Create, explore, and connect at monthly Teen Art Workshops for ages 13–18—led by guest artists in a welcoming studio setting.
Art Scavenger Hunt
Saturday, November 22 | 10:30am–1:30pm
Ages 13–18 | Suggested Donation: $10
Teaching Artist: Abigail Lindquist
We’ll explore beyond AMP to find real-world examples of art principles and elements, then bring our finds back to share and discuss—with hot chocolate and snacks to finish.
About Teen Art Workshops @AMP
Fourth Saturdays | 10:30am–1:30pm | Ages 13–18 | Suggested Donation: $10
Monthly Teen Art Workshops at AMP give young artists time and space to focus on their creative interests—surrounded by inspiration and guided by guest teaching artists.
Each session offers hands-on projects, conversation, and feedback in a supportive studio setting or off-site art destination. Workshop topics vary and reflect what matters to teens—exploring personal voice, creative process, and new techniques.
Open to all skill levels. Materials provided. Suggested donation is $10, but all teens are welcome regardless of ability to pay.
You may also be interested in AMP’s Teen Art Studio on second Saturdays.
About the Teaching Artist
Abigail Lindquist is a multimedia artist and educator with a background in fine arts and art history from Central Connecticut State University. Her work spans oil painting, fiber arts, photography, printmaking, and narrative installation. With over a decade of teaching experience, Abigail designs hands-on programs that encourage young artists to explore their own creative voice while building the skills and language to engage more deeply with art. She has also worked in artist representation and commercial photography, supporting illustrators whose work appears in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and the BBC. At AMP, she leads thoughtful, media-driven workshops that inspire connection, curiosity, and artistic growth.
Come ready to make art, try new things, and connect with a community of teen creatives. Registration appreciated.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/teen-art-workshop-art-scavenger-hunt-tickets-1574491349009?aff=oddtdtcreator
Tuesdays, November 4, 11, and 18 | 5:30 to 6:30pm
Individual Class: $49 Member; $55 | Full Three Class Series: $108 Member; $120 | Limited seats available
“Getting” Contemporary Art is an interactive class series designed to connect today’s exhibitions with the deeper currents of art history. Each session explores the art historical and cultural contexts of artists currently on view at The Aldrich, blending storytelling, close looking, and discussion to help participants uncover new ways of seeing contemporary art. No prior experience with art history is required, only curiosity and a willingness to dive in.
“Getting” Contemporary Art is led by Kristen Erickson, art history teacher and Director of the Luchsinger Gallery at Greenwich Academy.
Attend all three classes or a single class!
Classes
Tuesday, November 4 – Nickola Pottinger: Jamaica, Memory, and Folklore
This class delves into the history and folklore of Jamaica to better understand Nickola Pottinger’s shape-shifting sculptures. Through a gallery walk, participants will examine the mix of spiritual and personal symbols in her works, which include casts of her own body and family heirlooms. Group discussion will encourage participants to uncover the layers of meaning carried by these spectral figures, which merge ancestral traditions with contemporary stories.
Tuesday, November 11 – Zak Prekop: Music in Abstraction
Have you heard of Song Exploder, the podcast where musicians take apart their songs piece by piece? In this class, participants will “explode” the vibrant abstract paintings of Zak Prekop. The session will focus on how he creates a sense of movement and stillness through color relationships, while also considering art historical precedents such as the “action painting” of the 1950s. Participants will further explore Prekop’s musical influences and how rhythm and harmony appear in his painting practice.
Tuesday, November 18 – Uman: Textiles, Calligraphy, and Transformation
Uman’s kaleidoscopic paintings reflect the story of her extraordinary life. She grew up in Somalia and Kenya, spent her teen years in Denmark, and traveled to Vienna and Paris before moving to New York where her artistic vision blossomed. This class will introduce participants to the art histories that shaped her, including East African textiles, Arabic calligraphy, and the work of Gustav Klimt and Sam Gilliam. During a gallery walk, participants will consider how Uman captures her memories, dreams, and personal transformation in visionary paintings that celebrate survival and creativity.
Instructor Bio
Kristen Erickson has been teaching art history and curating exhibitions for the past three decades. She spent eight years working in the curatorial field at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the Smith College Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art before turning to teaching. Kristen currently teaches art history at Greenwich Academy, where she also runs the campus art gallery. She holds degrees in French and art history from Vassar College and Oxford University. A resident of Ridgefield, Kristen loves making contemporary art come alive for new audiences.
