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‘Haight Street Rat’ by famed artist Banksy on view this summer in Cooperstown

The exhibition, Banksy: The Haight Street Rat, is on view May 18 through September 8 at Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown.

Fenimore Art Museum Accepting Artist Submissions for Art by the Lake Event

Fenimore Art Museum is accepting artist submissions for its annual juried summer art invitational, Art by the Lake, taking place August 10.

Storyteller Perry Ground Coming to Fenimore Art Museum

Join master storyteller and cultural educator Perry Ground for a family-friendly performance of stories from the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Longhouse.

Fenimore Art Museum’s Glimmer Globe Theatre Announces Auditions for This Summer’s Lakeside Performance of The Tempest

Glimmer Globe Theatre Auditions for The Tempest

 Fenimore Art Museum’s Glimmer Globe Theatre will hold open auditions for a new production of Shakespeare’s fantastical final work, The Tempest. In-person auditions will take place at Fenimore on Thursday, April 20 from 5:00-7:30 p.m. 

Preschool Tuesdays at Fenimore Art Museum

Preschool Tuesdays at the Fenimore Art Museum

Beginning April 4, Preschool Tuesdays at Fenimore Art Museum now offers two sessions every Tuesday:10:00am and 3:00pm.

Fenimore Art Museum Food For Thought Lunch and Lecture Series

Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown announces the 2023 Food For Thought Lunch and Lecture Series Schedule with dates through November.

Fenimore Art Museum By Beyond My Ken

Fenimore Art Museum presents virtual tours focused on the museum’s collections

Fenimore Art Museum presents free virtual tours focused on the museum’s collection on select Tuesdays from January – March.

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Photo courtesy of the Fenimore Art Museum

Fenimore Art Museum Offers Family-Friendly Program on Saturdays in October

Tour & Storytime for Families
Saturdays, October 5, 12, 19, 26 • 11:00 a.m.
Fenimore Art Museum
Included with museum admission • Ages 19 and under are free

COOPERSTOWN, NY — Fenimore Art Museum offers the program “Tour & Storytime for Families” on Saturday mornings at 11:00 a.m. throughout the month of October. Museum docents will read aloud one of the books featured in the exhibition Young at Art: A Selection of Caldecott Book Illustrations and then offer a kid-friendly mini-tour. Attendees will then select their favorite illustration in the exhibition and create an artistic bookmark to honor the book from which it came. The program is included with museum admission – ages 19 and under are free.More information at FenimoreArt.org.

About Fenimore Art Museum

Fenimore Art Museum, located on the shores of Otsego Lake—James Fenimore Cooper’s “Glimmerglass”—in historic Cooperstown, New York, presents changing exhibitions each season. Past shows have featured artists such as Keith Haring, Ansel Adams, Banksy, M.C. Escher, and many others. The museum features a wide-ranging collection of American art including folk art; important American 18th- and 19th-century landscape, genre, and portrait paintings from artists including Albert Bierstadt, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Frederic Edwin Church, Childe Hassam, Martin Johnson Heade, Robert Henri, George Inness, Eastman Johnson, Joshua Johnson, Thomas Moran, Georgia O’Keeffe, Maurice Prendergast, John Singer Sargent, Max Weber, and James McNeill Whistler; more than 125,000 historic photographs representing the technical developments made in photography and providing extensive visual documentation of the region’s unique history; and the renowned Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art comprised of nearly 900 art objects representative of a broad geographic range of North American Indian cultures, from the Northwest Coast, Eastern Woodlands, Plains, Southwest, Great Lakes, and Prairie regions. Visit FenimoreArt.org.

