Join artist Ann Pellegrino on August 20, from 12 - 2 p.m., for an afternoon of collage making. Dig through curated bins of colorful painted and vintage papers to find inspiration and make your own mini collage works to take home. It will be a relaxing afternoon of art making at the gallery.

Join us for a FREE poetry reading featuring the work of H.L. Hix and Jonathan Weinert on Saturday, August 15, at 3:00 pm at Tioga Arts Council (TAC) - Gallery located at 179 Front St., Owego, NY 13827. Afterward, there will be a Q&A with books for sale. Join us!

ABOUT H.L. HIX
H. L. Hix’s recent books include a novel, The Death of H. L. Hix; a “testamentary” related to gun violence, American Outrage; the Vern Rutsala Book Prize-winning poetry collection Constellation; and an essay collection, Demonstrategy. He professes philosophy and creative writing at a university in “one of those square states,” and lives a little over a mile from the 12-story dormitory that is the tallest building in the entire state.

ABOUT JONATHAN WEINERT
Jonathan Weinert is the author of the poetry collections The New England Book of Dying and Living (forthcoming 2026), A Slow Green Sleep (2021), Thirteen Small Apostrophes (2012), and In the Mode of Disappearance (2008). A recipient of the Saturnalia Books Editors Prize, the Nightboat Poetry Prize, and the Copper Nickel Editors’ Prize, Jonathan serves as assistant editor of The Louisville Review. He lives in Stow, Massachusetts.

DATE & TIME: Saturday, August 15, at 3:00 p.m.
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LOCATION: Tioga Arts Council, 179 Front St., Owego, NY
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For additional information, email tiogaartscouncil@gmail.com.

Experience the sounds of summer at Tioga Arts Council’s Concerts in the Park night at Hickories Park - Bandshell in Owego. There’s great entertainment lined up this summer for everyone’s musical taste. This year, we had an opportunity to offer a special bonus concert to thank the Town of Owego, our members, and all concert goers.
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On Wednesday, August 12, from 7 – 9 pm it’s The Weeklings, a band celebrating the music and inspiration from The Beatles. Hailing from Asbury Park, NJ, this one you don't want to miss. To learn more, go to: https://www.weeklings.com/
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Bring your lawn chairs and a picnic, or get food from The Cellar - Food Tent. Concerts in the Park are free and sponsored by the Town of Owego.
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PS: In the event of inclement weather, concerts will move to the Owego Elks Lodge at 223 Front Street, Owego.

Join artist Ann Pellegrino on August 9, from 12 - 2 p.m., for an afternoon of collage making. Dig through curated bins of colorful painted and vintage papers to find inspiration and make your own mini collage works to take home. It will be a relaxing afternoon of art making at the gallery.

Experience the sounds of summer at Tioga Arts Council’s Concerts in the Park night at Hickories Park - Bandshell in Owego. There’s great entertainment lined up this summer for everyone’s musical taste.
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On Wednesday, August 5, from 7 – 9 pm it’s the Cast Iron Cowboys, a six-piece country western band whose sound finds a sweet spot between classic blues and homegrown folk. The band’s catalog of music also provides opportunities to two-step, waltz, swing, and stomp your boots along with the Cowboys. To learn more, go to: https://www.castironcowboysmusic.com/
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Bring your lawn chairs and a picnic, or get food from The Cellar - Food Tent. Concerts in the Park are free and sponsored by the Town of Owego.

Experience the sounds of summer at Tioga Arts Council’s Concerts in the Park night at Hickories Park - Bandshell in Owego. There’s great entertainment lined up this summer for everyone’s musical taste.
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On Wednesday, July 29, from 7 – 9 pm it’s Crooked River Saints, a six-member Country-Rock and Americana band covering your favorite songs through the decades. Get ready to dance and sing along with your favorite tunes!
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Bring your lawn chairs and a picnic, or get food from The Cellar - Food Tent. Concerts in the Park are free and sponsored by the Town of Owego.
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PS: In the event of inclement weather, concerts will move to the Owego Elks Lodge at 223 Front Street, Owego.

