Festival of Trees & Traditions

Thursday, December 4–Sunday, December 14 Thursdays & Fridays | noon–5pm Saturdays & Sundays | 10am–5pm Thursday, December 11 | noon–7pm Each year, community members, artists, and organizations donate trees and holiday decorations that transform the museum into a dazzling winter wonderland. Donated creations are for sale and profits support the museum’s programs and special exhibitions. Bring home the holiday cheer or give your purchase to a local charity. Click here to learn more about the Festival of Trees & Traditions…

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December 5, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm

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5 – 27

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Thursday, December 4–Sunday, December 14

Thursdays & Fridays | noon–5pm

Saturdays & Sundays | 10am–5pm

Thursday, December 11 | noon–7pm

Each year, community members, artists, and organizations donate trees and holiday decorations that transform the museum into a dazzling winter wonderland. Donated creations are for sale and profits support the museum’s programs and special exhibitions. Bring home the holiday cheer or give your purchase to a local charity. Click here to learn more about the Festival of Trees & Traditions and to view the full program lineup.

A $5 fundraising surcharge is added to all museum admissions during Festival of Trees & Traditions. Registration encouraged.

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For Which It Stands…

This exhibition examines depictions of the American flag through 75 works by a diverse group of artists, beginning during WWI with Childe Hassam’s Italian Day, May 1918 and continuing to the present day, including a textile sculpture commissioned for the show from Maria de Los Angeles. The exhibition includes work in a variety of media by artists including Jasper Johns, Faith Ringgold, Robert Rauschenberg, Shepard Fairey, and Julie Mehretu, and challenges viewers to consider who the American flag truly represents…

Bellermine Hall – Fairfield University

AMERICA ABROAD: Art, Architecture, and Diplomacy – Works from the FAPE Collection

Presented on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the United States and the 40th anniversary of the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE), the exhibition offers rare public access to artworks typically seen only at US embassies—spaces not generally open to the public—and explores how art and architecture have shaped the United States’ diplomatic presence abroad from the Cold War to today. It draws from FAPE’s Site-Specific, Print, and Photography collections and includes maquettes of sculptures commissioned…

The Onera Foundation

Studio Beginnings

Our youngest artists, designers, and builders are invited into the Arts Studio to have fun making art inspired by the River building and surrounding landscape. Learning through art, children will think, play, create, and experiment with texture, form, line, color and space. Led by Grace Farms Arts Educator Nancy Jameson, Studio Beginnings provides a new prompt weekly. This session is recommended for ages 1-5 and their caretakers. Thursdays | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Grace Farms

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