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NYS Canal's new Artist-in-Residence highlights NYPA's focus
Safer Erie Canal Operation
DIR By: Doug K
Date: January 8, 2024, 9:43 am
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Just out in 2024 Press Releases from the New York State Power &
Canal Authority:
New Artist-in-Residence, Matthew Lopez-Jensen, is showing his
first project for the NYS Canal Corporation in Syracuse. He has
spent some time recently, capturing day to day operations,
working with regular canal corporation employees, who work to
make & keep the Erie Canal safe. It's all in an effort to show
what it takes to keep a 100 year old canal system up and
running, along with the work of keeping the structures that
make up the canal system safe to use.
HTML https://www.canals.ny.gov/news/pressrel/2024/2024.01.05_Canals_AIR_Virtual_Event.pdf
For Immediate Release: January 5, 2024
Contact: Shane Mahar | 518-603-0791 | shane.mahar@nypa.gov
Media Advisory: New York State Canal Corporation and the Erie
Canal Museum to Host Erie Canal Artists-in-Residence
Presentation
The New York State Canal Corporation and the Erie Canal Museum
will host a virtual Erie Canal Artists-in-Residence Presentation
with 2023 Erie Canal Artist-in-Residence Matthew López-Jensen
and the new 2024 Erie Canal Artists-in-Residence on Thursday,
January 11, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. As the inaugural Erie Canal
Artist-in-Residence, López-Jensen, spent a year documenting
maintenance work along the New York State Canal system through
an artistic lens. López-Jensen engaged Canal Corporation
employees to learn – in their own words – about some of the more
challenging or less recognized tasks they do to ensure the
100-year-old Canal infrastructure remains in safe operation.
Additionally, López-Jensen documented his visits to each lock,
lift bridge, and many historical and natural landmarks along the
524-mile waterway on his Instagram channel @all524miles. An
exhibit of López-Jensen’s work will be on display at the Erie
Canal Museum in Syracuse from late January through April 2024.
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