New for 2025
The exhibition features new acquisitions and rarely seen pieces from the museum’s art vaults, with a special emphasis on textile arts in 2025. Highlights include Tabletop Mountain, a large tapestry by pioneering artist Cynthia Schira; a dimensional felted landscape by New York artist Sara Pearsall; and Ripple: Lake Water, a hooked wool piece by Liz Alpert Fay inspired by the shimmering surface of Blue Mountain Lake. Additional new works by bead workers, sculptors, photographers, and painters expand the story of how the Adirondacks have shaped and sparked artistic vision.
Artists & Inspiration’s four main galleries illustrate how the natural features of the Adirondacks—light, forests, water, and mountains—have sparked the creative visions of painters, sculptors, and expert artisans.
From the renowned—men such as Asher B. Durand, Thomas Cole, Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, Seneca Ray Stoddard, and Rockwell Kent—to the groundbreaking—Edna West Teall, Dorothy Dehner, Margaret Bourke-White, Takeyce Walter, Niio Perkins, and Natasha Smoke Santiago—Artists & Inspiration will offer an inclusive and wide-reaching interpretation of Adirondack art. These visionaries have looked at the same landscapes and drawn from the same materials to create an incomparable artistic legacy.
After exploring the main galleries, visitors end their journey in a makerspace created in collaboration with Adirondack artist Barney Bellinger.
Visit Artists & Inspiration in the Wild to make new memories.
What will inspire you?