Events

Join us for the seventh of monthly art talks by MMoA’s Executive Director, Susan Fisher!

Join us at MMoA on Tuesday, September 6th for a conversation with artist Robin Holder as she explores the stories in Missing Narratives, beginning with her own.

Abigail Rockwell, Norman Rockwell’s granddaughter, discusses the truth about Pop’s life and work, and the 2019 Definitive Edition of Rockwell’s classic 1960 autobiography My Life as an Illustrator.

Join MMoA on August 23rd as Don Trachte recounts the incredible true story of intrigue and discovery surrounding one of Norman Rockwell’s most iconic and beloved images, Breaking Home Ties, once owned by his father.

Join MMoA Executive Director Susan Fisher for a thoughtful, up-close look at Albert Thompson’s “Cattle Wading in the River.”

Join us on August 9th for a presentation by Byron Breese (1973 and 1976 Boy Scouts of America calendars) and Ed Locke (Before the Shot, The Runaway), two models who worked with Rockwell, as they share the stories of their time posing for the artist.

Join Executive Director Susan Fisher on Tuesday, July 12 for a look at Mother and Child, by Romare Bearden (1911-1988).

Join us for the fourth of monthly art talks by MMoA’s Executive Director, Susan Fisher!

“Still Life” or “Nature Morte”? Join Executive Director Susan Fisher for a discussion of Dorothy Miller’s Still Life in “Looking at Art” on Tuesday, May 17 from 5:30 to 6:30 PM.

Join printmakers Ruth A.B. Clegg, Elizabeth A. Goddard, Susan L. Hardy, and Carol Strause Fitzsimonds for a discussion on the inspiration and process behind More Than Hot Type, currently on display in MMoA’s Liebig Gallery!

Paint the Earth

Lisa Adams

In celebration of Earth Day, lets paint the natural world in a whole new way. Using reclaimed wood, driftwood, or other unique organic surfaces, your instructor will guide you through a step by step painting of the local Mystic landscape.

Martini: Melon Cucumber-tini

Join us for the second of monthly art talks by MMoA’s Executive Director, Susan Fisher!

Unfolding Who I Am (Hands-on Bookmaking)

Donna Frustere

Explore several simple bookmaking techniques and create a handmade, “M-fold” book that you can personalize using multimedia collage elements appropriate to your story or interpretation.

Martini: Lemon Basil Martini

Bedazzled Zendalas

Lavanya Shubhakar

Zendala art is a cross between mandala art and zentangle art. Join us for a fun, relaxing, and cultural experience of creating a bedazzled zendala. Unleash your creative flow, enjoy the company of friends and create a lovely art piece to add to your home décor or as a gift.

Martini: Blood Orange Martini

Polymer Jewelry

Liz Lomax

Are you ready to add a new passion to your creative repertoire? Using polymer colored clay, learn creative techniques for designing personalized, unique jewelry. Design, blend, roll and bake beads, earrings, keychains, or your choice of any accessary piece that can be used as a gift for someone special (maybe that person is YOU).

Martini: Baileys Chocolate Martini

Join us at MMoA on Saturday, December 18th from 5:30 – 7pm for the exhibition-closing event of Michael Melford: A Passage between Earth and Sky.

It’s back, by popular demand! MMoA’s Holiday Gift Market returns in 2021, in a new form and a new location – MMoA’s Schuster Gallery!

Stock up on holiday gifts without the worry of wondering whether they’ll ship on time, while simultaneously supporting local artists, artisans, and MMoA.

Join us for a virtual Gala fundraiser featuring music by Mystic’s own Wooly Mammoth, a cocktail demo by Bravo Bravo’s Kevin Rogers, a peek preview of MMoA’s special summer exhibition of works by our founding artists, and more…! Click here to purchase your tickets!

This year we are presenting A NIGHT AWAY FROM THE MUSEUM on Sunday, August 30, from 7-8pm. Join us for a virtual gala: an evening of fun, art, history, trivia, and music in support of the Mystic Museum of Art.

