Upcoming Events

11:00am–11:45am Enrich your experience of our current exhibitions through an insightful docent-led tour of the galleries. Docent tours are an excellent way to learn more about the artworks and objects on display, in addition to the stories they tell. Interaction and questions are encouraged and visitors of all ages are welcome. The tour is free with museum admission, no registration required. Please meet in the museum atrium main level near the admission desk before the tour begins.

12:00pm–4:00pm Art for All is free with museum admission every Saturday from 12–4PM. All ages are welcome to participate. Enjoy your visit to the museum and explore your artistic side with a hands-on project inspired by the museum's exhibitions and collections. Participants will create an interactive landscape collage inspired by The Hudson River School: Landscape Paintings from the Albany Institute. Participants will cut and glue various media on paper to create a pop-up multi-media landscape.

12:00pm–4:00pm Stop by the museum café for a special coffee pop-up! Tortoise and Hare Coffee will be onsite from 12–4PM, serving a selection of hot and cold coffee drinks available for purchase. Check out Tortoise and Hare Coffee on Instagram to learn more and see what they're brewing.

2:00pm Free with museum admission. In this demonstration, artist Lauren Sansaricq will show and explain the painting practices of the nineteenth-century Hudson River School painters. She will discuss the artists' process from sketching outdoors to creating epic, large paintings in the studio. She will also touch on the Hudson River School's unique compositional and philosophical ideas in painting. Sansaricq has spent more than 20 years studying the techniques of the Hudson River School and has taught at several prestigious institutions. This program is open to all who may be interested in the Hudson River School and is not exclusive to artists and craftspeople. The program creates an open dialogue and invites questions along the way. Program support is provided by Donald and Ann Eberle. Additional support is provided by Jennifer Krieger and Eric Siegel.

2:00pm–3:00pm The docent tour on Sunday, September 27 is cancelled; we apologize for the inconvenience. Please join us for the next regularly scheduled docent tour on Sunday, October 11.