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  • Friday, January 6, 12:00 noon – 1:30 pm Eastern – Frederic Church’s Olana: A Masterwork of American Landscape and Design, Online

    Frederic Church (1826–1900) was America’s preeminent landscape artist of the 19th century, whose “great paintings”of the 1850s and 1860s (Niagara, Heart of the Andes, Icebergs) achieved international acclaim. Beginning in 1860, he spent the last 40 years creating Olana in Hudson, New York, a 250-acre designed landscape in which his family residence and farm are sited and whose panoramic views of the Hudson Valley and Catskills are integral elements.

    Today, Olana is the most intact artist’s environment in the United States and a National Historic Landmark. Sean Sawyer, president of the Olana Partnership, provides an overview of Church’s creation and leads a virtual tour of the landscape and main house, with its rich collection of fine and decorative arts that reflect the global reach of Church’s travels and vision. He also shares the remarkable story of the saving of Olana, a landmark in American preservation history. This Smithsonian Associates program will be held on Zoom and is $25 for Smithsonian Associates members, $30 for nonmembers. Register at www.smithsonianassociates.org

  • Sunday, October 21, 2:00 pm – Frederic Church’s Olana on the Hudson: Art, Landscape, and Architecture

    As the leader of the acclaimed Hudson River School, Frederic Church made his name as a painter of large and enduring landscapes throughout the mid-1800s. His talents can be seen throughout the interior and landscapes of his property Olana, located in the heart of the Hudson River Valley. On Sunday, October 21 at 2 pm, join Larry Lederman, photographer of historical and important building interiors and landscapes as he discusses his newest book. Explore the stunning 250-acre estate through Larry’s images, including panoramic and aerial views, sunsets, and detail shots. A book signing will follow. The lecture is part of the 22nd Annual Boston International Fine Art Show taking place October 18 – 21 at the Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts. The event is free with admission to the show. For more information visit http://www.fineartboston.com/special-programs

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  • Saturday, August 11, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm, and Sunday, August 12, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm – The Grow Show

    Saturday, August 11, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm, and Sunday, August 12, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm – The Grow Show

    The Berkshire Botanical Garden will host the 48th Annual The Grow Show on Saturday, August 11 from 1 – 5, and Sunday, August 23, from 10 – 5, at The Garden, 5 West Stockbridge Road in Stockbridge.  Entry to the show is free with admission.  Take in the talents of regional gardeners, flower designers, and photographers. The event shares the Garden’s season-long ART/GARDEN theme, where both the floral design and photography divisions take inspiration from notable works of art at regional museums including The Clark, Norman Rockwell, Frelinghuysen Morris House and Studio, Berkshire Botanical Garden, and the Berkshire Museum. The Grow Show’s Horticulture division spotlights regional backyard gardeners when their summer harvest is at its peak.  Nearly 80 horticulture classes are open for registration, representing divisions including annuals, perennials, biennials, vegetables, fruits and berries, container grown plants and dish gardens, among others. There is no charge to enter the Grow Show. For complete information visit https://berkshirebotanical.org/grow-show

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  • Saturday, February 11, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Design Philosophy, Plantsmanship, and More

    On Saturday, February 11 from 2 – 4, Thomas Woltz shares his design philosophy, his superb sense of plantsmanship focused on selecting species and varieties that have a connection to the local flora and fauna, and his use of indigenous materials. He will focus on landscapes he has created in the region, private gardens, Hudson’s Olana and Coastal Maine Botanical Garden.

    Woltz is a principal at the landscape architecture firm Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, where he helped establish the firm’s Conservation Agriculture Studio.  This Berkshire Botanical Garden Winter Lecture will be held at the Monument Mountain Regional High School Auditorium, 600 Stockbridge Road in Great Barrington. BBG members $35, nonmembers $45. To register visit http://www.berkshirebotanical.org/

  • Thursday, September 24, 10:00 am – 12:30 pm – An Insiders Walk Through Olana

    On Thursday, September 24, join Olana’s Landscape Curator for a guided tour along Olana’s carriage roads, followed by a tour of Olana’s main house and current exhibition, River Crossings. Olana’s 250-acre naturalistic landscape was fully designed by the famed artist Frederic Church around its 360-degree views. The 1-hour landscape tour will explore the history of Olana from the 19th century to the present day, including efforts to restore Olana’s historic landscape and protect its spectacular viewshed. This program will blend horticulture, landscape design, art and history together for an spectular autumn day at one of the Hudson Valley’s most beautiful sites. Following the program enjoy a picnic on the grounds of Olana. 10 am- 12:30 pm is the time on site at Olana, which is located in Hudson, New York.

    Bring a bag lunch and dress for weather. Participants can choose to carpool or drive separately. Those joining the carpool should meet in the parking lot of Berkshire Botanical Garden for an 9 am departure. Carpool will return at approximately 2 pm.

    Mark Prezorski is the Landscape Curator for The Olana Partnership. He advocates for and assists with the restoration and interpretation of Olana’s artist-designed landscape and its integral viewshed. Mark works cooperatively at Olana State Historic Site with New York State Parks, preservation organizations and landscape professionals on landscape planning and restoration projects, exhibitions, viewshed protection efforts and interpretative programs such as Olana’s award-winning Framing the Viewshed series. Mark was recently named one of the Top 100 Creatives by ORIGIN Magazine. BBG members $35, nonmembers $45. To register, call 413-298-3926, x 15, or visit http://www.berkshirebotanical.org/event/an-insiders-walk-through-olana-foreground-middleground-and-the-viewshed/?instance_id=3522

  • Saturday, August 18, 4:00 pm – The Sanctified Landscape: The Beginnings of Historic Preservation in the Hudson Valley

    Dr. David Schuyler will discuss New York’s Hudson Valley as America’s first iconic landscape, while unraveling a history of idealization, revolution, pre-environmentalism, and creative power in the 19th and early 20th centuries, on Saturday, August 18, beginning at 4 pm on Olana’s East Lawn.  Olana, the historic home of Frederic Edwin Church, is located at 5720 Route 9G, Hudson, New York. He traces how an emerging sense of place, aesthetic identity and American historical associations became synonymous with the Hudson Valley, and increasingly ingrained in national consciousness – ideas advanced by popular authors such as James Fenimore Cooper and Washington Irving, and Hudson River School painters including Thomas Cole and Frederic Church. David Schuyler has been a professor at Franklin and Marshall College for over thirty years.  He also serves on Olana’s National Advisory Committee.  He is the author of Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing 1815 – 1852, and The New Urban Landscape: The Redefinition of City Form in Nineteenth-Century America.  Presented by The Olana Partnership.  Call 518-828-1872, x 103, to reserve, or email rsvp@olana.org for more information.