Banners hang around the city, crafted by schoolchildren throughout the Oswego City School District and those in the SUNY Oswego art department's At the Art Studio classes in the second annual My Hometown Banner Project.
An artists' reception, free and open to the public, will take place from 3 to 6 p.m. Thursday, May 23, at Breitbeck Park Pavilion, with a special ceremony at 5 p.m. The city-wide display will run through Nov. 15.
My Hometown Banner features artwork from Charles E. Riley, Fitzhugh Park, Frederick Leighton, Kingsford Park and Minetto elementary schools; Oswego Middle and High schools; and at the college's classes for schoolchildren in the At The Art Studio program.
This year’s featured work in the My Hometown Banner Project was selected during an exhibition at SUNY Oswego's Tyler Art Gallery a year ago that featured over 350 works of art.
To see this year’s exhibition that will lead to banners around the city in 2020, visit Tyler Art Gallery from May 31 to June 15. An artists' reception for the exhibition at SUNY Oswego will take place from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Friday, May 31, in the Tyler Hall lobby.
The My Hometown Banner Project was made possible through support from the city of Oswego, the Oswego City School District, the Richard S. Shineman Foundation, the Robert & Dian Borman Family Foundatio and the art department of SUNY Oswego's School of Communication, Media and the Arts.
For more information, visit myhometownproject.org.