A meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Pember Library and Museum will be held on the third Thursday of each month at the Pember. This is a regular meeting and open to the public. See Upcoming Events Calendar for dates of meetings.

Animal Tracking – Sunday, January 19 – 11:30am to 1:00pm
Join Beth Moser-Duquette for a walk around the Nature Preserve identifying its animals by their tracks. Meet at the Porter Schoolhouse (6937 NY 22, Hebron) for this free program open to all ages. Dress accordingly and bring water. The schoolhouse has facilities but no running water. Weather-permitting. If it’s snowing and the roads are bad, the program will be cancelled.

This workshop has been cancelled due to lack of registrations. It’s been rescheduled during Spring School Break on April 13, 2020.

Join us in the Library for an active moving, looking and creating activity with the Hyde Collection. Participants will create a fun printmaking artwork that is inspired by the exhibition Picasso, Braque and Leger which opened on October 6 at the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls.

This is a free workshop open to the whole family with children age 6 and older. Of course, adults are welcome.

Registration is required no later than November 12. Call the Museum at 518-642-1515 or Library at 518-642-2525. Space is limited to 25 participants.

Keri Dudek is the Assistant Educator at The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, NY. Her responsibilities include developing and instructing relevant education programming which explores a variety of artistic, cultural and intellectual perspectives to all levels of learning. Dudek conducts family programs such as Artful Afternoons, Tour for Tots, Art Crawl and Art Lab. She coordinates Here and Now programs which are designed for participants with Alzheimer’s, dementia or stroke related challenges. The museum offers visitors a self-guided Discovery Kit and Gallery Guides which Dudek creates for the rotating special exhibitions. She is actively pursuing ways The Hyde Collection can provide a more inclusive and accessible learning environment to all visitors. She paints between folding loads of laundry and lives in Saratoga Springs, NY with her husband and three children.

The Hyde Collection
The Hyde Collection Trust was founded in 1952 by Charlotte Pruyn Hyde, a Gilded Age collector who shared her art collection and home with the public. The Museum opened in 1963, after her death. The Hyde’s core collection, acquired by Mrs. Hyde and her husband, Louis, includes works by such artists as Sandro Botticelli, El Greco, Rembrandt, Peter Paul Rubens, Edgar Degas, Georges Seurat, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Pablo Picasso, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, as well as American artists Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, and James McNeill Whistler. The Museum’s collection of Modern and Contemporary art features works by artists including Josef Albers, Dorothy Dehner, Sam Gilliam, Adolph Gottlieb, Grace Hartigan, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol LeWitt, George McNeil, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, and Bridget Riley. Today, the Museum includes the historic house and a modern wing with five galleries, and innovative programming to inspire with art.

Photo: Fernand Léger (French 1881-1955), Fêtes de la Faim, (Day of Hunger) 1949, lithograph in black with three colors, 13 x 9 5/8 in., Anonymous Loan. © Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York

Calling all ghouls! Halloween is approaching and the Pember Library and Museum and the Slate Valley Museum are teaming up for pre-Halloween fun. Zombie Fest takes place on First Friday, October 4, from 7 to 9 pm at both museums. Zombie Walk VI assembles at the Pember for the 8 pm march to the Slate Valley Museum.

“We expect a large Zombie mob this year,” said Mary King, Pember board president. “And we are prepared to feed and rally them for the 8 o’clock Walk and invasion of the Slate Valley Museum.”

Both museums are planning organized events this year, with activities, crafts, treats, costume judging, prizes and surprises! The Pember will provide “Wormy Dogs on a bun,” “Jelly Eyeballs,” “Bloody Punch,” “Spider Peanut Butter Cup Cookies,” and “Meaty Lady Fingers” for hungry ghouls, along with make up stations and Zombie Rock to wake the dead for the Zombie Parade down Main Street to the SVM, where the party will continue with crafts, a costume contest, and more goodies!

Festivities start at 7 pm and everything is FREE!

Weekly
Tuesdays 10 AM ~ Pember Peapods
Wednesdays 3-4:30 PM ~ A Good Yarn
Wednesdays 5-7 PM ~ Book Sale
Thursdays 2:30 PM Journaling
Saturday 10 AM – Noon ~ Book sale

Tuesday through Saturday during open hours:for all ages: build with LEGOs, Keva Planks, K’Nex, games and puzzles

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These Museum programs will be held at the Pember Nature Preserve
@ 6397 St Rt 22, Hebron

Summer & Fall Nature Programs
10:00 AM-11:30 AM
Please register by Friday before program
• 9/8 Nature’s Treasures Walk
Make a treasure box
• 9/22 Fall Leaves Walk
Pressed leaf coaster
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These Museum programs will be held at the Pember 33 West Main, Granville

After School Programs
3:30-4:30 PM
Please register 1 week in advance
• 9/11 Nature’s Art ~ Flowers
• 9/25 Nature’s Art ~ Seeds & Beans

These programs will be held at the Pember 33 West Main, Granville

• September 4, 6 PM ~ Quilling
• September 6, First Friday 6-9 PM
• September 13, 5 PM, Read it and Eat Book Club
• September 18, 6 PM ~ Quilling
• September 19, Noon, Pop-up Luncheon (preregistration required)
• September 19, 6 PM Pember Board Meeting

John Hughes, Recruiting Assistant for the 2020 census, will present more in-depth information about what census jobs will be available.

A meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Pember Library and Museum will be held on the third Thursday of each month at the Pember. This is a regular meeting and open to the public. See Upcoming Events Calendar for dates of meetings.A meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Pember Library and Museum will be held on the third Thursday of each month at the Pember. This is a regular meeting and open to the public. See Upcoming Events Calendar for dates of meetings.