Board Game Making Workshop for Kids at Fenimore Art Museum on October 12

Board Game Making Workshop for Kids at Fenimore Art Museum

Board Game Making Workshop for Kids (ages 8-12)

Saturday, October 12 • 1:00-3:30 p.m.
Fenimore Art Museum
Registration required • $25 members, $30 non-members

COOPERSTOWN, NY — Fenimore Art Museum will offer a Board Game Making Workshop for Kids ages 8-12 on Saturday, October 12 from 1:00-3:30 p.m. Participants will create their own board game to take home. This fun workshop is inspired by the children’s book “Jumanji” by author and illustrator Chris Van Allsburg which is featured in our special exhibition, Young at Art: A Selection of Caldecott Book Illustrations. Children will decorate a game board, design their own play pieces, and use them to create their own variation of a classic board game from the 19th century, which they will then learn and have a chance to play with their fellow participants. Registration is required. Cost: $25 members, $30 non-members. More information at FenimoreArt.org.

About Fenimore Art Museum
Fenimore Art Museum, located on the shores of Otsego Lake—James Fenimore Cooper’s “Glimmerglass”—in historic Cooperstown, New York, presents changing exhibitions each season. Past shows have featured artists such as Keith Haring, Ansel Adams, Banksy, M.C. Escher, and many others. The museum features a wide-ranging collection of American art including folk art; important American 18th- and 19th-century landscape, genre, and portrait paintings from artists including Albert Bierstadt, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Frederic Edwin Church, Childe Hassam, Martin Johnson Heade, Robert Henri, George Inness, Eastman Johnson, Joshua Johnson, Thomas Moran, Georgia O’Keeffe, Maurice Prendergast, John Singer Sargent, Max Weber, and James McNeill Whistler; more than 125,000 historic photographs representing the technical developments made in photography and providing extensive visual documentation of the region’s unique history; and the renowned Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art comprised of nearly 900 art objects representative of a broad geographic range of North American Indian cultures, from the Northwest Coast, Eastern Woodlands, Plains, Southwest, Great Lakes, and Prairie regions. Visit FenimoreArt.org.

Photo courtesy of the Fenimore Art Museum

Photo courtesy of the Fenimore Art Museum

Photo courtesy of the Fenimore Art Museum

Fenimore Art Museum Offers Family-Friendly Program on Saturdays in October

Tour & Storytime for Families
Saturdays, October 5, 12, 19, 26 • 11:00 a.m.
Fenimore Art Museum
Included with museum admission • Ages 19 and under are free

COOPERSTOWN, NY — Fenimore Art Museum offers the program “Tour & Storytime for Families” on Saturday mornings at 11:00 a.m. throughout the month of October. Museum docents will read aloud one of the books featured in the exhibition Young at Art: A Selection of Caldecott Book Illustrations and then offer a kid-friendly mini-tour. Attendees will then select their favorite illustration in the exhibition and create an artistic bookmark to honor the book from which it came. The program is included with museum admission – ages 19 and under are free.More information at FenimoreArt.org.

About Fenimore Art Museum

Fenimore Art Museum, located on the shores of Otsego Lake—James Fenimore Cooper’s “Glimmerglass”—in historic Cooperstown, New York, presents changing exhibitions each season. Past shows have featured artists such as Keith Haring, Ansel Adams, Banksy, M.C. Escher, and many others. The museum features a wide-ranging collection of American art including folk art; important American 18th- and 19th-century landscape, genre, and portrait paintings from artists including Albert Bierstadt, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Frederic Edwin Church, Childe Hassam, Martin Johnson Heade, Robert Henri, George Inness, Eastman Johnson, Joshua Johnson, Thomas Moran, Georgia O’Keeffe, Maurice Prendergast, John Singer Sargent, Max Weber, and James McNeill Whistler; more than 125,000 historic photographs representing the technical developments made in photography and providing extensive visual documentation of the region’s unique history; and the renowned Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art comprised of nearly 900 art objects representative of a broad geographic range of North American Indian cultures, from the Northwest Coast, Eastern Woodlands, Plains, Southwest, Great Lakes, and Prairie regions. Visit FenimoreArt.org.

