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Weekender A&E

Plein Air Festival is next week

SARANAC LAKE — From Texas to Illinois and Maryland to Maine, 40 artists are packing up their paints and canvases and will head to the Adirondacks for a week of painting. The 15th annual Adirondack Plein Air Festival will start on Monday and culminate with the Show & Sale on Saturday, ...

‘The Forest by Your Feet’ opens at artists guild

SARANAC LAKE — The featured artist at the Adirondack Artists Guild for the month of August is photographer and guild member Burdette Parks. The title of his exhibit is “The Forest by Your Feet: Intimate Portraits from the Woods.” The show opened on Aug. 4 and will run through Aug. 29. ...

Artist talk, demo slated this weekend at the VIC

SARANAC LAKE — A Capital Region artist, Takeyce Walter, will speak and do a live painting demonstration at the Paul Smith’s College Visitor’s Interpretive Center on Sunday. Walter plans to showcase her mixed media painting technique with pastels and gouache from 1 to 4 p.m. on Aug. ...

Bloomingdale Block Party returns this Saturday

BLOOMINGDALE — The Bloomingdale Block Party returns this Saturday with more than 40 different vendors and activities. There are a variety of new things to do on the schedule this year. Joe Ferris, a local artist, will be on hand to quick-draw caricatures of attendees from noon to 5 p.m. The ...

North Country novelist talks about how she does it

MOIRA — The latest novel in a supernatural mystery series, penned by North Country author S.H. Livernois, features a setting that might be familiar to local fantasy fans, Dungeons and Dragons players, and LARPers (live action role players) alike — the Sterling Renaissance Festival near ...