Projects

The New Orpheum Performing Arts Center

Easily CMF's most ambitious project to date. Our team has almost completed the expansion of the old Orpheum Movie Theater in Tannersville into a new, state-of-the-art performance house designed by renowned architect Hugh Hardy. We will be celebrating the opening of the Orpheum this July, beginning with our 2011 Annual Benefit. Please join us on Saturday, July 16, 2011 as we celebrate the mountaintop's newest cultural resource.

We appreciate your support as we complete work on what will be a spectacular, 12,500 square foot theater.

The New Orpheum will enable CMF to bring a more diverse schedule of events to the Mountaintop -- more performances by modern dance companies and jazz ensembles, more presentations that are technically challenging and larger cast musicals and plays. The opportunities for programming are exciting and we are looking forward to presenting our inaugural season.

At the Sugar Maples Campus

Our facilities at our Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts, located in the town of Windham, continue to grow. We have added:

• the Sherwood House, CMF's first on-campus housing facility for students and faculty;
• an 1,800 square-foot building for our summer arts youth program, where CMF offers workshops in theater arts, painting and drawing, and nutrition and physical wellness;
• a new Visitors Center at our 4.5 acre Natural Agricultural Farm, which will soon include an extensive display of captioned photographs on the methods of Natural Agriculture, and a multi-arts installation illustrating the progression of the year-round harvest schedule;
• and the Albert Podell Library and Art Collection, a collection of books and over 150 exotic objects from almost every country in the world.