Thanks to everyone who joined us for our opening last month! For those who were unable to attend, we are pleased to share virtual tours of the fall exhibitions as well as recordings of virtual curator's talks of Hayes Prize 2025: Tommy Kha, Other Things Uttered and Making Their Way: The Florida Highwaymen Painters.
New programs have been added, including tours, workshops, and family programs; see details below!
The Addison is free and open to the public, Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 am–5:00 pm, and Sunday, 1:00–5:00 pm.
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Join curator Rachel Vogel to explore two exhibitions: Tommy Kha, Other Things Uttered, and Family Portrait. Kha's work explores belonging and otherness through photography, and Family Portrait brings together photographs from the Addison’s collection to reveal how artists have engaged the theme of family over a span of nearly two centuries.
This program is presented in partnership with Andover’s Memorial Hall Library; registration is required.
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Family Program: Picture Book Studio
Saturday, October 25, 10:30 am–12:00 pm
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Join us for a morning of art, picture books, and hands-on activities designed for children ages 5 to 8. We will explore landscape paintings and think about how we can create homes that serve human and animal needs.
The program is free, but space is limited and registration is required. Children must be accompanied by an adult caregiver.
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AANHPI Affinity Workshop: Story Mapping through Collage: Ways of Belonging
Sunday, October 26, 2:00–4:00 pm
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Members of the AANHPI community are invited to gather at the Addison to reflect on and be inspired by our own lives in relation to places, real or imagined. Our time together will include an introduction to the exhibition Tommy Kha: Other Things Uttered with museum educator Christine Jee and a facilitated session on creating story maps to explore narrative ways of being and belonging, led by artist and cultural organizer Mindy Tsonas Choi.
This program is presented in collaboration with Lucky Knot Arts. The workshop is free, but space is limited and registration is required. Open to adults as well as participants in middle school and up.
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Workshop: Self-Image at a Distance:
Portraits with Tommy Kha
Saturday, November 1, 1:00–3:30 pm
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Join photographer Tommy Kha to explore new methods of self-portraiture and visualizing identity. Bring your own camera or your phone. The program will include a short tour of his exhibition, Hayes Prize 2025: Tommy Kha, Other Things Uttered.
This workshop is free, but space is limited and registration is required. Open to adults as well as participants in middle school and up.
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Join exhibition curator Gordon Wilkins to explore the work of the Florida Highwaymen. The loosely affiliated group of 26 African American landscape painters sold their vivid and expressive tropical scenes door-to-door and out of the trunks of their cars along the coastal roads of Eastern Florida from the 1950s to the 1980s.
This program is presented with Andover’s Memorial Hall Library; space is limited and registration is required.
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Join curator Ricardo Mercado for a bilingual tour in Spanish and English, exploring highlights from the museum’s collection. The exhibition is divided in two sections, “The Ideal,” and “The Real,” and brings together paintings, photographs, and works on paper made around 1900, to examine how American artists of the era grappled with questions of beauty, truth, and the rapid changes of modern life. This event is free and open to all ages, but registration is required.
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Acompañe al curador Ricardo Mercado en un tour bilingüe en español e inglés, explorando obras importantes de la colección del museo. La presente instalación esta dividia en dos secciones, “Lo Ideal” y “Lo Real,” juntando pinturas, fotografias, y obras en papel creadas alrededor de 1900, para examiniar cómo los artistas Americanos de la época abordaron cuestiones de belleza, la verdad, y los rápidos cambios de la vida moderna. Este evento es gratuito y para todas las edades, pero es necesario registrarse.
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Images: installation view of Hayes Prize 2025: Tommy Kha, Other Things Uttered, photo by Susan Golden; Diane Arbus, A young family in Brooklyn going for a Sunday outing, 1966. Gelatin silver print, 14 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches. Gift of the Stephen C. Sherrill Collection of American Art Foundation, 2024.122.2.3; family program, photo by Addison staff; collage image, courtesy photo; Lucky Knot Arts logo; Tommy Kha, Mine VII, Twentynine Palms, California (detail), 2017. Archival pigment print, © Tommy Kha; Harold Newton, Sunset in Paradise, c. 1970. Oil on board, 22 x 45 inches. Collection of Jonathan Otto (PA 1975, P 2024, 2027); Harold Newton, Breaking Waves on the Rocks, c. 1965. Oil on board, 24 x 48 inches. Collection of Jonathan Otto (PA 1975, P 2024, 2027); John Sloan, Sunday, Women Drying Their Hair, 1912. Oil on canvas, 26 1/8 x 32 1/8 inches. Museum purchase, 1938.67; John Leslie Breck, Untitled (Charles River), 1894. Oil on mahogany wood panel, 9 7/8 x 13 7/8 inches. Gift of Mary (“Molly”) H. Warner in memory of Hilda Chase Foster (1881–1974), 2024.103; Edward Hopper, Railroad Train, 1908. Oil on canvas, 24 1/4 x 29 inches. Gift of Dr. Fred T. Murphy (PA 1893), 1944.10; installation view of Hayes Prize 2025: Tommy Kha, Other Things Uttered, photo by Julia Featheringill; installation view of Making Their Way: The Florida Highwaymen Painters, photo by Julia Featheringill; installation view of Family Portrait, photo by Susan Golden; installation view of Captive Lands, photo by Julia Featheringill; installation view of Playing to Our Strengths: Highlights from the Permanent Collection, photo by Susan Golden; John Singer Sargent, Horses at Palma, 1908. Oil on canvas, 20 1/2 x 28 1/4 inches. Gift of anonymous donor, 1928.32.
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