Thank You for STOKED! 2

I can't thank you all enough for contributing to the success of the 2nd Annual Stoked Art Show! After expenses, we will have netted $8900 plus add to that a NEW donation from the Hudson River Bank and Trust Foundation of $5000, so our grand total of proceeds from the show is $13,900! Our goal this year was to raise 10K, so we definitely exceeded that goal and we couldn't have done this without your help. I thank you for extending our invitation to your friends beyond Columbia County.

I have so many requests from artists who didn't contribute this year, but definitely want to for next!

Thanks also to the local press, The Register Star and the Chatham Courier, for such great articles before and after the show!

We are getting very close to our goal of raising $150K for the park. To date we are at approximately $86,000 - more than halfway. I am confident that we can do this within a timely manner. We will keep you posted with updates and other fundraisers as we move along!

The skate park committee will start meeting again at Crellin Park Anyone wishing to be involved in the design process and help with additional fundraisers, please let me know. We definately need your help!

Shari

Stoked! Fundraiser @ Art Omi - 3/21/09

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Stoked! Fundraiser @ Art Omi on 3/21/09

Stoked! Fundraiser @ Art Omi on 3/21/09

Stoked Event a GREAT success!

On behalf of the Crellin Park Foundation, the Chatham Skate Park Committee and the Town of Chatham, I thank you all for helping to make "Stoked" a terrific event!

Special thanks to the following:
Don Naylor of 518 Prints who designed our Stoked logo and invitation and the t-shirts!

Bill Thompson for the incredibly difficult task of hanging the pieces (job well done!) along with assistance from Wendy Carroll, Tempe Dicintio and Loren Weinheimer!

Tommy Carlucci for the great food and service as always!......Thank you to your staff for volunteering, especially Rita Soares-Kern, Frank and Josh.

Donna Carlucci and BethAnn Rippel for spearheading the Basket Raffle and Donna's sister, Dawn, for lending us her wrapping "expertise"!!! and thank you to all of our vendors for participating!

Our Chatham High School student musicians, Joe Ulmer, Phelan McGreal, and Chris Meier for volunteering their talent and time. You guys are great!

Rose, Bill and Dorothy at Art Omi...we greatly appreciate the use of the space.

Sesame Campbell, The Chatham Courier and David Lee, The Columbia Paper, our local news reporters, for covering our event!

Our Traffic Control Team: Carrie Hammell, Adam Torrey and Barry Rings

Our Skate Park Committee: Laurie Quinn, Dominique, Dawson, and Dylan DeVito, Beth, Cydney and Carley Rippel, Tempe Dicintio, Kris Qua, Shari and Brandon Tessitore, Dominic and Gavin Shelow.

Our major sponsors: Jack Shear, the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation, Hudson River Bank and Trust Foundation, and Judy Grunberg of the T. Backer Fund.

To our Foundation Board members: Tammy Shaw, Carol Gregg, Beth Rippel, Jean Rohde, Nancy Hammell and Donna Carlucci, I couldn't have done this without you!!!

To all who purchased boards and created some fun bidding wars!

And to our Contributing Artists, your work was amazing and we appreciate the hard work and imagination you put into this project! To those of which I misspelled your names, I greatly apologize!!! I will do a better job next time! And if i have forgotten anyone...I'm truly sorry and i thank you.

Dan Devine, Peter Acheson, Bill Thompson, Marie-Claude Giroux, Aaron Gaylord, Chris Schober, Licha Jimenez, Kris Qua, Greg Dunn, Dustin Horan, Dan Belcher, Christian Minick, Izzy Acheson, Sabrina Soares-Kern, Wayne Coe, Rose Godfrey-Connors, Tempe Dicintio, Anita Seay, Kathleen Ellis, Kelly Kynion, Loren Weinheimer, Lisa Solomon, Lee Harrison, Lauren Mundy, Ned Snyder, Marina Greenstein, Gwenn Sherman, Jennie Neu Duncan, Chris Neumann, Judith Meier, Tom Curran, Jesse Curran, Wendy Carroll, Lisa Miranda Johnson, Chatham Police Department, Tom Hope, Julia Erickson, Millie Rossman Kidd, Marcia Curran,
Kevin Morris, Tammy Gallo Walter, Linda B. Horn, Caren Behn & Ardal Powell

