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Press Release: 08/10/07

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE/OPPORTUNITY FOR COVERAGE

TO: All News Directors

Press Contacts:
Gina Stankivitz
(315) 442-2230,
gmstanki@syr.edu


COMMUNITY FOLK ART CENTER OPENS:

"The Art of George Mayocole"

November 3 - December 15, 2007
Tuesday - Friday 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Saturday 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Reception and Illustrated Lecture by Lynne Mayocole: November 17, 2:00-4:00 p.m.

Admission to exhibition and lecture is free; metered parking on adjacent streets, paid parking in nearby lots; convenient to Centro, Connective Corridor and SU campus bus routes.

Syracuse, NY - "CFAC Hosts Exhibition of Works by Late New York City Artist George Mayocole"

The Community Folk Art Center, 805 East Genesee Street in Syracuse, is opening a new exhibition which will be on view from November 3rd through December 15th, 2007: The Art of George Mayocole. Regular Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The Art of George Mayocole will feature abstract mixed media on paper works by the late Mayocole, who was a New York City based artist. Mayocole was a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University. He exhibited in several solo and group exhibitions and was the Director and Owner of Art Works Gallery in New York City from 1977 to 1979. He was the recipient of a C.A.P.S. (Creative Artists Public Services) Grant for Sculpture in 1975.

There will be a reception for the exhibition on November 17th from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Lynne Mayocole will give an illustrated lecture on the work of her husband, which will also include images of some of the artist's sculptures.

For more information about the exhibition, please call the Community Folk Art Center at 442-2230. The Community Folk Art Center is a program of the Department of African American Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University.

The Community Folk Art Center is a program of the African American Studies Department in the College of Arts & Sciences at Syracuse University and
is supported in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.
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