SUNY Adirondack to host campus-wide Adirondacks "Teach-In" Feb. 13-17

QUEENSBURY, NY – SUNY Adirondack will host a campus-wide Teach-In the week of Feb. 13 featuring presentations on Adirondack photography, art and folk art.

The public is invited to the presentations and admission is free.

Noted Adirondacks photographer Carl Heilman will be the keynote speaker on Mon., Feb. 13, at 12:30 p.m. in the Scoville Learning Center auditorium, Room 206. Heilman’s work has been featured in national and regional books, magazines and calendars. He will discuss the history of photography in the Adirondacks and the threats to the pristine landscape featured in his photos.

Jim Mandle, founder of the Adirondack Folk School in Lake Luzerne, will speak on Wed., Feb. 15, at 12:40 p.m. in the Scoville Learning Center auditorium, Room 206, on the history and continued popularity of Adirondack folk art.

Rebecca Pelchar, special adjunct of art history at SUNY Adirondack and director/curator of the college’s Visual Arts Gallery, will speak on art in the Adirondacks, specifically selections of art from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her presentation will take place on Wed., Feb. 15, at 7 p.m. in Miller Auditorium, Dearlove Hall.

This is the third year SUNY Adirondack has scheduled a Teach-In around a specific theme or event. In February 2011, the Teach-In centered on issues and events surrounding the decade of Sixties. In February 2010, faculty integrated aspects of Haitian culture into their courses following the devastating earthquake and start of the massive relief effort in Haiti.

For more information on this year’s Teach-In, please contact Beth Faller, professor of counseling, at 743-2220.

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