn from them, and to get to know them as people.
That access to wonderful artists makes their path seem conceivable to her, like her aspirations are actually attainable because these other humans, who were just chatting with her in a lounge, did it.
Seeing that expanding sense of possibility is one of the joys of what we do as artists, teachers, and organizers.”
For more information, visit arts.wells.edu[1].
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