Lake George Arts Project

The Red Haired Strangers
2022-08-24 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | NY
Original crafted music that is classic Americana, grown locally. 1 part juke joint, 1 part honky tonk, 1 part front porch and 1 part roadhouse – The Red Haired Strangers are“ just plain pleasing, but anything but plain…The content hits all factions of the country songwriting party: original words set to driving melodies complete with evocative images of wandering, trains, sin and love lost.” – Saratoga Today
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Our Summer Concert Series brings the most FUN bands to Shepard Park for concerts on Wednesday nights in July and August. All of our concerts are FREE – so grab your family and friends and bring them to Lake George for an evening of great music!

View our Complete Summer Concert Series Event Calendar HERE
Our Summer Concert Series would not be possible without the support of The Town of Lake George, The Village of Lake George, The New York State Council on the Arts, and our generous members and supporters!

Zikina
2022-08-17 19:00 - 21:00 | NY
Zikina is a group of people who came from across continents and cultures to show that despite all the forces in the world that emphasize our differences, we can come together to make something beautiful and new. It doesn’t take long for this music to get you dancing, clapping along, connecting with the people around you, and savoring the beauty of the present moment. You might start with curiosity when Uganda native Gideon Ampeire draws you in with a variety of traditional East African instruments that are rare and fascinating to US audiences, including enanga (zither), adungu (harp), and kalimba (thumb piano)- all of which he builds himself.
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Our Summer Concert Series brings the most FUN bands to Shepard Park for concerts on Wednesday nights in July and August. All of our concerts are FREE – so grab your family and friends and bring them to Lake George for an evening of great music!

View our Complete Summer Concert Series Event Calendar HERE
Our Summer Concert Series would not be possible without the support of The Town of Lake George, The Village of Lake George, The New York State Council on the Arts, and our generous members and supporters!

The Outcrops
2022-08-03 19:00 - 21:00 | NY
out·crop /ˈoutˌkräp/ : an outstanding rock formation. From the woods of Northern New Jersey, the Outcrops bring original blues-infused rock’n’roll. The four-piece band was formed in 2016 by lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Cassidy Rain & lead guitarist Bryan Schroeder. As a singer, Cassidy has been compared to Bonnie Raitt and Susan Tedeschi but her raw sensibility as front person could as easily bring comparisons to blues legends like Howlin Wolf or Muddy Waters. Bryan’s playing falls somewhere between Duane Allman and Derek Trucks, as many fans have pointed out. Bryan has also noted Jerry Garcia as a major influence. His long flowing lead lines throughout songs intertwine with Cassidy’s vocal phrases to create a very melodic sound that sets the tone for The Outcrops. The rhythm section of the band includes Jason Casanovas on bass and Max Adler on drums. Both Max and Jason bring a funk and soul feel that melds beautifully with Cassidy and Bryan creating the perfect band tag: Rock & Roll, Blues & Soul.
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Our Summer Concert Series brings the most FUN bands to Shepard Park for concerts on Wednesday nights in July and August. All of our concerts are FREE – so grab your family and friends and bring them to Lake George for an evening of great music!

View our Complete Summer Concert Series Event Calendar HERE
Our Summer Concert Series would not be possible without the support of The Town of Lake George, The Village of Lake George, The New York State Council on the Arts, and our generous members and supporters!

The Twangtown Paramours
2022-07-27 19:00 - 21:00 | NY
Nashville-based husband-and-wife duo Mike T. Lewis and MaryBeth Zamer, known on stage as The Twangtown Paramours, have made a name for themselves defying boundaries with their award-winning catalogue of Americana, folk, and blues anthems. With a slew of accolades for their first two acoustic full-length albums, they’ve earned a loyal following, balancing serious instrumental and vocal chops with witty stage banter and a lighthearted approach to life. They don’t take themselves, or the world, too seriously. Now poised to release their third full-length album, Double Down on a Bad Thing, The Twangtown Paramours are shifting gears to showcase a full band, electric, groove-oriented, upbeat, soul-infused, and retro blues sound. “We want people to have fun, to cheer up, to dance, and to start sporting a positive attitude, dammit,” says Mike.
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Our Summer Concert Series brings the most FUN bands to Shepard Park for concerts on Wednesday nights in July and August. All of our concerts are FREE – so grab your family and friends and bring them to Lake George for an evening of great music!

View our Complete Summer Concert Series Event Calendar HERE
Our Summer Concert Series would not be possible without the support of The Town of Lake George, The Village of Lake George, The New York State Council on the Arts, and our generous members and supporters!

Paint Georgia O'Keeffe's "Austrian Copper Rose" with Patrice
2022-07-26 18:00 - 20:00 | The Caldwell Lake George Library, 336 Canada St, Lake George, New York, 12845
Join Patrice Jarvis-Weber for a 2 hour painting workshop inspired by one of Georgia O’Keeffe’s most beautiful works – Austrian Copper Rose! All Paint with Patrice workshops are designed for beginners, but open to all artistic abilities and ages. All supplies are included – just bring you and your friends and family! Participants will use acrylic paints on an 8 x 8 or 8 x 10 inch stretched canvas and everybody will take home a finished masterpiece. Registration fee is $10 and includes all of the supplies you will need. Pre-registration is required.
About Patrice: Patrice has worked in and for local art and educational facilities for over 20 years. She has organized and led workshops for adults and children in art centers, libraries, museums and other venues including, World Awareness Children’s Museum, Wiawaka, Chapman Museum, Warren County Historical Society, Double H Ranch, SUNY Adirondack, and LARAC.
Thank you to our friends at The Caldwell Lake George Library for hosting this workshop!

Paint Georgia O'Keeffe's "Blue Morning Glory" with Patrice
2022-07-22 13:00 - 15:00 | The Caldwell Lake George Library, 336 Canada St, Lake George, New York, 12845
Join Patrice Jarvis-Weber for a 2 hour painting workshop inspired by one of Georgia O’Keeffe’s most beautiful works – Blue Morning Glory! All Paint with Patrice workshops are designed for beginners, but open to all artistic abilities and ages. All supplies are included – just bring you and your friends and family! Participants will use acrylic paints on an 8 x 8 or 8 x 10 inch stretched canvas and everybody will take home a finished masterpiece. Registration fee is $10 and includes all of the supplies you will need. Pre-registration is required.
About Patrice: Patrice has worked in and for local art and educational facilities for over 20 years. She has organized and led workshops for adults and children in art centers, libraries, museums and other venues including, World Awareness Children’s Museum, Wiawaka, Chapman Museum, Warren County Historical Society, Double H Ranch, SUNY Adirondack, and LARAC.
Thank you to our friends at The Caldwell Lake George Library for hosting this workshop!
THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL – PLEASE CHECK BACK FOR MORE PAINTING OPPORTUNITIES!

