The Olana Partnership - 2021 Annual Report

2021 ANNUAL REPORT

OUR MISSION

The Olana Partnership is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to inspire the public by preserving and interpreting Frederic Church’s OLANA, a New York State Historic Site and a National Historic Landmark in the Hudson River Valley Region.

OUR VISION

The Olana Partnership envisions Frederic Church’s OLANA, vibrant with the activity of visitors, students, scholars and artists, as the most widely recognized artist’s home and studio in the world.

OLANA NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE - as of December 31, 2021

J. Winthrop Aldrich

Leslie Greene Bowman

Bonnie Burnham

Sarah D. Coffin

Will Cotton

Linda S. Ferber

Stephen Hannock

Eleanor Jones Harvey Inge Heckel

Morrison H. Heckscher

BOARD OF TRUSTEES - as of

Meredith J. Kane, Chair

Stephen Clearman, Vice Chair

David B. Forer, Vice Chair

Robin M. Key, Vice Chair

Susan Winokur , Vice Chair

Peter Warwick, Treasurer

Margaret Davidson, Corresponding Secretary

Janet R. Schnitzer, Recording Secretary

Valerie Hegarty

Franklin Kelly

Elizabeth Kornhauser

Katherine E. Manthorne George McDaniel

December 31, 2021

Joe Baker

Sheila A. Bridges

Elizabeth Broun

Laurel Durst

Meyer S. Frucher

Olivia J. Fussell

Phoebe Gubelmann

Laurie Norton Moffatt

Laurie Olin, FASLA Elizabeth Barlow Rogers

Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. Alec Webb

Christine Jones Belinda K. Kaye

Ricky Lark Elizabeth A. Mason

Richard N. McCarthy Lucy S. Rhame Theodora Simons

Jane Smith

Sedgwick A. Ward Kelly M. Williams Karen Zukowski

THE OLANA PARTNERSHIP STAFF - as of December 31, 2021

Sean E. Sawyer, Ph.D., Washburn and Susan Oberwager President

Mark Prezorski, Senior Vice President and Landscape Curator

David Quinn, Senior Director of Finance, Human Resources & Operations

William L. Coleman, Ph.D., Director of Collections & Exhibitions

Melanie Hasbrook, Director of Advancement & Marketing

Betsy Henson, Director of Finance and Human Resources

Carolyn Keogh, Director of Education & Public Programs

Hiro Kitamura, Senior Accountant & Human Resources Coordinator

Mary Lawrie, Director of Visitor Operations & Engagement

Rachel Tice, Museum Store Manager

Jessica Andreone, Communications Assistant Joyce Batterton, Executive Assistant & Office Manager

Ida Brier, Librarian/Archivist

Allegra Davis, Curatorial Assistant Jenny Pfister, Major Gifts Coordinator

Bailey Reed, Bookkeeper

Celine Smith, Senior Sales Associate

Dolincia Virgo, Sales Associate

Images: Cover and Interior: Peter Aaron/OTTO

FROM THE PRESIDENT

2021 saw The Olana Partnership move forward from the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic to resume full operations at Olana State Historic Site and build momentum toward realizing our ambitious vision for the site and our organization.

TOP staff returned to a 5-day onsite workweek and full salary as of March 1st, ahead of schedule. Despite the continuance of COVID-19 health protocols through the spring, TOP safely offered a full program of our landscape and Main House public tours. Our board showed its extraordinary commitment and readiness in supporting our interpretive programming by underwriting up to a $100,000 loss due to tour size restrictions. Thankfully, Gov. Hochul lifted these restrictions just as we opened for the Summer Season in mid-June.

Our long Summer Season featured our special exhibition Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church and Our Contemporary Moment, a collaboration with the Thomas Cole National Historic Site and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Not only did Cross Pollination bring Martin Johnson Heade’s extraordinary Gems of Brazil to our sites, but also furthered our engagement with leading contemporary artists. At Olana, we were thrilled at seeing Nick Cave’s Soundsuit installed in Church’s Studio and Jeffrey Gibson’s Protects the Land in the Corridor commemorated the site where Church’s paintings played a crucial role in the 1970s Hudson River viewshed effort. Within Olana’s landscape, Portia Munson’s Flower Mandala Momento Mori and Jean Shin’s site-specific FALLEN called on visitors to acknowledge the losses of flora and fauna and the determining factor of human consumption’s impact on the natural world.

