Calendar of Events
Geneseo provides residents and visitors with a wide variety of activities that appeal to all ages and interests. Please browse through our many events, which we attempt to keep as current as possible. Our sister website, www.geneseony.org, contains schedules of governmental organizations and meetings.
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Livingston County Historian Amie Alden will present on the Shaw Sisters who were two major agents in both the Suffrage and Temperance Movements of the 20th century. Recently, a historical marker was erected in front of their former home at 22 Main St, Geneseo. Come hear their story in the year of the hundredth anniversary of women’s right to vote.
• Additional parking available in church lot next door.
• Free and open to the public.
2019 Program of the Livingston County Historical Society and Museum
Interested yarn-crafters of all ages and levels are invited to join us in the library’s downstairs community room (accessible by elevator). Beginners are welcome and supplies and instruction are available.
Sponsored by Friends of Wadsworth Library
Books & Babies is a lap-sit program designed to introduce children (birth – 2 years of age) to language and early literacy. Babies sit with their caregivers and model the activities presented through simple finger plays, songs, stories and nursery rhymes. Registration is required and begins August 26.
September 10, 17
October 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
November 5, 12, 19, 26
December 3, 10, 17
See all Fall Children’s Programs at this link.
Preschool Storytime is directed at children ages 3-5 and includes books, songs, poetry, finger plays, and crafts. Registration is required.
September 10, 17
October 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
November 5, 12, 19, 26
December 3, 10, 17
See all Fall Children’s Programs at this link.
The Toddler Tales program is a blend of Books & Babies and Preschool Storytime activities. A variety of stories are combined with songs, rhymes, finger plays, crafts and free play. This program is appropriate for children ages 2-3 years old. Registration is required.
September 11, 18
October 3, 10, 17, 24, 31
November 6, 13, 20, 27
December 4, 11, 18
See all Fall Children’s Programs at this link.
Preschool Storytime is directed at children ages 3-5 and includes books, songs, poetry, finger plays, and crafts. Registration is required.
September 11, 18
October 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
November 6, 13, 20, 27
December 4, 11, 18
See all Fall Children’s Programs at this link.
Alison Weld, From the Forests to the Fields, oil on linen, 2019
Exhibition Dates:
September 4 – October 12, 2019
Alison Weld: Earthly Abstract
Alison Weld paints abstractly and the works in this exhibit encompass several different series of works. However, each series is a visual plastic treatise on the organic. That is, from considerations of nature, the Adirondack landscape, forests, stars, clouds, day/night, color, and music. Weld considers her work to be “declarations of beauty.” Paintings like Silent Music of Time and Color of Time, are vertical oriented and allude to the human figure. Yet, she writes, “the color captures the earthly abstract,” meaning, nature has been reoriented, transformed; natures elements are mixed and matched. Weld is committed to the idea of “abstraction as visual philosophy” and the paintings “surface as a film,” layer of the conscious. For her, these two concepts “articulate my sense that at the core of my art is an effort to think about, understand, and express how I experience myself and the world.”
During Weld’s career of forty plus years, she has exhibited extensively in the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions and the South East. Institutions include University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, Roland Gibson Gallery, at SUNY Potsdam, Radford University Museum, VA, Art Museum of the University of Memphis, TN, Rider University Art Gallery, NJ, Robert Steele Gallery, NY, Ben Shahn Gallery, William Paterson University, NJ, and many others.
Concurrent Exhibit in Gallery B2
Selected Figure Drawings and Watercolor Painting by Geneseo Art Students
These works were completed under the guidance of Prof. Thomas McPherson. Artists: Kayla Stein, Rachel Dorr, Sunny Krupnicki, Brandon Rivera, Paige Karras, Shannon Keenan, Jacob Tschiderer, Sara McKiernan, Katherine Bensburg, Marguerite Bosco, Rose McMichael, Raina Schoen, and Hanna Meda.
Exhibitions are free and open to the public. We look forward to your visit to the gallery. For more information contact Lori Houtz at 585-245-5841 or Cynthia Hawkins at 585-245-5813.
Gallery Hours:
Wednesdays & Thursdays: 1:00 – 4:00 PM
Fridays & Saturdays: 1:00 – 5:00 PM
Roberta Rainey, Fearless, acrylic on canvas, n.d.
Roberta Rainey, a Rochester area artist, is self-taught and continues to perfect her chosen craft. Rainey is committed to portrait painting, and her focus is African American women and girls. Capturing her sitter’s emotions whether cool and serious, the sitter’s laughter or capturing the individual in conversation. Rainey relishes the challenge of catching the swift changes in expression and the qualities that can tell the viewer so much about the person. She prefers painting in neutral tones of gray, black and white, and occasionally add color for contrast. Rainey has exhibited around Rochester and has received many commissions; she also teaches elementary school.
The gallery is pleased to present this Rochester, New York artist as part of our new initiative to exhibit the work of artists from Western New York.
