The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

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.

Led by Associate Curator Eduardo Alfonso, this walking tour will explore galleries throughout the Lower East Side.

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 us for a special Aldrich After Hours with NDN Girls Book Club founder and poet Kinsale Drake and talented local Indigenous writers, for an evening of poetry readings, art, and more in celebration of the catalogue release for Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers.

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 this in-person gallery tour of highlighted works from our current exhibitions, guided by Museum Educator Holly Lapine, reserved specifically for senior adults ages 60 and above!

Members, please join us for a day trip to the Forge Project and the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College in Columbia County, NY.

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 discover how artist Ping Zheng uses vibrant colors, thick lines, and geometric shapes to create landscapes inspired by the many places she’s visited throughout the world. Then, we’ll read Like a Giant by Marc Daniau and move to the Museum’s Studio to create our very own imaginative landscape drawings.

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 judgment-free tour of our current exhibitions guided by a Museum Educator is perfect for you!

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.

Executive Director Cybele Maylone will give members a sneak peek of the artists, exhibitions, and programs that will be taking place in 2024.

Join us for a virtual talk led by Tony Marsh, ceramic artist and Director of The Center for Contemporary Ceramics at California State University Long Beach in Southern California. Marsh will discuss Raven Halfmoon’s two engagements as a resident artist at the Center for Contemporary Ceramics.

Join us for a discussion of Raven Halfmoon’s work through questions of material, scale, and collaboration in context with other contemporary makers of large-scale ceramics, such as Cannupa Hanska Luger, Simone Leigh, Theaster Gates and Rose B. Simpson led by Laura Phipps, Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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 Chiffon Thomas uses geometric shapes to build dome-like sculptures out of stained glass. Then, we will read Walter’s Wonderful Web by Tim Hopgood and move to the Museum’s Studio to create our own geometric sculptures!

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!

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