Paint Georgia O'Keeffe's "Lake George" with Patrice
2022-07-21 18:00 - 20:00 | The Caldwell Lake George Library, 336 Canada St, Lake George, New York, 12845
Join Patrice Jarvis-Weber for a 2 hour painting workshop inspired by one of Georgia O’Keeffe’s most iconic works – Lake George! All Paint with Patrice workshops are designed for beginners, but open to all artistic abilities and ages. All supplies are included – just bring you and your friends and family! Participants will use acrylic paints on an 8 x 8 or 8 x 10 inch stretched canvas and everybody will take home a finished masterpiece. Registration fee is $10 and includes all of the supplies you will need. Pre-registration is required.
About Patrice: Patrice has worked in and for local art and educational facilities for over 20 years. She has organized and led workshops for adults and children in art centers, libraries, museums and other venues including, World Awareness Children’s Museum, Wiawaka, Chapman Museum, Warren County Historical Society, Double H Ranch, SUNY Adirondack, and LARAC.
Thank you to our friends at The Caldwell Lake George Library for hosting this workshop!
THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL + PLEASE CHECK BACK FOR MORE PAINTING OPPORTUNITIES!

Cold Chocolate
2022-07-20 19:00 - 21:00 | NY
Cold Chocolate is a genre-bending Americana band that fuses folk, funk, and bluegrass to create a unique sound all their own. Featuring Ethan Robbins on guitar, Ariel Bernstein on percussion, and backed by some of the root’s music scene’s finest players, this group from Boston is impressing audiences throughout New England and beyond. Punctuated by tight harmonies and skillful musicianship, and with a focus on songwriting, Cold Chocolate has quickly gained recognition for their original music and high-energy shows. The band has shared bills with Leftover Salmon and David Grisman, and regularly performs at venues and music festivals up and down the East Coast.
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Our Summer Concert Series brings the most FUN bands to Shepard Park for concerts on Wednesday nights in July and August. All of our concerts are FREE – so grab your family and friends and bring them to Lake George for an evening of great music!

View our Complete Summer Concert Series Event Calendar HERE
Our Summer Concert Series would not be possible without the support of The Town of Lake George, The Village of Lake George, The New York State Council on the Arts, and our generous members and supporters!

Plein Air Painting at The Sembrich
2022-07-15 10:00 - 16:00 | The Sembrich Museum, 4800 Lake Shore Dr, Bolton Landing, New York, 12814
Join artist, Joan Reid, for a day of plein air painting on the beautiful grounds of the Sembrich Museum in Bolton Landing.
For two hundred years, artists have found inspiration on the shores of Lake George. Among them, Georgia O’Keeffe, whose unique style and colorist approach to painting landscapes and landscape elements defined her as a pioneer and one of the great Modernists. Participants in this workshop can look forward to a brief history of Georgia O’Keeffe’s work and painting life in Lake George, as well as a lesson in her style and approach to the landscape.
This workshop is one of many community events celebrating the life and work of Georgia O’Keeffe and her time in Lake George taking place in July and is presented in partnership with The Lake George Arts Project, The Sembrich Museum, Joan Reid, The Guild of Adirondack Artists, and the Adirondack Institute.
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Supplies
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Students may bring their own art supplies (oils or pastels are recommended) and set up or can purchase a supply kit for an additional $75.00.
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Supply List:
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Canvas paper for practice, a small sketchbook, a pencil, paints, an easel, odorless turpenoid or Gamsol, several canvas panels, a palette (or palette paper), a palette knife, a table tray (or other portable tray, brushes, paper towels, a lidded glass jar, a small, clean metal can, a garbage bag, and a chair (optional). Students who wish to complete their work in their studios or at home are also encouraged to bring a camera.
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Supply Kit (optional)
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The supply kit contains will contain all of the supplies artists need (listed above) except paper towels, a lidded glass jar, a small, clean metal can, a garbage bag, a table tray, and a chair
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Price:
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$110.00 per student
Supply Kit Fee (optional): additional $75.00
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Registration
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Registration deadline for students who need a supply kit is June 24, 2022. Registration deadline for students who will be bringing their own supplies is July 5, 2022.

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Albert Cummings
2022-07-13 19:00 - 21:00 | NY
Albert Cummings writes, plays and sings the blues like nobody else. He has played with blues legends B.B. King, Johnny Winter, and Buddy Guy. Taken with Albert’s fire and passion bassist Tommy Shannon and drummer Chris Layton, of the band Double Trouble, the late Stevie Ray Vaughan’s rhythm section, volunteered to play on and produce his solo debut recording, 2003’s self-released From the Heart. B.B. King dubbed Cummings “a great guitarist.”
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Our Summer Concert Series brings the most FUN bands to Shepard Park for concerts on Wednesday nights in July and August. All of our concerts are FREE – so grab your family and friends and bring them to Lake George for an evening of great music!

View our Complete Summer Concert Series Event Calendar HERE
Our Summer Concert Series would not be possible without the support of The Town of Lake George, The Village of Lake George, The New York State Council on the Arts, and our generous members and supporters!

Irja Boden and Beth Humphrey
2022-07-13 - 2022-08-13 | NY
Irja Boden
Beth Humphrey

The Lake George Arts Project’s Courthouse Gallery presents “Ceramics & Collage”, a two-person exhibition of ceramics by Irja Bodén and collage, drawings and paintings by Beth Humphrey. Join us for an opening reception at the gallery for the artists on Saturday, July 16, 4 – 6 PM.
Irja Bodén’s ceramic work combines raw clay and glazes in a rich textured surface. Her series “To Dress a Ptarmigan” refers to her hometown, Kiruna (67.8558° N) in Sweden, north of the arctic circle. It is the inspiration for much of her work since 2018. She says: “The title references Kiruna, which in Sápmi means ptarmigan. The city’s center, now unstable after decades of iron mining, is being destroyed and rebuilt in a new location, to a dismaying loss. Yet, the area is also known for many things, among them spectacular shows of aurora borealis. So Kiruna exists in tension between what is above and below.”
Irja Bodén earned her BFA in painting from SUNY Potsdam, and a BA in Social Science from Lund University, Sweden. Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in the US and abroad, including The Samuel Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY; Woodstock Artist Association & Museum, Woodstock, NY; Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2020; Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT; LABspace, Hillsdale, NY; and Konstmuseet i Norr, Kiruna, Sweden. In 2022 her ceramics will be featured by the River Valley Arts Collective at The Al Held Foundation, ART + NATURE + HOME ‘22, Upstate Diary. Her awards include residencies at Byrdcliffe, Woodstock, NY; Mass MoCA Studios; Vermont Studio Center, and a grant from The Berkshire Taconic Foundation. She lives and works in NY’s Hudson Valley.
Beth Humphrey’s recent collage work often begins with brown paper bags as a ground, where she builds up the surface with paint, wood, and found materials. She says: “I love the expression ‘force of nature’. I think about cycles, evaporation, respiration, erosion, gentle and violent forces at a moment of change. The shape of things at moments of transformation, how forces intersect with our connection to place, our connection to our environment, both built and natural, is fascinating to me.”
Beth Humphrey earned her BFA from Minneapolis College of Art & Design, and a Certificate in Craft, Surface Design, Oregon College of Art & Craft. Recent solo exhibitions were presented at Unison Arts, New Paltz, NY and Deepdive Projects, Cleveland OH. She has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including Ephemerally Occupied, Shaker Heritage Society, Albany NY; Pieced Together, Art at Albany Public Library with Olpalka Gallery, Albany NY; Not Just another Anthropocentric Love Story, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn NY; Rhizomatic, William Blizzard Gallery Springfield College, Springfield MA; Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region, Albany Institute for History & Art, Albany NY; Cut & Color, Albany International Airport Gallery, Albany NY; and Translations, Albany Center Gallery, Albany NY. Her awards include a residency at Ucross Foundation, WY, and a NYFA Mark Program Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She lives and works in the Catskill Mountains of NY.
The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets in Lake George, NY. During scheduled exhibitions dates our in-person office and gallery hours are Wednesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm.
If you need to reach us between active exhibition dates we are available through phone and/or email:
Laura Von Rosk, Gallery Director, 518.323.5499, laura@lakegeorgearts.org
Tanya Tobias-Tomis, Executive Director, 518.832.0183, tanya@lakegeorgearts.org
This exhibition is funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature; the Town and Village of Lake George; Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation; 518 Profiles; The Alfred Z Solomon Charitable Trust and LGAP members. Please Join us today!
thank you to our sponsors:

