Community Calendar

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.

Learn how to apply Shaker cotton tape to a chair. Materials are NOT included. Our instructor Beth Dorn will be in contact with participants to direct them to purchase tape, foam and tacks for their chair. We have a limited supply of Shaker style chairs available for purchase.

You must enroll by August 18th to participate in the September 6th class!

Visit the new home of UU Catskills in midtown Kingston! Learn about what it means to be a Unitarian Universalist and how we partner with our local community and impact the world. There will be information about being a UU plus food, games, live music, and kid crafts.

Tugboat Roundup returns to Waterford, NY on Sept 6th -7th (Friday 4:00-8:00pm, Saturday 10:00-9:00, Sunday 10:00-2:00). A maritime festival celebrating the working waterways of New York State. Featuring music, kid friendly activities, food, vendors, tugboat parade (Friday) and fireworks (Saturday).

2 Saturdays
September 6th & 13th
11 am - 2 pm

Ages 16+

Join us in this two day workshop where artist Judith Hoyt will guide students on how to build collagraph plates and incorporate their prints into multi-layer collages on panel boards. Students will be guided on how to incorporate imagery and textures onto their collograph plates and how to take these prints to be layered into collages. Students will conclude the class by learning how to utilize encaustic medium in their collage pieces. Hoyt is known for utilizing this technique in her own work. Don't miss this incredible opportunity to learn from Hoyt to transform your prints into dimensional and lush encaustic collages.

Artists and creative persons of any background and skill level will enjoy this workshop. All materials included.

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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.

“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

Clearwater’s Folk Picnic is a return to our musical roots. In the 1960s when Pete and Toshi Seeger and their co-founders set out to build Clearwater, they organized community folk picnic fundraisers using music as a tool to unite people behind a shared goal of restoring and protecting the Hudson River. Nearly 60 years later, Clearwater is carrying our musical heritage forward with a free, community-centered day of music, celebration,family activities, and Hudson River advocacy.
Bring a chair or blanket, a full-reusable water bottle, and if you’d like, an instrument to play. There will be children's activities and food to purchase from the Beacon Sloop Club and Blue Pig Ice Cream.

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

ROCK the LOCK 2025! Join us as we rock out along the historic Erie Canal at Yankee Hill Lock!

-BYO Chair, snacks, beverages and enjoy the afternoon along the canal and river.
-Free parking, free event. Right off the Empire State Trail/Canalway Bike Path on Queen Anne Rd.

Save the dates, mark the calendars, set reminders, alerts, and tell your neighbors, friends, family, co-workers, the folks at the bus stop and even uncle Larry down by the Schoharie!

* August 16th we welcome Zorbas Trio opening for The Bluebillies
* August 23rd join us as Dust Bowl Faeries open for the Nisky Dixie Cats
* August 30th we offer Question of the Century opening for E.R.I.E.!

Thank you to the Friends of Schoharie Crossing. These programs are made possible in part by a Saratoga Arts' regrant which 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.