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Art Trail event brings year round opportunity for visitors to Chautauqua County

Art Trail Open Studio and by North Shore Arts Alliance celebrates a decade of regional art in hopes to bring forth the economic development designed to put Chautauqua County artists on the map and bring the market to artisans and their studios. The Arts Trail seeks to provide visibility for 20 Chautauqua County regional/national artists artists so that they can have increased visibility and increase the sales of their work. The 22-mile trail is a way to market the outstanding quality, vibrancy, and diversity of the artists to the rest of the region, bringing recognition and beneficial economic development to this county rich in artistic traditions and expressions.

The North Shore Arts Alliance Art Trail is a series of artists’ studios, galleries, and other related sites within a geographic region (one county to statewide). The Art Trail is multidisciplinary and some of the studios and galleries will be now open for business year-round. Marketing materials for Art Trails includes the printing of 10,000 color brochures, advertisements in various newspapers, social media, and community calendars. The marketing for this event hopes to bring visitors to the area to take advantage of the restaurant, lodging, and important community historical and/or cultural information to better enhance the visitor’s experience on the trail Respond to artists’ stated needs to work in their studios while earning their livelihoods in their current locales.This event hopes to promote the arts-based tourism throughout Chautauqua county. The greater vision is to stimulate year-round local arts-based economic activity in communities throughout rural Western New York. The art trail artisans hope to build awareness of the impact artists have on their communities from Forestville to Chautauqua in a 22-mile trail.

Artists and locations of the 2018 Chautauqua-Lake Erie Art Trail:

RIKO CHANDRA (photography) TheGalleryatReverieCreamery|GalleryReverie.com 3943 Rte. 394, Mayville

CYNTHIA NORTON (wearable fiber) CynthiaNortonDesigns.com,14 Whittier Ave., Chautauqua

BONNIE BEYER (mixed metal jewelry) TheArtLoft.org, 4994 West Lake Rd., Mayville

KIRSTEN ENGSTROM (sculpture) Kirsten4Art@gmail.com |124 South Erie St., Mayville

PORTAGE HILL ART GALLERY HUB, 6439 S. Portage Rd., Westfield

AUDREY KAY DOWLING (ceramics & painting) PortageHillGallery.com

KAREN GLOSSER (photography) KarenGlosser.com

NANCY NIXON ENSIGN (painting) NancyNixonEnsign.com

TIM SIVERTSEN (painting) TimSivertsen.com

KATHERINE GALBRAITH (fine oil painting) KatherineGalbraithFineArt.com, 1448 The Station Art Gallery, 11 English St., Westfield

MARY ANN JANKOWSKI (painting) PaintingByMaj.com 10 Beach Place, Fredonia

THOMAS ANNEAR STUDIO HUB 43 Central Ave., Fredonia

THOMAS ANNEAR (plein air painting) ThomasAnnear.com

TOM JANIK (photography)

RONNIE LAFFERTY (watercolor) RonnieLafferty.com 15 Hillcrest Dr., Fredonia

MARCIA MERRINS (ceramics) KnitiGritiWorks.com 42 Rosalyn Court, Fredonia

SUSAN FORRESTER MACKAY (painting) SusanMackay.net, 73 Eagle St., Fredonia

JAMES HOGGARD (photography) JamesHoggardPhotography.com 136 Newton St., Fredonia

DALE ANDERSON (sculpture) 8879 Prospect Rd., Forestville

JAMES EAST (oil painting) JamesEastArt.com, 36 Castile Drive, Fredonia, NY Art Trail weekend only.

RENO POTTERY (ceramics & painting) RenoPottery.com 6007 County Touring Rte. 54, Dewittville

Full-color Art Trail brochures feature a map and descriptions of the artists and have been distributed to local tourism and information racks. Request a brochure by emailing director@northshoreartsalliance.com, or download a brochure with map from the website, northshoreartsalliance.com and click on Chautauqua Art Trail in the drop down menu.

The Chautauqua Lake Erie Art Trail is the signature event of the North Shore Arts Alliance, founded in 2007 as a not-for-profit co-operative marketing, promotional, and membership organization working on behalf of artists in Chautauqua County. The group seeks to foster an environment where art strengthens the County’s image, economic vitality, and quality of life.

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