Donna Frustere

Participants will learn a hands-on approach to manipulating a specialty air-dry “Clayhouse” clay. The magic happens as you work this incredibly pliable and bendable medium into place on foam core. Using the blooms, birds and other inspirations of the spring season, enjoy the sensation of painting with clay.

Aloe Vera Martini

Join us for an afternoon of free, drop-in art making, studio tours, and activities that encourage both children and adults to engage with MMoA’s studios and galleries.

See what the fun is all about!

Enjoy an evening to yourself once a month while your kids have a night out, too!

Consider MMoA your babysitter for the night. Your child will make friends, create art, play games, eat pizza, and watch a movie with out fun, creative, and qualified faculty.

Please call the Museum to register: 860.536.7601

$25 for Members
$30 for Public

Sean Kane

Learn basic techniques to upcycle and add character and charm to an old vase. Decoupage is the art of decorating items by gluing paper cutouts onto the surface of your object. Simple and beautiful, the process will include basic calligraphy while reducing stress and having fun.

Very Berry Cosmo

March 27

As a precaution against the spread of COVID-19, MMoA is cancelling this fundraiser event. 

We apologize for this change in plan, but the health and safety of our communities must be MMoA’s top priority at this time.

As a precaution against the spread of COVID-19, MMoA is cancelling this group event.

We apologize for this change in plan, but the health and safety of our communities must be MMoA’s top priority at this time.

As a precaution against the spread of COVID-19, MMoA is cancelling this group event.

We apologize for this change in plan, but the health and safety of our communities must be MMoA’s top priority at this time.

Brenda De Los Santos

Learn to make you own homemade lip balm, sugar scrub, and body butter. Learn about the essential ingredients used in creating luxurious bath and body products and create your own while customizing scents and colors. Each student will leave with one of each product.

Hawaiian Martini

The Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading celebrates its twelfth anniversary at MMoA.

Nancy MacBride

Create valentines that will surprise and delight your loved ones! Juxtapose seemingly random and contrasting visual images from magazines, postcards, calendars, decorative papers, and other multi-media sources to create dreamlike, humorous or perhaps even shocking surreal collages.

French Martini

Friday, December 20
^{5:00 – 8:00pm}

Bring the whole family for a night of relaxation, creativity, and fun! Children are encouraged to wear their pajamas, and bring their favorite blanket and stuffed animal.

Doors open at 5, with art projects for children while parents are invited to shop the Holiday Gift Market. The movie (Rise of the Guardians, PG) will begin at 6pm.

Admission includes hot chocolate, cookies, and a complementary parking voucher. Children must be accompanied by an adult and supervised at all times.

Open to the first 100 visitors!

Members: $5 per family / Non-Members $10 per family

Call to reserve your spot: 860.536.7601
Tickets will also be available at the door

Sip, Shop, Craft Party
Thursday, December 12^{th
6:00 – 8:30pm}

Mix cocktails & creativity for your next happy hour. Take on a creative project in our studios and then enjoy a private holiday shopping experience in our galleries at our Holiday Market. Evening includes specialty eggnog cocktail, wine, beer, lite refreshments, sweet treats, & gift-wrapping. Come and bring your friends. Plenty of time to create, shop, & socialize.

Members: $20 / Non-Members $25

Call to reserve your spot: 860 536 7601 Tickets will be available at the door

EVENT CANCELLED: Bank Square Books and Mystic Museum of Art invite you to join us from 6:30 to 8pm for an evening with travel journalist Patricia Schultz, the bestselling author of the new deluxe edition of 1,000 Places to See Before You Die.

Tickets for this event are $5, which will be refunded with the purchase of the deluxe edition of the book.

Mystic Museum of Art cordially invites you to an evening with Executive Director V. Susan Fisher.

Event will include a short talk by Ms. Fisher comparing two pieces from the Oil and Water exhibition.

