The Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts produces professional theatre, concerts as part of our Weekend Series, artist exhibits in three galleries, youth and adult arts-education workshops, and grant opportunities for art and cultural organizations and teaching artists. The Arts Center is coordinator for the Statewide Community Regrants (SCR) program (formerly DEC program) of the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) for the four-county region of Hamilton, Franklin, Clinton, and Essex counties.

The Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts was established in 1967 as a multidisciplinary arts organization to serve as producer, presenter, and educator of artistic disciplines in visual arts, theatre, music, and dance. The building and the property were gifted to us by Harold K. Hochschild, the founder of the Adirondack Experience (previously the Adirondack Museum), which also is in Blue Mountain Lake. The first directors of the Arts Center were a husband and wife team, Jim and Sheila Hutt, who are still involved with the Arts Center today. Many patrons have generational ties to the Arts Center, having come to performances or workshops as children. Now they bring their children and grandchildren!

The Arts Center is a cornerstone of the hamlet of Blue Mountain Lake, but it also "spills out" into its neighboring communities, sharing its artistic programs and productions in other towns and hamlets throughout the central Adirondacks region. The Arts Center is generously supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, its business and individual sponsors, and its members.