WEEDSPORT - Local artists are getting a chance to perfect the art of conversation.
One Sunday every month, Burritt's Cafe invites artists who displayed their works on the walls throughout the month to mingle with customers and tell them more about their pieces.
Eleven-year-old Nicholas Muehlberger sold one of his pictures Sunday in the photography exhibit he shared with his brother, Mitch.
Owners Darryl Wolford and Sherry Saben-Wolford renovated a hardware store into a bright coffee shop and patisserie at 8914 N. Seneca St., in May.
Local musicians entertain every weekend and the couple rotates the artwork by area artists on the walls monthly.
Two to three painters, drafters and sketchers exhibit their work together for a month, then come to the Weedsport cafe at the end of the month to talk to people about the pieces.
“The art is all from the local community,” Darryl Wolford said.
“People come through the cafe and see we hang art on the walls and say ‘Oh I paint or I do photography.'”
That's exactly what Carol Waterman did.
She asked to hang a few key pieces from her variety of work, from watercolors to pencil sketches and acrylic collages, after discovering her talent for painting last year in a Cayuga Community College class.
Waterman, who lives in the town of Conquest, is thrilled with the opportunity to show her work for a month, alongside other artists.
One of those artists, Ray Foody, appreciates the time at the end of the month they can spend comparing notes about style, techniques and pricing.
The Syracuse resident showed his abstract painting for the second time at the eatery in December into January. Foody, who works at the Hillside Children's Center in Auburn, sold one of his pieces he described as playful during the meet and greet Sunday.
“It's good to see people appreciate what you do,” Foody said. “You're alone in the studio, you're alone when you're doing it.”
Showing work can be scary but well worth it, he added.
Other people believe it's worth it too, because the cafe has artists scheduled for the next four months.
While Wolford was aware of the amount of active artists in the area, he was “amazed” by their talents, including the musicians that play there.
“When we first opened, we had some space on the wall and we thought, ‘Wouldn't it be nice to hang art on there?'” Wolford said.
They wanted to rotate displays to change the scenery, and discovered there was a big enough art community to keep them in supply for a while.
Once a week, someone asks about showing their work in Burritt's, Wolford said.
They draw people from Syracuse to Geneva, Oswego to Auburn, he added.
For January, they are going to go a different route and only display one artist's work.
Liz Zieler will get the month to herself in honor of the artist's studio she opened across the street from the cafe called La Place.
Staff writer Jessica Soule can be
contacted at 253-5311, ext 267 or jessica.soule@lee.net
Eleven-year-old Nicholas Muehlberger sold one of his pictures Sunday in the photography exhibit he shared with his brother, Mitch.
Owners Darryl Wolford and Sherry Saben-Wolford renovated a hardware store into a bright coffee shop and patisserie at 8914 N. Seneca St., in May.
Local musicians entertain every weekend and the couple rotates the artwork by area artists on the walls monthly.
Two to three painters, drafters and sketchers exhibit their work together for a month, then come to the Weedsport cafe at the end of the month to talk to people about the pieces.
“The art is all from the local community,” Darryl Wolford said.
“People come through the cafe and see we hang art on the walls and say ‘Oh I paint or I do photography.'”
That's exactly what Carol Waterman did.
She asked to hang a few key pieces from her variety of work, from watercolors to pencil sketches and acrylic collages, after discovering her talent for painting last year in a Cayuga Community College class.
Waterman, who lives in the town of Conquest, is thrilled with the opportunity to show her work for a month, alongside other artists.
One of those artists, Ray Foody, appreciates the time at the end of the month they can spend comparing notes about style, techniques and pricing.
The Syracuse resident showed his abstract painting for the second time at the eatery in December into January. Foody, who works at the Hillside Children's Center in Auburn, sold one of his pieces he described as playful during the meet and greet Sunday.
“It's good to see people appreciate what you do,” Foody said. “You're alone in the studio, you're alone when you're doing it.”
Showing work can be scary but well worth it, he added.
Other people believe it's worth it too, because the cafe has artists scheduled for the next four months.
While Wolford was aware of the amount of active artists in the area, he was “amazed” by their talents, including the musicians that play there.
“When we first opened, we had some space on the wall and we thought, ‘Wouldn't it be nice to hang art on there?'” Wolford said.
They wanted to rotate displays to change the scenery, and discovered there was a big enough art community to keep them in supply for a while.
Once a week, someone asks about showing their work in Burritt's, Wolford said.
They draw people from Syracuse to Geneva, Oswego to Auburn, he added.
For January, they are going to go a different route and only display one artist's work.
Liz Zieler will get the month to herself in honor of the artist's studio she opened across the street from the cafe called La Place.
Staff writer Jessica Soule can be
contacted at 253-5311, ext 267 or jessica.soule@lee.net
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