Art Adventures! Kids Drop-In Art Class
2025-04-05 12:00 - 13:30, 2025-04-12 12:00 - 13:30, 2025-04-19 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | MoCACT, 19 Newtown Turnpike, Westport, 06880, United States
Art Adventures! Kids Drop-In Art Class
Your child can join us every Saturday for a relaxed and inspiring drop-in art class at the museum! Whether your child is an experienced artist or just looking to have fun, our multi-media classes offer a creative space to explore new techniques and expression through art. Each session is designed to be fun, interactive, and hands-on, with a focus on encouraging your child’s unique artistic voice.
Each class will feature a new theme or project, including painting, drawing, sculpture, and collage so they can come back week after week to try something fresh and create their own masterpieces.
Materials are provided. Come create, connect, and have fun with art!
WHEN: Saturdays 12PM-1:30PM
WHERE: MoCA/CT Art Studio – entrance in back
Register Here.

Docent-Led Exhibition Tour
2025-04-05 13:00 - 14:30, 2025-04-12 13:00 - 14:30, 2025-04-19 13:00 - 14:30, 2025-04-26 13:00 - 14:30, 2025-05-03 13:00 - 14:30, 2025-05-10 13:00 - 14:30, 2025-05-17 13:00 - 14:30, 2025-05-24 13:00 - 14:30 and 2 more dates
Learn more about the current exhibition from an expert docent. No advance registration required; all tours included in Museum admission. Remember, gallery admission is FREE for MoCA Members.

Spring Break 4/14-18 Recess Art Camps
2025-04-14 09:30 - 14:30, 2025-04-15 09:30 - 14:30, 2025-04-16 09:30 - 14:30, 2025-04-17 09:30 - 14:30, 2025-04-18 09:30 - 14:30
AM Session:
Looking for an opportunity for your child to discover new artistic interests, develop skills, and enjoy spring break with friends? Come enjoy a day or the whole week at MoCA CT over spring break! Priced per day.
Who: Nursery – 1st graders
When: Full day (9:30 AM – 11:30 AM) during the week of April 14th
What to pack: A nut-free snack, lunch, and a water bottle
What to wear: Clothing that can get messy
Important: All participants must be fully potty trained to attend
Your child will have a fantastic and creative spring break at MoCA CT!
Register here!
Full Day Session:
Looking for an opportunity for your child to discover new artistic interests, develop skills, and enjoy spring break with friends? Come enjoy a day or the whole week at MoCA CT over spring break! Priced per day.
Who: Kindergarten – 5rd graders
When: Full day (9:30 AM – 2:30 PM) during the week of April 14th
What to pack: A nut-free snack, lunch, and a water bottle
What to wear: Clothing that can get messy
Important: All participants must be fully potty trained to attend
Your child will have a fantastic and creative spring break at MoCA CT!
Register here!

Teen Workshop: Zine-making with Adam Weisblatt
2025-04-17 17:30 - 19:30
WHEN: Thursday, April 17, 2025, 5:30-7:30 PM
PRICE: $50.00/person
WHERE: MoCA Art Academy
WHO: All teens welcome!
Register Here.
Unleash your creativity and craft your own personal zine in this hands-on workshop, inspired by Banks Violette: American Standard. Reflecting aspects of Violette’s art practice, this session embraces the raw, DIY aesthetic and the power of personal storytelling. You’ll explore how to capture where you are in your journey by collecting thoughts, favorite images, and inspirations into an 8-page mini-booklet. Using a mix of analog and digital techniques, you’ll learn to lay out pages, combine digital typesetting with hand-drawn elements, and integrate photographs and collage for a unique, expressive design. Whether you write, draw, or reflect in your own way, this workshop provides the tools to bring your vision to life in print. Participants are encouraged to explore the exhibition beforehand for inspiration.

No Gallery Hours
2025-04-20
We are closed on Sunday, April 20.

No Gallery Hours
2025-04-26
We closed for the J.Y. Park Competition hosted by the JUMY Foundation.

