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By SARA HOLTHOUSE
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During a time when the humanities are seen to be struggling nationally, Fredonia photographer, Sandra Maggio, is continuous not solely her personal work however to unfold consciousness of the significance of the humanities.
The Post-Journal and Dunkirk OBSERVER first spoke with Maggio about her pictures enterprise, Untouched Images, and her works specializing in nature, particularly with a digicam telephone and shot with out using photoshop afterwards, in 2023. Since then, Maggio mentioned the whole lot “blossomed” for her. This contains her upcoming one-woman present on the Darwin R Baker Library on Thursday.
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Located at 7 Day Street, the library shall be internet hosting a reception for Maggio on Sept. 4 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., to assist kick off her images being displayed on the library. The present is known as “Nature Unfiltered: the photography of Sandra Ebling-Maggio” and can run from Sept. 2 to Oct. 25.
Besides her upcoming present, Maggio has been in a position to take part within the Village Frame Shop in Fredonia’s gallery, “The West End Gallery”, by which Maggio mentioned she is the primary and solely photographer to have her work featured and offered there to date. Maggio’s work can also be featured within the Chautauqua County Art Trail, which she does via the North Shore Arts Alliance, and he or she has continued work on her poetry for her guide “Finding Peace In Times Like These” that she is engaged on via Lakeshore Center For the Arts, that may embrace poems written by her that hook up with her pictures that may also be featured in it, at the least 12 poems and pictures. She mentioned she hopes to have her guide revealed by December.
“What I’m trying to do is make sure it elicits some kind of positive feeling for the viewers to read and look at and maybe bring them down a level from stress and anxiety or something like that,” Maggio mentioned.
Maggio has additionally participated in a guide revealed by the Lakeshore Center for the Arts’s Writers Group, referred to as “Teacher Influencers”, giving each member an opportunity to write down about any instructor or coach that influenced them in a optimistic or unfavourable method. Maggio mentioned this was her first time being revealed, writing about her previous biology professor from Fredonia, and included pictures of him as nicely.
This additionally connected her to the Roger Tory Peterson Institute the place she and her professor partnered collectively to submit pictures of his fly fishing to their exhibit referred to as “Clarity”. She has additionally submitted a photograph within the RTPI’s “Broken Nature” present. A bit of hers has been accepted into the Erie Art Museum’s 101rst spring present.
Other issues Maggio has been doing is popping out of retirement to purchase a home the place she will be able to open up her personal gallery at house, which she referred to as a piece in progress.
“I think after this show is done I will be ready to open my own gallery here,” Maggio mentioned. “I elicited some of my friends to help me name it, so I finally came up with ‘Elemental Encounters; Unfiltered Views’. It’s just again, my hope to have soulful expressions and make a positive feeling from some of the viewers.”
Additionally, she mentioned she referred to as her gallery Elemental as it’s fundamental, and Encounters, as a result of she doesn’t take her pictures with a plan, however reasonably her pictures are issues that simply occur, as one thing catches her eye in nature. This, she mentioned, can also be why she makes use of her digicam telephone, to seize issues inside a second, reasonably than utilizing an expert digicam.
In working together with her teams that she is a member of, and as an artist on her personal, Maggio mentioned as funding for the humanities continues to say no, she participated in loads of courses with the Lakeshore Center for the Arts, equivalent to on perspective, studying use mild room to learn to make an internet site and QR code to placed on a enterprise card, and extra via the nonprofit that helps minimize down some bills, together with promoting. She added the Lakeshore Center may also be serving to her do a podcast and videography for promoting functions, as she mentioned they assist promote artists locally, despite the fact that their funds are slim, utilizing issues like social media to assist proceed to promote artwork.
“We don’t want to not have art in life,” Maggio mentioned. “Art makes the world go round and it’s really, really tough. I have applied for a few grants that I haven’t gotten so far, but more than that I am out of retirement. I am working part-time now so I can continue with my passion for this. I don’t want to have to stop because it is expensive for the framing and printing and all that kind of thing.”
This can also be why, Maggio mentioned, she appreciates with the ability to companion with the Fredonia Village Frame Shoppe, which she mentioned just lately got here below new partnership and offers her an excellent value for framing, and can also be displaying her work free of charge.
“You just have to be connected to some of these organizations, I think, because they’re watching out for us and they’re watching out for the community,” Maggio mentioned. “That’s what North Shore Arts Alliance does … they go out and advertise us as much as they can. They make every dollar count of our membership money, which is also very minimal, so they can get us out into the community and they can also get the community to us.”
Maggio gave an instance of an artwork path by North Shore Labor Day weekend, giving artists loads of publicity. Photography is one thing she mentioned she “cannot stop doing” and that it can be crucial for her to proceed to do it so each she and the group can proceed to get pleasure from it.
In her upcoming present on the Baker Library, Maggio may have 40 items on show, with a number of specializing in reflecting objects in water, and others centered on nature equivalent to flowers, the solar on the lake, treescapes, creeks, different reflections on water, and different obscure nature pictures.
She mentioned folks must be fascinated about coming to see her photos on the library as she has a wide range of various things and colours in her pictures, and he or she is seeking to encourage folks to place their telephones away and revel in nature’s magnificence. She may also speak about utilizing her digicam telephone for her pictures and the way framing issues for the pictures as nicely. The library shall be offering refreshments on the Sept. 4 reception day, and there shall be a wine tasting from a neighborhood winery, Liberty Winery Vineyards.
In the longer term, Maggio plans on persevering with to do extra workshops and studying extra about various kinds of artwork and media on the Erie Art Museum, as she mentioned if she learns extra about different kinds of media it would maintain her on her sport and improve what she is in search of in her pictures. She has utilized for fellowships at some native artwork museums, and is seeking to get herself out into the group extra.
“I want my photography to be more than just an artful passion that I have,” Maggio mentioned. “I have a purpose and a thought with the pictures that I take; I wonder about how is the viewer going to feel when they look at it, what kind of feeling will it elicit, is it going to have a helpful impact that will lead to better care for our environment?”
Maggio additionally praised the entire teams that she participates in, together with the opposite native companies and organizations which have helped her alongside the way in which.
“You know how they say it takes a village to raise a child, well I think it takes a whole community of cultural differences and so on to work together and support each other and promote each other in whatever way that they can,” Maggio mentioned.

