EYEVEE

Bound Screening & Q+A w/ Susie Bright
2025-05-01 18:30 - 22:30 UTC
Mark your calendars for a special evening on Thursday May 1st: 6:30 PM – 10:30 PM
We’ll be screening the iconic film “Bound” by the Wachowski Sisters, followed by a conversation with the legendary Susie Bright! Described as “one of the best films of the ’90s” and “a quintessential piece of queer cinema” by Q+, this is an event you won’t want to miss.
6:30pm – Arrive
7:00pm – Film Screening
9:00pm – Susie will talk about the making of the film + answer questions
Screening + conversation will take place in the lounge at the Grayhaven Motel.

May Gallery Night with Stahl Caso – “Here come the Archives”
2025-05-02 17:00 - 19:45
Friday May 2nd, 5-745pm
Join us in the Lounge for the opening reception of Stahl Caso showcasing various art forms from the past two years. Ithaca born Artist/musician, Stahl is interested in the after effects of merging mediums and fire. Oil and acrylic paints, wire, string, found wood, metal, paper, ink, pencil, map gas torch, water and cloth. Works include painting, sculpture, drawing and audio visual formats. Live music will be part of this reception as well. We hope you will come by, enjoy art, music, and the ambience of a restored boarding house and motor lodge with friends and community.
This program is made possible in part with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant program from the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the office of the Governor and NYS Legislature, administered by the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County.

1evening: art & technology
2025-05-03 18:00 | IV Gallery @ Cortright Electric, 653 Elmira Rd., Ithaca, NY, 14850, United States
May 3, 6pm-9pm
IV Gallery @ Cortright Electric, 653 Elmira Rd, Ithaca NY 14850
Join us for a pop-up exhibition of young artists experimenting with art and technology, showing single channel, interactive, sound, and installed works.

June Gallery Night with Johnny Dowd
2025-06-06 17:00 - 19:45
Is Heaven real? How Would I Know?
Art and music by Johnny Dowd
Friday June 6th, 5-745pm
Join us in the Grayhaven Gallery Lounge for the opening reception with art and music by Johnny Dowd.
“i was born in fort worth texas in 1948. my childhood was normal as was my adulthood. at some point i learned to play guitar. when i tired of that i began drawing. The future is uncertain.” — JD
This program is made possible in part with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant program from the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the office of the Governor and NYS Legislature, administered by the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County.

July Gallery Night with Keith Millman
2025-07-04 05:00 - 20:00
Departing and Arriving:
Pictures from the bottom of the sky

Opening reception Friday July 4th, 5-8pm in the Grayhaven Gallery Lounge

“My art relies on the special possibilities of time in the photographic medium. In the most recent series, I compress movies into singular images of birds in upstate New York, where I live.”-Keith Millman

If you are unable to make the opening we encourage you to visit during office hours 8am-8pm in July to view the show and invite you to have a drink on our patio or walk our trails if you’d like a quite moment, to enjoy art, nature, and welcoming spaces.

This program is made possible in part with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant program from the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the office of the Governor and NYS Legislature, administered by the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County.

August Gallery Night with Christina Reilly
2025-08-01 05:00 - 20:00
Sketches from the Bhavacakra
Opening reception Friday August 1st, 5-8pm in the Grayhaven Gallery Lounge
If you can not make the opening reception please stop by during office hours 8am-8pm to view throughout the month of August.
Artist Statement:
I’m an Emmy-winning filmmaker and photographer—and an amateur artist presenting my first exhibit. This is a work in progress, much like the subject at its heart. For years, I’ve been drawn to the ancient Buddhist image known as the bhavacakra, or Wheel of Life. It’s a densely symbolic diagram said to have been used by the Buddha himself to explain the cycles of suffering, rebirth, and liberation to everyday people. The figures within it—both grotesque and tender—represent states of mind we all pass through in our human experience.

This collection is a series of sketches, personal interpretations of those characters, created as part of my own learning and reflection. Some appear dark, even disturbing—but there is always a path forward. In the upper right corner of the original drawing, a figure gestures upward, pointing toward the moon: toward release, toward freedom. I like to think her message is simple and timeless: Let go. These drawings are not final, nor are they meant to be authoritative. They are pieces of a longer inquiry, offered in the spirit of curiosity, impermanence, and practice.