Art in the Dark Tours at the Fenimore Museum

Art in the Dark Tours at the Fenimore Art Museum

Five Evenings of Art in the Dark Tours at Fenimore Art Museum in October

Art in the Dark Tours
October 22, 23, 24, 29, 30 • Tours at 6:30 and 7:30 p.m.
Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY
Tickets: $13.50 members, $16.00 non-members. Reservations required.
To purchase tickets, visit FenimoreArt.org

COOPERSTOWN, NY — See Fenimore Art Museum’s collections in a way never experienced before–in the dark–with Art in the Dark tours. Join museum guides as they lead you through the galleries of American folk art and fine art by lantern light, stopping along the way to share some of the mysterious, melancholy, and untold stories within the artworks. Discover hidden secrets within the paintings with the help of a special ultraviolet light. The 45-minute tours are offered twice per night. Tours take place on October  22, 23, 24, 29, and 30 at 6:30 and 7:30 p.m.Reservations are required. Tickets: $13.50 members, $16.00 non-members. To purchase tickets, visit FenimoreArt.org.

Fenimore Art Museum is located at 5798 State Route 80, less than one mile from the center of Cooperstown. For more information visit FenimoreArt.org.

About Fenimore Art Museum

Fenimore Art Museum, located on the shores of Otsego Lake—James Fenimore Cooper’s “Glimmerglass”—in historic Cooperstown, New York, presents changing exhibitions each season. Past shows have featured artists such as Keith Haring, Ansel Adams, Banksy, M.C. Escher, and many others. The museum features a wide-ranging collection of American art including folk art; important American 18th- and 19th-century landscape, genre, and portrait paintings from artists including Albert Bierstadt, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Frederic Edwin Church, Childe Hassam, Martin Johnson Heade, Robert Henri, George Inness, Eastman Johnson, Joshua Johnson, Thomas Moran, Georgia O’Keeffe, Maurice Prendergast, John Singer Sargent, Max Weber, and James McNeill Whistler; more than 125,000 historic photographs representing the technical developments made in photography and providing extensive visual documentation of the region’s unique history; and the renowned Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art comprised of nearly 900 art objects representative of a broad geographic range of North American Indian cultures, from the Northwest Coast, Eastern Woodlands, Plains, Southwest, Great Lakes, and Prairie regions. Visit FenimoreArt.org.

American Masterworks, image by Fenimore Art Museum

Art in the Dark Tours at the Fenimore Museum

Art in the Dark Tours at the Fenimore Art Museum

Five Evenings of Art in the Dark Tours at Fenimore Art Museum in October

Art in the Dark Tours
October 22, 23, 24, 29, 30 • Tours at 6:30 and 7:30 p.m.
Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY
Tickets: $13.50 members, $16.00 non-members. Reservations required.
To purchase tickets, visit FenimoreArt.org

COOPERSTOWN, NY — See Fenimore Art Museum’s collections in a way never experienced before–in the dark–with Art in the Dark tours. Join museum guides as they lead you through the galleries of American folk art and fine art by lantern light, stopping along the way to share some of the mysterious, melancholy, and untold stories within the artworks. Discover hidden secrets within the paintings with the help of a special ultraviolet light. The 45-minute tours are offered twice per night. Tours take place on October  22, 23, 24, 29, and 30 at 6:30 and 7:30 p.m.Reservations are required. Tickets: $13.50 members, $16.00 non-members. To purchase tickets, visit FenimoreArt.org.

Fenimore Art Museum is located at 5798 State Route 80, less than one mile from the center of Cooperstown. For more information visit FenimoreArt.org.

