Noah Bonesteel wins first place at Plein Air show

Noah Bonesteel’s painting “Evening Marshland Ecology” took first place in the Keeseville Community Arts Festival’s Plein Air Painting Show, held July 19 and 20. The festival is a program of ADK Action.

The judges were Jonathan Forrence, sculptor from Peru, Kara Jefts, collections manager at Plattsburgh State Art Museum, and Rob Fountain, photojournalist & painter from Au Sable Forks.

Selected out of 132 paintings, the judges’ comments were that Noah’s painting had a “refreshing experimentation with underpainting, pushes the boundaries of plein air painting, and a strong use of color and composition.”

Noah has one semester remaining at Plattsburgh State to complete his Bachelors of Fine Arts degree. He grew up in Averill Park, NY, surrounded by the beautiful woods of the Rensselaer Plateau. He has been painting the landscape and nature since high school, but took up plein air painting just last summer. In addition to painting, he loves to run, ski, rock climb and hike in the Adirondacks.

Says Noah of his work and the festival:

“For this festival I decided to bring some of my studio techniques out into the field to make expressive paintings with my own language and voice. I painted “Evening Marshland Ecology” on the edge of beautiful wickham marsh, looking out at water lilies and cattails, glowing in the soft sunset. Before painting the scenery, I sketched out the redwing blackbirds and dragonflies which were very active at that time of day. These forms as well as drips and streaks of color are layered throughout the composition.

It was wonderful to meet this amazing community of Adirondack artists and plein air painters and would like to thank everyone who made the festival possible. I look forward to coming back to Keeseville next year and participating in more plein air festivals.”

More of Noah’s work can be seen on Instagram at @noahbonesteelart.

The Adirondack History Museum Presents

Wildlife Photography From Around The World

Thursday, July 25th, 7 pm

Dr. Larry Master is a conservation biologist, zoologist, and currently dedicates his time to conservation photography. He has been photographing wildlife and natural history subjects for more than 70 years.

He has traveled to the ends of the earth to photograph wild things, from polar bears hunting in Svalbard and Churchill, to birds of paradise strutting in New Guinea, to grizzlies fishing in Alaska’s Katmai National Park, to jaguars crunching caimans in Brazil’s Pantanal, to the curious cheetah that this year climbed onto his safari vehicle in Tanzania.

Master will talk about his life’s work in wildlife and conservation photography.

Adirondack History Museum, 7590 Court St,, Elizabethtown

Eternal Forest Gathering and Pop-Up Exhibit

Saturday, July 27, 2024, 9:30 – 3
Sunday, July 28, 2024, 12 – 3

Exhibition of works produced by Evgenia Emets and Jean Brennan in the forest connecting the Spirit Sanctuary and Black Kettle Trails in Whallonsburg.

Details on Eternal Forest Gathering and Exhibit are HERE.

Whallonsburg Grange and Whitcomb’s Arts, 1610 NY-22, Essex, Whallonsburg

Saranac Lake Chamber of Commerce Presents

Business After Hours at Eight Academy

Thursday, July 25, 5-7 pm

An evening of networking at the boutique. Find out more about Eight Academy and peruse the collection of fine art, clothing, artisan furnishings, and vintage wares. Meet artist and business owner Georganne Gaffney.

Eight Academy, 8 Academy St, Saranac Lake

Westport Library Presents

Pendragon Theatre Presents

Moveable Feast

4 Special Events at 4 Beautiful Locations

Join Pendragon as we partner with some of our favorite places to bring you a unique theatrical experience!

WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
By Edward Albee
Wednesday, July 24, 6 pm / 7 pm Curtain

Hohmeyer’s Lake Clear Lodge & Resort

GOD OF CARNAGE
By Yasmina Reza
Saturday, July 27, 5 pm, 6 pm Curtain

Sunset Bistro @ Ampersand Bay Resort

THREE QUESTIONS AT ONCE
A new play by Dipti Bramhandkar
Saturday, August 3, 6 pm, 7pm Curtain

The Garagery

LEAN-TO
A new play by Stephen Dasen Pearce Sheffer
Wednesday, August 7, 5 pm, 6pm Curtain

Bluseed Pavilion

For full details and tickets, visit HERE.

The Bookstore Plus Presents

Storytime and Signing with Laura Lavoie

Monday, July 29, 10 am

Our storyteller, Laura Lavoie (local author) will read her book Duck Duck Taco Truckl. For our craft, Laura will lead our young readers in making paper plate tacos!

Storytime is geared towards children ages 3 and up, but all children are welcome!

Book signing to follow from 11 am – 12 pm!

The Bookstore Plus, 2491 Main Street, Lake Placid

Tannery Pond Center Presents

Astrophotography: Exploration in Color by Bob Fisher

Tuesday, July 30 – Saturday, August 10
Reception Friday, August 2, 5-7 pm

Bob Fisher first saw the dark skies of the Adirondacks as a child on summer camping trips near Speculator. At age 15, he built his own telescope in his Paterson, NJ basement, and began to experiment with astrophotography. After a conservatory education and a career as a classical clarinetist, he went returned to school to teach science in the New York City school system, where he worked primarily with at-risk high school students. An avid hiker, he purchased a log cabin in the foothills of the Adirondacks in 1991, which he shares with his wife, the writer Bibi Wein.

Since taking early retirement in 2006, he’s out photographing the night sky at every opportunity. He specializes in landscape astrophotography, in which earthly features frame images of the heavens.

More info HERE.

Also from Tannery Pond Center

Rural Indigenousness

Presentation by Melissa Otis
The Adirondacks have been a homeland for Indigenous people for millennia. The presence of Native people in the region was obvious, but not well documented by Europeans who did not venture into the interior between the seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Otis’s Rural Indigenousness is a more comprehensive study of the relationship between Native Americans and the Adirondacks than we have seen to date. It shines a light on the rich history of Algonquian and Iroquoian people in the region and explores a variety of Native American experiences.

Drawing upon archival research, material culture, and oral histories, Melissa Otis examines the nature of Indigenous populations living in predominantly Euroamerican Adirondack communities to identify the ways in which some maintained their distinct identity while also making selective adaptations exemplifying the concept of “survivance.”

Additional details HERE.

Tannery Pond Center, 228 Main Street, North Creek

Adirondack Artists Guild Presents

A Thing About Trees

Exhibit of photographs by Barry Lobdell

Friday, August 2 – Monday, September 2
Reception, Friday, August 2, 5 – 7

Photographer Barry Lobdell will be the featured artist for the month of August at the Adirondack Artists Guild.

He says, “This exhibition is focused on the variety of trees which I’ve seen, particularly in the Adirondacks but also in various locations across the country. My travels haven’t been extensive enough to capture images of many other wonderful types of trees around the world, ie the Baobab or Dragonwood, but I will keep documenting those which I do come across.”

“Whether climbing them, looking at and photographing them or cutting them up for firewood to heat our house, it’s obvious to me that I’ve definitely got a thing about trees.”

Adirondack Artists Guild, 52 Main St, Saranac Lake