Ceramic Multi-bowl Workshop with Leah Corbett
2025-05-01 18:00 - 20:00
Just in time for Mother’s Day! Spend a creative evening handcrafting your own multi-bowl centerpiece with Fairfield-based ceramicist Leah Corbett. “Multi-bowls” are one of Leah’s most popular forms, and can be used as snack boards, jewelry catchers, air plant displays, or general organizers for keys & miscellaneous items. In this two-hour workshop, Leah will guide you through steps to pinch & smooth multiple bowl forms out of clay, attach them, and manipulate their shapes to fit your own creative style. We provide the clay, tools & glaze options. You get your hands a little dirty, choose your glaze, and then, once fired, come and pick up beautiful and unique gift for Mom, a friend or yourself! This is a great intro to hand-building class that will take you far in the world of pottery.
WHEN: May 1, 2025
PRICE: $85.00 per adult
WHERE: MoCACT Art Studio
Register Here.

MoCA Some Noise: Open Mic Night
2025-05-02 18:30 - 20:00
Register to participate or attend here.
Join us for an Open Mic night at MoCA CT featuring acoustic music, poetry, and slam poetry on Friday, May 2 from 6:30-8:00 PM. Everyone is invited to participate and attend.
Open Mic night is FREE for Members to watch; MoCA Member Participation is FREE; General Admission $10; Participation Fee $5
To give everyone their time to shine, we ask that all participants keep their set to 5 minutes max.
Contact Kristen at kristen@mocact.org with questions.

Adult Workshop: 3-D assemblage with Adam Weisblatt
2025-05-08 18:00 - 20:00
Date: May 8, 2025
Time: 6-8PM
Register Here.
Break free from flatland and transform everyday materials into dynamic 3D sculptures! As part of Banks Violette: American Standard, this hands-on workshop invites participants to explore Sculptural Assemblage, a creative process that repurposes household items, paper, recyclables, branches, and more, into expressive, dimensional artworks. Before diving in, attendees are encouraged to view the Banks Violette: American Standard exhibition to draw inspiration from the headlining artist’s works. Using paper-folding techniques, simple fasteners, and found materials, you’ll construct structures that range from temporary guerrilla installations to lasting pieces. Whether you’re interested in ephemeral street art or personal sculptural creations, this workshop will inspire you to see the artistic potential in your surroundings.

Lunch & Learn: An Interactive iPhone Editing Workshop
2025-05-21 12:00 - 13:30
Come and enjoy a lunchtime Masterclass with Jane Beiles, acclaimed photographer for publications including The New York Times, Architectural Digest and House Beautiful.
This class is designed for any, and all, levels of photographers seeking to elevate their game. Participants will learn how to edit existing photos with the best practices standard to professional imagery. Jane will teach the key editing components and how to put them to use in order to improve your frames for personal or professional use.
Takeaways will include a valuable toolkit to both enhance the photos in existing libraries plus informed knowledge to capture better frames in the future. Once registered, if you like, you will have the opportunity to submit an existing photo of yours which may be chosen as one of the frames to be used as a demonstrative learning tool for the class.
Jane’s classes are known to be both content-rich and joyful, with valuable educational kernels and more than a few laughs in the mix!
The class will be taught on an iphone 16 but nearly all of the elements will be translatable to earlier models as well as to other manufacturers’ devices*. A brief touch on the new features on the 16 model will be helpful to new users or give owners of older versions information to decide if the investment in a new phone is worthwhile.
*if you are not an iphone user, you should be familiar enough with the analogous settings and navigation on your device as all instructions will be from the IOS perspective.
Please register & BYO Lunch!
When: May 21, 2025
Where: MoCACT Art Studio
Who: Adult class
Cost: $75.00/person

Film Screening of Suburbia (1983) and Q+A with Film Critic Susan Granger
2025-05-22 19:00 - 21:00
Suburbia (1983) and Q+A with film critic Susan Granger
Thursday May 22, 2025
7-9 PM
Experience Penelope Spheeris’ 1983 Suburbia, a gripping 1 hour and 34 minutes drama-thriller. The film follows a young man who, struggling with domestic tensions, finds refuge among a group of societal outcasts, forming an unconventional family.
After the screening, stay for a brief Q&A with film critic Susan Granger.
This film is rated R.
Register Here.

