2023 Keeseville Community Arts Festival: Plein Air Winners

July 27, 2023
11:28 am

AdkAction is pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 Plein Air Show at the Keeseville Community Arts Festival. Congratulations to the following prize winners and honorable mentions, and thank you to all 39 talented artists who participated!

First Place: “Waiting in Line” by Patricia Bellrose

Second Place: “Hazy Morning Wickham Marsh” by Tarryl Gabel

Third Place: “While the Gettin’s Good” by Katie Langford

“Limited Palette Award” Award: “Lily Pond at Wickham Marsh” by Vera Doumanoff

Uplifting Community Award: “Long Pond” by Patrick McPhee

Honorable Mentions:

“Morning with Mooing (Mace Chasm Farm)” by Holly Friesen

“Aroma Therapy” by Susan Whiteman

“Wickham Marsh Morning” by Christina Boyd

Christina Boyd with her panel

People’s Choice Award Artist: Tarryl Gabel

In addition to winning second place in the juried show, artist Tarryl Gabel was the crowd favorite for her entire slate of entered works, including the following pieces:

AdkAction’s Annual Pollinator-Friendly Native Plant Sale is Now Open!

Spring is just around the corner, and that means it’s time to get ready for AdkAction’s annual Pollinator-Friendly Native Plant Sale! This is your opportunity to bring vibrant, pollinator-supporting plants to your garden while helping to protect the Adirondack region’s critical pollinator populations. Pre-Order Your Plants Today! Preordering is now

We won’t just “wait and see.”

Dear AdkAction Community, Right now, we should be ordering hundreds of Fair Share Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) subscriptions from up to fifteen local farms across the Adirondacks to feed our North Country neighbors in need all spring and summer long. We should be distributing road salt reduction equipment to nearly

AdkAction’s Sawyer Bailey Testifies on Reducing Road Salt Pollution at NYS Budget Hearing

Sawyer Bailey, Executive Director of AdkAction, testified at the February 6th NY State Joint Legislative Hearing on the 2025 Executive Budget Proposal for Transportation, emphasizing the urgent need to reduce road salt pollution in the Adirondacks and across New York. She highlighted the widespread contamination of private wells downslope of