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Many of the 69 artists featured in “Quilts=Art=Quilts 2023” focus on nature in the Schweinfurth’s annual art quilt exhibit

Painter Susan Hoffer, who lives in Lake Placid, is featured in a solo exhibit, “Rural Voice Rising: Can Art Subvert Media’s Narrative?”, on display at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, NY, from Sept. 1 to Oct. 15, 2023. Her paintings of North Country residents draw attention for her process as well as their descriptive titles and explanations.

Schweinfurth Art Center’s “Member Show 2023,” which runs Sept. 1 through Oct. 15, 2023, includes 120 works from 128 people this year. The show contains a wide variety of mediums, including photographs, watercolors, collages, and even a dress made from palm fronds. It also has drawn entries from as far away as California and Florida.

Moravia, NY, photographer Fred Price’s solo exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center comprises his entire life’s work. But the pieces on display mirror his focus on reflections.

Kevin Carr began dabbling in fabric as a medium while at Alfred University, and cemented his love for textiles when he inherited boxes of denim scraps from his grandmother

The artworks featured in well-known quilt maker Nancy’s Crow’s exhibition, “Nancy Crow: Sequences, Riffs, and Drawings,” represent three directions her process has taken her based on her lifelong challenge of staying focused. After many years of creating art in many directions, Crow said it’s coming together.

Buffalo-based artist Gary Sczerbaniewicz builds beautiful wooden pedestals that have small windows. Look inside and you’ll get a peek into the artist’s mind as you view miniature dioramas of a normal bedroom – until you notice the arm of an enormous insect reaching in through a window.

He is this year’s first Emerging Artist to be featured in both the Schweinfurth Art Center and Cayuga Museum of History & Art from March 25 through May 28, 2023

Many of artists featured in “Made in NY 2023,” which opens March 25 at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, have been inspired by nature.

She invites gallery visitors to release their own microaggression burdens by adding to the “Free Your Mind” public art installation and depositing objects that represent their microaggressions into her baggage carts