$ 10 General admission free for members, $8 for seniors + students
Image:
Movie poster of Suburbia, 1983. Courtesy of the Shout Factory.

Gallery Talk: "O Say Can You See": Artists Reimagine the Flag
2025-05-29 18:00 - 19:00
From left to right, top to bottom. Frederic Edwin Church, Our Banner in the Sky, c. 1861. Oil on canvas. Fine Art Museums of San Francisco. Banks Violette, Not Yet Titled (Flag Edition), 2010. Marines of the 28th Regiment of the Fifth Division planted an American flag atop Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, on Feb. 23, 1945. Joe Rosenthal/Associated Press. Barbara Kruger, Untitled, 1991. Photographic silkscreen/vinyl. Courtesy Mary Boone Gallery.
“O Say Can You See”: Artists Reimagine the Flag, a gallery talk with Dr. Robin Jaffee Frank on May 29, 2025 from 6-7pm.
Register Here.
Free for MoCA Members; $10 General Admission
In conjunction with Banks Violette’s fraught representations of the American flag in MoCA CT’s solo exhibition, join Dr. Robin Jaffee Frank for a historical investigation of Old Glory as an iconic and ubiquitous symbol in American art and culture. Artists have incorporated its graphic stars and stripes into their work to achieve aesthetic ends, critique social and political inequalities, celebrate freedom and democracy, support and mourn our troops, and express despair and hope. For many American citizens, as well as people around the world, our flag is a uniquely powerful and complex symbol of nationhood.
An independent curator, Robin Jaffee Frank has organized numerous exhibitions at museums throughout the US, lectured extensively, and published widely on American visual culture from the colonial through contemporary periods. She formerly served as Chief Curator and Curator of American Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, and Senior Associate Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut. Robin holds a PhD in the history of art from Yale University.
Image of Dr. Robin Jaffee Frank.

Community Event: Duo Recital by Cameron Chase and David Bernat
2025-05-31 19:00 - 21:00
Violinists Cameron Chase and David Bernat present an evening of violin duos, featuring works by Leclair, Ysaÿe, Bartók, Prokofiev, Schnittke. Don’t miss this engaging and diverse program of masterworks.
Register Here.
Program:
Jean-Marie Leclair: Sonata in A Major for Two Violins Op. 3, No. 2
Eugène Ysaÿe: Sonata for Two Violins
-Intermission-
Bela Bartok: Selections from 44 duos for Two Violins
Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata for Two Violins
Alfred Schnittke: Moz-Art
About the Performers:
Violinist David Bernat leads a multifaceted career as a performer, educator, and artistic director. He has appeared as soloist with the Brookline Symphony, Fort Dodge Symphony, and Waterloo Cedar Falls Symphony. He has been a participant in the Bowdoin International Music Festival, Tanglewood Music Festival, and Marlboro Music Festival.
Heavily committed to community engagement, advocacy, and education, David holds the 2023-2025 Ensemble Connect Fellowship from Carnegie Hall. He is a graduate of the New England Conservatory and is currently a C.V Starr Doctoral Fellow at the Juilliard School. In 2024, David was appointed violinist of the Formosa String Quartet who serve as the ensemble in residence at University of Houston’s Moores School of Music and the National Youth Orchestra of Canada.
Cameron Chase, graduated from the Juilliard School with a Bachelor’s Degree in violin performance, studying with Areta Zhulla and Joseph Lin. Cameron is a member of the Princeton symphony and plays with other ensembles in the greater New York area. He has played Vieuxtemps Violin Concerto No. 5 with the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra and he won the American Chamber Orchestra Concerto Competition where he played Bruch violin concerto and as one of the winners in the Bridgeport Symphony Competition he played Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with the Bridgeport Symphony in 2021. At his senior recital in May 2023, he premiered works by four Juilliard composers and is a strong advocate for new music. He has attended music festivals such as the Music Academy of the West, Music Mountain Masterclasses in CT, and The Bowdoin International Music Festival in Maine as well as Moritzburg Academy in Germany. Cameron has been teaching violin for many years with students from different backgrounds in both CT and NY and he hopes to help violin players grow their love of both music and string playing.

