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Spencertown Academy Arts Center, in collaboration with Chatham Bookstore, presents Dinitia Smith in an event celebrating her new book, The Prince: a Novel. She will be joined in conversation with author Ruth Reichl. In this retelling of The Golden Bowl by Henry James, Smith uses the modern equivalent of the glittering high society setting of the […]
April 23-May 15 Gallery Hours: Saturdays and Sundays 1pm-5pm and by appointment. Opening reception: Saturday April 23, 4:00-6:00pm. In this invitational show, Curator Lynn Rothenberg has selected three artists for their differences rather than their similarities. Photographer William Bullard, landscape and still-life artist Tia Maggio, and painter and collage artist Gina Occhiogrosso’s diverse styles and […]
Opening reception: Saturday, May 21, 4:00-6:00pm Meet the 4 featured artists at the opening of our annual botanical show. Tim Ebneth A native of New York City, Ebneth’s mixed-media pieces […]
We are pleased to welcome back the Uel Wade Scholarship competition where seven area teenagers will perform classical music in pursuit of funds to put toward their continuing music education. Last year (sans Academy and sans audience), $11,000 was split between two young women. The first-prize winner, oboist Anna Ryu won $6,000. This year, seven […]
This concert was originally scheduled to be held outdoors, but due to technical issues beyond our control, it will be held indoors at the Spencertown Academy. The Lucky 5 is […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]