About Fenimore Art Museum

Fenimore Art Museum, located on the shores of Otsego Lake—James Fenimore Cooper’s “Glimmerglass”—in historic Cooperstown, New York, presents changing exhibitions each season. Past shows have featured artists such as Keith Haring, Ansel Adams, Banksy, M.C. Escher, and many others. The museum features a wide-ranging collection of American art including folk art; important American 18th- and 19th-century landscape, genre, and portrait paintings from artists including Albert Bierstadt, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Frederic Edwin Church, Childe Hassam, Martin Johnson Heade, Robert Henri, George Inness, Eastman Johnson, Joshua Johnson, Thomas Moran, Georgia O’Keeffe, Maurice Prendergast, John Singer Sargent, Max Weber, and James McNeill Whistler; more than 125,000 historic photographs representing the technical developments made in photography and providing extensive visual documentation of the region’s unique history; and the renowned Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art comprised of nearly 900 art objects representative of a broad geographic range of North American Indian cultures, from the Northwest Coast, Eastern Woodlands, Plains, Southwest, Great Lakes, and Prairie regions. Visit FenimoreArt.org.

American Masterworks, image by Fenimore Art Museum

Art in the Dark Tours at the Fenimore Museum

Art in the Dark Tours at the Fenimore Art Museum

Five Evenings of Art in the Dark Tours at Fenimore Art Museum in October

Art in the Dark Tours
October 22, 23, 24, 29, 30 • Tours at 6:30 and 7:30 p.m.
Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY
Tickets: $13.50 members, $16.00 non-members. Reservations required.
To purchase tickets, visit FenimoreArt.org

COOPERSTOWN, NY — See Fenimore Art Museum’s collections in a way never experienced before–in the dark–with Art in the Dark tours. Join museum guides as they lead you through the galleries of American folk art and fine art by lantern light, stopping along the way to share some of the mysterious, melancholy, and untold stories within the artworks. Discover hidden secrets within the paintings with the help of a special ultraviolet light. The 45-minute tours are offered twice per night. Tours take place on October  22, 23, 24, 29, and 30 at 6:30 and 7:30 p.m.Reservations are required. Tickets: $13.50 members, $16.00 non-members. To purchase tickets, visit FenimoreArt.org.

Fenimore Art Museum is located at 5798 State Route 80, less than one mile from the center of Cooperstown. For more information visit FenimoreArt.org.

About Fenimore Art Museum

Fenimore Art Museum, located on the shores of Otsego Lake—James Fenimore Cooper’s “Glimmerglass”—in historic Cooperstown, New York, presents changing exhibitions each season. Past shows have featured artists such as Keith Haring, Ansel Adams, Banksy, M.C. Escher, and many others. The museum features a wide-ranging collection of American art including folk art; important American 18th- and 19th-century landscape, genre, and portrait paintings from artists including Albert Bierstadt, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Frederic Edwin Church, Childe Hassam, Martin Johnson Heade, Robert Henri, George Inness, Eastman Johnson, Joshua Johnson, Thomas Moran, Georgia O’Keeffe, Maurice Prendergast, John Singer Sargent, Max Weber, and James McNeill Whistler; more than 125,000 historic photographs representing the technical developments made in photography and providing extensive visual documentation of the region’s unique history; and the renowned Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art comprised of nearly 900 art objects representative of a broad geographic range of North American Indian cultures, from the Northwest Coast, Eastern Woodlands, Plains, Southwest, Great Lakes, and Prairie regions. Visit FenimoreArt.org.

American Masterworks, image by Fenimore Art Museum

Photo courtesy of the Fenimore Art Museum

Fenimore Art Museum Offers Family-Friendly Program on Saturdays in October

Tour & Storytime for Families
Saturdays, October 5, 12, 19, 26 • 11:00 a.m.
Fenimore Art Museum
Included with museum admission • Ages 19 and under are free

COOPERSTOWN, NY — Fenimore Art Museum offers the program “Tour & Storytime for Families” on Saturday mornings at 11:00 a.m. throughout the month of October. Museum docents will read aloud one of the books featured in the exhibition Young at Art: A Selection of Caldecott Book Illustrations and then offer a kid-friendly mini-tour. Attendees will then select their favorite illustration in the exhibition and create an artistic bookmark to honor the book from which it came. The program is included with museum admission – ages 19 and under are free.More information at FenimoreArt.org.

