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American Mural Project Extends Its Family-Day Programming To Weekends throughout September
The American Mural Project (AMP) has extended its Family Day programming to weekends through September 29. Families can now participate in art activities any time during open hours. All art activities are included with admission. This month’s activities include Making Art with Fire: Fire Tiles and making Fire Prevention posters. Fourth and fifth graders can […]
All In This Together: Highlights from our Printmaking Programs
All In This Together: Highlights from our Printmaking Programs Exhibition Dates: March 4-30, 2025 Over the past 12 months, the Center for Contemporary Printmaking has facilitated the printmaking projects of dozens of artists. We’ve hosted Artists-in-Residence, conducted collaboration and editioning services, offered workshops across a spectrum of printmaking processes, and mentored high school students through […]
Kenji Nakahashi: Strange Beauty
Best known for his conceptual and street photography, Kenji Nakahashi (Japanese, 1947–2017) produced a highly experimental body of work grounded in the everyday. Image: Kenji Nakahashi (Japanese, 1947–2017) Time–B, 1980 (printed 1985) Gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 in. Bruce Museum, Anonymous gift in memory of Kenji Nakahashi, 2022.01.33 © Center for Creative Photography, Arizona […]
Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist
The first monographic exhibition of her work in nearly two decades, Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist traces the artist’s pioneering approaches to abstraction in the United States. Image: Blanche Lazzell (American, 1878–1956) Church Around the Corner, 1949 Oil on canvas, 28 x 36 3/16 in. Art Museum of West Virginia University Collection, acquired through […]
On Thin Ice: Alaska’s Warming Wilderness
On Thin Ice: Alaska’s Warming Wilderness transports visitors to the Arctic to confront the startling impacts of climate change. Remarkable animals from the Bruce’s natural history collections are paired with scale landscape models that showcase Alaska’s diverse ecosystem. The installation highlights both subtle and dramatic shifts occurring across the Alaskan landscape, bringing attention to the […]
Family Day: Earth-Friendly Arts
Join us on Saturday, March 15 in the Bellarmine Hall, Museum Classroom for a Family Day inspired by the artwork on view in our exhibition To See this Place: Awakening to Our Common Home! Learn more about the exhibition at fairfield.edu/museum! The first session will begin promptly at 12:30 p.m. and the second at 2:30 […]
Art Adventures: Suncatchers
Inspired by the Spring season, museum visitors will make their own suncatchers! Art Adventures is a drop-in program designed for children aged four and up and their families. This program is free with general admission and no advanced registration is required. Join us in the Cohen Education Wing.
Ballet Hartford Family Day at Hill-Stead
Saturday, March 15th Join us in Hill-Stead’s historic Makeshift Theater on Saturday March 15th when professional dancers from Ballet Hartford will present Sleeping Beauty as an interactive ballet program for children 5-12. The children will experience an intro and movement class, learn some Sleeping Beauty choreography, see dancers perform excerpts from Sleeping Beauty and have […]
Adult Comic Illustration Class
Join a museum educator for this introductory course on comic illustration. Students will learn the fundamentals of illustration, as well as how to consider storytelling in your art. Participants are encouraged to attend all 3 sessions as each class will build up the previous week. All supplies provided. Part 1 of 3 Part Series: March […]