Hot Club of Saratoga
2022-07-06 19:00 - 21:00 | NY
Annie and the Hedonists were originally scheduled to perform our 1st summer concert of the season – Unfortunately, they won’t be able to perform on July 6, but we are working hard to re-schedule them for later this summer…
Our July 6 concert isn’t cancelled though – we present HOT CLUB OF SARATOGA, upstate New York’s premier gypsy swing collective!

“Hot Club of Saratoga, the Capital Region’s premier gypsy swing ensemble, plays a repertoire that reflects the spirit and style originated by Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli in The Quintet of the Hot Club of France. Most prominently developed in 1930’s and 40’s Paris, this genre has been kept alive through a long line of gypsy jazz artists since that time.
The instrumentation of the full quintet allows HCS to explore this style throughout the range of its roots, true to its origins while subtly expanding the genre. Hot Club’s repertoire covers the range from sweet, soulful balladry, through hard driving swing, and fiery, upbeat tempos, sure to bring a smile and irresistible desire to move.”
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Our Summer Concert Series brings the most FUN bands to Shepard Park for concerts on Wednesday nights in July and August. All of our concerts are FREE – so grab your family and friends and bring them to Lake George for an evening of great music!

View our Complete Summer Concert Series Event Calendar HERE
Our Summer Concert Series would not be possible without the support of The Town of Lake George, The Village of Lake George, The New York State Council on the Arts, and our generous members and supporters!

Talent Unlimited!
2022-06-18 - 2022-06-25 | lake george arts project, 1 Amherst Street, Lake George, 12845
Talent Unlimited at The Arts Project is an exhibition of drawings, paintings, photographs, mixed media, and digital art created by students whose work was selected for the 2022 Talent Unlimited Literary Arts Journal.
For 37 years, the Enrichment Resource Center at the Washington-Saratoga-Warren-Hamilton-Essex BOCES has been giving area student artists and writers the opportunity to have their works selected for publication in the annual Talent Unlimited Literary Arts Journal. The journal features outstanding poems, essays, photographs, and graphic designs created by students in grades 7-12. The content is selected by a jury of professional artists and writers.

Trailblaze NY
2022-06-11 16:00 - 19:00 | Hudson Crossing Park, Co Rd 42, Schuylerville, NY, 12871
Call for Artists
One-Day Exhibition + Art Sale
Saturday, June 11, 2022
The Lake George Arts Project and Hudson Crossing Park are teaming up to present a fine art exhibition and sale at the Albany Symphony Orchestra American Music Festival Community Concert at Hudson Crossing Park.
ABOUT THE EVENT
Join the Albany Symphony Orchestra and Hudson Crossing Park for a day full of activities for all ages for Trailblaze: NY, a free community concert and part of the 2022 American Music Festival series. There will be activities in and around Hudson Crossing Park and the greater Schuylerville and Greenwich area throughout the day culminating with a FREE performance at 7pm by the Albany Symphony Orchestra. The full-day event features food and beverage vendors, an art exhibition and sale, and more in the park field in the evening.
This is a great opportunity for regional artists to be a part of an exhibition that will be seen by over 1,000 people!

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GUIDELINES
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• 2-D artwork should measure no larger 18” on any side. Artwork does not have to be framed, but should be finished and ready to hang. 3-D works should measure 18” or less. Artwork will be displayed on table easels or using other appropriate presentation means.
• Artists should attach a label with your name, the title of the artwork, the medium, and price. LGAP will create labels for each work as well as a price list for the exhibition.
• Artwork can be dropped on at Hudson Crossing Park or The Courthouse Gallery on prescheduled days or can be dropped off the day of the event (please see participation details for more information). Limit two (2) pieces per artist.
• Artists are encouraged to price their work to sell! All artists will receive 75% of the sale price, and Hudson Crossing Park and The Lake George Arts Project will each receive 12.5% of the artwork sale. LGAP will collect taxes on all sales. Checks will be issued for all artwork sales (less the 25% commission) on Wednesday, June 15th.
• Artists can submit up to 2 works.
CLICK HERE FOR A PDF OF THE GUIDELINES
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PARTICIPATION DETAILS
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Artists who are interested in participating should contact…
Tanya Tobias, Executive Director OR Kate Morse, Executive Director
The Lake George Arts Project Hudson Crossing Park
tanya@lakegeorgearts.org kmorse@hudsoncrossingpark.org
…and let them know you would like to be a part of the event. Artists will be responsible for dropping their work off at either Hudson Crossing Park’s administrative office or LGAP’s Courthouse Gallery on specified dates. If you are unable to make it to one of the drop off days or locations, please don’t hesitate to contact us to schedule a drop off time.
Drop Off Days:
Wednesday – Friday, June 1-3, 2022 between 12pm – 4:30pm
Drop Off Locations
LGAP’s Courthouse Gallery: 1 Amherst Street, Lake George NY
Hudson Crossing Park Drop Off: 2 Washington square (second floor, above Just Because), Greenwich NY
If you prefer to drop off work the day of the event (June 11), the drop off time is 11am and you MUST contact either Tanya or Kate to let them know in advance so we can prepare a label and have all of your information ready.

Artists will have to sign a waiver at drop off.

This opportunity is open to all artists.

Spring for the Arts Golf Tournament
2022-05-15 12:00 - 18:00 | Cronin’s Golf
Sunday, May 15, 2022
Cronin’s Golf Resort
Golf Course Road
Warrensburg NY 12885
Noon – Shotgun Start • 4-Person Scramble
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$115 (per person) includes:
Golf + Cart + Lunch + Steak Dinner + Awards Banquet
low gross + low net prizes
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Register: by May 7, 2022
REGISTER A TEAM
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Please consider being a hole sponsor at $100
We also need raffle and prize items for this fundraising event!
If you would like to sponsor a hole, or donate a raffle item or prize please email: tanya@lakegeorgearts.org
Or register to SPONSOR A HOLE online
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Thank you to everybody who came out to support the Arts Project at our 2021 event. We had a record number of teams and raised over $10,000 for our 2021 programs and events!