Experience the sounds of summer at Tioga Arts Council’s Concerts in the Park night at Hickories Park - Bandshell in Owego. There’s great entertainment lined up this summer for everyone’s musical taste.

This Wednesday, July 22, from 7 – 9 pm it’s Yolanda Bush & The Coolwater Collective, a flexible ensemble of musicians with flow. This performance repertoire will be primarily Blues sprinkled with R&B and other curated surprises.

Bring your lawn chairs and a picnic. Concerts in the Park are free and sponsored by the Town of Owego.

PS: In the event of inclement weather, concerts will move to the Owego Elks Lodge at 223 Front Street, Owego.

Experience the sounds of summer at Tioga Arts Council’s Concerts in the Park night at Hickories Park in Owego. There’s great entertainment lined up this summer for everyone’s musical taste. "Party Gras" with the Basin St. Jazz Band on Wednesday, July 15, from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. is Basin St. Jazz Band.
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Enjoy music from the Jazz Age a.k.a. Roaring 20s, Jump/Swing, New Orleans Jazz, Mardi Gras favorites, plus a patriotic tribute in honor of America’s 250th anniversary. Join the Basin St Band Krewe … Dennis, Tom, Vic, Burt, Al, Brad & Merri … jazzing things up at Hickories Park! Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler with Basin St. Jazz Band!
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Bring your lawn chairs and a picnic. Concerts in the Park are free and sponsored in part by the Town of Owego.
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PS: In the event of inclement weather, concerts will move to the Owego Elks Lodge at 223 Front Street, Owego.

Tioga Arts Council (TAC) is honored to host its 2026 Poet in Residence, Eugenia Leigh, from July 7 through 12, 2026, at Cloud Croft Studios. On Saturday, July 11, there will be a low-cost generative workshop followed by a free poetry reading by Leigh. Save the date and join us!

BIO
Eugenia Leigh is a Korean American poet and the author of Bianca (Four Way Books, 2023) and Blood, Sparrows and sparrows (Four Way Books, 2014). Poems from Bianca received Poetry magazine’s Bess Hokin Prize and have appeared in publications such as The Atlantic, The Nation, Ploughshares, and the Best of the Net anthology. Her essays have appeared in TIME, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. The recipient of fellowships and awards from Poets & Writers Magazine, Kundiman, the Asian American Literary Review, and elsewhere, Eugenia received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and serves as Senior Poetry Editor at The Adroit Journal and as Board President of Brooklyn Poets.
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- Website: www.eugenialeigh.com
- Instagram: @EugeniaLeigh
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WORKSHOP
Date & Time: Saturday, July 11, (tentatively) from 1 - 4 p.m.
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Location: Cloud Croft Studios - Barn, 1003 Sanford Rd., Owego, NY
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Registration:
- TAC Supporter: $10
- Not-Yet-Supporter: $15
- Seating limited to 15 participants.
- To register, go to: http://weblink.donorperfect.com/leigh_poetry_workshop
- All registration fees are non-refundable.

Experience the sounds of summer at Tioga Arts Council’s Concerts in the Park night at Hickories Park in Owego. There’s great entertainment lined up this summer for everyone’s musical taste. Continuing the summer concert season on Wednesday, July 8, from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. is Destiny's Children.
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Originally brought together for a one-off performance of favorite hits of the early 2000s, they decided it was too much fun to only do once so they have come together once again to bring you songs from Y2K and beyond. You'll hear acoustic covers from Britney Spears, Destiny's Child, The Chicks and many more featuring three part harmonies and unique arrangements that are sure to delight your ears.
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Bring your lawn chairs and a picnic. Concerts in the Park are free and sponsored in part by the Town of Owego.
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PS: In the event of inclement weather, concerts will move to the Owego Elks Lodge at 223 Front Street, Owego.

Experience the sounds of summer at Tioga Arts Council’s Concerts in the Park night at Hickories Park in Owego. There’s great entertainment lined up this summer for everyone’s musical taste.
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Kickin’ off the Tioga summer concert season on Wednesday, July 1, from 7:30 – 9: 30 p.m. is The Kirby Band, playing music from big bands to the big screen. Fireworks follow!
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Bring your lawn chairs and a picnic. Concerts in the Park are free and sponsored in part by the Town of Owego.
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PS: In the event of inclement weather, concerts will move to the Owego Elks Lodge at 223 Front Street, Owego.