September ’25 Gallery Night w/ Sean Ryan
2025-09-05 16:30 - 19:30
Join us Friday September 5th, 4:30pm-7:30pm in the Grayhaven Gallery Lounge for Rock, Graffiti, and Oil: An Art Opening with Sean Ryan.
Sean Ryan is a dynamic artist who has cultivated his passion for painting later in life. Inspired by a lifetime itch he finally scratched in his 50s, Ryan’s work reflects a unique blend of influences. As he puts it, “If you took rock poster art, graffiti, music and oil painting and mixed them in a soup, that’s what I’m eating.” His art embodies a journey of continuous discovery, guided by a philosophy to “just pick up a paint brush and paint 100 things—then figure it out from there.”
Work will be on display and available to view in the Guest Lounge from 8am – 8pm daily, through the month of September.
Made possible in part with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, administered by the Community Arts Partnership.

October Gallery Night with Craig Mains
2025-10-03 17:00 - 2025-10-29 20:00
Celebration Folly
Friday October 3rd 5-8pm
The subject of my prints include things that have gone awry typically by natural causes or human miscalculation. Large man-made objects and proscribed spaces appear to me as attractors of natural malaise: bridges beckon rivers to swell and wash out, trailer parks are tornado magnets, golf courses want to be struck by lightning and offshore oil platforms are asking for a storm surge.
Many of the works in this exhibit pertain to a kind of celebration folly. In an attempt to create awesome splendor to mark important dates, celebrations can turn to devastation. Gender reveal parties have sent pipe bombs into grandmas, caused numerous small fires and two major forest fires, and at least 3 plane crashes. The manufacture of fireworks is dangerous and workplace slip-ups can level entire city blocks. Seeing the incredible force and beauty of these sparkling explosions creates a dissidence between horror, awe and delight.
This program is made possible in part with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant program from the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the office of the Governor and NYS Legislature, administered by the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County.

October 2025 :: House Show :: IV Gallery
2025-10-17 18:00 - 20:00 | IV Gallery @ Cortright Electric, 653 Elmira Rd., Ithaca, NY, 14850, United States
v e n u e
IV Gallery @ Cortright Electric
653 Elmira Road Ithaca, between the graveyard and grayhaven motel, rt. 13
a r t o p e n i n g
HOUSE SHOW
AUDREY BIALKE
LESLIE BRACK
CHRISTINE ELFMAN
BLAKE FALL-CONROY
WHITNEY HUBBS
SOPHIA STARLING
o p e n i n g
friday october 17th 6-8pm
c l o s i n g
friday november 7th 6-8pm
l o g i s t i c s
parking at cemetery preferred
front house by the road
enter in the back
toilet at grayhaven
no snooping around

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November Gallery Night with Marshall Hopkins
2025-11-07 17:00 - 20:00
Memory Sketches
Friday November 7th 5-8pm

Memory Sketches: “Little life memories, like the ones we all been carry around, maybe not the traumatic or spectacular events, but ones that have endured in our minds through time and that we return to as constant clues to our identity and self. Why those snippets? and what did they look like? Can I bring mine back into view in the same manner that I would copy a landscape or a still life?”
Marshall Hopkins is a designer, illustrator, and cartoonist who’s worked everywhere from a gold-leaf frame studio to newsrooms to academic publishing. He studied at RISD, freelanced in New York, and even had the best job in the city, Assistant Cartoon Editor at the New Yorker Magazine, while publishing his own cartoons.
These days, he designs book covers for smart scholars at the Cornell University Press.This program is made possible in part with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant program from the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the office of the Governor and NYS Legislature, administered by the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County.

