Family Art Adventures
Select Saturdays throughout the year
FREE for members and children 18 and under
Families are invited to enjoy an afternoon filled with contemporary art and Family Art Adventures. The Education Center is open all day for experimentation led by Museum educator Michelle Friedman and a guest artist, offering hands-on activities that are based on topics, methods, and materials addressed in Aldrich exhibitions.
For exact dates, please visit our events calendar.
Drop-In Hours
Every weekend
FREE for members and children 18 and under
FREE with price of admission
Every weekend The Aldrich offers visitors the opportunity to extend their visits and learn more about the work and the ideas on view in our exhibitions. Just stop by the Education Center to enjoy self-guided, hands-on projects for all age levels. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
For exact dates, please visit our events calendar.
Aldrich Buddies (Ages 3 to 5, with adult)
Wednesdays, 10 to 11:30 am in six week sessions.
$120 Family member, six week series
$150 non-member, six week series
$25 Family member, individual session
$30 non-member; individual session
Come and enjoy the Museum with your child at Aldrich Buddies! This program introduces The Aldrich's youngest visitors to contemporary art. Accompanied by a parent, grandparent, or a caretaker, children aged three to five discover the artwork in our galleries, led by a Museum educator. Gallery games and questions are followed by the reading of a storybook that relates to the artwork—its materials, concepts, methods, or its subject matter. Everyone then participates in making an art project that is inspired by the artwork, the storybook, or both. What you learn will enable you both to share your experiences at The Aldrich long after the program has ended!
Please note, the fee includes one child with caregiver. You are welcome to bring more than one child at an additional fee of $5 per session per child. Online registration is not available for more than one child; please contact Michelle Friedman: mfriedman@aldrichart.org, 203.438.4519 extension 21 during regular Museum hours to complete your registration.
Check the events calendar for the next upcoming session.
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Art Daze
Participants in summer Art Daze for 7– to 12–year–olds, 2009
Art Daze
Participants and their creatures during toy designer Wedy Gardner’s summer Art Daze workshop, 2009
Art Daze
One of our youngest members painting the seat for his chair during an Art Daze workshop for 4– to 6–year–olds, 2009
New World Kids
New World Kids participant looking through his pop–up during space day, 2009
New World Kids
New World Kids participant making a collage lantern on color day, 2009
New World Kids
New World Kids participant listening to Ramon’s heartbeat with Dr. Michele Seibold, Quarry Ridge Animal Hospital, and Ramon on sound day, 2009
New World Kids
New World Kids I: The Next Literacy (Ages 5 and 6)
Every year The Aldrich invites children aged five and six to participate in their New World Kids and the Next Literacy, an innovative summer program focused on building creative thinkers. For two weeks twelve children will explore a new way of looking at and understanding the world around them, and parents will learn about the individual strengths that will help their children to learn productively in a future that will require visual literacy and innovation.
New World Kids II: Think Like a Pro (Ages 7 and 9)
Prior New World Kids are invited to take the second step on the path to building literacy through creative thinking this summer at Think Like a Pro! This program is specifically designed for NWK graduates to build on their existing experiences and unique creative abilities.
For further information, contact Suzanne Enser-Ryan: seryan@aldrichart.org or 203.438.4519, extension 38, during regular office hours.
Art Daze (Ages 4 to 12)
Art Daze is The Aldrich Museum's four-week summer workshop program, offering hands-on art-making opportunities for two age groups. Participants work directly with a different artist each week to experience a variety of media, techniques, and styles. They discover how to unleash their creative talents as they design, create, build, and have fun with their peers in a museum setting. By working closely with our visiting artists and educators, children learn new and different ways to develop ideas and to make artwork.
The four summer workshops take place on two mornings a week for ages four to six, and three afternoons for ages seven to twelve.
For more information, please contact Michelle Friedman: mfriedman@aldrichart.org, 203.438.4519 extension 21 during regular Museum hours.
