Events

Christopher Steiner, Acting Chair of the Art History and Architectural Studies Department at Connecticut College and Director of the college’s Museum Studies Program, tears down with impunity the artificial barriers that try to keep trash aesthetics and bad taste out of the history of art.

Slow down and enjoy the artwork of the annual Young at Art Exhibition. Participate in our Eye Spy game, a scavenger hunt for objects hidden within the art.

Mix cocktails and creativity for your next happy hour. For April, Judy Pettini instructs how to transform a basic t-shirt into a scarf. The evening’s martini: Apple.

One artist’s trash is another one’s treasure! Come and trade your unwanted art supplies for something you can use.

Join us for the opening reception and awards ceremony of the region’s foremost annual youth art exhibition.

Games and art activities await you at MMoA Family Night. Drop by for face-painting, hands-on art making, a gallery game, and to view our Young At Art exhibition.

Chion Wolf, technical producer, announcer, photographer, and on-air personality with WNPR and The Colin McEnroe Show, is also a certified judge with the International Chili Society and is unapologetic about her love of onions.

Mix cocktails and creativity for your next happy hour. For February, Sean Kane instructs how to make heart-shaped greeting cards. The evening’s martini: Chocolate.

The Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading marks its tenth anniversary at Mystic Museum of Art. The event celebrates the legacy of the renowned African-American poet. Artists, educators, poets, students, and local residents will read from Hughes’s work.

Opening reception of Mystic Museum of Art’s annual juried theme exhibition, Memory.

Mix cocktails and creativity for your next happy hour. For January, Carol Dunn instructs how to make a Zentangle fish on a round tile. The evening’s martini: The Zentini.

Support local artists and artisans during our Holiday Market, part of our Holiday Gift Show. Also enjoy holiday sweets, hot chocolate, and live music by local high school students.

Mix cocktails and creativity for your next happy hour. For November, Judy Pettini instructs how to make garlands. The evening’s martini: The Creamsicle.

Celebrated on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving, Giving Tuesday kicks off the charitable season, when many focus on their holiday and end-of-year giving. One of the best ways to get involved is by making donations to organizations in your own community.

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!

The Holiday Preview Party is a first-look at our Holiday Gift Show, and one in a series of Holiday events.

Noted art historian Christopher Heuer will speak on garage rock, with a focus on Nation of Ulysses, a legendary Washington D.C. concept band that fused music, fashion, and political manifesto.

This three-part lecture series with Julia Pavone delves into what it takes to create a work of art. The last class will serve as discussion with participants and guest panelists.

This three-part lecture series with Julia Pavone delves into what it takes to create a work of art. Those interested in the visual arts will learn by examining the methods and materials of artists, the elements and principles of design, and what it means to be “creative,” as well as the cognitive and emotional processes tapped by a creative practice.

A three-part lecture series delves into what it takes to create a work of art. Those interested in the visual arts will learn by examining the methods and materials of artists, the elements and principles of design, and what it means to be “creative.”

Mix cocktails and your creativity for your next happy hour! Create calligraphic letters and use them with other scrapbook papers to create a quilt that is attached to a card.

Philosophy professors Simon Feldman and Allan Hazlett travel the world to eat at buffets. Since 2005, they have sampled buffets in 21 states and seven countries.

Writer and writing instructor Ruth W. Crocker leads a workshop, appropriate for all levels, to guide you into the process of using art as a stimulus for unlocking words and ideas.

Mix cocktails and your creativity for your next happy hour. Take on a creative project with one of our instructors, as you learn to play with a variety of media in the studios and galleries. 

Beginning in September, Mystic Museum of Art will host I Feel Voxish, a forward looking monthly speaker series in which leaders in culture and ideas will present topics representing their passions. The program, which will feature both individual speakers and salon style discussions, will be the first series held in Mystic Museum of Art’s 15 Water Street Gallery.

What happened when Picasso disappeared from Paris and arrived incognito in a tiny fishing village in the South of France? Camille Aubray’s novel imagines how it is that the great artist arrived unable to paint but left with his creativity restored.

