MoNA Event Calendar
See what’s happening at the Museum of Northwest Art. Join us for exhibitions, educational programs, museum events and more! You can also view a list of upcoming classes.
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Art Under the Stars
Experience the vibrant art scene of La Conner with Art Under the Stars, a monthly gallery walk held on the second Saturday of each month from 4 PM to 8 PM. This new event invites art enthusiasts to explore La Conner’s thriving creative community while strolling through charming streets filled with stunning artwork, fine craftsmanship, and engaging conversations with local artists.
Art & Science Camp 2025
Join us at Padilla Bay National Estuarine Reserve and the Museum of Northwest Art for a fun-filled week of art and science activities!
Art Under the Stars
Experience the vibrant art scene of La Conner with Art Under the Stars, a monthly gallery walk held on the second Saturday of each month from 4 PM to 8 PM. This new event invites art enthusiasts to explore La Conner’s thriving creative community while strolling through charming streets filled with stunning artwork, fine craftsmanship, and engaging conversations with local artists.
MoNA Link Summer Institute 2025
Educators can earn up to 21 clock hours in this three day training focused on arts integration into classroom learning!
Community Art Celebration
Join us in celebrating art and community! Come and enjoy the current exhibitions, while you savor yummy snacks and get creative with a drop in art project with a local artist. All ages welcome!
Book Club on Through the Light
Join us for the MoNA Book Club, where we’ll discuss books along the the theme of the current exhibition, Through the Light, with a librarian from the La Conner Swinomish Library.
Artist Panel: Through the Light
Join us for an engaging panel discussion led by Chloe Dye Sherpe, curator of Through the Light: The Sublime in Contemporary Northwest Art, with artists KCJ Szwedzinski and Drie Chapek.
Poetry Writing in the Galleries with Elizabeth Bradfield
Join Elizabeth Bradfield, founder of the collaborative journal Broadsided, for a short introduction to writing poetry in response to visual art!
Art Under the Stars
Experience the vibrant art scene of La Conner with Art Under the Stars, a monthly gallery walk held on the second Saturday of each month from 4 PM to 8 PM. This new event invites art enthusiasts to explore La Conner’s thriving creative community while strolling through charming streets filled with stunning artwork, fine craftsmanship, and engaging conversations with local artists.
Illuminated Expressions w/ Trish Harding
Join Trish Harding for an inspiring color and light extravaganza in oil painting!
Writing’s on the Wall: An Open Mic on Through the Light
Celebrate the closing of Through the Light with poetry! Local poets are invited to read their original poems in the galleries to celebrate the sublime in nature and art.
Early Enrichment
Parents/caregivers and children ages 2-5 years old are invited to participate in fun mornings of art, stories, and sensory experiences led by Museum Education staff and volunteers. This program is free for all participants!
The Collectors Club Presents: A Momentous REVELation
On Saturday, December 7th, the Museum of Northwest Art invites you to join MoNA’s Collectors Club to this year’s Annual Acquisition Party: A Momentous REVELation, an exclusive celebration of contemporary Northwest art. Have a first look at the works by four celebrated artists: Claudia Fitch,Etsuko Ichikawa,Jared Rue and Kimberly Trowbridge who have been selected for possible purchase for the Museum’s renowned Permanent Collection. Only one work will be acquired for the collection!
Teen Art Club
Teen Art Club is a free program for youth in Grades 6-12, where you bring your creativity to make art, learn from artists and create a Teen Art Club exhibition in Summer 2025! Snacks, drinks, and art supplies will be provided. Bring a friend or make new ones and join in the fun!
Early Enrichment
Parents/caregivers and children ages 2-5 years old are invited to participate in fun mornings of art, stories, and sensory experiences led by Museum Education staff and volunteers. This program is free for all participants!
Giving Tuesday 2024
Make a difference this giving season! Join us in celebrating #GivingTuesday and supporting MoNA’s mission of collecting, preserving, interpreting and exhibiting art created in the Pacific Northwest, supporting artists, and striving to integrate art into the lives of all people.
Teen Art Club
Teen Art Club is a free program for youth in Grades 6-12, where you bring your creativity to make art, learn from artists and create a Teen Art Club exhibition in Summer 2025! Snacks, drinks, and art supplies will be provided. Bring a friend or make new ones and join in the fun!
Early Enrichment
Parents/caregivers and children ages 2-5 years old are invited to participate in fun mornings of art, stories, and sensory experiences led by Museum Education staff and volunteers. This program is free for all participants!
Sip & Shop
Join us at the MoNA store and explore a treasure trove of one-of-a-kind gifts! Experience the magic with delectable food and drinks, and live holiday tunes.
Don't forget to bring your MoNA membership card to shop for all your holiday goodies at 20% off! And if you're not a MoNA member yet, seize the chance to join in on the holiday fun.
Built Forms: A Walkthrough with the Artist
Join us for a very special event with artist, Peter Millett, as he walks participants through the exhibition Peter Millett: Built Forms.
Image Credit: Peter Millett, Green X, Painted Wood, 11"x11"x6"
Weathering Steel Sculpture in the Northwest
Join Patrick Gallagher (aka Dr. Rust) to learn more about weathering steel sculptures and where to find them!
