Expert's Eye: The Sky and Beyond With Avis Lang January 5, 2025 Join experts for a series of dialogues on paintings from OLANA’s collection that are worth a closer look. This first talk will feature Avis Lang, former senior editor at Natural History magazine and coauthor ...Read More
Your Content Goes Here Olana State Historic Site June 14 – November 2, 2025 By Ellen Harvey and Gabriela Salazar Organized by The Olana Partnership Olana is the most intact historic artist’s environment in the United States, encompassing the Main House and its extensive collections, an historic farm ...Read More
Frederic Church and American Art of Mourning and Remembrance With Susan L. Aberth October 23, 2024 Presented in conjunction with the 2024 exhibition Afterglow: Frederic Church and the Landscape of Memory, this talk focuses on memorial paintings and objects associated with Frederic Church’s family. During ...Read More
Join to learn more about Marianne North, the groundbreaking female botanical painter who travelled extensively across the globe in the late 1800s and even made her way to Olana. During this presentation, Dr. Lynne Howarth-Gladston will focus on North’s self-styled gallery at Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew (United Kingdom) ...Read More
Inspired by your time at Olana or looking for family-friendly fun? Participate in free, drop-in artmaking in the Wagon House Education Center from 1-4 PM 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 ...Read More
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 ...Read More
The Women of Olana With Allegra K. Davis July 9, 2024 From the creation of Olana by the Church family starting in 1860 to its preservation as a historic site a century later, women have played a central and vital role in the story of ...Read More
Restoring a Landscape Masterpiece: The Rediscovery of Frederic Church's Olana With Thomas Woltz May 7, 2024 Over the past decade, Thomas Woltz and his firm have led the renewal and restoration of Frederic Church’s 250-acre designed landscape at Olana, a NY State Historic Site and ...Read More
Resurrected Landscapes: Frederic Church and the Public Park Movement With Rebecca Bedell April 24, 2024 What do Frederic Church’s landscapes, New York’s Central Park, and Niagara Falls Reservation have in common? In this virtual discussion, Rebecca Bedell argues that, beyond their shared aesthetics and Church’s ...Read More
The Olana Partnership invites you to discover a work of art through close looking, observation, and conversation. During this series of four themes, visitors will be encouraged to slow down, open their minds to discover Frederic Church’s art in new ways, and spend 45 minutes focusing in on the detail ...Read More
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