WAMC | September 24, 2021
Spencertown Academy Arts Center’s sixteenth annual Festival of Books will take place online this year, with virtual events running from Thursday, October 7 through Sunday, October 31. The Festival will feature Zoom programs with distinguished authors, children’s events, and a “Special Book Room” online sale.
HudsonValley360.com | December 16, 2020
SPENCERTOWN — Spencertown Academy Arts Center announces the completion of its three-year $600,000 capital campaign. $500,000 is dedicated to the complete restoration of the outside of its building and $100,000 has been set aside to create a $100,000 reserve fund for the ongoing maintenance. Restoration projects include a new standing seam metal roof, repaired and restored cornice, chimney, clapboard, columns, windows, steps, and fence, along with a new patio and walkways.
Times Union | Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Since 1972, a Greek Revival building that was a schoolhouse for the first 123 years of its life has been a community arts center for the Columbia County hamlet of Spencertown (population 175).
The Spencertown Academy suffered significant setbacks after the global financial crisis a dozen years ago, to the point that all paid staff was laid off. Led by a strong board of directors aided by more than 200 volunteers, however, it has rebuilt financially. A capital campaign raised $600,000 for restoration of the building, and work that was expected to be lengthy is nearly complete, well ahead of time. The coronavirus pandemic meant crews didn’t have to stop to accommodate the academy’s normally busy calendar, which by March already had two dozen in-person events slated for the year, with more expected to be added as 2020 progressed.
Chronogram | September 1, 2020
When we headed into summer, no one knew if or how our favorite summer events —performing arts, galleries, annual festivals—were going to survive. Many, if not most of them went online, and so did we. Virtual events work, we learned, and the annual Spencertown Academy Festival of Books, taking that knowledge, has shifted to a virtual festival September 4 through October 12.
The Berkshire Eagle | August 28, 2020
Instead of promoting her latest novel, “Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars.,” on a national book tour, author Joyce Carol Oates is spending her summer in one place, her house in Princeton, N.J., working (“mostly on a new novel”) and seeing a few people “at a social distance.”
WAMC | August 26, 2020
The Spencertown Academy Arts Center’s 15th annual Festival of Books turns Virtual this year. Labor Day weekend and beyond, there will be online conversations with distinguished authors, special book sales, children’s drawing workshops, and even familiar flavors from the Cookbook Café. Get ready to settle into a comfortable chair with your laptop or tablet, and enjoy this beloved cultural event of all things literary, 2020 style. All programs will be on Zoom. Registration is required and free, but limited.
Hudson Valley 360 | June 17, 2020
For years the annual Uel Wade Scholarship competition has played to a packed audience at the Spencertown Academy.
This year, due to the coronavirus, the young musicians performed in Wade’s big studio with an audience of only three: the judges, Ron Carbone (violist), Eric Latini (trumpeter), and Mitsuko Suzuki (violinist).
Berkshire Eagle | August 31, 2019
Every summer for the past 14 years, the Spencertown Academy Arts Center has been transformed into a mecca of new and gently used books. Beginning in July, nearly 100 volunteers comb through stacks of thousands of donated books in preparation for the annual Festival of Books, a three-day, open-to-the-public event held over Labor Day weekend.
Berkshire Edge | June 10, 2019
Spencertown Academy Arts Center’s 15th annual Hidden Gardens is scheduled for Saturday, June 15, accompanied by an array of events for garden enthusiasts. The theme of this year’s tour is “Artful Landscapes.”
WAMC | June 7, 2019
Spencertown Academy Art Center’s 15th Annual Hidden Gardens Events include the Annual Garden Gallery Show, Twilight in the Garden Party, Garden Lecture, and Hidden Garden Tour, and Garden Market on the Green.
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