Calling All Creatives

Fall Island Planning Proposal
c. 1962-63

Are you an artist, writer, aspiring, or otherwise creative person?

Want to create something inspired by Fall Island and have it included in a show at the Potsdam Public Museum this Fall?

If so, keep reading. If not, do you want to share this with someone who might be interested?

For those unfamiliar, Fall Island is the Island in Potsdam with Trinity Church, the hardware store, and Jernabi’s Coffee shop, among other things. Next to the parking lot behind the hardware store is a little park. This park and in particular the plants growing in the riparian buffer zone is the focus of my current art/science project, Exploring Fall Island, which I announced in a previous post. I’ve been organizing programming for folks of all ages and working on creating an art piece inspired by the programming I have been running.

Which brings us back to this call for art. I’m looking for artists and creative folks of all kinds to make something inspired by Fall Island. This could be a plein air drawing or painting made on the island, a poem inspired by its history, a photograph, or something more abstract. Last year we did something similar for Welcome Spruce Grouse and it was really cool to see the variety of different interpretations of what art and creativity inspired by science can look like.

My hope is we can do something similar for Exploring Fall Island.

I’d like to have all submissions emailed to me by the end of September at saralynch@saraelynch.com You can also message me and let me know what you are thinking about if it’s something nontraditional like an installation. The museum is super flexible and excited to be able to support something involving contemporary artists and community members so this is a cool opportunity to try things out.

I am working on scheduling some public programming to do some plant identification and ecology walks around Fall Island for July and August but if you have a group of folks that would be interested in getting together at a specific date and time, let me know. I am happy to work around people’s schedules as I am able. You are also welcome to work on your submission independently or even remotely but gathering in person is always nice.

Let me know if you have any questions and I look forward to seeing what folks create.