By embracing a hybrid approach to educational and public programs, TOP engaged nearly 11,000 people in diverse learning opportunities. Our programs addressed all ages, from K-12 students, and students at Columbia-Greene Community College (CGCC), to 55+ adults in our Young at HeArt series. 2021 launched a new workforce development and internship program with CGCC, the first of its kind in the State to offer students an array of learning and career opportunities intersecting the arts, business, environmental studies, marketing, and management of a non-profit arts organization.

2021 was the pivotal year for the Frederic Church Center for Art & Landscape, Olana’s new visitor entry and orientation facility that is the linchpin of our Strategic Landscape Design Plan. TOP’s Capital Campaign reached the $7M mark toward the $10M goal, and TOP was successful in obtaining three major public grants for the project, totaling $4.3M. The NYS Assembly’s $1M support was the result of our far-sighted Assemblymember, Didi Barrett, who has engaged with TOP on the project from the start and drives its commitment to sustainable design. The NYSERDA $1.9M grant is part of their Carbon Neutral Economic Development program and ensures that the facility will be carbon neutral and net zero, while ESD’s $1.4M support is through their Market NY Capital program and matches our private funds raised. Following the announcement of these grants, TOP’s Executive Committee voted to proceed with construction documents and toward construction.

In tandem with this capital fundraising success, Olana gained the attention and support of Gov. Hochul, who came for an in-depth tour soon after assuming office. As a result, it is now a fast-tracked NYS priority project with substantial additional NYS Parks funding to ensure completion by the Agency’s centennial in Spring 2024. None of this would be possible without the vision and initial financial commitment of our Board of Trustees and other longtime supporters.

Amid this wonderful news around Olana’s future, we said goodbye to two individuals who contributed greatly to its development. After 29 years with TOP, Betsy Henson resigned as Director of Finance and HR effective December 31st to pursue her own consulting work and support her husband’s growing business. Sadly, on December 30th, Jack Keller, a longtime member of NYS Parks Maintenance team passed away suddenly. In his 10 years at Olana, Jack was an always affable and helpful presence for our visitors and for all his colleagues from both NYS and TOP.

With warmest wishes to all our members, supporters, and friends,

Sean E. Sawyer, Ph.D. Washburn and Susan Oberwager President

ABOUT THE OLANA PARTNERSHIP

The Olana Partnership (TOP) is an educational non-profit organization that operates in a public-private partnership with the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP) to preserve and interpret Olana State Historic Site, the master work of famed Hudson River School artist Frederic Church and a National Historic Landmark.

TOP’s predecessor, Olana Preservation, Inc., was formed in 1964 to save Olana from sale and destruction and in 1966 purchased the property and collections and conferred them to New York State. TOP itself was organized as a 501(c)3 non-profit under the name Friends of Olana in 1971 and adopted the current name in 2000. 2021 marked TOP’s 50th anniversary.

Over the past twenty years, TOP has worked hand-inhand with OPRHP to undertake the comprehensive restoration of Olana’s historic architecture and landscape and the protection of Olana’s integral viewshed. This has included: the installation of fire suppression and climate control systems in the main house; the replacement of the complex historic roofs of the main house; the restoration of Cosy Cottage, the Church’s original home on the property; the reconstruction of the historic Wagon House as an educational facility; and four major historic landscape restoration projects that have reopened landscape compositions that constitute the culminating master works of Church’s career. Throughout this time, TOP has led efforts to protect Olana’s integral viewshed that are a national model for such endeavors. Today, nearly 3,000 acres are protected for future generations through conservation easements.

TOP is extremely proud of our record of achievement and of the exceptional cultural experiences TOP provides for the tens of thousands who visit and engage each year. Through guided tours of the house and landscape, special exhibitions, educational offerings and other public programs, TOP provides unparalleled opportunities to engage the imagination; encourage creativity; and explore art, architecture and the environment.