November 2025 :: Tintype Show :: Crystal Calabrese and Nicolai Klimaszewski :: IV Gallery :: 11.22.2025 Opening
2025-11-22 11:00 - 16:00 | IV Gallery @ Cortright Electric, 653 Elmira Rd., Ithaca, NY, 14850, United States
Contemporary Tintype Portraits created in the traditional wet-plate collodion process by Crystal Amethyst Calabrese focus on farmers and farming in the Finger Lakes.
A site-specific installation of historical Tintype Portraits curated by Nicolai Klimaszewski seeks to breathe life into the characters and community that existed in America during the earliest days of photography.
A working tintype studio and demos on Sat & Sun.
3 Days Only:
November
21 @ 4-7
22 @ 11-4 (opening reception)
23 @ 1-4
IV Gallery at Cortright Electric
653 Elmira Rd. Ithaca
More information and details: eyeveearts@gmail.com
Questions: Nicolai 607 279-1126
“Farmers and Farmscapes” is an ongoing portrait series of Finger Lakes farmers and the land they steward. Through her original tintype photographs, Calabrese invites an open conversation about the realities of farming and our shared responsibility of caring for the land for future generations. Her project also highlights the importance of preserving endangered art forms through continued practice.
Crystal Calabrese is an Ithaca-area artist who uses the historic wet-plate collodion process to document contemporary small-scale agriculture and our evolving relationship to the land. Working from her mobile darkroom, she mixes her own chemistry and creates handmade, direct-positive images on metal and glass plates. The tintypes in “Farmers and Farmscapes” were made with a 120-year-old Seneca View Camera onto 5” x 7” metal plates. Her project was supported by a grant from the Arts Council of the Southern Finger Lakes.
Klimaszewski’s show is a site-specific installation of historical tintype portraits. They have been printed larger to make detail accessible and to enhance the presence of the characters depicted. “George Robinson’s America c.1870” presents a cohesive selection of portraits originally created by anonymous photographers during the years 1860-1880. The installation seeks to breathe life into the characters and community that existed in America during the early days of portrait photography.
Klimaszewski is an artist and a collector of all things photographic. He has exhibited his artwork nationally and internationally. His work has been recognized and supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts. He has organized, curated, and juried shows in galleries and museums, including The Tarpon Springs National Arts and Crafts Show, and the Johnson Museum of Art. This show is curated from his personal collection of tintype photographs.

December Gallery Night with TC3 Art Department
2025-12-05 05:00 - 20:00
We Found the Time
A TC3 Faculty + Student Showcase at the Grayhaven Motel
Art made between everything else.
We Found the Time highlights the creative work of TC3 faculty and students who continue to make art alongside the many demands of everyday life. The exhibition explores what it means to sustain a creative practice within the spaces between teaching, learning, working, and living.
The show celebrates the moments stolen between classes, jobs, and long to-do lists, where making something just for the sake of it still mattered. Across a range of materials and perspectives, these works reveal the persistence of creativity and the ways it can ground us, connect us, and help us make sense of the world, when we can find the time.
This program is made possible in part with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant program from the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the office of the Governor and NYS Legislature, administered by the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County.

Susie Bright presents: Behind the Scenes of “The Celluloid Closet”
2025-12-12 17:00 - 20:00
Movies In The Lounge @ Grayhaven Motel
Susie Bright presents: Behind the Scenes of “The Celluloid Closet”
A video show and tell from one of the creators of the fabled Hollywood documentary.
In 1996, Susie and friends Rob Epstein, Jeffery Friedman, Lily Tomlin, Army Maupin, Shirley McLaine, Gore Vidal, Harvey Fierstein, Whoopi Goldberg – made a mouth-dropping movie about the “secret” gay world of Old Hollywood, when being in the closet was de rigueur, but imparting queer aesthetics was EVERYTHING. It was based on the work of film historian Vito Russo, and went on to win Peabody, Emmy, and Sundance accolades – more importantly, rewriting Tinsel Town history with the truth.
Susie will show us the movie, and will tell us the juicy parts that didn’t make the Final Cut, as well as how we pulled it off against all the odds!
When: Movie viewing will be held on December 12th at 5:00 PM.
Where: We will meet in the cozy Grayhaven Motel Guest Lounge.