During a time when the humanities are seen to be struggling nationally, Fredonia photographer, Sandra Maggio, is continuous not solely her personal work however to unfold consciousness of the significance of the humanities.

The Post-Journal and Dunkirk OBSERVER first spoke with Maggio about her pictures enterprise, Untouched Images, and her works specializing in nature, particularly with a digicam telephone and shot with out using photoshop afterwards, in 2023. Since then, Maggio mentioned the whole lot “blossomed” for her. This contains her upcoming one-woman present on the Darwin R Baker Library on Thursday.

Located at 7 Day Street, the library shall be internet hosting a reception for Maggio on Sept. 4 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., to assist kick off her images being displayed on the library. The present is known as “Nature Unfiltered: the photography of Sandra Ebling-Maggio” and can run from Sept. 2 to Oct. 25.

Besides her upcoming present, Maggio has been in a position to take part within the Village Frame Shop in Fredonia’s gallery, “The West End Gallery”, by which Maggio mentioned she is the primary and solely photographer to have her work featured and offered there to date. Maggio’s work can also be featured within the Chautauqua County Art Trail, which she does via the North Shore Arts Alliance, and he or she has continued work on her poetry for her guide “Finding Peace In Times Like These” that she is engaged on via Lakeshore Center For the Arts, that may embrace poems written by her that hook up with her pictures that may also be featured in it, at the least 12 poems and pictures. She mentioned she hopes to have her guide revealed by December.

“What I’m trying to do is make sure it elicits some kind of positive feeling for the viewers to read and look at and maybe bring them down a level from stress and anxiety or something like that,” Maggio mentioned.

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Three of Maggio’s pictures that shall be included in her upcoming present on the Darwin Baker Library.

Maggio has additionally participated in a guide revealed by the Lakeshore Center for the Arts’s Writers Group, referred to as “Teacher Influencers”, giving each member an opportunity to write down about any instructor or coach that influenced them in a optimistic or unfavourable method. Maggio mentioned this was her first time being revealed, writing about her previous biology professor from Fredonia, and included pictures of him as nicely.

