Thursdays-Sundays
12-4PM
Olana on the Move Backpacks
Museum Shop (also at the Wagon House Education Center on Weekends)
Free *Vehicle use fee applies
Explore the Olana landscape with self-guided activities to enrich family visits. Take your sketches home, or donate them to our ongoing public exhibit. Must leave a photo ID until backpack is returned.

Saturdays, 12-4PM
Art in the Barn
Wagon House Education Center/Farm Complex
Ages 3-8 (caregivers)
Free *Vehicle use fee applies
Join our open art studio every Saturday with teaching artist Jill Ann Schwartz. Begin with the expressive art of dance and story-telling, then "get messy" with hands-on projects such as mural painting, print-making, collage, and sculpture. Monthly themes include: Art & Nature, The Farm, Architecture, The River. Come meet friends and have fun.

Sundays, 1-4pm
ARTlandish!
Wagon House Education Center/Farm Complex
All ages
Free *Vehicle use fee applies
Create art in the landscape-not such an outlandish idea! Frederic Church sketched outside noting details in nature and went back to the studio to paint. Drop-in for sketch paper, pencils and clipboards. Head out into Olana's picturesque landscape to sketch your very own view. Come back to the "studio" to use colored pencils, oil pastels and watercolors to finish your artwork.

October Programs

Saturdays: October 2, 9am-12pm October 9, 9am-12pm October 16, 1pm-4pm October 23, 9am-12pm
Intermediate Landscape Painting Series
Visitors Center
All Ages
Free
*Vehicle use fee applies
Four classes: $95/adult; $85 for members of The Olana Partnership Tony Thompson, MA, MFA, BFA is a (traditional and contemporary) local landscape artist who has served many roles in the arts and education world and has been subject of many exhibitions such as in the Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, the Carrie Haddad Gallery, and the Hamond Museum. Tony's intensive intermediate course is for more experienced artists working in their choice of media. Individuals will make the advances they feel will be most beneficial for their work. Class limit:15. Rain or shine.

Sunday, October 3, 12-4pm
Paint-Out Olana
Visitors Center
All Ages
Free
*Vehicle use fee applies
Artists of all levels are invited to paint, sketch and photograph the landscape. Register by September 18th to be included in the Artist Directory, or just drop in vehicle use fee waived for registered artists). Call (518) 828-0135 for info.

Sunday, October 10, 1-3pm
The 77th New York Regimental Balladeers
Visitors Center
All Ages
Free
*Vehicle use fee applies
Join the 77th New York Regimental Balladeers as they play patriotic and classic songs of the Civil War. Call (518) 828-0135 for info.

Saturday, October 16
Annual Pumpkin Walk
To benefit the Mental Health Association of Columbia-Greene Counties, Inc.

Saturday-Sunday, October 30-31, 11:30am, 12:30pm, 1:30pm, & 2:30pm
Halloween/Ghostie/Supernatural Superstitions Tour
Vistors Center
All Ages
Admission is $9/adult; $8/students and seniors, free for children under 12 or members of The Olana Partnership *Vehicle use fee applies
Skeptics and believers alike are welcome to hear stories of the superstitious practices our ancestors used to ward off evil. Come join up to 13 others on a tour through Frederic Church’s home and history. Call (518) 828-0135 for info. or reservations.

*Vehicle use fee: On weekends and holiday Mondays, April through October 31, there is a $5 entry fee per vehicle from 10AM-5PM; (Vehicle entry fee is waived for current members of The Olana Partnership) This fee can be credited toward a house tour as long as house tour tickets are available.