2024 Holiday Party & Annual Meeting
2024-12-05 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Mario’s Restaurant, 429 Canada Street, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
Holiday Party & Annual Meeting
Thursday, December 5, 2024at Mario’s (429 Canada St., LG)5:30pm – Cocktail Hour • 6:30pm – Dinner and Meeting
We hope our friends and members can join us for an evening of great company, a little bit of Arts Project business,and a celebration of The Arts Project and all that we do.Social & Cocktail Hour starts at 5:30pm, followed by an amazing buffet dinner and the Annual Meeting at 6:30pm.We’ve got entertainment and a cash bar.
$55 per person – Please RSVP by December 1, 2024Menu includes: Alfredo Pasta, Chicken Marsala (gluten-free), Stuffed Sole, salad, potato, vegetable, dessert, coffee and one non-alcoholic drink.
Tickets can be purchased online (below), via phone (518-668-2616) or email (Tanya@lakegeorgearts.org)
If you would like to attend and would rather pay at the door, just let us know! Email Tanya@lakegeorgearts.org.

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SUNDAY ARTS: COSMIC LANDSCAPE ACCORDION BOOKS
2024-12-15 13:00 - 16:00 | NY
SUNDAY ARTS Gallery Tour
and Art-Making for all ages!
Create a winter or holiday-themed accordion book in the style of Ali Herrmann’s Landscape of Shapes

Top Image: Ali Herrmann, Flurry, 2019, Acrylic, collage on paper, 22” x 30”

Learn more about Ali Herrmann: Cosmic Landscape

Artist's Reception for Jude Dolton at the Caldwell-Lake George Library
2024-12-18 18:00 - 19:30 | NY
Meet Project Local photographer Jude Dolton, see the action paintings by Mark Grimaldi, and enjoy light refreshments at the Caldwell-Lake George Library.

Learn more about this exhibition

Project Local: Vincent Woolley Photographs through March 1st
2025-01-10 08:00 - 2025-03-01 17:00 | The Caldwell Lake George Library, 336 Canada St, Lake George, New York, 12845
Bio
As a graduate of William and Mary College with a degree in teaching, Woolley decided that sitting in a classroom was not really where he wanted to be. His love of art and the outdoors led him to the life of a photographer, and although he worked in many fields of photography, landscape photography is his real love. His early work was influenced by photographers Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Minor Whyte, and Wynn Bullock.
He soon developed his own style which was more personal and abstract. Most of his early work was done with a 4 x 5 View Camera shooting black and white; today he works with digital cameras in both black and white and color.
He was awarded a grant to photograph in Antarctica in 2015. Previous exhibitions include: Little Church Gallery, NJ After Image Gallery, Dallas, TX The Courthouse Gallery, Lake George Various galleries in Florida Publications: Southwest Photo Dallas Photo Adirondack Life

Artist’s Reception at the Caldwell-Lake George LibraryMonday, February 10th6:00 – 8:00 PM

Artist’s Statement
The work you will see in this exhibition covers many years. As a landscape photographer, my work includes anything that I find beautiful. My favorite subjects include the Southwest, ice, river foam, and water reflections, all of which you can see here. I really like pictures that make you think and take a while to figure out. As my perception of the world around me changes, so will my photos! Enjoy!

Images: Top: Detail, Ice Curtain Left: Fall Aspens

The Caldwell-Lake George Library336 Canada StreetLakeGeorge, NY 12845518-668-2528

The Eye of the River: Textile Paintings by Lola Lefrançois
2025-01-22 12:00 - 2025-02-22 17:00 | NY
Images:Top: Detail, Rainbow Lorikeet, 160 x 60 inches, Oil paint and acrylic on fabricRight: Was the Ugly Duckling Ever a Swan?, 11 x 17 inches, Oil paint and acrylic on fabric

Artist’s Statement
Inspired by the utopian quality of Western landscape paintings, my work exposes the stark contrast between these idyllic scenes and the contemporary treatment of nature and animals. Drawing from my childhood in Auroville, India—a commune founded on utopian ideals of perfect humanity—I explore the alluring facade of a perfect place that ultimately reveals humanity’s capacity for violence.
I grew up in Auroville, an experimental township in India devoted to human unity, founded in 1968 by Mirra Alfassa (“the Mother”) and designed by architect Roger Anger. Living there for 8 years, I attended Transition School, where my education focused on our connection with the surrounding environment, emphasizing notions of awareness and empathy. Leaving Auroville and traveling with my mother, I became fascinated by the contrasting reality behind the idealized image I grew up with.
My work is dedicated to questioning our traditional painting heritage, referencing and altering both landscape painting and classical interior décor imagery. I paint on used fabrics that have flower or plant pattern reminiscent of traditional bourgeois interiors. Staining and cutting these fabrics, I deliberately alter and disrupt their original visibility. Referencing movements like the Hudson River School and 18th- and 19th-century European landscape painting, I adapt my painting crafting fragmented and decaying landscapes. My landscapes are strange yet familiar, inviting viewers to lose themselves in this illusory sense of peace and calm. Here, the boundaries blur between pleasure and harm, beauty and destruction, challenging us to question how these notions coexist.

