The Art Thing Collaborative, Inc.

The Art Thing Collaborative, Inc. TAT is a social arts org on a mission to bring people together by bringing art to the people.

We had a great time in Ilion at our last Reel Thing of the season!!!Thank you to everyone who came out, and a big thank ...
08/30/2026

We had a great time in Ilion at our last Reel Thing of the season!!!

Thank you to everyone who came out, and a big thank you to Keith of the Ilion Fire Department who hooked us up with power and bathrooms! He was so helpful and generous and we’re really thankful for all his support! And a big thank you to Kevin for letting us use his land!

Thank you to Risa & Frank, our technical directors, to Mike Cecconi, our trusty announcer, to Erika Hoffman for all of her hard work, and to Matt Trombley for being a big support with Thing!!!!! Without all of you this thing wouldn’t have been possible! You guys made it easy, you made it fun, and you were the best Reel Thing crew anyone could have ever asked for.

A huge thank you to Chris & Devan at Valley Cinemas who helped us secure all the movie rights and who donated all those little bags of movie popcorn for each showing! We’re so lucky to have had the backing of these two!!!!

Thank you to all the libraries who helped us coordinate and promote the event, and to the village boards of each town for working with The Art Thing to make sure each event happened timely, safely and without a hitch!

And a big, big thank you to each and every one of you who came out to support this outdoor movie summer venture and shared in the love of film in all these communities in our loving Valley! Without all of you, this Thing wouldn’t have been a Thing at all!

And last but not least, thank you to CNY Arts for granting us the funding for this project. We’re so grateful we got to do this, and we’re looking forward to doing it again next summer🥹

To anyone who was able to attend two or more Reel Things, we’ll see you in December for the mystery movie at Valley Cinemas in Little Falls. We’ve decided we want our honorary Reel Thing members to vote on which movie we should show! Stay tuned, we’ll let you know when and where you can cast your vote!

And if you absolutely loved the Reel Things and you want to keep these kinds of Art Things around, accessible and free in the Mohawk Valley, be sure to give this Sept during Mohawk Valley Gives!!!!

Love,

-The Art Thing

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08/29/2026

SAVE THE DATE!!!!

The Art Thing is having their Mohawk Valley Gives fundraising party on Thursday, September 17th at Paradise Eatery in Herkimer!!!

From 5PM-8PM come enjoy DJ Mitch spinning some tunes on the patio of Herkimer’s newest haunt! Grab some food, grab a beer or a glass of wine or a smoothie to celebrate The Art Thing’s 2026 MVG event with all of us and Thing too!!!

Our community fundraising goal this year is $30,000!

This year’s challenge goal from Upmobility Foundation: If at least 100 individual people donate to The Art Thing during Mohawk Valley Gives, Upmobility Foundation will unlock another $20,000!!!

That means TAT has a chance to raise $50,000 this MVG to keep bringing free Art Things to more people in more places across the Mohawk Valley!!!!

Every single person counts! Whether you give $5, $10, $25, $100 or $1000, whatever gift you can give helps move us toward our goal of $30,000, and makes you one of the 100 people standing up and saying: “I believe in The Art Thing!”

Your support helps us pay local artists, keep participation free, bring fun programs into more communities, build our equipment to take our Things on the road, and keep dreaming up whatever wonderfully weird Thing comes next!

Oh yeah, and it helps us keep the big yellow Thing here on our planet 🌎 he eats a whole truckload of Peeps before noon everyday, but only the yellow ones!

We hope to see you at our event, and if not we hope you will be one of the 100 people who supports The Art Thing during the giving week of MVG:
Sept 14-Sept 18!

By supporting TAT you’re supporting a whole lot more than The Art Thing, you’re supporting all the people and communities that make it possible!

So come on, let’s do this Thing!!!!

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See you so soon Ilion!!!!!We’re so grateful to be doing this Thing, and to have spent most of our summer bringing it to ...
08/26/2026

See you so soon Ilion!!!!!

We’re so grateful to be doing this Thing, and to have spent most of our summer bringing it to these Mohawk Valley communities!

We’re in awe of all the community support, and all the new friends we’ve made along the way!!!!

And thanks for being so kind to Thing! It’s not always easy being a big and yellow non conformist and finding human t-shirts that fit your irregular shape and size! We’re lucky he’s in our corner!

We’re so looking forward to making even more new friends in the Ilion community for yet another gorgeous night, one of the few left of gorgeous summer nights around these parts, to celebrate the art of film and connection and community under the stars!! 🌟

Don’t miss seeing the classic Hook this Friday for TAT’s very last Reel Thing of the summer!!!!

Thank to everyone for their support, their love, and their continued faith and fight for community!!!

And thanks to CNY Arts -without them none of this would have been possible!!!!!!

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Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock…is that the sound of a crocodile I hear🐊???? No, no, no…it is the countdown to the 5th a...
08/24/2026

Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock…is that the sound of a crocodile I hear🐊???? No, no, no…it is the countdown to the 5th and final Reel Thing of the summer! We’re so excited to be showing the classic Hook in Ilion this Friday, August 28th!!!!

