EXHIBITION
China from China: Porcelain and Stories of Early American Trade at the Lyman Allyn Museum
Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New LondonJune 14 – September 14, 2025 Since the Colonial era, Americans have treasured Chinese export goods. Silk, porcelain, and tea were highly valued commodities that were controlled by the British and subject to taxation until the end of the American Revolution. In February 1784, just five months after the war’s end, the Empress of China, the […]
John Boone—WHATSWHAT at Lyman Allyn
Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New LondonMay 3 – August 10, 2025 Attuned to idioms and their layers of meaning, artist John Boone (American, born 1951) explores the complexity of language in his word-based paintings. At once playful and serious, Boone engages the viewer with familiar phrases, initiating a conversation and inviting the viewer to imagine what comes next. WHATSWHAT features a […]
Adam Viens: Solo Exhibition at Real Artways
Real Art Ways 56 Arbor Street, HartfordThrough July 17, 2025 Viens is a mixed-media artist whose work delves into concepts of time, perception, memory, and philosophy. As a physical representation of intellectual and emotional processes, Viens’ work presents a combination of frantic, improvisational technique and slow, interpretive contemplation. The result is admittedly abstract however, frequently edging in and out of vague […]
Call for Submissions! Let Nature In: The Painting Center NYC
The Painting Center 547 West 27th Street, Suite 500, NYCDeadline Date: June 26, 2025 The Painting Center is seeking submissions for the juried group exhibition Let Nature In curated by Kathleen Beausoleil and Shazzi Thomas. The exhibition will be held in person and on Artsy from July 22 – August 16, 2025, with an opening reception on July 24. Let Nature In will feature contemporary artists who continue to […]
Megafauna: Ezra Moth: Solo Exhibition at Real Artways
Real Art Ways 56 Arbor Street, HartfordJun 19 - Aug 24, 2025 My work teeters on the edge of speculation and functionality, between science fiction and practicality, and it always deals with the intersection of ecology and queer liberation. It is not medium specific and has been presented in the form of sculptures, speculative agriculture interventions, and performance artworks. Largely, I […]
Waste Not, Want Not: Craft in the Anthropocene at Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton
Fuller Craft Museum 455 Oak Street, Brockton, MADecember 21, 2024 - August 31, 2025 Waste Not, Want Not: Craft in the Anthropocene brings together contemporary artworks created from previously existent materials to reimagine craft in the shadow of the twenty-first century. Utilizing second-hand discards or industrially manufactured materials, artists transform refuse into highly crafted forms. Exhibited objects speak to the unique and impending […]
Opening Reception of Tod Papageorge: At the Beach + In the Pool: On Influence at MoCA Westport
MoCA Westport 19 Newtown Turnpike, WestportJune 26 – October 12, 2025 MoCA CT will be presenting a major photography exhibition, Tod Papageorge: At the Beach, alongside works by Papageorge’s former graduate students, In the Pool. The companion exhibitions were organized by the photographer Lisa Kereszi, and showcase the work of Tod Papageorge (b. 1940), a Connecticut-based, internationally-acclaimed artist and teacher whose contributions to American street photography […]
An Gorta Mór: Selections from Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Walsh Gallery: Fairfield
Fairfield University Art Museum 200 Barlow Road, FairfieldApril 11 – August 16, 2025 This exhibition will present some of the highlights of the collection of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum. This remarkable collection investigates the Irish Famine of 1845-1852 and its impact through art, by some of the most eminent Irish and Irish-American artists of the past 170 years. James Arthur O’Connor, Scene in […]
With Every Fiber | Long-Term Exhibition at Grace Farms
Grace Farms 365 Lukes Wood Road, New CanaanWith Every Fiber is a long-term exhibition aiming to inspire understanding and care about the materials that make up the built world around us. In 2020, Grace Farms launched Design for Freedom, a collaborative global movement to eliminate forced labor in the building materials supply chain, create true market transformation, and build a more equitable future. […]
Cow Tales at Florence Griswold Museum
Florence Griswold Museum 96 Lyme Street, Old LymeJune 28–September 14 Inspired by the Museum’s extensive collection of animal paintings by Lyme Art Colony (1900-1937) artists, Cow Tales will explore the subject of cows as compelling subject matter through approximately 30 artworks ranging from the mid-19th century to the present. The exhibition builds on the Museum’s online learning resource Hauling & Harrowing: Edward Volkert and the […]
Nancy Friese: Living Landscapes the at Florence Griswold Museum
Florence Griswold Museum 96 Lyme Street, Old LymeJune 28–September 14 Painter, printmaker, and educator Nancy Friese (b. 1948) immerses viewers in landscapes that percolate with texture and color. Working outdoors, often on large canvases or sheets of watercolor paper, she relies on keen observation and the ability to register the vitality and evanescence of nature through abundant detail and exhilarating hues. Friese’s […]
PATHOS: A Runway Show & Art Exhibition at New Haven Union Station
New Haven Union Station 50 Union Ave., New HavenOn June 29, Threads By Tea will debut PATHOS—the first fashion runway staged inside New Haven Union Station, followed by a curated train ride and immersive exhibition in Milford. The show highlights five emotions through local designers, live music, and interactive art. Three Acts, One Ticket Runway Show — 2 PM, New Haven Union Station […]