Bethany Arts Community

Bethany Arts Community offers workshops and classes for all ages, including children, adults, and families. It also offers after school and summer camps for children, Bethany Kids CREATE Saturdays, and the Family Earth Art Workshop Series: Discover Bethany Through the Seasons.

Programs

• Workshops & Classes — all ages; children, adults, and families · Arts programming for all levels of interest, from casual audience to beginning students to master artists.
• After School & Summer Camps — children · BAC offers a variety day camps each summer and is working with the local school district on after school programming.
• Bethany Kids CREATE Saturdays — Saturdays, 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
• Family Earth Art Workshop Series: Discover Bethany Through the Seasons

At a glance

• Ages: 4–18 years old
• General schedule: BAC offers workshops and classes, after school and summer camps, school visits, and community outreach. BAC also lists events, residencies, and exhibitions.

About the provider

Bethany Arts Community in Ossining was founded in 2015. Its mission says it is a space where all forms of art can be learned and expressed, and that it welcomes artists of all ages and experience levels. BAC lists values including accessibility, collaboration, inclusion, safety, respect, courage, acceptance, and compassion, and says that diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of what it does.

Accessibility, collaboration, inclusion, safety, respect, courage, acceptance, and compassion are listed as values. BAC states that diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of what it does.

What families say

“Bethany Arts Community is essentially and to its core a safe place for connection.” — David Lyons

“Bethany Arts Community is one of the only residency programs in close proximity to New York City that offers studio space, housing, lodging, and weekly stipends to choreographers and their dancers alike in an engaging, close-knit artistic community.” — Christopher Williams

“Bethany Arts Community is a special experience. It offers a combination of solitude on a Hudson Valley hilltop, as well as the comradery of artists from all over the world.” — Sari Wilson

Last updated August 26, 2026.