November 6, 2019 : 5:30 – 7:00pm

Members – free

Public – $10/ person

RSVP by November 1, 2019 to bfurgueson@mysticmuseumofart.org

or 860.536.7601 ext. 209

TIME.

SOUND.

ART.

FILLING SPACE IN A BEAUTIFUL WAY.

Music
THE CARLEANS
Art
PUMPKIN SPICE QUILTS

(note special times)

LIVE MUSIC + ART INCLUSION FOR ALL

PIZZA FROM PIZZETTA

WINE & BEER (2 DRINK TICKETS) + LEMONADE

MEMBERS: $12, NON-MEMBERS: $15, KIDS 4–12: $3, 3 AND UNDER: FREE

INCLUDES PARKING

Now that plastic bags have been banned what a perfect opportunity we have to design our very own, upcycled bag! Using a t-shirt and fabric markers, create an earth friendly tote to be used at the farmers market, given as a unique gift, or for countless other purposes.
Green Apple Ginger Martini

TIME.

SOUND.

ART.

FILLING SPACE IN A BEAUTIFUL WAY.

Music
FAKE EXPERIENCE
Art
PARTS OF A PUZZLE

LIVE MUSIC + ART INCLUSION FOR ALL

PIZZA FROM PIZZETTA

WINE & BEER (2 DRINK TICKETS) + LEMONADE

MEMBERS: $12, NON-MEMBERS: $15, KIDS 4–12: $3, 3 AND UNDER: FREE

INCLUDES PARKING

Time. Sound. Art. Filling space in a beautiful way. Enjoy live music under the tent on the Museum’s riverfront terrace, an inclusive art project for all, pizza from Pizzeta, wine and beer (2 drink tickets) and lemonade.

Time. Sound. Art. Filling space in a beautiful way. Enjoy live music under the tent on the Museum’s riverfront terrace, an inclusive art project for all, pizza from Pizzeta, wine and beer (2 drink tickets) and lemonade.

Join members of the Mystic Museum of Art community for a tribute to Katherine Tod Johnstone (KTJ). Members of the Johnstone family, KTJ’s friends, MMoA Board members, staff, and museum members will raise a glass in honor of the 20 year anniversary of the completion of the KTJ Studios.

Mix cocktails and creativity for your next happy hour. Capture the majestic beauty of our summertime in Mystic as you recreate our surrounding landscape in acrylic on canvas.

Join us on June 8, 2019, to celebrate Mystic Museum of Art’s annual premier event, its summer gala fundraiser, featuring a preview of Soderberg Unfurled!, a premiere exhibition of the artwork of Y.E. Soderberg.

Time. Sound. Art. Filling space in a beautiful way. Enjoy live music under the tent on the Museum’s riverfront terrace, an inclusive art project for all, pizza from Pizzeta, wine and beer (2 drink tickets) and lemonade.

Be one of over a billion environmentally-minded people around the world who celebrate the planet. How? Come to Mystic Museum of Art’s inaugural “eARTh Day”!

Bring your child or grandchild and their friends to a free showing of the Polar Express in the Davis Gallery.

Enjoy a complimentary mimosa while you shop at our Holiday Gift Market.

While shopping at the Holiday Market, stop by the Mystic Garden Club Greens Sale for some fresh holiday greens hand-crafted by Mystic Garden Club members.

Watch the Mystic Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Holiday Lighted Boat Parade from our riverside terrace and warm up inside with music, drinks, and holiday cheer.

Enjoy shopping the fine art and artisan wares of the Holiday Gift Market with the added benefit of paying not sales tax.

MMoA’s family-friendly concert series features live music by The Fake Experience and live art by Bonnie Sullivan under the tent on the Museum’s riverfront terrace.

Roy McClendon, one of the original members of the Florida Highwaymen, presents a history this group of African-American, primarily self-taught artists, and recounts some of his experiences during the Jim Crow era.