Community Calendar

2 WEEK SESSION
Monday - Friday, 9 am - 4 pm (aftercare available till 5)

Week 1: August 12, 13, 14,15, 16
Week 2: August 19, 20, 21, 22, 23

Grades 5-8

City Look Lab will offer students the experience of thinking through, making structures, and dreaming up ways to design comfortable and fun spaces. It’s a free space for learning the art of solving design problems.

The City Look Lab Workshop project will focus on developing fundamental art and architectural design skills and exploring various key architectural aspects of the City of Kingston. Each first-week workshop day will focus on a different core lesson to help the participating students choose and explore their interest in the intersection between art and architecture. The project is also designed to hone skills that will be helpful for the (art-inclined) student wanting to develop their portfolio (skills). The City Look Lab is open to all levels of students willing to experience collaborative art-making to understand its real-world applications. Students will take field trips and walking tours and ride the busses to explore our city’s cultural, environmental, and architectural wonders.

Our project brings proof that someone believes that a community such as Kingston deserves dignity and beauty and can be fortified by sprinkling tidbits of its community’s student creativity. This can be as simple as having creative students make colorful Public Projects such as signs, mini murals, benches, gates, bike racks, etc. City Look Lab is also designed as a great accentuation to help our place see itself as a great community by helping it fortify commuter access information to its transit options through creativity and more, giving dignity to those dependent on public spaces.

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Please register at least a week in advance to guarantee your spot.

The Norman Rockwell Museum is honored to present a rare series of early twentieth century lighting advertisements by Norman Rockwell and fellow Golden Age illustrators Maxfield Parrish, N.C. Wyeth, Dean Cornwell, Stanley Arthurs, Worth Brehm, and Charles Chambers created for Edison Mazda Lamps, a division of the General Electric Company. These luminous, richly painted works were widely circulated in published advertisements through the 1920s and are on loan to the Museum for the first time through the generosity of GE Aerospace.

“Once a Tree: Continuity, Creativity, and Connection” explores the deep-rooted significance of trees in Haudenosaunee culture, tradition, and creative expression. Featuring the work of 42 artists and more than 100 objects—including decorative and utilitarian baskets, cradleboards, snowshoes, ladles, lacrosse sticks, toys, instruments, carvings, and sleds—this exhibition highlights the important relationship between nature and artistry. Selected from the Museum’s permanent collection, the exhibition was created with guidance from curatorial consultants Terry Chrisjohn III (Oneida), Preston Jacobs (Mohawk), and Sheila Ransom (Mohawk).

"Separated but Unbroken: The Haudenosaunee Boarding School Experience" explores the lasting impact of the Thomas Indian School, once located on the Cattaraugus Reservation south of Buffalo, NY, and The Mohawk Institute near Branford, Ontario. These institutions, which enrolled a significant number of Haudenosaunee students, were part of a larger system that sought to erase Indigenous identities while deeply shaping the lives of those who endured them. Co-curated by Erin Keaton (Mohawk), the exhibition sheds light on Haudenosaunee resilience.

Lake Myosotis Boat Launch

Join Stewardship Garrett Chisholm every Thursday to help tackle the invasive species that threaten the health of the Preserve. Volunteers will learn how to identify and manage a different invasive species every week.

A self taught artist, I have always been fascinated with the process of coming into and dissolving out of form and all the stages in between. Using subtle rich materials such as Venetian plaster marble dusts, raw pigments, graphite powders and genuine silver leaf, all lend themselves to depicting the process of life in transition.

Whether it is a photograph or a painting suggesting a forest, a snow storm, or a tangle of light. There’s an invitation to enter into a flow of energy, colour movement, an experience! They go where their imagination takes them.

Exhibition Dates: Aug 9 - Sept 13, 2025
Gallery Hours: Thurs/Sun - 12-5pm, Fri/Sat - 12-6pm

“I’m in the Studio Tonight Because of You” is Delgado’s attempt to take the viewer through her process by breaking down the lines and marks that land on the paper or canvas from beginning to end.

The first mark tends to be towards the right, middle side of the page. Woody sticks, graphite crayons, pigment sticks, stiff brushes and palette knives are her tools of choice.

