Hudson River History Walk and Art Exhibit at Columbia University Gallery

RSVPs open up on Saturday, November 23rd at 5:00pm. Space is set aside for new members and first timers who land on the waiting list. Email me at [email protected] to request your spot.

This tour is free with a welcome donation to your organizer and guide at the end.

Need a bite, breakfast, lunch, coffee or tea before the tour? Nearby is Dear Mama:
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Tour Schedule and Overview:

12 Noon to 1:00pm: Visit the Wallach Art Center Exhibit (on your own).
Meet outside the Arts Center at 1:00pm
1:00pm - 3:00pm: Guided Hudson River Shoreline Walk, ending at 181 Street in Washington Heights

The Hudson River which forms the western shorline of Manhattan and Riverdale in The Bronx has been called "America's River" because of its impact on history and its scenic beauty. After your self-guided visit to this unique exhibition, we'll stroll approximately 3 miles along the river's shoreline, ending in the Hudson Heights neighborhood at 181st Street, convenient to the A train and #1. Along the way we'll recount the success stories (Eric Canal, Defeat of the ConEdison power plant at Storm King Mountains) and the ongoing environmental challenges that include the cleanup of the river from a century of industrial pollution.

The Wallach Art Gallery Opens at 12 noon. Be sure to allow 45 minutes to one hour to see the exhibit and use the restroom.

Art Exhibit: "Shifting Shorelines: Art, Industry and Ecology along the Hudson River."
Shifting Shorelines brings together historic and contemporary art, visual culture, and environmental science to engage the history of human existence, commerce, and industry along the Hudson estuary. Focusing on the river’s edges from Albany southward to its flow into the Atlantic Ocean, the exhibition foregrounds the impact of local industry on the natural environment, highlighting the history of the river's distinctive ecological features such as brackish and salt marshes, mudflats, and beaches, along with the docks, factories, and buildings that crowded them out. Through visual and material evidence, Shifting Shorelines demonstrates the various cycles of exploitation, damage, and reclamation.

Lenfest Center for the Arts | 615 West 129th Street | 6th Floor ·