The Coachman’s House is open for exploration when you visit Olana. Once the home of the Church’s carriage driver, the space is now home to a reading room, peaceful spot where you can learn and relax while you wait for a tour or program to start. There are comfortable chairs, lots of books and articles, and even some cool activities for children. Stop by during your visit out this season, and leave time to read about Church and Olana. Coachmen’s House is located adjacent to the Visitor Center.

The Olana Partnership is putting Frederic Church’s landscape masterpiece in a frame in a scenic spot where Church’s first artist studio was set onsite. The installation encourages cellphone art making, selfie compositions, and family portraits and suggested that people view the landscape through various frames both literal and metaphorical. Plan a picnic and a portrait of landscape art making session. Frame is located near Church’s old art studio. All Ages.

The Wander Society’s Adventure Lab in the Landscape
The Wander Society is a secretive underground organization who believes in the intrinsic power of wandering to transcend the problems of modern society, access a higher plane of consciousness, and participate in direct experiences of life. The Wander Society’s Adventure Lab is a mobile unit that functions as a secret portal into the operations and activities of the underground organization. Designed as a space to facilitate exploration the lab is complete with various wandering tools, images, a random assignment machine, and a wandering library.

In the 1860s when the Churches were traveling in the Middle East, Isabel Church said she “loved the tent life” while they were traveling in remote areas by caravan. They also tented in the Adirondacks, Maine, and on many of Church’s remote painting expeditions. The family’s library is filled with tales from adventurers, travel books, and particularly William Prime’s Tent Life in the Holy Land. Installed in parallel with this season’s exhibition, conceptual artist and NYT’s best-selling author Keri Smith created the Adventure Lab and in turn pays homage to the tent and adventuring from the Church’s 19th century experiences, while layering the past with contemporary participatory adventures for visitors to Olana. Designed for all ages, come explore the lab, and make your own adventures. Free and open 8:30am to sunset daily. Opens July 14th and closes on December 1, 2018. Located near Church’s old art studio. All Ages.

In this installation of photographs, audio documents and notes, architect and photographer Scott Benedict takes you on a journey across twenty-six of Louis I. Kahn’s private and public creations.

Beyond documentary, Kahnscious is the culmination of an eight-year odyssey in which Benedict shares his progression through inspiration, delusion, exhaustion, and exhilaration at his attempt to express the immaterial aspects of architecture and the challenges of then photographing

Carrie Haddad Gallery is pleased to present “Landscapes: Capturing the View”, a group exhibit of landscape artists featuring: Tracy Helgeson, Sue Bryan, Susan Hope Fogel, Harry Orlyk, David Konigsberg, Eileen Murphy, Paul Chojnowski, Forrest Burch, John Kelly, Jane Bloodgood-Abrams & photographs by Betsy Weis.

Arists’ Reception: Saturday, November 10, 5-7pm

November 7, 2018 through January 6, 2019