New York State Route 38 and New York State Route 96 converge north of Owego village. New York State Route 17C follows the river along the north bank. The Southern Tier Expressway ( New York State Route 17) crosses the town on the river's south bank. Owego Creek flows into the Susquehanna at Owego village and marks the western town line. The Susquehanna River flows across the town, dividing it into two parts. The Court Street Bridge crosses the Susquehanna Geography Īccording to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 105.8 square miles (273.9 km 2), of which 104.2 square miles (269.8 km 2) is land and 1.6 square miles (4.1 km 2) (1.51%) is water. The Hiawatha Farm, Waits Methodist Episcopal Church and Cemetery, and Vesper Cliff are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The current town of Owego was formed as the "Town of Tioga" in 1800 from the town of Union (now in Broome County).Ĭonfusion over the location of the village of Owego caused the legislature to have the towns of Owego and Tioga to switch names in 1813 so that Owego village was in the same-named town. This name came from the vast floods that run into the valley when the winter snows melt, which caused several deaths a year. The town's name is a derivative of the Iroquois word "Ahwaga", which means "where the valley widens". This original town was reduced by formation of later towns in the county. The "Original Town of Owego" was created at the time Tioga County was formed in 1791. The village of Owego is in the western part of the town. Owego is in the southeastern corner of the county, west of Binghamton. The name is derived from the Iroquois word Ahwaga, meaning "where the valley widens". The population was 18,728 at the 2020 census. In the interim, commuters passing through the Farley Building will not need to don Oculus headsets to catch glimpses of Meta’s latest commissions, three of which will be visible from public areas of the building once the office opens in early autumn.Owego is a town in Tioga County, New York, United States. “The commissions are the foundation of our work with artists, but we’re also working with artists to make work for our apps.” “We’re always thinking about how we bring the commissioned art into these virtual work rooms,” Vaz says. And given that the company that has staked much of its future on virtual reality and the metaverse, coming commissions may place increasing importance on how the art will manifest in digital work spaces. She adds, “One of our challenges and opportunities is communicating this work to our remote team members.” As a result, Meta Open Arts also commissions works for the company’s various apps and online platforms-which include Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and others. Liz Collins arranging panels in her installation Every Which Way (2022) at the new Meta office in Manhattan Photo by Bradford Devins/OWLEY He affixed hundreds of paintings on panels composed of construction materials onto grids of rebar for a quilt-like effect that brings together elements of the Navajo language, superhero iconography, cross-cultural symbols and more. The Queens-based artist, who is an enrolled member of the Navajo nation, took inspiration from the grid structure of traditional weavings to create two huge works, the 8ft-wide A Distant Lie and 22ft-long A Shadow of a Shadow (both 2022). Workers entering from the adjacent Moynihan Hall train station and adjacent Penn Station transit complex may find themselves noticing new details in Kirk’s paintings each day. Installations by De Baca and Howard, Collins and Kirk frame the three main entrances to the office complex. The rugs’ patterns served as the basis for a mural the artist painted across several adjacent walls. The work offers a sharp commentary not only on the enduring legacies of empire (from the Roman to the British and beyond), but also on Western societies’ practice of exoticising cultures other than their own. Photo by Bradford Devins/OWLEYįacing Si-Qin’s work in the office’s main atrium is a new work from Khan’s series of sculptures based on the form of a Corinthian column, albeit one that seems to have been toppled and wrapped in handmade silk rugs from Kashmir. Baseera Khan working on their sculptural commission for the Meta offices in New York.
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