I look forward to doing another show in the future. Thanks again for your support. It means alot!Shari Franks

Art Show Fundraiser

Silent Art Auction Benefitting the Chatham Skate Park
50+ Local Artists and Community Members
Saturday, March 21st
2-5 pm
The Charles B. Benenson Visitors Center & Gallery
at Omi International Arts Center
1405 County Route 22 Ghent NY
Suggested Donation $5.00

The Crellin Park Foundation is hosting its first annual skate deck art auction to benefit the construction of a skate park for Crellin Park located in Chatham, NY. Skate decks designed by 50 local artists and community members will be on display for auction to raise money for the park. Gift baskets donated by local merchants will also be available for raffle and STOKED t-shirts will be available for purchase. Suggested donation at the door $5.00 Includes refreshments donated by Carlucci Catering of Chatham.

LIST of participating ARTISTS:
Dan Devine
Peter Acheson
Bill Thompson
Marie-Claude Giroux
Aaron Gaylord
Chris Schober
Licha Jimenez
Kris Qua
Don Naylor
Greg Dunn
Dustin Horan
Rich Dupree
Christian Minick
Izzy Acheson
Sabrina Soares-Kern
Pamela Joern
Rose Godfrey-Connors
Tempe Dicintio
Jim Fleishman
Anita Seay
Charles Woodard
Kathleen Ellis
Kelly Kynion
Loren Weinheimer
Lisa Solomon
Lee Harrison
Lauren Mundy
Ned Snyder
Marina Greenstein
Gwenn Sherman
Jennie Neu Duncan
Gavi Cohen
Chris Neumann
Judith Meier
Tom Curran
Jesse Curran
Wendy Carroll
Lisa Miranda Johnson
Chatham Police Department
Tom Hope
Julia Erickson
Millie Kidd
Marcia Curran
Tammy Gallo Walter
Linda B. Horn
Caren Behn
Ardal Powell

Please call 518.392.0337 for more information.
Click here to download a poster and help us promote this event.

TOWN OF CHATHAM ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR SKATE PARK

Thanks to a grant received recently from the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation, the Crellin Park Foundation, Inc. and the Town of Chatham, will begin the process of developing a plan for a skate park to be constructed at Crellin Community Park. The $50,000 grant was made on behalf of the Crellin Park Foundation to the Town toward construction of the skate park

Based on surveys sent out to residents of the Town of Chatham, a skate park was near the top of the list of needs for recreation for youth in this area. Most of the youth who skate in Chatham travel many miles to find skate parks. According to Shari Franks, Recreation Director for the Town of Chatham, “This extremely generous contribution gives us a good start to our fundraising campaign for the park. The Town has realized for a long time that we need a safe place for our residents, particularly our youth, to skate within. We are very thankful to the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation for their support.”

The Ellsworth Kelly Foundation is a New York not-for-profit 501(c) 3 corporation founded in 1991. The Foundation is headquartered in Columbia County, New York, where approximately half of its annual distribution of grants occur, working with local community organizations to enrich the lives of its citizens and the people of New York State. The Crellin Park Foundation exists to support the programs of the Town of Chatham as well as the Park System Master Plan through fundraising and grant writing.

With the help of Barton & Loguidice, P.C., the Town of Chatham created a master plan for Crellin Park during the time that the Chatham Comprehensive Plan was in the process of development. The skate park is only a portion of the first phase to the Crellin Park Master Plan. Other items to be addressed in the first phase include a new pavilion near the pond, reconstruction of the main soccer field, a water filtration system for the swimming pond, an expanded beach area and improved walkways entering into the park.

A skate park committee has been formed by local youth and adults. The committee will meet on Wednesday evenings beginning on May 7 at 6:30 PM at the pond pavilion at Crellin Park. Shari Franks asks that anyone (youth or adult) who is interested in helping with the skate park in any way: fundraising, planning, and design, to please attend these meetings. Community input is important and necessary to create a park that will meet the needs of our community. Shari Franks may be reached by calling the Recreation Department at 392-0337 or email recdirector1231@fairpoint.net .