This additionally connected her to the Roger Tory Peterson Institute the place she and her professor partnered collectively to submit pictures of his fly fishing to their exhibit referred to as “Clarity”. She has additionally submitted a photograph within the RTPI’s “Broken Nature” present. A bit of hers has been accepted into the Erie Art Museum’s 101rst spring present.

Other issues Maggio has been doing is popping out of retirement to purchase a home the place she will be able to open up her personal gallery at house, which she referred to as a piece in progress.

“I think after this show is done I will be ready to open my own gallery here,” Maggio mentioned. “I elicited some of my friends to help me name it, so I finally came up with ‘Elemental Encounters; Unfiltered Views’. It’s just again, my hope to have soulful expressions and make a positive feeling from some of the viewers.”

Additionally, she mentioned she referred to as her gallery Elemental as it’s fundamental, and Encounters, as a result of she doesn’t take her pictures with a plan, however reasonably her pictures are issues that simply occur, as one thing catches her eye in nature. This, she mentioned, can also be why she makes use of her digicam telephone, to seize issues inside a second, reasonably than utilizing an expert digicam.

In working together with her teams that she is a member of, and as an artist on her personal, Maggio mentioned as funding for the humanities continues to say no, she participated in loads of courses with the Lakeshore Center for the Arts, equivalent to on perspective, studying use mild room to learn to make an internet site and QR code to placed on a enterprise card, and extra via the nonprofit that helps minimize down some bills, together with promoting. She added the Lakeshore Center may also be serving to her do a podcast and videography for promoting functions, as she mentioned they assist promote artists locally, despite the fact that their funds are slim, utilizing issues like social media to assist proceed to promote artwork.

“We don’t want to not have art in life,” Maggio mentioned. “Art makes the world go round and it’s really, really tough. I have applied for a few grants that I haven’t gotten so far, but more than that I am out of retirement. I am working part-time now so I can continue with my passion for this. I don’t want to have to stop because it is expensive for the framing and printing and all that kind of thing.”

This can also be why, Maggio mentioned, she appreciates with the ability to companion with the Fredonia Village Frame Shoppe, which she mentioned just lately got here below new partnership and offers her an excellent value for framing, and can also be displaying her work free of charge.

“You just have to be connected to some of these organizations, I think, because they’re watching out for us and they’re watching out for the community,” Maggio mentioned. “That’s what North Shore Arts Alliance does … they go out and advertise us as much as they can. They make every dollar count of our membership money, which is also very minimal, so they can get us out into the community and they can also get the community to us.”

Maggio gave an instance of an artwork path by North Shore Labor Day weekend, giving artists loads of publicity. Photography is one thing she mentioned she “cannot stop doing” and that it can be crucial for her to proceed to do it so each she and the group can proceed to get pleasure from it.

In her upcoming present on the Baker Library, Maggio may have 40 items on show, with a number of specializing in reflecting objects in water, and others centered on nature equivalent to flowers, the solar on the lake, treescapes, creeks, different reflections on water, and different obscure nature pictures.

She mentioned folks must be fascinated about coming to see her photos on the library as she has a wide range of various things and colours in her pictures, and he or she is seeking to encourage folks to place their telephones away and revel in nature’s magnificence. She may also speak about utilizing her digicam telephone for her pictures and the way framing issues for the pictures as nicely. The library shall be offering refreshments on the Sept. 4 reception day, and there shall be a wine tasting from a neighborhood winery, Liberty Winery Vineyards.

In the longer term, Maggio plans on persevering with to do extra workshops and studying extra about various kinds of artwork and media on the Erie Art Museum, as she mentioned if she learns extra about different kinds of media it would maintain her on her sport and improve what she is in search of in her pictures. She has utilized for fellowships at some native artwork museums, and is seeking to get herself out into the group extra.

“I want my photography to be more than just an artful passion that I have,” Maggio mentioned. “I have a purpose and a thought with the pictures that I take; I wonder about how is the viewer going to feel when they look at it, what kind of feeling will it elicit, is it going to have a helpful impact that will lead to better care for our environment?”

Maggio additionally praised the entire teams that she participates in, together with the opposite native companies and organizations which have helped her alongside the way in which.

“You know how they say it takes a village to raise a child, well I think it takes a whole community of cultural differences and so on to work together and support each other and promote each other in whatever way that they can,” Maggio mentioned.

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