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  • Saturday, August 1, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Kara Patrowicz

    Meet Kara Patrowicz, local artist and winner of the Sally Bishop Prize, the top honor at the 2025 ArtsWorcester Biennial. Her Worcester Art Museum solo exhibition, Kara Patrowicz: Sally Bishop Prize, features nearly 40 works that explore rhythms of caregiving within the early years of parenting. Her unique, painterly approach to felting repurposes her own “domestic detritus,” such as crib sheets, dryer lint, and locks of hair, into figurative artworks that “honor the states of exhaustion, vulnerability, and yearning that can accompany mothering.” In this artist talk on the opening day of the exhibition, Patrowicz will dive deeper into these themes, the experiences behind them, and her creative approach to fiber arts. The exhibition is on view through August 1–November 1, 2026. The August 1 talk from 2 – 3 is in the Conference Room of the Higgins Education Wing, free for Worcester Art Museum members, $5 for general public. For more information visit https://www.worcesterart.org/events/artist-talk-kara-patrowicz/

  • Thursday, February 26 – Sunday, March 1 – Flora in Winter

    How do you represent a suit of armor with roses? A portrait with peonies? A raging storm with tulips? This winter, come closer to the art you thought you knew, reimagined in floral arrangements throughout the Worcester Museum of Art galleries. Admission tickets to Flora in Winter, February 26 – March 1, are available at the door only. Saturday, 4–7 pm, enjoy a flora evening out with extended hours, music, and drinks. Included with Flora in Winter 2026 Saturday admission.

    Salisbury Giving Society Patrons are invited to a special evening on Thursday, February 26 from 4:30 – 7:30, to tour and experience Flora in Winter 2026. Email KatySullivan@worcesterart.org or call 508-793-4325 to learn about joining the Salisbury Giving Society or to RSVP to this event.

    For complete information visit https://www.worcesterart.org/flora-in-winter/

  • Through Sunday, July 7 – New Terrain: 21st Century Landscape Photography

    The Worcester Art Museum presents New Terrain: 21st-Century Landscape Photography, an exhibition focused on how 21st-century artists use different photographic processes to explore the idea of landscape. Comprising approximately 30 artworks created over the past 20 years, the exhibition will highlight a wide range of techniques—including 3-D printing, weaving, embroidery, collage, and the use of nontraditional materials like rusted cans and lake water—that reinterpret the traditional practice of photography. Through these artworks, New Terrain serves as an entry point into deeper narratives about technology, identity, political activism, and history through the concept of the landscape. This exhibition is organized by Nancy Kathryn Burns, the Museum’s Stoddard Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs. For hours and directions, visit https://www.worcesterart.org/exhibitions/new-terrain/

  • Saturday, March 2, 10 am – 7 pm, & Sunday, March 3, 10 am – 4 pm – Flora in Winter

    Sorry for the late notice. The Worcester Art Museum’s Flora in Winter is now on. You still have time to visit (WAM members free, adults and seniors $30), talk a drop in tour, enjoy after hours on Saturday at 5 pm, attend Ask a Gardener on Sunday at 10 am, and hear a talk on Seascapes at Flora in Winter 2024 with James Welu, Director Emeritus of the Worcester Art Museum, on Sunday at 2 pm. Complete information at https://www.worcesterart.org/flora-in-winter/

  • Thursday, February 25 – Sunday, February 28 – Flora In Winter, Live and Online

    Thursday, February 25 – Sunday, February 28 – Flora In Winter, Live and Online

    Enjoy the beauty of fresh flower arrangements, inspired by works of art and created by the area’s leading floral designers, during Worcester Art Museum’s annual Flora in Winter, running from February 25 – 28. The muse for this year’s Flora programming is the Worcester Wedding Kimono, specially commissioned from Chiso, the revered 465-year-old Kyoto-based kimono house, and on view in the exhibition The Kimono in Print: 300 years of Japanese Design from February 6 – May 2, 2021.

    With capacity restrictions due to COVID, we are able to accommodate only a limited number of people for Flora in Winter this year. Therefore, onsite Flora 2021 will be for WAM Members only, as a very special benefit. A limited number of tickets will be available to Members on a first-come, first-served basis—click here for details. In addition, a virtual Flora in Winter, called “Passport to Virtual Flora,” will include all related online programming and will be available free for Members; $40 for nonmembers—view full details. “Passport to Virtual Flora” brings the beauty and excitement of Flora in Winter to you in the comfort of your own home! This virtual programming package can be enjoyed at any time and for unlimited times during the four days of Flora in Winter—and beyond. “Passport to Virtual Flora” will include pre-recorded programs including a virtual tour of all 24 floral arrangements and Japanese table display in McDonough Court, narrated by the fabulous Flora co-chairs, plus a bonus video tour of the professional floral arrangements in the Museum’s public spaces.

    Flora in Winter hours (WAM Members with onsite tickets only):
    • Thursday, February 25, 10am-8pm
    • Friday, February 26, 10am-8pm
    • Saturday, February 27, 10am-8pm
    • Sunday, February 28, 10am-6pm

    (Members: Please use the Salisbury Street and Tuckerman Street entrances. Parking is available in the Salisbury Street, Lancaster Street, and Tuckerman Street lots.) Due to uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, this information is subject to change. Please note that the Museum Café is currently closed and will be closed throughout Flora in Winter.

