The Link

04/14/2025

Catch Megan & Sara in Peru this spring!! 😎🌸🖌️

In case you missed it my sister Sara Acors and I are offering a series of FREE art workshops, “Art at the Library”, at the Peru Free Library - Peru, NY this spring! 🌸💚🖌️✂️

This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by The Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts.

06/14/2024

Psst… if you’ve been missing our zine workshops, Megan is teaching an Intro to Zines workshop at Strand Center for the Arts next Tuesday! 😉

01/18/2024

Well, this was a fun surprise! Back in 2022 reached out to us to do an interview for their magazine - and the article was just published. Although we’ve been taking a break, this article is a nice snapshot of all we’ve accomplished over the past 3 years. What a wild ride! Thank you again SO MUCH to everyone who has supported our wild and crazy ideas. We’ve absolutely loved bringing more art to our community.

11/29/2023

Do you miss our zine workshops? Megan is teaching a Digital Zines workshop at Strand Center for the Arts next Wednesday! 🤩🖥️✂️🖊️

Zines, zines, and more zines! 📔

Our very own Megan Charland will be teaching this awesome digital publishing workshop on Dec. 6 at 5pm 📆

In this 3hr workshop students will learn to make their own small circulation, self-published zines (short for fanzine or magazine) utilizing Adobe InDesign CC 🖥️

Students will walk away with copies of each other's zines to start (or grow!) their own zine collection. 📕📗📘📙

Teaching Artist (& Zinester!) Megan Charland has been creating zines for over 20 years and has amassed a diverse zine collection she will be sharing with students during the class for both historical context and inspiration. Megan started teaching her zine workshops in Downtown Plattsburgh in 2020 at The Link Arts Center and is excited to bring these workshops to The Strand! 👩🏼‍🏫

Register at StrandCenter.org

11/29/2023

We LOVE this project! 😍📝 Check out this opportunity at Strand Center for the Arts to add your own poem to the Adirondack Center for Writing’s Poetry Machine in this upcoming class with local literary artist Erin Dorney!!

‼️POSTPONED to Nov 30‼️

How to write a list poem workshop that was originally scheduled for tonight is now Thursday, Nov 30!

More about this workshop here: adirondackcenterforwriting.org/event/how-to-write-a-list-poem-strand-center-for-the-arts

11/29/2023

Are you a NYS artist working in Fiction, Folk/Traditional Arts, Interdisciplinary Work, Painting, or Video/Film? Check this out! 🤓

We're accepting applications for 2024 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowships through December 13!⁠
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This $8,000 unrestricted cash grant opportunity is being offered to artists living in New York State and/or one of the Tribal Nations located therein in the categories of Fiction, Folk/Traditional Arts, Interdisciplinary Work, Painting, & Video/Film.⁠

Details: https://bit.ly/2WMsZim
New York State Council on the Arts

07/15/2023

WOW 🤩 Check out that lineup for the July 30th Peru Town Market! We’re excited to provide FREE art activities for the kiddos at our tent - we have a couple of fun projects in store for you. 🎉🖌️

☀️☀️ July Vendor Line Up is HERE☀️☀️

We are really excited to announce our BIGGEST MARKET YET this Month on July, 30th from 10-2pm at Heyworth Mason Park.

We will have 55 local talented makers, growers and food trucks this month including live music by Jeff Rendinaro and Skip Smithson from Zip City Blues.

And we are so excited and grateful to have the very talented Link Arts Center back as our kid's tent!

Grab your friends and family and join us in celebrating the growth of our little market and all of the wonderful treasures we will have! 🙌