2024 Great Arts Benefit

Dear Arts Center Members and Supporters, 

On behalf of the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts (ALCA) Board of Trustees, staff, members, and volunteers, we thank you for your ongoing support for a fantastic season, as we enter our 58th year here at the Arts Center. Throughout this season, we have been delighted to bring the arts back to Blue Mountain Lake, and to the greater Adirondack Park region.    

Overflowing with variety, our lively schedule this year included performances by: rowdy jazz Folkfaces; world-renowned concert pianist Tony Siqi Yun; Chicago-based cello and violin duo Anita and Julian Graef; and the country duo Martin and Kelly. Our ADK Lakes Theatre Festival brought spirited performances of Hamlet and H.M.S. Pinafore. We presented the world premiere of the play The Cure: An Adirondack Story this fall to audiences across the Adirondacks. Our Workshop Wednesdays brought creative artistic projects to adults from illuminated paper vessels, to watercolor landscapes and plaster relief sculptures. The Summer Kids’ Arts Camp enabled local area children to create ceramic toad and fairy houses and painted paper butterflies, all in an enthusiastic environment. The gallery exhibits, including those featuring ALCA members and the Adirondack Folk School, were enjoyed by many residents, vacationers and travelers - highlighting the connection of artists from around New York State and beyond - to the beauty of the Adirondacks. Brought back by popular demand, the ALCA Auction was a huge success, gathering the community to donate, volunteer, and to monetarily support the arts in the Adirondacks, while bidding and buying unique items and antiques. What fun we had at the ALCA Auction!  

Also by community request, we are bringing back our “Non-Attendance 2024 Great Arts Benefit”. We are inviting supporters near and far to participate in this year's Great Arts Benefit fundraiser from the comfort of your own “camp” -  your home! No travel plans or attendance required! Not only are we fundraising for ALCA, but we are also reaching out to the community for suggestions and comments, and to see if any of you would be interested in volunteering your time and talent to the Arts Center. Please see the enclosed form for giving, providing suggestions and comments, and indicating your interest in volunteering. All unique abilities and talents are welcome! The very foundation of ALCA is the community supporting it, and without you the Arts Center would not be flourishing as it is today.   

As we celebrate the arts in the Adirondacks, we invite you to give to ALCA, to provide us with feedback, and to sign up to volunteer. Thank you again from the ALCA community, and we look forward to hearing from you. 

Yours in the Arts,

Joanna Pine, Board President
Jean-Marie Donohue, Development General Director
George Cordes, Artistic General Director

ALCA Board of Trustees:
Joanna Pine, Mary Leach, Todd Friebel, Karen Butters, Kathleen Peartree, Deborah Marriott, Monica Bills, Karen Kirkham, Mike Corey, Mark Chamberlain, Sally Wheeler, Douglas Stinson