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Celebrating with our arts community

Saranac Lake’s arts revival of the last two decades is real, robust and worth celebrating. And the Enterprise has been a big part of that, reporting on new developments, covering exhibits and plays and concerts with our words and photos, interviewing people making these art forms and displaying it all in the pages of our main news section as well as our Weekender arts and entertainment section every Thursday.

Now a cluster of anniversaries has come around, and we are celebrating them both in print and in person tomorrow.

This Thursday’s Weekender will have four special feature stories on important milestones in Saranac Lake’s arts scene, even if some of them are inexact anniversaries: It’s been 20 years since painter Tim Fortune founded the popular Third Thursday Art Walks in 1998, two decades since the founding of the Adirondack Artists Guild (actually it’s been 21, but we missed it last year), 12 years of the local Studio Tours (yeah, we missed the round number on that one, too), and an even 10 years of ArtWorks, a behind-the-scenes organization that makes much of this creative flourish possible.

Other anniversaries are part of the celebration, too: We will write about 10 years of the Adirondack Plein Air Festival and 10 years of the Hobofest music festival when those events come closer, and it’s also been 10 years since the Enterprise started its annual Arts in the Park guide, a popular publication available for free all over the Adirondacks, full of a robust calendar of events, color images and write-ups on localized arts events.

As we said, we’re also celebrating in person. Tomorrow is a Third Thusday Art Walk, which will include an open house at the Enterprise office to kick off all these anniversaries.

Please stop by 54 Broadway and visit us, and much of this village’s arts community as well. We have documented their truly grassroots growth, and seen the optimism it brings people here. We will continue to support it for decades to come.

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