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Family Art Workshop: Proud Portraits

Learn more about LGBTQ+ history and create your own collage using cardboard, glitter glue, and print-outs of historically significant LGBTQ+ figures. Recommended for ages 4+. #HRMPride

Kindred Worlds: A Conversation with Priscila and Alvin Hudgins

Collectors Priscila and Alvin Hudgins III, curator Alyssa Alexander, and featured artists Laurena Finéus and Raelis Vasquez discuss Kindred Worlds: The Priscila and Alvin Hudgins Collection. Yonkers residents and long-time art enthusiasts, the Hudgins have amassed an impressive collection of work by contemporary artists of primarily African descent over the last decade. The conversation will

Westchester Center for Jazz Ensemble

The Westchester Center for Jazz Ensemble returns to entertain and enthrall with live music. The group is composed of staff and students from The Westchester Center for Jazz and Contemporary Music, which provides an opportunity for musicians of diverse backgrounds, abilities, and ages to develop their own skills playing jazz and other related forms of

Gilded Splendor: A Hudson River Museum Gala (2024)

Thank you for joining us for Gilded Splendor: A Hudson River Museum to revel in the 100th anniversary of the Hudson River Museum’s stewardship of Glenview, our beautiful Gilded Age home on the National Register of Historic Places, while celebrating the stunning summer exhibitions and three outstanding honorees. The evening program, which took place in the

Teen Night: Celebrate the River

Teens—it’s your chance to take over the HRM! To celebrate our place along the Hudson River, come share your creativity and perform in a talent show, display your art in an exhibit, and show off your spoken word skills in a poetry slam. Throughout the night, jam out to our Junior Docent Jam Playlist, participate

Teen Art Workshop: Paint a Still Life

Love to paint? Are you an expert, amateur, or newbie to the artform? In this painting workshop just for teens, experience and skill don’t matter. Learn how to create a still-life painting step-by-step with artist Teresa Pereira. This event is free with general admission. Snacks and drinks will be provided. Capacity is limited. Reservation recommended.

Family Art Workshop: Drop In & Draw a Still Life

Feeling inspired by the art on view? Enjoy a self-directed drawing activity for families. Create your own work of art inspired by those in our galleries! A still life will be set up for visitors who would like to extend the experience of the afternoon’s tour by trying their hand at one themselves. Recommended for

Curator Tour of A Feast for the Eyes

Delight your senses in a curator tour, led by Laura Vookles, Chair, Curatorial Department, of this selection of enticing still-life paintings by artists including Severin Roesen, Audrey Flack, and Jane Wilson. Explore and discuss the composition, color, and deeper meanings of this genre, and then create your own still life with materials provided in a

Open Rehearsal: Behind the Scenes of Ballet

Experience Teaching Artists-in-Residence MorDance behind the scenes with an open rehearsal led by Morgan McEwen and four dancers. Set in a collaborative atmosphere, the rehearsal will provide a unique glimpse into the creative process of choreographing and rehearsing a ballet. Morgan, along with the dancers, will discuss and demonstrate the intricate steps and movements, providing

Author Talk & Book Signing with Robert Thorson

Robert “Thor ” Thorson, author of The Boatman: Henry David Thoreau’s River Years, a board member of the Thoreau Society, and Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Connecticut, speaks on Henry David Thoreau’s relationship to rivers. Thoreau became what today we would call a fluvial geomorphologist, an environmental scientist devoted to understanding the