Saturday, December 6, 2025 | 7 pm
$10 Members and Students; $15 General Admission
Join us for an intimate duo performance by composer and percussionist Sarah Hennies and bassist Tristan Kasten-Krause, presented in connection with Zak Prekop: Durations. Hennies and Kasten-Krause will present a 40-60 minute set of experimental music within the Museum’s galleries, offering a meditative, resonant experience that blurs the boundaries between sound, space, and visual art.
Sarah Hennies is known for her immersive and durational performances that explore psychoacoustic phenomena, queerness, and the act of listening. Her duo with Kasten-Krause combines sensitivity and restraint, crafting quiet, expansive works that unfold gradually over time.
This event is presented in conjunction with Zak Prekop: Durations (on view through January 11, 2026), an exhibition exploring visual rhythm, repetition, and the temporality of painting. It also marks the launch of Zak Prekop’s first museum publication. This fully illustrated, 32-page softcover catalogue features bold new abstract paintings by the artist, along with an interview between Prekop and curator Eduardo Andres Alfonso. The catalogue will be available for purchase at the event.
Thursday, December 11, 2025 | 6 to 7 pm
Free: Members; $10 General Admission; $5 Seniors/Students
Join Diana Bowes Chief Curator Amy Smith-Stewart for an exclusive after-hours tour of Uman: After all the things…. The exhibition includes new and recent paintings, a mural, and sculpture. New York Magazine recently hailed the artist’s work as “a reminder of what painting can still do.”
Members, please join us at 5:30 pm for refreshments with Amy Smith-Stewart prior to the tour. To become a member, email hhart@thealdrich.org or join online here.
Experience Mikailwitl For Generaciones Perdidas, a new performance by Marcela Torres in The Aldrich’s Sculpture Garden. Featuring Mitotilliztli danzantes, traditional danza, sound, reggaeton rhythms, and ceremonial elements, the work honors lost lineages and the sacredness of land while paying tribute to the Ramapough Lenape Nation and Lunaape Munsee Delaware Nation. Guests are invited to bring a flower or bouquet as their offering and admission to the collective altar.
Throughout human history, clouds have occupied a unique place at the crossroads of observation, imagination, and inquiry. From ancient sky-gazers to modern meteorologists and engineers, our engagement with clouds and the perpetual motion of the atmosphere reveals both a desire to interpret the world visually and a need to understand its physical processes.
The panel will explore perspectives at the intersection of art, science, and engineering: What is the role of clouds and the turbulent atmosphere in art, science, and engineering? Clouds are always transient: How do we observe, analyze, and understand ephemerality? Clouds and their role in environmental change, from extreme weather to climate change impacts: what are opportunities and challenges in visual communication and public engagement? The panel is held in conjunction with the exhibition Clouds: A Collaboration with Fluid Dynamics.
FREE. Everyone is welcome.
RSVP appreciated.
PANELISTS
Ann Fridlind is a Physical Scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Dr. Fridlind’s studies have concentrated at the intersection of detailed models and rich observational data sets to advance understanding of the clouds that are most relevant to Earth’s climate. She has used a wide array of airborne in situ and ground-based and satellite remote-sensing data to study stratiform clouds from Arctic to Antarctic, tropical to mid-latitude deep convection, mid-latitude continental cumulus and synoptic cirrus, and subtropical stratocumulus. She is also a developer of cloud microphysics schemes in computational codes, such as NASA’s ModelE3 climate model.
Helen Glazer is a visual artist whose work bridges photography and three‑dimensional sculpture. Helen ‘s photography and sculpture made from 3D scans are profoundly influenced by scientific insights into the physical forces that shape ecological environments, including human activity. A 2015 participant in the National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, her solo show of that project, “Walking in Antarctica” is currently touring US museums and galleries. She is working on a photographic landscape history of Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, focused on the impacts of a US Cold War air base and climate change.
Miad Yazdani is a principal fellow at RTRC. Dr. Yazdani is responsible for leading strategic initiatives and defining technology roadmaps particularly pertinent to interfacial physics to ensure RTX’s competitive advantage in key technological areas is preserved and expanded while having impact to business units’ near-term and long-term technological objectives and requirements.
