New Britain Museum of American Art September events
From Art Happy Hour to classes to exhibits the New Britain Museum of American Art has a lot of offer this September
During the month of September, the New Britain Museum of American Art is excited to offer a wide variety of educational programs and social events, including an Access for All Community Day celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month on Saturday, September 21, with Free Admission all day. Throughout the month, the Museum has a full roster of Lectures and Talks, Studio Classes and Workshops, Concerts, and Tours related to the permanent collection and current special exhibitions, including a Distinguished Lecture by artist Barbara Ernst Prey on Sunday, September 29, at 2 p.m.
Art Happy Hour
Art Happy Hour
Thursdays, 5:30-8 p.m.
Through September 12
New Britain Museum of American Art • 56 Lexington St, New Britain, CT 06052
Enjoy live music on Thursday nights all summer long, with a front-row seat to the best view of Walnut Hill Park. Cocktails, snacks, sandwiches, and salads are available for purchase in our Museum Café. New this year: there will be a specialty cocktail each Thursday.
September 5 – Mass-Conn-Fusion Duo
Specialty Cocktail: “The Acadia” (Vodka, lemon juice, Angostura bitters, blackberries, and mint) Grab a bite to eat from Cousins Maine Lobster food truck during this Art Happy Hour!
September 12 – Christian Torres
Specialty Cocktail: Stubborn Mule
Walk-In Tours
Walk-In Tours
“The Land Carries Our Ancestors”
Sundays at 1 p.m. | Through September 15
New Britain Museum of American Art • 56 Lexington St, New Britain, CT 06052
Join a Docent-led tour through the NBMAA’s exhibition The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans.
Adult Studio
Adult Studio | Watercolor with Mary Smeallie
Wednesdays, September 4, 11, 18, 25, 1-3 p.m.
New Britain Museum of American Art • 56 Lexington St, New Britain, CT 06052
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This class will demystify the somewhat intimidating medium of watercolor. We’ll start from scratch. We’ll discuss types of paper, pigments, color mixing, and glazing, as well as tricks and techniques. Work from subject matter such as still life, landscape, florals, abstraction, and any other subject matter that inspires you.
Yoga
Yoga – An Artful Practice at the New Britain Museum of American Art
Thursdays, 6-6:45 p.m.
New Britain Museum of American Art • 56 Lexington St, New Britain, CT 06052
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Led by certified, experienced instructors: Ysanne & Heather from YWCA New Britain. rA ll levels are welcome! Please bring your own mat.
For more information please contact: hlabbe@ywcanewbritain.org
Yoga classes will take in the Douglas K.S. Hyland Gallery or the Charles and Irene Hamm Gallery.
Thursdays, 6-6:45 p.m.
Adult Studio
Adult Studio | Painting with Acrylics with Edith LaMonica
Fridays, September 6, 13, 20, and 27, 2-4 p.m.
New Britain Museum of American Art • 56 Lexington St, New Britain, CT 06052
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With acrylic paints, create beautiful paintings in any style from realist to abstract. If you have never painted and would like to try or if you want to improve your skills, this is the class for you. Lessons will focus on how to use brushes and painting knives, on choosing colors and color mixing, and on composition. In an uncomplicated step by step approach, we’ll develop paintings of your favorite subjects and scenes. With individual instruction supported by class sharing, you’ll enjoy painting and learning. Bring some 8×10 photos of your favorite subjects.
First Friday
First Friday | Good Trouble
Friday, September 6, 5:30-8 p.m.
New Britain Museum of American Art • 56 Lexington St, New Britain, CT 06052
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Our signature social event features live music, art, food, spirits, and good friends. New Britain’s best Happy Hour, since 1995!
Cash bar available; access to Museum galleries is included with your ticket.
Event doors will open at 5:30 p.m.
Please note: The venue has capacity for several hundred with limited seating available and a full dance floor. The rest of the space is dedicated for standing room only. Please arrive early for a better chance of securing chairs.
First Friday is a 21+ event. For the safety of all patrons, the attendance of children at First Friday is prohibited.
Sunday Music Series
Sunday Music Series | Dave Giardina Guitar and Violin Duo
Sunday, September 8, 3 p.m.
New Britain Museum of American Art • 56 Lexington St, New Britain, CT 06052
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As of July 1, 2024, Sunday Music Series tickets for non-Members will be $15 for non-Member children, $20 for non-Member seniors, and $25 for non-Member adults. Museum Members will continue to enjoy free admission to Sunday Music Series events. Gallery admission is included in the purchase of all Sunday Music Series tickets. Thank you for supporting the New Britain Museum of American Art.
“Members Sit First” at Sunday Music Series. Members, please have your Membership card handy at the entrance to the performance space. Once Members are seated, the doors will open for the general public, and seating will be first come, first served. Seating capacity is limited to 120.
