Building Community Through the Arts
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Opening Reception: Saturday March 28, 3-5pm Dates: March 28-April 26 Gallery Hours: Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays, 1-5pm Variations on a Theme features artwork by Betsy Jacks, Jim Krewson, John Morra, Marilyn Orner, Alan Papscun, and Robert Watkins. Co-curated by David Lesako and Alice McGowan, the show focuses on the concept that artists frequently return over […]
Cellist Francisco Vila is known for his fervor, vitality, sensitivity, phrasing elegance, and technical mastery. Through his expansive career and commitment to musical excellence, Vila has solidified his position as one of the preeminent performers of his generation, captivating audiences across the world’s most illustrious stages. He performs on a cello made by Vincenzo Panormo […]
New York City’s gritty instrumental trio, Big Lazy, has flourished for over 20 years playing its singular brand of “guitar noir” and “crime jazz” from downtown NYC clubs to the Opéra National de Lyon. They have forged a new American music from archetypes in blues, jazz, Latin, rockabilly, surf, and film music. Simultaneously noir and […]
Join us on our first field trip organized by our Curatorial Committee. Come see masterworks in the Clark’s collection with docent & Academy Board Secretary, David Highfill. Pieces from the permanent collection as well as a dozen rarely seen works on paper from the Institute’s archives will be highlighted. We will discuss American paintings by […]
Join us for Spencertown Academy’s first Seedling Swap & Sale, a welcoming celebration of gardening, generosity, and growing together. Local gardeners and plant enthusiasts of all experience levels are invited to share seedlings, swap favorites, or purchase plants to take home for the season ahead — vegetables, herbs, flowers, and more… all plants are welcome!
Have you thought about creating a painting that you would love, but it was too daunting? Or maybe you tried and the results were disappointing? In this hands-on workshop, Betsy demonstrates how to bypass the frustrating parts of making representational art, such as getting the underlying drawing the way you want it. She will demonstrate […]
Tai Chi is a Chinese martial art recognized for its benefits to strength, endurance, and balance. Professor Cheng Man-Ch’ing, who brought the tai chi form to the US in the early 1960s, described its fluid and controlled movements as “swimming in air” and its emphasis on relaxation as inspiring meditative calm in body and mind. […]
Shakespeare in the Park with the Rooted Voyageurs is back for the 4th year with As You Like It. Join us in the idyllic Forest of Arden, where an unexpected exile transforms into adventure and blossoming love. Filled with disguises, wit, and warmth, the beauty of nature and the power of words reign supreme in […]
Speaker Sigrid Gray: On the Edge: Mills Park Community Experiment This is the story of the renovation of a small green in the village of Kinderhook, NY into a meadow park; inviting curiosity and effort by many, stiff resistance by some, and learning by all. Sigrid Gray’s gardening background is in public gardens; from […]
May 30 - June 28 Gallery Hours: Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays 1-5pm We are delighted by the record turnout this year and impressed by the variety of work submitted. This year, the Members’ Show includes paintings in oil, acrylic, watercolor, and gouache, drawings in graphite, pen and ink, alcohol inks, charcoal, colored pencil, and […]
Willa Cather (1873–1947) was one of the most singular American novelists of the twentieth century. The author of twelve novels—including several enduring masterpieces, My Ántonia, The Professor’s House, and Death Comes for the Archbishop—she broke new ground as an artist by illuminating ordinary lives and struggles, lending dignity and significance to her characters’ inner worlds. […]
As part of the Town of Austerlitz 250th Anniversary of the USA celebration, Spencertown Academy presents a free concert by the Dusty Wright Four under a big tent located in a field a quarter mile south of the Village Green next to 5100 South Street in Spencertown, NY (GPS may say Chatham) on Friday, July […]