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Images: Top: Landscape tour on Ridge Road

to Right: Electric Carriage Tour, Plein Air participants at Olana, Visitors on Ridge Road, Panorama participants sketching in the Court Hall

VISITOR OPERATIONS & ENGAGEMENT

2021 was a year of reopening and change for The Olana Partnership’s role in interpreting Frederic Church’s Olana. In June TOP fully reopened to normal operations after many months of either partial or complete shutdown of touring operations due to the COVID-19 virus. TOP engaged the public once again in what would turn out to be an encouraging and productive peak-season. It became clear early on during our reopening that the public missed the engagement of the visitor experience and regularly scheduled public tours. The goals of expanding interpretive programing and the integration of Church’s holistic vision for Olana for all visitors became part of the visitor services daily practices.

TOP recruited some very talented visitor services, interpretive staff, and volunteers in preparation for peak

season reopening. The continued starting wage for parttime seasonal interpreters of $20 / hour attracted highly skilled individuals from diverse backgrounds to work with the public and provided compensation that enabled them to contribute to our region’s vital creative economy. Our 2021 seasonal staff team has stood out as one of our best since TOP took over touring operations and were often called out by name on Yelp and Trip Advisor for outstanding experiences they provided to visitors.

TOP also collaborated with the NYS Office of Parks and Recreation and Historical Preservation to present the Cross Pollination Exhibition with the Thomas Cole House. This became part of our tour interpretation and talking points for visitors throughout the peak season in 2021. TOP offered twenty historic approach and interior

tours, 3 outdoor walking landscape tours, and 2 GEM Riding tours per day during the summer season. These public tour options holistically interpreted Olana’s historic landscape and architecture and fine and decorative arts collections while showcasing Cross Pollination. During the peak season we began “Explore at Your Own Pace” tours on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday afternoons from 2:00-4:30 PM. This addition to the tour schedule was particularly advantageous for visitors who wanted to spend more time admiring the Cross Pollination Exhibition. As we move into the Winter season from November through December,

offering weekend house and landscape tours on Friday thru Sunday and GEM tours if weather and conditions permit driving.

During 2021 we provided 26,444 visitors with interpretive tour program experiences. In closing with some exciting news, we also hired our new Director of Visitor Services and Engagement. Mary Lawrie joined us in November just in time as we prepare over the Winter for our upcoming summer season!

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Left to Right: Visitors on a Historic Landscape Tour, Visitors enjoying the landscape, Visitors in the Sitting Room- staff photos

“Every person we came in contact with was friendly and helpful, and everyone seemed so happy to be working there. The grounds and house are beautiful!” Wendy from Wellington, FL

EDUCATION & PUBLIC PROGRAMS

In 2021, TOP served over 10,500 people with virtual and in-person education programs, including virtual lectures; walking tours; special programs; creative aging programs; school field trips; and a summer youth program. TOP continued offering virtual programs to engage a wide range of viewers nationally. In addition to continuing our virtual programs, we were able to reintroduce onsite offerings following the easing of COVID protocols and offered a series of programs connected to our special exhibition, Cross Pollination. To engage with the themes of the exhibit, connecting art and ecology, TOP offered a series of outdoor walking tours led by regional ecological experts called Environmentalists on Olana that attracted over

300 people. We also partnered with our exhibition partner at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site and local arts organization Basilica Hudson to lead community-based exhibition programs like a film screening at the Greenville Drive In and a participatory performance, The Great Polliantor Ramble. These efforts engaged over 200 people on and offsite, extending the reach of our exhibition.

In addition to these special exhibition-based programs, TOP also reintroduced successful onsite programs like Panorama Summer Youth Program and Young at HeArt courses for the Creative Aging community. In 2021, TOP’s three weeks of Panorama sold out within a couple of weeks and attracted a waiting list of over 20 families per week. While COVID protocols presented a series of challenges for this youth

program, by holding the program completely outdoors and leveraging our landscape to connect young people with the themes of art and environment, we were able to host a successful and safe summer program. Similarly, Young at HeArt returned in person with a botanical drawing course led by teaching artist Wendy Hollender and a plein air program for adults 55+ led by award winning painter Shawn del Joyce. These courses also sold out and attracted a waitlist.

