Curated by Hanna Melnyczuk, a Ukrainian-American artist, and Halyna Andrusenko, an artist from Kyiv, The Umbrella Arts Center’s iteration of the traveling exhibition Don’t Close Your Eyes features the work of 27 artists from various regions of Ukraine responding to the invasion of their country, which began February 24, 2022. Expressions of grief, loss, survival,...
On display in The Umbrella’s Second Floor Gallery from January 18 – February 24, 2024 are selected works by the late photographer and long-time Umbrella Studio Artist Sing Hanson. The exhibition includes an array of subjects and styles from natural attractions and rural landscapes to detailed still life and abstracted object details and more. ...
February 9 – 24, 2024 Directed by Paul R. Dixon This coming-of-age comedy focuses on Eugene Morris Jerome, a teenager obsessed with baseball, girls, and writing (definitely not in that order) while living with his mother, father, and older brother in 1937 Brooklyn. Eugene's widowed aunt and her two daughters have come to live with...
February 9 – 24, 2024 Directed by Paul R. Dixon This coming-of-age comedy focuses on Eugene Morris Jerome, a teenager obsessed with baseball, girls, and writing (definitely not in that order) while living with his mother, father, and older brother in 1937 Brooklyn. Eugene's widowed aunt and her two daughters have come to live with...
Tour this historic house by candlelight and discover stories of friendship and love that made this house a home to so many artists, writers, and poets. During this 45-minute tour, we explore the many ways that friendship and love were shared in the house – whether it is a mother’s love for her children, newlyweds’...
Interwoven: Women's Lives Written in Thread Open through February 25 There is still time to see the special exhibition, Interwoven at the Concord Museum. The exhibition will be on view through February 25th. Come explore how young women and girls created records of their own lives and experiences, written in thread. Kids will enjoy an...
Spotlight Talk: Interwoven: Women’s Lives Written in Thread February 16 at 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Take a deep dive into highlights from the special exhibition Interwoven: Women’s Lives Written in Thread with Concord Museum curator, David Wood. Not an extensive tour of the exhibition, this spotlight talk will delve into the design and structure...
A Visit with President Lincoln February 19 at 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM The Concord Museum is pleased to again host Steve Wood and his amazing performance as Abraham Lincoln. Wood’s first-person historical interpretation, “A Visit with Abraham Lincoln,” includes stories of Lincoln’s early life, campaign debates, the Civil War, and concludes with a stirring...
Colonial Quilting: A Living History Demonstration February 23 at 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM Visit during school vacation to immerse yourself in the colonial home as a living historian demonstrates quilting a petticoat. Learn about the process of quilting and how it was often a community effort. Free with Museum admission. Members visit free.
The MMIP Painting Project began not as a project at all but with the intent of it being just one painting to show support for the Missing & Murdered indigenous peoples crisis. Artist Nayana laFond created the first painting on May 5, 2020, the day of remembrance for MMIP. She shared it ontine and the...
An evening in Big Cherry – a small town in anywhere USA – and the city council meeting unfolds in real time, unmasking undercurrents that threaten to undo life as they know it … and driving the question, “How far would you go?” Award-winning playwright Tracy Letts’ (August: Osage County) new play was called one...