Concert attendees must register at the Front Desk upon arrival. Museum Members are free, and Museum guests are welcome with purchase of a Museum admission ticket.
All shows begin at 3 p.m.; doors to event space will open at 2:30 p.m.
Please note: Library Passes are not valid for programs, classes, or musical performances.
Gallery Talk
Gallery Talk | The Cycle of Terror and Tragedy: September 11, 2001
Wednesday, September 11, 1 p.m.
New Britain Museum of American Art • 56 Lexington St, New Britain, CT 06052
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Join docent Mona Cappuccio for a gallery talk on Graydon Parrish’s The Cycle of Terror and Tragedy. After the World Trade Towers were bombed in 2001, Graydon Parrish was asked to submit a proposal to commemorate the tragedy. Parrish worked on the commission from 2002 to July 2006. He painstakingly drew numerous drawings and labored to make this painting as perfect as possible. Join us for an in depth look at this work of art and learn more about the artist behind the work.
Mona Cappuccio has her degree in Fine Arts and Art History and is a practicing artist studying with several nationally known artists. Having spent 20+ years in IT/project management at the Aetna and she has worked for Newington Public Schools before returning to her love of art as a painter and a docent at NBMAA.
Walk-In Tour
Walk-In Tour | Museum Masterpieces
Saturdays at 1 p.m. | Starting September 14, 2024
Sundays, September 22 and 29, 1 p.m.
New Britain Museum of American Art • 56 Lexington St, New Britain, CT 06052
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Dive into highlights of the NBMAA’s permanent collection on this hour-long Docent-led tour.
Film Series
Film Series Native America – Part 4: New World Rising
Sunday, September 15, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
New Britain Museum of American Art • 56 Lexington St, New Britain, CT 06052
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Native America challenges everything we thought we knew about the Americas before and since contact with Europe. It travels through 15,000-years to showcase massive cities, unique systems of science, art and writing, and 100 million people connected by social networks and spiritual beliefs spanning two continents. The series reveals some of the most advanced cultures in human history and the Native American people who created it, whose legacy continues, unbroken, to this day.
This series explores this extraordinary world through an unprecedented combination of cutting edge science and traditional indigenous knowledge. It is Native America as never seen before–featuring sacred rituals filmed for the first time, history changing scientific discoveries, and rarely heard voices from the living legacy of Native American culture.
Native America rediscovers a past whose splendor and sophistication is only now being realized and whose story has for too long remained untold. It reveals a unifying belief that inspires these diverse cultures–people are deeply connected to earth, sky, water, and all living things. This belief is rooted in millennia of living on this land and continues to resonate in the lives of Native Americans to this day.
Homeschool Day
Homeschool Day
Thursday, September 19, 11 a.m.-1 p
New Britain Museum of American Art • 56 Lexington St, New Britain, CT 06052
Registration is required
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Join us for a special day of learning how to tell stories through art on a day that is designed for homeschool families. Explore a variety of activities for students and educators, such as Docent-led gallery conversations for all ages around artworks on display, guided gallery activities, artmaking stations with hands-on story telling projects, and time to explore the Museum independently.
Register online and take advantage of this opportunity to use the Museum’s galleries as your classroom and to meet other homeschool families.
Lecture and Book Signing
Lecture and Book Signing | “Artists Explore the Incomprehensible: The 9/11 Terror Attacks”
Thursday, September 19, 6 p.m.
New Britain Museum of American Art • 56 Lexington St, New Britain, CT 06052
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Join Dr. Matthew Warshauer, professor of history at Central Connecticut University, for a spellbinding discussion of how artists confronted 9/11. Confronted with both the horror of the attacks and the stark humanity of the moment, artists are faced with the difficulty of portraying both the awful and beautiful. In doing so, they are often taken to task for “not getting it right” in the eyes of the public. Warshauer explores these realities within the backdrop of his newest book, Creating and Failing the 9/11 Generation: The Real Story of September 11.
Matt Warshauer is a professor of history at Central Connecticut State University, where he received his bachelors in American Studies. Fascinated by what he calls “the American paradox,” the ever-challenging conundrum between the nation’s founding document and the difficulties of pursuing essential ideas of freedom, Warshauer pursued an MA and Ph.D. at Saint Louis University. He has spent the last 30 years exploring the great American experiment in self-government. The author of five books and countless articles and reviews, Warshauer has written extensively on Andrew Jackson, slavery and the Civil War, and most recently, 9/11 and how the most important and devastating event of the 21st century has impacted the world in which we live. Creating and Failing the 9/11 Generation: The Real Story of September 11 was just released from Routledge Press. With a unique ability to draw in his audience, Warshauer guides listeners through the complexities of American political and constitutional history so that we can all think more clearly and gain a better of understanding of our role as citizens.
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