About the Artist
Lola Lefrançois is a French artist based in New York City. Inspired by her childhood in the commune of Auroville, India, she explores the intricate relationship between humanity, nature, and violence. In 2019, she completed her Bachelor of Studio Art at The École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and her MFA in 2023 at the City College of New York. Since then, she has actively participated in residency programs such as The Canopy Program, ChaNorth, Monson Arts, the NARS Foundation Program (2024), and The Rockella Residency Program (2023).
Lola has showcased her work in several exhibitions in New York City and France. Her recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include “The Eye of the River” at Lake George, NY (2025), “A Parakeet’s Whisper?” at One-Eyed Studios, NY (2023), and “Fish Don’t Die With Their Eyes Closed” at C&G Gallery, City College of New York, NY (2023). Her group exhibitions include “Bodiless Body” at the NARS Foundation (2024), “What We Did Last Summer” at C&G Gallery, NY (2022), and Les ÉVAsions des Arts (“The Escape of the Arts”) in Villy en Auxois, France (2020). She was awarded the 1st Prize of The Kenza Scholarship for the Arts in 2021.

Courthouse Gallery1 Lower Amherst StreetLake George, NY 12845518-668-2616
Hours: Wednesday – Friday: 12:00 – 5:00 PM Saturday: 12:00 – 4:00 PM
For exhibition information or to schedule a visitoutside of gallery hours please contactJune Waters, Director of Exhibitions june@lakegeorgearts.org 518-668-2616
Thank you to our exhibition sponsors!

Winter Carnival Winter Arts: Cabin Fever
2025-02-01 10:30 - 12:00 | NY
You are invited toThe Courthouse Gallery between 10:30 and Noon every Saturday morning in February!
All materials are provided and all ages and abilities are welcome.Just bring your imagination!

Winter Carnival Winter Arts: Valentines Anyone?
2025-02-08 10:30 - 15:00 | NY
You are invited toThe Courthouse GalleryDrop-in between 10:30 AM and 3:00 PM every Saturday in February!
All materials are provided and all ages and abilities are welcome.Just bring your imagination!

Project Local Artist's Reception: Vincent Woolley at the Caldwell-Lake George Library
2025-02-10 18:00 - 20:00 | NY
Meet photographer Vincent Woolley and see his work on display at The Caldwell-Lake George Library Monday, February 10th, 6:00 – 8:00 PM.
The Caldwell-Lake George Library336 Canada StreetLake George, NY518-668-2528

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Winter Carnival Winter Arts: Let it Snow!
2025-02-15 10:30 - 15:00 | NY
You are invited toThe Courthouse GalleryDrop in between 10:30 AM and 3:00 PM every Saturday in February!
All materials are provided and all ages and abilities are welcome.Just bring your imagination!

Winter Break Art Workshop: Painting on Fabric
2025-02-19 10:30 - 17:00 | NY
Winter Break Drop-In Workshop
in the Courthouse Gallery
10:30 AM – 4:00 PM
See the exhibition
The Eye of the River
Paintings on Textiles by Lola Lefrançois
Create paintings or drawings of your own on fabric or patterned paper.
Suitable for ALL ages and abilities. Free of Charge. All materials provided.

Learn More about The Eye of the River

Winter Carnival Winter Arts: Maker Space!
2025-02-22 10:30 - 15:00 | NY
You are invited toThe Courthouse GalleryDrop in between 10:30 AM and 3:00 PMevery Saturday in February!
All materials are provided and all ages and abilities are welcome.Just bring your imagination!

Project Local: Maria De Angelo at the Caldwell-Lake George Library
2025-03-01 10:00 - 2025-04-30 17:00 | NY
Maria DeAngeloMixed MediaCard CollagesThrough April 30th
Artist’s ReceptionThursday, April 24th6:00 – 8:00 PM

About the Artist:
Maria DeAngelo is an artist and educator who was born and raised in Schenectady, NY. After living 30 years in the Adirondack Mountains, she and her husband have relocated and established their studio in Altamont, New York.Her explorations in art making are varied. Ms. DeAngelo studied Fine Art at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. Her concentrations were in Painting and Printmaking. She graduated with a BFA and went on to earn her MSEd from Potsdam College. Working with children has been a passion and inspiration for Ms. DeAngelo. Having taught hundreds of young artists over her career, Ms. DeAngelo shares their love of exploration and discovery.In addition to teaching art in the classroom setting, Ms. DeAngelo has facilitated murals, art clubs, and community art enrichment programs. Ms. DeAngelo has worked in large scale installation, mural painting, studio painting, sculpture, printmaking, fabric arts and jewelry creation. She is a member of the Schenectady Art Society, Albany Artists Group, Firehouse Painters and ArtWorks. As a studio artist, she was an Artist in Residence at Arlene’s Artist Materials for two years, where she is now a One-on-One Mentor for artists. She continues her explorations of the intersections between personal history and plant forms using printmaking, painting and stitching.