Bugzdale (AKA Anthony Jackson)
2022-05-04 - 2022-06-04 | NY
The Lake George Arts Project’s Courthouse Gallery presents “Community”, a solo exhibition of work by Bugzdale (AKA Anthony Jackson).
A previously scheduled Zoom conversation for May 7 has been canceled. Instead, please join us for a Closing Reception for the artist on Saturday, June 4, from 2 – 4 pm!
Listen to North Country Public Radio’s interview with Bugzdale HERE!
Bugzdale is from Mandeville, Jamaica, and grew up in New York City. His Jamaican-American background, and ties to communities in Queens, NY, and Jamaica, as well as other places, old family photos, and memories, all inform his art. Through drawing, painting, and a variety of other media Bugzdale aims to amplify ideas about the black experience in our society. He says: “I focus on the themes that affect my community: class, race, police brutality, corrupt government, death, and other issues, to show the way in which black men and women are made targets, and to find a way to celebrate the lives of these under-represented individuals. I create a world where these people can survive, and find a way to be themselves, while being free from imprisonment, both metaphorical and real. I want to represent the ‘humanness’ of these figures, outside of media stereotypes”.
Bugzdale earned his Associates Degree of Applied Science in New Media Technology from LaGuardia Community College, Long Island City, NY, and both his Bachelor of Fine Art Degree and Masters of Fine Art Degree in Studio Art from SUNY at Albany University. His awards include a Painting & Drawing Departmental Award and the Roanne Kulakoff Award, both through SUNY Albany, NY. His recent exhibitions include A Seat At The Table, Likkle Gallery, Queens, NY; Infinite Uncertainty, Opalka Gallery at Russell Sage College, Albany, NY; The Other Virus Exhibit, Second St. Studios, Troy, NY, and his MFA Thesis Show 2020, SUNY Albany University Museum, Albany, NY. In addition, since 2018 Bugzdale has been participating in an ongoing exhibition and project titled Seeking Sanctuary; Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness with the Underground Railroad Education Center, Albany, NY. Learn more about his work at www.bugzdale.com.
The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets in Lake George, NY. During scheduled exhibitions dates our in-person office and gallery hours are Wednesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm. If you need to reach us between active exhibition dates we are available through phone and/or email:
Laura Von Rosk, Gallery Director, 518.323.5499, laura@lakegeorgearts.org
Tanya Tobias-Tomis, Executive Director, 518.832.0183, tanya@lakegeorgearts.org
This exhibition is funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature; the Town and Village of Lake George; Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation; 518 Profiles; The Alfred Z Solomon Charitable Trust and LGAP members. Please Join us today!
thank you to our sponsors:

Bands 'n Beans 2020, 2021 & 2022 Canceled
2022-03-27 | NY
The Lake George Arts Project is deeply committed to bringing people together to hear and see great music, but we want all of our programs to be safe and healthy, and want you to feel safe attending them. As a public health and safety precaution related to COVID-19, we are sorry to announce that our March fundraiser, Bands ‘N Beans, is canceled.
We would like to thank our Bands ‘N Beans sponsors who have committed to continue their support of LGAP programs beyond this cancellation of our largest fundraiser: Fort William Henry, Lake George Beach Club, Rock Hill Bakehouse and The Barton Group.
Thank you, too, to all who had planned to participate in Bands ‘N Beans – the restaurants, musicians, volunteers, auction and raffle donors – TOO MANY to name! Your enthusiastic work to keep the arts thriving here in Lake George is so much appreciated!
We’ve been reminiscing on past Bands n’ Beans events. Check out this video! We look forward to gathering together again soon, to enjoy great food from our local restaurants, and live music and dancing!

The proceeds from Bands ‘n Beans were targeted to benefit the Lake George Arts Project’s FREE and Open to All music and art programs. Any DONATIONS to help us recover from this loss are greatly appreciated!
Please check out our Bands ‘N Beans 2019 Restaurant Chili winners.

"Games of Chance", paintings by Fern T. Apfel
2022-03-16 - 2022-04-16 | NY
The Lake George Arts Project’s Courthouse Gallery presents “Games of Chance”, a solo exhibition of paintings by Fern T. Apfel.
Listen to NCPR’s interview with Fern HERE.
View Dayna Peck’s interview with Fern on Look TV’s recent episode of “Where’s Dayna?” HERE.
View our online talk with the artist from Saturday, March 19 HERE.

Abstraction and narration fold together in Fern Apfel’s acrylic paintings. Her images contain memorabilia she has collected over many years. Playing cards, letters, handwritten notes and other various ephemera are placed on top, or layered above, colored backgrounds in an intentionally considered minimal composition. In our contemporary time, where so much communication is digital, and emails are often deleted, these painted objects can center and ground us in the physical world, reminding us of our connections and threads of discourse through time, triggering memory, as well as recording our lives. Intricate and intimate, all the lettering is done freehand.
She says: “Most of the letters in my paintings can be read. They come from different decades and locations, but their content is amazingly and endearingly timeless. My paintings are about tracking the days of our lives: what we did when, who we saw, wrote to or thought about. Carefully placed, an empty notebook can evoke an elusive and often ambiguous new meaning, and a box of old playing cards can remind us of a past time. Playing cards can become our companions on a rainy afternoon or our accomplices in a magic trick. They suggest that we ponder the notion of chance and unpredictability in our lives”.
Fern Apfel earned her BA at the State University of NY at New Paltz, and also studied at The Art Students League of New York. She has exhibited widely in the Hudson Valley & Capital Region of New York where she lives. Currently her work is included in a show titled Pieced Together, at Pine Bush Library in Albany, NY, and a solo exhibition of her work will take place in early 2023 (date TBA) in the Main Gallery of The Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy, NY. Recent past exhibitions include The Vision of Care, Woodstock Art Association. & Museum (Juror: Robert Shane, The Brooklyn Rail); Fence & Fence Select, The Art center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY; One in a Year 2020: Virtual Exhibition, The Painting Center, NY, NY; Fence & Fence Select – Best in Show, The Art Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY (Juror: Ian Berry, Director of The Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College); Making a Way, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN; 2020 National Juried Exhibition, First Street Gallery, NY, NY (Juror: Andrew Arnot, Tibor de Nagy Gallery); National Prize Show, Cambridge, MA Art Assoc. (Juror: Sharon Butler, Two Coats of Paint); About What’s Going On, Hopkinton Center for the Arts, Hopkinton, MA; En Masse, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY; Upstate Invitational 2019, Laffer Gallery, Schuylerville, NY (Juror: Laura Von Rosk); Ear to the ground, Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT (Curator: Julie Torres). In addition, Apfel’s work has been has exhibited at the Davis Orton and Concepto Galleries in Hudson, NY; The Ely Center for Contemporary Art in New Haven, CT; PULP Gallery in Holyoke, MA; Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY; and Collar Works, Troy, NY. Her work has been included in numerous presentations of “Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Regionial”, and she is four-time recipient of “Mohawk Hudson Regional Purchase Awards”. Other awards include a 2019 Martha Boschen Porter Fund; Individual Artists Grants from New York Foundation for the Arts and Twin Counties Cultural Fund Decentralization Program, and four SOS Grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and Rensselaer County Council on the Arts. Her work is in the in the permanent collections of The Hyde Collection, The Tang Teaching Museum, The Albany Institute of History & Art, SUNY Albany Museum, The Shaker Museum, Mount Lebanon, The Columbia County Historical Society & Museum, and The Art Students League of NY. Learn more at her website: https://ferntapfel.com.
View a slideshow of works in the exhibition HERE
View checklist of work for sale HERE
Learn more about Fern Apfel’s work from these online links:
WMHT’s AHA! A House for Arts, Season 6 Episode 28: Fern Apfel
Wave Farm Radio – Interview with Fern Apfel
The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets in Lake George, NY. During scheduled exhibitions dates our in-person office and gallery hours are Wednesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm. If you need to reach us between active exhibition dates we are available through phone and/or email:
Laura Von Rosk, Gallery Director, 518.323.5499, laura@lakegeorgearts.org
Tanya Tobias-Tomis, Executive Director, 518.832.0183, tanya@lakegeorgearts.org
We are committed to public safety within our community and beyond. We remain active and open, yet until further notice, all entering our office and gallery space will need to wear a mask. We will provide masks for those that need one, and provide hand sanitizing stations throughout our space.