December 2025 :: IN PROCESS Collective Residency :: IV_Gallery :: o p e n h o u s e
2025-12-21 14:00 - 16:00 | IV Gallery @ Cortright Electric, 653 Elmira Rd., Ithaca, NY, 14850, United States
v e n u e
IV Gallery @ Cortright Electric
653 Elmira Road Ithaca, between the graveyard and grayhaven motel, rt. 13
o p e n h o u s e
IN PROCESS: A COLLECTIVE RESIDENCY
Jon Bailiff
Blake Fall-Conroy
Core Sample Collective
Werner Sun
Jessica Warner
Melissa Zarem
v i s i t i n g h o u r s
December 21, 2025 2pm – 4pm
l o g i s t i c s
parking at cemetery preferred
front house by the road
enter in the back
toilet at grayhaven
respect resident privacy
this machine kills fascists
t h e r e s i d e n c y
Visual artists are often makers of objects, but sometimes these finished pieces hide the process by which they came to be. “In Process” is a residency of artists and collectives who will transform IV Gallery @ Cortright Electric into a site of improvisation and play.
During this extended performance, individual projects and installations will mingle and overlap as they evolve. The artists will be working with a variety of materials — weavings, soil samples, paintings, prints, videos, sculpture, and electronics — and the outcome of this residency will be the curiosity and experimentation that is generated along the way.
Jon Bailiff is a visiting Artist-in-Residence at EYEVEE working in fiber, photography/video, physical presence, painting, printing, and improvisatory installation. A UW-Madison alumnus, Bailiff has designed for the Ukraine We Are Here multi-media exhibition, the late Frank Moore’s performance set design, Fish-Ins: Black Native Solidarity in the 60s, 1000 Artists@Inauguration, and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History’s Shadow Theater. He served on the original Santa Cruz Public Arts Commission and teaches multi-media art, from weaving to robotics.Blake Fall-Conroy is an artist and self-taught mechanical engineer. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he received his BFA in Sculpture from Cornell University and MFA in Art and Technology Studies from School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His artmaking practice is conceptually motivated, engaging with a wide range of social issues from consumerism and the American spectacle, to surveillance and the ubiquitous use of technology. Fall-Conroy’s projects often incorporate mechanical, electronic, or programmed components as well as objects or motifs found within the routine of daily life.Core Sample: A group of collaborators collected a deep soil core sample at the Soil Factory this November. This action was generated by a simple question: Does the soil have memory? After several attempts, we found a soft spot and took samples down to 10 feet using an auger. Participants — Anna Ialeggio, Johannes Lehmann, Tammo Steenhuis, Dan Torop, Naaran Brindt, Jared May, Annette Dathe, Steve Pacenka, Bob Schindelbeck, Matthew Fenn, Caitlyn Hatzell, and Laura Robert — utilized a FWD truck, trowels and wrenches, The Giddings Soil Sampling Coring Probe, photographic prints, and test results from a geochemical lab & ceramic studio. As we (soil scientists, ceramicists, geochemists, machinists, engineers, and photographers) interpret what we encountered, this project explores our memories of a cold day in the field.Werner Sun is a visual artist with a background in physics, who lives and works in Ithaca, NY. He uses repetitive manual processes to slowly transform digital images into sculptural objects that evoke the gradual accumulation of knowledge in science. Commissioned for Cornell University’s Mann Library and Botanic Gardens, Sun has exhibited at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester and Manifest Gallery. A 2019 Aon-CUE Artist Empowerment Award recipient, his work explores how scientific methods and artistic processes reveal our complex relationship to perception and understanding.Jessica Warner creates paintings, drawings, and is working in printmaking as the Khan Family Fellow at the Ink Shop in Ithaca, NY. Her work explores how meaning evolves through the processes of making and looking. She has been a Resident at the Vermont Studio Center, and exhibited at The Kirkland Art Center and Neighbors Gallery. Her work is represented in collections at Cornell University and The Upstate Cancer Center. She studied at SUNY Purchase and has taught at the Community School of Music and Art, and Ithaca College.
Melissa Zarem is an abstract painter whose layered, experimental works explore the boundaries of perception. Her pieces, acquired by the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Cornell University’s permanent collection, challenge viewers’ understanding of truth through intricate mixed-media compositions. A recipient of grants from the Constance Saltonstall Foundation and Vermont Studio Center, Zarem has exhibited nationally, including at Aqua Art Miami and the Abrons Art Center. Her black and white drawing book, Spring Loaded, showcases her distinctive artistic vision.