The woody stick can make really thin lines that ignite each painting’s energy. When water is added it will wash the color out and make light marks that can be seen in small areas under the piles of oil paint. It’s been said that Melanie is a ‘painter’s painter’. When you stand in front of her work, especially the larger oil paintings on canvas you can feel the battle. She is committed to her practice and has a deep love for her students and their work as well.

This show is dedicated to you.

Opening Reception: Sat, Aug 9, 4-6pm
Gallery Hours: Thurs/Sun - 12-5pm, Fri/Sat - 12-6pm

For the kids and the kids in all of us, Shakespeare & Company and Spirit of Circus present an intersection of brilliant, professional circus acts with Shakespeare’s characters. The alchemy of the stunning visual effects of circus and the Bard’s text is an apt and whimsical introduction to both, and when you see them together, something special takes place!

This show is presented in collaboration with Spirit of Circus.

Vermont's oldest agricultural fair will celebrate its 179th season with midway rides for the whole family, Freestyle FMX Show, Extreme Raptors birds of prey show, live music, livestock events, Pirate Man Dan, Children's Tent activities, a maple sugar house, milking parlor, chainsaw carving, demonstrations, favorite fair food and more.

Fair highlights:
• Wednesday - Tractor Parade (5pm), Little Lies - Fleetwood Mac tribute (7pm)
• Thursday - Farm Tractor Pull (10am), Green Mountain Wrestling (7pm)
• Friday - Kingdom's Got Talent (2pm), 4x4 Truck Pull (6pm)
• Saturday - Gymkhana (10am), Horse Pull FFA (6:30pm), The Conniption Fits (8pm)
• Sunday - Power Wheels Demo Derby (12:30pm), Extreme Demo Derby Finals (6pm)

Fair admission (includes unlimited rides, shows & entertainment): $15 Wednesday; $20 Thursday; $25 Friday - Sunday ($20 online before 4pm Aug. 20); $15 for ages 65+ on Friday. Kids under 36" tall are admitted free. Parking is free.

Fair gates open at 4pm Wednesday and 7am Thursday - Sunday. Midway hours: 4-11pm Wednesday, 11am - 11pm Thursday - Saturday, 11am - 9pm Sunday

More information: 802-427-4404 or CaledoniaCountyFair.com

The fair is presented by the nonprofit Caledonia County Fair Association.

It's Vacation Bible School time at Ridgecrest Baptist Church! Children ages three through fifteen are admitted free from August 18-22, 6:00-8:30pm. Magnified!(TM) VBS will encourage kids to look closely at the details of God's amazing world and magnify, or proclaim, the greatness of God. For more information about this week of fun, food, and exciting learning opportunities call (845) 565-2540 or visit our website https://www.ridgecrest.com/ministries/vbs.

Two day workshop
Thursdays, August 14 & 21
6 – 8:30 pm

Ages 16 and Up

Have you ever wanted to create your own pattern and have it printed on fabric? Make your own tablecloth or up-cycle your thrifted wardrobe? Then this class is for you!

This two day workshop will explore carving your own unique stamps and learning techniques to print your imagery onto fabric. Using stitching and basic appliqué we will embellish your stamped designs.Think bandanas, patches, pillows…whatever you can imagine. You can also use your hand carved stamps to print on paper! Wrapping paper, notebooks, cards, tags…the possibilities are endless!

All materials provided. But feel free to bring extra fabric scraps from your stash for experimenting.

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Please register at least a week in advance to guarantee your spot. Scholarship availability closes 2 weeks prior to the start of class.

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We believe in access to art education for all. It takes the whole community to generate the equity our pay-what-you-can tuition generates. Behind the scenes, we work to bridge the financial gap between what our students can pay and what we need to sustain our programs. Please consider carefully before you use our discount codes.

Scholarship Codes:
For 25% discount use code "25OFF"
For 50% discount use code "50OFF"
For 75% discount use code "75OFF"

This economic justice map from The Sliding Scale: A Tool of Economic Justice by Alexis J. Cunningfolk is useful to assess where you may fall on the financial spectrum of pay what you can.

To request 100% off tuition, please contact chris@mkad.art