Please NOTE: Regular Gallery hours may change due concerns for public health regarding possible spread of COVID-19. For updates, please call 518-323-5499, or email laura@lakegeorgarts.org.

This exhibition is funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature; the Town and Village of Lake George; Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation; 518 Profiles; The Alfred Z Solomon Charitable Trust and LGAP members. Please Join us today!
thank you to our sponsors:

"Living in Harm's Way", mixed media work by Kingsley Parker
2022-01-26 - 2022-02-26 | NY
View works in the exhibition HERE.
View a checklist of works for sale HERE.
View the edited recording of our Online Talk with Kingsley Parker from January 29 HERE.
Read “Dispatches from Life on the Edge“, exhibition review from the Lake George Mirror.

In his solo exhibition, “Living in Harm’s Way”, multi-media artist Kingsley Parker continues his decades-long research and concern with all the myriad ways that humans interact with and extract from the natural world. His works depict vulnerable environments: clear-cut forests, overfished oceans, bleached coral reefs, plastic pollution, and fishing villages where humans live on the margins of changing sea levels.
Using recycled materials, such as wooden door frames, Styrofoam, flocking, and other found objects, he creates poignant images and installations – a mix of paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture – that address serious topics, but that are often balanced with humor. He says: “I also just want to make interesting visuals. It’s art; I’m not on a soapbox. And I try for a light touch, to keep a bit of humor in it… Even though these are important issues, I like being a little ironic and humorous about them, so it is not so serious and not so ‘down’ an experience to look at these… but it is something that sticks with you, rather than repels you…”
Parker’s sensitivity toward his subjects, whether it is an intricate sculptural replica of a fishing village, or paintings, drawings and prints of ocean wildlife, trees, or maps, his empathetic hand, through a variety of mediums, leaves reasons for hope. While referencing the abuse and imbalance of our planet’s resources, either through land or sea, and the accelerated change to our environments, economies, and the natural world as we currently know it, there is also a sense of the doggedness determination of life to persist under such constraints.
Kingsley Parker earned his BA in American Literature from Middlebury College VT, and MA in Fine Arts from Hunter College in New York City. He also studied sculpture at University of Hartford Art School, and printmaking at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA. His recent solo exhibitions include A World of Hurt (2021), and Oceans Apart (2016) at Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY; UpRiver, my journey home, Walnut Hill Fine Art, Hudson, NY; UpRiver installation, Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY; and Diminishing Expectations, Bond Street Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. His work has been featured in group exhibitions at Albany Center Gallery; Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany International Airport Gallery, Albany, NY; Re-Institute, Millerton, NY; Kentler International Drawing Space, Red Hook, NY; Time and Space Limited, Hudson, NY; City University, Jersey City NJ; and the Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, NY. His awards include a Visual Arts Sea Grant of Rhode Island; a scholarship from ArtWeek, Great Spruce Head Island, ME; a $10,000 grant from AE Ventures for a printmaking sabbatical in Italy; and residencies at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venezia, Italia; Tipoteca Italiana, Museo del Carattere e del la Tipografia, Cornuda, Italia; and a six month Scholarship residency at Manhattan Graphics Center. You can learn more about his work at www.kingsleyparker.com.
Learn more about Kingsley Parker’s work from these Online Links:
Look TV: Where’s Dayna?
Interview for the 2020 Mohawk-Hudson Regional: Kingsley Parker
Chronogram ARTSCENE web tv
Get Visual: Kingsley Parker: An artist who cares
The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets in Lake George, NY. During scheduled exhibitions dates our in-person office and gallery hours are Wednesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm. If you need to reach us between active exhibition dates we are available through phone and/or email:
Laura Von Rosk, Gallery Director, 518.323.5499, laura@lakegeorgearts.org
Tanya Tobias-Tomis, Executive Director, 518.832.0183, tanya@lakegeorgearts.org
We are committed to public safety within our UpState NY community and beyond, and want everybody to stay strong, safe, and healthy. All entering our office and gallery space will need to wear a mask. We will provide masks for those that need one, and provide hand sanitizing stations throughout our space.
Please NOTE: Regular Gallery hours may change due to the COVID-19 health emergency. For updates please call 518-323-5499, email laura@lakegeorgarts.org.
This exhibition is funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature; the Town and Village of Lake George; Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation; 518 Profiles; The Alfred Z Solomon Charitable Trust and LGAP members. Please Join us today!

thank you to our sponsors:

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See more by Kingsley Parker if you are traveling through Albany International Airport!
Kingsley Parker: Wood Work

January 29 – July 6, 2022
Albany International Airport Gallery, Concourse A Gallery
Kathy Greenwood, Director of the Art & Culture Program at Albany Airport, will join Lake George Arts Project’s online artist talk with Kingsley Parker, January 29 at 4 pm, to expand the discussion of Parker’s work and share installation views of “Wood Work”, on view to travelers at Albany International Airport through July 6, 2022.
Kingsley Parker studies trees and tools as individuals marked by time, weather and adversity. This exhibition at the Albany Airport includes large-scale paintings of forest sentinels in all their majesty and distress, alongside intimate portraits of simple hand-tools, forged to shape and cultivate our built environment using the products of those very same trees.
Concourse A Gallery is located beyond the Airport’s security checkpoint and is accessible only to travelers. Non-travelers wishing to view the exhibition may do so by appointment; please call (518) 242-2243 or email kgreenwood@albanyairport.com
Learn more about the Albany Airport Art & Culture Program HERE, or find them on Instagram @albanyairportartandculture.

