‘Community Heroes’ Saluted As 3-Year Recognition Ends Artist Janet Wentworth Erickson’s Dream Honors 37 With 51 Portraits, Photographs CLICK HERE FOR SLIDE SHOW OF ‘COMMUNITY HEROES’…
Artist’s Crusade To Recognize Heroes Culminates In 10 Portraits’ Unveiling COOPERSTOWN – Artist Janet Wentworth Erickson’s two-year effort to identify and paint portraits of 10 unsung heroes in Otsego and Delaware counties culminated this evening in a presentation at the Louis C. Jones Center and the exhibit’s opening across West Lake Road at The Fenimore Art Museum. Erickson, a SUNY Oneonta art professor, accepted nominations, then selected 10 for portraits. The 10 honorees: Medal of Honor winner Stephen Doane, Walton;…
SUNY Oneonta Artist Unveils Portraits Of 10 Local Heroes COOPERSTOWN – After piles of nominations and months of secrecy, artist Janet Wentworth Erickson will debut her portrait series, “Community Heroes in Portraiture” at a reception beginning at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9th, at The Farmers’ Museum’s Louis Jones Center. The public is welcome. The portraits will be hung at The Fenimore Art Museum. “Portraiture has been a practice since ancient times,” said Erickson. “From death masks to selfies, every community wants…