Wishing all our ADK A&E friends a very Happy New Year!

We see such good things coming in 2025 for the 

Adirondack arts and entertainment community and we’ll be

 right there to share it all with you.

Here’s to us all in 2025!

Beth & Tim

Adirondack Artists Guild Presents

En Plein Air

Throughout January

Opening reception January 10, 2025, 5 – 7 pm

En Plein Air, an exhibit of recent work by 12 artists who have participated in the Adirondack Artists Guild’s plein air painting group, will be the featured show in January at the Artists Guild gallery. Jacqueline Altman, a watercolor painter and longtime Guild member, organized the group in 2023.

Plein air has long been a tradition among artists in the Adirondacks, dating back to Winslow Homer, and has been carried on by many succeeding generations of local artists

The group is flexible in its makeup. It includes fairly new painters who have always wanted to try painting en plein air but weren’t sure how to approach it, as well as seasoned veterans always willing to share and help. It is made up of both year round residents and seasonal ones. They work in watercolor, oil, and pastel, and other mediums are welcome.

The structure of the group is very informal. They meet every other Wednesday from June through the end of October. Participants propose possible places to paint, and the site is agreed upon by consensus. One person takes responsibility for the chosen location for each session. Times are flexible as artists come and go during the day.

Some of the places depicted in the show are as diverse as from atop Whiteface Mt. to the long view from Grandpappy’s Adirondack Barn in Wilmington, from Heaven Hill in Lake Placid to the Rail Trail in Saranac Lake and as far afield as Fern Lake.

Plein air painters need to plan the logistics as to what equipment they need and can comfortably carry to the spot where they intend to work, how long they intend to be out, and what their personal needs and physical abilities are. Some don’t think much of hiking in a few miles or paddling out to a favorite site while others park their cars right next to where they have found a vantage point.

Altman writes, “There is a certain joy and enthusiasm to be found not only while painting out of doors but also to be sharing the experience alongside fellow artists. It is that incentive to get out and paint and to be with other artists that sparked the founding of our painting group two years ago.”

Participating artists are Jacqueline Altman of Lake Placid and Devon, PA; Bernadine S. Brooks of Lake Placid; Nancy Brossard of Lake Clear; Ann Haskell of Paul Smiths and Long Island; Sandra Hildreth of Saranac Lake; Harriet Kline of Keene Valley and Norristown, PA; Judy Kornfeld of Lake Placid and Philadelphia, PA; Lynda Mussen of Peru, NY; Leigh Ann Smith of Saranac Lake; Ingrid Van Slyke of Lake Placid; Diane Wainwright of Wilmington; and Susan Whiteman of Saranac Lake.

Adirondack Artists Guild Gallery, 52 Main St, Saranac Lake

Top image, Parking Lot at Grandpappy’s Adirondack Barn, photo by Jacqueline Altman. Lower image, View from Atop Whiteface, oil painting by Leigh Ann Smith

The Widlund Gallery at Tannery Pond Center Presents

North Creek Depot Museum Ride-Up, Slide Down

Wednesday, January 8, 2025 – Saturday, February 15, 2025

A fascinating exhibit of numerous rare and unique skiing artifacts, prints, paintings, archival documents, films, and photographs documenting the evolution and growth of the ski industry in the North Country. 

More info HERE.

Tannery Pond Community Center, 228 Main Street, North Creek

First Footing

Wednesday, January 1, 2025, 9 am

Looking for a different & wonderful way to welcome the New Year?

Loosely based on the Scottish New Year’s (Hogmanay) tradition of “first footing,” Adk Harper Martha Gallagher and author Amy Jae (The Blessed Home) invite you to a morning hour to sing songs together, enjoy stories, share friendship & create blessings to welcome and carry into 2025.

Coffee, tea and little bites to enjoy as well.. Please RSVP HERE.

Monday Tuesday Grill @ ADK Trail Inn, 11757 State Route 9N, Upper Jay

North Country New Year Festival

Tuesday, December 31, 5 – 10 pm

New Year’s Eve in Saranac Lake is decidedly entertaining and full of excitement for the whole family. Join us for live music and activities throughout the village. The 2024 schedule sees new faces gracing our stages while old favorites return, thanks to popular demand from enthusiastic Adirondack audiences.

Details including the  full schedule HERE.

Mapping the Adirondacks: Colvin, Blake, and the First True Survey of the Great Adirondack Wilderness

Monday, January 6, 7 – 8 pm, free, via Zoom

Join us as we welcome Thatcher Hogan to discuss how he carefully gleaned narratives and illustrations from Colvin’s notoriously dense annual reports and reassembled them with additional historic photographs to chronicle a compelling, true story of rugged exploration. 

Register HERE.

The Chapman Museum Presents

Family Craft Program 

Watercolor Snowflakes

Wednesday, January 8, 2025, 4 – 5 pm, free

Celebrate the magic of winter by crafting stunning watercolor snowflakes!

Using paper, white crayons, watercolors, and a sprinkle of salt, participants will create frosty, one-of-a-kind decorations perfect for the season.

Parental participation is encouraged, and supervision is required.

This program is free but requires a reservation.

To register, please call (518)793-2826.

Chapman Museum, 348 Glen Street, Glens Falls

Check It Out: A Library Musical by Bill Stokes

A 45-minute filmed reading of Check It Out: A Library Musical by Bill Stokes can be viewed HERE.
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 the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts.

Check it out!