Thu, May 2
Join a Wave Hill Garden Guide for a public tour of seasonal garden highlights. Free with admission to the grounds.
Meet at Perkins Visitor Center, 1PM
Fri, May 3
Join a Wave Hill Garden Guide for a public tour of seasonal garden highlights. Free with admission to the grounds.
Meet at Perkins Visitor Center, 1PM
Sat, May 4
Make cocoon-inspired art, learn amazing facts about insects and find out why insects are so important to our local ecosystems both big and small.
Sat, May 4
Celebrate the brilliance of caterpillars! Moth caterpillars have the ability to create cocoons from the very silk within them. When they need to find new leaves to eat or to escape danger, moth caterpillars release a silk line from within. Come explore your own silky strength by making your own cocoon, wrapping within it a message or picture of something you would like to transform. Free, and admission to the grounds is free until noon. Spring Insect Day event.
Wave Hill House, 10AM–1PM
Sat, May 4
Get up-close and personal with insects and other critters that creep, crawl and cruise around the Hudson River Valley in springtime. Check out live and preserved insects, cocoons and chrysalides with entomologists and creature wranglersLawrence Forcella and Lindsay Velazco. Spring Insect Day event.
On the grounds, 10AM–2PM
Sat, May 4
Explore Wave Hill with entomologist Lawrence Forcella of God of Insects to hunt for native creatures in their garden habitats. Appropriate for ages eight and up with an adult. Spring Insect Day event.
Meet at Perkins Visitor Center, 11AM & 1PM
Sat, May 4
Artisan Cynthia Shevelew of Cynfull Pottery will be in-store with an exquisite collection of ceramics perfect for Mother’s Day gifting—featuring spring birds, wisteria and berries in the delicate detailing of her designs.
Perkins Visitor Center, 10AM–4PM
Sat, May 4
Spend $75, and receive a gift for Mom!
Perkins Visitor Center, 10AM–4:30PM
Sat, May 4
Tour Glyndor Gallery with Wave Hill’s Curatorial Fellow or Gallery Greeter to get an insider’s view of current exhibitions.Here We Land features three, former Winter Workspace artists Camille Hoffman, Maria Hupfield and Sara Jimenezwho return explore narratives about contested space that draw on personal and cultural touch points in their immersive installations. Rachel Sydlowski fills the Sunroom Project Space walls with complex, screen-print collages of flora and fauna, architectural details and decorative motifs from Wave Hill, Inwood Hill Park and other surrounding green spaces. Free with admission to the grounds.
Glyndor Gallery, 2PM
Sun, May 5
Join certified yoga instructor Susie Caramanica from Yoga Haven for a gentle yoga class on the lawn for the launch of our 2019 spring yoga season! All levels welcome. Please bring a mat and be on time. Rain or shine; Glyndor Gallery will be the alternative indoor location. Free with admission to the grounds. No registration required.
On the grounds, 9:30–10:30AM
Sun, May 5
Celebrate the brilliance of caterpillars! Moth caterpillars have the ability to create cocoons from the very silk within them. When they need to find new leaves to eat or to escape danger, moth caterpillars release a silk line from within. Come explore your own silky strength by making your own cocoon, wrapping within it a message or picture of something you would like to transform. Free with admission to the grounds. Saturday is Spring Insect Day.
Wave Hill House, 10AM–1PM
Sun, May 5
Spend $75, and receive a gift for Mom!
Perkins Visitor Center, 10AM–4:30PM
Sun, May 5
Join a Wave Hill Garden Guide for a public tour of seasonal garden highlights. Free with admission to the grounds.
Meet at Perkins Visitor Center, 2PM
Sun, May 5
Here We Land artists are paired with a curator to discuss the source material and issues that prompt each project as well as their artistic process: Camille Hoffman and Eileen Jeng Lynch, Sara Jimenez and Emily Alesandrini, Maria Hupfield and Jennifer McGregor.
Free with admission to the grounds.
Glyndor Gallery, 2PM
Mon, May 6
Closed to the public.
Tue, May 7
Tour Glyndor Gallery with Wave Hill’s Curatorial Fellow or Gallery Greeter to get an insider’s view of current exhibitions.Here We Land features three, former Winter Workspace artists Camille Hoffman, Maria Hupfield and Sara Jimenezwho return explore narratives about contested space that draw on personal and cultural touch points in their immersive installations. Rachel Sydlowski fills the Sunroom Project Space walls with complex, screen-print collages of flora and fauna, architectural details and decorative motifs from Wave Hill, Inwood Hill Park and other surrounding green spaces. Free with admission to the grounds.
Glyndor Gallery, 2PM
Wed, May 8
Join a Wave Hill Garden Guide for a public tour of seasonal garden highlights. Free with admission to the grounds.
Meet at Perkins Visitor Center, 1PM
Thu, May 9
Join a Wave Hill Garden Guide for a public tour of seasonal garden highlights. Free with admission to the grounds.
Meet at Perkins Visitor Center, 1PM
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, March 15–October 31. Closes 4:30PM, starting November 1.
ADMISSION – $10 adults, $6 students and seniors 65+, $4 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.