Peoples Pixel Project - Submit before March 18
2022-01-01 00:00 - 2022-03-18 00:00 | NY
Submit your videos by March 18, 2022
ABOUT THE PEOPLES PIXEL PROJECT

The Peoples Pixel Project was created to provide audience exposure to professional and emerging videographers, and to foster local interest and growth in the medium.
WHO CAN SUBMIT WORK?

Anyone! Artists, emerging and established, from anywhere in NYS can submit work. This opportunity is also open to all including college, high school, and middle school students.
SUBMITTING YOUR WORK

Fill out the EASY submission form. GUIDELINES & SUBMIT YOUR WORK. Artists can submit up to 3 works (between 3-5 minutes each) via YouTube or Vimeo link.
THE JURYING

20 Select Works from all of our submissions will be selected by a panel of artists and arts professionals.

EXHIBITION OF SELECT WORKS

The top 20 Select Works will be featured on our website and via video outside our Courthouse Gallery

AWARDS

Best in Show will receive $250 and (2) Honorable Mentions will receive $100 each. The Peoples’ Choice Award will be selected by public vote. And will be screened via one of our arts partners.
DEADLINE

The deadline to submit work for our 2022 Peoples Pixel Project is Friday, March 18, 2022
* Mary Kathryn Jablonski, the winner of our 2021 P3 Logo Design Contest, is a Saratoga Springs artist and poet. She is the author of the poetry chapbook “To the Husband I Have Not Yet Met” and the 2019 book of poems, “Sugar Maker Moon,” from Dos Madres Press. Her poems & video/poem collaborations with filmmaker Laura Frare have appeared in numerous print & online journals including the Atticus Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry Film Live (UK), Poetry Ireland Review, Quarterly West, Salmagundi, and Tupelo Quarterly among others. Her artwork has been exhibited throughout the Northeast U.S. and is held in public & private collections.
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Thank you to our sponsors!

Holiday Party & Annual Meeting
2021-12-09 17:30 - 20:30 | NY
LET’S CELEBRATE ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL YEAR
LGAP members and friends: Join us for our Lake George Arts Project Annual Meeting and Holiday Party
When: Thursday, December 9, 2021
Where: the Holiday Inn Lake George
Social & Cocktail Hour starts at 5:30pm, followed by buffet dinner and the Annual Meeting at 6:30pm. Entertainment by James Rissacher. Cash bar.
$40 per person
Please RSVP by December 1st.
RSVP to
by phone: 518.668.2616 or 518.832.0183
by email: Tanya@lakegeorgearts.org
Checks can be mailed to: The Lake George Arts Project, 1 Amherst Street, Lake George NY 12845

Courthouse Gallery Call for Exhibition Proposals
2021-12-01 00:00 - 2022-01-31 12:00 | NY
The Lake George Arts Project invites regional, national, emerging and established artists to submit exhibition proposals to the Courthouse Gallery. Preference is given to experimental or non-traditional work created in the last two years. We welcome proposals for special exhibitions, installations, mixed media presentations, and performance art. Deadline is always January 31.
Exhibition Proposals are submitted through

Starting December 1st through January 31st artists may follow this link to submit work for review:
To begin the process you will need the following:
1. 10 to 12 images (Formats accepted for upload: JPG, TIFF or GIF)
2. Resume/CV
3. Artist Statement/Bio

Please do not email proposals, or send links to web sites.
Selection and notification is usually complete by April.
If you have questions, or need more information please call LGAP at (518) 668-2616.

"Parallel Play", new work by Barbara Todd
2021-11-17 - 2021-12-18 | NY
The Lake George Arts Project’s Courthouse Gallery presents Parallel Play, a solo exhibition of new work by Barbara Todd.
*Please note the gallery will be closed for Thanksgiving and Native American Heritage Day, Nov 25, and Friday Nov 26.
View our November 20, 2021 Online Talk with Barbara Todd HERE.
Recent article from the Albany Times Union: Less is definitely more for artist Barbara Todd
Listen to North Country Public Radio’s reporter Monica Sandreczki interview with Barbara Todd HERE
Listen to Barbara talk about her work on Look TV’s recent episode of “Where’s Dayna?”
Review of the exhibition on Get Visual: A parallel play of Parallel Plays.
View Checklist of works in the exhibition HERE.
Barbara Todd is an internationally recognized interdisciplinary artist, best known for her textile works. With a minimalist sensibility she draws inspiration from poems, her personal experience and perceptions of the everyday.
Parallel Play is the term for a stage in early childhood development, where children, playing side by side, do not interact, though they may be doing the same thing. For example, one may have a backhoe and the other may be playing with a crane, but they do not cooperate to make something. Or, if they’re at the beach they may each be building a sandcastle but they won’t build a city together.
In the context of this exhibition, three related series of works: sewn fabric drawings, large woolen quilts, and tiny linen collages, share the unique space of the Courthouse Gallery, each adhering to its own, independent, installation plan. Seen together, the works translate fleeting glimpses of color pairings into tactile reminders of place and experience, becoming an abstract archive of things noticed. Just as one day folds into another, and another, it is their accumulation that gives form to the whole.
Todd’s involvement with textiles began early. She says: “When I was seven years old my grandmother taught me how to knit. Our first project was a red mohair sweater. At about the same time another well-intentioned mentor helped me to sew clothes for my Barbie doll. It’s possible my career as an artist began then… Ever since, though I have worked with many different materials, and read and looked widely, textiles remain central to my practice. It’s the conversation between material and process and meaning that keeps me going”.
Barbara Todd earned her B.A. in fine art from the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Her work has been featured in major exhibitions across Canada, including her quilt series Security Blankets, which was organized by the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, and traveled throughout Canada from 1992 to 1995. More recent exhibitions include Sculpture – Art Textile, Biennale de sculpture de St. Jean Port-Joli, St. Jean Port-Joli, Québec; Mohawk-Hudson Regional Invitational Exhibition (2020), Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY; In Faux-Structure, Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY; Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region (2019), The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY; Fait-main/Hand-made, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec; Bombhead, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC; Home – Collar Works, Troy, NY; Interwoven, Albany Public Library, Albany, NY; Reclamation, Collar Works, Troy, NY; and Barbara Todd: Colour Play, Galerie Art Mûr, Montréal, QC. Her awards include grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and residencies at Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada, and Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY. Her work is represented in many private and public collections, including the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Canada Council Art Bank, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the Canadian Museum of History. Her public commissions, include “Many Little Plans” for the St. Patrick Subway Station in Toronto, Canada and “Jardin de guérison” (Healing Garden), a one-hundred foot long colored glass mural for Sacred Heart Hospital, Montréal. She has taught in the Studio Arts Department at Concordia University, Montréal, and in the Arts Department at Emma Willard School in Troy, NY. Todd lives and works in Troy, NY. You can learn more about her work at www.barbaratodd.com.
The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets in Lake George, NY. Hours during exhibitions are Wednesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm, and all other times by appointment. Visit our calendar for more information.
This exhibition is funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts; the Town and Village of Lake George; Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation; 518 Profiles; the Glen & Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foundation, and LGAP members. Please Join us today!
thank you to our sponsors:

