Community Calendar

This summer, the Rippleton Schoolhouse at Lorenzo invites visitors of all ages to engage with history hands-on. Have a lesson in the authentic 1887 schoolhouse, try your hand at traditional games and activities, and explore the beautiful grounds. Follow Lorenzo’s Facebook and Instagram for special activities and scheduling changes. Sensory friendly. Admission is free.

How do we reconcile our engineered past with an ecological future?

2025 Erie Canal Artists-in-Residence Sarah Cameron Sunde and Kari Varner explore the Canal from an environmental lens.

Kari Varner, a distinguished photographer and educator, explored key ecological sites along the canal, integrating harvested plants into her photographic artworks. Sarah Cameron Sunde, an innovative interdisciplinary artist, engaged with canal communities to create pieces that physically and ecologically connect with the canal. She also developed work in collaboration with Jeremy Dennis, a contemporary fine art photographer and an enrolled Tribal Member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation in Southampton, NY.

Cazenovia Artisans presents recent artwork by Sally Hootnick with an opening reception on September 4, 5- 7 p.m., open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. Sally's work is inspired by nature, and her interpretations in oil and encaustics are colorful, playful, and expressive, often presented in landscapes and still lifes. There will be an artist talk at 6 p.m.

Revisit the Revolution at Steuben Memorial State Historic for a weekend-long celebration of Baron von Steuben’s contribution to the American Revolution. In 1777, the Prussian-born Steuben volunteered his services to advise the ill-trained American army. At Valley Forge, he converted the ragged, starving army into an effective fighting force. The event will feature a Revolutionary War encampment and twice-daily reenactments of Steuben’s time at Valley Forge.

Visitors are invited to interact with the interpreters and ask questions, and kids will be invited to participate in military drills with wooden muskets. An artillery fire demonstration will take place at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday. A travelling Revolutionary War exhibit will feature the uniform of William North, Aide-de-Camp to Baron von Steuben. Demonstrations of colonial beer brewing, laundry, and 18th-century toys and games will be ongoing during the weekend.

The event will close on Sunday with a 2:00 p.m. performance by the Utica Mannerchor choir, followed by a 3:00 p.m. Commemoration Ceremony beginning at the cabin and processing to the tomb for the laying of wreaths and a cannon and musket salute.

Find a complete schedule of the weekend’s events online, or call 315-655-3200. Admission is free.

Tyler Art Gallery at SUNY Oswego presents Dialogues Across Time, a two-person exhibition bringing together the work of Juan Perdiguero and Marc Hungerbühler. Spanning three decades of practice, the exhibition traces each artist's evolution through key works selected to illuminate their individual trajectories and unexpected points of convergence.

Perdiguero's lifelike renderings of figures and animals stand in sharp visual contrast to Hungerbühler's organic abstraction, which resists figure and ground alike. And yet both artists circle the same essential concepts: control and surrender, permanence and impermanence, the tension between what endures and what dissolves. Their dialogue echoes what the Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno called the tragic sense of life, which he defines as the human negotiation between our longing to persist and our awareness that all things change and end. Viewed together, their work is a sustained meditation on what it means to make something in the face of inevitable dissolution and decay. These artists find meaning not in resolving this conflict but in finding the courage to exist within the tentative state of the unknown. The resulting artworks give material form to a concept that holds sadness and profound beauty.

Hungerbühler will also be showing a two-channel immersive video installation in the White Box Gallery in Hewitt Hall. This installation will feature some of his well-known works such as Navajo, Stinger, Susie Q, and Civilian Pavilion.

How do we reconcile our engineered past with an ecological future?

2025 Erie Canal Artists-in-Residence Sarah Cameron Sunde and Kari Varner explore the Canal from an environmental lens.

Kari Varner, a distinguished photographer and educator, explored key ecological sites along the canal, integrating harvested plants into her photographic artworks. Sarah Cameron Sunde, an innovative interdisciplinary artist, engaged with canal communities to create pieces that physically and ecologically connect with the canal. She also developed work in collaboration with Jeremy Dennis, a contemporary fine art photographer and an enrolled Tribal Member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation in Southampton, NY.

Cazenovia Artisans presents recent artwork by Sally Hootnick with an opening reception on September 4, 5- 7 p.m., open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. Sally's work is inspired by nature, and her interpretations in oil and encaustics are colorful, playful, and expressive, often presented in landscapes and still lifes. There will be an artist talk at 6 p.m.

Revisit the Revolution at Steuben Memorial State Historic for a weekend-long celebration of Baron von Steuben’s contribution to the American Revolution. In 1777, the Prussian-born Steuben volunteered his services to advise the ill-trained American army. At Valley Forge, he converted the ragged, starving army into an effective fighting force. The event will feature a Revolutionary War encampment and twice-daily reenactments of Steuben’s time at Valley Forge.

Visitors are invited to interact with the interpreters and ask questions, and kids will be invited to participate in military drills with wooden muskets. An artillery fire demonstration will take place at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday. A travelling Revolutionary War exhibit will feature the uniform of William North, Aide-de-Camp to Baron von Steuben. Demonstrations of colonial beer brewing, laundry, and 18th-century toys and games will be ongoing during the weekend.

The event will close on Sunday with a 2:00 p.m. performance by the Utica Mannerchor choir, followed by a 3:00 p.m. Commemoration Ceremony beginning at the cabin and processing to the tomb for the laying of wreaths and a cannon and musket salute.

Find a complete schedule of the weekend’s events online, or call 315-655-3200. Admission is free.

Join art historian Elisabeth Genter Montevecchio for a free 45-minute tour highlighting Lorenzo’s amazing fine art collection, including works by Sanford Gifford, Edward Moran, Jasper Cropsey, Dwight Williams, and 17th-century Dutch Masters. Reservations are required as space is limited. Call 315-655-3200, ext. 106 or email: jacqueline.roshia@parks.ny.gov
Admission to the program is free.

How do we reconcile our engineered past with an ecological future?

2025 Erie Canal Artists-in-Residence Sarah Cameron Sunde and Kari Varner explore the Canal from an environmental lens.

Kari Varner, a distinguished photographer and educator, explored key ecological sites along the canal, integrating harvested plants into her photographic artworks. Sarah Cameron Sunde, an innovative interdisciplinary artist, engaged with canal communities to create pieces that physically and ecologically connect with the canal. She also developed work in collaboration with Jeremy Dennis, a contemporary fine art photographer and an enrolled Tribal Member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation in Southampton, NY.