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Sat
20
Sep
Saturday, September 20, 2025 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Olana State Historic Site
Experience learning, looking closely, and conversation as a family during this series of special museum gallery tours at Olana State Historic Site. Each month, The Olana Partnership educators will lead an exploration of two to three works of art on the second-floor galleries through family-friendly dialogue and other hands-on activities. After your tour, extend your day at OLANA and head down to the Wagon House Education Center for a free drop-in program, Art Making in the Afternoon from 1-4pm. Designed for families with children ages 3 and up. FREE; advanced registration required. Please contact education@olana.org to learn more, visit https://olana.org/programs-events/ for details.
Registration: Required
Sat
20
Sep
Saturday, September 20, 2025 01:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Olana State Historic Site
Inspired by your time at Olana or looking for family-friendly fun? Participate in free, drop-in artmaking in the Wagon House Education Center and learn more about Frederic Church's artist-designed home and studio on the Hudson.This drop-in artmaking program is open to all ages and skill levels; all materials provided. FREE. No advanced registration is required. Contact education@olana.org or call (518) 751-6938 for more info. Visit https://olana.org/programs-events/ for details.
Registration: Required
Sat
20
Sep
Saturday, September 20, 2025 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Olana State Historic Site
Join Greene County Historian Jonathan Palmer for a guided walk through Olana's landscape and uncover the hidden industrial history of the Hudson River Valley. Learn how local families once harvested ice from the Hudson River and view Olana through the lens of a regional historian. This 1¼-mile walk covers carriage roads and explores how land use and industry have shaped our experience of the site. $10 per person / $5 for members. Meet at the main entrance to the Historic House. This tour is part of a series featuring outside experts who reveal lesser-known aspects of Olana's landscape, including its geologic history, 19th-century land use, and indigenous knowledge. Each walk lasts 45–60 minutes and ties into What's Missing? a site-specific outdoor exhibition by Ellen Harvey and Gabriela Salazar that explores forgotten elements of Olana's history. Learn more about the exhibition at https://olana.org/whatsmissing.
Registration: Required
Sat
20
Sep
Saturday, September 20, 2025 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Olana State Historic Site
Join us for a rare opportunity to enjoy a guided evening landscape walk at Olana! Spend one hour walking through Frederic Church's designed landscape with a guide certified as both a volunteer master gardener and master forester. Dive into the flora and ecology and learn about how they informed Olana's carefully composed views and its story as a living artwork. Next, enjoy the one-of-a-kind experience of a Hudson Valley evening with a glass of prosecco on the piazza of the historic house. Watch the sun begin to set behind the Catskill Mountains and see the views that inspired a great American artist. (non-alcoholic beverages are also available). Walk covers approximately one mile over unpaved roads and is not ADA accessible.
Registration: Not required
Sat
27
Sep
Saturday, September 27, 2025 01:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Olana State Historic Site
Join renowned botanical artist Wendy Hollender for an afternoon drawing workshop at Olana State Historic Site. Explore Frederic Church's designed landscape in late September and use pencil and watercolor pencils to create realistic drawings of the seasonal flora. Learn the techniques of botanical illustration capturing the form, color, and detail of plant species while drawing inspiration from the work of Church's daughter, Isabel "Downie" Church. $30 per person / $15 for members. Wendy Hollender is an acclaimed botanical artist, illustrator, instructor, and author, known for her expertise in colored and watercolor pencils. This workshop is part of a collaborative day of programming between The Olana Partnership and the Thomas Cole National Historic Site, in connection with EMILY COLE: Ceramics, Flora & Contemporary Responses, on view through November 2. Begin your day by touring the exhibition at the Thomas Cole Site, tickets available at https://thomascole.org/emilycole.
Registration: Required
Sat
11
Oct
Saturday, October 11, 2025 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Olana State Historic Site
Nestled in the rose-red sandstone cliffs and surrounded by the deserts of what is today southern Jordan, the archaeological site of Petra is one of humanities greatest wonders. Hewn from canyon walls, the rock-cut city thrived for centuries as the capital of the ancient Nabataean people. Most often recognized by The Treasury, an enigmatic but stunning structure Frederic Church captured in his 1874 painting, El Khasné, Petra, the city sprawled for miles. Join Professor Pearce Paul Creasman for a discussion of the ancient travelers who helped bring this enigmatic site to the contemporary world's attention and an exploration of the recent archaeological work shaping an understanding of Petra's history and impact. This onsite lecture takes place in the Frederic Church Center for Art & Landscape; refreshments to follow. This program is $20 per person ($15 for members), and it meets at the Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape. Advanced registration required. Please contact education@olana.org to learn more.
Registration: Not required
Thu
16
Oct
Thursday, October 16, 2025 03:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Olana State Historic Site
The Olana Partnership's Free Community Day at Olana State Historic Site, the Third Thursday of every month. Make a day of it! Join a FREE program! Learn more below. To learn more visit: https://olana.org/thirdthursdays/.
