Adult Learning

Admission is FREE all day, and from 11 am – 1 pm you can participate in a special project. Pick and Paint a Pumpkin Join us for our annual Pick and Paint a Pumpkin event! Pumpkins are reserved for children only on a first-come, first-served basis. Also enjoy a Little Buddies Petting Zoo with Carly’s Critters. […]

Join us for an evening talk celebrating the newly released Barkley L. Hendricks: Piles of Inspiration Everywhere with authors Susan Hendricks and David Katzenstein. Hear about Hendricks’ life, career, legacy, and the environment that inspired him. Barkley L. Hendricks: Piles of Inspiration Everywhere explores the physical space where renowned artist Barkley L. Hendricks worked and lived. This book invites […]

Celebrate the opening of Allison Gildersleeve: Here Somewhere with an evening reception at the Museum. Places are not inert; they are repositories for all that has passed through them. In Allison Gildersleeve’s work, time is not sequential and location is not fixed. Gildersleeve picks apart and reassembles the familiar, using the variability of memory as […]

In this 1.5 hour workshop you will be guided through the basics of mono-printing through the fun and creative Gelli Printing technique. Gelli Printing is a printmaking technique that creates a single, unique image from a reprintable plate. Beautiful layers of color and texture are achieved because a Gelli plate is soft and pliable, which […]

Art History Mini-Series with Dr. Robert Baldwin Join us for a two-part lecture series on the art of German Renaissance painter and printmaker Albrecht Dürer. Led by Dr. Robert Baldwin, Associate Professor Emeritus of Art History at Connecticut College, this series will explore topics ranging from Dürer’s entrepreneurship, the use of math and proportion, his […]

Admission is FREE all day, and from 11 am – 1 pm you can participate in a special project. Pastel Still Life See the special exhibition by artist Alison Gildersleeve and make your own pastel still life inspired by her work. Time: 11 am – 1 pm Cost: Free -Free First Saturdays are made possible […]