LINKS below provide an array of information on the
Art Institutions in Columbia County and Area

ART OMI - Click Here
Omi International Arts Center
59 Letter S Road
Ghent, New York 12075

Cedar Grove - Click Here
The Thomas Cole National Historic Site (Photo at Right)
Cole was founder of the Hudson River School of Art
218 Spring Street
Catskill
518-943-7465

Chatham Film Club - Click Here
PO Box 181
East Chatham, NY 12060

Chatham Improv - Click Here

Clarion Concerts - Click Here
Known for its Leaf Peeper Concerts
PO Box 43
Copake, NY 12516 Box 313, Hillsdale, NY 12529 Catskill
518 325-3847 0r 518 329-5613

Columbia County Historical Society Museum - Click Here
5 Albany Avenue, Kinderhook
518 758-9265

Crandell Theatre - Click Here
Columbia County's oldest and largest theatre. An architectural gem, it has remained basically unchanged since built in 1926 by Walter S. Crandell, as a vaudeville house.
Nightly showings of Current films
Venue for Film Columbia, Columbia County's autumn film festival  Chatham Film Club
46-48 Main Street, Chatham

  Film Columbia - Click Here
9th Annual Film Columbia festival of Film
2008 - October 16 - 19
Venues: Crandall Theatre, Tracy Memorial & Morris Memorial in Chatham

Fisher Center at Bard College - Click Here
Annandale-on-Hudson
845 758-7900

Ghent Playhouse - Click Here
One of the region’s oldest and most popular community theaters. Housed in the former Ghent Town Hall, built over 100 years
ago. In 1987, the Town moved its offices.  Barbara Perry, president of the then Columbia Civic Players suggested to the Town that
it be leased to them with an option to buy  the historic structure. The rest is theatre history!
Off Route 66, across from the fire station in the hamlet of Ghent.

Gwen Gould Ensembles - Click Here
Professional musical ensembles
Superb players of all manner of music for all occasions
451 East Allen Street
Hudson, NY 12534

Hudson Opera House - Click Here
One of the region's cultural jewels! It offers a year-round schedule of arts and cultural programming,
327 Warren Street,
Hudson New York 12534

Hudson River School, A Guide to the Artists - Click Here

    

           Cedar Grove
        Thomas Cole House National Historic Site
          1815 Federal yellow-brick Main House
          Catskill

     

        Columbia County Historical Society Museum
           Kinderhook
         Offers fine changing exhibits of local
           historic artifacts and paintings

   

       Deborah Davis Fine Arts
         Hudson

      Art galleries are located throughout
      the county, though mostly in Hudson
        SEE ENTIRE GALLERY LIST
       Galleries - Click Here

                                
                                    Spencertown Academy
                                  Performance Space & Art Galleries

The Mac-Haydn started on a shoestring and in a cow barn, and went on to prove that the area could and would support good theatre.

Fifty professional performers, directors, designers and tech staff come to Chatham to present seven to eight main stage and four children’s theatre shows each summer. The performers are both widely experienced professionals and young hopefuls looking for the experience and resume credits they need to move forward in their careers.  If you came to shows on the fairgrounds, you might have seen a talented 21 year old named Joe Lane — he has grown up to be Nathan Lane, Tony award winning star.

Many others who got their start singing and dancing on the theatre-in-the-round stage here have gone on to Broadway, TV and movies, tours and regional theatres. Chatham native Monica M. Wemitt just finished four years in a feature role in Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast”.  Lovely Paige Turco most recently held a leading role in “The Agency”.  Others are ‘working in the business’ and any theatre person will tell you that in itself is success. The performers rehearse one show during the day and perform another at night, opening a new production every two weeks.  The tech staff puts in hours and hours working on the costumes, the sets, the music, the lights, the sound to put the show together with the high standards that people come from miles away to see.  They are young and eager to learn and perfect their crafts, and they love it.

People return to The Mac-Haydn Theatre year after year, “Because it feels like family. Chatham feels like home”.  If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Mac-Haydn can glow with pride that the county is now a center for the arts, with numerous theatres of many types, galleries, antique centers and more, and it all began when two women had an impossible dream and put it together in a cow-barn in Chatham. 

Every  May busses roll up the driveway, cars jostle for parking spaces, volunteer ushers show people to their seats, the lights go down, the music starts, the lights come up and the laughter, applause and appreciation begin for The Mac-Haydn Theatre, cornerstone of theatre in Columbia County.

Muddy Cup Coffee House - Click Here
742 Warren St, Hudson
Inviting, large cafe full of couches and comfy chairs
Offers a place to share art & opinions on life and the world.
"Our space is available to anyone who wants to share their craft,
be it a singer, musician, writer or sculptor"

Olana - Click Here
Persian-style home and estate of Frederic Edwin Church, famed Hudson Ricer School Artist
The perfect place to begin or end a tour of the scenic Hudson River Valley.
The historic birthplace of the first school of American Art.
5720 Route 9G, Greenport, 518-828-0135
 

PS/21 - Click Here
Performance space for the 21st Century, temporarily in The Tent, a wonderful new performance
structure (opened in 2006) on the outskirts of the village of Chatham. Set in the bucolic rolling hills of
Columbia County, it is a beautifully shaped, futuristic semi-open space that houses an exciting summer
season of music, dance and theatre. A sublime experience!
What's more, Judy Grunberg has assembled a company of unbelievable high skilled
professional artists in this beautiful rural setting. AS
2980 Route 66 - PO Box 364 - 518 392-6121 
Chatham, New York 12037

Rhinebeck Centre for the Performing Arts - Click Here
Regular performance venue for local theater companies
661 Route 308
Rhinebeck NY 12572                   
 

Tannery Pond Concerts - Click Here
Season of six to seven chamber concerts May - October in the Tannery
built by the Shakers in 1834
Mount Lebanon Shaker Village and the Darrow School,
New Lebanon NY 1.5 miles east of the town center on Route US20

Theater Barn - Click Here
Professional Theatre in the Country
654 Route US20
New Lebanon NY 12125

Time and Space Limited - Click Here
434 Columbia Street, Hudson NY 12534
518-822-810

Valatie Community Theatre - Click Here
3031 Main St, Valatie, NY 12184

Walking the Dog Theater - Click Here
Basilica Industria, 110 South Front Street, Hudson NY 12534
518 392-0131      
    

Columbia County Information

LINKS BELOW provide an array of County information

Map of Area - Click Here

Agriculture - Click Here

Antique Dealers Association, Hudson - Click Here                              

ARTS in Berkshire County - Click Here

ARTS in Columbia County - Click Here

ARTS to the Nearby North - Click Here

Columbia County NY Government - Click Here

Columbia County Chamber of Commerce - Click Here

Columbia County Living - Click Here

Dining - Click Here

Education - Click Here

Events - Click Here

Farm Fresh Produce & Markets - Click Here

Galleries - Click Here

G L B T  Friendly - Click Here

Historic Sites - Click Here

Lodging in the County- Click Here

Lodging in HUDSON -Click Here

Medical Centers - Click Here

Outdoor Resources - Click Here

Towns & Villages - Click Here