Ti Arts Schedule

Adirondack Artists Guild presents

Georgeanne Gaffney featured at Adirondack Artists Guild

Friday, September 5 though Tuesday, September 30

Opening reception Friday, September 5, 5 – 7 pm

Georgeanne Gaffney will be the featured artist for the month of September at the Adirondack Artists Guild.

September Song celebrates Gaffney’s favorite time of the year. Lured by the cool, fresh mountain air while on vacation in the Adirondacks twenty years ago, she and her husband relocated from their home state of Maryland to make a new home in Saranac Lake. The pieces in this exhibit reflect Georgeanne’s love of the colors and textures of the region’s bogs, trails, mountains, rivers and lakes. Never forgetting her early love of the seaside, however, Georgeanne spends part of each September in Cape Cod, another landscape whose beauty is also frequently reflected in her paintings.

Best known for her acrylic paintings on wood panels, Gaffney has been challenging herself to experiment with different mediums and work in a looser, more impressionistic style than she usually does. This show will include Georgeanne’s works on paper in watercolor, encaustic, pastel and pen & ink alongside oil and acrylic paintings. 

Image: Evening Lily, encaustic on paper

Adirondack Artists Guild Gallery, 52 Main St., Saranac Lake

Chapman Museum Expands Popular Community Adventure 

Chapman Challenge

The Chapman Museum is excited to announce updates to its popular Chapman Challenge, first launched in 2021 to encourage community members and visitors alike to explore the history and hidden gems of the Glens Falls–Queensbury region.

The Chapman Challenge invites participants to complete 20 out of 38 unique challenges, each highlighting a piece of local history, culture, or community life—from historic markers and monuments to ghost signs and neighborhood landmarks. The final mission is a visit to the Chapman Museum itself, where participants can register their achievement and be recognized with an official finisher number.

After completing 19 of the 38 sites, challengers finish at the DeLong House marker outside the Chapman Museum before handing in their form.

For more details and to download the official Chapman Challenge map, visit HERE.

Chapman Museum, 348 Glen Street, Glens Falls

Tupper Arts Presents

50th Anniversary of The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Friday, August 30, 10 pm

Join Tupper Arts for a night of outrageous fun as we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Adirondack State Theater!

Come dressed as your favorite character—prizes will be awarded for Best Dressed, so don’t be shy! Get ready to time warp back to a cult classic as Brad and Janet stumble into the bizarre world of Dr. Frank-N-Furter and his wild entourage. Whether you’re a longtime fan or new to Rocky Horror, this is a night you won’t want to miss. Let’s do the Time Warp again!

Adirondack State Theater, 100 Park St, Tupper Lake

Caroga Lake Music Festival

Live Music & Fireworks

Saturday, August 30, 6 pm

Caroga Arts Collective invites music lovers of all ages to our Labor Day celebration! Join us for a night of music, rock ‘n’ roll, and fireworks at Sherman’s Park! 

The evening will kick off with local favorite Travis Rockenstire, followed by Brave Strangers, the ultimate Bob Seger tribute band, playing all the hits and high-energy classics that defined a generation of rock ‘n’ roll. The night will conclude with a dazzling fireworks show over the lake, a spectacular finale you won’t want to miss. Bring your friends and family for a Labor Day celebration full of music, fun, and unforgettable memories!

More info and tickets HERE.

Sherman’s Park, 114 East Shore Road West, Caroga

The Strand Center for the Arts Presents

Reber Rock Farm presents

Farm Food Friday, 

including Ploughman’s Lunch with Kate Ritter

Traditional Arts in Upstate New York (TAUNY) presents

Legacies

Through through Thursday, September 25

This exhibit in the Upstairs Gallery at the TAUNY Center showcases the hand made textiles of over 30 contemporary North Country textile artisans.  These works represent techniques, materials and cultural designs passed on from family members or older artisans, and sourced from small local farms when possible.  These heirloom creations span the spectrum of fiber arts; knitting, crocheting, weaving, spinning, dyeing, felting and needlework.

The categories of textiles on exhibit include “Pasture to Finished Work” in which the fibers—whether knitted, felted or woven —were sourced locally from either the artists’ own animals or from nearby farms. In these works, sheared wool was hand carded, hand spun and dyed to form the yarns used to make the finished textiles. “Milestone Textiles” is a second category in the exhibit which represents the long-standing tradition of creating works to commemorate a significant life event such as a wedding, anniversary or birth. And finally, there are works in the  category of “Passing the Torch,”  which center on mentorship, collaborative community and continuity of folk traditions. Selections from the TAUNY Knitting/Fiber Arts Group are highlighted in this category.

 All the hand made textiles in the exhibit exemplify the traditional arts and folk life TAUNY has celebrated and recorded for the past 40 years.

Additional info HERE.

TAUNY, 53 Main St., Canton

Great Camp Sagamore presents

Born From Nature, and Built at Sagamore: The Adirondack Artistry of George Wilson

Friday, September 5, 2025, 7:15 - 8:15 pm

The Great Camps had great furniture. It came from nature, was built by necessity, and remains exceptional to this day.

Between the 1880s and the 1920s, “Great Camps” like Sagamore transformed the Adirondack wilderness. Unsurpassed in their acreage and ambition, these massive complexes attracted Vanderbilts, Carnegies, Morgans, Rockefellers, Whitneys, Webbs and hosts of other, only-slightly-less-wealthy Gilded Age millionaires and their descendants.

Fleeing congested cities of steel, smoke, and sickness, each summer they sought refuge in these mountains from the ill-effects of the industrial society that had made their fortunes. These bark-clad buildings provided the perfect retreat: rustic on the outside and surrounded by rugged wilderness, yet surprisingly comfortable, ordered and refined on the inside. “Roughing it,” in practice, was seldom that.

But how to refine the interiors? What items might make these sitting-rooms, studies, dining halls, hunting lodges, and bedrooms mirror their exteriors in simplistic, natural style, but still match the complexity, rarity and luxury their owners expected?

The answer to those questions came from men like George Wilson. During the 1900s and 1910s, Wilson worked at Sagamore as a gardener, nursing the crops of vegetables and flowers through the harsh extremes of the Adirondack seasons. But off the clock, he worked on his art—ornately ordered twig-work and tree root tables, bookcases and writing desks that were highly sought in his day and have become practically priceless in our present.

Due the generous loan of a private collector and in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Sagamore Institute of the Adirondacks, almost a dozen will spend the summer on display at the site that created them, more than a hundred years ago–Great Camp Sagamore.

Join Sagamore’s Staff Historian Connor Williams for dinner, an exclusive viewing of the pieces, and a lecture that explores the context, craftsmanship, manufacture, and meaning of these exceptional artifacts that were born from nature, and built at Sagamore.

Learn more and register HERE.

Great Camp Sagamore, 1105 Sagamore Road, Raquette Lake