Flowers.Fields.Forests.Abstracted
This show, our annual botanical offering, features work chosen by our Curatorial Committee. Each member of the committee selected one artist to be included in the show: Tim Ebneth Curator […]
Free
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Twilight in the Garden Party
Online ticket sales are closed. A limited number of tickets will be available at the door. The Academy’s traditional kick-off to the start of summer will feature pre-packed baskets filled with wrapped homemade and locally sourced hors d’oeuvres and a sweet treat, as well as festive beverages, a silent auction, and live music by Rob […]
$100 – $250
Market on the Green
The market will take place, as always, on The Green in the center of Spencertown. It will showcase vendors offering plants, vintage and new home and garden furnishings, pottery, birdhouses, crafts, and garden books. Shoppers will find bargains on choice garden items and accessories at the Academy’s White Elephant Booth. The Spencertown Volunteer Firemen will […]
18th Annual Hidden Garden Tour
Online sales have closed. Tickets will be available at the Spencertown Academy and at the Market on the Green from 9am-2:30pm. The glory of spring and promise of summer beauty will be on full display at the host properties in Columbia County, NY. There is a wide range of landscape styles and many delightful surprises […]
$35 – $40
Maximizing Space in the Garden: Creating More of a Good Thing
An illustrated lecture/garden talk with Tovah Martin Purchase tickets now. Tovah Martin is the author of 16 books on gardening, and a writer, producer, and stylist for many garden stories featured in many prominent national and regional publications and on television. She lectures throughout the country to botanical gardens, garden clubs and industry conferences. Day of […]
$15 – $20
Jay Ungar & Molly Mason
Purchase tickets now. Online ticket sales close at midnight on Friday, June 17. A limited number of tickets will be available at the door, depending on availability. Based in New York’s Catskill Mountains, Ungar and Mason are best known for their work on the soundtrack of Ken Burns’s PBS documentary series, The Civil War. Ungar’s […]
$20 – $25
35 Days to Baltimore
Online ticket sales have closed. Tickets will be available at the door. The Spencertown Academy in collaboration with The Chatham Bookstore presents Jana Laiz and Alex Portillo for a reading and discussion of their new book, Thirty-Five Days To Baltimore. In 2004, seventeen-year-old Alexis Portillo embarked on a harrowing journey from Honduras to Baltimore in […]
Kids Need Music Benefit Concert
Purchase tickets now. ONLINE TICKET SALES HAVE CLOSED. TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR BEGINNING AT 2:30 “A Kaleidoscope of Hope” will feature pianist Gili Melamed-Lev and violinist Emmanuel Vukovich performing pieces by Piazzolla, Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Paganini, and Sarasate. All proceeds will be used to purchase band instruments to be donated to the […]
$30
Kids Need Music Benefit Concert
Purchase tickets now. ONLINE TICKET SALES HAVE CLOSED. TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR BEGINNING AT 1:30 “A Kaleidoscope of Hope” will feature pianist Gili Melamed-Lev and violinist Emmanuel Vukovich performing pieces by Piazzolla, Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Paganini, and Sarasate. All proceeds will be used to purchase band instruments to be donated to the […]
$30
Community Day
Help us celebrate the 175th anniversary of our historic home and the 50th anniversary of the Academy as an arts center. Free entertainment for all! For Kids: 10:00am-Noon on the Village Green Balloon artists Mortal Beasts and Deities Stilt Dancers will roam the Green 10:30-11:00am: Columbia County Youth Theater will perform 11:30-Noon: Tom Hooker Hanford: […]