An Individual Artist Grant

I am a watercolor painter and workshop instructor based in Cortland, NY. For 2020 I was awarded an Individual Artist Grant to create plein air paintings and programing during the summer and fall. The grant is from CNY Arts through the NYSCA DEC Grant Program.

Plein Air Cortland is a series of painting demos, a paint-out, workshop and exhibit centered around painting outside in Cortland county. The project will start in late spring. I will paint large scale watercolor paintings in plein air. These paintings will be created as demos in 5 different locations around the county. The public will be invited to watch the demos. The idea is to paint 4 paintings in more rural areas of Cortland County that I am unfamiliar with. (1 painting will be in the Homer Green, to demonstrate an urban plein air painting.) In the summer I will have a workshop in plein air painting at Dwyer Park in Little York. Then in late summer I will host a paint-out at Lime Hollow. Anyone is invited to attend the paint-out. Artists paint around Lime Hollow at different spots and the public is invited to walk around and observe. In the fall, I will host an exhibit of the work I created in the demos as well as work other artists painted in the workshops and the paint-out. Each step of this project will be shared on social media and a blog on my website.