Live Stone Seal Carving with Anping Liu Stop by the New York Folklore shop and gallery on Friday to see Voices in Stone artist Anping Liu demonstrate the millennia-old art of Chinese seal carving! Stone Seal Carving Live Demonstration Friday, October 16, 5:00PM-8:00PM...
VOICES IN STONE OPENING RECEPTION Voices in Stone features hand-carved stone seals inspired by both Eastern and Western cultures. Through seal impressions and related artwork, the exhibition highlights the beauty of Chinese seal carving, an art form with a history of...
Join New York Folklore during Art Night Schenectady to celebrate the opening of No Matter Eastern or Western: Abstract Expressionism of Lunar Five Elements by Xiaoping Xu. An opening reception will be held on November 21st at Schenectady Art Night from 5pm to 8:30pm....
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...