Moderated by George Matheou, Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Manufacturing Engineering. Dr. Matheou’s research focuses on computational fluid dynamics, leveraging theory, advanced algorithms, and data to study complex multi-physics fluid flows, with applications in weather forecasting and climate. Dr. Matheou is recognized for his innovative approaches to research and education, including integrating artistic expression to engage students.
5pm gallery viewing | 6pm lecture followed by book signing
Grant B. Romer, a leading authority on early photography and former director of the Photograph Conservation Department at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, discusses the breadth of outdoor views captured by daguerreotypists offers insight into mid-19th-century America. Join us before the lecture to view The Scenic Daguerreotype in America 1840–1860. Reservations encouraged.
Free. Registration encouraged.
Presented in partnership with the Daguerreian Society with additional support provided by the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation Fund.
5pm gallery viewing | 6pm lecture
Contemporary Seneca artist Marie Watt discusses her creative process and artwork that explores the intersection of history, community, and storytelling.
Marie Watt (she/her, b. 1967, Seattle, WA) is a member of the Turtle Clan of the Seneca Nation of Indians whose work draws on images and ideas from Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) protofeminism and Indigenous teachings. Her practice is interdisciplinary, incorporating printmaking, painting, textiles, and sculpture. Watt conducts both solo and collaborative projects, but in all of them she explores how history, community, and storytelling intersect. Watt holds an MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale University; she also has degrees from Willamette University and the Institute of American Indian Arts; and in 2016 she was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa from Willamette University. Selected collections include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Seattle Art Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, the Crystal Bridges Museum, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian and National Museum of American Art, the Tacoma Art Museum, the Denver Art Museum, the Portland Art Museum, and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Watt is represented by PDX Contemporary Art in Portland, OR; Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco, CA; and Marc Straus in New York, NY.
Free. Registration encouraged.
Presented with support from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation and with additional support provided by the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation Fund at the Wadsworth Atheneum.
Through their successful silk business in Manchester, Connecticut, the Cheney family brought global taste and style to turn-of-the century Hartford with their pursuit of fashion and artworks as markers of refinement. Join Erin Monroe, Krieble Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, and Ned Lazaro, associate curator of costume and textiles, as they explore how the museum’s collections help tell the story of the Cheney influence on local culture. Meet outside the museum shop.
Free with admission. Registration encouraged.
Join us for unforgettable moments and joy for all ages! Surrounded by scenic fall landscapes, enjoy live music, an immersive tea lounge, art experiences, and more, while welcoming a season of programming centered around the theme, We all build.
Encounter, Experience, and Explore Pass
10 am – 1:30 pm
Enjoy an immersive morning at Grace Farms, with opportunities to:
Encounter new handmade seating in the Plaza, designed by Kazuyo Sejima & Associates; ParaPosition, Grace Farms’ first permanent sculpture by acclaimed artist Alicja Kwade; new painted portrait by Hannah Rose Thomas; new permanent photographic work, “Haida Gwaii,” for the Grace Farms Library by James Florio; a special coffee and tea experience with Ibu Rahmah, chairwoman of the female-led coffee cooperative Ketiara; and the next edition of our With Every Fiber exhibit.
Experience live music from acclaimed cellist Arlen Hlusko filling the Plaza; a conversation with James Florio and architect Toshihiro Oki from 11 am – 12 pm; and an inspiring conversation about natural pigments with Hannah Rose Thomas, PhD from 12:15 – 1:15 pm.
Explore expansive fall vistas and the inspiring architecture and landscape of Grace Farms during pop-up talks, while enjoying freshly baked Grace Farms pastries, catered lunch options, and handcrafted ice cream created with Grace Farms Tea flavors.
Conversation & Music | A Decade of Grace and Peace
2 – 4 pm
Join us for a special afternoon program as we celebrate 10 years of Grace Farms, featuring:
Grace Farms CEO & Founder Sharon Prince, Chief Strategic Officer and Founding Creative Director Chelsea Thatcher, and Kazuyo Sejima of SANAA, in conversation together with Toshihiro Oki.
Featured performance by GRAMMY® Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell.
Cellist and Grace Farms Artist-in-Residence, Arlen Hlusko.