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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.

April Gallery Night with Michelle Menter, Lena Rundels, Echo Menter-Jones, Dave Miko + Seth Faergolzia
2025-04-04 17:00 - 19:45 UTC
Aliens on Vacation — an artistic visitation to your lovely planet.
On view in the Lounge at Grayhaven Motel April 4th – April 28th, 2025
Join us Friday April 4th from 5-7:45pm for the opening reception of Aliens on Vacation — an artistic visitation to your lovely planet featuring art by Michelle Menter, Lena Rundels, Echo Menter-Jones, Dave Miko and Seth Faergolzia, performance art by Michelle and Tony and 7 songs by Seth Faergolzia. The opening reception is part of Ithaca Gallery Night and sure to be a wonderful evening of art music 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.

March Gallery Night with Stacia Humby
2025-03-07 17:00 - 20:00 UTC
Join us March 7th from 5-7pm as we showcase the work of local artist Stacia Humby in our guest lounge. Stacia is a self-taught Ithaca native with a penchant for pens.
The opening reception is part of Ithaca Gallery Night. If you cannot make the opening we’d love you to stop by in March during office hours to see her work and enjoy our cozy quiet lounge. Call for our current winter hours before stopping in.
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.

Art-Tech Meet-Up
2025-02-19 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Grayhaven Motel Lounge, 657 Elmira Rd, Ithaca, NY, 14850, United States
art-tech meet up. first wednesdays, 6pm – 8pm. hang with friends, work on a project, learn new things, get help. arduino, physical computing, code interactivity, net art, robotics, circuitry, audiovisual. an eyevee arts project. see contact email on flier.

February 2025 Gallery Night w/ Cole DuMond
2025-02-07 17:00 - 20:00 UTC | Grayhaven Motel Lounge, 657 Elmira Rd, Ithaca, NY, 14850, United States
Dreamscapes
I had a big imagination when I was a kid. When my family and I traveled I stared out the car or plane window for hours creating moving scenes and creatures, but they would leave when I shut the door. As I grew up I looked out the window less and less while keeping my foot in that imaginary door. Now with every drawing that door opens more and more. Welcome to my journey to reopen that door. –Cole
Join us February 7th from 5-7pm as we showcase the work of local artist Cole DuMond accompanied by live music from Rev Ezra, Sarah Noell & Tenzin Chopak in our inviting mid century guest lounge. The opening reception is part of Ithaca First Fridays Gallery Night. Cole’s show will be available for viewing during our office hours through February if you cannot make the opening. Call for our current winter hours before stopping in.
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.

January 2025 Gallery Night w/ TC3 Art Department
2025-01-03 17:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Grayhaven Motel Lounge, 657 Elmira Rd, Ithaca, NY, 14850, United States
“Fragments of Identity” brings together the diverse artistic voices of TC3 faculty, students, and tutors. The exhibition explores the concept of identity through a variety of media—cross-contour drawings that capture the tactile essence of human form, portraits that tell personal stories, and fragmented digital works that reflect the layered nature of our digital age. This collection invites viewers to piece together the various fragments, forming a collective mosaic of experiences, perceptions, and expressions. Curated by Megan VanKanegan and Tanya Komar. 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.

December 2024 Gallery Night w/ TC3 Art Department
2024-12-06 17:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Grayhaven Motel Lounge, 657 Elmira Rd, Ithaca, NY, 14850, United States

November 2024 Gallery Night w/ Scott Ackerman
2024-11-01 17:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Scott Michael Ackerman is a self-taught artist from upstate New York. Working at times within the traditions of Folk and Outsider art, Ackerman frequently utilizes unorthodox materials and found objects in his practice. As a self-taught artist he considers his approach as primitive and unconventional, rejecting the boundaries of traditional culture. He explains his process is driven by intuition and instinct, using acrylic, pencil and spray paint for their immediacy: “When I sit down to work, I typically don’t know what I’m going to paint. I use mediums that dry quickly in order for me to get as much down on the surface while it’s still fresh in my head”. Titles are carefully chosen and he uses text within the works to point towards a “telling” of the story as he imaged it. The viewer is presented with a starting point for their own interpretation. The influence of Folk art can be seen in Ackerman’s expressive mark making, the use of varied and bright colors, repetitive patterns, and symbolic imagery. His style can be decorative at times, especially is his rendition of natural elements.
Scott Michael Ackerman lives in Margaretville, NY with his wife, daughter, and son that also serves as his studio/gallery space.

October 2024 Gallery Night w/ Bethany Parisi
2024-10-04 17:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
In this debut exhibition, Bethany Parisi invites viewers into the tranquil world of her pine relief carvings where each relief feels like a cherished heirloom. Parisi invites viewers to experience the peace and joy she finds in translating the natural world into timeless folk art.

