Admission:

Event: $10.00 | Members & Children: Free

Event & Dinner*: $41.95

*Extend your time with us and enjoy a meal in our historic, lakeside Dining Hall. Click below to register for this event and see the option to buy a ticket “with Meal.” Advance registration is required to add a meal as space is limited and subject to availability.

The Sagamore Seminars education series is offered by Sagamore Institute of the Adirondacks, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization chartered by the Board of Regents of the Education Department of the State of New York and sole owner and operator of Great Camp Sagamore. 

Art Professor and 30-year career artist, Wes Sherman, has long been the beloved lead instructor of Sagamore’s annual Plein Air Painting Seminar. In this presentation, he’ll cover the longstanding of tradition of painting “en plein air” (French for “in the open air”) — at Sagamore, around the Adirondacks, and across the globe.

Wes Sherman - Art Professor

Wes Sherman has been an artist for over 30 years. In that time, he has had 50 solo exhibitions and has been in hundreds of group exhibitions. He was Curator and Chair of Exhibitions at the Center for Contemporary Art in Bedminster, NJ for 12 years, where he had dedicated many volunteer hours to showcasing New Jersey art and artists. He has been a frequent visiting artist at universities and schools and is regularly asked to lead art programs for organizations and clubs. An adjunct professor, Sherman teaches at William Paterson University and Raritan Valley Community College. He received his MFA at Rutgers University, where he studied with his mentor Tom Nozkowski.