by Due to scheduling difficulties, I pretty much had to sprint through the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art to see the 2024 Festival of Trees exhibit. Fortunately, I’ve already been to the Wadsworth to enjoy its art, so I was able to focus solely on the holiday exhibit.
This is the Wadsworth’s 50th year holding the event. Last year my friend Agnes helped with the event, and her description of it made me want to check it out. If you like holiday cheer, it’s definitely an event for you.
The exhibit is also a fundraiser for the museum – the trees (and wreaths, it turns out) are all donated. They are all for sale – but not to be taken home until the event is over.
I was surprised after-the-fact to read that the event had a “golden disco theme” – I did not pick up on that during the event, except for noticing just one tree with a disco-dancing pair on top.
Around 200 trees and wreaths are displayed throughout the first floor galleries, ranging from very traditional to very-non-traditional in style. In some places the trees were so densely packed that it was hard to differentiate one from the other – that’s hardly a complaint, but it did make for some difficult picture taking. Woe is me.
