Community Calendar

Back for 2025, this year's Downtown Troy House Tour will explore the 5th Ave. corridor. This exclusive self-guided tour is your chance to get an inside peak into houses and spaces not open to the public!

Enjoy an evening exploring the Troy that usually sits behind closed doors, and witness residences that went from studs to stunners!

Admission:
- Current members of the Hart Cluett Museum- $40
- Non-Members- $50 (includes a 1yr membership for new members)

Join us at Shaker Heritage Society for a special lecture and presentation by renowned paranormal investigator Jack Kenna of Discover Plus series Haunted Case Files, and his team Rensselaer Paranormal Research for a discussion and reveal of paranormal evidence captured here at Shaker Heritage Society. Over the past several years Jack and his team have been holding investigations here as part of his paranormal classes he teaches at both Hudson Valley Community College and SUNY Schenectady (SCCC). During their numerous investigations of the Meeting Hall, Barn and Ministry Building, Jack, his team and students have captured evidence of spirit activity on both audio and video in all these locations. Listen to the spirit voices that have been captured, watch some unique video of activity, and hear stories of personal experiences by Jack and his team members. Join us for this unique lecture/presentation as Jack reveals the evidence and discusses how the history of Shaker Heritage lends itself to support the spirit activity here, as well as just who might be haunting the various locations.

Compass Roses: Maps by Artists is a national artwork co-curated by Nadine Wasserman and Renee Piechocki. The project offers a selection of maps created by visual, literary, and performing artists. An exhibition of the Albany maps is on view at Opalka gallery at Russell Sage College September 2-October 11, 2025.

This virtual artist talk is one of several public programs for the exhibition.

During this talk, each artist will present their Albany map in five minutes. Artists are listed in the order their talks.

Participating Artists:

Aiesha Turman, Alex Goss, Alexis Bhagat, Allie E.S. Wist, Barbara Todd, Elizabeth Zunon, Eugene O'Neill, Jack Magai, Jillian McDonald, Karley Sullivan, Leona Christie, Marcus Kwame, Mercedes Soriano, Michael James Oatman, Sarah Michelle Sherman, Stephanie, Loveless, Zenzele Spencer, and The Box Party.

6 Thursdays
September 11, 18, 25, October 9, 16, 23, 2025
6 - 8:30 pm

Ages 16+

This watercolor course is designed for intermediate and advanced artists looking to refine their technique and deepen their creative practice. Through structured exercises, students will enhance their observational skills, master controlled lighting, and explore advanced color mixing. Tailored assignments ensure a personalized learning experience, helping you achieve greater precision, expression, and confidence in watercolor painting.

All tools and materials will be provided.

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Please register at least a week in advance to guarantee your spot.

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We believe in access to art education for all. Please pay what you can to support this access for all of our community.

If you would like to use a scholarship code, they are listed below. If you require a full scholarship, please contact Chris@mkad.art

Scholarship Codes:
For 25% discount use code "25OFF"
For 50% discount use code "50OFF"
For 75% discount use code "75OFF"

5 Thursdays
August 28, September 4, 11, 18, 25
6 - 8:30 pm

Ages 16+

Join us in this 5-week workshop where artist Rakel Stammer will guide students on hand drawing silkscreen transparencies for printing multiple color layers. Students will gain foundational skills in screen printing by being guided through demonstrations on how to coat their screens, expose their drawn transparencies, printing and registering their color layers. By the end of the course, students will have the experience of layering transparencies and colors for beautifully rich screen prints!

All materials provided.

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Please register at least a week in advance to guarantee your spot. Scholarship availability closes 2 weeks prior to the start of class.

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We believe in access to art education for all. It takes the whole community to generate the equity our pay-what-you-can tuition generates. Behind the scenes, we work to bridge the financial gap between what our students can pay and what we need to sustain our programs. Please consider carefully before you use our discount codes.

Scholarship Codes:
For 25% discount use code "25OFF"
For 50% discount use code "50OFF"
For 75% discount use code "75OFF"

This economic justice map from The Sliding Scale: A Tool of Economic Justice by Alexis J. Cunningfolk is useful to assess where you may fall on the financial spectrum of pay what you can.

To request 100% off tuition, please contact chris@mkad.art

Have you ever wondered what prohibition-era dramas may have played out in your own backyard? The Hudson River Maritime Museum has your answer! Come hear Kingston City Historian Taylor Bruck and Greene County Historian Jon Palmer tell the wild and remarkable story of prohibition and bootlegging in the Hudson Valley. With a special focus on Kingston, Bruck and Palmer will give a sense of the causes and nature of the illicit alcohol trade fostered by the ratification of the 21st Amendment.
This fascinating talk will be accompanied by a tasting of local spirits courtesy of Branchwater Farm from Milan, NY. Branchwater Farm grows their own wheat and rye for the base of their gin and whiskies, making for a truly local and unique experience. There will also be farm goods available for purchase, as well as full bottles if you taste something you particularly enjoy. See you there, and be ready to learn!

Goldie Morgentaler, Yiddish scholar and translator, and daughter of Chava Rosenfarb, shares the decades-long correspondence between friends, Holocaust survivors and writers Chava Rosenfarb and Zenia Larsson, exploring their enduring friendship and postwar lives in Canada and Sweden.

Based upon the motion picture written by Adrienne Shelly, this hit Broadway musical holds a special recipe for finding love in unexpected places.
Jenna, a waitress and expert pie maker, is stuck in a small town and a loveless marriage. Faced with an unexpected pregnancy, Jenna fears she may have to abandon the dream of opening her own pie shop…until a baking contest in a nearby county and the towns handsome new doctor offer her a tempting recipe for happiness.
“Thoroughly charming! A deep dish of feel-good feminist comfort food.” -The Hollywood Reporter

Music and Lyrics by Grammy-winner Sara Bareilles, Directed by Brittany Proia 

THURSDAYS, FRIDAYS and SATURDAYS at 8 PM, SATURDAYS and SUNDAYS at 2 PM

The Norman Rockwell Museum is honored to present a rare series of early twentieth century lighting advertisements by Norman Rockwell and fellow Golden Age illustrators Maxfield Parrish, N.C. Wyeth, Dean Cornwell, Stanley Arthurs, Worth Brehm, and Charles Chambers created for Edison Mazda Lamps, a division of the General Electric Company. These luminous, richly painted works were widely circulated in published advertisements through the 1920s and are on loan to the Museum for the first time through the generosity of GE Aerospace.

“Once a Tree: Continuity, Creativity, and Connection” explores the deep-rooted significance of trees in Haudenosaunee culture, tradition, and creative expression. Featuring the work of 42 artists and more than 100 objects—including decorative and utilitarian baskets, cradleboards, snowshoes, ladles, lacrosse sticks, toys, instruments, carvings, and sleds—this exhibition highlights the important relationship between nature and artistry. Selected from the Museum’s permanent collection, the exhibition was created with guidance from curatorial consultants Terry Chrisjohn III (Oneida), Preston Jacobs (Mohawk), and Sheila Ransom (Mohawk).

"Separated but Unbroken: The Haudenosaunee Boarding School Experience" explores the lasting impact of the Thomas Indian School, once located on the Cattaraugus Reservation south of Buffalo, NY, and The Mohawk Institute near Branford, Ontario. These institutions, which enrolled a significant number of Haudenosaunee students, were part of a larger system that sought to erase Indigenous identities while deeply shaping the lives of those who endured them. Co-curated by Erin Keaton (Mohawk), the exhibition sheds light on Haudenosaunee resilience.