Artist’s Statment:
Each of the paintings in this show contains scraps of my life. Some are precious, my parents’ love letters and my grandfather’s college notes, while others are more common, the bits of a mylar birthday balloon or a piece of paint stained paper towel I cleaned my tools with. The “canvas” of the works are playing cards, each collaged with life pieces held together with paint. Some I have stitched together, a skill learned from my mother, that I find myself returning to in cycles within my creative life. The stitches are a tool I used to combine the parts of these works and “draw” with line and color.When creating this body of work, I gave myself the challenge to limit the color palette of the backgrounds to five colors that I used in varied amounts in every piece in the show. These colors are the bridge between the bits of life collage and the final layer of flora. I chose to create images of flowers because their lifespan is short and is impacted by the environment they bloom in. There is an external beauty in flowers, but also a beauty in the internal workings that we do not see, allowing them to grow, adapt and create food. I believe that our lives and our sense of self are stitched together from the interactions and environments we have experienced and the actions we choose going forward. We are a quilt of our past and present, the beautiful parts along with the torn and damaged. We can look for the beauty in the small moments and create change to improve our lives and that of others.

Project Localat theCaldwell-Lake George Library336 Canada StreetLake George, NY518-668-2528

Hours:Weekdays: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PMSaturdays: 10:00 AM – 2:00PM

Ario Elami: Numinous Altars
2025-03-12 12:00 - 2025-04-12 17:00 | NY
Ario Elami: Numinous Altars
March 12 through April 12, 2025
Artist’s ReceptionSaturday, March 22nd4:00 – 6:00 PM
Numinous: Something mysterious, supernatural, spiritual, awe-inspiring, and perhaps holy.
Altar: A table, as in early forms of architecture, used as the focus for a religious ritual, often for making offerings to a deity.

Bio
Ario Elami, is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts’ MFA program through Tufts University, a composer, author, and artist whose work explores architecture as the tension between human design and nature. Claiming dual citizenship as an Iranian and North American, he has spent much of his life on the east coast and in Michigan.
Elami works exclusively on paper in an often limited palette, with the resulting works resembling prints or bookplates. They appear to be timeless, as if found from a remote past in a secret library. Each piece resembles the type of anthropological or archeological drawings made to document temples, palaces, sacrificial sites, or necropolises found in jungles, and not fully understood by their discoverers. Elami, in depicting undefined architectural sites of relics or ruins, allows us to dream of uses both sacred and profane; to explore the tension between human design and nature on the verge of reclaiming its primacy. Elami’s latest art has developed in tandem with an understanding of the earliest architecture as numinous altars, and a perception of nature as a roiling mass of aggressive life, perpetuating itself through overabundance. In this vision, architecture manifested out of violent, spiritual rituals, externalizing what is internal. Elami sees architecture, revitalized with its primitive and mythopoeic qualities, as a portal back to a cosmos overflowing with meaning and mystery.

LEARN MORE ABOUT ARIO ELAMI'S WORK

Images from top
World Machine III, Colored Pencil, pen and watercolor on paperWorld Machine II, Colored Pencil, pen, and watercolor on paperTemple to a Fungal Spirit, Colored pencil, pen, and watercolor on paper

Courthouse Gallery
1 Lower Amherst StreetLake George, NY 12845518-668-2616
Hours: Wednesday – Friday: 12:00 – 5:00 PMSaturday: 12:00 – 4:00 PMSundays: 12:00 – 4:00 PM (June – September)Select Sundays Monthly (October – May)
Or give us a call if you are in town. There is a good chance we are in the office and would love to open our doors for you!
For exhibition information or to schedule a visit outside of gallery hours please contact:
June WatersDirector of Exhibitionsjune@lakegeorgearts.org or 518-668-2616

THANK YOU!

Throughout the year, we offer 17 exhibitions of work by emerging and established artists in our Courthouse Gallery and in partner locations throughout Lake George.
We are able to do this because of the support of our sponsors and LGAP members.

