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THE CALENDAR EXHIBITIONS Theater Listings

 

AREA EXHIBITIONS April 2024

 

ArtOmi.org • 518-392-4747 • Sculpture & Architecture Park • outdoor, self-guided tour, multiple artists
• through Jun. 2: “Olalekan Jeyifous: Even in Arcadia”

 

BenningtonMuseum.org • 75 Main St., Bennington, VT • 802-447-1571 • Online, too
• Apr. 1-21: Bennington Project Independence Show
• Apr. 1-Jun. 2: Annual Student Art Show
• Apr. 19: Tattoo Living Exhibition • 6-9 pm
• Apr. 27-Aug. 11, 2024: Dark Goddess: Sacroprofanity

 

BerkshireBotanical.org • 5 W. Stockbridge Rd., Stockbridge, MA • 413-298-3926
• through Apr. 12: BBG Creativity Unleashed!
• Apr. 20-May 27: “Re-Rooted” by Ellen Driscoll

 

BerkshireHistory.org/InvisibleCommunity • Home of Herman Melville from 1850-1863 •
• The Invisible Community: African Americans in Berkshire County (1830-2012) • Links at URL & Berkshire County Historical Society YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpvu1J8etvdgSsr2bmDeSEuuzV2DNlFMu)
• A Driving Tour of Berkshire County’s Literary History (link at URL)

 

BerkshireMuseum.org • 39 South St., Pittsfield, MA • 413-443-7171 • On-going exhibits, plus • Objects and Their Stories
• through May 5: “Painted Pages: Illuminated Manuscripts of the 13th to 18th Centuries”
• Jun. 1-Sep. 29: “The Wild Indoors: The Animal Art of Julie Bell”

 

CarrieHaddadGallery.com • 622 Warren St., Hudson, NY • 518-828-1915
• through Apr. 21: “Tangled Up in Blue” (feat. Julia Whitney Barnes, Linda Newman Boughton, Donise English, Owen Mann, and James O’Shea)
• Apr. 26-Jun. 16: “All Figured Out” (feat. Mark Beard, William Clutz, Robert Goldstrom, Carl Grauer, Lauren Hamilton, Ransome, & Caitlin Winner) & Upstairs Gallery: Encaustic Paintings by Alaina Enslen

 

ChapmanMuseum.org • 348 Glens St., Glens Falls, NY • 518-793-2826
• Ongoing: “Introductory Exhibit: Explore the History of Glens Falls & Queensbury” & “Hands-On History: Experiences of Hometown Life”
• through Apr. 2: “Adirondack Cabins & Camps”
• through May 12: “Hometown Teams”
• Apr. 2-Jun. 16: “Riding in Style”

 

ClarkArt.edu • 225 South St., Williamstown, MA
• through Apr. 30: Publications from 1874 in celebration of Williamstown Public Library’s 150th Anniversary (on display at Sawyer Library, Stetson Hall, 26 Hopkins Hall Dr.)
• through Jun. 23: “Paper Cities”
• through Jan. 26, 2025: “David-Jeremiah: I Drive Thee”
• Jul 13-Oct. 6: “Edgar Degas: Multi-Media Artist in the Age of Impressionism”

 

Courthouse Gallery • 1 Amherst St., Lake George, NY • www.lakegeorgearts.org • Masks
• through Apr. 13: John McGiff’s “Painting as Vision”


510WarrenStreetGallery.com • Hudson, NY • 518-822-0510
• Apr. 4-28: Marilyn Orner: “The Sky, the Land, the Water”

 

Eclipse Mill Gallery • 243 Union St., North Adams, MA
• Apr. 5-27: “Mother,” new paintings and works on paper by Kelsey Shultis

 

Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library • www.CrandallLibrary.org/Folklife-Center • 251 Glen St., Glens Falls, NY
• Online: Documentaries, Concerts, Stories: https://www.youtube.com/@thefolklifecenteratcrandal8195
• Blog stories: www.folklifecenter.com
•Folklife Gallery, Upstairs Gallery, Folklife Hallway:
• through Aug. 30: “Breaking the Chains: Lincoln & Douglass Linocuts of Stephen Alcorn”
• Apr. 4-Aug. 30: “Love Stories from 1000 Years Ago” Persian Illustrations by Jacquiline Touba
• through Jun. 11: Shutter Squad: Kids’ Photography Show

 

HudsonHall.org • 327 Warren St., Hudson, NY • 518-822-1438
• through Apr. 14: “E(n)ternal Lighf: The Eternal Ecosystem Exposed”
• through Nov. 26: “Houses and the Night Sky: The Art of Donna Dennis”
• Apr. 20-Jun. 2: Michael Lindsay-Hogg “Talking Pictures”

 

HydeCollection.org • 518-792-1761
• through Apr. 21: “Venetian Vistas” AND “Decorating in Style: Furniture from the Permanent Collection”
• through Jun. 2: “Paul Anthony Smith: Passage”
• May 4-Jun. 2: Annual High School Juried Show

 

Image Photos Gallery • 413-298-5500
• photography of Clemens Kalischer

 

JacobsPillow.org • Browse on demand at https://watch.jacobspillow.org and https://www.youtube.com/c/JacobsPillow

 

LABspace • 2642 NY Rte. 23, Hillsdale, NY • julielabspace@gmail.com • Sat.-Sun. 1-5 pm
• Apr. 6-28: Two Solos: Susan Still Scott’s “Arrows in My Quiver” and Pearl Cowan’s “Metamorphosis”

 

TheLafferGallery.com • 96 Broad St., Schuylerville, NY • 518-695-3181
• through Apr. 7: “A Moment Exposed” (accessible online)

