Troll Tuesdays
Tuesdays in July & August
from 4 to 7 pm
About Troll Tuesdays: Step into the mischievous, magical world of the TROLLS: Save the Humans exhibit every Tuesday evening! Each week, we’ll spotlight one of the six young trolls — from Rosa Sunfinger’s plant-loving ways to Ronja Redeye’s fiery passion for protecting nature — and invite you to join their adventures.
Get hands-on with make-and-take crafts, dive into interactive workshops, and discover the clever tricks the trolls use to help humans reconnect with nature. Whether you’re planting, building, creating, or just having a laugh, every Troll Tuesday is packed with fun, learning, and a little bit of troll mischief. Bring your curiosity, imagination, and playful spirit. The trolls can’t wait to share their world with you!
Cost: Free for members or with admission
Registration: ADMISSION TICKETS
Not a member? Learn more & join today!
August 18: Rosa Sunfinger
- Adopt a Plant activity using recycled containers
Special Guests:
- ADKX - Artist in Residence, Jinhong Chen (based in New York City)
- Artist’s statement: Jinghong Chen is a Chinese-born visual artist based in Queens, New York. Her work explores memory, place, and belonging through the medium of cut paper. She reflects on the layered experiences of migration and draws from the landscapes and traditions of both her hometown and her adopted home. Influenced by Chinese folk art, nature, and personal history, Chen’s hand-cut designs incorporate motifs rooted in cultural and spiritual imagery. These elements intertwine with natural forms and with narratives drawn from local histories. Across her practice, she often examines the tension between connection and distance, both physical and emotional, that emerges through displacement and assimilation.
Through cutting and layering paper, Chen creates pieces that bridge past and present. Her work offers a meditative space where identity, memory, and shared experiences of migration can be reconsidered. She invites viewers to reflect on how relationships with land, family, and home are continually rebuilt.
Chen graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2023 with a BFA in Illustration. Her work has been exhibited in Hawaii, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island. She has served as a juror for the 46th Annual Student Exhibition at Brown University, was a 2021 Contemporary Art Department Fellow at the RISD Museum, a finalist for an MTA Art & Design public art project, and a 2023 resident at the Peter Bullough Foundation.
- Artist’s statement: Jinghong Chen is a Chinese-born visual artist based in Queens, New York. Her work explores memory, place, and belonging through the medium of cut paper. She reflects on the layered experiences of migration and draws from the landscapes and traditions of both her hometown and her adopted home. Influenced by Chinese folk art, nature, and personal history, Chen’s hand-cut designs incorporate motifs rooted in cultural and spiritual imagery. These elements intertwine with natural forms and with narratives drawn from local histories. Across her practice, she often examines the tension between connection and distance, both physical and emotional, that emerges through displacement and assimilation.
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Music: Slough Creek
Slough Creek is a Saranac Lake, NY-based Americana band defined by tight harmonies and hold-onto-your-hat instrumental breaks. With songs rooted in place, Slough Creek transports listeners to the sagebrush steppe of Wyoming, woodland streams of the Midwest, salt marsh flats of New England, and the sloughs, fens, bogs, and mires of their Adirondack home.
Slough Creek is led by singer-songwriter Charlie Reinertsen on vocals and rhythm guitar. Marion Hoelzel provides intricate countermelodies on the banjo while singing harmonies that breathe life into each song. Bill Chamberlain provides the pepper and sizzle with dazzling mandolin work, and Jon Zander holds the entire band together through tight bass and masterful instrumental arrangements. Brought together by their love of wild places and the power of a good tune, their music bridges contemporary roots music traditions.