This program is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Ario Elami: Artist's Reception
2025-03-22 16:00 - 18:00 | NY
Meet Iranian-American Artist Ario Elami to learn more about his exhibition: Numinous Altars.All are welcome; light refreshments are available.The Artist will speak about his work at 5:00.

About the Exhibition

Bands & Beans
2025-03-30 14:00 - 19:00 | Fort William Henry Conference Center, 48 Canada Street, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
EARLY BIRD TICKETS HAVE FLOWN THE COOP!

THAT IS OK THOUGH - WE'LL BE SELLING TICKETS AT THE DOOR! TICKETS ARE $30 AND DOORS OPEN AT 1:30PM!

31 years of 100% homegrown music & chili!
Sunday, March 30, 20252pm – 7pmFort William Henry Conference Center
Spice up your March with a heaping helping of fun at the Bands and Beans – the biggest party in the North Country!
Over twenty local restaurants will be throwing down their best chili concoctions and all vying for the coveted People’s Choice Award. The heat doesn’t stop there though! We’ve got nine of your favorite bands, on two stages, playing all day long. This event isn’t just a ton of fun, the proceeds from Bands ‘n Beans benefit the Lake George Arts Project’s free and open to all music and art programs like our year-round Courthouse Gallery exhibitions, our Summer Concert Series and our popular Jazz at the Lake, three-day, Jazz Festival.
Tickets: $30 at the Door – Doors open at 1:30pm!
Are you a member of The Lake George Arts Project?Check your email for a special “Members Only” code and save an additional $5
Early Bird ticket sales end on Saturday 3/29 at midnight.Al ticket sales are final and non-refundable.

THANK YOU TO OUR 2025 BANDS AND BEANS SPONSORS

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PEOPLE’S CHOICE SPONSOR

Talent Unlimited 2025
2025-04-26 - 2025-05-04 | Courthouse Gallery, 1 Amherst St, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
Talent Unlimited 2025
April 26 through May 4, 2025
The Lake George Arts Project is proud to showcase the incredible work of local students in grades 7–12 whose writing and artwork were selected for publication in the Talent Unlimited Journal, a student literary and art magazine published by BOCES.

ABOUT TALENT UNLIMITED

How would you create imagery or writing that expresses your interpretation of the word “Perspective?”
That is the theme of the 40th annual Talent Unlimited Literary Arts Journal. Students in grades 7 – 12 were inspired by this theme to create thoughtful and imaginative paintings, drawings, photographs, mixed media, and graphic design pieces and to write compelling essays, poems and stories and submitted their best work to be considered for publication. The art and writing, 50 pieces in each category, were chosen by juries of professional artists and writers.
The Talent Unlimited Literary Arts Journal is published by the Enrichment Resource Center at the Washington-Saratoga-Warren-Hamilton-Essex BOCES. It provides young artists and writers with the opportunity to have their art seen and their writing read while participating in a selection process that mirrors the professional worlds of art and publishing.
The Talent Unlimited 2025 exhibition in the Courthouse Gallery features over 40 pieces of the published students’ original artwork.

Images:Top: Cover Art by Charlotte MeasekAbove: Night Routine by Hailey Hamm

COMPLIMENTARY PROGRAMS

Saturday, April 26, 2025Artists’ Reception
1pm – 3pmCome celebrate the talent, imagination, and hard work of these young artists and writers. All are welcome. Light refreshments will be served. We hope to see you there!

Sunday, April 27thSunday Arts
Drop-in between 1pm-4pm for agallery tour and art-making opportunity!
All ages and abilities welcome!Free of Charge.

Talent Unlimited 2025 Artists' Reception
2025-04-26 13:00 - 2025-05-04 15:00 | Courthouse Gallery, 1 Amherst St, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
Talent Unlimited 2025
April 26 through May 4, 2025
Join us for a special Reception Celebrating Student Creativity!
Saturday, April 26th • 1:00 – 3:00 PM
The Lake George Arts Project is proud to showcase the incredible work of local students in grades 7–12 whose writing and artwork were selected for publication in the Talent Unlimited Journal, a student literary and art magazine published by BOCES.
Come celebrate the talent, imagination, and hard work of these young artists and writers. All are welcome. Light refreshments will be served. We hope to see you there!

COMPLIMENTARY PROGRAMS

Sunday, April 27thSunday Arts
Drop-in between 1pm-4pm for a gallery tour and art-making opportunity!
All ages and abilities welcome!Free of Charge.

