ALLEGANY, N.Y. — The Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts at St. Bonaventure University kicks off its 10-year anniversary this month participating in the National Summer Reading Program, making stops at public libraries across New York and Pennsylvania.
“This is one of the Quick Center’s most ambitious summers to date,” said Sean Conklin, assistant curator of the Quick Center and coordinator of summer programming. “We have an ArtMobile trip planned every day for the rest of July and first three weeks of August, along with additional community outreach activities such as StrOLEAN and the recent Allegany Fire Department’s Old Home Week Parade, as well as new summer camp we are offering this year.”
Summer programming is supported by four summer arts education assistants: Gwendolyn Brown of Ellicottville, N.Y, a recent B.F.A. criticism and curatorial practices graduate of Ontario College of Art and Design; Abigail MacWilliams of Olean, a recent M.S. Ed. graduate of St. Bonaventure and incoming eighth-grade Spanish teacher at Olean High School; Jacqueline Philp of Randolph, a B.S. Ed. candidate at St. Bonaventure; and Brittany Winans of Bolivar, a B.F.A. candidate at Alfred University from Bolivar.
For the library program each day, staff will load the ArtMobile with works from the university’s collection, educational resources, and art supplies, and make one or two trips to each of the 25 participating libraries. Each hour-long visit will present a lesson and activity aligned with the “Libraries Rock” theme of the National Summer Reading Program.
To learn more about the ArtMobile and when it will be at your local library, view the schedule below, contact your library or contact the Quick Center by phone at (716) 375-2494 or by email at quick@sbu.edu. You can also “Like” the Quick Center on Facebook to get updates on where the ArtMobile will be heading and which projects they will be running each day in July and August.
The ArtMobile will stop at the following libraries throughout the summer:
Monday, July 16, Allegany Public Library, 11:30 a.m., and Olean Public Library at 2 p.m.
Wednesday, July 18, Coudersport (Pa.) Public Library at 1 p.m.
Thursday, July 19, Oswayo Valley (Pa) Memorial Library at 1 p.m.
Friday, July 20, S.W. Smith Memorial Library, Port Allegany, Pa., 11 a.m.
Monday, July 23, Allegany Public Library, 12 p.m.
Monday, Aug. 6, Portville Free Library at 1:30 p.m.
