Current Installations

The Tang Teaching Museum Art Gallery at Skidmore College

The Tang Museum is a resource for the communities of the Capital District of upstate New York and beyond. With an annual visitorship of 40,000 in an area celebrated for tourism since the 19th century, the Tang is a favorite destination of museum-goers of all ages, including school groups, families, teachers and art lovers. For adults, we have summer concerts, year-round lectures and talks, special events and of course a constantly changing program of special exhibitions of national caliber. Family programs on Saturdays offer hands-on learning for children and parents, and each year more than four thousand school children experience personalized tours of exhibitions at the Tang. Ultimately, the Tang is about forging connections between people and ideas.

EMPAC

The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), founded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is an international hub for art, performance, science and technology - offering adventurous interdisciplinary public events, support for artists and scholars engaged in creative research, and the resources of a state-of-the-art facility for digital media production, research and performance situated on a college campus. EMPAC's building is a showcase work of architecture that spans the physical and digital worlds. With a 1,200 seat concert hall, a 400 seat theater, two flexible black box studios, audio and video production rooms and residency studios, EMPAC is a unique environment where digital technology and human experience can meet. 

The Shaker Heritage Society

The Shaker Heritage Society, founded in 1977, is a non-profit historic preservation organization which offers interpretive educational programming about the Shakers and their influence upon the Capital Region. The Society is actively concerned with preserving the integrity of the Watervliet Shaker Historic District, America’s First Shaker Settlement (listed on the National Register of Historic Places). Eight remaining Church Family buildings, Shaker fields and apple orchards, Ann Lee Pond and nature preserve, and the Shaker cemetery comprise an intact, contiguous site that was first settled by the Shakers in 1775. The Shaker Heritage Society continues to maintain and renovate the site, and also offers special group tours of the 1848 Shaker Meeting House and historic district, guided tours on Saturdays, craft courses, workshops, lectures and numerous annual events throughout the year.