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.
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.
2025 Art Auction Preview
Visit the Museum to explore 250+ artworks and art experiences featured in the Silent and Live Auctions.
The full Silent Auction is open for online bidding starting at 10 am Saturday—anytime, anywhere. View the complete catalog in person or online and have your bids in by 5 pm on Sunday!
Learn more about this year’s Art Auction at: www.monamuseum.org/2025-art-auction.
2025 MoNA Art Auction
Save the Date!
MoNA’S 33rd ANNUAL ART AUCTION — SATURDAY, JUNE 7
The stars are aligning…
More details and announcements are coming soon!
Summer 2025 Exhibition Opening Soirée
Drie Chapek, Breezy Dawn, 2023, oil and acrylic on canvas, 60 x 78 inches, courtesy of Greg Kucera Gallery
The Museum of Northwest Art invites you to celebrate the opening of the new exhibitions!
Through the Light: The Sublime in Contemporary Northwest Art
Saturday, June 28th from 5—7 pm
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!
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.
Last Day to View Current Exhibitions
Today is the last day to view the current exhibitions at MoNA!
MoNA Ceramic Invitational 2025: Build Me Up, Tear Me Down, Why Don’t You Love Me Babe Like There’s No One Around?
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, May 12, 2025.
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.
Writing’s on the Wall: An Open Mic on Artistic Practice
Local poets are invited to read their original poems in the galleries along the theme of artistic practice and inspired by the 2025 MoNA Ceramic Invitational exhibition!
Gallery Tour
Join a docent on second Saturdays for a short public tour of the MoNA Galleries!
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!
Book Club on Creative Response to Trauma
Join us for the MoNA Book Club, where we’ll discuss books along the current Outside In exhibition’s theme Creative Response to Trauma, with a librarian from the La Conner Swinomish Library.
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!
Flowers for Mother’s Day: A Card-Crafting Workshop w/ Kayla Williams
Learn to create beautiful flowers with papercraft techniques, and get playful with art, all while using mixed media to wow mom this Mother’s Day!
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!
2025 Annual Member Meeting
IT'S TIME TO CELEBRATE! Save the date for our Annual Member Meeting, happening April 23rd, from 4-5pm. Join us in the upstairs galleries for treats and refreshments, as Board President Gretchen McCauley takes us through the agenda for this fun annual event, which is one of the perks of MoNA membership! Meet our new Director of Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Northwest Art, Christian Waguespack and be sure to visit the downstairs galleries where the Ceramic Invitational is on view through May 11. We will have a Book Buffet, where members can enjoy free catalogs from past exhibits. At 5pm, the MoNA Board of Trustees will commence their closed-door meeting.
RSVP today!
www.monamuseum.org/2025-members-meeting-rsvp
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!
Bonnie Whiting & Timea Tihanyi: Corpus to Corpus - Ceramic Sonification Performances
There will be three short sonification performances by composer and percussionist Bonnie Whiting on the Corpus to Corpus ceramic sculptures by exhibiting artist Timea Tihanyi from the MoNA Ceramic Invitational 2025.
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!
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.
Sculpting Sustainability: Solutions for Skagit Food Waste
Join WSU Skagit Extension and MoNA for a fun & family-friendly afternoon celebrating sustainability!
Gallery Tour
Join a docent on second Saturdays for a short public tour of the MoNA Galleries!
Sketching Spring Flowers in Watercolor w/ Kathleen Moore
Sold out!
In the workshop, develop a feel for watercolor sketching to capture the vibrant beauty of flowers with guest artist Kathleen Moore!
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!
Artist Panel w/ Patti Warashina, Tip Toland, Claudia Fitch and Emily Counts: Radical Empathy, the Power of Memory and the Freedom of Irony
A selected group of artists from the MoNA Ceramic Invitational 2025: Patti Warashina, Tip Toland, Claudia Fitch and Emily Counts, will discuss the role of the ceramic medium in their artistic and human practice.
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!
Fabric Mache Bowls w/ Kate Dwyer
Sold Out!
In this workshop, learn how to make a fun and functional art piece with teaching artist Kate Dwyer!
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!