About Fenimore Art Museum

Fenimore Art Museum, located on the shores of Otsego Lake—James Fenimore Cooper’s “Glimmerglass”—in historic Cooperstown, New York, presents changing exhibitions each season. Past shows have featured artists such as Keith Haring, Ansel Adams, Banksy, M.C. Escher, and many others. The museum features a wide-ranging collection of American art including folk art; important American 18th- and 19th-century landscape, genre, and portrait paintings from artists including Albert Bierstadt, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Frederic Edwin Church, Childe Hassam, Martin Johnson Heade, Robert Henri, George Inness, Eastman Johnson, Joshua Johnson, Thomas Moran, Georgia O’Keeffe, Maurice Prendergast, John Singer Sargent, Max Weber, and James McNeill Whistler; more than 125,000 historic photographs representing the technical developments made in photography and providing extensive visual documentation of the region’s unique history; and the renowned Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art comprised of nearly 900 art objects representative of a broad geographic range of North American Indian cultures, from the Northwest Coast, Eastern Woodlands, Plains, Southwest, Great Lakes, and Prairie regions. Visit FenimoreArt.org.

Art in the Dark Tours at the Fenimore Museum

Art in the Dark Tours at the Fenimore Art Museum

Five Evenings of Art in the Dark Tours at Fenimore Art Museum in October

Art in the Dark Tours
October 22, 23, 24, 29, 30 • Tours at 6:30 and 7:30 p.m.
Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY
Tickets: $13.50 members, $16.00 non-members. Reservations required.
To purchase tickets, visit FenimoreArt.org

COOPERSTOWN, NY — See Fenimore Art Museum’s collections in a way never experienced before–in the dark–with Art in the Dark tours. Join museum guides as they lead you through the galleries of American folk art and fine art by lantern light, stopping along the way to share some of the mysterious, melancholy, and untold stories within the artworks. Discover hidden secrets within the paintings with the help of a special ultraviolet light. The 45-minute tours are offered twice per night. Tours take place on October  22, 23, 24, 29, and 30 at 6:30 and 7:30 p.m.Reservations are required. Tickets: $13.50 members, $16.00 non-members. To purchase tickets, visit FenimoreArt.org.

Fenimore Art Museum is located at 5798 State Route 80, less than one mile from the center of Cooperstown. For more information visit FenimoreArt.org.

About Fenimore Art Museum

Fenimore Art Museum, located on the shores of Otsego Lake—James Fenimore Cooper’s “Glimmerglass”—in historic Cooperstown, New York, presents changing exhibitions each season. Past shows have featured artists such as Keith Haring, Ansel Adams, Banksy, M.C. Escher, and many others. The museum features a wide-ranging collection of American art including folk art; important American 18th- and 19th-century landscape, genre, and portrait paintings from artists including Albert Bierstadt, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Frederic Edwin Church, Childe Hassam, Martin Johnson Heade, Robert Henri, George Inness, Eastman Johnson, Joshua Johnson, Thomas Moran, Georgia O’Keeffe, Maurice Prendergast, John Singer Sargent, Max Weber, and James McNeill Whistler; more than 125,000 historic photographs representing the technical developments made in photography and providing extensive visual documentation of the region’s unique history; and the renowned Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art comprised of nearly 900 art objects representative of a broad geographic range of North American Indian cultures, from the Northwest Coast, Eastern Woodlands, Plains, Southwest, Great Lakes, and Prairie regions. Visit FenimoreArt.org.