 

LARAC.org • Glens Falls, NY • 518-798-1144
--Lapham Gallery • 7 Lapham Pl.
• through Apr. 3: “Fire Light”
• Apr. 12-May 15: “Mirror Master”

 

NationalBottleMuseum.org • 76 Milton Ave., Ballston Spa, NY • 518-885-7589
• Permanent: Bottles of the USA • Uranium Glass • Bottle that Held up Wall Street • Malcolm Jones Exhibit • Vintage Pharmacy Book Display • Glass Paperweight Collection • The Ralph and Eleanor Work Collection • Glass Factory Mountain: Making Bottles Making History (history of Mt. Pleasant community north of Greenfield, NY, 1844 to 1865)
• Ballston Spa Bottles • Commemorative & Advertising Shot Glasses • Coca Cola Bottles • Whimseys • Ellenville Glass Works 1836-1866

 

Norman Rockwell Museum • 9 Glendale Rd, Stockbridge, MA • nrm.org • 413-298-4100
• Mystery & Wonder: Highlights from the Illustration Collection
• Virtual Exhibition: Normal Rockwell: Imagining Freedom
• through May 27: “Between Worlds: The Art and Design of Leo Lionni”
• through Nov. 5: Tony Sarg: Genius at Play
• “Norman Rockwell: The Business of Illustrating the American Dream”
• Rockwell Re-Interpreted: Highlights from the Permanent Collection
• 323 “Saturday Evening Post” Covers

 

NorthCountryArts.org
--The Shirt Factory • Suite 120, 71 Lawrence St., Glens Falls, NY
• through Apr. 20: “Don’t Worry, It’s Just Art”
• May 4-Jun. 15: Expressions 2024 Juried Art Exhibit
--2nd Floor Gallery at City Hall • 42 Ridge St., Glens Falls, NY • 518-222-1471
• through Apr. 12: NCA Gallery
• through Jun. 29: Paintings by Rosie Wang Badera

 

Olana State Park • Hudson, NY • olana.org
• May 12-Oct. 27: Afterglow: Frederic Church and the Landscape of Memory

 

PamelaSalisburyGallery.com • 362 ½ Warren St., Hudson, NY
• through Apr. 5: Carl D’Alvia
• through Apr. 7: Lisa Ivory; Chris Bartlett
• Apr. 13-Jun. 9: Lothar Osterburg: “A Celebration of the Small”
• May 18-Jun. 16: Phoebe Helander: “In Plain Sight”

 

PoultneyMuseum.org • 168 York St., Poultney, VT • 802-884-8269
• Welsh-American Gene. Society rotating exhibits

 

RootedinSalem.org • 196 N. Main St., Unit A, Salem, NY • 518-772-9332
• Apr. 8-26: Nichole ‘Coco’ Everson: “Pieces of Me”


Saratoga-Arts.org • 320 Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY • 518-584-4132
• through Apr. 12: Juried Exhibition 2, feat. Karen Gerstenberger, Jackie Zysk & Lydia Sharp, Susan Meyer, Carol Bollinger Green
• Apr. 19-May 17: Juried Exhibition 3, feat. Madison Smrtic, Peter Harrison, Catherine Wagner Minnery, Timothy Shaffer


SeptemberGallery.com • 4 Hudson St., Kinderhook, NY
• through Apr. 7: “In the Pale Moonlight” (feat. 10 artists) and Neil Brookfield: “Humans of Course are Animals”

 

ShakerMuseum.us • Chatham, NY • 518-794-9100
• through Apr. 28: “Palm to Poplar: Devotional Labor” • The Kinderhook Knitting Mill, 8 Hudson St.


SohnFineArt.com • 69 Church St., Lenox, MA • 413-551-7353
• through Apr. 29: “Salon d’Hiver”

 

Southern Vermont Arts Center • 930 SVAC Dr., Manchester • 802-362-1405 • www.svac.org
• through Apr. 21: “Voices” & “Portraits in Red”
• through Apr. 21: “For the Love of Vermont”
• through Jul 14: Spring 2024 Solo Exhibition
• Apr. 27-May 26: Art from the Schools 2024


SusanEleyFineArt.com • 433 Warren St., Hudson, NY
• through Apr. 6: Enchantments: Ode to New Mexico (Carole Eisner, Margaret Fitzgerald & Michael Wright)
• Apr. 4-May 12: “Talking Threads”
• Apr. 11-May 25: “Femme” (Angela A’Court, Charles Buckley, Deirdre O’Connell, Deborah Freedman, Miriam Hitchcock, Ruth Shively, Jan Testori-Markman, Ulla Scheinermann)

 

Tang.skidmore.edu
• through May 5: Elevator Music 48: Alone, only in Flesh & Hyde Cabinet #24: Boyhood
• through May 19: “Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour”
• through Jun. 9: “Studio/Archive” (over 15 artists)
• through Sep. 7, 2025: Yvette Molina “A Promise to the Leaves” (evolving installation centered around earth, air, water, fire, & the cosmos)


ValleyArtisansMarket.com • 25 E. Main St., Cambridge, NY
• through Apr. 8: Anping Liu, Character in Nature
• Apr. 12-May 6: Kendra Farstad, Mostly About the Bees

 

Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery • One College Dr., Bennington, VT • 802-440-4547 • Tue.-Sat., 1-5 pm
• through Apr. 27: “Milford Graves: A Mind-Body Deal”

 

WorldChildrensMuseum.org • 89 Warren St., Glens Falls, NY
• Cultural Exhibits: ¡Hola, Mexico! • Thailand: Beauty and Beasts • World Music • Home & Family Life • World Fashion • Dragon Boat Race