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Joelle Lachance - Guys or Dolls
2025 Elizabeth Hearn Gleich Lecture
2023 Arts Factory Regional Art Gallery Informational
Talk by Karal Ann Marling August 2016
Exhibition 2016
Exhibition 2016
Rembrandt: The Consummate etcher and other 17th Century Printmakers
Exhibition 2016
JUNE 11 , 2010
Reflections on Water in American Painting will open its national tour at The Arkell Museum at Canajoharie, N.Y.FEBRUARY 24 , 2010
Performer Kitty Jones Kicks off Women’s History Month
at March 7 Arkell Museum Family DayFEBRUARY 24 , 2010
Two New Exhibitions at the Arkell Museum feature American Paintings from the Permanent Collection.OCTOBER 18 , 2009
Walter Wick: Games, Gizmos and Toys in the AtticAUGUST 18 , 2009
Moving Frontiers: Early Transportation in the Mohawk ValleyMAY 14 , 2009
Then & Now: Contemporary Artists Revisit the Past, May 16-August 5, 2009 at The Arkell Museum at CanajoharieJANUARY 14 , 2009
Love Story Exhibition Features Romantic Images to Share With Your Valentine at The Arkell MuseumOCTOBER 29 , 2008
Sleigh Bells, Green Fields and Falling Leaves:Four seasons of American Landscape PaintingSEPTEMBER 10 , 2008
Arkell Museum Celebrates First Anniversary with Pirate Party – Come in Costume for Games, Contests, Food and Shopping, Matey!SEPTEMBER 6 , 2008
American RuinsAUGUST 19 , 2008
Arkell Museum Begins Winslow Homer Lecture Series
with Syracuse University Professor David TathamJULY 14, 2008
Winslow Homer Watercolors from the Permanent CollectionJULY 3, 2008
Explore Your Roots at the Arkell Museum’s July Family DayJUNE 10 , 2008
Arkell Museum Concludes “Famous & Fabulous Film Biographies”with POLLOCK
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Finding beauty in Albany's neglect
By Chris Churchill, Times Union Columnist - May 30, 2026Fine Art Where You’d Least Expect It
The Treasures of the Mohawk Valley
by Rona Mann, 518 Profiles Feature - Sep 26, 2025Freeport artist Fernando Carpaneda wins Best in Show at prestigious NY exhibition
Freeport Herald - Mohammed Rafiq, Published on May 31, 2025A Legacy Acquired for the Ages
The Arkell Museum & Canajoharie Library
by Rona Mann, 518 Profiles Feature - Jun 29, 2023Washington's Portrait Back on Display
By Bill Buell, The Daily Gazette - March 7, 2019Gilbert Stuart was an extremely gifted artist, but not always a good businessman. In 1793, however, when the Irish threatened to throw him in debtor's prison, he made a sound financial decision by heading back to the U.S., where, he told a friend, "There I expect to make a fortune by Washington alone. I calculate upon making a plurality of his portraits." He ended up making more than 70, and one of those copies, the image used for the U.S. one dollar bill, is on display at the Arkell Museum in Canajoharie...
Read now the Daily Gazette "Washington's Portrait"
On Exhibit: Portraits & Landscapes at the Arkell
By Indiana Nash, The Daily Gazette - June 1, 2018Alexander Hamilton was all the rage well before the musical was ever thought of. Beside a portrait of Andrew Hamilton Calhoun, on exhibit at the Arkell Museum in Canajoharie, is the text “His parents honored the new nation by giving their son the middle name Hamilton, after the American statesman and founding father Alexander Hamilton.”
On Exhibit: Portraits & Landscapes at the Arkell
Works by Fort Plain Artist on Display
By Joshua Thomas, Courier-Standard-Enterprise - May 25, 2018Works by Fort Plain Artist on Display
Local artist ‘surprised’ by success of his abstract photography pieces
By Eric Retzlaff, The Leader-Herald - April 9, 2018Sometimes it pays to break the rules. “I was always used to following the rules of photography,” said Robert Buck of Fort Plain, whose photos are on display with two other artists’ work through May 9 at Arkell Museum and Canajoharie Library on Erie Boulevard.
Local artist ‘surprised’ by success of his abstract photography pieces
Congressman John Faso Tours Arkell Museum
By Joshua Thomas, Courier-Standard-Enterprise - September 1, 2017Congressman John Faso Tours Arkell Museum
Witnessing the Solar Eclipse
By Patricia Older, The Leader-Herald - August 22, 2017It turned out to be a spectacular day for an eclipse and for Arkell Museum and Canajoharie Library, the turn out for their Experience the Eclipse event Monday almost eclipsed the eclipse itself.
