AIHA OFFERS FALL SLATE OF SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETED PROGRAMS

The Albany Institute of History & Art will offer sign-language interpreted tours and lectures to complement the fall exhibition calendar due, in part, to a grant award from the New York Empire State Partnership program (ESP) and the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA.) For more information or to confirm details of a specific program, call 518-463-4478 or 800-662-1220 (TDD relay service.)

UPCOMING SIGN-INTERPRETED GALLERY TALKS

Sunday, October 13, 2:30pm; FREE with admission

The Landscape that Defined America: The Hudson River School

Sunday, October 20, 2:30pm; FREE with admission

Matters of Taste: Food and Drink in 17^th Century Dutch Art and Life

Saturday, November 2, 2:30 pm; FREE with admission

Albany Underfoot:  Archaeology in the City

Sunday, November 3, 2:30pm; FREE with admission

Matters of Taste: Food and Drink in 17^th Century Dutch Art and Life

Sunday, November 10, 2:30pm; FREE with admission

Traders and Culture: Colonial Albany and the Shaping of American Identity

Sunday, December 15 2:30pm; FREE with admission

Sense of Place: 18^th and 19^th Century Paintings and Sculpture

UPCOMING SIGN-INTERPRETED LECTURES

Saturday, November 16, 2:00pm; FREE

Pine Hills and Beyond

Lorraine Weiss, a preservation planner, will discuss some of Albany’s western neighborhoods. The program will look at more than 60 years of growth and the aspirations of developers and homebuilders.

Sunday, November 17, 2:30pm; FREE with admission

Vermeer and his Contemporaries: Painters of Daily Life?

Dr. Walter Liedtke, Curator of European Paintings of the Metropolitan Museum of Art examines the highly selective nature of ‘reality’ in the works of Vermeer, de Hooch and Steen, who are celebrated for their images of everyday life.