Made possible in part with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, administered by the Community Arts Partnership.

September 2024 Gallery Night w/ Ellen Pennock
2024-09-06 17:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Join us in the Grayhaven Lounge for “Bound by Kinship,” new works by Ellen Pennock.
About the artist:
Through many years of teaching and creating art my work continues to grow and evolve.
My art employs texture, repetition and nature. I use colors that are vivid and harmonious. I attempt to visually capture and show appreciation for the beauty that surrounds us.
Made possible in part with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, administered by the Community Arts Partnership.

August 2024 Gallery Night w/ Michael Callahan
2024-08-02 17:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
“Wind, Waves + Water” Seneca Stone Art by Michael Callahan with a live acoustic performance.
In early childhood, I spent hours collecting shells and stones on various beaches around the US with my parents and grand parents. Searching for the right stones is a type of meditation. I am inspired by the vertically stacked shale-stones formed by waves near the waters edge of Seneca Lake. I like to think that my best work is achieved when I get out of the way of myself and let the stones take me where they want to go, as close to nature as possible.
Michael Callahan holds a degree in Industrial Design from The University Of The Arts in Philadelphia. He has studied landscape painting, glass blowing, blacksmithing, woodworking and pottery. He spent 20 years designing products mainly in the housewares industry working on brands such as Steuben, OXO, All Clad, Umbra, Pyrex, Revere and Oneida. He has lived on Seneca Lake for 20 years with his wife Mary.
Made possible in part with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, administered by the Community Arts Partnership.

July 2024 Gallery Night w/ Julia Degroat
2024-07-05 17:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Julia DeGroat moved to Ithaca in 1995 after completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts as a Chairman’s Merit Award Scholar from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She makes a living as an artist, creating hand-lettered signs & murals for local businesses, portraits and a bit of interior decorating- including Ithaca restaurants Mercato and Cafe Cent Dix. Most recent paintings explore light and the beauty of our natural world, with an emphasis on local flora, fauna and food.
Julia ultimately plans to travel to Africa to help apes and other endangered species through her art.
Join us in the Grayhaven Lounge for “Living Color,” acrylics by Julia DeGroat. 5pm to 8pm on Friday July 5th.
This program is made possible (in part or in full) 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.

June 2024 Gallery Night w/ Billy Cote - 123 Paintings/The History of England
2024-06-07 17:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)

December Gallery Night
2022-12-02 16:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Join us for this December’s First Friday Gallery Night in our guest gallery lounge! From 4-7pm on Friday, December 2nd we will be showcasing photographer Keith Millman’s new collection, Pictures from my Boat.

Artist Statement
“Pictures From My Boat” are made from two feet above the water while I sit in my solo
canoe paddling around lakes in northern New York. In half-second exposures, I
photograph while traveling across the water. I am afloat while at the lowest reaches of
the sky. I breathe from one element while the other holds me up. Right where the sky and
water meet, I am a little into each.
Though I sit at the in-between, I can orient myself when I see the horizon – it is
comforting to know where there is land. By looking at the horizon I feel placed in my
small boat. Waves, wind, and momentum move my vessel so it is rare the boat is actually
still. It is always in motion. Even if I am motionless, the boat turns, moves and pivots.
From my vantage it is the landscape that is in flux, changing, and overlapping. The
landscape is in motion, not me.
Keith Millman
11-2022

Grayhaven’s cash bar will be open for drinks and light snacks.
Keith’s show will be up through December, freely viewable Tuesdays – Sundays between 8am – 7pm.
See you there!

November Gallery Night @ Grayhaven
2022-11-04 16:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Join us for November’s First Friday Gallery Night in our guest gallery lounge! From 4-7pm on Friday, November 4th we will be celebrating and appreciating Good Creatures, a collection of new works from Audrey Bialke…
Audrey Bialke’s intensely decorated paintings and drawings are made with imagery collected from and influenced primarily by illuminated manuscripts. Her work considers our long intertwined histories with animals and the wild natural world through depicting figure, flora, and fauna. She integrates antiques, furniture, and domestic objects into these images to suggest a persistent thread of human things. Her work was recently shown at SPRING/BREAK NYC 2022 “Naked Lunch”, in her solo exhibit Illumination Station. She currently lives and works in Trumansburg, New York.

Grayhaven’s cash bar will be open for drinks and light snacks.
Audrey’s show will be up through November 27th, freely viewable daily between 8am – 7pm.
The gallery will be closing for the holiday at noon on Weds 11/23 + Thurs 11/24.
See you there!