MMoA’s family-friendly concert series returns with live music by The Fake Experience, live art by Sam Brown, balloon art by April Brunelle, Pizzetta pizza, drinks, and dancing, all under the tent on our riverfront terrace.

Enjoy dinner and dancing at Mystic Museum of Art’s Summer Gala.

Mix cocktails and creativity for your next happy hour. Tonight’s martini: Cosmo

Live music and dancing and live art all at MMoA’s riverfront terrace

Is thinking the enemy of creativity, as alleged by Ray Bradbury? Must we, as Jack London said, attack creativity with a club? Enjoy unique perspectives on the creative process with our panel of artists and UConn Psychology Professor, James Holzworth.

A day out in Boston with Matisse, Botticelli, and the treasures of Boston’s MFA and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

This survey of three-dimensional artworks includes historical context, art genres, media and aesthetic appreciation of sculpture dated from Pre-historic to Contemporary times. Artist and instructor, Julia Pavone, will highlight key turning points and innovations using seminal artworks from across the centuries.

This survey of three-dimensional artworks includes historical context, art genres, media and aesthetic appreciation of sculpture dated from Pre-historic to Contemporary times. Artist and instructor, Julia Pavone, will highlight key turning points and innovations using seminal artworks from across the centuries.

Slow down and enjoy the artworks of the annual Members and Elected Artists Exhibition.

This survey of three-dimensional artworks includes historical context, art genres, media, and aesthetic appreciation of sculpture dated from Prehistoric to Contemporary times. The instructor, Julia Pavone, will highlight key turning points and innovations using seminal artworks across the centuries.

Mix cocktails and your creativity for your next happy hour. At this evening’s Artini, part calligraphy, part image, the calligram organizes words in a shape which visually expresses the text.

View the Young At Art exhibition and enjoy games and art activities.

Join us at Oyster Club in Downtown Mystic and put your world knowledge to the test. Facts have been assembled with the help of museum educators at Mystic Museum of Art, Mystic Aquarium, Mystic Seaport, and The Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center.

Mix cocktails and your creativity for your next happy hour. Rope transforms even the most common glass jar into a lovely storage container.

Mix cocktails and creativity for your next happy hour! Relax with the captivating method of Zentangle drawing.

Support local artists, enjoy music, treats, and a family friendly craft while you shop the Holiday Gift Show.

View the boat parade and tree-lighting from the waterfront terrace and lawn of MMoA!

MMoA’s family-friendly Tuesday night summer concert series returns to our riverfront patio with a great line-up of food, drinks, live music, and live art! This month will feature live music by Crows Toes, live art TBA, and balloon art by April Brunelle.

MMoA’s family-friendly Tuesday night summer concert series returns to our riverfront patio with a great line-up of food, drinks, live music, and live art! This month will feature live music by Green Tea, live art by Russ Kramer, and balloon art by April Brunelle.

MMoA’s family-friendly Tuesday night summer concert series returns to our riverfront patio with a great line-up of food, drinks, live music, and live art! This month will feature live music by Wooly Mammoth, live art by Mary Horrigan, and balloon art by April Brunelle.

MMoA’s family-friendly Tuesday night summer concert series returns to our riverfront patio with a great line-up of food, drinks, live music, and live art! This month will feature live music by Marcy Kelly Trio, live art by Sam Brown, and balloon art by April Brunelle.

Join us for a night on the waterfront to support our mission, while honoring the Mystic Garden Club.

MMoA’s family-friendly Tuesday night summer concert series returns to our riverfront patio with a great line-up of food, drinks, live music, and live art! This month will feature live music by Soul Searchers, live art TBA, and balloon art by April Brunelle.

Enjoy Engine Room burgers and Old Fashioned’s, and art by Providence cartoonist Amelia Onorato at our new gallery space!

Mix cocktails and your creativity for your next happy hour! Take on a creative project with one of our instructors, as you learn to play with a variety of media in the studios and galleries.

View student and instructor work displayed in the KTJ Studios while you also enjoy the opening reception of our spring exhibitions.

