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Elmira College Students Featured In New Fusion Arts Collective

Elmira, NY (11/17/2021) — Two Elmira College students, Marc Artuz '24 and Kenta Okumura '21, will be featured in The Fusion Arts Collective, which will premier during an opening reception from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., Friday, November 19 in the Community Arts Gallery at Community Arts of Elmira on 413 Lake Street. The event is free and all are welcome to attend.

From 6:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m., you can hear from some of the artists during the Artists Talk portion of the program.

The Fusion Arts Collective, in its inaugural year, is a free, ten-week arts education opportunity for Black people, Indigious people and people of color, involving photography and glass fusion, building on themes of connection, community, cityscape and identity. It brought together many community partners including Elmira College, the Community Arts of Elmira, The Studio at Corning Museum of Glass (CMoG) the Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes, Corning Community College Center for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Elmira Economic Opportunity Program, Elmira's Hope Alliance, Tanglewood Nature Center & Museum, YWCA Elmira and the Twin Tiers and YWCA Elmira Diversity Council.

Elmira College professors Jan Kather, Derek Chalfant, Chris Longwell and Aaron Kather were involved in facilitating the project for the College.

In March 2020, Okumura was one of two students to be selected in the Elmira College Arts Alive Juried Student Show and his work was displayed in the Gannett-Tripp Library. You can see some of his photography on his website.

Artuz's work was featured in an online gallery that captures images from Elmira College and Puerto Rico.

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Kenta Okumura ’21 will be featured in The Fusion Arts Collective, which will premier during an opening reception from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., Friday, November 19 in the Community Arts Gallery at Community Arts of Elmira on 413 Lake Street.

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Marc Artuz ’24 will be featured in The Fusion Arts Collective, which will premier during an opening reception from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., Friday, November 19 in the Community Arts Gallery at Community Arts of Elmira on 413 Lake Street.

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