The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to announce that it was recently awarded a grant in the amount of $17,400 from Connecticut Humanities to support our participation in the CT Summer at the Museum initiative.
The program invites Connecticut children ages 18 and under plus one accompanying Connecticut resident adult to visit participating museums free of charge from July 1 through September 5, 2022. Funding for the initiative is provided by the CT General Assembly, with the support of Connecticut Humanities and the Department of Economic and Community Development, Office of the Arts, which also received support from the federal APRA.
“The CT Summer at the Museum initiative led to a wonderful increase in children and their families visiting The Aldrich in 2021. The Aldrich’s exhibitions and programs seek to make contemporary art engaging and accessible to all, and this wonderful program brought new faces from around the state to the Museum for the first time. We’re thrilled to participate in CT Summer at the Museum again this year, and have expanded offerings for visitors of all ages, including free hands-on art-making in the Museum’s Studio each weekend,” shared The Aldrich’s Executive Director Cybele Maylone.
This summer at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum the museum is presenting its largest exhibition to date, 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone. 52 Artists celebrates the fifty-first anniversary of the historic exhibition Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists curated by Lucy R. Lippard at The Aldrich in 1971. This exhibition showcases work by the artists included in the original 1971 exhibition, alongside a new roster of twenty-six female identifying or nonbinary emerging artists, tracking the evolution of feminist art practices over the past five decades. On the weekends, visitors are encouraged to drop by the Museum’s on-site Studio and follow the prompts to make art in response to the works they viewed in the galleries and Sculpture Garden. The Aldrich is open Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday 12 noon to 5 pm, Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm, and is closed on Tuesdays. Advance ticket registration is recommended. Plan your visit and reserve tickets at www.thealdrich.org.