MMoA’s family-friendly Tuesday night summer concert series returns to our riverfront patio with a great line-up of food, drinks, live music, and live art!

Mix cocktails and your creativity for your next happy hour! Take on a creative project with one of our instructors, as you learn to play with a variety of media in the studios and galleries.

The MMoA’s family-friendly Tuesday night concert series returns early this year with a special event featuring ‘Cabin Fever’, a bluegrass band!

Mix cocktails and your creativity for your next happy hour! Take on a creative project with one of our instructors, as you learn to play with a variety of media in the studios and galleries.

Games and art activities await you at MMA Family Night. Drop by for face-painting, hands-on art making, and a gallery game.

Mix cocktails and your creativity for your next happy hour! Take on a creative project with one of our instructors, as you learn to play with a variety of media in the studios and galleries.

Mix cocktails and your creativity for your next happy hour! Take on a creative project with one of our instructors, as you learn to play with a variety of media in the studios and galleries

Family friendly fun, food trucks and festive holiday shopping.

Mix cocktails and your creativity for your next happy hour! Take on a creative project with one of our instructors, as you learn to play with a variety of media in the studios and galleries.

Watch the Mystic Lighted Boat Parade from our riverside terrace, and warm up in the galleries with refreshments and live music!

Let MAC studios be the space where you get creative for happy hour with a free-form after-hours art activity.

Mystic Arts Center and Frizzante Wine Bar present a series of discussions relating art and wine on the first Monday of every month in 2015.

Want to march in the Mystic Halloween Parade and need a last-minute costume? Drop in to our studios before the parade to make a mask. If you’re already in costume, make a spooky decoration instead. Parade starts promptly at 6pm from our parking lot.

MAC’s family-friendly Tuesday night summer concert series returns to our riverfront patio with pizza, drinks, live music, and live art!

Mix cocktails and your creativity for your next happy hour! Take on a creative project with one of our instructors, as you learn to play with a variety of media in the studios and galleries.

Journey with MAC to the new Renzo Piano designed Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.

Mystic Arts Center and Frizzante Wine Bar present a series of discussions relating art and wine on the first Monday of every month in 2015.

Mix cocktails and your creativity for your next happy hour! Take on a creative project with one of our instructors, as you learn to play with a variety of media in the studios and galleries.

MAC’s family-friendly Tuesday night summer concert series returns to our riverfront patio with a great line-up of food, drinks, live music, and live art.

Let MAC studios be the space where you get creative with a free-form after-hours art activity.

Mystic Arts Center and Frizzante Wine Bar present a series of discussions relating art and wine on the first Monday of every month in 2015. This week, MAC Elected Artist Alison Ives talks about how artists translate something as intangible as emotions into visual art.

MAC’s family-friendly Tuesday night summer concert series returns to our riverfront patio with a great line-up of food, drinks, live music, and live art.

Mystic Arts Center and Frizzante Wine Bar present a series of discussions relating art and wine on the first Monday of every month in 2015.

MAC’s family-friendly Tuesday night summer concert series returns to our riverfront patio with a great line-up of food, drinks, live music, and live art.

Mystic Arts Center and Frizzante Wine Bar present a series of discussions relating art and wine on the first Monday of every month in 2015.

Join us on our riverfront lawn for games, music and summer fun!

Mystic Arts Center and Frizzante Wine Bar present a series of discussions relating art and wine on the first Monday of every month in 2015.

MAC’s family-friendly Tuesday night summer concert series returns to our riverfront patio with a great line-up of food, drinks, live music, and live art.

Mix cocktails and your creativity for your next happy hour! Take on a creative project with one of our instructors, as you learn to play with a variety of media in the studios and galleries.

Mystic Arts Center and Frizzante Wine Bar present a series of discussions relating art and wine on the first Monday of every month in 2015.

MAC’s 2nd Annual Flea Market features crafts, antiques and vintage treasures.

Our Annual Meeting open to all MAC Members.

MAC’s family-friendly Tuesday night summer concert series returns to our riverfront patio with a great line-up of food, drinks, live music, and live art!

