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The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum serves as a leading incubator for artists at critical creative junctures, providing a collaborative platform that engages and inspires.
We’re open today from 12 pm to 5 pm
258 Main Street, Ridgefield, CT 06877
258 Main Street, Ridgefield, CT 06877
Hours and Admission
Hours
| Date | Time |
|---|---|
| Sunday | 12 pm to 5 pm |
| Monday | 12 pm to 5 pm |
| Tuesday | Closed |
| Wednesday | 12 pm to 5 pm |
| Thursday | 12 pm to 5 pm |
| Friday | 12 pm to 5 pm |
| Saturday | 10 am to 5 pm |
Admission
| Category | Price |
|---|---|
| Adults | $15 |
| Seniors (60+) | $9 |
| Students | $9 |
|
Members Educators Children under 13 Military Families Third Saturdays |
Free |
The Museum is closed on the following holidays:
Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, New Year’s Day.
Contact us at 203.438.4519 or general@thealdrich.org
Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, New Year’s Day.
Contact us at 203.438.4519 or general@thealdrich.org
Selected Upcoming Events
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June 10, 2023 |
Public Programs, The Studio
Art-Making Workshop: Creating with Copper
Join Aldrich Educator Susie Buckley as she guides participants through engraving soft copper sheeting to create a landscape work. Inspired by the artist Matthew Barney's Bayhorse, a five-panel series of landscapes made on copper plating included in the current exhibition Prima Materia: The Periodic Table in Contemporary Art.
June 11, 2023 |
Group Tours
Exhibition Tour: Elements of Prima Materia
Please join us for a special tour of Prima Materia: The Periodic Table in Contemporary Art led by Anna Serotta, Associate Conservator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Anna will lead participants through the exhibition’s galleries focusing on a selection of elements represented in the show.
June 24, 2023 |
Exhibition Opening
Private Event: Exhibition Opening | Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers and Amy Brener: Harbingers
Members and friends, please join us to celebrate Amy Brener: Harbingers and get a first look at Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers before it opens to the public.
July 7, 2023 at 5:00 pm |
Special Event
Aldrich After Hours
We’re back with another bi-monthly Aldrich After Hours on the first Friday! The galleries will be open late, there will be mini tours of the exhibitions, and wine and beer for sale.
July 10 at 9:30 am to July 14, 2023 at 4:00 pm |
Camp Aldrich
AT CAPACITY - Camp Aldrich: Week 1 (Grades 1-3)
Join us at The Aldrich for a full-day, week-long arts experience with Museum Educators and practicing artists. Campers explore the Museum’s three-acre campus and incorporate the world around them into their art.
July 17 at 9:30 am to July 21, 2023 at 4:00 pm |
Camp Aldrich
AT CAPACITY - Camp Aldrich: Week 2 (Grades 1-3)
Join us at The Aldrich for a full-day, week-long arts experience with Museum Educators and practicing artists. Campers explore the Museum’s three-acre campus and incorporate the world around them into their art.
July 20, 2023 at 6:30 pm |
Public Programs
Oppenheimer Film Screening and Artist Conversation with Bryan McGovern Wilson
Please join artist and director Bryan McGovern Wilson and artist, writer, and curator Richard Klein for a live conversation and film screening of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.
July 24 at 9:30 am to July 28, 2023 at 4:00 pm |
Camp Aldrich
Camp Aldrich: Week 3 (Grades 4-6)
Join us at The Aldrich for a full-day, week-long arts experience with Museum Educators and practicing artists. Campers explore the Museum’s three-acre campus and incorporate the world around them into their art.
July 29, 2023 |
Artist Program, Public Programs
Prima Materia Panel Conversation with Artists
Join us for a panel conversation on Prima Materia: The Periodic Table in Contemporary Art with exhibiting artists Rachel Berwick, Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, and Winston Roeth, moderated by the exhibition’s curator Richard Klein.
August 5, 2023 |
Public Programs
The Alchemy of Word and Image: An Ekphrastic Workshop
Join Aldrich Educator Barb Jennes to create an alchemy of word and image as we closely inspect several provocative pieces in the current exhibition Prima Materia: The Periodic Table in Contemporary Art.
August 17, 2023 at 5:30 pm |
Member Event, Group Tours
Raven Halfmoon Tour with Chief Curator Amy Smith-Stewart
Please join us for an evening tour of Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers led by Chief Curator Amy Smith-Stewart. The tour will cover an overview of the exhibition, highlighting a selection of Halfmoon’s stoneware sculptures from the past five years.
September 23, 2023 |
Public Programs
Musical Performance: Transonic Homes
The second live performance installment of the Aldrich Box, a year-long traveling exhibition, is Transonic Homes, a solo musical performance by musician, composer, and collaborator Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache).
The performance will take place outdoors in the Museum’s Sculpture Garden on Saturday, September 23rd at 7pm, weather permitting.
Upcoming Exhibitions
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June 25, 2023 to January 7, 2024 | Project Space, Screening Room, Leir Gallery
Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers
September 15, 2023 to March 3, 2024 | Opatrny Gallery, Sound Gallery
Yvette Mayorga: Dreaming of You
September 15, 2023 to March 3, 2024 | South Gallery, Balcony Gallery, Main Street Sculpture
Chiffon Thomas: The Cavernous
January 20, 2024 to August 11, 2024 | Leir Gallery, Klein Kenealy Gallery, Project Space
Loie Hollowell, A Survey
Featured Artwork
Dove Bradshaw, Mercury Mercury, 2018
Dove Bradshaw, Mercury Mercury, 2018
Dove Bradshaw, Mercury Mercury, 2018, Marble, glass, sealing wax, mercury, steel stand, 14 ¼ x 4 x 10 ½ inches; steel stand: 27 x 14 x 14 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna
July 18, 2020 to November 29, 2020 | Leir Atrium, The Studio
Rudy Shepherd: Somebody's Child
Rudy Shepherd: Somebody’s Child includes twenty-five watercolors chosen from Shepherd’s ongoing Portrait series Rudy Shepherd: Somebody’s Child is curated by Amy Smith-Stewart, Senior Curator.
June 6, 2022 to January 8, 2023 | Lobby, Leir Gallery, Screening Room, Ramp, Project Space, Balcony, South Gallery, Sound Gallery, Opatrny Gallery
52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone
52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone celebrates the fifty-first anniversary of the historic exhibition Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists, curated by Lucy R. Lippard and presented at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in 1971. 52 Artists will showcase work by the artists included in the original 1971 exhibition, alongside a new roster of twenty-six female identifying or nonbinary emerging artists, tracking the evolution of feminist art practices over the past five decades.