MoCA CT

Multi-bowl Workshop with Leah Corbett
2025-03-20 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | MoCACT, 19 Newtown Turnpike, Westport, 06880, United States
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 pick up your finished creation a few weeks later. This is a great intro to hand-building class that will take you far in the world of pottery.

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Art Adventures! Kids Drop-In Art Class
2025-03-22 12:00 - 13:30, 2025-03-29 12:00 - 13:30, 2025-04-05 12:00 - 13:30, 2025-04-12 12:00 - 13:30, 2025-04-19 12:00 - 13:30
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
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Docent-Led Exhibition Tour
2025-03-22 13:00 - 14:30, 2025-03-29 13:00 - 14:30, 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 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!
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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!
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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.
