Announcing the 2024 Season
Step Inside the Cole Center
—COMING SPRING 2024—
The Cole Center, our new energy-efficient visitor center, will transform your experience as a new point of entry into the historic site.
Join us for an exciting year with a variety of naming opportunities.
—EXHIBITION—
Native Prospects
Indigeneity and Landscape
May 4–October 27, 2024
Curator’s Talk: Saturday, May 4
Our 2024 exhibition in the New Studio, Native Prospects: Indigeneity and Landscape juxtaposes an Indigenous approach to the articulation of land with the American landscape paintings of Thomas Cole. The exhibition presents 19th-century paintings by Thomas Cole featuring Native figures, in context with Indigenous works of historic and cultural value, and artworks by contemporary Indigenous artists: Teresa Baker (Mandan/Hidatsa), Brandon Lazore (Onondaga, Snipe Clan), Truman T. Lowe (Ho-Chunk), Alan Michelson (Mohawk member of the Six Nations of the Grand River) and Kay WalkingStick (Cherokee).
Native Prospects is curated by Scott Manning Stevens, PhD / Karoniaktatsie (Akwesasne Mohawk), Associate Professor of Native American Studies and English at Syracuse University, where he is also Director of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Program and Founding Director of the Center for Global Indigenous Cultures and Environmental Justice.
Kay WalkingStick (Cherokee), Thom, Where Are the Pocumtucks (The Oxbow), 2020, oil on panel, 24 × 48 in. Courtesy the artist and Hales Gallery, London and New York
—EXHIBITION—
Alan Michelson:
Prophetstown
July-November, 2024
In conversation with Native Prospects, the acclaimed artist Alan Michelson (Mohawk member of Six Nations of the Grand River) will present a solo exhibition as part of OPEN HOUSE: Contemporary Art in Conversation with Cole, our annual series which invites contemporary artists to create site-responsive installations within and in conversation with the historic buildings, collections, and landscape. Michelson’s work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, among others.
Join Us for an exciting year with a variety of naming opportunities
All donations of $125 or more include an invitation to the Cole Center ribbon-cutting event in 2024 and a listing here at thomascole.org/colecenter.
The Cole Center
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National Park Service
Empire State Development
David Bury, The Bay and Paul Foundations
Hudson River Valley Greenway
Anonymous
Brown Foundation
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The Educational Foundation of America
Kristin Gamble
The J.M. Kaplan Fund Inc.
Lisa Fox Martin
Nina Matis & Alan Gosule
Anne Miller & Stuart Breslow
Robert A. Miller & Kathy Klingenstein
Evelyn D. Trebilcock & Douglas Hammond
Warner Foundation
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Peter Aaron & Brooke Allen, Rich & Anita Ahlberg, Wayne Benjamin & Rebecca Caudle, Sara & Tom de Swardt, Doreen & Crane Davis, Diane & Carlos Dunn, Stephen & Jacqueline Dunn, Ben Fain, Nancy & David Faul, Foreland Catskill, Ginnie Gardiner, Linda & Tom Gentalen, Robert & Rae Gilson, Guy Griggs & Greg Ventra, David & Joan Grubin, James F. Guidera & Edward B. Parran, Susan Hendrickson, James LaForce & Stephen Henderson, Merritt M. Lutz, L. Camille Massey & Gillie Holme, Michael Moy & Joseph Sniado, Jonathan Powell & William Kingsland, Nancey Rosensweig & David Arshack, Merrill & Ellen Roth, John Schobel & Daniel Schmeder, Stephen Shadley, Warner Shook & Frank Swim , Kiki Smith & Zoran Skoko, Peter Spears & Brian Swardstrom , Hudson Talbott & J. David Lesenger, Paul & Lisa Thomas, Maynard & Kay Toll, Suzanne & Robert Werner and Kate Wood & David Sprouls
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Judith & Robert Shapiro, Kenneth E. Silver, Robin Ann Stapley LMT, Robert Steen, Tara & Ned Sullivan, Rickie & James Tamayo, Stephen Theiss, Liza Tivey, Paul Trapido & Jude Ray, Stuart Tribbs & Emma Davidson Tribbs, Julia Weist and Ashley Wenk & Dane T. Pryse
Cole Community Sponsors
Markley Boyer, Charina Foundation, Inc., Diane Kamp & Mike Clayton, Ann R. & Peter Coffin, Edwina Thorn, Evelyn D. Trebilcock & Douglas Hammond, Lois and Arthur Stainman, Tara & Ned Sullivan
Eric W. & Katherine Baumgartner, Nancy & Sébastien de la Selle, Laura Grey, James F. Guidera & Edward B. Parran, Jonas Havens & Jackie Massaro, Hollis Heimbouch &, Paul Peacock, Meg Oliver, Charles H. Schaefer, Paul D. Schweizer, Robin B. Smith, Colin & Katrina Stair and Maynard & Kay Toll
Susan Ball & John Brigham, Randy Correll, Carrie Feder, Tomas & Lisa Friedlander, Marjorie L. & Gurnee F. Hart, Peggy Lampman & Ian Nitschke, Ronnie McCue, Norman & Melanie Mintz, Antonella T. Preve, John Prince & William Stover, Theresa Reynolds and John Wilmerding
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