October Gallery Night @ Grayhaven
2022-10-07 16:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Join us for the opening reception of Primary Theory; new paintings by Mauro Marinelli from 4-7pm on Friday, October 7th in our guest gallery lounge. Grayhaven offers a cash/card bar for drinks and snacks during all of our art openings.
This show will be up through Saturday, October 29th; freely viewable daily between 3-7pm.

September Gallery Night @ Grayhaven Motel
2022-09-02 16:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Join us for the next installment of Gallery Night at Grayhaven! Friday, September 2nd from 4-7pm in our gallery guest lounge, join us in welcoming Eva Capobianco‘s show, Exploring the Trail…
The inspiration for this series began during the Finger Lakes Trail spring weekend of 2019. I spent three days with friends hiking the western end of the Trail in Allegheny State Park. After a very rainy spring, we were trekking through a lot of mud and across streams of various sizes. At one point we crossed a wooden bridge spanning about 30 feet. The stream crossings can be anything from a couple of planks to substantial wood structures. Using my i-phone, I snapped some photos of this bridge and continued hiking. As I walked, I started imagining a wall sculpture in my mind. I would use a photo of this bridge alongside a couple of wood boards to represent a simple crossing. As I pictured the piece in my mind, the idea grew into a whole series. I would find inspiration from the photos and make at least one piece for each of the 34 maps on the trail. The works are designed partly on paper and partly by arranging and re-arranging the found objects with the photos. Once a design is set, the works are carefully and lovingly assembled, sanded, and polished to bring them to life.
Exploring the Trail will be up through June 2022, viewable daily between 3-7pm.

July 2022 Gallery Night @ Grayhaven
2022-07-01 16:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Join us for Gallery Night @ Grayhaven! Friday, July 1 from 4 – 7pm in our gallery guest lounge. This month we are overjoyed to feature Emily Sanders Hopkins’ new work, Velvet and Other Real People…

“Velvet started out life as Donald Trump’s imaginary friend, in a devolving whirlwind of vacation spots and late nights watching cable news, but now she’s a real person experiencing things she never could have when she spent all of her time with Donny: rivers, deep/long conversations, small college towns, minor cults, and camping, to name a few. Emily Sanders Hopkins’s ink drawings and acrylic ink paintings depict Velvet’s expanding understanding of Donny, America, and her own life, which is harder and more interesting than anything she could ever have dreamed up on her own. Just how powerful are imagination and belief in making a life or a world, and when does making the world right require us to ignore some realities, or even make up new ones?”

Emily Sanders Hopkins is an essayist and artist whose cartoons have appeared in the New Yorker and other national magazines. She is a graduate of WVU and the Johns Hopkins University, where she earned a masters degree in fiction writing. Enlisted in the U.S. Army in her youth, she served as a 97E, Interrogator and Russian linguist. She’s had two main careers, one in marketing and fundraising, the other in editing magazines and books. She was Senior Editor for Cornell University’s magazine Ezra for several years and a fundraiser for Cornell’s Prison Education Program. At Scholastic Inc. she served as Editor of Choices, a magazine for teens. Most recently, she is the Outreach and Development Manager for Hospicare & Palliative Care Services. She has also drawn over 60 family portraits commissioned by people all over the country (including nearly a dozen Ithaca families). She writes an illustrated advice column newsletter called Emily Writes Back, which can be found at emilywritesback.com, and she is at work on a novel about Velvet, the woman at the center of Donald Trump’s secret life. She and her husband, fellow cartoonist Marshall Hopkins, live with their daughter in Ithaca.

“Velvet and…” will be up in our gallery through the end of August, viewable daily between 3-7pm.
Learn more about the artist and her work at http://www.esrhopkins.com/

June Gallery Night @ Grayhaven Motel
2022-06-03 16:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Join us for Ithaca’s First Friday Gallery Night at Grayhaven! Friday, June 3rd from 4-7pm in our gallery guest lounge. This month we are elated to feature Alison Wise Best of Here to Pet Dogs…
Alison (Wise) Best is an illustrator, block printer, tattoo apprentice and most importantly a dog lover from Rochester, NY. Her business name “HERE TO PET DOGS” stems from her passion for art and, you guessed it, dogs! ( but truly all animals bring her joy. ) Her block carvings and prints are a true labor of love that combine everyone’s favorite comfort shows and an array of dog breeds to represent the characters. She has fully embraced her inner crazy dog lady and has had so much fun meeting animal lovers from all over since starting her art career in 2020!
Here To Pet Dogs will be up through June 2022, viewable daily between 3-7pm. Please make sure to bring a mask 🙂
