CAC is highlighting the breadth of arts and culture in our area by developing a county-wide Cortland Arts Trail features artists, studios (visual, dance, music) art instillations (murals, statues, etc) art venues, music venues, galleries and businesses that support the arts.

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List your self or your business on our directory and or digital arts trail!

We coordinate First Fridays on the First Friday of each month. We use our digital Arts Trail to highlight the venues that are open!

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All venues must be on the arts trail and fill out the First Friday form with their event details!

Cortland Arts Connect invites photographers of all levels and backgrounds to participate in the Annual Regional Photography Exhibit, which will be on display at the Cortland Free Library during the months of October and November.

As in the past, we are presenting new categories to challenge photographers and offer the public interesting ways of capturing images of the world around them. 

This year’s specific categories are “Yellow,” “Freedom,” and “Stone.” Standard digital techniques such as brightness, contrast, and sharpening to enhance the final image are acceptable. The general category of “Open” is for photos of any subject, but must be based on the photographer’s original photo and ANY digital manipulations – without limitations- they chooses to make.

Only one image per chosen category is allowed.

Cortland Free Library seeks artists to exhibit in their gallery.

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Please email Theresa at reference@cortlandfreelibrary.org or call 607-753-1042 for more info!

The Community Arts Challenge is a juried competition to encourage creativity within the Cortland County community and enhance the profile of the Center for the Arts and Cortland Arts Connect as venues for local artists, writers and performers. The Challenge is an opportunity to use one’s artistic talents to communicate a common theme. The artistic theme for the 17th Annual Arts Challenge is “WONDER” The exhibits and performances that result from this competition will be open to the public to celebrate the many ways our area artists interpret the topic of WONDER. Prizes will be awarded in each entry category. There will also be a “People's Choice” visual-art award for the artwork that gets the most votes from visitors to the Arts Challenge exhibit.