Teen Art Club
Teen Art Club is a free program for youth in Grades 6-12, where you bring your creativity to make art, learn from artists and create a Teen Art Club exhibition in Summer 2025! Snacks, drinks, and art supplies will be provided. Bring a friend or make new ones and join in the fun!
Early Enrichment
Parents/caregivers and children ages 2-5 years old are invited to participate in fun mornings of art, stories, and sensory experiences led by Museum Education staff and volunteers. This program is free for all participants!
Humanities Washington: Resisting Erasure through Storytelling w/ Putsata Reang
Learn from Humanities Washington Speaker, Putsata Reang, as she discusses the dangers of dwelling on differences and encourages audiences to share their personal stories as an antidote to erasure.
Public Docent Tour
Join a docent on second Saturdays for a short public tour of the current exhibitions!
Teen Art Club
Teen Art Club is a free program for youth in Grades 6-12, where you bring your creativity to make art, learn from artists and create a Teen Art Club exhibition in Summer 2025! Snacks, drinks, and art supplies will be provided. Bring a friend or make new ones and join in the fun!
Early Enrichment
Parents/caregivers and children ages 2-5 years old are invited to participate in fun mornings of art, stories, and sensory experiences led by Museum Education staff and volunteers. This program is free for all participants!
This Machine is Made for Earth: The Madrona Project at MoNA
Poets will converge at the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner to offer a reading and discussion from the most recent issue of the anthology series, The Madrona Project: This Machine is Made for Earth, recently published by Empty Bowl press in Chimacum, Washington.
This final edition of the Madrona Project anthologies offers a view of tools and machines as partner, asset, enemy, threat, and persona in the lives of poets, essayists, and artists. The first section takes us from primitive tools, through the printer’s craft, to methods of farming, building, demolition, and self-expression. Another section deals with machines that move: trains, ships, the heart itself. The book contains a sampler of the work of Clemens Starck, whose life and livelihood depended on well-oiled equipment. In the final section, the machines of war employ the human body in personal as well as global histories.
This event will be MC’d by Michael Daley and will include readings from poets published in The Madrona Project: This Machine is Made for Earth including: Morgan Randall, Susan Rich, Randy Dills, Stephen Roxborough, Robert McNamara, Georgia Johnson, Steven Dolmatz, Holly Hughes, Heidi Seaborn, Janée J. Baugher, and Leslie Wharton.
The event will conclude with a Q&A and book signing. Copies of the anthology will be available for purchase. This event is part of The Writing’s on the Wall: Poetry at MoNA, in which MoNA partners with a range of poets and organizations to bring poetry into the museum through readings, open mic events and writing workshops.
RSVP for this event by using the form below!
Cost: Free for members | $15 suggested donation for non-members
As always, admission to the Museum is free. This event is made possible in part by by MoNA Members. Learn more at: monamuseum.org/membership
Please RSVP using the form below.
Questions? Email us at education@museumofnwart.org
By RSVPing for this event, you will be added to the MoNA Newsletter - you may opt out at any time.
Pacific Northwest Landscapes Drawing Workshop w/ Kristin Frost
Learn from artist Kristin Frost, how value, texture and scale can work together to create dynamic landscapes that speak to the beauty of nature!
Teen Art Club
Teen Art Club is a free program for youth in Grades 6-12, where you bring your creativity to make art, learn from artists and create a Teen Art Club exhibition in Summer 2025! Snacks, drinks, and art supplies will be provided. Bring a friend or make new ones and join in the fun!
Early Enrichment
Parents/caregivers and children ages 2-5 years old are invited to participate in fun mornings of art, stories, and sensory experiences led by Museum Education staff and volunteers. This program is free for all participants!
Teen Art Club
Teen Art Club is a free program for youth in Grades 6-12, where you bring your creativity to make art, learn from artists and create a Teen Art Club exhibition in Summer 2025! Snacks, drinks, and art supplies will be provided. Bring a friend or make new ones and join in the fun!
Early Enrichment
Parents/caregivers and children ages 2-5 years old are invited to participate in fun mornings of art, stories, and sensory experiences led by Museum Education staff and volunteers. This program is free for all participants!
Teen Art Club
Teen Art Club is a free program for youth in Grades 6-12, where you bring your creativity to make art, learn from artists and create a Teen Art Club exhibition in Summer 2025! Snacks, drinks, and art supplies will be provided. Bring a friend or make new ones and join in the fun!
Early Enrichment
Parents/caregivers and children ages 2-5 years old are invited to participate in fun mornings of art, stories, and sensory experiences led by Museum Education staff and volunteers. This program is free for all participants!
Spoken Word at MoNA: An Open Mic Exploration of Portraits of the Divine
Local poets are invited to read their original poems in the galleries as a closing celebration for the current exhibitions.
Photo Credit: Duane Kirby Jenson
Joseph Gregory Rossano Artist Talk: Portraits of the Divine
Please join us for a 30-minute presentation followed by 15 minutes of Q&A with Joseph Gregory Rossano exploring the work currently on display in Portraits of the Divine.
Drawing in the Galleries with Jean Behnke
Join artist Jean Behnke for a fun exploration of charcoal drawing!
MoNA Book Club: Parable of the Sower
Join us for the MoNA Book Club, where we’ll discuss Parable of the Sower!
Public Docent Tour
Join a docent on second Saturdays for a short public tour of the current exhibitions!