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!
July 14: Rosa Sunfinger
- Make your own flower stickers
- Pollinator Matching Game: Match pollinator to flower type and color
Special Guests:
- St. Lawrence Tree Nursery - Mini Trolls with Grass Plugs
- Dan Spada - Reading forest landscapes
- Cabin Fever Floral - Arranging Wildflowers
- ADKX - Artist in Residence, Andrea Mancuso
- Artist’s statement: As a founding member of virocode, a collaborative practice producing artwork since 1987, I have spent nearly four decades exploring these liminal spaces where transformation occurs. Through virocode, my investigation of symbiotic relationships between the organic and the inorganic has taken our work from MoMA to international exhibitions and to local and regional immersive experiences, always with an open question about our collective relationship to the Anthropocene.My art practice operates at the intersection of artmaking, collaboration, and education, informed by a philosophy that values process over product. Through my 24-year tenure as teacher and Art Department Chair at Nichols School, teaching became part of my artmaking practice. Teaching allowed me to translate these collaborative principles into transformative educational experiences, creating comprehensive exhibition and collection programs while fostering lasting partnerships that extend far beyond the classroom. In my work with collectives including virocode and the Artsy Lobby, I have used my experience as a teacher to build public artworks and programming that engage the public in the world of artmaking, connecting the process to the experience of seeing and learning about artwork through photography, video, installation, and bio-art works.
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.