Fall for the Arts Golf Tournament
2021-10-07 | NY
Thursday, October 7, 2021
Hiland Park Country Club
195 Haviland Road
Queensbury NY 12804

Noon – Shotgun Start • 4-Person Scramble
Registration starts at 11am
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$110 (per person) includes:
Golf + Cart + Lunch + Steak Dinner + Awards Banquet
low gross + low net prizes
$5 mimosas and bloody Mary’s + $3 draft beer specials + apple pie at the turn
Maximum players for this fall is 100 – so sign up early!
No handicaps for this tournament! • Bogey Max
Prizes: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Gross; 1st place Ladies; highest score
Course Contests: Men’s and Women’s Longdrive; Men’s and Women’s Closest to the Pin; Closest to the Line
Bonus Contest! Cornhole Champion: $5 = 3 chances to get the highest score
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Register: by September 30, 2021
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Please consider being a hole sponsor at $100
We also need raffle and prize items for this fundraising event!
If you would like to sponsor a hole, or donate a raffle item or prize please email: tanya@lakegeorgearts.org
Or register to SPONSOR A HOLE online
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"Nature Songs", paintings by Yeachin Tsai
2021-09-29 - 2021-10-30 | NY
The Sky Dancer, acrylic on canvas, 70 x 24 inches.
The Lake George Arts Project’s Courthouse Gallery presents Nature Songs, a solo exhibition of paintings by Yeachin Tsai.
View our Online Talk with Yeachin Tsai from October 3, 2021 HERE.
View a Checklist of works in the exhibition HERE.
Read her full BIO HERE, and learn more about her work at https://www.yeachintsaifineart.com. Also, check out this wonderful video on WMHT’s AHA! A House For Arts: Calligraphy Meets Abstraction with Yeachin Tsai , and view Look TV’s recent episode of “Where’s Dayna?” HERE.
Yeachin Tsai’s art swings between the seen world of rhythmic colors and forms, and the unseen world of momentum and energies. While growing up in Taiwan, Tsai studied traditional Chinese brush painting and calligraphy, and she would later incorporate that training into her work after moving to New York. Rather than building up a painting surface, she creates a surface that soaks in paint – canvases prepared with grounds that behave like traditional rice paper, pulling the paint in.
Summer Vibes, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 56 inches.
She says: “I’ve always been intrigued by form, pattern and colors from nature. My interest may have started when I was four years old. I remember seeing the floating, shining dust particles reflecting the sunlight in the stale attic air of my family’s old house. The magic quality of nowness left an unspeakable feeling in my mind… I want to create artwork that is primordial and timeless, ancient yet modern. I wish to catch the symbolism and momentum of the flow. The materials are used to reflect the feelings and perceptions I have experienced in life – the ever changing, transient, fleeting moments of this dynamic, chaotic yet harmonious worl
Yeachin Tsai earned her BFA degree from National Taiwan Normal University, and MFA degree Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. Her recent exhibitions include Blue, Gallery at 46 Green Street, Hudson, NY; Upstate Artists, The Laffer Gallery, Schuylerville, NY; All is Safely Gathered In, Spring Street Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY; Small Works, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC, Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region (2019)Exhibition, The Hyde Collection, NY, The Unusuals, Invitational, The Painting Center, Chelsea, NYC; Printmakers Open Portfolio (part of the Screenprint Biennial 2018), The Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY; Creations: Connections and Collections, Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY; Article 13, The LAB at Collar Works, Troy, NY; Endless Forms Most Beautiful, Four Person Show, Scarlet Seven Fine Art Gallery, Troy, NY; and Winter Joy, a solo exhibition at Pause Gallery, Troy, New York in 2019. Her work is in numerous collections, including the Art Student League of New York and the New York Public Library.
The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets in Lake George, NY. Our office & gallery hours during exhibition dates are Wednesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm. Other dates and times we can be reached by phone or email: Contact Gallery Director Laura Von Rosk at 518-323-5499 or laura@lakegeorgearts.org. Contact Executive Director Tanya Tobias-Tomis at 518-832-0183 or tanya@lakegeorgearts.org. Visit our calendar for more information.
Please NOTE: Regular Gallery hours may change due to COVID-19 public health mandates. For updates call 518-668-2616, 518-323-5499, or email laura@lakegeorgarts.org.
This exhibition is funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the New York State Legislature; the Town and Village of Lake George; Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation; 518 Profiles; the Glen & Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foundation, and LGAP members. Please Join us today!
thank you to our sponsors:

Jazz at the Lake
2021-09-17 19:00 - 2021-09-19 19:00 | Shepard Park, Canada Street, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
“One of the best-kept secrets on the Eastern jazz festival circuit, the Lake George Jazz Festival is a gem worth discovering;” – Downbeat Magazine
Now in our 37th year, this contemporary jazz festival includes performances by some of the most talented jazz musicians in the world. Jazz at the Lake is a three-day, jazz experience that takes place in the Shepard Park Amphitheater, a stunning lakeside venue in the Village of Lake George.
2021 Schedule
Friday, September 17th
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Blind Visionaries: Daniel Kelly & The Seeing with Photography Collective
Blind Visionaries is a multi-media performance featuring photography created by the blind and visually impaired members of The Seeing with Photography Collective with original music by Daniel Kelly.
Exhibited in galleries around the world, the haunting and poetic images of the Seeing with Photography Collective are created in a dynamic process called “light painting” transporting the viewer into their unique dream world of surreal portraits. Their captivating images will be projected on a video screen throughout the performance. Audiences will hear recorded interviews from these blind & visually impaired photographers reflecting upon their personal experiences with blindness and Daniel Kelly’s riveting original music composed in response to these compelling stories. Audience members will create a new photo with members of the Collective that will be projected on screen during the concert!
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Saturday, September 18th
@1pm
Helen Sung Quartet +
Helen Sung is an acclaimed jazz pianist and composer, and a newly named 2021 Guggenheim Fellow. Her albums have topped the jazz radio charts, and her newest release Quartet+ (Sunnyside Records) is a “double quartet” recording of music composed by women, performed by her quartet together with special guest Harlem Quartet. She has worked with such luminaries as the late Clark Terry, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Wynton Marsalis (who named her as one of his “Who’s Got Next: Jazz Musicians to Watch!”), MacArthur Fellow Regina Carter, and Grammy-winning artists including Terri Lyne Carrington and Cecile McLorin Salvant.
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Dayna Stephens Quartet
Dayna Stephens is globally recognized as a saxophonist, composer and arranger, and is the first place recipient of the 2019 DownBeat Critics Poll in the category Rising Star—Tenor Saxophone.