February Gallery Night with Weston Czerkies
2026-02-06 17:00 - 20:00
“Hard Copy” : Past and current collage and design work
Opening Reception: Friday February 6th 5-8pm
“Weston Czerkies is a collage artist and visual designer working in the medium of xerox art. Informed by hardcore punk and industrial noise visual aesthetics, Czerkies collects and uses source material from 1950s -1970s photography, advertisements, informational diagrams, letterpress block imagery and public domain illustration. These visual components are photocopied and re-worked using simple cut and paste methods as well as xerox scanner manipulation. While text is often generated and aligned in a digital document format, it is then printed, scanner-distorted and physically manipulated on the scanner bed to match its image companions. All visual material is otherwise entirely hand-altered through continued re-copying.
The pieces presented here date from the earlier days of Czerkies’ avant-garde/punk cassette label Prime Ruin (circa 2013 onward) to his more recent flyer designs and work with his current label Gracious Host. The imagery for these works is largely chosen and contorted to complement the music and artistic intent of the musicians it is supporting. Visions of the surreal and dream-like are binding themes in many of these collages as the sound work they are made for is often composed as a form of escapism or mental processing.
Aside from making art to support his own musical endeavors, Czerkies also works on commission designing flyers for live events, album artwork and merchandise for artists such as Fed Ash, STCLVR, Mountain of Woe, Hunted Down, Kjostad, and more. Currently he is assisting with faceplate designs for local pedal company Whisker House Electronics as well as designing covers for several new albums with his main sound project, Magnetic Coroner. He can be reached at primeruined@gmail.com”
This show will be available for viewing throughout February during office hours. Please call first for our winter office hours.
This program is made possible in part with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant program from the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the office of the Governor and NYS Legislature, administered by the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County.

March 2026 :: Open House #2 :: IN PROCESS Collective Residency :: IV_Gallery :: o p e n h o u s e
2026-03-01 14:00 - 16:00 | IV Gallery @ Cortright Electric, 653 Elmira Rd., Ithaca, NY, 14850, United States
v e n u e
IV Gallery @ Cortright Electric
653 Elmira Road Ithaca, between the graveyard and grayhaven motel, rt. 13
o p e n h o u s e #2
IN PROCESS: A COLLECTIVE RESIDENCY
Jon Bailiff
Core Sample (Dan Torop & collaborators)
Blake Fall-Conroy
Laura Robert
Werner Sun
Jessica Warner
Melissa Zarem
v i s i t i n g h o u r s
March 1, 2026 2pm – 4pm
(poetry performance at 2:30pm)
l o g i s t i c s
parking at cemetery preferred
front house by the road
enter in the back
toilet at grayhaven
respect resident privacy
this machine kills fascists
t h e r e s i d e n c y
Visual artists are often makers of objects, but sometimes these finished pieces hide the process by which they came to be.
“In Process” is a residency of artists and collectives who will transform IV Gallery @ Cortright Electric into a site of improvisation and play.
During this extended performance, individual projects and installations will mingle and overlap as they evolve. The artists will be working with a variety of materials — weavings, soil samples, paintings, prints, videos, sculpture, and electronics — and the outcome of this residency will be the curiosity and experimentation that is generated along the way.
Jon Bailiff is a visiting Artist-in-Residence at EYEVEE working in fiber, photography/video, physical presence, painting, printing, and improvisatory installation. A UW-Madison alumnus, Bailiff has designed for the Ukraine We Are Here multi-media exhibition, the late Frank Moore’s performance set design, Fish-Ins: Black Native Solidarity in the 60s, 1000 Artists@Inauguration, and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History’s Shadow Theater. He served on the original Santa Cruz Public Arts Commission and teaches multi-media art, from weaving to robotics.
Core Sample: Last November, a group of collaborators (soil scientists, ceramicists, geochemists, machinists, engineers, and photographers) collected a deep soil core sample at The Soil Factory. This action was generated by a simple question: Does the soil have memory? After several attempts, a soft spot was found, and samples were taken down to 10 feet using an auger. Participants utilized a FWD truck, trowels and wrenches, and The Giddings Soil Sampling Coring Probe. Through photography, painting, and sculpture, artists Dan Torop and Laura Robert interpreted what was encountered, exploring their memories of a cold day in the field. This project also includes invaluable contributions from Anna Ialeggio, Johannes Lehmann, Tammo Steenhuis, Naaran Brindt, Jared May, Annette Dathe, Steve Pacenka, Bob Schindelbeck, Matthew Fenn, and Caitlyn Hatzell.
Blake Fall-Conroy is an artist and self-taught mechanical engineer. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he received his BFA in Sculpture from Cornell University and MFA in Art and Technology Studies from School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His artmaking practice is conceptually motivated, engaging with a wide range of social issues from consumerism and the American spectacle, to surveillance and the ubiquitous use of technology. Fall-Conroy’s projects often incorporate mechanical, electronic, or programmed components as well as objects or motifs found within the routine of daily life.
Laura Robert: As the 23/24 Kahn Fellow at the Ink Shop in downtown Ithaca, I explored the themes of affirmation, community and education. My practice relies heavily on repetition, both as a making form and as a tool for relationship building. Here at Cortright Electric I expanded my presentation to include written and spoken word, drawings as an expression of photographic documentation and sculptural forms to create language. Thank you for your presence.
Werner Sun is a visual artist with a background in physics, who lives and works in Ithaca, NY. He uses repetitive manual processes to slowly transform digital images into sculptural objects that evoke the gradual accumulation of knowledge in science. Commissioned for Cornell University’s Mann Library and Botanic Gardens, Sun has exhibited at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester and Manifest Gallery. A 2019 Aon-CUE Artist Empowerment Award recipient, his work explores how scientific methods and artistic processes reveal our complex relationship to perception and understanding.
Jessica Warner creates paintings, drawings, and is working in printmaking as the Khan Family Fellow at the Ink Shop in Ithaca, NY. Her work explores how meaning evolves through the processes of making and looking. She has been a Resident at the Vermont Studio Center, and exhibited at The Kirkland Art Center and Neighbors Gallery. Her work is represented in collections at Cornell University and The Upstate Cancer Center. She studied at SUNY Purchase and has taught at the Community School of Music and Art, and Ithaca College.
Melissa Zarem is an abstract painter whose layered, experimental works explore the boundaries of perception. Her pieces, acquired by the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Cornell University’s permanent collection, challenge viewers’ understanding of truth through intricate mixed-media compositions. A recipient of grants from the Constance Saltonstall Foundation and Vermont Studio Center, Zarem has exhibited nationally, including at Aqua Art Miami and the Abrons Art Center. Her black and white drawing book, Spring Loaded, showcases her distinctive artistic vision.
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March Gallery Night with Alice Mischke
2026-03-06 17:00 - 20:00
Upstream- A Year of Persistence
Opening Reception: Friday March 6th 5-8pm
Alice Mischke is an impressionistic and abstract landscape painter. Her subject material ranges from the nostalgic, vague nature of remembered places to the shapes and colors of the landscapes we inhabit. Her current work is achieved using tools and mediums to develop, uncover and reveal textures and hidden surfaces that create depth and meaning. In addition to the importance of living here, working with artists such as Jimmy Clark and Paulus Berensohn in clay and journal making have influenced her interest in the impact of surface treatments. More recent workshops and the connected community groups of abstract artist and educator Nicholas Wilton have been influential in developing that theme. A recipient of a New York State Council on the Arts FY2026 artists support grant, she is currently working on a series of abstract landscapes that will be shown in a November exhibition at the Tioga Council of the Arts building in Owego, NY. Her work is in many private collections and in the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York. A long-time member of the Owego arts community, she maintains a studio in The Walk-Up Gallery & Studio Spaces in Owego, on the 2nd floor above the Tioga Arts Council, with a lovely view of the Susquehanna River.
This show will be available for viewing throughout March during office hours. Please call first to verify our current office hours.
This program is made possible in part with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant program from the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the office of the Governor and NYS Legislature, administered by the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County.

