Leslie Calimeri sits behind her easel painting a city landscape scene. She is one of the featured artists in the “Chautauqua County en Plein Air” exhibit at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute which began Friday and runs through March 5, 2023 P-J Photo by Michael Zabrodsky

“We love local artists.”

The words of Roger Tory Peterson Institute Collections Curator Maria Ferguson rang true while viewing the “Chautauqua County en Plein Air” exhibit and the “Beauty is Never Lost: Margaret Braun’s Birds” exhibit.

These exhibits as well as the exhibit “Curious by Nature: Works by Charley and Edie Harper” opened Friday and will run through March 5, 2023.