Join us for a FREE poetry reading featuring the work of Christine Gelineau and Dante Di Stefano on Saturday, May 10, at 1:30 pm at Tioga Arts Council (TAC) - Gallery located at 179 Front St., Owego, NY 13827. Afterward, there will be a Q&A with books for sale. Join us!

ABOUT CHRISTINE GELINEAU

Christine Gelineau's latest book is the hybrid memoir ALMANAC: A MURMURATION, new this spring from Excelsior Editions, the trade imprint of SUNY Press. This is Gelineau's fourth book; she is the prize-winning author of three books of poetry, most recently Crave, and editor, with Jack B. Bedell, of the anthology French Connections: A Gathering of Franco-American Poets. Gelineau is past Associate Director of the Creative Writing Program at Binghamton University, State University of New York, and teaches creative nonfiction and poetry at the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University, a program she helped to found.

Christine Gelineau grew up on quarter-acre lots in New England but, fresh out of college, she moved with her new husband to a 120-acre farm in upstate New York to raise Morgan horses and write poetry. Seventeen years into midwifing foals, tending to a large organic garden, and starting their own family, Christine returned to academia, earned her doctorate, and added teaching to her other activities. In ALMANAC, bewildered vixens; iced-in alligators; newborn foals; and prose poems evoking the natural world mix with national origin stories; gardening techniques learned from the Haudenosaunee; resilience in the face of Long COVID and brain surgery; urban vs. rural perspectives on water rights and wind turbine siting; and how the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, about one another, and about the planet we all share shapes our own identities, our communities, and our attitudes and actions towards the environment. Framed by the seasons, ALMANAC speaks to these vital conversations about what it can mean to be human in ways that are lyrical, practical, spiritual, and life-affirming.

ABOUT DANTE DI STEFANO

Dante Di Stefano is the author of five poetry collections and a chapbook, including the book-length poem, The Widowing Radiance (Bordighera Press, 2025). His writing has appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry 2018, Poem-a-Day, Prairie Schooner, The Sewanee Review, The Writer’s Chronicle, and elsewhere. He holds a PhD in English Literature and his poetry has won many awards, including the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, the Manchester Poetry Prize (UK), the Thayer Fellowship in the Arts, among others. He co-edited the anthology Misrepresented People (NYQ Books, 2018) and lives in Endwell, NY with his wife and two children.

• DATE & TIME: Saturday, May 10, at 1:30 p.m.

• LOCATION: Tioga Arts Council, 179 Front St., Owego, NY

• For additional information, email tiogaartscouncil@gmail.com.

A SPECIAL THANKS

This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Join us for a FREE poetry reading featuring the work of Alicia Rebecca Myers and Dan Rosenberg on Saturday, April 12, at 1:30 pm at Tioga Arts Council (TAC) - Gallery located at 179 Front St., Owego, NY 13827. Afterward, there will be a Q&A with books for sale. Join us!

ABOUT ALICIA REBECCA MYERS

Alicia Rebecca Myers is a poet and essayist who holds an MFA in Poetry from NYU, where she was a Goldwater Writing Fellow and studied with poets Sharon Olds and Kimiko Hahn. Her poems and essays have appeared in places that include Best New Poets (three times), Creative Nonfiction, FIELD, Gulf Coast, SWWIM, december, Rattle, and The Rumpus. Her chapbook of poems, My Seaborgium (Brain Mill Press, 2015), was winner of the inaugural Mineral Point Chapbook Series. She has been the recipient of a Kimmel Harding Nelson residency for poetry and a Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference nonfiction scholarship, and she has most recently published poems in River Styx and Raleigh Review. Her first full-length manuscript, Warble, was a finalist for both the 2023 Akron Poetry Prize and the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award, and it was chosen by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg as winner of the 2024 Birdy Poetry Prize (Meadowlark Press). She lives with her husband and nine year old son in upstate NY, where she helps high school seniors write their college application essays.