Mix cocktails and your creativity for your next happy hour! Take on a creative project with one of our instructors, as you learn to play with a variety of media in the studios and galleries.

Join us for a series of wine tasting and discussion on the relationship between art and wine, in conjunction with Frizzante Wine Bar.

Mix cocktails and your creativity for your next happy hour! Take on a creative project with one of our instructors, as you learn to play with a variety of media in the studios and galleries.

Games and art activities await you at MAC Family Night.

Mystic Arts Center and Frizzante Wine Bar present a series of discussions relating art and wine on the first Monday of every month in 2015.

Get creative in the MAC Studios with a unique craft, cocktails and good company.

Children enjoy a night out while you enjoy dinner downtown.

Our annual winter party – masquerade style, plus the opening reception of NextGen, our millennial exhibition.

The 2015 Langston Hughes Poetry Reading will celebrate the work of one of Langston’s major influences: the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Mix cocktails and your creativity for your next happy hour! This month, Brenda De Los Santos will lead the class as you personalize your body products by making your own.

Mix cocktails and your creativity for your next happy hour! This month Sue Palmer will lead the class as you handcraft seasonal decorations for your holiday party, or to give as gifts this December.

Take advantage of our tax free weekend and support local artists during our special Holiday Market on Saturday, November 15th from 11am – 3pm, featuring food trucks, cocoa and cookies, and a family friendly craft.

Want to march in the Mystic Halloween Parade and need a last-minute costume? Drop in to our studios before the parade to make a mask.

Mix cocktails and your creativity for your next happy hour! Take on a creative project with one of our instructors, as you learn to play with a variety of media in the studios and galleries.

In conjunction with the Greater Mystic Chamber of Commerce’s “Not Your Normal Networking Event” series, take the “work” out of networking and socialize with other young professionals while participating in a hands-on creative project.

MAC’s family-friendly Tuesday night summer concert series returns to our riverfront patio with a great line-up of food, drinks, live music, and live art!

MAC’s family-friendly Tuesday night summer concert series returns to our riverfront patio with a great line-up of food, drinks, live music, and live art!

Join Doug to hear about his latest work on exhibition now in our galleries. This event is part of Mystic Art in the Evening, a monthly downtown gallery stroll.

Experience Mystic’s after-hours art scene every first Friday through November during Downtown’s Art in the Evening gallery stroll.

Join us in the MAC galleries for a reading by renowned author Wally Lamb, from his new book, “We Are Water.”

Tip your glass to a good cause at Jonathan Edwards Winery Summer Nights Music Series benefiting Mystic Arts Center.

MAC’s family-friendly Tuesday night summer concert series returns to our riverfront patio with a great line-up of food, drinks, live music, and live art!

Let MAC studios be the space where you get creative. Drop by for some DIY, craft beer, local wine and good company.

Join us to celebrate MAC’s next 100 years at our annual summer fundraiser, a festive evening of futuristic delights!

See what’s on exhibit at MAC during the downtown evening gallery stroll, every first Friday from April through November.

Mix cocktails and your creativity for your next happy hour! Learn the ancient Japanese art of folding origami paper cranes, then attach your cranes to mobiles.

MAC’s family-friendly Tuesday night summer concert series returns to our riverfront patio with a great line-up of food, drinks, live music, and live art!

Calling all green thumbs! MAC needs your help to spruce up our grounds for Spring!

Let MAC studios be the space where you get your creative fix with a free-form after-hours art activity. Decompress with art-making, craft beer, local wine, and good company.

Join us for MAC’s 1st Annual Flea Market!

Join us for a look back at what MAC has accomplished this past year, and what’s in store for 2014.

MAC’s family-friendly Tuesday night summer concert series returns to our riverfront patio with a great line-up of food, drinks, live music, and live art!

Kick off your immersive weekend with the latest event trend. Born in Japan, Pecha Kucha is a gathering of people making and witnessing presentations on various topics.

Mix cocktails and your creativity for your next happy hour! Using jewelry wire and beads, create funky vases out of recycled glass containers. Bring your own recycled bottle or floral case to decorate.

