First Thursdays: Double Header Opening

Escape into art with a new experience every month! Cash bar, nibbles, live music, and more. Celebrate the opening of two new exhibitions with live music, fall-themed cocktails, and drawing in the galleries. Discover Peter Waite: Social Memory, Paintings 1987–2025 with the artist and explore the cultural significance and transitional nature of public spaces. Learn about Gerald Incandela’s distinctive photographic process, which conceptually merges drawing and photography, while he discusses his new exhibition, Gerald Incandela: Photographic Drawings. Stay for a…

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November 6, 2025 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

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Escape into art with a new experience every month!

Cash bar, nibbles, live music, and more. Celebrate the opening of two new exhibitions with live music, fall-themed cocktails, and drawing in the galleries. Discover Peter Waite: Social Memory, Paintings 1987–2025 with the artist and explore the cultural significance and transitional nature of public spaces. Learn about Gerald Incandela’s distinctive photographic process, which conceptually merges drawing and photography, while he discusses his new exhibition, Gerald Incandela: Photographic Drawings. Stay for a screening of Wings of Desire at 8pm.

Free. Registration encouraged.

First Thursdays is generously funded by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All Program.

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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

Van Trip – NYC: Museum of Modern Art!

Time: 8:15 AM–6 PM Price: Member: $125 Non-Member: $135 Member Meet-Up (@ train station): $115 Non-Member Meet-Up (@ train station): $125 Join us for a fun day trip to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa), where we’ll travel together by van to Fairfield Black Rock station and take the Metro North into New York City. At the MoMa we’ll enjoy a guided group tour of the museum featuring some of the world’s most celebrated modern and contemporary artworks, followed by…

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iCreate 2025: Annual Juried Exhibition of High School Talent

The Bruce Museum proudly presents iCreate 2025, our annual juried exhibition showcasing exceptional artistic talent from high school students across the region. Now in its 17th year, this celebrated exhibition transforms our gallery into a vibrant showcase of emerging creativity, featuring works selected from hundreds of submissions representing dozens of schools throughout Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York. Major support for iCreate 2025 is generously provided by an anonymous donor, with additional support from the CT Department of Economic and…

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