Plein Air Thursdays at the Kelly Adirondack Center July 10, 17, and 24, 2025 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. free and open to the public Please feel free to share this invitation! Do you like to paint or draw outside with others in natural spaces? Please join us for Plein Air Thursdays at the Kelly […]
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Join us at the Schenectady Kids’ Art Festival
The Kelly Adirondack Center table will be helping children start nature journals at the Schenectady Kid’s Art Festival! Saturday, June 7 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Jay Street, Schenectady
Join us at the Union College Community Carnival!
We’ll be coloring sheets that share information on the New York State official fish, amphibian, and insect.
Join us at Pride Fest!
We’ll be making Pride bracelets Saturday, May 10 2:30p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Pride Fest is hosted annually by Union Pride to celebrate and uplift Union’s LGBTQ+ community and its allies. Dozens of departments, organizations, clubs, and businesses, from both on and off campus, will be tabling. They will have resources, trivia, games, activities, and […]
Spring 2025 Kelly Adirondack Center Newsletter
The Spring 2025 Kelly Adirondack Center Newsletter is now online! Learn more about our upcoming exhibition, Time and Place West and East, opening May 1. The exhibition of photographs by Carol McCord and poems by Professor Emeritus Jim McCord will be up through September. Missed a Kelly Adirondack Center program? The Newsletter includes […]
Minerva Jams Session
Friday, March 28 | 12:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Kelly Adirondack Center free and open to the public Come for a few songs or stay for the whole session! This will be northeast style round-robin session with a mix of old-time, New England, Irish, and Canadian tunes along with traditional and contemporary songs, key changes […]
A Tree of 40 Fruit and The Open Orchard
with Sam VanAken Thursday, April 24, 2025 • 5:30 P.M. Old Chapel | Union College | Coffee and Dessert from 5:00 P.M. Sponsored by the Kelly Adirondack Center, UCALL, USustain, and Octopus’s Garden This event is free and open to the public. The Tree of 40 Fruit is a single tree that grows forty different […]
Plein Air Painting at Great Camp Sagamore: and So Much More
with Wes Sherman March 28, 2025 Talk at 4:00 p.m. at the Kelly Adirondack Center, 897 St. David’s Lane, Niskayuna Recording available below. The Center will be open from 3:00 p.m. for those who would like time to view the current exhibition. This event is free and open to the public. […]
Curious About Plein Air Painting?
January 14, 2025 at the Kelly Adirondack Center 11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. See painters’ setups and discuss their gear 12 p.m. Panel Discussion and Questions on Plein Air Painting Are you plein air curious? Join artists from our current art exhibit and other Capital Region plein air artists for a brown bag […]
This is Your Brain on Paper: The art and science of keeping a nature journal
Zoom Webinar with John Muir Laws Sponsored by The Kelly Adirondack Center, UCALL, and the Union College Sustainability Office January 23, 2025 at 7 p.m. Free and open to the public Open the door to rich discovery, better memory, and more fun in nature. What if you could change one simple thing and make […]