Exhibitions

In 2019, Detroit-based artist Louise Jones brought a vibrant array of floral imagery to the walls of the New Britain Museum of American Art’s LeWitt Family Staircase. Known for her large-scale botanical paintings, Jones creates site-specific murals whose compositions are often inspired by native ...

As part of the NBMAA’s NEW/NOW exhibition series featuring emerging and established contemporary artists, the Museum will present Jennifer Wen Ma: An Inward Sea, opening May 13. In recent years, Ma (b. 1973, Beijing) has explored themes of utopia, dystopia, and the human conditi...

The New Britain Museum of American Art will present 2020/20+ Women @ NBMAA, a year-long series of seven groundbreaking exhibitions devoted exclusively to women artists beginning January 2020. 100 years after women gained the right to vote, only 27% of major exhibitions are devoted to women artist...

The annual exhibition, a 31- year tradition at the New Britain Museum of American Art, features the works of over 200 young artists in grades kindergarten through 12th from New Britain schools. For the last two springs, the beloved exhibition has been presented digitally due to challenges posed b...