Hopper’s Nyack WEEK En Plein Air is a local creative experience and destination event taking place throughout Nyack. Come up close to the artistic process Hopper learned and practiced while growing up in Nyack. 

October 11-18, 2025
Saturday, October 11, 2025, 10:00-2:00p

“Hopper's Nyack ‘Flash Sketch Mob™’” 
Led by Bill Batson,* participants will create dynamic and interpretive new views of Nyack. Centered around the locations from Edward Hopper House’s Walking Tour, artworks will be created en masse by artists of all skill levels that capture the streetscape, places, sights and people of the village. This project is rooted in the idea that Edward Hopper artistically responded to his environment capturing both the history and contemporary experience of what he saw - so we encourage you to capture the environment through your own creative contemporary lens, too!

Participants will first PRE-REGISTER online, and then check in at 10:00a in the Garden at the Edward Hopper House Museum to receive a location assignment, then will disperse with their own art-making materials to sketch in downtown Nyack and around Hopper's neighborhood. Participants will return to the Museum by 1:00-2:00p to scan and share artwork.
PRE-REGISTRATION: EHH Member: $10 pp; Public: $15pp; Household Members: $20 (up to 4 persons); Families: $25 (up to 4 persons)
Pre-registration preferred; limited registration day-of. 

*This event is modeled on the Flash Sketch Mob™ of 2012 and 2015 conceived and organized by Bill Batson.

Click here for Frequently Asked Questions and more participant details!

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Tuesday, October 14, 2025, 6:00-7:30p

LECTURE:
A Brief History of Plein Air Painting: What Is Plein Air Painting?

By Elizabeth Thompson Colleary
Painting outdoors has a long history in the art world, but it was not until the 19th century that it became widely practiced. Painting outside, or en plein air, became increasingly popular in France among Barbizon artists then with Impressionist painters. This painting practice allowed painters to capture the more ephemeral qualities of the environment and to reflect the effects of natural light like never before. As a Hopper scholar, Elizabeth Thompson Colleary will also bring this story forward to the 20th century and present numerous oils and watercolors, many rarely seen, that Jo Nivison and Edward Hopper painted in outdoor settings where they found inspiration.

Members: $10; Public: $15. Limited to 25
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Saturday, October 18, 2025, 5:00-7:00p

OPENING RECEPTION:
Jon Imber & Jill Hoy: Side by Side
at Edward Hopper House Museum
Edward Hopper House Museum and Perry Lawson Fine art, as neighboring art organizations in Nyack, NY, are each exhibiting the work of contemporary artist Jill Hoy and opening their respective shows jointly on October 18th.
At the Edward Hopper House Museum, the exhibition "Side by Side" (October 10 to January 11, 2026) celebrates the profound creative bond between two accomplished painters, Jon Imber (1950-2014) and Jill Hoy (b. 1954), whose 23-year marriage became an ongoing artistic dialogue. Like husband and wife Edward Hopper and Josephine Nivison, Imber and Hoy created an artistic partnership where they continually challenged each other to explore color, form, abstraction, and mark-making.

Next door to Edward Hopper House Museum, our friends at Perry Lawson Fine Art (90 N. Broadway, Nyack) are featuring Jill Hoy: Narratives of Form & Color. This solo show features figurative and landscape paintings which captures the immediacy of Hoy's experience and the richness of her imagination. Each painting tells a story and reflects the particular significance of its chosen subject. Opening reception: 5:00-7:00p. Free. Held at Perry Lawson Fine Art, 90 N. Broadway, Nyack. Find out more at Perry Lawson Fine Art. 

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Saturday, October 18, 2025, 11:00a-2:00p

Rain date: Sunday, October 19, 2025, 11:00a-2:00p

Plein-Air Painting Family Workshop
Nyack Memorial Park: 51 Piermont Avenue (park corner of Piermont and Depew), Nyack, NY 10960
Families come to Memorial Park for an afternoon of family and children's art making with plein-air painting of landscapes and objects in nature with acrylic paints. Instruction will be in partnership with Creative Arts Workshop! Adult artists of all skill levels are invited to bring their own supplies and materials to paint outdoors at the Park or throughout Nyack.
Adults: This week-long festival is open to artists of all skill levels. Artists are invited to bring their own supplies and materials to paint outdoors at Nyack's Memorial Park or Edward Hopper House or throughout Nyack, centered around places illustrated through Edward Hopper House Museum’s Walking Tours on our Bloomberg Connects guide.  Stop in at Edward Hopper House Museum during open hours, or on Saturday, October 18 at the Museum’s plein air FAMILY WORKSHOP tent at Memorial Park (11-2p), to receive your participation lanyard badge.

. Click here for parking information in Nyack.
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October 11-18, during Museum Open hours

“Would be Artist" Family Walking Tours
Edward Hopper House Museum
Beginning at the Museum, families with younger children may go on an self guided mini tour of Nyack using a borrowed or purchased “Would Be Artist" Kit. Titled after an inscription Edward carved on his own pencil box, the kit includes drawing tools, sketchbook and walking tour all tucked inside a canvas backpack. On the 30-45 minute tour, families can walk in Hopper's footsteps sketching places in Nyack that he frequented, observed, and drew.
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This project is made possible with funds from Arts Alive, a regrant program of ArtsWestchester and the Office of the Governor, the New York State Legislature, and the New York Council on the Arts, with additional marketing support from the Village of Nyack Tourism Grant.
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