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Tag: Spotlight
Daily photo project helps people process the pandemic
A retired professional photographer living in Malone, New York, aims to fight fears of the coronavirus crisis with a daily dose of joy and wonder. Rick Auger, who still takes photos as a hobby, recently sent this e-mail message to everyone on his contact list: “Hi my friends, I will send out a new photograph everyday…
Artists in Placid, Inspired by the Greats!
North Country Artists living in New York State don’t like to outright copy the Masters, but organizers of an exhibit at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts encouraged them to pay tribute to their artistic heroes. Mountain Lake PBS produced this story just before the COVID-19 situation forced many people to stay at home,…
Canvas to Community, Artists Benefiting others
Learn about the generosity of artists involved in the Canvas to Community event here. Artists have donated their work to a virtual lottery event to aid healthcare workers and people boxing up food to benefit the community during the coronavirus crisis. Spotlight is made possible, in part, by the Glenn and Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foundation,…
Painter of Rainbows
Landscape painter Holly Friesen of Montreal often spends most of her summers in the Adirondacks. Currently, the artist is practicing social distancing, but that hasn’t stopped her from beautifying the world around her with a message of hope, as she tells our Paul Larson. Enjoy Holly’s Spotlight Through the Darkness interview here. You may join…
London and Broadway actress coaches North Country performers
Professional singer, actor, and teacher Alisa Endsley has played the lead role in many major productions, and now she’s playing a leading role in shaping the lives of young people who dream of stardom. This summer marks the third year Endsley will coach young actors in the “Book and Blanket Players” program in Keene Valley,…
TWO ART GALLERIES ARE SHINING OUR “SPOTLIGHT”
At Mountain Lake PBS, we are more than television. This month we are also art exhibits in two separate galleries. You still have time to view the “Bound for Glory” exhibition, featuring works by Montreal artist François Escalmel. There you’ll find the “Spotlight” segment Paul Larson produced about painter and filmmaker projected on a gallery wall, entertaining…
ON THE BROADWAY STAGE, AND UNDER IT!
Standing on a bona fide Broadway stage gives me an excited feeling, even though I’m just a visitor and not a cast member of the show. Sitting below a Broadway stage while the show is in progress can be an even more exhilarating experience. When Thom Hallock invited Mountain Lake Journal viewers this month to revisit the interview I conducted…
Lisa Vroman, sings the praises of the Crane School of Music
Soprano Lisa Vroman returned to the Crane School of Music (SUNY Potsdam) three times in 2018. For her final appearance of the year, she sang as the guest soloist at the December Candlelight Concert. A 1979 graduate of Crane, Vroman’s career includes singing show tunes and classics, on the stages of Broadway and in venues…