ABOUT DAN ROSENBERG

Dan Rosenberg’s books include Bassinet, cadabra, and The Crushing Organ, which won the American Poetry Journal Book Prize. He has also published the chapbooks A Thread of Hands and Thigh’s Hollow, which won the Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest, and he co-translated Slovenian poet Miklavž Komelj’s Hippodrome. Rosenberg teaches at Cornell University and lives in Ithaca, NY.

• DATE & TIME: Saturday, April 12, at 1:30 p.m.

• LOCATION: Tioga Arts Council, 179 Front St., Owego, NY

• For additional information, email tiogaartscouncil@gmail.com.

A SPECIAL THANKS

This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Tioga Arts Council is celebrating its 13th Annual artfully SQUARED. Supporters (a.k.a. Members) are invited to join us for a Supporters-Only First Dibs event.
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On Friday, April 4, from 5 - 8 p.m. come and purchase original artwork for one of three donation values: $20, $40, or $80. Don't see something you like, but want to support TAC? Donate, join or renew support at: https://www.tiogaartscouncil.org/support
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A SPECIAL THANKS
To Chemung Canal Trust Company for sponsoring this exhibition.

Tioga Arts Council is celebrating its 13th Annual artfully SQUARED. Supporters (a.k.a. Members) are invited to join us for a Supporters-Only First Dibs event.
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On Thursday, April 3, from 5 - 8 p.m. be the first to purchase original artwork for one of three donation values: $20, $40, or $80. To join TAC or renew your support, click this link: https://www.tiogaartscouncil.org/support
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A SPECIAL THANKS
To Chemung Canal Trust Company for sponsoring this exhibition.

Our First Event is a 'Small Business Primer'. Advisors from the Small Business Development Center at Binghamton University will present an 'Introduction to Business', tailored to the unique needs of creative businesses. I know this is generally an area that most creatives tend to avoid/procrastinate and yes, maybe Dread! But learning to write a solid business plan and getting to the bottom of those tax and insurance questions will help you turn your passion into a successful venture. Perhaps it will be a little more fun if we embrace it together!

• Title: Small Business Primer for Creative Businesses

• Date & Time: Thursday, February 20, 6 - 8 p.m.

• Location: Cloud Croft Studios - Schoolhouse, 1003 Sanford Rd.

• Parking: Attendees can park in the field adjacent to the schoolhouse.

• Registration: This session is FREE but registration is required. Sign up at: https://nysbdc.ecenterdirect.com/events/1019263

Tioga Arts Council (TAC) and The Celebration Ensemble are pleased to present A Mystery Tribute Concert Fundraiser on Saturday, November 23, 2024, at the Owego Elks Lodge, 223 Front Street.

Concert Details

• Who: The Celebration Ensemble

• What: The Tribute Album and Artist will be announced in the fall.

• Where: Owego Elks Lodge, 223 Front St., Owego, NY

• When: Saturday, November 23

• Time: Doors at 6:30 PM

• Tickets: 

  • $15 pre-sale online at: 

  • $20 day-of show at The Owego Elks Lodge

• The Celebration Ensemble - Band Members

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     • Mallory Evans (Next To Kin) - vocals

     • Samuel B. Lupowitz (Noon Fifteen, The Pocket Bandits) - keys, vocals

     • Mandy Goldman (Noon Fifteen, solo artist) - vocal director, vocals

     • Paul Shotwell - (Front & Main, solo artist) vocals

     • Thomas Sickler (Spelunkers) - vocals, guitar

     • Stephen Simmons (Ultra Vibe, Flying Mayo Brothers) - drums & percussion

     • Mary Tewksbury (Next To Kin, Front & Main) - guitars

     • Brian Tyneway - (Front & Main, Triple Downlead guitars, vocals

     • Thomas Westcott (Ultra Vibe, Mike Davis LBE, Flying Mayo Brothers) - bass, vocals

     • Michael Wu (Gunpoets, Front & Main, Diwas Gurung, Maddy Walsh) - musical director, guitars, vocals, some bass

• Special Guest: J Floyd

• Proceeds: 

  • This is a fundraiser concert, and all net proceeds benefit Tioga Arts Council (TAC) a 501(c)(3) arts and culture nonprofit and the central platform for the arts in Tioga County, NY.

