Catt. County Source 3-16-23

Spring Art Show returning to Seneca Cultural Center

By Deb Everts SALAMANCA

— Local artists interested in displaying their works at the Onöhsagwë:de’ Cultural Center later this month have until Monday to apply for the Haudenosaunee Spring Art Show.

Held at the Seneca-Iroquois National Museum, 82 W. Hetzel St., the show is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 25 with a reception at noon. The show is free and open to the public.

The purpose of the show is to give established and emerging Haudenosaunee artists alike a professional venue to show and market their work. The event also gives the public an opportunity to see artwork created by some of the finest Haudenosaunee artists, and a chance to purchase these works before they go out in the marketplace.

Categories in the juried art show include paintings, drawings, 2-D mixed media, 3-D fine art, basketry, beadwork and traditional arts.

There will be approximately $10,000 in cash prizes, including a new category for Juror’s Choice with the recipient receiving a $1,000 cash prize.

Acting director Hayden Haynes said this is a chance for

people to come to the show to see the new works the artists have created during the past year. They get to see the artwork before the artists take their creations out on the market trail to sell, which happens in late spring, summer and fall.

Haynes said Randee Spruce, the show’s organizer, has invited a number of museum institutions that are coming from New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio.

“We are trying

to build a prestigious show where museums and galleries come here to build their collections or to network and work with these artists after seeing their work,” he said.

Haynes said the show is for all Haudenosaunee artists no matter where they live.

“It’s important to note that this event isn’t a show that’s open to just Allegany and Cattaraugus territory artists. It’s open to any living, breathing Haudenosaunee

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artist,” he said. “The artists could come from anywhere in the world. Based on communications we’ve had about this show, we’ll have artwork coming from all over the area and all over the country, as well as Canada.”

Although the event is a restart of the inaugural art show in 2018, Haynes said it’s really about establishing an annual show, specifically in the springtime. He said the intent is to not only have the show for local residents, but to have it for people everywhere.

According to Haynes, the response has been good, but people are still finishing up their work. He said, because of the show’s caliber, the majority of applications will come in the last minute. There’s also a good chance there will be some firsttime artists among the applicants.

The entries submitted by the artists, aged 18 and up, must be original works created during the past 12 months and be for sale. With their application, each artist may submit up

to 10 photos for the three different works they want to have considered.

Once the application process closes, Haynes said they will go through the documents and photos the following day to look at the works and make the decisions on who will be selected to participate in the show. Applications were accepted until March 13. Contact Spruce at randee. spruce@sni.org or visit 82 W. Hetzel St., Salamanca, or call (716) 945-1760.

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Area water quality projects land nearly $1.1M in state aid

By Bob Clark ALBANY

— A couple of area projects will receive state help totaling nearly $1.1 million to improve the quality of streams and groundwater.

Gov. Kathy Hochul on March

6 announced that approximately $110 million was awarded to 86 projects through two grant programs to improve water quality across the state, including two in

MACHIAS

— The Randolph Mammoth, currently on display at the Cattaraugus County Museum and Research Library, will soon be heading back home to Albany. Some time remains, however, for those who have yet to see it as well as those who would like to say goodbye before it leaves.

The mammoth was discovered in May 1934 when workers digging a pond at the state fish hatchery in Randolph struck something large with their equipment. Quickly realizing that the object — it turned out to be the mammoth’s skull — was of some importance, they contacted Albany.

Cattaraugus County. Area WQIP awards included the Town of Randolph receiving $571,200 to install an ultraviolet effluent disinfection system at the town’s wastewater treatment facility. The project is designed to reduce pathogens in the plant’s discharge, improving water quality in the Conewango Creek watershed.

Additionally, the Town of Napoli

received $173,115 for the construction of a salt storage facility to cover the existing exposed salt pile.

The WQIP grant program funds projects that directly improve water quality or aquatic habitat, or protect a drinking water source.

Supported in part by the State’s Environmental Protection Fund and Clean Water Infrastructure Improvement Act

funding, WQIP projects include municipal wastewater treatment upgrades, non-agricultural nonpoint source abatement and control, land acquisition projects for source water protection, salt storage construction, aquatic connectivity restoration, and marine habitat restoration.

“New York continues to provide historic levels of

financial support to ensure all New Yorkers have access to clean water for generations to come,” Hochul said. “We will continue upgrading New York’s aging infrastructure and strengthening our water security — improving the quality of life and public health of communities across the state.”

Statewide, the $110 million in grants were administered by the New York

State Department of Environmental Conservation, with more than $108 million going to 51 projects through the State’s Water Quality Improvement Project program and nearly $2 million going to 35 projects through the NonAgricultural Nonpoint Source Planning and Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System Mapping Grant.

Randolph Mammoth exhibit at county museum ends soon

Within 48 hours, Dr. C.A. Hartnagle, assistant curator of paleontology at the New York State Museum, had arrived by train and was overseeing the excavation.

What they had found was the most complete set of remains of a mammoth ever found in New York. Originally thought by Dr. Hartnagle to be a Colombian mammoth, current scholars, including

current state museum curator of vertebrate paleontology Dr. Robert Feranec, are more inclined to believe it to be the smaller and more commonly found wooly mammoth. Within a week, the mammoth was crated up and shipped back to Albany, where it remained for seven decades until the state museum began loaning the original tusks and a cast of the skull — the original skull

is in too fragile a state to travel — to outside institutions for display. The county museum has been fortunate to have housed the mammoth twice since 2016, but the current exhibit is set to end April 30, after which

the mammoth will return to the state museum where a future exhibit is being planned for it.

Those who still want to see the mammoth in its home county have two months to do so. The museum is regularly open from 9 a.m.

to 4 p.m., Monday through Thursday. The museum is located in the Stone House, 9825 Route 16 in Machias. For more information, call (716) 353-8200 or visit www.cattco. org/museum.