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Aaron Parks Little Big
Aaron Parks is acclaimed pianist, keyboardist and composer who has performed with such artists as trumpeter Terence Blanchard, guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel and is a member of the supergroup James Farm, featuring saxophonist Joshua Redman, bassist Matt Penman and drummer Eric Harland. He has recorded albums for Blue Note, ECM and Ropeadope. JazzTimes magazine named Parks a “New Jazz Visionary” alongside current giants like Esperanza Spalding, Robert Glasper and Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah.
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Yosvany Terry Quintet
Cuban saxophonist/percussionist/composer Yosvany Terry creates innovative music that is a unique confluence of Cuban roots music and jazz. He is a recipient of the prestigious Doris Duke Artist Award, a Grammy-nominee and has been welcomed by a broad range of artists in the jazz and contemporary music community; playing with, Steve Coleman, Rufus Reid, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Roy Hargrove, Vijay Iyer, Jeff “Tain” Watts, Avishai Cohen, Baptiste Trotignon, Eddie Palmieri, and Gerald Clayton.
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Sunday, September 19th
@1pm
Stephanie Chou
Stephanie Chou’s music combines classical and Chinese influences with Western jazz and pop to create an entirely original, unique musical world. She will present a bi-lingual (English and Mandarin) show exploring fresh takes on Chinese folk songs and tongue-twisters (from her album “Asymptote”), excerpts from her recent evening-length jazz-opera “Comfort Girl”, songs exploring her passion for math and literature, and several new pieces of music written during the pandemic. Stephanie’s music is all about connecting with the audience, and sharing her experience as a Chinese-American growing up in NY through her music.
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Ingrid Jensen Band
Ingrid Jensen has been hailed as one of the most gifted trumpeters of her generation. A member of the innovative jazz orchestras of Maria Schneiderand Darcy James Argue and has performed with the Grammy-winning Terri-Lyne Carrington and her Mosaic Project, Helen Sung’s Sung with Words project and the highly acclaimed all-star ensemble, Artemis. She has performed with a multi-generational cast of jazz legends ranging from Clark Terry to Esperanza Spalding.
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Black Art Jazz Collective
Black Art Jazz Collective is an all-star sextet featuring trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, saxophonist Wayne Escoffery, trombonist James Burton III, pianist Victor Gould, bassist Rashaan Carter and drummer Mark Whitfield Jr. They have been invaluable members of ensembles led by Tom Harrell, Bobby Hutcherson, Kenny Barron, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, consistently receive rave reviews and regularly perform to packed houses of jazz fans eager to show their appreciation for the music and the band’s message of unity, integrity and pride

Blind Visionaries: work by The Seeing with Photography Collective
2021-09-08 - 2021-09-19 | lake george arts project, 1 Amherst Street, Lake George, 12845
The exhibition Blind Visionaries is an impressive multi-media collaboration with the Seeing with Photography Collective, a pioneering group of visually impaired photographers. The collective is a New York based group, their work is a collaboration between visually impaired and sighted photographers using a technique called light painting. The visually impaired or blind photographer works with a photographer assistant and shares what they want to create based on a vision in their mind’s eye.
What results are riveting, surreal images that have helped these seemingly disabled artists to heal through their work. The Collective’s work has been exhibited worldwide and can be seen in the book Shooting Blind published by Aperture.
View the list of work in the exhibition HERE.
In conjunction with this exhibition the Lake George Arts Project will present a live performance during our Lake George Jazz Weekend, Friday September 17 at 7 pm in Shepard Park:
Blind Visionaries: Daniel Kelly & The Seeing with Photography Collective
This multi-media performance will feature photography created by the blind and visually impaired members of The Seeing with Photography Collective with original music by Daniel Kelly. Learn more >
The Performance in Shepard Park, and the Courthouse Gallery exhibition are FREE.
The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets in Lake George, NY. Our office & gallery hours are Wednesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm. Other dates and times we can be reached by phone or email: Contact Gallery Director Laura Von Rosk at 518-323-5499 or laura@lakegeorgearts.org. Contact Executive Director Tanya Tobias-Tomis at 518-832-0183 or tanya@lakegeorgearts.org.
Please NOTE: Regular Gallery hours may change due to COVID-19 public health mandates. For updates call 518-668-2616, 518-323-5499, or email laura@lakegeorgarts.org.
This exhibition is funded in part by the Town and Village of Lake George; The Gruskin Group, The New York State Council on the Arts and LGAP members. Please Join us today!

Mark Gamsjager & The Lustre Kings
2021-08-25 19:00 - 21:00 | Shepard Park, Canada Street, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
The Lustre Kings boast a devoted international fanbase and continue to perform over 150 dates a year, including regular stops at nightspots, festivals and casinos like Tip Top Deluxe, Skinny Dennis and The Continental Club; Viva Las Vegas, Heritage Folk Festival and the Rockin 50s Fest; and the Potawamoti Hotel. Gamsjager, a Gretsch guitars endorsee who has taught for the National Guitar Workshop, has been a guest at prestigious venues ranging from Kennedy Center (Washington DC) to the Montreal Jazz Fest. Beginning with 1995’s Mark Gamsjager Rocks & The Lustre Kings Roll, the band staked a claim to a modern take on the reverb-driven sounds of early rock, leaning also on touchstones of country, blues and R&B. Other artists, like the famed “Queen of Rock,” Wanda Jackson, hear the authenticity in The Lustre Kings. Perhaps that’s why she hired Gamsjager and the group as her backing unit for many tours. “I have worked with many bands around the world through the years,” Jackson says, “and none are better than Mark Gamsjager and The Lustre Kings. Their fine showmanship and musical ability make them the greatest in my book. They rock!!” Learn more: https://www.lustrekings.com/

The Stony Creek Band
2021-08-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Shepard Park, Canada Street, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
Yes, they plan on playing, even though the weather may be unpredictable…
For over 40 years, the Stony Creek Band has been one of the most enduringly popular musical groups in the northeastern United States. The Stony Creek Band has thrilled generations of fans with its high energy blend of rock, folk, country and bluegrass; a sound that has consistently defied description but is “a product of the landscape as authentically upstate as any Hudson River School painting or sculpture by David Smith” and performed in a manner described by one reviewer as “a ferocious ensemble attack; like a runaway train!”. Over the last 40 years, the Stony Creek Band has evolved from an acoustic trio with roots in traditional folk and country music to a purveyor of American idioms, and back again. The band’s music is the sound of mature, seasoned artists who have outlasted the years and their own baser instincts to mentor and encourage younger artists, enrich their communities and preserve and transmit a living memory. With the release of 2013’s Stony Creek Band Live! album, the band has successfully captured the proverbial “lightning in a bottle” bringing to fans around the world the sound, raw energy and contagious excitement of the Stony Creek Band’s legendary concert performances. Don’t miss the fun!!!! Learn more: https://stonycreekband.com/home

The Dylan Perrillo Orchestra
2021-08-11 07:00 - 21:00 | Shepard Park, Canada Street, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
The Dylan Perrillo Orchestra from Albany, NY performs popular American music from 1890-1950 taking a particular liking to the songbook of the 1920’s. Complete with a six-piece horn section, violin, vocalist and rhythm section, DPO boasts an impressive line up of accomplished musicians of their own accord. Beginning in 2013, the big band has steadily been working towards building an audience for their unique interpretation of classic and not-so-classic, jazz-influenced compositions. Learn more: http://www.dylanperrillo.com/dylanperrilloorchestra
