Archived - Shows And Events

September 24, 2016 - The Tenth Annual New Britain Car Show will be held at Central Park. Rain or Shine. All antiques, classics, muscle cars, street rods and imports are welcome. No cut-off dates. There will be food vendors, restaurants, disc jockey, goody bags, door prizes, 50/50 raffle and trophies. A $10 donation supports the New Britain Police Explorers.

June 16 - June 19, 2016 - Inspired by select artworks in the permanent collection, the Museum’s galleries will display floral arrangements created by members of the Garden Club and National Council Accredited Judges from The Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut. The Front Desk will carry a self-guided tour that will walk visitors through the Museum-wide exhibition and give insight into the arrang...

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...

The exhibition has over 30 works of art in a wide range of media, from Nobu Fukui’s complex collage Incredulity, 2013, to glass masterpieces such as K. William LeQuier’s Confluence, 2011. The establishment of a gallery focused solely on 21st century art will allow the Museum to expand and enhance its contemporary arts educational activities and present our visitors with a wide range of powerful an...

June 14 - November 20, 2016 - The exhibition features many rare and authentic items from that community—furniture, small crafts, textiles, and works on paper. There are significant gifts of objects from several generous donors including nine objects from the widow of a direct descendant of the Enfield Shakers; all these initially came from Eldress Caroline Tate, the last leader of the community.

The New Britain Museum of American Art thrilled to exhibit NEW/NOW: Katja Loher: Are yellow tangs the bees of the sea? this spring. We continue to delve into the realm of New Media, encouraging the discussion between art and technology. Through her wall-mounted video portals and hand-blown glass bubbles, the viewer enters a parallel universe in which Loher displays costumed dancers in choreographe...

This exhibit of 25 beautifully conceived and executed oil paintings highlights Tom Yost’s work created over the last 15 years. The subjects he chooses are from his beloved Litchfield Hills. The virtuosity of each painting invites the viewer to enter the work and experience a distinct moment in a precise location; the viewer can feel the very temperature and time of the day and perhaps even the bre...

March 9, 2014 - Februsry 28, 2017 - The installation will harness daylight and artificial light as mediums with which to create, blurring the line between the physical drawing and the light drawing. The space will be filled with sinuous, large, sprawling structures on two opposing walls which transmit, reflect, and refract light while the painted dark walls of the gallery are enclosed with images ...