150th Anniversary Feature Edition

For our special 150th Anniversary season, we collaborated with three different artists/small businesses to create wonderful items to help us commemorate our 2024 Summer Assembly. Made especially for Chautauqua and CVA, we have posters, postcards, magnets, stickers, candles, and scarves (with a beautiful map from 1890, secured from our Archives staff!). We hope you enjoy them all and celebrate this amazing summer season with us.

Catherine LaPointe Vollmer, of LionheArt Graphics: Based in Potsdam, NY, Catherine created our special CVA-themed poster, postcards, magnets, and stickers. Featuring Strohl and Fowler-Kellogg Art Centers, Art in the Park, as well as the Art Quad, this poster -like a lot of Catherine's work- harkens back to an earlier design aesthetic, popularized by National Park poster artists during the Works Progress Administration.

Devin Howell Curry, Guava Jelly Studios: Devin creates unique candles from her Fredericksburg, VA studios that celebrate the lives and work of women artists, serving as a tribute to their contributions. Devin created two different hand-poured, wood-wick candles for us. The 150th Anniversary candle smells of "wildflowers, fresh lavender, and sliced watermelon" while the In the Studio with CVA scent is "Rustic easels, Fresh Canvas, and Legendary Art Studios" (they both smell amazing)! $1 for every Guava Jelly candle sold is donated to A.I.R. Gallery in support of women artists.

Maritime Tribes: Trip Wolfskehl, Tanya Bernard, and the rest of the Maritime Tribes team, based in their home town of Newport, RI helped us create our beautiful 150th Anniversary scarf for this Summer Assembly. The image on the scarf is of an actual Chautauqua map from 1890 that was secured with help from Chautauqua's own Oliver Archives Center. Maritime Tribes helped us bring our vision to life in the most beautiful way possible!