Since 2014, Film Days has included a companion art exhibition in its programming in the intimate gallery, The Smithy. Relating to annual festival themes and featuring artists important on the local, regional, and national scene, the exhibitions have been curated primarily by former Film Days steering committee member and artist Megan Irving, with Sydney Waller as co-curator.

Luminosity/Luminous Streets is the brainchild of Sydney Waller, curatorial consultant, project organizer, and founding member of the Film Days Steering Committee. All of the works in Luminosity/Luminous Streets address the Glimmerglass Film Days theme of Connection in diverse ways.

Along with a four-person show at the Smithy, this year’s exhibition extends to storefronts along Main and Pioneer Streets in Cooperstown, on display November 5-19.

at the Smithy

Luminosity

Four-person show at the Smithy, curated by Sydney Waller, features light sculptures by Daniel Buckingham and contemporary video art by Ariana Gerstein, Yeon Jin Kim, and Tomonari Nishikawa. The video artists are each on the art faculty at SUNY Binghamton, and Buckingham is a professor at PrattMWP College of Art and Design in Utica. Luminosity at the Smithy, 55 Pioneer Street in Cooperstown, will be open daily November 6 -19, 12 pm to 4 pm. Admission is free.
Artists Talk, Exhibit Opening, and Reception November 5, 5-7 pm.

In Multiple Storefronts, Main and Pioneer Streets, Cooperstown

Luminous Streets

This ambitious project, featuring 13 storefronts, includes light sculptures from the Quest for Light Collective, curated by Daniel Buckingham, and video works curated by Yeon Jin Kim. Both guest curators worked with Sydney Waller, overall curatorial organizer.

 “The Collective seeks to invigorate the cultural landscape,” said Buckingham. “Our world is a stage filled with curious vessels in the form of coffee pots, violins, fauna, toys, and Victrolas, all a visual delight.”  Collective members showing their works in Cooperstown include Ferrell Crawley, Venus Fitzgerald, Abdullah Gramish, Aldo Macedo, Shannon Nisiewicz, Maribel Perez, Flynn Scorzelli, Christy Wucen and Peter Liangpu Yu. The sculptures in Luminous Streets consist of highly crafted welded steel objects, LED lights, and chiffon.

Luminous Streets also features monitors large and small tucked among merchandise in store windows. The screens will offer an array of cutting-edge film, animation, and video art by artists Matthew Garrison, Case Jernigan, DeCarlo Logan, Jessica Mensch, Jason Mitcham, Simona Prives, Sarada Rauch and Gregory Wall. Along with the well-established artists, three works by emerging artist Julien Miller, from Fly Creek and now Brooklyn, are included.

Luminous Streets will be on view daily 4:30 pm to 11:00 pm from November 5-19 in the windows of Cooperstown Classics, Cooperstown Distillery Beverage Exchange, F.R. Woods House of Pro Sports, Grand Slam Guitars, Heroes Of Baseball Wax Museum, J. Gorman Fine Jewelry, Kate’s Upstate, The Local Bird, Mickey’s Place, Riverwood, Rudy’s Wine & Liquor, Tin Bin Alley, and the former T.J.’s Place at 124 Main Street.

Luminosity/Luminous Streets is made possible with a grant from the C.J. Heilig Foundation with additional support from Transitions Counseling.

Glimmerglass Film Days is a program of Otsego 2000, an environmental and preservation advocacy nonprofit organization based in Cooperstown, NY.

Secret Invitation by Daniel Buckingham

Light sculptures from the Quest for Light Collective will be on display in Cooperstown storefronts November 5-19 as part of Luminosity/Luminous Streets.