Pysanky Open House: Decorate Ukrainian Easter Eggs
2026-03-29 13:00 - 16:00
Join David Rosenbaum and Alexis Grimm for a fun and creative afternoon of Pysanky (Ukrainian Easter egg decorating). Discover the traditional wax-resist method, using vibrant dyes and intricate designs. All materials are provided, and no experience is necessary. Suitable for ages 13 and up. Experienced artists are also welcome! Learn a new skill, explore a rich cultural tradition, and create your own unique spring masterpiece.
What to Expect:
“Pysanky” (pronounced PIH-san-kih) is the plural form of these vibrant decorated eggs, while “pysanka” (pronounced PIH-san-kah) is the singular. Pysanky are created using a wax-resist (batik) method. Melted beeswax, applied with a heated stylus called a “kistka,” is used to draw designs on the egg. The egg is then submerged in dye baths, progressing from the lightest to the darkest color, with more wax applied after each dip to preserve the existing colors. Finally, the wax is melted off, revealing your completed design.
This workshop is very informal. We love the process and want to share it with you. We’ll be hosting an open house style event, so feel free to stop by, take an available seat, and we’ll guide you through the process. Coffee and tea will be available. There is no cost to attend; however, if you’d like to bring eggs, help with setup, or make a donation to help cover supplies, you’re welcome to do so!
Date / Time / Location:
Sunday March 29th
1pm – 4pm
Grayhaven Motel, 657 Elmira Rd. Ithaca New York 14850
