Cow Tales at Florence Griswold Museum

Florence Griswold Museum 96 Lyme Street, Old Lyme

June 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 […]

$5 – $15

Nancy Friese: Living Landscapes the at Florence Griswold Museum

Florence Griswold Museum 96 Lyme Street, Old Lyme

June 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 […]

$5 – $15

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 […]

An Gorta Mór: Selections from Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Walsh Gallery: Fairfield

Fairfield University Art Museum 200 Barlow Road, Fairfield

April 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 […]

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

Gallery Talk • 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 […]

$10 – $15

Megafauna: Ezra Moth: Solo Exhibition at Real Artways

Real Art Ways 56 Arbor Street, Hartford

Jun 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 […]

Guilford Craft Expo 2025

Guilford Town Green Broad Street, Guilford

July 18-20, 2025 Come to the historic Guilford Green July 18-20 where you can view fine handmade works and meet over 170 talented artists from across the nation. Did you know Craft Expo is one of the longest-running craft shows in the US? For more than 60 years, craft artists and enthusiasts alike have made […]

Free – $15

Stitching Time: at Fairfield University Art Museum

Fairfield University Art Museum 200 Barlow Road, Fairfield

September 12-December 20, 2025 Stitching Time: Social Justice Collaboration Quilts Project and Give Me Life: CPA Prison Arts Program Stitching Time features 12 quilts created by men who are incarcerated in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola Prison. These works of art, and accompanying recorded interviews, tell the story of a unique inside-outside quilt […]

Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy at Fairfield University Art Museum

Fairfield University Art Museum 200 Barlow Road, Fairfield

September 19-December 20, 2025 Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy explores monuments and their representations in public spaces as flashpoints of fierce debate over national identity, politics, and race that have raged for centuries. Offering a historical foundation for understanding today’s controversies, the exhibition features fragments of a statue of King George III torn down by American Revolutionaries, a souvenir […]

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 […]

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. […]