Registration: Required
Thu
16
Oct
Thursday, October 16, 2025 05:00 PM - 06:15 PM
Olana State Historic Site
The Olana Partnership's Free Community Day at Olana State Historic Site, the Third Thursday of every month. Make a day of it! Join a FREE program! Learn more below. To learn more visit: https://olana.org/thirdthursdays/.
Registration: Required
Fri
17
Oct
Friday, October 17, 2025 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Olana State Historic Site
Join contemporary artist Ellen Harvey for a walk and conversation around her current installation in Olana's artist-designed landscape and learn how she was inspired by the site's mysterious "summer house." This one hour walk will take place outdoors near Harvey's project, Winter in the Summer House, which places Frederic Church's lost summer house with a radical reimagining of what was once there. During this walk, participants will learn more about the artist's motivation and will walk around 1 mile. $10/$5 members. Meet at the Museum Shop.
Registration: Not required
Sat
18
Oct
Saturday, October 18, 2025 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Olana State Historic Site
Experience learning, looking closely, and conversation as a family during this series of special museum gallery tours at Olana State Historic Site. Each month, The Olana Partnership educators will lead an exploration of two to three works of art on the second-floor galleries through family-friendly dialogue and other hands-on activities. After your tour, extend your day at OLANA and head down to the Wagon House Education Center for a free drop-in program, Art Making in the Afternoon from 1-4pm.Designed for families with children ages 3 and up. FREE; advanced registration required. Please contact education@olana.org to learn more, visit https://olana.org/programs-events/ for details.
Registration: Required
Sat
18
Oct
Saturday, October 18, 2025 01:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Olana State Historic Site
Inspired by your time at Olana or looking for family-friendly fun? Participate in free, drop-in artmaking in the Wagon House Education Center and learn more about Frederic Church's artist-designed home and studio on the Hudson. This drop-in artmaking program is open to all ages and skill levels; all materials provided. FREE. No advanced registration is required. Contact education@olana.org or call (518) 751-6938 for more info. Visit https://olana.org/programs-events/ for details.
Registration: Required
Sat
18
Oct
Saturday, October 18, 2025 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Olana State Historic Site
Join us for a rare opportunity to enjoy a guided evening landscape walk at Olana! Spend one hour walking through Frederic Church's designed landscape with a guide certified as both a volunteer master gardener and master forester. Dive into the flora and ecology and learn about how they informed Olana's carefully composed views and its story as a living artwork. Next, enjoy the one-of-a-kind experience of a Hudson Valley evening with a glass of prosecco on the piazza of the historic house. Watch the sun begin to set behind the Catskill Mountains and see the views that inspired a great American artist. (non-alcoholic beverages also available) Walk covers approximately one mile over unpaved roads and is not ADA accessible. Tickets: $65 non-members, $50 members.
Registration: Not required
Sat
25
Oct
Saturday, October 25, 2025 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Olana State Historic Site
(518) 751-0344
Get outside and show yourself and the land some love through a special guided walk through Olana's artist-designed landscape and views. Fru Molnar, trained and certified forest bathing guide, will lead the way, helping you connect with nature through a slow-paced, easeful sensory exploration. Based on the Japanese practice of Shinrin-yoku ("forest bathing"), participants will explore the forest while connecting with nature and themselves. Fru Molnar (she/her) is the founder of Forest Baths (est. 2021), a lifelong student of the trees, and a Certified Forest Therapy Guide with the ANFT (Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides).This program is $10 per person ($5 for members). Advanced registration required. Please contact education@olana.org to learn more.
Registration: Required
Tue
28
Oct
Tuesday, October 28, 2025 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Olana State Historic Site
Emily Cole and Downie Church were both prolific painters of flora, finding inspiration in the meadows, orchards, and gardens of their Hudson Valley homes. As friends, neighbors, and fellow artists, Emily Cole and Downie Church continued the legacy of artistic mentorship begun by their artist fathers, Thomas Cole (1801-1848) and Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900). This discussion will explore how Emily Cole's and Downie Church's artistic practices—largely characterized by the close observation of the natural world, specifically its flora—reflect personal expression, gendered expectations, and the professional artistic networks and trends of the late 19th century. Join Allegra Davis (former Associate Curator, The Olana Partnership; M.A. candidate in the History of Art & Architecture, Boston University) and Amanda Malmstrom (Associate Curator, Thomas Cole National Historic Site) for a conversation on 19th-century flower painting with focus on the artwork of Emily Cole (1843–1913) and Isabel Charlotte "Downie" Church (1871–1935).Presented in collaboration with the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in connection to their exhibition, EMILY COLE: Ceramics, Flora & Contemporary Responses, on view through November 2, 2025.
Registration: Not required