Arts Funding Deadline Approaches!

The Essex County Arts Council is pleased to announce that the 2025 Cultural Assistance Program (CAP) Grant program is going strong! 

Applications are available HERE. For any arts group, historical society, preservation program, library, museum, organization or town providing public cultural programs for Essex County residents, this is an opportunity to request funding.  The CAP application deadline is March 15, 2025.

CAP grants will support a wide range of activities, events and programs. Artists fees, program expenses, one-time use of materials for workshops, partial fees for program administration, advertising, rental space for a cultural event, equipment rental, lighting, sound, costumes, and professional fees are examples of what the CAP program will support.  Each program may be funded up to $1,000. For any questions, please email Susan Hughes, ECAC Arts Administrator at admin@essexcountyarts.org.

In 2024, sixty organizations received funding totaling $40,000. This grant program is made possible by the generosity of the Essex County Board of Supervisors, Stewarts Shops, and ECAC’s loyal supporters.

Bluseed Studios presents

List Og Land

Wednesday, March 12 -Wednesday, March 19

Opening reception Saturday, March 15, 5 – 7 pm

View Peter Seward’s Iceland Paintings for one week only!

Bluseed Studios, 24 Cedar Street, Saranac Lake

The Strand Center for the Arts presents

Almost Queen

A Tribute to Queen

March 15, 2025, 8 pm

Almost Queen’s concerts are a true testament to the band’s love for Queen’s music. Fans often travel long distances just to experience Almost Queen’s carefully curated setlist featuring Queen’s best-loved songs, like Somebody to Love, Don’t Stop Me Now, Fat Bottomed Girls, and Radio Ga Ga. Almost Queen occasionally plays some lesser-known album tracks, such as Flash, Spread Your Wings, Love of My Life, as well as other hidden gems. And of course, no Queen tribute concert would be complete without classics like Bohemian Rhapsody, We Will Rock You, and We Are the Champions! It’s no wonder fans keep coming back for more, attending again and again to experience the music of Queen in a manner that only Almost Queen delivers.

More info and tickets are HERE.

Strand Center for the Arts, 25 Brinkerhoff Street, Plattsburgh

Call for Artists

NorthWind Fine Arts 2025 Annual Juried Show

NorthWind Fine Arts, a premier gallery located in the heart of the beautiful Adirondack Region of New York State, is pleased to announce our annual juried show.  We welcome submissions from living artists of original creative works from all genres and mediums. 

Selected works will be featured on our website and shared with our extensive social media audience.  First, second and third place winners will receive generous cash prizes. 

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION : All entries must be received by OnlineJuriedShows.com by March 16, 2025. 

View the prospectus HERE.

NorthWind Fine Arts, 85 Main Street, Saranac Lake

Whitcomb’s Arts presents

A Lifetime of Light

Steve Vannort

Thursday, March 13 thru Saturday, April 26, 2025

Steve Vannort is an accomplished artist with an exhibition history that includes national and international galleries, solo and group shows. In his work in acrylics, oils, and watercolors—and over a career spanning decades—Steve has played with light’s movement through space; captured through the use of improvisation and an eye to creating an approachable entry point for each piece. He cites the luminosity found in the works of Rothko and Turner as inspiration for his paintings.  Steve brings a unique background and manifold interests to his artwork.

Additional details HERE.

Whitcomb’s Arts, (across the road from the Whallonsburg Grange) 1598 NYS rt 22, Essex

Cloudsplitter Dance Studio presents

Fundamentals Dance Class

with Rachel Snow

First class is Wednesday, March 19, 5:15 – 6:15 pm

Twolined Studio presents

Art & Science Series 

Thursdays, March 20, April 17 and May 15, 6:30 – 9:30 pm

This three-part event series held in downtown Saranac Lake spotlights artists and scientists who are pushing the boundaries of their work.

Saranac Lake Art & Science will celebrate and explore the intersection of these disciplines through a multitude of voices and styles of work.

View more details, including the March 20 line up, and get tickets HERE.

Hotel Saranac, Ballroom, 100 Main St, Saranac Lake

Deadline approaching!

Poem Village 2025

Since 2016, the Adirondack Center for Writing has invited writers of all ages, experience levels, and locations within the North Country to send poems to be published and installed in windows in Saranac Lake during National Poetry Month. 

In 2025, a second copy of each poem we publish will appear in shop windows in Plattsburgh in collaboration with Outside Art: Plattsburgh Public Art Project, in Malone in collaboration with Downtown Artists Cellar, and in Potsdam and Canton in collaboration with SLC Arts. 

Want to see your poetry printed on a beautiful poster and displayed in shop windows in Saranac Lake, Plattsburgh, Malone, Potsdam and Canton? Send us a poem under 25 lines by March 17, 2025 in order to be included. Everyone who submits will be published, as long as the basic guidelines are met:

Your poem must be under 25 lines (or 300 words, whichever comes first)

Your poem can be on any subject, but it can’t contain explicit content or any hateful speech

You must live in the “North Country” of NY State (north of Albany – Utica – Syracuse).

It must be submitted HERE.

ACW, 15 Broadway, Saranac Lake

Glens Falls Symphony presents

An Afternoon of Piano Music

Sunday, March 16, 2025

What musical magic will be heard at the next Glens Falls Symphony concert? We are glad you asked! The concert at First Presbyterian Church of Glens Falls will feature two beautiful works:

Theme and Four Variations (The Four Temperaments) by Paul Hindemith, with Chris Reynolds, guest artist. 

Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns, featuring students from the
Capital District Council for Young Musicians, including Animal Poems by Ogden Nash. Narrated by Dr. Kristine Duffy, President, SUNY Adirondack

Purchase tickets HERE.

First Presbyterian Church, 400 Glen Street, Glens Falls

In case you missed it …

“You’re cordially invited to Clinton County’s new wedding exhibition”

North Country Public Radio’s Cara Chapman profiled the Clinton County Historical Association newest exhibit “The Honor of Your Presence.” The exhibit puts the county’s nuptial history on display with gowns, photos and other wedding memorabilia from the 1800s up until the late 1960s.

You can read or listen to the piece HERE.

Image: Clinton County Historical Association Board Trustee Randi Christodoulou designed the “In Honor of Your Presence” exhibit and helped put it together. Photo: Cara Chapman.