Olana Webinar Tomorrow

Tomorrow, Friday, March 13, at noon, The Olana Partnership presents its Annual Ida Brier Archival  Webinar. The webinar this year offers an opportunity to learn about the recently published book by Annik LaFarge, Composing Olana. The book is devoted to illustrating why Frederic Church's designed masterwork matters so profoundly in the history of American art and public parks. The webinar will feature a conversation between LaFarge and Olana's archivist, Clare Flemming, exploring LaFarge's process of revealing the history of what we can and cannot see throughout Olana's historic carriage roads. Discover how LaFarge unpacks Olana's greater landscape by drawing on archival letters, diaries, and historic accounts, revealing everything from the site's Ice Age geology to the artists and conservationists who preserved it. 

The webinar is free. Click here to register.

Annik LaFarge is a writer, editor, photographer, and lecturer who has been writing about American parks and landscapes since 2008. Author of On the High Line and Chasing Chopin, her work has appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, Publishers World, Huff Post, and the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry. She is a Trustee of the Waterfront Museum in Brooklyn.

Clare Flemming is the Research Archivist for The Olana Partnership where every day is a new discovery into current scholarship about Frederic Church, his life, his land, and his legacy, as well as the exciting records of the Partnership and its visionary predecessors. Flemming has served as archivist in a wide range of collections from Philadelphia to Albany, mostly in natural history settings, from tiny historic societies to huge government archives and as an adjunct professor in the Archives Management tract at SUNY, University at Albany.