Enfield Public Sculpture

The Community Arts Partnership is working with the Enfield community to design and commission a sculpture that will live in front of the highway barns on Enfield Main Road.  The sculpture will be centered around the community's culture and values related to food, and in particular will celebrate Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ (Cayuga) food culture.  The Enfield sculpture is the first of a countywide sculpture trail centered around the same theme, funded by the Tompkins County Tourism Department.

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Planning Team

Megan Barber is a nonprofit leader, musician, and community builder.  Driven by her belief in the power of arts to change the world, Megan takes pride in supporting local artists and arts groups to realize their visions. As Executive Director of the Community Arts Partnership, her goals include cultivating a thriving creative culture that reflects our community’s diversity.  Megan grew up in Enfield and is excited to work with the community on this project.

Stephen Henhawk (Gayogohó:nǫˀ, Wolf clan) is a historian ad first-language speaker who grew up at Six Nations of the Grand River reserve in Canada.  Stephen is a language teacher with the Gayogohó:nǫˀ Learning Project and a Research Associate at Cornell University.

Dr. Nia Nunn is a community leader serving as Associate Professor at Ithaca College, Board President of the Southside Community Center, Director of the Community Unity Music Education Program, and former School Psychologist at Beverly J. Martin Elementary.  The synergy of her intersecting roles and craft is rooted in Black consciousness, ant-racist, and abolitionist frameworks.  A mother, poet, speaker, consultant, and yogi, she is committed to learning and engaging audiences creatively, intensely, and gracefully.

Michelle Seneca (Gayogohó:nǫˀ, Turtle Clan) is Co-Leader of the Gayogohó:nǫˀ Learning Project.  She is focusing on the matriation of original food systems and to continue cultural practices, guiding directives in which language and culture can be revitalized among the Gayogohó:nǫˀ diaspora.

Annemarie Zwack is an artist specializing in engaging communities in creating Self-Determinative public art. She is currently employed by the Community Unity Music Education Program, based out of Southside Community Center, in Ithaca, NY. She has been engaging communities in creative self expression, locally, nationally, and internationally since 2002.  As a teaching artist, using art to express core curriculum, she guided Enfield Elementary students making a mosaic numberline, in 2011. www.ZwackArt.com

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