Participate in games and art activities and view Young At Art, the region’s biggest exhibition of artwork from local youth.

Mix cocktails and your creativity for your next happy hour! Create the perfect pair of Valentine’s Day wrapping and a card for a small gift for a loved one.

Mix beats, art, food and drink, with other creative types at our winter party.

Mystic Arts Center’s presents our 6th annual poetry reading celebrating the legacy of America’s renowned African American poet, Langston Hughes.

Mix cocktails and your creativity for your next happy hour! Chill out with the meditative drawing practice of Zentangle.

Celebrate the winter solstice amongst hundreds of glittering luminaries during the Downtown Mystic Luminaria. Finish up your holiday shopping at Mystic Museum of Art’s Holiday Fine Art Show & Holiday Gift Salon, featuring fine art and unique crafts made by local and regional artists.

Mix cocktails and your creativity for your next happy hour! Be eco-friendly and funky this gift-giving season: re-use common household items to make gifts, cards, wrap and boxes.

Want to march in the Mystic Halloween Parade, but need a last-minute costume? Drop in to our studios before the parade to make a crazy hat or mask. If you’re already in costume, make a spooky decoration instead

Participate in the opening for the paved, 1,000 square foot riverfront walkway of customized bricks purchased by donors as a permanent monument to mark Mystic Arts Center’s 100th anniversary.

Mix cocktails and your creativity for your next happy hour! Learn to make your own greeting cards for any occasion

Start your weekend on a Tuesday during our family-friendly summer concert series at Mystic Arts Center.
This month: Music by Green Tea and live art. Beer by Cottrell Brewing Co. and pizza provided.

Please join us at Mystic Arts Center for a celebration to mark the tenth anniversary of Poetry of the Wild. The evening, which marks the culmination of the Connecticut tour, will include a reading of poems featured in the boxes and an auction of selected poetry boxes.

Start your weekend on a Tuesday during our family-friendly summer concert series at Mystic Arts Center. This month live music by Happy & The Moonshine and live art. Beer by Cottrell Brewing Co. and pizza provided.

Mix cocktails and creativity for your next happy hour! Join us on the patio overlooking the Mystic River while learning easy black lettering, also referred to as Gothic lettering.

Start your weekend on a Tuesday during our family-friendly summer concert series at Mystic Arts Center. This month: Live music by Mystic Horns and live art. Beer from Cottrell Brewing Co. and pizza provided.

Join our centennial curator Noelle King for an informal walk around the exhibition “Mystic as Muse: 100 Years of Inspiration.”

Mix cocktails and creativity for your next happy hour! Learn the art of origami cranes. An ancient Japanese legend promises that anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish by a crane.

Artist Haley Lynn Smith discusses her work, including Our New Relationship: Becoming Socialites, 2012, on display in the “Mystic As Muse” exhibition at Mystic Arts Center.

Mix cocktails and creativity for your next happy hour! Spend an evening creating a work of art about an animal of your choice.

Start your weekend on Tuesday! Save the date for every Art After Dark!

This month: Live music by John Fries and live art rt by April Brunelle. Beer from Cottrell Brewing Co. and pizza provided.

Mystic Arts Center invites you to celebrate our centennial year with a party not to be missed.

Mystic Moves dance troupe adds a third dimension to the artwork of Lynn Walker, with a dance performance staged in Mystic Arts Center’s galleries.

Learn how simple it is to make unusual and distinctive looking beads out of rolled paper.

Start your weekend on Tuesday! Save the date for every Art After Dark! This month: Live Music by John Fries ; live Art by Tiffany Roman & Balloon art with April Brunelle

Class features teacher demonstrations and exercises in color dynamics and the integration of rich color. Pastels, oils, acrylics, or watercolors may be used. Previous painting or pastel experience required.

Join us in the Schuster Gallery for a personal tour of our Historical Exhibition and learn about Mystic Arts Center’s early days with Executive Director Karen Barthelson.

Learn about the creative communities of Cos Cob, Old Lyme and Mystic, Connecticut in the early 20th century with Florence Griswold Museum curator and author Amy Kurtz Lansing.

