The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

The Museum will be closed for a private event on Saturday, October 16.

Gather your little ones at The Aldrich for Story Time, in collaboration with the Ridgefield Library!

Visit The Aldrich for free the third weekend of every month. See our current exhibitions and explore the Sculpture Garden.

Join us at the Museum with your family for a socially-distanced, interactive tour of Hugo McCloud: from where i stand!

Just as artist Hugo McCloud uses salvaged materials to create his “paintings,” we’ll write mixed-media poems using all kinds of natural fall materials. Join Ridgefield’s Poet Laureate Barb Jennes in the Museum’s Studio (materials provided). All ages welcome!

This five-session class series, which includes a visit with exhibiting artist Karla Knight and an off-site excursion, provides a roadmap to central themes and ideas that have influenced artistic practice since the 1960s.

This class will take place at The Aldrich and includes a tour of the Sculpture Garden and the outdoor installation of Tim Prentice: After the Mobile.

This class will take place at The Aldrich and includes a tour of Hugo McCloud: from where i stand.

Dress up in your favorite costume, grab a flashlight, and join Aldrich Educator and poet laureate Barb Jennes for this virtual, family-friendly evening of storytelling inspired by Adrienne Elise Tarver: The Sun, the Moon, and the Truth.

This class will take place over Zoom and includes a tour of Adrienne Elise Tarver: The Sun, the Moon, and the Truth and preview of Karla Knight: Navigator.

Join The Aldrich’s Executive Director, Cybele Maylone, for a tour of the Museum’s current exhibitions followed by drinks on the terrace.

Please join us for this special collaboration with the Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra’s newly formed RSO Quartet as they perform a selection of chamber music selected for Hugo McCloud’s exhibition, from where i stand.

Exhibiting artist Karla Knight will join the class for an in-person tour at the Museum of her exhibition Navigator, offering a personal look into her process and influences. This class will take place at The Aldrich and be accompanied by an art-making workshop in The Studio.

In their exhibitions, artists Lucia Hierro (Marginal Costs) and Hugo McCloud (from where i stand ) create vivid portraits of people – without ever showing a single face! Poetry does the same in words. Come “paint” poem portraits of the people you know with Barb Jennes, Aldrich Educator and Ridgefield Poet Laureate.

Enjoy an intimate tour and discussion of work by David Salle, an American painter known for his big, gestural, expressionist paintings at the newly re-opened, Brant Foundation in Greenwich, CT.

Visit The Aldrich for free the third weekend of every month. See our current exhibitions and explore the Sculpture Garden.

Gather your little ones at The Aldrich for Story Time to explore Hugo McCloud: from where i stand with a warm, family-friendly reading of H is for Home: A Sesame Street Guide to Homes Around the World by Karen Latchana Kenney, led by Ridgefield Children’s Librarian Christie Barnett.

Join Aldrich Educator and yoga instructor Susie Buckley for a mindful, outdoor walking tour beneath the kinetic sculptures of Tim Prentice: After the Mobile in the Museum’s Sculpture Garden.

Put on your detective hats and try to “crack the code” with this fun, puzzle-filled, family workshop in the galleries of Karla Knight: Navigator!

Join The Aldrich’s Executive Director, Cybele Maylone, in The Studio for a sneak peek of the artists, exhibitions, and programs that will be taking place in 2022 and beyond. Light breakfast with be served.

Whip up a FRUIT FOOL dessert for the holidays in this fun-filled, kid-friendly virtual cooking class, guided by Aldrich Educator and chef Susie Buckley and inspired by the Museum’s current exhibitions.

Using Adrienne Elise Tarver’s current exhibition The Sun, the Moon, and the Truth as a springboard, we’ll explore the centuries-old symbolism of Tarot then write poems that reflect some of the themes found in the deck’s Major Arcana cards.

Visit The Aldrich for free the third weekend of every month. See our current exhibitions and explore the Sculpture Garden.

Explore Karla Knight: Navigator in the Museum's galleries with a fun, family-friendly reading of Interstellar Cinderella by Deborah Underwood, alongside Ridgefield Children’s Librarian Christie Barnett.

Bring your whole family to enjoy the collaged paintings, soft sculptures, iron gates, and large-scale installations of Hugo McCloud: from where i stand and Lucia Hierro: Marginal Costs before the exhibitions close, through this gallery tour guided by our Aldrich Educators!