Building Community Through the Arts
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Free: Reservations requested Children’s book author/illustrator Emily Arnold McCully and playwright Elizabeth Diggs have lived and worked in Spencertown for more than 40 years. They will discuss McCully’s 60 year career, her Caldecott Medal for Mirette on the High Wire, mission to tell stories with wit and flair about brave girls and extraordinary but overlooked […]
November 15- December 7 Gallery Hours: Saturdays & Sundays, 1:00-5:00pm, or by appointment Spencertown Academy Arts Center presents the “Curator as Artist IV” exhibit, featuring paintings, collages, metalwork, and jewelry by members of the Academy curatorial committee, including artists Karen Andrews, Munya Avigail Upin, Norma Cohen, Meryl Enerson, David Lesako, Alice McGowan, and Amelia Toelke. […]
Opening Reception: November 15, 3:00-5:00pm Show Runs: November 15- December 7, Saturdays & Sundays, 1:00-5:00pm, or by appointment Spencertown Academy Arts Center presents the “Curator as Artist IV” exhibit, featuring paintings, collages, metalwork, and jewelry by members of the Academy curatorial committee, including artists Karen Andrews, Munya Avigail Upin, Norma Cohen, Meryl Enerson, David Lesako, […]
Join us for a staged reading of this new work by Kate McLeod. It’s 1886: A young woman packs her few belongings and her determination into a shabby bag, boards a coffin ship in Dublin landing in the rat-infested streets of New York City. After a year with the rats she finds work on her […]
Brooklyn-based Jazz chanteuse Laura Anglade is originally from the village of Brousse-le-Château in the south of France, though she grew up in the US and spent several years living in […]
For ages boys and girls, ages 8-12, with parents welcome to join the fun!
Get ready to turn up the energy and unleash your inner rhythm at a hip hop dance workshop hosted by Roz’s Dance Works!
The class will begin with a brief energized performance by instructor Ali Delvecchio and students, to the song “Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters. Kids will then learn and practice the fun, high-energy dance! Whether you're a beginner or you have dance experience, this vibe-filled class will have you learning smooth grooves, powerful footwork, and performance-ready choreography, all in a fun and supportive atmosphere. Join us, feel the beat, and dance your way to the spotlight! way to the spotlight!
Submissions open from February 11 - April 30
We are happy to invite our talented community to show their work at this popular annual show. This show is a thank-you to all our members, it is a privilege for us to showcase your art in the Academy’s gallery. This is not a juried show and there is no submission fee. All media are accepted.
Revels 2026 February 14, 5:30-10pm Dinner! Dessert! Dancing! We invite you to join us for our 37th Annual Revels celebration - Valentine’s Day Edition. For Winter 2026, we’re planning something […]
Performance artist and filmmaker (and occasional amateur microbiologist) Sister Sylvester works with new technologies to make cross-species collaborations, essay films, and lecture performances. Using DNA extracted from a hat worn by actors in Bertolt Brecht’s Berliner Ensemble, Drinking Brecht is a live, illustrated essay that explores the past and present of genetics, synthetic biology, economics […]
This in person workshop will be held for eight consecutive weeks at the Spencertown Academy.
The personal memoir has become one of our most popular genres. Every life is a compelling and unique story. In this workshop, explore how to shape and explore your stories. Put pen to paper, fingers to keyboard, and craft the memories you’ve been waiting to tell, with expert tutelage!The personal memoir has become one of our most popular genres. Every life is a compelling and unique story. Sharing your life story with a group of interested members of the workshop is a moving and gratifying experience...
Across his genre-defying work, Julian Brave NoiseCat often turns to the narrative arts of his people who tell stories about mythic ancestors like the trickster Coyote to make sense of the world and themselves, cutting through colonial fictions while pushing the boundaries of nonfiction to illuminate vital truths. The “Coyote Story,” an artform once practiced […]
We are pleased to present, in collaboration with the Capital Region Blues Network, The Heavenly Echoes Gospel Band, founded by the late Deacon James Edmonds in 1965 in Albany, NY. With roots in the Stax/Volt style of Southern Soul, they perform both classic and contemporary gospel music—a mix of originals, well-known traditional spirituals and hymns, covers of songs that crossed over into pop music (such as the Staple Singers’ “I’ll Take You There”), and contemporary quartet-style songs that are gospel standards in the church community.