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Help Save the Historic Glenwood Church
and Home of Glenwood Arts We Need Your Help |
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Since 2009, Glenwood Arts is the name of a cultural collaboration with a home at Glenwood Church, an historic part of our North Shore community since 1872. Unfortunately, due to changing demographics the church has closed it doors and the future of this important landmark is now uncertain. However, an opportunity has arisen that would allow the church doors to remain open as Glenwood Arts, a cultural center… for you and all our neighbors. BUT WE NEED YOUR HELP.
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Over the last six years, Glenwood Arts has fostered events and interaction of students, artists, residents, schools, together with other groups and individuals.
Potatoville was a collaboration with LIU Post and the Occupy Potato movement as a celebration through fine art, music, performance and food of All Things Potato. |
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The Locavore Challenge- Potluck Across New York brought Glenwood Arts together with Sustainable Sea Cliff Cooperative, Slow Food Huntington and Northeast Organic Farming Association for an evening of shared food, music, art and community in support of the local organic food movement. |
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Re-Planting, Earth Day April 2015, was a community-led event championing the wellbeing of our local Hempstead Harbor environment, alongside a retrospective of the recently demolished Glenwood Power plant– via an exhibition of fine art, photography, music, film, and open dialogue to explore our history, current issues and opportunities moving forward.
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Today we ask for your support to help Glenwood Arts enter the next phase of growth and keep the Glenwood Church open. In order to qualify for funds that are becoming available to us, we need startup money to incorporate as our own 501c3 non-profit.
Being a 501c3 will allow Glenwood Arts to obtain these new funds, retain the use of the church property and expand our cultural initiatives
-- keeping this landmark open as a vibrant part of the community.
We have an immediate fundraising goal of $2,000 to pay for state and federal administrative, legal and filing costs, required to apply for 501c3 status. All additional funds will help expand cultural programs being planned. Your donations will go to Glenwood Arts via our 501c3 sponsor, Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts organization that helps process funds on behalf of new entities being formed.
Please help today by making a donation of $25, $50, or another amount.
Being a 501c3 will allow Glenwood Arts to obtain these new funds, retain the use of the church property and expand our cultural initiatives
-- keeping this landmark open as a vibrant part of the community.
We have an immediate fundraising goal of $2,000 to pay for state and federal administrative, legal and filing costs, required to apply for 501c3 status. All additional funds will help expand cultural programs being planned. Your donations will go to Glenwood Arts via our 501c3 sponsor, Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts organization that helps process funds on behalf of new entities being formed.
Please help today by making a donation of $25, $50, or another amount.
Your support will make a difference in our community to keep the Historic Glenwood Church open as the continued home of the Glenwood Arts cultural center. Thank you.
For the community,
Greg Sturge
Glenwood Arts
[email protected]
www.glenwood-arts.org
Facebook.com/GWArts
For the community,
Greg Sturge
Glenwood Arts
[email protected]
www.glenwood-arts.org
Facebook.com/GWArts
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A community conversation through art, film, and more, held on Earth Day, 2015
Hempstead Harbor and the Surrounding Communities The re-PLANTING Glenwood Arts event was inspired by the dismantling of the iconic Glenwood Landing Power plant, an historic and architecturally unique landmark that for nearly a century provided jobs and electrical power to the area. The idea of rePlanting is to document and memorialize the role of the plant in the community and start a dialogue about what happens in its absence; and also to germinate new ideas and fertilize existing ones about how to nurture creative and environmentally sound growth in Hempstead Harbor and the surrounding communities The event held on April 22nd, 2015 hosted at the historic Glenwood Church, featured the recent and archival photos, paintings, films and other mixed media works of local artists and residents, as well as the performance of music. A range of speakers addressed the history of the power plant, stories of peoples lives, present and future concerns on the environmental impact to the surrounding Hempstead Harbor community, sustainable growth and possibilities moving forward. The modern environmental movement born on EARTH DAY on April 22, 1970 which still challenges communities to, "Discover energy you didn't even know you had. Feel it rumble through the grassroots under your feet and the technology at your fingertips. Channel it into building a clean, healthy, diverse world for generations to come." --from Earth Day.org. 
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re-PLANTING on FIOS1 MyLITV Power Plant demolition film
Community footage, edited by Dennis Cleasby |
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Glenwood Arts Interview:
April 2015 Jourdain Jongwon Lee South Korean Arist, Jourdain Jongwon Lee describes a proposed outdoor sculpture entitled "Goindol," inspired by mysterious megalithic tombs, called Dolmens from the Neolithic era. Goindol is to be part of the Opaloo' "SculptusCampus" lab. Learn more at www.opaloo.org. |
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Glenwood Arts Interview:
HuNoo A visiting artist from South Korea and MFA student at LIU Post, Heon Woo Nam, "HuNoo" describes the inspiration behind his work "Potato Eye" which appeared at Glenwood Arts, Potatoville: Post-Potatoism exhibition this winter; and describes his experience living and studying in the U.S. Click here for interview |
Glenwood Arts Interview:
Polly Weigand Executive Director, Long Island Native Plant Initiative Polly Weigand founded the Long Island Native Plant Initiative, LINPI, in 2011, in an effort to preserve the original strains of grasses and plants that grew on Long Island before settlers introduced non-native species. Polly also works as a soil technician for the Suffolk County Soil and Water Conservation District. LINPI regularly holds plant sales and teaches the public about native plants at their greenhouse on the campus of Suffolk County Community College on the weekends. |
YouTube video: Interview of Polly Weigard
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Coming...Students and members of the community are invited to to drop off used objects and discards such as teabags, used plastic lighters, laundry lint, dead light bulbs, eggshells, used markers and other “non-conventional materials” to be used in works of art, architecture and furniture by PAK-CAT, local schools, LIU, local artists and members of the community.
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Potatoville at Glenwood Arts
Potatoville featured potato-themed art exhibition, Post-Potatoism, and performance by the band Potatotron playing original potato-related music-- all led by potato empresario, artist and professor, Jeffrey Allen Price, featured in the documentary short film below. |