Lastly, we continued our partnerships with key regional organizations in order to expand the reach of Olana’s programs to new audiences. We continued and built upon our work with the Sylvia Center, a non-profit operating in Columbia County and NYC with a mission around nutrition and social justice. Building upon the success we had partnering in 2020, we hosted three additional family programs about Olana’s historic farm complex. A majority

of participating families were from Columbia County. We continued our engagement with regional schools by continuing to offer no-cost virtual and onsite field trips to Columbia and Greene county schools, increasing access school programs for the six high-need districts in the lowmedium income (LMI) communities in and adjacent to Hudson. By working with Columbia Greene Community College, we piloted a three-part internship and workforce development program in the Fall of 2021. This partnership program with CGCC and New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation aims and building relationships with students studying fine arts, environmental studies, and business. The program culminates in a paid internship opportunity in the summer of 2022.

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Left to Right: Plein Air at Olana, Columbia Greene Community College students using the OLANA EYE, participants sketch during a public program,

Pollination” puppet parade photo by Jonathan Palmer, Panorama students near the Main House - staff photos.

LANDSCAPE & VIEWSHED

In addition to our robust public landscape tour offerings, The Olana Partnership also identifies and initiates key projects within Olana’s 250-acre artist-designed landscape. Using grant support from Parks & Trails NY, The Olana Partnership engaged Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects and worked with our NYS Parks partners to improve public access at Olana’s northern historic carriage road entrance along Route 23. This zone is also the Hudson River Skywalk pedestrian entry point into Olana’s designed historic landscape. The project scope included the development of shovel-ready construction documents for carriage road adjustments, a new entrance gate, visitor signage, additional benches, bicycle racks, and native plantings.

Utilizing private funding support, The Olana Partnership again engaged Nelson Byrd Woltz to focus on the development of design concepts for the rehabilitation of the terraced lawn which directly abuts the southern side of Olana’s Main House. This is one of the most visited locations at Olana and offers the best vantage point for visitors to enjoy Olana’s iconic view down the Hudson River. Because of this zone’s popularity and heavy foot traffic, a green lawn has not been sustainable. A discussion with our consultants and the New York State Bureau of Historic Sites commenced about best practices at other significant historic sites across the United States when approaching a design challenge such as this. The goal is to achieve a design

solution which supports full visitor access, can be maintained across all seasons, and which respects Olana’s historic integrity. Design work for the first phase of restoration within Olana’s historic farm complex continued, in collaboration with NYS Parks. The project scope includes the relocation of the parking lot next to the Wagon House Education Center to reveal the spatial footprint of Olana’s historic Kitchen Garden, improved drainage and road configuration, new pedestrian paths and lighting for safer visitor access, as well as native plantings to protect the upper view from Olana’s Crown Hill.

Continuing in the decades-long tradition of protecting Olana’s integral viewshed, The Olana Partnership continued

to be vigilant about potential visual threats which might impact Olana as a complete work of art. The new tripod communications tower on neighboring Blue Hill in the Town of Livingston was constructed. Scenic Hudson and The Olana Partnership challenged the need for this bulkier design at this size in this location over many years and we were successful in mitigating some of the larger visual impacts within this important view from Olana. The older obsolete communication tower configuration on Blue Hill would be removed after completion of the new tower installation.

Left to Right: Electric Carriage Tours on Ridge Road, Governor Kathy Hochul and fam ily take a family photograph on the plinth, Visitors on a Landscape Tour, - staff photos.

COLLECTIONS & EXHIBITIONS

This year saw the long-awaited arrival of our exhibition Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church and Our Contemporary Moment after the shuffling of its travel schedule by the pandemic. The audience reception was very enthusiastic, by no means guaranteed because of the bold contemporary interventions that were central to it. Installations like the Nick Cave Soundsuit in Frederic Church’s painting studio and the Jeffrey Gibson quilt in the corridor will live on in our collective memory as examples of what is possible when we bring in the works of living artists to help our audiences to engage with the past that is so well preserved at Olana and to draw out the stories of a domestic environment that was always a site of contemporary creative practice. The

historic loans, including one of the most significant Frederic Church canvases to change hands in recent decades, a longlost Heade we rediscovered, and the revelatory work of Church’s daughter Isabel, a.k.a. Downie, looked beautiful in our intimate gallery spaces and gave new context and insight into works in the permanent collection. Outdoor work by Portia Munson and Jean Shin welcomed visitors into the project regardless of pandemic and ticketing circumstances. The latter installation, Fallen on the East Lawn, proved especially successful and impactful over its year-long run, reaching audiences of all ages and inspiring future commissions from artists who are similarly engaged with art history like Jean. A promising new contemporary

artist relationship is developing for a big 2023 project and a new model of winter season exhibition has been approved for 22-3, Facing the Arctic, focusing on strengths of the permanent collection with supplemental loans of exciting historic and contemporary work to lend context.

