The John Jay Homestead Farm Market holds its final Saturday of 2026 on November 21. It runs 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Lot 2 at 190 Katonah Avenue, and this year's extended season ends that day. Katonah's fall and winter don't end with the market. From that afternoon through late January, the village calendar runs out of two buildings. One is the Katonah Museum of Art. The other is Caramoor's Rosen House. Most weekends between Thanksgiving and the holidays have something on at one or both of them.
The Last Saturday in Lot 2
The market came downtown in 2026 because the Homestead itself is under restoration. The 16th season was held in Lot 2 instead of on the Homestead grounds. Bedford House is closed for the restoration, but the grounds are open for passive recreation from sunrise to sunset.
November 21 works as a handoff. The market closes at 2 p.m., and one hour later the Katonah Museum of Art starts the first session of its adult Studio Series. KMAA artist Monique Ford leads Gelli plate printmaking from 3 to 5 p.m. On the same Saturday you can finish the outdoor season in the morning and start the indoor one in the afternoon without leaving the village.
The Museum Has the Longest Run
The two exhibitions that opened at the KMA on October 18 run through January 24, 2027. That puts its closing date more than a month after Caramoor's last holiday event.
Intermittent Islands: Four Caribbean Women Artists fills the Mary L. Beitzel and Sally and Volney Righter Galleries. The museum organized it, and KMA Associate Curator Elizabeth Monti curated it. The four artists work in very different materials, and that variety is the best reason to go:
- Belkis Ayón made collagraph prints in dark, light and gray tones. They draw on Abakuá and its founding heroine, Sikán.
- Yanira Collado builds geometric mural-reliefs and sculptures from fabric, wood, Caribbean soap, construction materials and carbon paper.
- Marielle Plaisir shows layered paintings and back-lit Duratrans collages made from archival Caribbean images.
- Lisa C Soto crochets metallic wire into quilt-like constructions. Some hang to the floor, some are moved by small motors, and some include recorded garden sounds.
Sonja John: Balikbayan is in the Pollack Family Learning Center and was curated by Gabrielle Blumenthal, KMA's Family and Community Engagement Manager. It's a site-specific installation that combines John's New York surroundings with her family origins in Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Philippines. She works in collage, stencils and light. Visitors can make their own mixed-media projects and add to a collaborative light installation. If you have children, this is the room they'll want to come back to.
Local coverage has followed the opening. Westchester Magazine included Intermittent Islands in its October events roundup, and both Halston Media and The Recorder previewed the October 18 artist panel.
The museum is open Wednesday through Friday and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. It's closed Mondays and Tuesdays. Adult admission is $15. Students, seniors and disabled visitors pay $9, and children pay $6, with those under 2 free. Members, caregivers, EBT cardholders and veterans get in free, and the third Thursday of each month is free for everyone. The visit page has the current details. Docents lead tours of the exhibitions Wednesday through Sunday from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.
The program list is what makes a second visit worth it. Several events land on days that already fill up in a Katonah household:
| Date | Program | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Sat., Nov. 7 | Westchester Book Festival poetry workshop with Westchester County Poet Laureate Phylisha Villanueva; public reading at 4:30 | 3–5 p.m. |
| Sun., Nov. 8 | Edward J. Sullivan of NYU's Institute of Fine Arts on Belkis Ayón | 5–6:30 p.m. |
| Sun., Nov. 15 | Family Day: Caribbean Connections, with a Sonja John workshop; Inclusive Hour for neurodiverse families 11 a.m. to noon | Noon–3 p.m. |
| Fri., Nov. 20 | Senior Social Afternoon with NYC Urban Sketchers demonstrations | 1–3 p.m. |
| Fri., Nov. 27 | School's Out / Art's In workshops | 10 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1 p.m. |
| Dec. 28–31 | School's Out / Art's In workshops | 10 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1 p.m. |
| Sat., Jan. 9 | Legacy Women, Afro-Caribbean roots music, with ArtsWestchester | 3–4:30 p.m. |
The day after Thanksgiving and the week between Christmas and New Year's are the two stretches when school is out and families tend to have the most time. The museum has scheduled kids' workshops on both. Saturday Open Studio also runs every week from 10 a.m. to noon, with special projects for Halloween and the Book Festival.
Caramoor Moves Into the House
In summer, Caramoor is spread across its grounds. The 2026 Summer Season ran June 20 to August 2, with more than 30 performances in five venues on the estate, including the Venetian Theater, the Spanish Courtyard, Friends Field and the Sunken Garden.
Walter and Lucie Rosen built the Mediterranean-style house between 1929 and 1939. Caramoor's history of the house quotes Lucie describing it as built
"for music."
