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September 17, 2022 at 10:30 am | Free Admission, Children and Family Programs

Story Time for Young Explorers: Life on Mars

Saturday, September 17 | 10:30 to 11:30 am
Free
General Registration

Load up your spaceship and blast off to The Aldrich for Story Time for Young Explorers, alongside the Ridgefield Library! During our expedition, we will discover outdoor sculpture by Alice Aycock with a family-friendly reading of Life on Mars by Jon Agee, inspired by how science can fuel the imagination and vice versa. Then, trek over to our Studio for a guided art-making activity: creating your own cardboard satellites! Perfect for families with children in early elementary school, grades K-2.

*All participants receive Free Museum Admission for the day as an extension of our free Third Weekend programs.

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People outside the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
September 17, 2022 at 10:00 am | Free Admission

Third Saturdays

Visit the Museum for FREE the third Saturday of every month. Participate in a Story Time at 10:30 am, an all-ages tour of 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone at 1 pm, and drop-in to The Studio for a guided family-friendly art-making activity from 12 noon to 4 pm.

Two women looking at a painting in a museum
September 17, 2022 | Free Admission, Children and Family Programs

Explore! Self-Guided Quest of 52 Artists

This Third Saturday, stop by the Front Desk to pick up a free Explore! Guide to take you on a self-guided quest of our galleries. Along the quest you will search, sketch, puzzle-solve and discover connections between the original artists from Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists in 1971 and the new generation of artists featured alongside them in our current exhibition, 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone.

Museum tour group
September 17, 2022 at 1:00 pm | Free Admission, Group Tours

All Ages Discovery Tour of 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone

Join us for this in-person gallery tour of The Aldrich’s current exhibition, 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone guided by our Museum Educators!

Related Exhibitions

Gallery with painting and wall mounted sculpture and a freestanding square brick sculpture in the center of the room.
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