ABOUT TALENT UNLIMITED

How would you create imagery or writing that expresses your interpretation of the word “Perspective?”
That is the theme of the 40th annual Talent Unlimited Literary Arts Journal. Students in grades 7 – 12 were inspired by this theme to create thoughtful and imaginative paintings, drawings, photographs, mixed media, and graphic design pieces and to write compelling essays, poems and stories and submitted their best work to be considered for publication. The art and writing, 50 pieces in each category, were chosen by juries of professional artists and writers.
The Talent Unlimited Literary Arts Journal is published by the Enrichment Resource Center at the Washington-Saratoga-Warren-Hamilton-Essex BOCES. It provides young artists and writers with the opportunity to have their art seen and their writing read while participating in a selection process that mirrors the professional worlds of art and publishing.
The Talent Unlimited 2025 exhibition in the Courthouse Gallery features over 40 pieces of the published students’ original artwork.

Images:Top: Cover Art by Charlotte MeasekAbove: Night Routine by Hailey Hamm

Artist's Reception: Adria Arch Airwaves
2025-05-08 08:00 - 17:00 | NY
Artist’s Reception
Friday, May 16th6:00 PM – 8:00 PMatThe Courthouse Gallery1 Lower Amherst StreetLake George, NY 12845518-668-2616
Adria Arch will speak about her work at 7:00 PM.
Light refreshments will be available.
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Spring for the Arts Golf Tournament
2025-05-10 11:00 - 17:00 | Cronin’s Golf
Angelina & JP at the Inn of Lake George

Get ready to tee off for a good cause! Enjoy a day of fun and friendly competition with prizes, food, and great company at everybody’s favorite course – Cronin’s Golf Resort. So mark your calendars, gather your team, and join us in supporting a cause that is close to our hearts. See you on the greens!

at Cronin’s Golf ResortGolf Course RoadWarrensburg, NY 12885

REGISTER YOUR TEAM BELOW!

Details:• Registration starts at 11am• Lunch at 12pm• Shotgun start at 1pm• Prizes + Course Contests + Raffle!• No handicaps for this tournament
• Registration fee: $125 (per player)includes Golf, Cart, Lunch, Steak Dinner, and Awards Banquet
Don’t have a team? That is OK! You can register as an individual player by emailing Tanya or calling the Arts Project
To register!• email Tanya: Tanya@lakegeorgearts.org• call The Arts Project: 518-668-2616

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Airwaves: Painting and Sculpture by Adria Arch
2025-05-16 18:00 - 2025-06-14 17:00 | NY
Exhibition Events

Artist’s Reception
Friday, May 16th6:00 – 8:00 PMThe Courthouse GalleryThe artist will speak about her work at 7:00 PM.Light refreshments will be available.
Sunday Arts
Sunday, May 18th1:00 – 4:00 PMGallery Tour in the Courthouse Gallery
Art-making Activity for ALL ages!Create an airy sculpture!
Free of charge

Artist’s Statement
Throughout my artistic journey from painting to sculpture, I’ve built upon First Wave Feminist art’s legacy of transforming spaces, engaging viewers, and challenging traditional hierarchies of material and form. My work continues this tradition while speaking to contemporary concerns about presence and interaction. I rely on formal content – the meaning extends from color relationships and mark-making, while engaging with feminist art’s tradition of challenging hierarchical distinctions between abstract and embodied experience.
While the forms in my paintings and sculpture often echo natural and floral shapes, they deliberately play with and subvert traditionally ‘feminine’ imagery. My sinuous lines and flower-like forms are exaggerated and transformed into something more ambiguous and challenging – sometimes even unsettling. My work takes stereotypically ‘feminine’ organic shapes and makes them monumental, unavoidable, and slightly alien. These forms don’t politely decorate – they command space and demand engagement.
My recent work explores the choreography of pattern and void. The pieces float and interact like notes in a visual score, creating rhythms through both color and shape. While I embrace traditionally ‘feminine’ colors like pink, I deliberately disrupt their sweetness by introducing structural elements and unexpected color combinations. The negative spaces become as important as the forms themselves, turning the white wall into an active participant in the composition. This interplay between structure and fluidity, presence and absence, reflects my interest in how ‘feminine’ imagery can be both acknowledged and challenged within the same piece.