The house displays Asian and European art from the 15th through the 20th centuries, arranged in imported rooms, with 19 rooms on the main floor. The Music Room is still used for performances. It has a 17th-century Italian ceiling, Veronese red-marble columns and the Spanish Alcove, and it hosts concerts, lectures and teas. Nearly every December event on Caramoor's calendar is held in that room or in the house's Summer Dining Room.
The Rosen House Holiday Tours run December 4 through 20. Each lasts about 45 minutes and features decorations drawn from the Rosen family archive. Caramoor says classic decorations are coming back along with "new themed holiday trees." After the tour, the Summer Dining Room hosts a holiday market with products from Caramoor and local artisans. Tickets start at $25 and advance registration is required. The page lists free admission for some children and members, but the age cutoffs don't match from one part of the page to another, so confirm when you book.
Holiday Tea Musicales run December 9 through 20, with seating at 2 p.m. Tickets are $76, or $40 for ages 12 and under. Each includes live music, tea service with sandwiches and seasonal treats, and self-guided access to selected rooms after tea, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. The musicians change through the run. Kimberly Hawkey and Peter Yarin play December 9 through 11, Kate Morton and Michelle Wong play December 12, 13 and 15, Nathan Romportl and Michelle Bushkova play December 16 and 17, and Sophia Baete and Francesco Barfoed close the series December 18 through 20.
Christmas with Cantus is Sunday, December 6, with performances at 2 and 4 p.m. in the Music Room. Tickets start at $55. The program, Lessons and Carols for Our Time, pairs traditional carols with music from around the world and poetry. It includes works by Rachmaninoff, Ariel Ramirez, Eric Whitacre and Zanaida Robles. A complimentary wine-and-cheese reception is held in the Summer Dining Room 45 minutes before each concert. Earlier, on November 19 at 6 p.m. in the Music Room, instructor Patrick Kreeger gives the Juilliard Extension lecture Sacred Songs, Folk Roots: The Making of the Christmas Carol, on the history of carols.
December 3 Has Both
The two buildings overlap most on the first Thursday of December. At the KMA, Sonja John leads Craft & Connect: Layered Memories, an adult workshop that runs from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. At 6:30 p.m. the same evening, Caramoor's Rosen House Studio Nights holds Winter Wreath-Making in the Summer Dining Room. Floral designer Abby Blatte teaches with fresh flowers and fragrant greens after a self-guided tour of the West Corridor. Tickets are $115. The two events overlap in time, so you'll have to pick one. Holiday tours begin the next morning, and Cantus follows that Sunday.
The next weekend has the same pattern. The KMA's December 12 Studio Series session, Mixed-media Portraits, runs from 3 to 5 p.m. That afternoon also falls in the Kate Morton and Michelle Wong run of the Tea Musicales, and in the holiday tour window.
The Weekends Between, in Order
The village itself has a few dates of its own. The Bedford Town Board's August 11 agenda included a request to approve and co-sponsor the Katonah Chamber Holiday Lighting on November 29, 2026, the Sunday after Thanksgiving. The Katonah Chamber's events page is the place to watch for the rest of its holiday plans. The Katonah Village Library has an all-ages Diwali celebration on Sunday, November 8, from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. It ends early enough to get to the Sullivan talk at the KMA that evening. On Halloween itself, the Katonah CandyLand Walk runs Saturday, October 31, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Pick up a bag and map at Petite Art Studio, then collect candy and stickers at participating downtown businesses.
Here's the sequence from Halloween to January:
- Oct. 31: CandyLand Walk downtown, plus the KMA's Halloween Open Studio project.
- Nov. 7 and 8: Book Festival poetry at the KMA, Diwali at the library, and Edward J. Sullivan on Ayón.
- Nov. 15: KMA Family Day.
- Nov. 19: The Christmas carol lecture at Caramoor.
- Nov. 21: The last farm market Saturday in Lot 2, then Gelli plate printmaking at the KMA.
- Nov. 27 to 29: School's Out workshops on Friday, then the Chamber Holiday Lighting on Sunday.
- Dec. 3 to 6: The KMA workshop and Caramoor wreath night on the same evening, holiday tours from December 4, and Cantus on Sunday.
- Dec. 9 to 20: Tea Musicales and tours at the Rosen House.
- Dec. 28 to 31: School's Out workshops at the KMA.
- Jan. 9: Legacy Women at the KMA.
- Jan. 24: The last day for Intermittent Islands and Balikbayan.
Caramoor's December programs all fit inside December 3 through 20. The KMA's shows run from October 18 into late January, so the museum stays open for the quieter weeks after the Rosen House decorations come down.
Jessica Cunningham has lived in Northern Westchester for more than 25 years. She knows these village calendars as a neighbor. If a Saturday between Lot 2 and the museum ever makes you wonder what your own place near Katonah Avenue would sell for, start with a free home valuation.
