LIBRARY TO PARTICIPATE IN LIGHT IN WINTER, LAUNCHES 2011 ART EXHIBITS

Art enthusiasts will have an opportunity to view the first two exhibits featured in the Tompkins County Public Library’s series “Year of Art at the Library—2011,” Friday, January 21 from 5:00 to 8:00 PM as part of the Light in Winter Festival’s Gallery Night.

Exhibits featured at the Library are “Carl Sagan’s Cosmos 30 Years On,” and Christa Wolf’s “Information Bound and Sculpted.”

Designed to celebrate the 30^th anniversary of Sagan’s “Cosmos” series, “. . .30 Years On” demonstrates the intersection of science and art through images honoring Sagan collected by Patrick Fish.  Images of Mars provided by Cornell University’s Mars Rover Group, images of Saturn and Saturn’s ring, as captured by the Cassini Orbiter, paintings by Barbara Mink and an image of the Big Dipper by Dan Larkin round-out the exhibit.

Wolf’s exhibit, “Information Bound and Sculpted,” will be on display in the Library’s Avenue of the Friends from January 7 through March 30.  The exhibit includes small edition and one-of-a-kind artists’ books. In addition to Wolf, featured artists include::  Carol Barton, Sarah Bryant, Margo Class, Pamela Drix, Helen Frederick, Roni Gross, Pat Hunsinger, Kumi Korf, Jan Lyons, Mikhail Magaril, Russel Maret, Penny Nii, Jae Sullivan, Maddy Rosenberg, Nikki Thompson, Eriko Takahashi.

For more information about these exhibits, contact Sally Grubb at (607) 272-4557 extension 232 or sgrubb@tcpl.org.   To learn more about the Light in Winter Festival, visit http://lightinwinter.com/.