{"id":67882,"date":"2016-05-01T07:54:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T11:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=67882"},"modified":"2016-04-30T20:58:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T00:58:35","slug":"art-abounds-at-the-library-with-art-fundraiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=67882","title":{"rendered":"Art abounds at the library with art fundraiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_55289\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55289\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=55289\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55289\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55289\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Beth-Totten-new-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Beth Totten\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Beth-Totten-new-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Beth-Totten-new-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Beth-Totten-new-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Beth-Totten-new.jpg 403w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55289\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beth Totten<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our library is alive with color this March and April with the Perra Comings Art Sale. Perra and\u00a0her husband Bob passed away in 2007 and 2014 respectively. It was the family\u2019s wish that her artwork\u00a0be donated to the Canastota Public Library. While the library will be keeping several of Perra\u2019s works in\u00a0our collection, many of her paintings and sketches will be available for purchase during this two-month\u00a0sale. All the proceeds from these sales will benefit the Library Endowment Fund to be used in future\u00a0projects at the library.<\/p>\n<p>Perra\u2019s work last adorned the walls of the library in December of 1999. Comings work is well\u00a0known in Canastota. Perra was involved with art from the time she was a young child in the south. As a\u00a0youth, she won a state contest for a fire prevention poster that she completed in pen and ink. She\u00a0attended the Fashion Institute of NYC as a young adult. She also designed<!--more-->chenille bedspreads until\u00a0World War came along. While working for the State department in Germany after the war, Comings\u00a0tried her hand at oil painting and worked in the medium for many years. She took classes and\u00a0workshops and became proficient in acrylics and watercolors.<\/p>\n<p>The prices of the paintings will be listed near the work. Please notify a library staff member is\u00a0you are interested in adding any of these to your personal collections. The paintings and sketches will\u00a0be on display through April and may be viewed during regular library hours Monday through Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The library is very grateful for the loving memorial that the Comings family has made possible\u00a0through this generous gift. We hope you will stop by and visit the art exhibit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our library is alive with color this March and April with the Perra Comings Art Sale. Perra and\u00a0her husband Bob passed away in 2007 and 2014 respectively. It was the family\u2019s wish that her artwork\u00a0be donated to the Canastota Public Library. While the library will be keeping several of Perra\u2019s works in\u00a0our collection, many of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,65,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-entertainment","category-libraries","category-local","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}