Join New York Folklore for Art Night in Schenectady! This event is free and open to the public. New York Folklore will host Oksana Zakhariia, who will demonstrate pysanky eggs, often called "Ukrainian Easter Eggs," pysanky is a tradition practiced across Eastern...
Join New York Folklore for Art Night in Schenectady! This event is free and open to the public. New York Folklore will host the Aung Family in our gallery. Pinya and Ehsue Aung, along with their children Wae Nin, Myint, and Sunin will give intermittent performances of...
New York Folklore is excited to welcome the public, artists, partners, and members back into the gallery and shop after an exciting month of renovations! Please join us to view Young Traditions, a new exhibit placing the spotlight on the young people keeping their...
Join us as we celebrate the artists and organizations awarded funding from the New York State Council on the Arts, with support from New York Folklore. To find out more about the grantees and their awards please visit out blog. You can learn more about the New York...
New York Folklore along with other Jay Street Marketplace businesses will participate in the Jay Street Holiday Open House from 12 pm to 2pm. Come to New York Folklore to learn to play dreidel, the Hannukah game, and enjoy mini cupcakes, festive drinks, and holiday...
Celebrate the Arab community and families from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), connecting the past with the present and over a 100 years of immigration from the Arab world. The event will feature cultural art, music, and food made local families who...
As part of Downtown Schenectady's Art Night for October, New York Folklore will hold an opening reception for "Yellow Mountain Journey," a study of Zhong Hua Lu's journey in the Yellow Mountain region of China through the medium of Chinese brush painting. We invite...
New York Folklore will have an ongoing demonstration by Efthimios (Altin) Stoja, outside of the New York Folklore gallery at 129 Jay Street. Altin trained in the Byzantine/ Macedonian style of iconography under master artist Tsuni Spilio in Nea Makri, Greece, before...
Join us on July 11th at 5 pm to celebrate the most recent addition to Schenectady’s public art scene. The “Celebrate Caribbean Culture” by Rae Fraiser. Located at the entrance to Tropics Restaurant at 201 S Brandywine Ave.The mural is part of New York Folklore’s...
In collaboration with the Tri-County Arts Council, New York Folklore invites you to a "meet and greet" and an information session about folk arts and folklore documentation in New York's westernmost Southern Tier. Funded by a grant from the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. ...
Join us on Thursday, May 2nd from 5pm to 7pm for a free reception in honor of Pulse of the Heart:Drums and Sacred Dream Circles. The artist, Zelda Hotaling will be in attendence and light refreshments will be served. You can read more about at the exhibit at...
Mexican American musicians Maria Puente Flores, Mateo Cano, Víctor Lizabeth, Oviedo Horta Jr, and Adriana Pericchi, explore the tradition of Son Jarocho as Pulso De Barro. The musicians draw on their varied heritages (Mexican, Cuban, Venezuelan and Puerto Rican) to...
Join us for this free reception with artists Mishka Luft and Jianling Yue. Light refreshments will be served. An RSVP is suggested but not required. You can find more info about the exhibit at https://nyfolklore.org/event/papercuts/ The exhibit can viewed whenever...
New York Folklore is pleased and proud to be a "Spotlight" beneficiary for the 2024 Albany Chefs Food and Wine Festival! Each year, the City of Albany, holds a 3-day festival of food and wine by area chefs and food purveyors, with the proceeds benefiting non-profit...
Join us on September 14th from 4:00 - 6:00 for a reception for "Hattitude! The Hats of Louise Hughes Rolling" with curator, Vicie Rolling. The daughter of the millener, Louise Hughes Rolling, Vicie will give a presentation on her mother and her mother's work as a...