Events & Programs
Drop-in Artmaking and Student Exhibition
Thur Dec 14
See a Student Art Exhibition inspired by our special exhibition On Trees: Georgia O’Keeffe and Thomas Cole, and drop-in during general admission hours to make your own paintings.In the historic Storehouse building on campus.
Needle-Felting with Grey Fox Felting
Sat, Nov 8
Needle-felt an adorable festive cat design with Grey Fox Felting.
Teacher Professional Development Workshop
Thurs, Nov 13
Learn new techniques from history experts on how to use Thomas Cole’s 1825 American landscape paintings to teach the history curriculum topics of Colonial Foundations, Expansion, Nationalism and Sectionalism, Westward Movement, and Industrialization and receive Continuing Teacher & Leader Education credits. Free and one-day only. Open to all K–12 educators, advance registration required. Sponsored by the Warner Foundation’s Teaching American History Through Art project.
For CTLE credits, please sign up with BOCES here.
COLE 200 Beecher Lecture
Sun, Nov 30
Join Greene County Historian Jonathan Palmer for a special anniversary lecture, “In the Shadow of the Mountains: Catskill at the Dawn of the Hudson River School.”
Holiday Social
Sun, Dec 7
All are invited to the Cole Center building for a gathering with local vendors, hot chocolate, and winter treats. Winter House Tours will be available for $15/person.
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Winter Floral Arrangements
Sat, Dec 13
Create festive winter floral arrangements during the holiday season.
Tickets Coming Soon
The Thomas Cole Site programs and operations are supported by the National Park Service, Enoch Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, The Educational Foundation of America, The KHR McNeely Family Foundation, Kevin, Rosemary, and Hannah Rose McNeely, Evelyn D. Trebilcock & Douglas Hammond, Warner Foundation, The Estate of James T. Lewis IV, The Aven A. Kerr Trust, Patti Matheney & Michael Schrom, Bumblebee Fund, The Cranshaw Corporation, James LaForce & Stephen Henderson, Jenny & Campbell Levy, The May Family Foundation, Tianaderrah Foundation, Illiana van Meeteren & Terence Boylan, and the Kindred Spirits Society of the Thomas Cole National Historic Site.
The Program Endowment that supports educational programs at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this the programs do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