  • Please consider inquiring about sponsorship opportunities by emailing tiogaartscouncil@gmail.com or purchasing tickets to support this event. 

  • Purchase presale tickets at: https://interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/WebLink.aspx?name=E360675&id=19

November Artists in Residence at Cloud Croft Studios are Joseph Carlough and Katie Haegele, who represent Consonant Collective an ongoing collaboration between artists to create books, records, and performances. Recently their work consists mostly of learning to use two different record lathes, a 1937 Presto 6DSP and a 1947 Rek-O-Cut Challenger, to create vinyl records one at a time in their home studio. Now, they're bringing on the road to Owego!
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Bring your favorite song, read a poem, or record what you wish and have a record cut in real time of your recording.
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LOGISTICS
- Date & Time: Cloud Croft Studios - Schoolhouse, 1003 Sanford Rd., Owego, from 6 - 9 p.m.
- Parking: In the field adjacent to the schoolhouse (or as directed)
- Fee: This event is free and open to the public. For details, go to www.tiogaartscouncil.org
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A SPECIAL THANKS
To New York State Council on the Arts for making this event possible.

For Owego's Holiday Showcase on Saturday, November 9, TAC will be hosting a Bargain Basement Sale! In addition to the wonderful works in the gallery and shop, TAC will have deeply discounted art supplies, frames, canvases, books, and matting available for a donation in our basement at 179 Front Street from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Join us and see what you can find!

Registration is now open for Event 5 in our Creative Symposium Series! This is part of a professional development series for creatives in our community. The event is Free, but space is limited - RSVP here: https://forms.gle/qynWYFVgqc2ZRyLX7

We'll be discussing 'Creative Citizenship', a concept that combines creativity with civic engagement.

Artist Yen Ospina will be sharing her journey of building community through art, activism and event planning. She will discuss the creation of the nomadic Orozco Gallery, a pop-up, moveable space that challenges traditional gallery norms and opens up new possibilities for artists and communities. Attendees will get a glimpse into the power of celebrating culture and fostering collaboration among creatives.

Yen Ospina is a Colombian-American, self-taught multidisciplinary artist whose work spans traditional and digital mediums. Inspired by folklore, etching, and lithographs, Yen’s vibrant digital pieces tell stories that reflect her heritage through saturated earth tones. In contrast, her traditional abstract works explore deeper emotional expression. A muralist with over seven completed murals in the Ithaca area, Yen also curates BIPOC exhibitions through her nomadic Orozco Gallery Ithaca and uplifts the Hispanic/Latine community by creating events as the president of the Latino Civic Association.

To learn about Yen, follow her socials and check out her website at www.yenospina.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yenospina/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yenospina
patreon.com/yenospina
We'll also hear from Mike Poe, owner of Cloud Croft Studios (www.CloudCroftStudios) with this wife Suzy. He will speak about their vision for this space they generously share with the Tioga Arts Council.

Join us for an inspirational evening!

