Mohawk Valley
History, Museum and Gallery Events
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Mohawk Valley History and Museums Events
The Mohawk Center for the Arts is offering winter classes on Wednesdays with Doug Whitfield featuring Oil Painting Made Simple, Feb 9 – Mar 16. Contact MVCA or visit https://mohawkvalleyarts.org for details.
April 1, 2023 • 10:00 am – 4:00 pm. This is an introductory class geared toward people who are interested in beginning to learn about the art of blacksmithing. Participants will learn how to build and maintain a fire in the forge, heat metal, and practice hammer control while using the traditional tools and methods of a blacksmith. Each participant will build and take home their choice of a uniquely hand-crafted item.
During three one-hour courses, children will work with artist Ashley Norwood Cooper to make an art installation called “Revery Garden.” Program is included with museum admission.
Join artist Ashley Norwood Cooper and poet A.E. Stallings for a special artist talk and poetry reading at Fenimore Art Museum, presented on the opening day of the museum’s 2023 season.
Enjoy a full pancake breakfast along with contemporary and historic maple sugaring demonstrations, activities for the kids, and much more.
Find contemporary and historic maple sugaring demonstrations, activities for the kids, and much more. A full pancake breakfast including scrambled eggs, sausage, and home fries is served from 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and features local syrup provided by the Otsego County Maple Producers. All other activities run from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
April 8, 2023 • 10:00 am – 4:00 pm. Spend your day in the kitchen of the Lippitt Farm House learning how to bake traditional breads, cakes, and treats! Fire and bake in the brick bake oven, as well as a bake kettle, or Dutch oven. Share your delicious goods at the end of the session or take them home to impress your family!
Visit the Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site for the return of Museum Monday. We’ll be open during the off season for a couple hours on select Monday’s while offering refreshing discussion on a topic relevant to the month.
March we’ll look at Molly Brant and the role of women in the Haudenosaunee while you check out the Pathway to Empire exhibit.
Short presentation is at 11:30am.
Join Associate Curator Ann Cannon for a lunch followed by a tour of the special exhibit, Imprinted: The American Painter-Etcher Movement.
April 15, 2023 • 10:00 am – 4:00 pm. How does a broom become a broom? Learn this and more as you transform a wooden handle, broom corn straw, and wind into a beautiful and functional handmade broom. Take home your own creation to clean house or give away as a gift.
Work with Grey Fox Felting to make your own needle felted hen! All supplies provided, suitable for beginners!
During three one-hour courses, children will work with artist Ashley Norwood Cooper to make an art installation called “Revery Garden.” Program is included with museum admission.
Un Hombre by Stephen Kaplan • Directed by Mary Davis Fralick • Sunday, April 16 • 3:00-5:00pm • Fenimore Art Museum’s auditorium
A modern-day golem story about Rebecca Wolfson, a recently widowed single mother, who makes a clay man that comes to life and serves as a Bar Mitzvah and Spanish tutor for her 12-year-old son.
On Monday, April 17, at 6:30 pm at the Mayfield Presbyterian Church, Marjorie Ann Dancing Wind Heacock of the Tribes Hill Heritage Center will be the guest speaker on Native American culture and history in the Mohawk Valley.
As part of the 3rd Annual Third Thursday Winter Lecture Series, Fulton County Historical Society Executive Director, Samantha Hall-Saladino will discuss the legends, myths, and lore of some of the county’s most intriguing history. No spoilers here, but these tales need telling. No registration required.
Meet up at Yankee Hill Lock for the 2023 Canal Clean Sweep! Volunteers will clean up along the Eagle Trail and the Empire State Trail. More details to come. Register on Parks & Trails NY website: www.ptny.org/events/canal-clean-sweep
April 22, 2023 • 10:00 am – 4:00 pm. Delight your family and friends by sending them a unique handmade greeting card! Choose from our collection of type, ornaments, and illustrations to create your own text and design, learn how to set it by hand and lock it in a chase before taking it to our 1862 Liberty Press to print.
Mohawk Valley Museum Exhibits
Three Solo Shows • Friday, March 3 – April 30 • Three photographers who were juried into the Art of New York: Annual Juried Art Show 2022 exhibit their work, each offering a different perspective on the New York State scene.
Frame of Mind by Robert Coppola • The Snows of Canajoharie by Phil Scalia • Steeples Along the Mohawk and Schoharie by Todd Boebel
The Role of the Macbeth Gallery in Shaping the Collection • Saturday, March 4 – December 30 You told me earlier in the year that some day you wanted a fine Inness…Robert Macbeth to Bartlett Arkell, March 8, 1917
The Macbeth Gallery had a profound impact on the development of American art. It was the first gallery in New York City to focus on work by American artists, and held many ground-breaking exhibits. Our founder Bartlett Arkell made many important purchases at the Macbeth Gallery, and worked closely with gallery directors to build our extraordinary collection. This exhibit is a small tribute to his vision for the future, and the early work of the Macbeth Gallery.
Salt Glazed Stoneware from New York State and Vermont • Saturday, March 4 – August 20
This exhibition celebrates the art of salt glazed stoneware from New York and Vermont, and sheds light on where these utilitarian objects were produced and by whom. Each stoneware piece delights with fanciful patterns, objects, animals, and even people!
The pieces from this exhibition are from the Fenimore Art Museum and The Farmers’ Museum collection, and comprise choice pieces from their extensive stoneware collection.
Sargent, Whistler, and more from the Arkell Museum Collection
Saturday, March 4 – May 14
Featuring some of our favorite and most interesting frames protecting and showcasing work by John Singer Sargent, George Inness, Edward Gay, Maurice Prendergast, and more.
An Exhibition and closing reception on May 19, 2023, from 6-9pm, for “Fragments” by Valentine Louafi. “My work examines the personal and universal exchange found in contemporary portraiture, dialogues and relationships.”
I CUT PAPER. I CUT THE WORLD. MY BLADE IS MY BRUSH.
This summer’s exhibition at The Rice Homestead is “School Days.” The Rice Homestead will be open starting Saturday, June 10th, from noon – 4 p.m. and every Saturday and Wednesday thereafter until Labor Day Weekend.
Discover the history of the Mohawk Valley
The Mohawk Valley is located along the Mohawk River in the ancestral lands of the Kanienʼkehá:ka’ (Mohawk) and Oneida. We offer our deepest respect to Hodinöhsö:ni’ ancestors, past and present.