Join us for another outdoor movie adventure, some free popcorn from our friends at Valley Cinemas, meet our favorite and very yellow pal Thing, and bask in the coming together with the Ilion community under the stars to celebrate the magic of film! 🎥

Showtime starts at 8:30PM

Where?
39 Pleasant Ave
Ilion, NY

We’ll have free bottled water, but don’t forget to bring your lawn chairs, picnic blankets, cozy wear and whatever movie snacks or beverages help you settle in for your flight to Neverland! And just a reminder this is a family, friendly event and we ask that you do not smoke or bring alcoholic beverages into the event.

See you soon!!!!

This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by CNY Arts

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The Reel Thing had so much fun in Frankfort!!! We really felt the community love last night, and we really loved getting...
08/22/2026

The Reel Thing had so much fun in Frankfort!!!

We really felt the community love last night, and we really loved getting to collab with the Casual Creatives Club!!!!

What a night! Our mascot and brother in all things art Thing got to meet the Casual Creatives super cute mascot Buddy! I think it’s safe to say they found a friend and collab Art partner for life!!!

A big thank you to Missy and Becca at Frankfort Free Library for working together with us, and making it a super fun mash up of events for the community! We love what you’re doing and we can’t wait to collab with you amazing folks again!!!

We’ve got “Hook” on deck in Ilion this coming Friday, August 28th so be sure to catch our last Reel Thing of the year! Also, it’s the last chance to become an honorary Reel Thing member if you’ve only caught one movie so far! And remember, if you catch two or more Reel Things you get to see the free mystery movie at Valley Cinemas in Little Falls this December!!!!

Looking forward to seeing all you movie buffs again soon!!!

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Mark your calendars! The giving week of September 14th is less than a month away and TAT is throwing a MVG Party on Sept...
08/19/2026

Mark your calendars! The giving week of September 14th is less than a month away and TAT is throwing a MVG Party on September 17th to celebrate! We’re bringing the community together to celebrate, connect, and raise funds to keep our local neighborhoods filled with free community art programming and other super fun Art Things!

The party will be at Paradise Eatery!
122 W Albany Street, Herkimer NY 13350

We’ll have live beats from our DJ Mitch!!!
Food from the Paradise kitchen
Beer, wine, and tropical smoothies will all be available!

Join TAT on September 17th and the rest of the art-supporters in the Valley for an evening of fun social gathering!
Come eat, drink, vibe, and help us fundraise to make more Art Things for everybody, everywhere!

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Thing is coming for you Frankfort!!! He’s ready to dance and shout, and let all his 8 hairs down to the musical and crea...
08/17/2026

Thing is coming for you Frankfort!!!

He’s ready to dance and shout, and let all his 8 hairs down to the musical and creative sensation The Wiz!

We’re so excited to be teaming up with the Gather & Graze event this Friday on 8/21 with the Casual Creatives Club (C3) at the Frankfort Free Library!
From 6PM-8:30PM come join in on this relaxed, community picnic-style art event where people bring their own snacks and creative supplies to connect, create, and enjoy shared time together outdoors!!

The Reel Thing will follow the event at our usual start time of 8:30, and hopefully you all aren’t too snacked out as we’ll have free popcorn and bottled water for the movie! 🍿

Don’t forget to bring your lawn chairs, favorite picnic blankets, bug spray, extra snacks, and whatever else your creative, movie watching self requires. And just a reminder this is a smoke free event, and we ask that you do not bring in any alcoholic beverages to this event. This is a family friendly function and we want to maintain a safe, and healthy space for all ages and creatives!

Right outside the library 📚
123 S Frankfort St
Frankfort, NY

This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by CNY Arts

Hope to see you soon!!!!!
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Before we get to Mike’s bio…we just want to announce that today is his birthday! If you see this man, wish him the best!...
08/14/2026

Before we get to Mike’s bio…we just want to announce that today is his birthday! If you see this man, wish him the best!

In short, Mike Cecconi is a writer, an arts facilitator and performer. Of course, he’s nearly 6’6”, so short might be the wrong word. If nothing else, he’s been a lot of different people trying to learn how to craft a good story and to be a mostly-decent person along the way. He has a TV/Film degree from Newhouse at Syracuse he’ll be paying off as long as he breathes, spent a handful of years on the lowest rung of the film industry in LA, less than two years as sort of an art bum in New York City.

Along the way, he accumulated the world’s least-significant legit IMBD profile in history, poetry published on three continents, a one-man show at the Rochester Fringe, a TedTalk on the value of comedy, a couple of empty bank accounts, a handful of self-published comics and small press published poems, a handful of exes, a few small writing awards and literary journal publications, a couple dead automobiles and the tendency to always temper his brags with self-depricating humour. Along the way, he failed at trying to be a 911 operator, was way too good at being a medical courier and a call centre operator to the point he had to quit before getting stuck via promotion, waited, matre’d’ed, barista-fied and a lot of other little things. In tall, Mike tries to experience life so he can create better and more humane jokes and stories. Sometimes it even works!

Currently, he’s back in his hometown, helping family care for family, working at the LF library while running its short story group, running Stage Time Trivia at the Renaissance Bar and occasionally pitching in as an announcer and/or writer with the fine human beings at the Art Thing. Trying to train his mom’s dog out of the zoomies feels like his full time gig. His favourite spot to read poems or stories or jokes is the amazing Tramontane Cafe.

In short, Mike loves making up little stories, helping people make up little stories and trying his best to help people with the weird little skills he has picked up along the winding path of life!

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82 W Monroe Street, #2
Little Falls, NY
13365

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