Past Events

We’re open late for the first-Friday community celebration of all things artful. 

Bring your little ones to the museum for art activities designed for young children and their caregivers.

Andy Reichsman discusses his family’s 70-year effort to reclaim artwork stolen by the Nazis during WWII.

Bring your little ones to the museum for art activities designed for young children and their caregivers.

Bring your little ones to Brattleboro Museum & Art Center for art activities designed for young children and their caregivers.

The UMass Percussion Ensemble performs in the Wolf Kahn & Emily Mason Gallery.

Bring your little ones to Brattleboro Museum & Art Center for art activities designed for young children and their caregivers.

Bring your little ones to Brattleboro Museum & Art Center for art activities designed for young children and their caregivers.

Join artist Samira Abbassy and curator Sarah Freeman for an online conversation about Out of Body.

Acclaimed Pysanky artist Jenny Santa Maria leads two workshops in the traditional Ukrainian folk art of egg decoration.

Come celebrate the opening of new exhibits.

Closed Sunday, March 10, through Friday, March 15, to install new exhibits. 

Create whimsical cardboard sculptures based on deep-sea creatures with artist Art Costa.

A live performance and video installation at Epsilon Spires.

Visit this outdoor display of wild, wonderful Artful Ice Shanties at Retreat Farm.

BMAC is open on Presidents Day, Monday, February 19, 10-4.

Festival and potluck in celebration of the Lunar New Year. Activities for all ages.

Hannah Morris discusses her career and current exhibition at BMAC.

Fawn Krieger and David B. Smith discuss their interests in attachment, relation, and embodiment.

Create whimsical cardboard sculptures based on deep-sea creatures with artist Art Costa.

Register to build an Artful Ice Shanty to display at Retreat Farm in February 2024.

Artist Art Costa and curator Sarah Freeman discuss Costa’s career and current exhibition at BMAC. 

2023 Climate Change Artist in Residence, Lia Rothstein, leads a two-day printmaking workshop with a focus on sustainability.

BMAC’s 2023 Climate Change Artist in Residence, Lia Rothstein, discusses the use of bioplastics in artmaking.

Artist Aurora Robson talks about her practice and the work on view in her current BMAC exhibition.

Curator Michelle Samour discusses the exhibit Paper Made, focusing on the stories behind the art.

Make art prints with LEGOs in a workshop at First Proof Press.

Design and build an original LEGO structure, and display it at BMAC!

Celebrate this year’s LEGO Contest winners.

Ann and Tony Gengarelly host a poetry-writing workshop that includes illustration and bookmaking.

Explore relief printmaking in a workshop with artist Michael Smoot.

Bob Boemig gives a talk in connection with the 30th anniversary of his iconic sculpture Land Lift, which graces BMAC’s front lawn.

Painter Julia Jensen offers a visit to her studio in Westminster West, Vermont, including a short talk and tour.

Celebrate the opening of four new exhibits. Free and open to all!

An annual spectacle and crowd favorite, the Domino Toppling Extravaganza returns to Brattleboro for the 16th year in a row.

Dinner on Glass combines fine dining, glass blowing, and performance art into a memorable feast for all the senses.

Celebrate Anina Major: I Land Therefore I Am and a BrattRock Unplugged performance at a closing party during Gallery Walk.

Melany Kahn leads a group foraging edible mushrooms and making mushroom-topped wood-fired pizzas.

Update as of 9/25/23: This workshop has been cancelled. Kate Milliken leads a sculpture-making workshop using cleaned trash collected from the Connecticut River.

All are invited to help clean the Connecticut River and collect the trash for use in a sculpture workshop.

Learn about Vermont’s legendary gay bar, Andrews Inn, and celebrate its legacy at a pop-up, 1970s-themed party at the museum.

Renowned percussionist Ayano Kataoka performs an hour-long work for solo vibraphone by Stuart Saunders Smith.

Master dry stone waller Jared Flynn gives a tour of Stone Wall Park at historic Scott Farm.

Tape Art duo Michael Townsend and Leah Smith invite the public to help create temporary murals on BMAC’s facade.

Enjoy a fine dining experience by award-winning chef Erin Bevan and inspired by Alec Egan’s Drawing Room.

An inspiring evening of cocktails, dinner, dancing, and the inaugural BMAC Award for Service to Art & Humanity.

Explore the ways art and nature interact through family-focused art making activities at Retreat Farm.

Artist Lela Jaacks gives a talk in BMAC’s sculpture garden, where her work is on view.

Explore the ways art and nature interact through family-focused art making activities at Retreat Farm.

Queer Dance Party comes to BMAC with a pop-up exhibition of photographs of the southern Vermont drag scene.