During the past six months, the Genesee Valley Conservancy has been handing out free canvases to artists across the region and asking them to create a painting inspired by the Genesee Valley.
Artists were only limited by a theme – the Genesee Valley – and the physical constraints of the 12-inch, square canvas. Apart from that, artists were free to choose their medium, subject. The results of this intentionally opened ended art project produced a wide variety of results.
As part of their mission to protect the habitat, open space, and farmland of the region, the Genesee Valley Conservancy hoped to capture the many different unique and special characteristics of the Genesee Valley that the community values. While words are most often used by the organization to determine its strategic mission and goals, images, as they say, are worth 1,000 words. The conservancy took this idiom to heart with in asking itself, what better way to capture the importance of the Genesee Valley than through imagery?
Livingston County News – The Daily News