American Masterworks, image by Fenimore Art Museum

Art in the Dark Tours at the Fenimore Museum

Art in the Dark Tours at the Fenimore Art Museum

Five Evenings of Art in the Dark Tours at Fenimore Art Museum in October

Art in the Dark Tours
October 22, 23, 24, 29, 30 • Tours at 6:30 and 7:30 p.m.
Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY
Tickets: $13.50 members, $16.00 non-members. Reservations required.
To purchase tickets, visit FenimoreArt.org

COOPERSTOWN, NY — See Fenimore Art Museum’s collections in a way never experienced before–in the dark–with Art in the Dark tours. Join museum guides as they lead you through the galleries of American folk art and fine art by lantern light, stopping along the way to share some of the mysterious, melancholy, and untold stories within the artworks. Discover hidden secrets within the paintings with the help of a special ultraviolet light. The 45-minute tours are offered twice per night. Tours take place on October  22, 23, 24, 29, and 30 at 6:30 and 7:30 p.m.Reservations are required. Tickets: $13.50 members, $16.00 non-members. To purchase tickets, visit FenimoreArt.org.

Fenimore Art Museum is located at 5798 State Route 80, less than one mile from the center of Cooperstown. For more information visit FenimoreArt.org.

About Fenimore Art Museum

Fenimore Art Museum, located on the shores of Otsego Lake—James Fenimore Cooper’s “Glimmerglass”—in historic Cooperstown, New York, presents changing exhibitions each season. Past shows have featured artists such as Keith Haring, Ansel Adams, Banksy, M.C. Escher, and many others. The museum features a wide-ranging collection of American art including folk art; important American 18th- and 19th-century landscape, genre, and portrait paintings from artists including Albert Bierstadt, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Frederic Edwin Church, Childe Hassam, Martin Johnson Heade, Robert Henri, George Inness, Eastman Johnson, Joshua Johnson, Thomas Moran, Georgia O’Keeffe, Maurice Prendergast, John Singer Sargent, Max Weber, and James McNeill Whistler; more than 125,000 historic photographs representing the technical developments made in photography and providing extensive visual documentation of the region’s unique history; and the renowned Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art comprised of nearly 900 art objects representative of a broad geographic range of North American Indian cultures, from the Northwest Coast, Eastern Woodlands, Plains, Southwest, Great Lakes, and Prairie regions. Visit FenimoreArt.org.

American Masterworks, image by Fenimore Art Museum

Photo courtesy of the Fenimore Art Museum

Fenimore Art Museum Offers Family-Friendly Program on Saturdays in October

Tour & Storytime for Families
Saturdays, October 5, 12, 19, 26 • 11:00 a.m.
Fenimore Art Museum
Included with museum admission • Ages 19 and under are free

COOPERSTOWN, NY — Fenimore Art Museum offers the program “Tour & Storytime for Families” on Saturday mornings at 11:00 a.m. throughout the month of October. Museum docents will read aloud one of the books featured in the exhibition Young at Art: A Selection of Caldecott Book Illustrations and then offer a kid-friendly mini-tour. Attendees will then select their favorite illustration in the exhibition and create an artistic bookmark to honor the book from which it came. The program is included with museum admission – ages 19 and under are free.More information at FenimoreArt.org.

About Fenimore Art Museum

Fenimore Art Museum, located on the shores of Otsego Lake—James Fenimore Cooper’s “Glimmerglass”—in historic Cooperstown, New York, presents changing exhibitions each season. Past shows have featured artists such as Keith Haring, Ansel Adams, Banksy, M.C. Escher, and many others. The museum features a wide-ranging collection of American art including folk art; important American 18th- and 19th-century landscape, genre, and portrait paintings from artists including Albert Bierstadt, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Frederic Edwin Church, Childe Hassam, Martin Johnson Heade, Robert Henri, George Inness, Eastman Johnson, Joshua Johnson, Thomas Moran, Georgia O’Keeffe, Maurice Prendergast, John Singer Sargent, Max Weber, and James McNeill Whistler; more than 125,000 historic photographs representing the technical developments made in photography and providing extensive visual documentation of the region’s unique history; and the renowned Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art comprised of nearly 900 art objects representative of a broad geographic range of North American Indian cultures, from the Northwest Coast, Eastern Woodlands, Plains, Southwest, Great Lakes, and Prairie regions. Visit FenimoreArt.org.