My early training in dance continues to influence how I think about space, movement, and the body’s relationship to its position. Each installation becomes a kind of choreographed environment where forms perform in space, creating temporal experiences that unfold as viewers move through them. The suspended pieces in particular engage in a slow dance with gravity, while their shadows create an ever-changing performance on walls and floors. This understanding of movement and spatial relationships informs everything from my initial drawings to final installation decisions.
Bio
Adria Arch is a mixed media artist living and working in Arlington, Massachusetts. She is interested in creating immersive experiences with sculpture and paint, using hand-cut or laser-cut lightweight polystyrene plastic to create sculptural forms that populate my large-scale colorful installations. Her work references the things seen every day- from neighborhood flower gardens to the ever-growing skyline of Boston. She has a vocabulary of shapes that includes ladders, grids, and spirals. The installations of hanging painted sculptures are whimsical, playful spaces that provide an experience of both delight and surprise.
Arch has had solo exhibitions at Danforth Art in Framingham, MA, the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, MA, and the Hunt Gallery at Mary Baldwin College in Virginia. She has completed site specific murals at Lesley University’s Porter Square building in Cambridge, MA, Stonehill College, and Danforth Art in Framingham, MA. Arch has been awarded residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sanskriti Foundation in Delhi, and in Auvillar, France. Her work is included in many private and public collections including the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Fidelity Corporation, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. In 2019 her work was featured at the Fitchburg Art Museum, and in 2020 at the Cahoon Museum of American Art. Most recently, Arch was commissioned by Google to do a room-sized installation. Arch showed installations at the Boston Sculptors Gallery, Brattleboro Art Museum in Vermont and the Danforth Museum in Framingham, MA. Her work will be on view at the San Luis Obispo Art Museum in 2025.

Images:Top: Detail, Holding the Center 4, 2025, Acrylic on synthetic paper, 8′ x 4′Right top: Shape of Things, 2025, Acrylic on polystyreneRight bottom: Holding the Center 4, 2025, Acrylic on synthetic paper, 8′ x 4′

The 2nd Annual Lake George Block Party
2025-05-17 11:00 - 16:00 | NY
Join the fun at the
The 2nd AnnualLake George Block Party!

Visit our Boothin the yard ofSt. James Episcopal churchon Montcalm Street.
Special Guest!
Action Painter Mark Grimaldiwill demonstrate his techniqueas he paints in the style of Jackson Pollock.

The Speakeasy Cruise
2025-06-18 18:30 - 21:00 | Waterfront Cruises, 2 Kurosaka Ln, Lake George, NY, 12845
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Boarding at 6:30pmCruise from 7pm – 9pmAboard Waterfront Cruises’ – Adirondac2 Kurosaka Ln, Lake George, NY

Shhhhhhhhh……….
… got the password? Step back in time and slip into something snazzy, because Waterfront Cruises’ Adirondac is transforming into the hottest floating speakeasy on Lake George. This ain’t your average boat ride—we’re throwin’ a full-blown Roaring Twenties revelry to benefit the Lake George Arts Project!
So dust off your fedoras, fluff up those flapper dresses, and get ready for a night of secret sips, swingin’ tunes, dapper dames, and dashing fellas—all under the stars on beautiful Lake George.

Password required. Swagger encouraged. Shenanigans? Guaranteed.

Tickets are $40 early bird / $45 at the door

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Thank You Katie and Will Carson and Waterfront Hospitality for generously donating the boat and staff for this event!

Balancing Ecosystems
2025-06-21 12:00 - 2025-07-02 17:00 | NY
Exhibition Events

Tickets for the Floating Classroom July 2nd

Balancing Ecosystems

The exhibition Balancing Ecosystems features the work of four artists: Lauren Comito, Milcah Bassel, Amanda Thackray, and Rachel Frank. Their multimedia artworks invite viewers to explore the visible, hidden, and symbolic aspects of natural beauty found in aquatic environments. Each artist expresses ideas of interconnection between organisms within ecosystems through imagery such as grids, nets, and repeating patterns.
This idea for this curated exhibition was conceived after visual artist Lauren Comito received a Community Art Grant from the Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council in 2025. The New York City and Huletts Landing-based visual artist used this grant to examine and portray copepods, tiny crustacean zooplankton, along with aquatic plants found in Lake George, bringing to light the interconnected systems that contribute to the purity of the lake.
Comito enlarges the scale of these microscopic organisms through cyanotype prints, making them visible. The images reveal the delicate and intricate structures of these tiny creatures that play an essential role in filtering and purifying the water, elevating them to the status of “guardians of the lake.”
Milcah Bassel, whose work has been exhibited at the Rubin Museum of Art, Bronx Museum of the Arts, and other venues both nationally and internationally, applies unique materials and processes to explore both cultural and natural structures. Her pieces in the exhibition are inspired by the use of a grid to represent water in ancient civilizations, creating intersecting rippling patterns on unique pulp papers.
Amanda Thackray, who is currently the inaugural Environmental Protection Agency Artist in Residence for the lower Passaic River in New Jersey, also utilizes grid patterns in handmade paper designs that combine notions of nature, industry, and human experience. Her netlike imagery is a malleable grid referencing both organic material and human intervention within an environment.
Brooklyn-based artist and wildlife rehabilitator Rachel Frank employs various material processes, including ceramics, fabric, and drawing. The material transformations that occur in the art-making process mirror the restorative processes that take place in the healing of lives and habitats. The repeating patterns in her work express the interconnections and exchanges between species.
Images:Top: Lauren Comito, PostcardMiddle left: Rachel Frank, Wading Foot Tangle (detail), 2024, Ink, watercolor, and pigment on paper, 11″ x 15″Middle right: Milcah Bassel, Untitled (detail), 2024, Color pencil on black Fabriano paper, 9″ x 12″

