Minnie Negoro: From Heart Mountain to UConn at The Benton Museum

The Willian Benton Museum of Art 245 Glenbrook Road, Storrs

January 21 - July 27, 2025 Before becoming an award-winning ceramicist and the founder of the UConn ceramics program, in spring 1942, Minnie Negoro was a young college senior at UCLA on the verge of her college graduation. Over the course of six days, her life turned upside down. As the U.S. forcibly removed and […]

Exhibition Opening Reception – “Then, Now, Next: 200 Years and Counting” at the Connecticut Museum in Hartford

Connecticut Museum of Culture and History 1 Elizabeth Street, Hartford

Celebrate the opening of our upcoming exhibition, Then, Now, Next: 200 Years and Counting, which explores the 200-year legacy and evolution of the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, from its earliest foundations in 1825 to its achievements, obstacles, and future aspirations. Enjoy refreshments, hear remarks from the exhibition developers, and be among the first to witness […]

With Every Fiber | Long-Term Exhibition at Grace Farms

Grace Farms 365 Lukes Wood Road, New Canaan

With 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. […]

Docent Tour: Famous & Family: Through the Lens of Trude Fleischmann at Fairfield University Art Museum

Fairfield University Art Museum 200 Barlow Road, Fairfield

Join us  at 1 p.m. for a docent-led tour of the exhibition Famous & Family: Through the Lens of Trude Fleischmann. Austrian-born Trude Fleischmann (1895-1990) was one of the most accomplished female photographers of the 20th century. After great success in Vienna in the 20s photographing artists, models, and performers, she fled the Anschluss in […]

2025 Connecticut Women artists National Open Juried Exhibition at The Benton Museum

The Willian Benton Museum of Art 245 Glenbrook Road, Storrs

May 30 - July 27, 2025 Connecticut Women Artists (CWA) was established in 1929 by twenty women artists from the Hartford area who wanted to create exhibition opportunities for fellow women artists at a time when there were very few. CWA is a statewide organization of highly accomplished artists working in various media, including painting, […]

Tracey Emin: I Loved You Until The Morning at the Yale Center for British Art

Yale Center for British Art 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven

Saturday, March 29, 2025–Sunday, August 10, 2025 Tracey Emin (b. 1963) is known for her dynamic and autobiographical works that express themes of love, loss, hope, and grief. With honesty and deep feeling, her art draws on her personal experiences of illness, intimacy, and sexuality to confront broader concerns about women’s bodies and health. The […]

Reimagined Reflection at Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum

Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum 295 West Ave, Norwalk

June 12 - September 29 Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, in collaboration with Silvermine Arts Center, will inaugurate its 2025 Season and the reopening of the Mansion after a two-year closure with a new contemporary art exhibition titled Reimagined Reflection. This exhibition will serve as a powerful metaphor for the Mansion’s renewal and transformation, reflecting broader themes of renaissance […]

Bringing Natalie Home: An Exhibit of Natalie Van Vleck’s Art at Flanders Nature Center

FLANDERS NATURE CENTER 596 Flanders Road, Woodbury

After many years of being kept in storage, Natalie’s art will be on display in the newly renovated Van Vleck Gallery! In 1926, Natalie urged her parents to buy the saltbox house, which dates back to 1786 along with the accompanying farm land. She then built her art studio next door in 1928. This is […]

China from China: Porcelain and Stories of Early American Trade at the Lyman Allyn Museum

Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New London

June 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 […]

Free – $12

John Boone—WHATSWHAT at Lyman Allyn

Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New London

May 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 […]

Free – $10

Adam Viens: Solo Exhibition at Real Artways

Real Art Ways 56 Arbor Street, Hartford

Through 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 […]