Enjoy designing and making your own rings and learn simple silversmithing techniques.

Discover the Japanese art of folding fabric to make flowers.

Discover the Japanese art of folding fabric to make flowers.

Start your weekend on a Tuesday during our summer concert series at Mystic Arts Center!

Help clean and spruce up the Mystic Arts Center grounds during our spring cleanup event.

Visit the “cradle of American Impressionism” with guided art tours of the Bush Holley Historic Site in Greenwich, then experience art from the 21st century, at the only museum in Connecticut devoted to contemporary art, The Aldrich in Ridgefield.

Play with mosaic techniques to create a unique artwork.

Connecticut sculptors, artists, painters, poets and box makers! Get involved in the final year of Mystic Arts Center’s outdoor sculpture exhibit led by Eco Artist, Ana Flores.

Mystic Arts Center presents Studio Borgo founder and drawing instructor Tom Ruggio, who will discuss his one-and two-week study abroad programs in Tuscany, Italy. A a brief drawing demo will follow the presentation.

Paint with translucent watercolor to create three panels of abstracted imagery good for framing as a trio, or singly.

Mix cocktails and creativity at Mystic Museum of Art! Take on a creative project with one of our instructors, and learn to play with a variety of media.

Learn various Zentangle designs and create a Valentine’s card for someone special. Bring your own pens if you have them, or share ours. Tonight’s martini: Kiss-me-tini

Thursday, February 7, 7pm – 9 pm

Members $10 / Public $15

Be eco-friendly and funky this gift-giving season while re-using common household items to make gift cards, wrap and boxes with instructor Laura Gaffke.

Get first pick of the year’s best gifts during the kick off event to a weekend of tax free shopping at Mystic Arts Center.

Discover and develop your creative potential, whether you are an artist, business professional, educator or simply curious.

Does healthy eating come at a cost? We’ll explore this question and more during a screening of the film Food Stamped at Mystic Arts Center. Following the film, Brian Trent, a representative from Connecticut Humanities will facilitate a discussion about food with local farmers, restaurateurs, and social sector executives.

Personalize your party glasses with instructor June O’Connor during our popular craft series. Bring a martini glass, or other glass vessel to paint and adorn with wire and beads.

Personalize your party glasses with instructor June O’Connor during a later evening version of our popular craft series. Bring a martini glass, or other glass vessel to paint and adorn with wire and beads.

Explore two hidden treasures in Western Massachusetts during peak fall foliage week.

Join us for the opening reception of 34th Annual Photo Show, Art of the Boat: Photographs from Mystic Seaport’s Rosenfeld Collection, and Selections from Mystic Art center’s Permanent Collection. The exhibitions will focus on original imagery and a unique collection of the world’s largest display of maritime photography on loan from Mystic Seaport.

We’ll create bold simple compositions with instructor June O’Connor using the Japanese style, Notan, which explores the concept of light and dark as they are placed next to each other. Cut paper into flat shapes on a two-dimensional surface to create your own distinct designs. We provide instruction, supplies, martinis & plenty of time to socialize.

Explore and experiment with materials and concepts. Cover a range of techniques including how to create layers with washes, image transfers and mixed media collage. Guidance will be given on composition, content and the concept of chance as part of art making. Emphasis is on the creative process rather than a focus on the end result.

Stop into Mystic Arts Center’s galleries to view The 56th Regional Juried Show highlighting watercolor, pastel and photography work, plus much more. The galleries will also be exhibiting William Butcher’s Solo Exhibition representing a cohesive series of paintings that explore the mysterious and illusive spiritual nature of human life.

Bring your materials and enjoy working in a relaxed studio environment.

Singer, songwriter, and MAC Summer Guest Faculty, Linda Bonadies, presents an inspiring summer concert featuring her own work as well as the work of her songwriting students.

Cool off in Mystic Arts Center’s galleries during the Mystic Outdoor Arts Festival.

Join instructor Laura McCarty for another trash to treasure project. Bring a cake box (or similarly sized cardboard box) and transform it into a bound book. We provide instruction, supplies, martinis & plenty of time to socialize.