The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Join us for an in-person gallery tour highlighting works from our current exhibitions, guided by Museum Educator Holly Lapine, reserved specifically for adults ages 60 and above!

Visit the Museum for FREE the third Saturday of every month as part of our Third Saturdays program.

Bring your budding artists to The Aldrich for Story Time, in collaboration with the Ridgefield Library! Together, we will explore how artist Yvette Mayorga creates bubblegum pink paintings inspired by the sweet treats her mother made when she worked as a baker after immigrating to the US. Then, we will read I Really Want the Cake by Simon Philip and move to the Museum’s Studio to create our own artwork!

Have you ever looked at contemporary art and wished you knew what it meant? Have you ever entered a museum not knowing where to start? If you answered yes, this free, interactive, and judgement-free tour of our current exhibitions guided by a Museum Educator is perfect for you!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.