A breakthrough house project saw the return of the essential color and pattern of the five distinct rugs that originally covered the grand main stairs that are the centerpiece of the house. These historic objects were removed when the second floor was first opened to the public over a decade ago to avoid harm from tens of thousands of footfalls. Ever since, the Stair Hall has looked somewhat bereft and the wood was beginning to show the wear of uninsulated use. Olana was among the first adopters in the U.S. of an exciting technology from the UK firm Eyemats that uses high resolution photography to make highly accurate digital reproductions of floor coverings on a neutral protective

material that is expected to last at least a decade and when they do inevitably wear out it’s just a matter of clicking “print” to produce a new set. The result has been visually stunning and has even produced a change in the auditory environment, with slightly less echo. The house is happier and so are we.

Other top updates of the year include important acquisitions of art and archives, including from board member Ricky Lark, with more to be concluded in 2022. New relationships were developed with Cornell University across talks for three different courses and with Vassar College, with trainings in new approaches to nineteenthcentury American art for staff and Student Docents of the Loeb Art Center.

Left to Right: Gems of Brazil in the Sharp Family Gallery, Jean Shin at the opening of FALLEN, Portia Munson at the opening of Memento Mori Mandalas photos by Peter Aaron/OTTO, Reproduction Stair Hall Carpets installation.

DEVELOPMENT & COMMUNICATIONS

The Olana Partnership’s development and communications team builds and sustains relationships with a wide range of constituencies, from the general public to major donors, private foundations, government, and the press in order to advance TOP’s mission to preserve and interpret Olana. In addition to having primary responsibility for all marketing and public relations, TOP’s development programs include membership and volunteers, special events, restricted initiative and program fundraising, and, currently, TOP’s capital campaign for the Frederic Church Center.

In 2021 the development plans continued to shift based on changing COVID-19 restrictions. The digital membership and accompanying webinar series brought to light subjects related to Frederic Church, his travels, and the 2021 exhibition “Cross Pollination” by speakers from across the country.

Building on the success of the 2020 Viewshed Tour, The Olana Partnership brought the event back for another year. The Viewshed Tour remained an in-person, self-guided tour

to private homes with outstanding views within Olana’s viewshed. The 2021 Frederic Church Award Gala was rescheduled 3 times due to the pandemic, finally taking place on April 12, 2022. The gala honored leader, Meredith J. Kane, curator Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, and artist Jean Shin. These special events exceeded their revenue goal by 286%.

2021 was the fourth year of TOP’s capital campaign to fund the design and construction of The Frederic Church Center, a new visitor entry and orientation facility that is the linchpin of Olana’s Strategic Landscape Design Plan.

The 2021 exhibition Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment received coverage in American Fine Art Magazine, The Magazine Antiques, and Antiques and the Arts Weekly. The launch of FALLEN by Jean Shin received a full-page article in the New York Times. An advertising campaign ran for the length of the exhibition and received 4 million impressions and over 10,000 clicks for more information.

Left to Right: Olana Viewshed Tour, Capital Campaign kickoff event with Congressman Antonio Delgado and Assemblymember Didi Barrett, Assemblymember Didi Barrett announces $1 million toward the Capital Campaign, Columbia Greene Community College, NYS Parks, and The Olana Partnership announce the launch of a new internship program, FALLEN by Jean Shin in the New York Times, Viewshed Tour participants picnic on Ridge Road- staff photos

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John (“Jack”) August Keller

April 14, 1957 – December 30, 2021

Jack proudly worked as a member of the New York State Parks crew at Olana for more than 12 years, caring for this beautiful, historic place. He loved sharing Olana with visitors and was a friendly ambassador, always ready with a smile and good word for everyone.

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Pat Philipbar, Landscape, Clermont/Olana

Gordon Riggs, Security

Matt Turner, Landscape, Clermont/Olana

Karl Weidel, Security

The Olana Partnership is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit cooperative partner of the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation at Olana State Historic Site