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    • 12th Annual Hidden Garden Tour and Garden Market on the Green

    Hidden Gardens celebrates the art of the garden with a full line-up of events designed to inform, inspire and intrigue garden enthusiasts. The Garden Market on the Green 
is a lovely outdoor marketplace held on the Spencertown village green in conjunction with the Hidden Gardens event. The aim of the market is to offer the […]

    Twilight in the Garden Cocktail Party

    Delicious food, festive libations, and good friends served up in a bucolic setting. That's the recipe for the annual Twilight in the Garden party. This year's party is at Bezalel Gables (just outside of Chatham), the historic home of Chef David Robinson and Tom Michel. Catering will be provided by the Academy's Let's Eat cooking crew and Culinary […]

    Dave Francis Oscar's Towing

    Capturing Color: Contemporary Pastels

    Opening reception Saturday, June 25, 4:00-6:00pmGallery Hours: Saturday and Sunday: 1:00-5:00pm Pastels are the purest form of artist color, made from pure pigment with only enough binder to allow them to be formed into useable sticks. This media allows artists a choice of many subtle color variations. Pastel techniques are challenging since the medium is […]

    • Art Show at Spencertown Academy: Mysterious & Unexpected: the Merger of Art and Science

    Mysterious & Unexpected: the Merger of Art and Science

    Gallery Hours: Saturdays and Sundays 1:00-5:00pm Art and science have much in common from the spark or hypothesis that generates an idea; to the discipline of the process; the risk taking with tools of the trade and the surprise of the result. This exhibit displays the work of six artists who incorporate science to create […]

    • Festival of Books Members’ Preview Party

    Academy members and supporters are invited to an exclusive preview party on Friday evening. Enjoy a glass of wine with fellow book lovers before heading up to the book rooms for first choice of more than 10,000 new and gently used books. Book rooms open at 6:30pm. Please note: This event is for Academy members […]

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    Annual Festival of Books: Labor Day Weekend

    The Festival of Books at Spencertown Academy Arts Center is a celebration of books and reading for the whole community. Over Labor Day Weekend, we welcome dozens of outstanding writers and poets and nearly 2,000 readers and book-lovers to our 1847 schoolhouse in rural Columbia County. At the heart of the Festival is a giant […]

    TRANSLATIONS IN OIL: PAINTINGS BY SCOTT THOMAS BALFE
    WhatAmILookingAt?: NEW PHOTOGRAPHIC WORKS BY JANE MCWHORTER

    Opening Reception with the artists: September 24, 4:00-6:00pmGallery Hours: Saturdays and Sundays, 1:00-5:00pm The winners of the Academy's 2015 Regional Juried Show, Scott Balfe and Jane McWhorter, will be exhibiting two solo shows of their new works in the galleries. Hudson resident Scott Balfe is a classic landscape painter, in the tradition of the Hudson […]

    • Greg Greenway Folk Singer

    Jazz Concert

    The Quartet, Kieraldo, Quimby, Hauser, and Murren, have all pursued careers separately as sidemen for many renowned musicians. Over the last several years, they have combined forces to form "The Quartet." These master players bring decades of musical experience to the stage - but now they're playing for each other. Their combined history yields an […]

    Regional Juried Show

    2016 Juried Regional Show

    The Academy's third annual regional art show features 40 artists from the area working in disciplines from oil and watercolor to sculpture and fiber art. Opening reception: October 15, 4:00 to 6:00 pm Gallery Hours: Saturdays and Sundays, 1:00-5:00 pm.