Artists' Reception: Balancing Ecosystems
2025-06-28 16:00 - 18:00 | NY
Join us in The Courthouse Gallery between 4:00 and 6:00 PMon Saturday, July 28th to meet the artists ofBalancing Ecosystems

Learn More about Balancing Ecosystems

SUNDAY ARTS: Sun Prints
2025-06-29 13:00 - 16:00 | NY
See the exhibitionBalancing Ecosystems
Gallery Tour and Art-Making Opportunity for All Ages!

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Balancing Ecosystems: Art and Science on the Floating Classroom
2025-07-02 10:00 - 12:00 | NY
Wednesday, July 2nd10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Enjoy a two-hour cruise on the Lake George Association’s Floating Classroom!
All ages are invited to participate inguided science explorations and art making!
This collaboration is part of the Balancing Ecosystems exhibition in The Courthouse Gallery.

Tickets must be purchased from the Lake George Association.
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Hubby Jenkins
2025-07-02 19:00 - 20:30 | Shepard Park, Canada Street, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
About Hubby Jenkins
Hubby Jenkins, a prominent member of the renowned Carolina Chocolate Drops, has mesmerized audiences around the world with his virtuosic mastery of the guitar and banjo, With a voice that echoes with emotion and a fingerpicking style that evokes the very essence of the American South, Hubby transports listeners to a bygone era, where the roots of modern music took hold.
Born and raised in Brooklyn he delved into his Southern roots, following the thread of African American history that wove itself through country blues, ragtime, fiddle and banjo, and traditional jazz. Hubby got his higher musical education started as a busker. He developed his guitar and vocal craft on the sidewalks and subway platforms of New York City, performing material by those venerable artists whose work he was quickly absorbing. An ambitiously itinerant musician, he took his show on the road, playing the streets, coffee shops, bars, and house parties of cities around the country.
After years of busking around the U.S and making a name for himself, Hubby became acquainted with the Carolina Chocolate Drops. He was an integral part of the Grammy award winning Carolina Chocolate Drops from 2010 to 2014. Since 2015 to 2018 he was active in touring and recording member in the Rhiannon Giddens band. He was on her album “Tomorrow Is My Turn” in 2015 and in 2017 “Freedom Highway.” Drawing inspiration from legends such as Mississippi John Hurt, Uncle Dave Macon and Lead Belly, Hubby breathes new life into traditional blues and folk songs, infusing them with his unique flair and unmistakable authenticity. His music resonates with a deep sense of history, culture, and struggle, capturing the spirit of the early 20th century while adding his own distinct touch.
In addition to his remarkable musical talents, Hubby Jenkins is a passionate advocate for preserving and honoring the cultural heritage of African American musicians who laid the foundation for modern popular music. His commitment to historical accuracy shines through in his performances, as he takes us on a journey through the deep roots of blues, folk, and the African American experience.

HIS MUSIC

Hubby Jenkins playing Coo Coo Bird – Rufus Kasey’s version

​”Here Here Yonder Go” – Hubby Jenkins

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Water Music: 1 Day, Art Show & Sale
2025-07-06 13:00 - 19:00 | Hudson Crossing Park, Co Rd 42, Schuylerville, NY, 12871
Water Music New York: More Voices
1-Day Art Show + Sale
Sunday, July 6, 20251pm – 7pm
The Lake George Arts Project is bringing an exhibition of local / regional artwork to Hudson Crossing Park as part of their community-wide celebration of the arts! The park will be filled with activities, food vendors, music, & more and will culminate with a free concert from the Albany Symphony Orchestra at 7pm. This event is free and open to all.
If you are an artist interested in showing your work – LEARN ABOUT HOW TO PARTICIPATE

New Work by Khaila Batts - Perception in Fragments: Unveiling Family through Color and Memory
2025-07-09 12:00 - 2025-08-10 17:00 | NY
Exhibition Events
Artist’s Reception Saturday, July 12th 4:00 – 6:00 PM Khaila Batts will speak about her work at 5:00 PM.
Sunday Arts SundayJuly 13th 1:00 – 4:00 PM Surreal Identity Collage Gallery visit and art-making for all ages. Free of charge.
Images: Top: Brooklyn’s Paradise, 2024, Digital collage Right: Untitled, 2025, Digital collage