Community Day Celebrates Arkell Museum's Wide Side
Joshua Thomas, Courier-Standard-Enterprise - May 5, 2017Community Day Celebrates Arkell Museum's Wide Side
Circus Circus At The Arkell Museum At Canajoharie
Roundtable at WAMC - August 2, 2016Art Historian Karal Ann Marling and Arkell Museum Director and Curator Diane Forsberg discuss the exhibition Circus Circus and paintings of the American circus by artists from the 1920s and 1930s alongside circus-themed marketing materials used by the Beech-Nut Packaging Company.
Surrounded: Sampling Burchhfield's Wallpaper
Roundtable at WAMC - July 25, 2015The Arkell Museum Director Diane Forsberg and Steve Larson co-owner of Adelphi Paper Hangings talk about Charles E. Burchfield and wallpaper.
Insightful images Arkell Museum show examines what portraiture can reveal about artists
By Amy Griffin, Times Union May 17, 2015Read now The Times Union "Insightful Images"
Winslow Homer: The Nature And Rhythm Of Life At The Arkell Museum
Roundtable at WAMC -- October 22, 2014Diane Forsberg, Director & Chief Curator at The Arkell Museum at Canajoharie and Leslie Paisley, Paper Conservator/Department Head at the Williamstown Art Conservation Center talk with Joe Donahue about the Winslow Homer exhibition "Winslow Homer: The Nature And Rhythm Of Life" At The Arkell Museum"
Upstate NY: Home to great art in unexpected places
By CHRIS CAROLA Associated PressMay 06, 2014 - 10:06 am ED
Upstate NY: Home to great art in unexpected places
The Leader Herald ‘Dinotopia’ exhibit shows Gurney’s method
Art Apart From Time
‘Dinotopia’ exhibit shows Gurney’s methodsDecember 29, 2013
By BRIAN McELHINEY , The Leader Herald
The Leader Herald ‘Dinotopia’ exhibit shows Gurney’s method
Times Union 'An American in Venice' at Arkell Museum showcases work and legacy of Whistler
On exhibit: 'An American in Venice' at Arkell Museum showcases work and legacy of Whistler
'American in Venice' explores James Whistler's etchings, prints By Amy Griffin
Published 10:59 am, Friday, September 20, 2013
Times Union 'An American in Venice' at Arkell Museum showcases work and legacy of Whistler
The Wall Street Journal "Hidden in the Valley"
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Hidden in the Valley
Updated September 26, 2012, 5:53 p.m. ET
If I were to tell you that a small, economically depressed Mohawk Valley village, about 200 miles northwest of New York, is home to a museum rich in significant works by 18th- to early 20th-century American luminaries such as Gilbert Stuart, Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins and George Bellows, you'd probably say, as I did, "Who knew?"
Wall Street Journal "Hidden in the Valley" by Lee Rosenbaum
Mohawk Valley Living
August 19, 2012
Mohawk Valley Living Local TV Show explores the Canajoharie Creek as it leads to the Arkell Museum
Mohawk Valley Living #352 Canajoharie, NY Area
Impressionism at The Arkell Museum and The Fenimore Art Museum
WAMC - July 10, 2012
The Arkell Museum in Canajoharie, NY and the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, NY are both showing American Impressionist paintings from the Arkell collections this summer. "American Impressionism: Paintings of Light and Life” is the exhibition at The Fenimore. “American Impressionism: Masterworks in Watercolor and Pastel” at the Arkell. We are joined by Diane Forsberg, the Arkell Museum's Chief Curator and Chris Rossi, the Associate Curator of Exhibitions at the Fenimore.
Listen to the Interview Online
Mark Adams and Beth Van Hosesen: Life Observed Up-Close and more
WAMC - April 16, 2012
Diane Forsberg, Deputy Director & Chief Curator of The Arkell Museum at Canajoharie, joins us to talk about the exhibition, "Mark Adams and Beth Van Hoesen: Life Observed Up-Close" and this coming Sunday's Earth Day family events.
Listen to the interview online
Arkell Museum Radio Interview
WAMC Radio - June 8, 2009
“ Now through August 5th you can see the Then and Now exhibition at The Arkell Museum at Canajoharie, NY. Each of the contemporary artists in this exhibition has been inspired by artists from the past, yet they have very different responses to this inspiration.......”
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