SUNY Adirondack, The Hyde team for 'Flavor Celebration'

GLENS FALLS, New York (May 5, 2026) — SUNY Adirondack and The Hyde Collection present a delicious mix of art, education and community with Hyde & Seek: The Flavor Celebration from 10 a.m. to noon Thursday, May 14, at Seasoned, SUNY Adirondack’s student-run restaurant, 14 Hudson Ave.

The event celebrates artwork created in a 12-week Hyde program for individuals supported by AIM Services and Community, Work & Independence. The group visited The Hyde Collection Art Museum and Historic House as part of the museum’s enrichment program, which provides art exploration opportunities to people with disabilities. 

SUNY Adirondack Culinary instructors Matt Bolton and Emily Peterson visited the museum March 26 to talk about plating with the group.

“We’re exploring our favorite foods, creating the dish, plate, silverware, tablecloth — the whole table, which will be the final presentation,” said Janek Palat, educator and preparator at The Hyde.

Those works of art will be exhibited at Seasoned at the Hyde & Seek: The Flavor Celebration event, which is free and open to the public.

“We’re honored to partner with The Hyde Collection on an event that brings together culinary arts, creativity and community in such a meaningful way,” Bolton said. “Food is an art form, and it’s exciting to see how these participants interpreted their ideas through visual expression.”

Seasoned will provide refreshments.

PHOTO CAPTIONS: SUNY Adirondack Culinary students talked with Hyde & Seek participants March 26 about plating at The Hyde Collection; Artwork from the Hyde & Seek: The Flavor Celebration; SUNY Adirondack Culinary instructor Chef Matt Bolton works with a participant at the March 26 event

About The Hyde Collection

The Hyde is one of the Northeast's exceptional fine art museums with distinguished European and American art collections. The core collection, acquired by museum founders Charlotte and Louis Hyde, includes works by such artists as Sandro Botticelli, Tintoretto, El Greco, Rembrandt, Peter Paul Rubens, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Georges Seurat and Pablo Picasso, and American artists Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, James McNeill Whistler and Anna Hyatt Huntington. Throughout the years, the museum has expanded considerably to include a modern museum complex featuring an auditorium, classroom, five galleries and a state-of-the-art storage facility in addition to the historic home once inhabited by the Hydes. The museum's Modern and Contemporary art collection features work by artists including Josef Albers, Dorothy Dehner, Sam Gilliam, Adolph Gottlieb, Grace Hartigan, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol LeWitt, Robert Motherwell, Ben Nicholson, Robert Rauschenberg, Bridget Riley and Paul Anthony Smith. The Hyde offers significant national and international exhibitions and a packed schedule of events that help visitors experience art in new ways. Learn more.