MoNA Event Calendar
See what’s happening at the Museum of Northwest Art. Join us for art exhibitions, educational programs, museum events and more!
Give the Gift of Creativity! Art experiences make the best gifts! Give your loved ones an upcoming MoNA class OR future class with a gift certificate! Members receive 10% off classes and workshops.
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!
Weathering Steel Sculpture in the Northwest
Join Patrick Gallagher (aka Dr. Rust) to learn more about weathering steel sculptures and where to find them!
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"
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.
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!
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.
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!
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!
My Adult & Me: A Winter Holiday Card-Making “Craftaganza” w/ Kayla Williams
Step into the world of mixed media card-making as you engage in three different options of holiday cards at our Winter Holiday Card-Making Craftaganza. This “My Adult & Me” workshop is open to children ages 5+ and their accompanying adults!
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!
Public Docent Tour
Join a docent on second Saturdays for a short public tour of the current exhibitions!
Holiday Origami Ornaments w/ Mike Berry
Create beautiful paper ornaments and holiday gifts with your friends and family, all while learning about the Japanese art of paper folding!
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!
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!
Luminary Globe Decorating Workshop
In this family-friendly workshop you will decorate a pre-made luminary globe with brightly colored tissue paper to celebrate our local ecosystem, watershed, and community in Skagit County!
Spoken Word at MoNA: An Open Mic Exploration of At the Seam
Local poets are invited to read their original poems in the galleries as a closing celebration for the exhibition At the Seam: The Museum of Northwest Art's Permanent Collection.
Last Day to View Current Exhibitions
Today is the last day to view the current exhibitions at MoNA!
Peter Millett: Built Forms
At the Seam: The Museum of Northwest Art's Permanent Collection
Outside in Gallery: Creative Response to Trauma: A Community Response / Respuesta Creativa al Trauma: Un Enfoque Comunitario
Galleries will be closed for installation starting Monday, January 13, 2025.
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!
Intergenerational Crown Making w/ Alicia Mullikin
Join Alicia Mullikin for this unique workshop to make a crown with a loved one for National Grandparents Day!
Poetry Writing in the Galleries with Susan Rich
Join local poet Susan Rich for a short introduction to writing poetry about visual art!
My Adult & Me Watercolor Class w/ Laura Parker - SOLD OUT
Have fun with your child in this watercolor painting class with Laura Parker!
MoNA Link Summer Institute 2024
Educators can earn up to 21 clock hours in this three day training focused on arts integration!
MoNA Link Summer Institute 2024
Educators can earn up to 21 clock hours in this three day training focused on arts integration!
MoNA Link Summer Institute 2024
Educators can earn up to 21 clock hours in this three day training focused on arts integration into classroom learning!
Public Docent Tour
Join a docent on second Saturdays for a short public tour of the current exhibitions!
Humanities Washington Speakers Bureau: We All Transition w/ Mac Scotty McGregor
Navigating gender in our world has become more complicated. The simple binary gender system does not represent many in our communities today. In this talk, discuss the spectrum of gender in a warm and accessible way. Most of us were socialized around gender, and that socialization can limit us and affect the way we interact with others. Mac walks audiences through the types of modeling and messaging they had growing up around gender, and how we can all make conscious choices that serve us better today.
What is it like to see and walk in the world from both the male and female perspectives? Mac will share his gender journey and what it taught him about life, our culture, and how it affects our interactions with others.
Mac Scotty McGregor (he/him) is the co-founder and executive director of Positive Masculinity, a nonprofit that works to dismantle toxic masculinity cultural norms and create a healthier positive masculinity model for all people. On top of being an educator, trans activist, writer, speaker, radio host, and author of the book Positive Masculinity Now, McGregor is a former U.S. karate team member and Martial Arts Hall of Fame inductee.
RSVP for this event by using the form below!
Cost: Free!
This event is made possible 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.
Please RSVP using the form below.
General Amenities and Accessibility Information
The facility is wheelchair accessible and an elevator is available in the back of the building
A wheelchair is available for visitors
Limited seating is provided throughout the galleries and studio space
Restrooms are available on both floors of the museum. Changing tables are available in the restrooms on the 2nd floor and an all-gender restroom is available on the 1st floor of the museum
Please email us at info@museumofnwart.org or call us at (360) 466-4446 if you have questions or need additional information about accessibility
Art & Science Camp 2024
Registration closed for 2024. Join us at Padilla Bay National Estuarine Reserve and the Museum of Northwest Art for a fun-filled week of art and science activitites!
Public Docent Tour
Join a docent on second Saturdays for a short public tour of the current exhibitions!
Community Art Celebration
We’ve extended hours for this free community celebration! Come and enjoy the current exhibitions, while you savor yummy snacks and pick up free art kits inspired by our current exhibitions.