All exhibits are free and open to the public. We look forward to your visit to the gallery. For more information contact Lori Houtz at 585-245-5841 or Cynthia Hawkins at 585-245-5813.
Exhibition dates: September 11 – October 12, 2019
Opening: September 11, 5 – 7 PM
Gallery Hours:
Wednesday & Thursday: 1:00 – 4:00 PM
Friday & Saturday: 1:00 – 5:00 PM
Martha Raddatz, chief global affairs correspondent for ABC News (Image provided)
Award-winning journalist Martha Raddatz, ABC News chief global affairs correspondent and co-anchor of ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, will deliver the James Jeremiah Wadsworth Endowed Lecture. Raddatz’s talk, “From the White House to the Middle East,” will be followed by a Q&A. The event is free and open to the public. Full press release
Alison Weld, From the Forests to the Fields, oil on linen, 2019
Exhibition Dates:
September 4 – October 12, 2019
Alison Weld: Earthly Abstract
Alison Weld paints abstractly and the works in this exhibit encompass several different series of works. However, each series is a visual plastic treatise on the organic. That is, from considerations of nature, the Adirondack landscape, forests, stars, clouds, day/night, color, and music. Weld considers her work to be “declarations of beauty.” Paintings like Silent Music of Time and Color of Time, are vertical oriented and allude to the human figure. Yet, she writes, “the color captures the earthly abstract,” meaning, nature has been reoriented, transformed; natures elements are mixed and matched. Weld is committed to the idea of “abstraction as visual philosophy” and the paintings “surface as a film,” layer of the conscious. For her, these two concepts “articulate my sense that at the core of my art is an effort to think about, understand, and express how I experience myself and the world.”
During Weld’s career of forty plus years, she has exhibited extensively in the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions and the South East. Institutions include University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, Roland Gibson Gallery, at SUNY Potsdam, Radford University Museum, VA, Art Museum of the University of Memphis, TN, Rider University Art Gallery, NJ, Robert Steele Gallery, NY, Ben Shahn Gallery, William Paterson University, NJ, and many others.
Concurrent Exhibit in Gallery B2
Selected Figure Drawings and Watercolor Painting by Geneseo Art Students
These works were completed under the guidance of Prof. Thomas McPherson. Artists: Kayla Stein, Rachel Dorr, Sunny Krupnicki, Brandon Rivera, Paige Karras, Shannon Keenan, Jacob Tschiderer, Sara McKiernan, Katherine Bensburg, Marguerite Bosco, Rose McMichael, Raina Schoen, and Hanna Meda.
Exhibitions are free and open to the public. We look forward to your visit to the gallery. For more information contact Lori Houtz at 585-245-5841 or Cynthia Hawkins at 585-245-5813.
Gallery Hours:
Wednesdays & Thursdays: 1:00 – 4:00 PM
Fridays & Saturdays: 1:00 – 5:00 PM
Roberta Rainey, Fearless, acrylic on canvas, n.d.
Roberta Rainey, a Rochester area artist, is self-taught and continues to perfect her chosen craft. Rainey is committed to portrait painting, and her focus is African American women and girls. Capturing her sitter’s emotions whether cool and serious, the sitter’s laughter or capturing the individual in conversation. Rainey relishes the challenge of catching the swift changes in expression and the qualities that can tell the viewer so much about the person. She prefers painting in neutral tones of gray, black and white, and occasionally add color for contrast. Rainey has exhibited around Rochester and has received many commissions; she also teaches elementary school.
The gallery is pleased to present this Rochester, New York artist as part of our new initiative to exhibit the work of artists from Western New York.
All exhibits are free and open to the public. We look forward to your visit to the gallery. For more information contact Lori Houtz at 585-245-5841 or Cynthia Hawkins at 585-245-5813.
Exhibition dates: September 11 – October 12, 2019
Opening: September 11, 5 – 7 PM
Gallery Hours:
Wednesday & Thursday: 1:00 – 4:00 PM
Friday & Saturday: 1:00 – 5:00 PM
9th Year of the Market!
• Thursdays June 20 – October 17
• 3:00 – 6:30 PM
• Lots of activities, local vendors and musicians
Check for updates on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/geneseofarmersmarket
A storytime event for the school age crowd! We meet one Thursday afternoon each month from 3:30-4:30 pm. We’ll enjoy picture books, chapter books, literacy, art, and science activities, all for the school age crowd! Open to children in K-3rd grade. Registration is not required.
September 19 – Intro to The Next Chapter
October 24 – Graphic Novels & Wordless Books
November 21 – Snowflake Science
Advance your photography skills with the Genesee Valley Photography Society. Meetings are the first and third Thursdays of the month, September through April.
Sponsored by Friends of Wadsworth Library
SUNY Geneseo will host a combined Homecoming and Family Weekend, Sept. 20 –21. Alumni and parents registering for the celebration will enjoy plenty of opportunities to catch up with classmates, students, faculty and staff, as well as catch a glimpse of what life’s like at SUNY Geneseo.