Archived - Shows And Events

May 8 - June 5, 2016 - This exhibition features the work of Waterbury’s finest K-12 artists enrolled in Waterbury Public Schools. The works on view include a variety of media and have been made at various Waterbury public schools throughout the year.

May 1, 2016 - February 5, 2017 - Liversidge wrote sixty proposals for The Aldrich (all of the typescripts are included in the exhibition), and twenty-three have been chosen for realization, guided by the concept of connecting the interior of The Aldrich Museum with both the surrounding landscape and the community. These include working with the employees of Ridgefield Hardware, the town’s hardware...

May 1, 2016 - February 5, 2017 - Overton’s approach to the exhibition process is a combination of research and on-site decision making. For The Aldrich, she has created thirteen site-reactive sculptures and a video, presented inside the galleries, in the Sculpture Garden, and on the roofline. Each informs the other as the works reverberate throughout the building and boomerang out onto the grounds...

May 1, 2016 - February 5, 2017 - In this exhibition, the crow and the rat (an animal that is featured in much of Jones’s work) appear repeatedly, connecting a series of indoor installations with what is one of the artist’s largest outdoor site-specific works to date. This installation, which was created during a ten-day residency at the Museum, involved the transformation of a grove of four small ...

May 1, 2016 - February 5, 2017 - The installation stages a metaphor. A combine harvester provides a quantifiable service: it reaps crops like grain and corn. Its individual elements and multitudinous functions are impossible to observe underneath its heavy metal shell, defying any one person’s perceptual capacity. Through an elaborate mechanization of moving parts it produces a product. Similarly,...

May 1, 2016 - January 8, 2017 - Just a few of the highlights include the first T. rex fossil ever discovered; a small liverwort specimen collected by Charles Darwin during his voyage on the HMS Beagle; a rifle belonging to Buffalo Bill, one of O.C. Marsh’s guides during his fossil expeditions to the American West; a drool collector from Ivan Pavlov; the first microscope purchased by Yale in 1735, ...

April 22 - August 14, 2016 - In this exhibition, Aho presents a suite of recent works–some on public view for the first time–that extend his painterly explorations. Approach (2012), from Aho’s Mountain Series, portrays an image of a looming mountain, which for the artist represents an impending journey and ambiguous goal that relates both to the process of painting, as well as to traveling an unfa...

April 17 - June 5, 2016 - This multi-media exhibition features six women artists whose work either inverts stereotypes, or undermines assumptions about personal and cultural individuality. Lisa Ruyter creates brightly colored paintings basClaudia DeMonte calls our attention to the everyday events in a women life and her sculptures reflect the perception of women as the caretakers of society. Iraqi...

Featuring 40+ Exhibitors - A two day show at our customers request! With the excitement of the one day fall show in October, attendees wanted a longer version in the spring - and the Wilton Spring Antiques Market is born! With many of your favorite exhibitors come find some new dealers with fresh new selections for your shopping pleasure. $10 per person - Benefiting the Wilton Historical Society

April 10, 2016 - Come celebrate 50 years of quality shows with us as we move to our new SPRING calendar date. Many of our faithful returning dealers are joined by some exciting new faces. Watch for some special drawings! Don’t miss out! This distinguished show features 18th & 19th century American furniture, rugs, accessories, textiles, folk art and early iron.