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.

Norman Rockwell: Illustrating Humor highlights selections from Rockwell’s most amusing artworks drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection.

Norman Rockwell: Illustrating Humor runs concurrently with What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine, this summer’s landmark exhibition of original art from one of America’s oldest humor publications. These thematically linked exhibitions juxtapose and illuminate two strikingly different veins of American humor, from the gently comical to the outrageously satirical. The underlying unity, however, is apparent in the brilliance of the illustrations and the successful intent to prompt viewers’ laughter and, perhaps, invite rueful self-recognition.

FREE dance & movement workshops over Spring Break between Apr. 14-17 for youth ages 5-12. Classical & contemporary dance & movement education taught by career professionals working in the field. Workshops will incorporate ballet, musical theater, modern dance, improvisation, Capoira martial arts & more. Register for one or multiple days! Catskill Elementary School 770 Embought Rd, Catskill, NY 12414 This program is free but pre-registration is required. Register: https://bit.ly/41UIO3N

“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.

Visit the classroom between April 15-19th for an all day, drop-in, LEGO Building contest.

All entries will be displayed in the adult fiction section of the Library from April 22– 27th for voting in person and on Facebook.

The winner will receive a prize!

This is a FREE program. All ages are welcome to participate.

For questions, please call 518-673-2314 ext. 106 or email info@arkellmuseum.org

Check out our windows where Joanne Pagano Weber "Portraits of Saugerties” will be on display for the month of April for Poetry Month. Joanne started this project a few years ago and wanted to let each portrait spring from her desire to communicate through the heart of each person, so they tell their stories visually.

Will Nixon is a local poet who wrote “If Not in Heaven, Then in Saugerties” which came out in late 2024. Will’s poetry book has acrostic poems, when the first letter of each new line spells out the word, in this case the businesses in Saugerties. On the cover of Will’s poetry book you will find Joanne’s portraits because they wanted to celebrate the people and places of Saugerties.

You will be able to purchase “If Not in Heaven, Then in Saugerties” by Will Nixon in the front of Newberry Artisan Market and when you check out the windows to see if you know the locals that Joanne painted!

The Season at Art on Main opens in April with "Flora Fauna Stone" representing 6 Berkshire Guild ceramic artists, Anne Ferril, Moira O'Grady, Ingrid Raab, Caryn King, Barbara Roth and Paula Shalan

April 3- 27

Show Hours: Thur - Sun, 11am - 4pm

Reception- Saturday April 5, 2- 4pm

38 Main Street, West Stockbridge, MA

Reception: Saturday April 5, 2 - 4pm

Osi Audu responds to selections from Pierre Brooks’ African art collection. Inspired by the abstract geometric possibilities he sees in African art and cultural objects, Audu explores the relationship between mind and body, the tangible and intangible, form and void, and the prevalent African concept of dualism in relation to the self.

Grades 5-8
Price: $240

Want to share your story in a creative way? Do you love comics, graphic novels, cartoons, and other forms of sequential art? Using a combination of researched storytelling methods and artistic experiments, students will explore what makes the art of cartooning unique and work together to translate our stories into real-life printed comic books. Students will be encouraged to stretch themselves creatively while still learning the technical basics needed to create a professional comic book. Each student will complete at least four pages of their own comic story, and the final stories will be assembled and printed as an anthology collection available at the local comic shop, World End Comics.

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Please register at least a week in advance to guarantee your spot.

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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. Discount codes can be found on our website while registering.

8 Tuesdays
March 25, April 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, May 6, 13 (snow day May 20)
4:00 - 5:30pm

Gary Rivlin is the author of AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence (March 2025), an exclusive, behind-the-scenes account of the world of AI development in Silicon Valley.

Gary Rivlin
4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 15, 2025
University at Albany
Multi-Purpose Room Campus Center West
1400 Washington Avenue, Albany NY 12222
Books will be sold. A signing will follow the conversation.

Over the course of more than a year, Rivlin shadowed LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, whom the Wall Street Journal once called, “the most connected person in Silicon Valley.” Through Hoffman, Reid enjoyed access to numerous founders and venture capitalists during this pivotal moment in the evolution of AI technology.

A Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter, Rivlin has been writing about technology since the mid-1990s and the rise of the internet.

Cosponsored by the UAlbany Honors College and the AI Plus Institute, UAlbany's hub for interdisciplinary AI research.