Description of the Work
The exhibition Perception in Fragments: Unveiling Family Through Color and Memory seeks to create a profound dialogue about how personal histories, collective memory, and societal forces shape our perception of space, identity, and belonging. By weaving together elements of the past and present, this exhibition explores how marginalized communities, particularly Black families, experience and navigate the complexities of identity, memory, and systemic forces. My work within this exhibition, including pieces like Brooklyn’s Paradise (2024) and an untitled piece, draws on fragmented realities to critique and reflect on the forces that shape our lived experiences. Through these works, I aim to invite viewers to reconsider their assumptions about space, race, and identity, ultimately challenging preconceived notions around Blackness and its portrayal in the public sphere. Brooklyn’s Paradise critiques the New York subway system, a space that is integral to urban life yet riddled with neglect and violence, often masked by everyday mundanity. By juxtaposing distorted figures, subway patrons, and discarded materials within a surreal landscape, this piece challenges viewers to confront the violence and alienation that pervade urban spaces, calling attention to how these issues are often ignored or normalized in society. The untitled piece centers on the intersection of religion, domestic labor, and generational teachings, offering a reflection on how these traditions, passed down through the generations, continue to influence Black identity today. Through a mix of archival imagery and color manipulation, this work explores how faith, labor, and family teachings evolve in the context of modern life, intertwining the past and present. In this way, the untitled piece delves into how historical practices and teachings continue to shape contemporary Black experiences, particularly within domestic and familial spheres.

Both works in this exhibition embody my artistic practice of reframing Black identity through color, abstraction, and inversion, which serves to disrupt racialized perceptions and offer a more nuanced understanding of Blackness. By redefining skin tones and emotional color associations, I challenge the viewer to move beyond fixed cultural narratives and engage with the radiant, complex presence of Black identity. The exhibition as a whole invites reflection on how individual histories and societal systems intersect to create our understanding of identity, space, and memory.
Artist Statement
I use visual storytelling to confront misunderstandings about my identity and community history, dismantling entrenched perceptions through manipulated color, layered materials, and expressive form. Working primarily in oil paint and acetate, I build scenes that feel both archival and futuristic—broad, modernized brushstrokes sweep across transparent layers, blending digital collage with painterly tactility. Skin tones are inverted or shifted into unnatural hues, disrupting racialized expectations and inviting viewers to see Blackness not as fixed, but as radiant, fluid, and otherworldly. My figures are suspended in dreamlike environments—gestural yet frozen—rendered in saturated palettes where serene blues veil violence and stark contrasts expose emotional weight. Their gazes pierce outward, creating a participatory exchange that humanizes and implicates the viewer. Interactive elements, such as smartphone-enabled color inversion, deepen this engagement, asking audiences to reconsider how perception is shaped by both technology and bias. Through abstraction, symbolism, and material play, my work reclaims narrative space for Black bodies, offering new ways of seeing and being.

The Saline Fiddler's Philharmonic
2025-07-09 19:00 - 20:30 | Shepard Park, Canada Street, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
Saline Fiddlers Philharmonic
America’s premier youth fiddling show band from Saline, Michigan, astounds audiences every time the group takes the stage. The musicians, all from Saline High School, present an energetic and polished show that features a diverse range of music from American folk, fiddle, bluegrass, jazz, western swing, and Celtic traditions. Spirited vocals and Appalachian step dancing combine with the instrumentals to create an unforgettable live performance.
Saline Fiddlers Philharmonic began in 1994 with a simple idea: introduce an alternative style of music education to public school students to maintain and expand their interest in music performance. Since then, the group has definitely set the standard for extracurricular music programs in the United States. It has grown into a model of instruction and motivation that is being emulated across the nation.
The widely acclaimed Saline Fiddlers Philharmonic’s history includes more than 1,500 performances in the majority of the states in our nation. The group has been honored to perform three times at the White House and twice on the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center, as well as at a State of Michigan’s Presidential Inaugural Ball. Annual summer tours have spanned the United States from the east coast to the west coast, down south to up north, and have also included performances in Canada and tours in Europe, including visits to Saline’s sister cities of Brecon, Wales and Lindenberg, Germany. Each year the group performs 50-60 times, generally donating a third of their annual schedule to community service events.
Saline Fiddlers Philharmonic has shared the stage with many top artists as well as other student groups. Especially gratifying is the number of student fiddle organizations which have been started around the country because of inspiration from the Saline Fiddlers Philharmonic.

“The Saline Fiddlers Philharmonic were outstanding. Having booked more than 200 acts over the past 20 years, your performance last night was simply one of the best acts we have ever had!” – Robert Klomburg @ Altadena Summer Concert Series

THEIR MUSIC

Saline Fiddlers 2024 30th Anniversary Hometown Show

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