The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

Visit the Museum for free the third weekend of every month!

Join Education Assistant Lorena Sferlazza for an outdoor, family-friendly open studio playing with clay in the Museum’s Sculpture Garden!

Inspired by Tim Prentice’s kinetic sculptures, harpist Wendy Kerner will perform pieces by composers including Alan Hovhaness, Philip Glass, Brandee Younger, and Edward Thompson in the galleries.

Join Senior Curator Amy Smith-Stewart and artist Genesis Belanger on a virtual walk through and Q&A of her exhibition Through the Eye of a Needle.

Aldrich Undercover returns! The Museum's signature biennial “secret” benefit art sale where the identity of the artist who created the work for sale is only revealed after purchase. In light of safety restrictions because of COVID-19, Aldrich Undercover has been reimagined as a virtual fundraiser.

Flow, move, stretch, and bend like the harmonic wind sculptures of exhibiting artist Tim Prentice with our family-friendly Virtual Mindfulness and Movement for Kids!

We’ll explore the unique essence of your objects, finding how they’re as rich in symbolism as the items included in the traveling exhibition known as the Aldrich Care Box.

Create your very own garden wind chime in our Virtual Art-Making for Kids program!

Gather your little ones for our Virtual Story Time with Education Assistant Lorena Sferlazza and the Ridgefield Library!

This talk will cover Frank Stella’s artistic development and his place in art history by examining Stella’s works from the current Aldrich exhibition Frank Stella’s Stars, A Survey and the Glass House’s collection.

“Meet the Playwrights,” a lively and candid discussion with the award-winning authors of The Suburbs. In this Zoom interview, led by CT Office of the Arts Program Associate Kolton Harris, playwrights Tony Meneses, Phanésia Pharel, Catherine Yu, and director Kholoud Sawaf will talk about the three new plays that make up this unusual roving production.

The Aldrich is closed to the public for a private event.

Enjoy members-only access to Lucia Hierro: Marginal Costs and Hugo McCloud: from where i stand before the exhibitions open to the public.

Think about where you have come from, where you are now, and where you are going in our family-friendly Virtual Mindfulness and Movement for Kids!

Just as artist Hugo McCloud employs discarded plastic bags as the colorful medium of the works included in his from where I stand exhibition, poets can use discarded print media to create poems that are works of art.

Celebrate PRIDE month with a virtual, family-friendly art activity!

Gather your little ones for a bilingual Virtual Story Time with The Aldrich and the Ridgefield Library! Trae a tus pequeños para un cuentacuentos virtual bilingüe con el museo Aldrich y la biblioteca de Ridgefield!

Visit the Museum for free the third weekend of every month!

Scores for the Stars, 2020-21, is a two-part series by artist Ander Mikalson commissioned by The Aldrich and dedicated to Frank Stella’s Stars.

We are delighted to partner with Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra on three performances as a part of Ridgefield’s Make Music Day!

Visit the Museum for free the third weekend of every month!

Join us for Camp Aldrich, a full-day, week-long arts experience with Museum educators and practicing artists!

Join us for Camp Aldrich, a full-day, week-long arts experience with Museum educators and practicing artists!

Join us for Camp Aldrich, a full-day, week-long arts experience with Museum educators and practicing artists!