Sat, September 30 Family Art Project: Mapping the Bronx Green
Visiting artist Francisco Donoso, exhibiting in Call & Response, the fall exhibition in Glyndor Gallery, works with the visual language of cartography and abstraction to make multi-layered artworks. Using recycled maps and printmaking, create individual collages or join in a collaborative map installation highlighting Bronx green spaces—like Wave Hill. Free, and admission to the grounds is free untilnoon.
WAVE HILL HOUSE, 10AM‒1PM
Sat, September 30 Garden Highlights Walk
Join a Wave Hill Garden Guide for an hour-long tour of seasonal garden highlights. Free, and admission to the grounds is free until noon.
MEET AT PERKINS VISITOR CENTER, 11AM
Sat, September 30 Call & Response Artist Talk: Jeff Slomba
On select Saturdays, Call & Response artists will be presenting talks, readings, live music, performance art and workshops in and around Glyndor Gallery. This Saturday, Call & Response artist Jeff Slomba demonstrates and speaks about the production and use of charcoal as a drawing tool in his art. His work, Pyre, uses twigs and branches found onsite at Wave Hill as elements in constructing the work’s charcoal drawing and accompanying structure. Free with admission to the grounds.
GLYNDOR GALLERY, 2PM
Sun, October 1 Family Art Project: Mapping the Bronx Green
Visiting artist Francisco Donoso, exhibiting in Call & Response, the fall exhibition in Glyndor Gallery, works with the visual language of cartography and abstraction to make multi-layered artworks. Using recycled maps and printmaking, create individual collages or join in a collaborative map installation highlighting Bronx green spaces—like Wave Hill. Free with admission to the grounds.
WAVE HILL HOUSE, 10AM‒1PM
Sun, October 1 Garden Highlights Walk
Join a Wave Hill Garden Guide for an hour-long tour of seasonal garden highlights. Free with admission to the grounds.
MEET AT PERKINS VISITOR CENTER, 2PM
Sun, October 1 Meet the Artists: Beth Ganz & Mona Kamal
Join us at this artist talk in Wave Hill House. Artists Beth Ganz and Mona Kamaleach discuss their projects on view. Paintings and prints by Ganz depict aerial views resembling topographic maps and photographs portraying ghostly images of trees covered in Spanish moss. Kamal’s paintings on birch bark feature delicately rendered flowering trees, inspired by patterns and motifs from Islamic tilework, miniature paintings and textiles. Free with admission to the grounds.
WAVE HILL HOUSE, 3PM
Mon, October 2
Closed to the public.
Tue, October 3 Art Workshop Series Begins: Solving Daily Issues in Nature Photography
Nature photographer Benjamin Swett reviews exposure, image correction, monitor calibration and printing to help students turn their raw captures into stunning prints and digital files. Bring your digital camera and troubleshooting questions. Beginners welcome. $185/$150 Wave Hill Member. Registration required, online atwavehill.org or onsite at the Perkins Visitor Center. The four-session series continues October 10, 17 and 24.
WAVE HILL HOUSE, 10AM–1PM
Tue, October 3 Garden Highlights Walk
Join a Wave Hill Garden Guide for an hour-long tour of seasonal garden highlights. Free, and admission to the grounds is free until noon.
MEET AT PERKINS VISITOR CENTER, 11AM
Tue, October 3 Gallery Tour
Wave Hill’s Curatorial Fellow leads a tour of the current exhibition in Glyndor Gallery. This fall, the entire gallery is given over to new site-responsive projects honoring the tenth anniversary of Wave Hill’s Sunroom Project Space. Call & Response showcases the work of 50 artists who have exhibited in this unique venue, in projects ranging from art objects created from natural materials gathered onsite, to sound pieces, outdoor installations and performance works. Free with admission to the grounds.
GLYNDOR GALLERY, 2PM
A 28-acre public garden and cultural center overlooking the Hudson River and Palisades, Wave Hill’s mission is to celebrate the artistry and legacy of its gardens and landscape, to preserve its magnificent views, and to explore human connections to the natural world through programs in horticulture, education and the arts.
HOURS Open all year, Tuesday through Sunday and many major holidays: 9AM–5:30PM, starting March 15. Closes 4:30PM, November 1–March 14.
ADMISSION $8 adults, $4 students and seniors 65+, $2 children 6–18. Free Saturday and Tuesday mornings until noon. Free to Wave Hill Members and children under 6.
PROGRAM FEES Programs are free with admission to the grounds unless otherwise noted.
Visitors to Wave Hill can take advantage of Metro-North’s one-day getaway offer. Purchase a discount round-trip rail far and discount admission to the gardens. More at http://mta.info/mnr/html/
DIRECTIONS – Getting here is easy! Located only 30 minutes from midtown Manhattan, Wave Hill’s free shuttle van transports you to and from our front gate and Metro-North’s Riverdale station, as well as the W. 242nd Street stop on the #1 subway line. Limited onsite parking is available for $8 per vehicle. Free offsite parking is available nearby with continuous, complimentary shuttle service to and from the offsite lot and our front gate. Complete directions and shuttle bus schedule at www.wavehill.org/visit/.
Information at 718.549.3200. On the web at www.wavehill.org.
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