Calendar of Events

Programs take place in the museum unless otherwise specified. Click here for public tour registration.
Highlights Tours | Thursdays–Sundays, 12:30 & 2pm
Family Tour: Eyes on Art | Every Second Saturday, 12:15pm

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Public Lecture | A Walk Through Dresden: Eighteenth-Century Meissen Porcelain with Vanessa Sigalas 6:00 pm
Public Lecture | A Walk Through Dresden: Eighteenth-Century Meissen Porcelain with Vanessa Sigalas
Nov 1 @ 6:00 pm
Public Lecture | A Walk Through Dresden: Eighteenth-Century Meissen Porcelain with Vanessa Sigalas
5pm gallery viewing, 6pm lecture Meissen, the oldest porcelain manufactory in Europe, has produced hard-paste porcelain in Germany since the early eighteenth century. Vanessa Sigalas, the Wadsworth’s David W. Dangremond Associate Curator for Collections Research[...]
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Curator Talk: Rules & Repetition with Jared Quinton 1:00 pm
Curator Talk: Rules & Repetition with Jared Quinton
Nov 4 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Curator Talk: Rules & Repetition with Jared Quinton
Rules & Repetition surveys the Wadsworth’s collection of conceptual art, featuring works by artists who have taken systematic approaches to artmaking over the past 50 years. Join curator Jared Quinton as he reveals how, despite[...]
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Second Saturdays for Families: Fall Reflections 12:00 pm
Second Saturdays for Families: Fall Reflections
Nov 11 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Second Saturdays for Families: Fall Reflections
As autumn ends, take a moment to reflect on what you are thankful for and observe how artwork can connect us to places, ideas, and each other. Sign up for an Eyes on Art Family[...]
Film and Panel Discussion | Voices of Veterans: Buffalo Soldiers and Beyond 3:00 pm
Film and Panel Discussion | Voices of Veterans: Buffalo Soldiers and Beyond
Nov 11 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Film and Panel Discussion | Voices of Veterans: Buffalo Soldiers and Beyond
2pm reception, 3–5pm film and panel Join us for the premiere of Voices of Veterans: Buffalo Soldiers and Beyond, a film produced by The Amistad Center for Art & Culture that highlights the legacy of[...]
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Conservator Talk | Ribalta’s “The Ecstasy of Saint Francis: The Vision of the Musical Angel” with Allen Kosanovich 1:00 pm
Conservator Talk | Ribalta’s “The Ecstasy of Saint Francis: The Vision of the Musical Angel” with Allen Kosanovich
Nov 17 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Conservator Talk | Ribalta’s "The Ecstasy of Saint Francis: The Vision of the Musical Angel" with Allen Kosanovich
Catalan painter Francisco Ribalta vividly captured religious images at the turn of the seventeenth century, positioning himself as one of the major figures of the early baroque. Paintings conservator Allen Kosanovich reveals the final stages[...]
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Performance | (Hartford) Memory Space 1:00 pm
Performance | (Hartford) Memory Space
Nov 18 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Performance | (Hartford) Memory Space
Drop in as regional musicians create a sound map of our city throughout the galleries with a special recreation of the 1970 musical composition (Hartford) Memory Space by Alvin Lucier (1931–2021), one of the most influential American[...]
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Curator Talk | Psyche Tapestries with Ned Lazaro 1:00 pm
Curator Talk | Psyche Tapestries with Ned Lazaro
Nov 19 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Curator Talk | Psyche Tapestries with Ned Lazaro
Psyche, the ancient goddess of the soul, inspired an important collection of seventeenth-century French tapestries at the Wadsworth. Associate Curator of Costume & Textiles Ned Lazaro unravels the story behind the Psyche tapestries and the[...]
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