Adirondack Artists Guild presents

Holiday Salon: Art Under $100

Friday, December 5 – Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Opening reception Friday, December 5, 5 – 7 pm

The Adirondack Artists Guild presents a special Holiday Salon, featuring artwork priced under $100. 

In keeping with the spirit of the season, cookies and cocoa (and brownies, tea and coffee) will be provided for all who stop by the gallery Friday evening. Guild members will be on hand to help with holiday shopping ideas, and the collection of affordable artwork will be available throughout the month of December. In addition to the Holiday Salon, Guild members will have their usual displays of artwork available for sale. For unique gifts of original art by local artists this holiday season, be sure to stop by the Adirondack Artists Guild Gallery.

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

The Adirondack Experience announces

2026 Adirondack Experience Artist-in-Residence

Open Application Period ends Friday, December 12.

The Adirondack Experience, The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake, (ADKX) will offer four one-month residencies for artists for its 2026 open season, filled by an application process. 

ADKX will offer four artists a one-month residency, scheduled consecutively in June, July, August, and September. During the residency, the artist will focus on creating their own body of work within the public areas of the museum grounds at least three days per week. The intention of the time during public hours is for artists to spend time pursuing their own creative works, inspired by the natural areas that comprise and surround the museum’s campus as well as key objects and stories within the collection.

Learn more including how to apply HERE.

For questions, please email Cheryl Braunstein, ADKX Director of Interpretation, at cbraunstein@theadkx.org.

The Adirondack Experience, 9097 State Route 30, Blue Mountain Lake

40th Annual Sparkle Village Craft Fair

Friday, December 5, 4 – 9 pm

Saturday, December 6, 10 am – 3 pm

Get ready to embrace the magic of the holiday season at the Saranac Lake Sparkle Village Craft Fair! For 40 years, this annual event has been a beloved tradition for finding unique and distinctive holiday gifts and one-of-a-kind treasures.

Full details HERE.

Harriettstown Town Hall, 43 Main St, Saranac Lake

The Mill presents

The Jane Boxall ‘Thread’

Thursday, December 4, 7 pm, Freeway Clyde

Thursday, December 11, 7 pm, Iceberg

Thursday, December 18, 7 pm, Bad SmellEach week The Mill’s creative director, Taylor Haskins, weaves listeners among a myriad of modern music across generations and musical styles, connecting one song to the next with a musician in common on his NCPR radio program The Thread (

HERE). This December Haskins has programmed a live version of The Thread which will span three consecutive Thursdays in December. Join us to celebrate our local spotlight: Jane Boxall in three distinct performances.

More info and tickets HERE

The Mill, 6679 Main Street, Westport

Adirondack Sky Center & Observatory presents

Getting Started in NightScape Photography

Presented by Bruce Berger, Amateur Astronomer

Tuesday, December 2, 2025, 7 pm, virtual (Zoom)

Have you ever seen spectacular photos of the night sky reflected in a rural lake? Or the moon rising or setting behind an iconic building or statue. Or the colorful Aurora Borealis dancing around a lighthouse? If you’ve tried taking photos like these, you may have walked away frustrated. But this doesn’t have to be!

In this talk, avid NightScape photographer Bruce Berger will teach you how to use your Digital SLR or Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Cameras, a sturdy tripod, and remote shutter to create stunning images of the cosmos combined with terrestrial features like buildings, landscapes and water. Learn the best techniques to get you started on your NightScape Photography journey.

Register HERE.

The View Arts Center presents

Craft Night Out – Marbled Holiday Ornaments

Wednesday, December 3, 2025. 6 – 8 pm

Come out to View and make some treasured holiday keepsakes!  Greg Klein will show you how to make marbled holiday ornaments to decorate your tree! These ornaments are glass and we will be using acrylic paint to coat the inside surface. Each student will take home 4 unique ornaments to decorate their home with. All materials are included and this class includes two complimentary drinks and light snacks.

Additional info and register HERE.

The View Arts Center, 3273 State Route 28, Old Forge

Clinton County Historical Association (CCHA) presents

Oppression of the Oppressed: Freedom and Unfreedom Among the Haudenosaunee, presented by Robin Caudell

Thursday, December 4, 2025, 5 pm

This presentation examines oppression of the oppressed and the adoption, captivity, and slavery practices of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) and Western Abenaki before, during, and after European contact.

Robin Caudell is an award-winning Staff Writer at the Press-Republican and a U.S. Air Force Veteran. She is the 2023 Veterans Writing Award Winner for Black Heel Strings: A Choptank Memoir, which will be published by Syracuse University Press in May 2026.

Currently Caudell is the director/executive producer/screenwriter for “Witness Tree at Union Road,” a speculative documentary in production about a Dutch-American family and its evolution from enslaver, abolitionist, to Union Army soldier KIA in the Civil War. The film is a collaboration with the North Star Underground Railroad Historical Association and the Clinton County Historical Association.

Clinton County Historical Association, 98 Ohio Ave, Plattsburgh

Piano by Nature presents

The Fabric Of Time: Hidden Treasures for Viola, Piano, and Oboe

Saturday, December 6, 7 pm 

Sunday, December 7,  3 pm

In her work as virtuoso violist, chamber musician, pedagogue, and blogger, Patricia McCarty is a true superstar. Her storied career and unwavering professionalism bring inspiration and a powerful musical anchor to every rehearsal and concert she touches.

Piano by Nature’s upcoming December concerts are the perfect embodiment of Patricia McCarty’s higher calling—an opportunity to both see and hear a truly great chamber musician at the height of her powers. She will be joined by acclaimed area collaborators Janice Kyle and Rose Chancler, together weaving conversational musical threads into a radiant mélange of passion and brilliance, rollicking the spirit of what has long been called “the music of friends.”

Additional info HERE.

The Hand House, 8273 River St, Elizabethtown