Welcome to Painting for Preservation!
Welcome to Painting for Preservation! This initiative, founded by artist Sara M. Zak, is aimed at drawing attention to distressed, at-risk, and under-utilized historic locations through on site art making.
Mission: To bring together artists of all media in support of historic distressed properties and communities. To create artwork on-site related to the location as a means of raising positive awareness of the space. My hope is that we can continue this effort in Buffalo and expand the concept to other architecturally rich cities. Please e-mail Sara M. Zak if you are interested in starting a Painting for Preservation initiative in your city at info@paintingforpreservation.org
Our goals:
1. Raise awareness of at-risk, distressed and under-utilized locations and their neighborhoods
2. Create a record of historically rich locations through art
3. Create a community of artists invested in the urban landscape 4. Bring exposure and provide assistance to artists interested in documenting at-risk historic neighborhoods while also collaborating with members of those same neighborhoods.
5. Involve communities in sharing their stories of local historic architectural and their neighborhoods.
Gather at St. Mary's on the Hill this Saturday Morning
The scheduled Art-In at St. Mary's on the Hill is still happening this Saturday morning (9:30am-1pm) - and now - with greater conviction of the need to keep painting and preserving.
Demolition began Monday afternoon at St. Mary's on the Hill, as of Tuesday afternoon the south wall was leveled. Although many of us called it "ruins," we knew the structure's possibilities. An apartment scheme was laid out within the past couple of years and the creative/gardening community surely would have made something happen.
Please join Painting for Preservation to create art from another vantage point - that of the lost structure, of the absence. There is also a structure next door, the old school, that is threatened. Come out of the desire to make art or record history; Come out of principle, protest, celebration and illustration of what was lost today and the system of City-aided demolition-by-neglect. Artists will be on-site and all community members are welcome to gather at this lost historic place.
For more information, email Sara and Meg at P4Partist@gmail.com.
* A sincere thank you to whomever taped the This Place Matters sign to the fence.
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