Animated Interiors: Frederic Church's Experiments with Space and Light With Julia B. Rosenbaum November 4, 2021 During this webinar, Julia B. Rosenbaum considers the first-floor interiors of his home at Olana not only as a deliberate composition—of a piece with his two-dimensional oeuvre—but as an ...Read More

Martin Johnson Heade: A Strange Art Life Brought Up To Date With Theodore E. Stebbins October 19, 2021 Presented in conjunction with Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment, this virtual lecture will focus on what Dr. Theodore E. Stebbins calls Martin Johnson ...Read More

Living with Pollinators: Biodiversity and Artistic Practice in the Hudson Valley With Lisa Sanditz, Paula Hayes, and Chris Layman September 15, 2021 The Thomas Cole National Historic Site and The Olana Partnership at Olana State Historic Site present a discussion with artists Paula Hayes, Lisa ...Read More

The Natural Histories of Marianne North and Frederic Church With Allegra K. Davis August 24, 2021 In this webinar, The Olana Partnership’s Curatorial Assistant, Allegra K. Davis, will examine the life and work of Marianne North through the lenses of Victorian gender roles and practices ...Read More

Fragility and Resilience: Art, Ecology, and our Contemporary Moment With Sayler/Morris, Rachel Sussman, and Scott Manning Stevens July 27, 2021 Join artists Sayler/Morris, Rachel Sussman, and Dr. Scott Manning Stevens as they discuss the connections between art, ecology, and climate change. Sussman’s photographic series The ...Read More

a-Historical Landscapes: Olana and the Color of Freedom With Jean-Marc Superville Sovak and Myra Armstead June 23, 2021 Join Jean-Marc Superville Sovak, multidisciplinary artist and teaching professional and professor Myra Armstead for a virtual presentation and conversation about the lives of black Americans during the ...Read More

"Memento Mori Mandalas" and Birds in the Hudson Valley With Portia Munson and Kathryn Schneider June 8, 2021 Join artist Portia Munson and conservationist Kathryn Schneider as they discuss Munson’s artwork onsite at Olana, Memento Mori Mandalas. During this presentation, learn more about Munson’s work, ...Read More

Below the Surface: What Scientific Imaging Reveals about Church’s Artistic Process by Maura Lyons May 18, 2021 While Frederic Church won acclaim during his lifetime for his skills as a painter, a focus solely on Church’s paintings ignores his technical experimentation in multiple media, including drawing and printmaking. In this ...Read More

Capturing Nature in Science and Art, or, How to Make an Impossible Picture by Rachael DeLue May 11, 2021 The nineteenth-century German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt characterized his life’s work as an endeavor “to represent nature as one great whole, moved and animated by internal forces.” In this presentation, Rachael ...Read More

Frederic Church's The Natural Bridge, Virginia: American History and Anxiety by Christopher Oliver April 28, 2021 In 1851 Frederic Church travelled through Virginia in the company of his patron Cyrus Field with the goal of reaching and painting that state’s most famous landscape, the Natural Bridge. Formerly the property ...Read More