By Mark Boshnack
Martha Stewart shared the artwork of a 2004 Oneonta High School graduate during a Tuesday taping of her television show.
Area viewers will have a chance to see the segment featuring the work of Emily Falco on Time Warner Cable in Oneonta on Channel 135 at 8 a.m. Saturday. It also aired today at 3 a.m. on Channel 2.
Since "The Martha Stewart Show" is syndicated, people living in other areas should check their television schedules for the episode entitled "The Brooklyn Show," producers said.
"I was so honored to be on the show," Falco, 23, said by cell phone near her home in the Park Slope area of Brooklyn. "I'm so flattered."
She is the daughter of Gerry and Corinne Falco of Oneonta.
"The Martha Stewart Show" segment producer Mary Forrest said the staff knew of Falco's paintings because Falco's boyfriend is a production assistant for the show.
"Falco is a fantastic artist, and her work fit in well with the Brooklyn theme of the show," Forrest said. "She is a wonderful artist who captures the magic of Brooklyn in her paintings."
The work is sold in prints, notecards and postcards. A segment called "Martha's Finds" featured the postcards in the final minute of the show, Forrest said.
"Martha loves the delicate beauty and local sensibility of the unique neighborhood scenes captured in Emily Falco's charming, handmade watercolor postcards," according to the show's website.
The New York City audience received some of the cards at the show, Falco said.
Falco said she moved to Brooklyn after graduating high school to attend Cooper Union School of Art. She graduated from Cooper Union in 2008.
Falco said she likes to paint urban landscapes in watercolors or acrylics, mostly winter scenes in Brooklyn. "It's an exciting time of year and very romantic."
Her work can be seen at www.emilyfalco.com.
She is also a musician, playing piano and singing in a band called In the Trees, she said.
Falco said she found out the show was interested in her art about a week ago and taped the show Tuesday.
It's too soon to say what the impact will be, but "it will bring more attention to my work," she said. "I am taking it one day at a time."
She had not met Stewart before but found her to be "a sweetheart."
Falco said she was not nervous about meeting a celebrity, and the two talked briefly about her artwork on the show.
"She was very cordial and very nice," Falco said.
Information on the episode is available at www.marthastewart.com/the-martha-stewart-show.