Tioga Arts Council (TAC) is honored to announce its November exhibition, Everyone Else Around Me: An Exhibition by Karalyn Hope. The exhibition opens on First Friday, November 1, from 5 - 8 p.m. in the Main Gallery located at 179 Front Street in Owego. join us for an Artist Talk with Hope at 6:00 p.m.
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ABOUT KARALYN HOPE
Karalyn Hope (she/her) is a photographer, videographer, and graphic designer who is currently based in Syracuse, New York but is originally from Warren Center, Pennsylvania and travels frequently to other cities across the states. Her work is primarily focused on the music industry with a goal of touring full time but she enjoys photographing families, couples, high school and college seniors, along with local businesses and artists.
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She is a graduate of State University of New York At Fredonia (SUNY Fredonia). She received a Bachelor of Science in Music Industry with a minor in Visual Arts & New Media. For the past eight years, she has focused on documenting concerts and people in the area and is always looking to expand and work with more individuals both in and out of the music industry. From April 2022 to September 2024, she was working with the Buffalo-based band Fernway and has toured with other bands Another One Down! and Sunday Morning. Along with this, she is the owner of For The Punks, a resource and publication for music and art fans and creators to connect and grow together.
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In summer of 2022, she published a 60-page photo book/zine that highlights photos she took from the Johnson City community art space Avenue DIY, which hosted shows from 2017 to 2019.
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Karalyn has a print shop on her website with landscape photos available to purchase, and accepts commissions for photo and design work. To learn more about Karalyn Hope, go to: www.karalynhope.com.
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ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a photographer from Warren Center, Pennsylvania who is currently based in Syracuse, New York. I’ve had a camera by my side for at least 10 years. In 2016, I started documenting the music world around me. All of the frames in this gallery were thrifted at various Salvation Army’s, Thrifty Shoppers, and Goodwills in the area. The frames aren’t perfect but they were handpicked and hand painted white for consistency. Each photo included in the gallery was taken throughout various cities, mostly in New York, in the past few years. I take photos of various music genres and always edit in both black and white and in color, so my goal was to have a diverse group that best represents me and my work.
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I just hope to consistently document the music in the area through unique compositions, whether it is in my hometown or on tour with a band.
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INFORMATION
● Location: Tioga Arts Council – Main Gallery, 179 Front Street, Owego
● Opening Night: First Friday, November 1, from 5 – 8 p.m.
● Artist Talk: First Friday, November 1, at 6 p.m.
● Exhibit Duration After Opening: November 2 - 30, 2024, Wed. – Sat. from 12 – 4 p.m.

Everyday Life, Every Day Art (ELEDA) Opens to the public on Saturday, August 24, from 12 - 4 p.m.

Calendar

• Artwork Drop Off: To be considered for adjudication, artwork must be dropped off in-person on either August 3, 4, 5 (Sat., Sun., Mon.) between 12 - 4 p.m.

• Live Adjudication: August 7 (Wed.)

• Unaccepted Artwork Pick-Up: August 10, 11, 12 (Sat., Sun., Mon.) between 12 - 4 p.m.

• Opening Night & Awards Ceremony: August 23 (Fri.) from 5 - 8 p.m.

• Exhibit Duration: August 24 – September 28, 2024

• Purchased/Unsold Artwork Pick-Up: September 29 and 30 between 12 - 4 p.m.

On August 10, 11, and 12, 2024 artists from within 100-miles of Owego will pick-up unselected artwork.

Submission Guidelines

Click HERE to review Submission Guidelines.

Calendar

• Artwork Drop Off: To be considered for adjudication, artwork must be dropped off in-person on either August 3, 4, 5 (Sat., Sun., Mon.) between 12 - 4 p.m.

• Live Adjudication: August 7 (Wed.)

• Unaccepted Artwork Pick-Up: August 10, 11, 12 (Sat., Sun., Mon.) between 12 - 4 p.m.

• Opening Night & Awards Ceremony: August 23 (Fri.) from 5 - 8 p.m.

• Exhibit Duration: August 24 – September 28, 2024

• Purchased/Unsold Artwork Pick-Up: September 29 and 30 between 12 - 4 p.m.

On August 10, 11, and 12, 2024 artists from within 100-miles of Owego will pick-up unselected artwork.

Submission Guidelines

Click HERE to review Submission Guidelines.

Calendar

• Artwork Drop Off: To be considered for adjudication, artwork must be dropped off in-person on either August 3, 4, 5 (Sat., Sun., Mon.) between 12 - 4 p.m.

• Live Adjudication: August 7 (Wed.)

• Unaccepted Artwork Pick-Up: August 10, 11, 12 (Sat., Sun., Mon.) between 12 - 4 p.m.

• Opening Night & Awards Ceremony: August 23 (Fri.) from 5 - 8 p.m.

• Exhibit Duration: August 24 – September 28, 2024

• Purchased/Unsold Artwork Pick-Up: September 29 and 30 between 12 - 4 p.m.