The
Everson is partnering with Strathmore By The Park Home Tours, Syracuse
Ceramic Guild, the Arts & Crafts Society of Central New York, and
Clayscapes Pottery for the Strathmore Festival, a celebration of the
100th anniversary of Adelaide Alsop Robineau’s Scarab Vase. Also
known as The Apotheosis of the Toiler, the Scarab Vase was
purchased by the Everson directly from the artist’s husband, Samuel Robineau,
in 1930 along with 47 other porcelains including her well known Viking
Vase, Poppy Vase, and Crab Vase, which are all
must-sees in the Everson’s Ceramic Collection.
Image: Adelaide Alsop Robineau, American (1865 - 1929), Scarab
Vase (The Apotheosis of the Toiler), 1910. Porcelain. Museum purchase.
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Your invited to attend the movie premier of Cornhole:
The Movie produced by Syracuse native Elaine Mello Clarke sister of Strathmore
neighbor Debbie Dermady.
Syracuse premiere of ‘Cornhole: The Movie’ set for June 24 at Palace
Theatre
“Cornhole: The Movie,” a mock documentary that follows four cornhole
teams working their way to a national championship at the fictional
Hudy Center in Cincinnati, will be shown Thursday, June 24, at 7:30
p.m. at The Palace Theatre, 2384 James St., Syracuse. Actor/producer
Elaine Mello-Clarke, a Syracuse native and SUNY College at Oswego graduate,
will screen the film as a guest of the Syracuse International Film
Festival.
It
all sounds perfectly plausible: an annual competition that rallies
together a wildly diverse cast of characters all intent on the same
thing: taking home the coveted Bronze Sack. Each bag they toss brings
them closer to personal victory and draws the audience deeper into
the wacky world of competitive cornhole. Most of this movie was filmed
in the birth town of cornhole, Cincinnati.
Cornhole or corn toss is similar to horseshoes except participants
use wooden boxes called cornhole platforms and corn bags instead of
horseshoes and metal stakes. Contestants take turns pitching their
corn bags at the cornhole platform until a contestant reaches the score
of 21 points.
As a freelance producer/programmer, Mello-Clarke has worked for
the Artivist Film Festival, which has featured such films as “SuperSize
Me,” “Born Into Brothels” and “Fast Food Nation.” Her work has been
seen at the Syracuse International Film Festival, the Los Angeles Film
Festival, The New York Film Festival and Sundance. Clarke/Kent Pictures
is the production company behind the film; Timothy Clarke is the film’s
writer/director/executive producer.
Tickets for the film and post-film discussion with Mello-Clarke
are $10 each; $8 for seniors/students. Tickets will be available at
the theater doors, which open at 6:30 p.m.
The
Everson is partnering with Strathmore By The Park Home Tours, Syracuse
Ceramic Guild, the Arts & Crafts Society of Central New York, and
Clayscapes Pottery for the Strathmore Festival, a celebration of the
100th anniversary of Adelaide Alsop Robineau’s Scarab Vase. Also
known as The Apotheosis of the Toiler, the Scarab Vase was
purchased by the Everson directly from the artist’s husband, Samuel Robineau,
in 1930 along with 47 other porcelains including her well known Viking
Vase, Poppy Vase, and Crab Vase, which are all
must-sees in the Everson’s Ceramic Collection. 
It
all sounds perfectly plausible: an annual competition that rallies
together a wildly diverse cast of characters all intent on the same
thing: taking home the coveted Bronze Sack. Each bag they toss brings
them closer to personal victory and draws the audience deeper into
the wacky world of competitive cornhole. Most of this movie was filmed
in the birth town of cornhole, Cincinnati.
