We’re buzzing with activity this spring at the Kelly Adirondack Center! The Kelly Adirondack Center 2023 Spring Newsletter shares our enthusiasm for the Art of Noticing this season ! This issue also includes details of the importance of a large digitization project in the Adirondack Research Library, and an invitation to stop in to see […]
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The Sound of the Adirondacks with Dan Berggren
at the Kelly Adirondack Center Outdoor Amphitheater Wednesday, May 24, 2023 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. We are watching the progress of the rain forecasted for this afternoon. We hope to bring the chairs outside after the rain but they’re set up in the Adirondack Room […]
Ethereal: On Ephemeral Photography
Zoom Webinar with Manuel Palacios Thursday, April 27, 2023 7:00 p.m. This event was free and open to the public. This event was recorded: The quiet atmosphere of the dawn, the passing storm. They bring along soft and dramatic light that captures ephemeral subjects. For brief periods, these subjects seem to grab all the […]
Nature Photography with Warren Greene
Sunday, February 19, 2023 • 1:00 p.m. Olin Center, Room 115 | Union College free and open to the public Co-sponsored by the Union College Ornithology Club and the Audubon Society of the Capital Region Warren Greene is a native of Gloversville. He retired after 34 years at the Fulton County Probation Department and worked […]
Create Your Own Birch Bark Frame with Prof. Lorraine Morales Cox
Open to Students, Faculty, and Staff of Union College Wednesday February 22, 2023 4p.m. to 6p.m. The Adirondack Room at the Kelly Adirondack Center This event is free but registration is required. Please email amodeom@union.edu. Sponsored by the Visual Arts Department and the Kelly Adirondack Center Birch bark picture frames and mirrors have adorned […]
Layers of Autumn
January 8 – June 4, 2023 at the Kelly Adirondack Center at Union College The Kelly Adirondack Center and Union College Department of Visual Arts are pleased to present Layers of Autumn, an exhibition of paintings by Shriya Balaji ’23, Natalie Berg-Pappert ’23, Talia Coker ’23, Saliha Nazir ’23, Isabel Pacchiana ’24 and Emily […]
Adirondack Portraits: The Photography of Osmond D. Putnam The Adirondacks in the 19th Century
Introduction The communities in which Putnam took photographs were not the great camps and high peaks of the seasonal tourist. Rather, they were the remote valleys where settlers labored as lumberjacks and farmers. The pioneering families understood that managing the harsh weather and thin soil would be a hard life, and the starkness of these […]
A Letter to Walter Hatke
From Prof. Jordan Smith Forgot my morning wishes, hastily Took a few herbs and apples… -RW Emerson I want to start this one from scratch, the slight Drag of my pen across the notebook’s length Before I even know the words I’ll write In that taut balance of texture and intent, And as […]
Fall 2022 Kelly Adirondack Newsletter
Catch up with some of the events and activities of Fall 2022 at the Kelly Adirondack Center!
Adirondack Portraits: The Photography of Osmond D. Putnam About the Collection
About the images The Osmond D. Putnam photographs (ARL-081) contains 132 images taken between 1885 and 1887 near Johnsburg, New York. Glass plate negatives are composite objects, consisting of a glass support, a binder, and an image-forming substance. During the 1870s, gelatin dry plate negatives became commercially available in pre-cut packs. This is what Putnam […]