Sneak Peek, Faces of the Fair

The 2013 Faces of the Fair montage contains the faces of over 4000 fair-goers from last year's event. This year, the vintage tractor image is dedicated to local farmers who make the Canfield Fair one of the longest running,  most revered county fairs in the country.

The Fine Arts staff will once again be on hand to photograph fair-goers who would like to be part of Canfield Fair history.  This will be the last year to participate in what has become one of the most popular features of the fair.  

Postcards, posters, and prints will be for sale at the Fine Arts Building during the fair, which will kick off on Wednesday, August 28th and run through Labor Day.  The Fine Arts Building is located close to the Route 46 walk-in gate at the north end of the fairgrounds.

All proceeds from the sale of the montage benefit the Fine Arts Department.

Sneak peek at the 2012 Faces of the Fair, Canfield Fair photomontage.  This year's edition contains the faces of over 4000 fair goers at the 2011 fair. 

It will be much easier to find your face this year!  If you were photographed on Wednesday or Thursday, you'll be in the upper third of the montage; Friday & Saturday photos are in the middle; those photographed on Sunday or Monday should look at the bottom third of the image.  If you were photographed several times, you'll find yourself in more than one spot.

Don't forget to stop in at the Fine Arts building during this year's fair to be photographed for next year's montage.  Our camera is set up at the north end of the building, in the professional art section.

Faces of the Fair 2012

Soleful Reflections

Now collecting images for the 2012 collaborative Global Art Project, Soleful Reflections.

How to participate:

1. Trace one foot with a dark marker on a piece of white paper. Make sure that the outline is complete... no gaps in the marking.

2. Write your message to the world on the foot print. It may be words of peace, concern, hope, love, frustration... whatever you want to say.* Large, dark lettering will show up best, however, feel free to make the message colorful. Remember, a picture is worth a thousand words, so if you'd rather draw your message, that's okay too.

3. Write your state or country somewhere on the page (on or off of the foot print).

4. Take a photo of the image.

5. Take a photo of your face.

6. Send both files (300 dpi 4"x6") to sgray@youngstownymca.org with Soleful Reflections as the subject. You may send multiple foot print messages, but need only one photo of yourself.

7. Anyone who participates in this 2012 Global Art Project for Peace will receive a high resolution digital file of the finished artwork.

8. If you do not have access to a computer, you may send the original foot print to Suzanne Gray, Davis Family YMCA, 45 McClurg Rd, Boardman, OH 44512.

9. Deadline for the images is December 15, 2011.

* profane and/or hurtful messages will not be used.

Cathartic Heeling 2011

Participants outlined their feet, then wrote their attributes on one, and negative traits on the other. Putting the words in writing created a cathartic experience. The final montage is a dance with the sun and moon, the light and the dark, the pluses and minuses of human existence.




Peaceful Soleutions 2010

More than 300 people participated, from six continents, 16 countries and 17 states. The drew, wrote, painted their messages of peace of the soles of their feet. They final montage is a flower, rooted in and blooming from the soles/souls of all nations.

Sneak Peek.. Faces of the Fair 2011

Scanning the Globe: Peaceful Soleutions

This piece was made using over 600 images of faces from around the world.
The barcode consists of foot prints and the world population at some point in early 2011.