Open Studio at the Slate Valley Museum

Open Studio Day
Serena Kovalosky, Artist-in-Residence
Slate Valley Museum
Friday, August 23, 2024
12:30am to 3:30pm – Drop-in-at-will

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Free with museum admission:
$5 Adults; $3 Seniors
Free for Quarry Workers & Children under 12

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Serena Kovalosky’s residency project, “Moving Mountains: The Mustard Seed Project,” is a meticulous, six-month journey of placing tiny mustard seeds from around the world, one by one, on the branches of a foraged mustard “tree” as a contemplative exercise that explores the symbolism of the mustard seed for restoring faith in our ability as individuals and communities to achieve humanity’s dream of peaceful coexistence, one small step (seed) at a time.

Visitors are invited to pull up a chair for a chat with the artist and learn about the inspiration for the project and her explorations with the mustard seed symbolism and history.

The Slate Valley is renowned for its variety of colored slate quarried in the region. Visitors will also have the opportunity to participate in a parallel experience to the artist’s “one small seed at a time” creative process by stringing small glass “seed beads” representing the colors of Slate Valley slate onto beading wire that will become part of a community-created art installation for the museum. No art experience is necessary.

Young children and those who wish to work on a smaller project with larger beads will have the option to create Friendship Bracelets in the Slate Valley slate colors.

Kovalosky’s mustard “tree” sculpture and the community-created “Seed Journeys” installation will be exhibited at the museum’s Slate Valley Holiday Festival on December 6 and throughout the month of December. The 2024 theme is “Peace on Earth.”

Serena Kovalosky is a 2024 recipient of a Community Arts, Individual Artist grant for “Moving Mountains: The Mustard Seed Project.” This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, administered by the Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council.

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