Women, Land + Art
The 2023 year-long initiative across exhibitions, programs, publications, interpretation, and collections.
Special Exhibition
Women Reframe American Landscape
May 6-October 29, 2023
Women Reframe American Landscape is a two-part historic and contemporary exhibition illuminating the artistic contributions and perspectives of women.
Programs
Curators’ Talk & Artist Panel
Sun, Jul 30 at 1 pm in Foreland’s Bookhouse
Featuring Women Reframe American Landscape curators Nancy Siegel, Kate Menconeri, and Amanda Malmstrom with exhibiting artists Anna Plesset, Jean Shin, and Saya Woolfalk
Presented by the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in partnership at Foreland
Interpretation
New installations in the Main House on two women that lived and labored here: Maria Bartow Cole (1813-1884) and a Black woman identified in the 1840 census as free and part of the household alongside Maria and Thomas Cole.
Collections
Unveiling a new installation of artwork by Sarah Cole (1805-1857) in the collection of the Thomas Cole National Historic Site.
Image: Thomas Cole, Sketch of Sarah Cole (detail), c. 1840. Albany Institute of History & Art.
Publications
Publishing the transcribed journal of Maria Bartow Cole (1813-1884) for the first time and publishing the exhibition book, Women Reframe American Landscape, in partnership with Hirmer Publishers, Munich. Two additional international books on artists in the exhibition, Susie Barstow and Fidelia Bridges, were published by Lund Humphries in London this spring.