We’ve been taping a series of free art demos featuring projects that are great to make at home using readily available household items.  These are easy and colorful projects to work on with kids – and adults will also enjoy the art-making experience.

We encourage you to share these demos with your friends!

Thanks for watching.  Consider making a donation of any size to support the Attleboro Arts Museum today. 

Purchase Items Designed for the Flower Show.

The Flower Show is one of the Attleboro Arts Museum’s major fund-raising events of the year. In response to concerns around COVID-19, the Museum has had to cancel this year’s event in an effort to ensure the health and safety of all.

You can still support the Museum’s art & culture programs, exhibitions, art classes and operations by making a donation. All donors will receive a handcrafted gift of thanks, originally created for the “Animal Habitats – Spring Gardens Gone Wild” Sponsor Wall at the 2020 Flower Show.

Photos represent some of the many styles and prints available.

Download an Order Form. 
Orders can be placed by emailing: office@attleboroartsmuseum.org

Supplies are limited.

Download an Order Form. 
Orders can be placed by emailing: office@attleboroartsmuseum.org

In response to concerns around COVID-19, and in an effort to ensure the health and safety of our staff, visitors, members, and patrons, the Attleboro Arts Museum is closed until further notice. 

To get in touch with a staff member please email office@attleboroartsmuseum.org.  Your message will be answered within 2 business days.

Be safe and be well. 

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Spring Art Classes

All spring art classes and workshops running April 2^nd – June 5^th, 2020 have been cancelled. 

We have amended our registration policy.  Please consider the options listed below and contact us with your preference at either 508-222-2644 x10 or office@attleboroartsmuseum.org:

1. A credit (in the amount of your spring tuition) will be issued for use towards a future art class or workshop at the Museum. This credit will expire in one year –  May 2021.  
2. Art class tuition will be refunded upon request.  The Museum is grateful to those that are waiving their refund and turning their art class tuition or a portion of their art class tuition into a donation.  Refunds must be requested by no later than May 31^st, 2020. email: office@attleboroartsmuseum.org

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Exhibitions & Programs

• Flower Show and nature-themed art exhibition (March 19th – 22nd) have been cancelled.
• Notification of juror’s decisions for 8 Visions finalists will be sent out via email as planned – by March 27th.  
• Take a Stand: Voices of the New England Sculptors Association (April 9th – May 8th) will switch to an online format.  Online launch date is April 9th on this website.  
• On the Surface – A National Juried Exhibition’s online submission deadline remains unchanged – April 14th. 
• Attleboro Arts Museum Annual Meeting (May 6th) is postponed until September 15th, 2020. 
• Art Lovers Book Club meeting (May 9th) on Monument Man: The Life and Art of Daniel Chester French has been postponed.  Please check this website for scheduling updates.
• High Art: Dreamscapes (May 19th – June 4th) has been postponed until spring 2021.

We will share more information as it becomes available and hope to be able to welcome you back to the Attleboro Arts Museum again very soon.

Mim Brooks Fawcett

Executive Director and Chief Curator

Take a Stand: Voices of the New England Sculptors Association

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Take a Stand: Voices of the New England Sculptors Association will switch to an online format.  Online launch date is April 9th on this website.  

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Sometimes in an undertone, and occasionally with a bellow, creators of art are surfacing some of the most pressing issues of the day.

This is by no means a new phenomenon. Throughout time artists have realized that their expressions can have great power, impacting the art world and beyond.  However, the current political climate in the US and abroad has led to extreme agitation, prompting contemporary visual artists to address weighty issues – race, gender, politics, and the environment among them. Such work is clearly designed stimulate conversation from a variety of points of view.  

That’s where sculpture comes in.  Sculptural forms need to intrude into space. They are required to be provocative from all angles and force viewers to examine their bumps and hollows. Sculpture makes great demands on a viewer’s eye and mind.

The artists represented in Take a Stand: Voices of the New England Sculptors Association at the Attleboro Arts Museum are wisely using this exhibition to make their voices and opinions heard. Prominent messages include:

• Gender, pay and workplace equality
• Roe v. Wade
• A fractured political landscape
• Gun control
• Civil rights and racial disparities
• Consumer waste
• Immigration and border patrol
• Climate change

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Read a segment of an exhibition review in the March/April 2020 edition of artscope magazine: https://artscopemagazine.com/2020/03/sculptors-as-activists-taking-a-stand-at-attleboro-arts-museum/

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Exhibiting Artists