The annual Stroll Through the Arts Gala will kick off at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday in Fowler-Kellogg Art Center. After enjoying some wine and hors d’oeuvres, everyone will “‘stroll’ over to the Strohl gallery,” said
The gallery store in Strohl Art Center, with its hundreds of artworks and gifts, is like a gallery within a gallery. Lynn LeFauve estimates this is her sixth summer running the Gallery Store. A retired
Chautauqua is stop number 44 of 94 for Sharon Louden as she promotes her new book, The Artist as Culture Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life. At 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Hultquist Center,
This isn’t the first time Seth Clark has shown work at Chautauqua’s art galleries. Three years ago, his work was featured in the Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution show “Homeward Bound: An American Pictoral.” Guest
Ying Li calls painting a salvation. Li, who will speak at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Hultquist Center, was born in Beijing and grew up during China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Not long after her
For artists, an exhibition is equivalent to an orchestra performing on the stage, said Don Kimes, artistic director of the Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution. The VACI School of Art Annual Student Exhibition holds it
With several upcoming exhibitions in progress, Raheleh Filsoofi drove 17 hours over the course of a few days, traveling from Providence to D.C. to Buffalo, before finally landing in Chautauqua on Sunday. After a two-week
If great minds think alike, so do great artistic minds. “Homage to Mango Street,” an exhibition showcasing the work of seven contemporary Latino artists, overlaps with Saturday’s Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra premiere of “Mango Suite” by
Peter Georgescu, former CEO of the global marketing and communications company Young & Rubicam, will hold a book signing at 1 p.m. Thursday at the Chautauqua Bookstore. His book Capitalists Arise! was released May 1
It may come only once a year, but when it does, Library Day is a time for celebration. “It is a celebration of the role of the library in the community,” said Scott Ekstrom, director
Judy Barie wanted to give herself a challenge. Barie, the Susan and Jack Turben Director of VACI Galleries, isn’t actually that attracted to the color red, and yet she curated an entire exhibition focused on
Scott Kennedy’s grandfather, an engineer, visited China in the mid-1980s. At the time, Kennedy was a student at the University of Virginia, studying Spanish. His grandfather, who had noted China was on the brink of
Glenn Goldberg’s book is a mystery. Its title is a question mark, literally. “That’s probably going to wreck a bit of havoc in terms of where they would file it,” Goldberg said. In his lecture
Adelaide La Fond has been coming to Chautauqua Institution with her husband since the 1980s. “For an artist, it’s the closest place to heaven I’m going to get,” La Fond said. La Fond is one
Lola Noller, a lifelong Chautauquan, has been spending summers here since she was only three months old. Lola, a retriever mix, was born outdoors in Accord, New York, and rescued by the Ulster County SPCA
The weather this week has been rather gloomy, but audiences will have their chances to “soak up the sun” Friday. Sheryl Crow’s appearance at 8:15 p.m. in the Amphitheater will be one of many stops