Thu, October 3
Garden Highlights Walk
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, October 4
Garden Highlights Walk
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, October 5
Family Art Project: Cephalopod Prints
For International Cephalopod day, create your own wearable octopus arms and squid tentacles, using creative printing techniques for each of your many limbs. Free, and admission to the grounds is free until noon.
Wave Hill House, 10AM–1PM
Sat, October 5
Garden Design Walk: The Flower Garden at Wave Hill
Tour the Flower Garden, glorious each fall, with Director of Public Programs Laurel Rimmer. Inspired by the publication of Nature into Art: The Gardens of Wave Hill, releasing in September, 2019, this walk is an opportunity to see how plant combinations and colors, both planned and serendipitous, refresh the design of the garden beds and planted containers in each season. The Flower Garden draws inspiration from the Arts and Crafts gardening style, popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Free with admission to the grounds.
Meet at the Perkins Visitor Center, 1PM
Sat, October 5
Artists and Curators Talk: Figuring the Floral
Join us for a walkthrough with artists and curators of Figuring the Floral. This exhibition features artists who employ floral imagery to explore representations of identity, including race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation, aging and other facets. Free with admission to the grounds.
Glyndor Gallery, 2PM
Sun, October 6
Family Art Project: Cephalopod Prints
For International Cephalopod day, create your own wearable octopus arms and squid tentacles, using creative printing techniques for each of your many limbs. Free with admission to the grounds.
Wave Hill House, 10AM–1PM
Sun, October 6
Nature into Art: The Gardens of Wave Hill―A Conversation Moderated by Stephen Orr
Join us for a lively conversation about the new book Nature into Art: The Gardens of Wave Hill, to be released by Timber Press in late September. Nature into Art explores different areas of the gardens, with helpful information about the plants, techniques and design choices that define this remarkable garden. Joining moderator Stephen Orr, Editor-in-Chief of Better Homes and Gardens, will be Wave Hill’s Founding Director of Horticulture Marco Polo Stufano, current Senior Director of Horticulture Louis Bauer and the book’s author and photographer, Tom Christopher and Ngoc Minh Ngo, respectively. Hear from the creative forces behind this world-renowned garden and the extraordinary story of how, in Tom Christopher’s words, Wave Hill “remade American gardening—as it continues to do today.” A reception follows the event, at which copies of the book will be available for purchase ($40). Book Talk and Reception - $30. Wave Hill Members save 10%. Reservations at wavehill.org or onsite at the Perkins Visitor Center.
Wave Hill House, 2–4PM
Sun, October 6
Garden Highlights Walk
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
Mon, October 7
Wave Hill is closed.
Tue, October 8
Art Workshop series begins: The Idea of Beauty in Photography *SOLD OUT*
Since the invention of photography at the beginning of the 19th century, practitioners have wrestled with the problem of beauty. What makes a photograph beautiful? Must a photograph be beautiful to be good? Join photographer Benjamin Swett in exploring the meaning of beauty in photography through slide lectures, class discussions, outdoor photography in the woods and gardens of Wave Hill, and critiques of student work. Suitable for all levels. $245; Wave Hill Members save 10%. Registration required, online at wavehill.org or at the Perkins Visitor Center. This four-session series continues October 15, 22 and 29.
Wave Hill House, 10AM–1PM
Tue, October 8
Gallery Tour
Tour Glyndor Gallery with Wave Hill’s Curatorial Assistant or Gallery Greeter to get an insider’s view of current exhibitions. A flower’s life cycle of budding, blooming and pollinating, as well as its process of decay, strongly echoes the human condition. The exhibition Figuring the Floral features artists who apply this symbolism to their work—touching on race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation, aging and other facets of identity. Participating artists are Derrick Adams, Nicole Awai, Bahar Behbahani, Christian Ruiz Berman, Sanford Biggers, Cecile Chong, Max Colby, Abigail DeVille, Valerie Hegarty, Christopher K. Ho and Kevin Zucker, Diana Lozano, Natalia Nakazawa, Ebony G. Patterson, Bundith Phunsombatlert, Lina Puerta, Simonette Quamina, David Rios Ferreira, Alexandria Smith, Katherine Toukhy, Lina Iris Viktor, William Villalongo and Saya Woolfalk. In the Sunroom, Emily Oliveira creates a vibrant, installation using large-scale, textile pieces, sculpture and video to transform the Sunroom into a devotional space for a decolonized, queer utopia 1,000 years into the future. In the Sun Porch, Duy Hoàng creates a sculptural installation inspired by his research and material experimentation. In his laboratory-like setting, Hoàng creates a shelter and uses intersecting Paracords and tree branches to juxtapose found objects, such as fallen plants and photographs of fauna and flora sourced from Wave Hill. Free with admission to the grounds.
Glyndor Gallery, 2PM
Wed, October 9
Garden Highlights Walk
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, October 10
Garden Highlights Walk
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/.