  • Sunday, March 29, 9:30 am – 3:30 pm – Watercolor Painting in a Day: Painting Dogwood Blossoms – POSTPONED

    Learn basic and advanced watercolor techniques as you complete this beautiful painting during this Tower Hill Botanic Garden project-based workshop on March 29 from 9:30 – 3:30. Techniques such as painting wet into wet, softening edges and glazing color will be demonstrated. This class is appropriate for both beginners and more advanced painters. Please contact Emma Kerr, Manager of Adult Education, 508-869-6111 x120, ekerr@towerhillbg.org for a materials list.

    Instructor Sue Dion is an award-winning watercolorist whose work is collected internationally. She has taught watercolor to hundreds of students in her own studios (Uxbridge and Worcester) and is a member of the teaching faculty at the Worcester Art Museum. $70 for Tower Hill members, $80 for nonmembers. Register at www.towerhillbg.org

  • Thursday, January 23 – Sunday, January 26 – Flora in Winter

    Get a welcome taste of spring during Worcester Art Museum’s 18th-annual Flora in Winter. One of our most highly anticipated events, this four-day extravaganza features captivating and imaginative flower arrangements inspired by works of art and created by the region’s top floral designers.

    Flora in Winter is supported in part by the Bernard G. and Louise B. Palitz Fund and the Spear Fund for Public Programs. Sponsored by Unibank. General admission to the event is at the door only – WAM members free, nonmembers $25. There are ticketed events that may be reserved online. For complete information visit www.worcesterart.org.

    Thursday, January 23 from 11 – 1, join Thelma Shoneman for a Workshop on Leaf Manipulation ($50). From 1:30 – 3:30, Ellen Donaldson will take you back to the 1960’s with a Workshop on Groovy Felt Flower Pins ($15.)

    Friday, January 24 from 8 – 10 am brings a Flora Live Interpretation in the Gallery: Two Impressions, One Renoir, with floral designers Julie Lapham and Sarah Ribeiro ($20 WAM members, $40 nonmembers.) At 10:30, Kim Cutler, Flora in Winter co-chair, reveals how floral designers look for clues such as color, line, and texture, in works of art when creating interpretive flower arrangements. In the evening, from 5:30 – 8, don’t miss the exclusive evening celebration of Flora in Winter, inspired by the exhibition Photo Revolution: Andy Warhol to Cindy Sherman! The festivities include entertainment, live music, hearty hors d’oeuvres, and cash bar. Valet available at Lancaster Street entrance for $5 per car. Tickets ($25 members, $40 nonmembers) sold online and at the door.

    Saturday, there will be Flower Power Art Carts, with face painting in Lancaster Lobby and Chenille Stem Flower Making in Salisbury Hall. At 9:30 am, Sally Jablonski, of Herbert E. Berg Florist and World Cup of Flower Arranging finalist, shows how to create centerpieces for your dining room table or entertaining spaces—using her award-winning design techniques. Program includes refreshments and a docent-led tour of Flora. (WAM members $20, nonmembers $40). At 2 pm there will be a concert in Renaissance Court by Post Road Chorus.

    Sunday, attend a lecture at 1 pm on Artificial Flowers in the Age of Aquarius, with Nancy Burns, Stoddard Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs ($10, limited seating), followed by a concert at 2 by the Seele Musicale Chamber Ensemble, performing selections from the 17th and 18th centuries.

  • Friday, January 25, 8:30 am – 10:00 am – Battle of Blossoms

    This Worcester Art Museum Flora in Winter event on January 25 from 8:30 – 10 taps the expertise of floral designers Susan Dewey and Thelma Shoneman. Enter the Museum before hours (8:30 – 10) and enjoy coffee and pastry in the Café before watching Susan and Thelma as they create arrangements inspired by two suits of armor in the European Galleries. Register online at http://flora2019.brownpapertickets.com. WAM Members $20, Nonmembers $35, Students $20 (includes Flora admission). Limited to 30 people.

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  • Friday, January 25, 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm – Water Lilies to Waterloo: An Evening of Monet and Flowers

    Join supporters of the Worcester Art Museum for a sumptuous celebration of both Flora in Winter and the opening of the exhibition, Monet’s Waterloo Bridge: Vision and Process, with a fusion of color, light, flowers, and art. The festivities include entertainment, hearty hors d’oeuvre, and cash bar. Valet available at the Lancaster Street entrance for $5 per car. Early purchase (by January 15th) Members $20, Nonmembers $30, Students $15, Youth $8. After January 15 and at the door: Members $25, Nonmembers $37, Students $20, Youth $10. Salisbury Members have two free admissions to the Opening Party. Buy tickets at flora2019.brownpapertickets.com

  • Thursday, January 24, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Living Art: Terrarium Workshop

    Create a one-of-a-kind succulent-filled terrarium, guided by master florist Sally Jablonski, on Thursday, January 24 from 5 – 7 as part of Worcester Art Museum’s Flora in Winter. Learn about balancing this mini-ecosystem and take home your creation. Materials included. Cash bar. Register online at http://flora2019.brownpapertickets.com.

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