Community Event: American Music for Saxophone and Piano
2025-06-06 18:00 - 19:30
American Music for Saxophone and Piano
Dan Goble, alto and soprano saxophones
Russell Hirshfield, piano

performing music by Astor Piazzolla, James David, Joan Tower,
Philip Glass, John Adams and david Del Tredici.

Tickets Here.

Dan Goble currently serves as the director of the School of Music, Theatre and Dance at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado and was previously the Dean of the School of Visual and Performing Arts at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, Connecticut. An arts administrator who is also an active performer, Dr. Goble performed with the New York Philharmonic for over 22 years and was featured with the orchestra as the saxophone soloist on Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, and Ravel’s Bolero, among other works. In addition to the New York Philharmonic, Dr. Goble has performed with the New York City Ballet, The American Symphony Orchestra, The Mariinsky Orchestra, the New York Saxophone Quartet, and the Harvey Pittel Saxophone Quartet.
He has had the privilege of collaborating with pianist Russell Hirshfield for over 20 years, performing the music of contemporary composers throughout the United States and through several recordings, including the album Mad Dances, American Music for Saxophone and Piano (Troy 1251), and the single release of Piet Swerts’ Hat City Sonata (https:open.spotify.comalbum0AQvN9BU1ybkVdtChRxcWT). Other solo and chamber recordings include the album Freeway (CRI 876) and Quartet, Opus 22, by Anton Webern, conducted by Robert Kraft, available on the Naxos label. Their most recent release, Second Flight (NV6634) features the music of Joan Tower, Jennifer Higdon, Philip Glass, John Adams, James David, and David Biedenbender.
Dr. Goble is a proud native of Wyoming and was named distinguished alum of Casper College in his hometown of Casper. His saxophone teachers include Roger Greenberg, Thomas Kinser, Harvey Pittel, and Albert Regni. Dan Goble is a D’Addario performing artist.
Pianist Russell Hirshfield has received critical acclaim for his original and powerful interpretive insights across a wide repertoire. He has performed in recital regularly throughout the world, giving concerts across the United States, Brazil, China, Belgium, England, Serbia, Bermuda, Costa Rica and South Africa, including recent performances at the Sheldonian Theater and Holywell Music Room in Oxford, the Royal Flemish Academy in Brussels and Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. Parma Recordings will release his CD program of American Piano Music in 2025 with premieres of commissioned works by Timo Andres and Mary Ellen Childs. Alexander Scriabin: Early Works (Navona, 2020) has been programed in radio broadcasts in at least twenty countries. It features a brilliant program of Scriabin’s earlier, and lesser-known, works for solo piano. Acclaim for Alexander Scriabin – Early Works, in International Piano, Pianist Magazine and Fanfare led to an invitation to perform the Scriabin Piano Concerto with the Oxford Philharmonic, in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth. His recording Seeker – The Piano Music of Piet Swerts (Phaedra Records) was released in 2017, featured in Europe on Belgian Radio Klara, and received critical acclaim in Holland (Opusklassiek), Belgium (Flanders Art Magazine) and the United States (American Record Guide). Mad Dances – American Music for Saxophone and Piano, with saxophonist Dan Goble, was released by Albany Records.
Russell Hirshfield trained in New Haven, Connecticut and later studied at the Eastman School of Music, Boston University, and the University of Colorado, studying with Robert Spillman, James Avery, Anthony di Bonaventura and Alvin Chow. He is Professor of Music at Western Connecticut State University. Hirshfield has presented master classes and conference lectures throughout the United States and abroad. He was a member of the Artist Faculty for the 2022 Bermuda Piano Festival and also presented at the 2019 International Piano Festival in Bačka Palanka, Serbia, the 2015 Piano Master Class Series at New York University, and the 2013 Oxford Piano Festival.
