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Important Update

Current Exhibitions

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

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

Selected Upcoming Events

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September 26, 2023 at 5:00 pm | Member Event

Members-Only Exhibition Tour: Yvette Mayorga: Dreaming of You

Enjoy refreshments with fellow members and a private tour of Yvette Mayorga: Dreaming of You, led by the exhibition’s curator Caitlin Monachino. Mayorga’s first solo museum exhibition on the east coast was recently named one of “The Best Art Exhibitions to See This Fall” by Vogue.

September 30, 2023 at 7:00 pm | Special Event

Aldrich Undercover

Aldrich Undercover is an art sale to benefit The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum where the artists' identities are only revealed after a work has been purchased.

October 9, 2023 at 12:00 pm | Public Programs, Group Tours

Family Workshop and Tours: Indigenous Peoples’ Day - Creating Coil Pots

How can we create art and celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day? Come for a special day of tours and art-making inspired by the colossal sculptures of Raven Halfmoon.

October 10, 2023 at 5:30 pm | Public Programs

“Getting” Contemporary Art: Raven Halfmoon

Through this three-session course, participants will engage deeply with The Aldrich’s Fall exhibitions while having access to our galleries and the Museum’s Studio learning space in private evening sessions. Designed to provoke open and dynamic dialogue, these small classes will help participants learn to analyze, interpret, and discuss the contemporary artwork on view.

October 10, 2023 | Public Programs

"Getting" Contemporary Art: Fall 2023 Series

Through this three-session course, participants will engage deeply with The Aldrich’s Fall exhibitions while having access to our galleries and the Museum’s Studio learning space in private evening sessions. Designed to provoke open and dynamic dialogue, these small classes will help participants learn to analyze, interpret, and discuss the contemporary artwork on view.

October 12, 2023 at 6:00 pm | Group Tours

Bilingual (Spanish/English) Curator Tour of Yvette Mayorga: Dreaming of You

Please join us for an evening tour of the exhibition Yvette Mayorga: Dreaming of You led by the curator, Caitlin Monachino, The Aldrich’s Curatorial and Publications Manager. This tour will be delivered in English and with Spanish translation and presented in partnership with The Danbury Library.

October 17, 2023 at 5:30 pm | Public Programs

“Getting” Contemporary Art: Yvette Mayorga

Through this three-session course, participants will engage deeply with The Aldrich’s Fall exhibitions while having access to our galleries and the Museum’s Studio learning space in private evening sessions. Designed to provoke open and dynamic dialogue, these small classes will help participants learn to analyze, interpret, and discuss the contemporary artwork on view.

October 24, 2023 at 5:30 pm | Public Programs

“Getting” Contemporary Art: Chiffon Thomas

Through this three-session course, participants will engage deeply with The Aldrich’s Fall exhibitions while having access to our galleries and the Museum’s Studio learning space in private evening sessions. Designed to provoke open and dynamic dialogue, these small classes will help participants learn to analyze, interpret, and discuss the contemporary artwork on view.

October 28, 2023 at 7:00 pm | Public Programs

RSO Quartet in Concert Inspired by Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers

We are thrilled to continue our partnership with Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra to present the RSO Quartet for a performance inspired by current exhibition, Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers. The quartet features violinists Jorge Avilia and Mialtin Zhezha, violist Suzanne Corey-Sahlin, and cellist Nick Hardie.

November 4, 2023 at 2:00 pm | Public Programs

Cookie Decorating Workshop Inspired by Yvette Mayorga - SOLD OUT

Join The Aldrich’s Curatorial and Publications Manager and owner of CM Cookies, Caitlin Monachino, for a fun afternoon of decorating specialty cutout cookies inspired by the work of Chicago-based artist Yvette Mayorga.

November 9, 2023 at 6:00 pm | Public Programs

Exhibition Talk: J. Kēhaulani Kauanui on Raven Halfmoon

Please join us for “Scales of Sovereignty, Scales of Stature: Lineal Traditions and Indigenous Endurance” a talk by activist, scholar, and radio producer J. Kēhaulani Kauanui (Kanaka Maoli/Native Hawaiian) who specializes in Native American and Native Pacific sovereignty and decolonization.

November 18, 2023 at 5:00 pm | Public Programs

Ceramic Workshop: Inspired by Raven Halfmoon with Bracken Fern Handmade Ceramics

Join us for a special workshop with ceramic artist Bracken Feldman, the founder of Bracken Fern Handmade Ceramics. Feldman will guide participants through a two-hour hand-on workshop on the long-standing tradition of coil building, a hand-molded clay technique used by artist Raven Halfmoon to create her monumental sculptures.

Upcoming Exhibitions

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January 20, 2024 to August 11, 2024 | Leir Gallery, Klein Kenealy Gallery, Project Space

Loie Hollowell, A Survey

April 7, 2024 to October 20, 2024 | Opatrny Vestibule, Opatrny Gallery, Sound Gallery

Layo Bright: Dawn and Dusk

April 7, 2024 to October 20, 2024 | Bridge Gallery, South Gallery, Balcony Gallery

Kristi Cavataro

Featured Artwork

A river or road crossing between two mountains with the moon and night sky overhead.
Ping Zheng, Mountain Night, 2023

Ping Zheng Mountain Night

Ping Zheng, Mountain Night, 2023, Oil stick on paper. Courtesy of the Artist and Kristen Lorello, New York, NY, and Seven Sisters, Houston, TX
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.


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