Welcome to Rensselaer County! Located in the Hudson-Mohawk Heritage area of Upstate New York's Capital Region.

Rensselaer County is filled with wonderful contradictions and juxtapositions. It's a special place where rural charm meets urban delights, where cultural opportunities and pastoral pastimes happily coexist, and where American heritage meets cutting-edge technology. Stretching thirty miles along the Hudson River, it offers thousands of acres of parks, miles of trails, and more than 500 lakes, ponds, and even championship golf courses. Read More..

Rensselaer Events

Ben Rubin: A Shakespeare Accelerator: Experiments in Kinetic Language
5/19/2012
EXHIBITION: QUOTE UNQUOTE FREE Ben Rubin will transform the public interior of EMPAC into a laboratory of words and motion, projecting glowing white text from Shakespeare’s complete dramatic works onto walls, walkways, and other surfaces. Monday through Saturday, noon to 6 PM  more>
Jennifer + Kevin McCoy: Index
5/19/2012
EXHIBITION: QUOTE UNQUOTE FREE Monday through Saturday, noon to 6 PM Inspired by J.G. Ballard’s short story “The Index,” sprawling sculptures filmed by live cameras present a landscape of people and places that implies an overarching narrative of the 1960s to the present day.  more>

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