The visual arts team came up with the idea for “When One Door Closes …” The exhibit starts at 1 p.m. The artists have formed several teams, including a craft and visual arts team, a media team and an African dance and drumming team. People visit regularly and sometimes even hold birthday parties there.īeyond the sculpture park, thanks to funding from the Creatives Rebuilding New York Artist Employment Program, the arts center was also able to hire several local artists earlier this year to help teach the arts and culture of the African diaspora to families in Schenectady. Featuring sculpture work by Jerome Meadows, as well as a mural and sidewalk art, the park has become a part of the community. The Sankofa Sculpture Park, which opened earlier this year at 412 Schenectady St., marked the first phase of that plan. More: Life & Arts | Everything Schenectady Recently, the arts center has been raising funds to renovate its building and create a cultural campus dedicated to the arts and culture of the African diaspora. The arts center serves more than 200 children a year with its Artreach Afterschool program and more than 10,000 children and families a year through community events. With that, leadership took a step back and reevaluated the building and the center’s programming needs. Electrical and plumbing issues have also cropped up. Pipes burst and flooded the basement as well as the bathrooms, and the roof in the library space fell in. In the last few years, the condition of the arts center’s home base has deteriorated.
caused an end to our old way of functioning but opened so many doors to an even greater future for us.” “The combination of COVID and the decline of our building at 409 Schenectady St. “The title of the exhibit ‘When One Door Closes…’ seemed so appropriate for what we are going through at the arts center and in our community,” said Rachel Conn, the center’s executive director. The doors will be auctioned off on Saturday to help raise money for the arts center.
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