Valerie A. Balint, Associate Curator “The Great Book of Nature is always open and there are no blank leaves for the artist.” – Frederic Church, 1898 To be at Olana on any given day is to sense Church’s own celebratory voice for all he created here, and to feel ...Read More

Amy Hufnagel, Director of Education “It feels like the artists, both the teachers and the students, are at Olana again.” — Laurie Anderson Moserman, attendee, Deep Air Lecture Series in March As a new addition to The Olana Partnership team last spring, I was charged to extend Olana’s relationships ...Read More

Evelyn Trebilcock, Curator Chuck Close tapestry One of the photographs that Lynn Davis lent to the exhibition was in her home. We literally took Horseshoe Falls, Ontario, Canada off her living room wall. Her photograph traveled from one artist’s home to another, from one artist arranged interior to ...Read More

Melanie Hasbrook, Development and Marketing Communications Manager How does a historic house in the Hudson Valley share all that it has to offer while keeping its friends interested in what is going on and attracting new visitors? Social media of course. Social media has become such a popular way for ...Read More

Kimberly Flook, Historic Site Manager, Olana State Historic Site 2016 is the 50th anniversary of the saving of Olana State Historic Site. While I have only been lucky enough to have worked at Olana for the last three years, by looking at what has been accomplished over the last 49 ...Read More

Alex Simon, Director of Membership and Community Relations Frederic Edwin Church? You’ve heard of him, right? American landscape painter, central figure in the Hudson River School. He was the creator of this masterpiece, Olana. And so are you. You restore the main building, preserve the collection, protect the viewshed, you ...Read More

Paul J. Banks, Interpretive Program Assistant People love Olana as much for the landscape as for the house and the treasures inside it. Be it a stroll around The Lake, or the stunning vistas from Ridge Road, or just the sound of the wind in the pines, the out ...Read More

Rena Zurofsky, Interim President Winter Sunset photo by Julia Thomas, 2014 I have just completed my first two month working, happily, for The Olana Partnership. It has been a time of intense learning, including some surprises. Before working here, I thought Olana (which loosely translates/is interpreted as a ...Read More

Mark Prezorski, Landscape Curator After Olana was saved from destruction in 1966, David Huntington — the art historian who led the preservation effort — commented about how ignorant the public had been of Olana. “Olana was not a girl, not an Hawaiian drink, and not a drug,” he joked. ...Read More