Encounters with the Collection: Art and Human Rights at The Benton
The Willian Benton Museum of Art 245 Glenbrook Road, StorrsWeek of Events
Wee Faerie Village returns in 2024! at Florence Griswold Museum
September 28–November 3, 2024 This year’s Wee Faerie Village theme?! 🧚🏾♂️ Yesterville: A Wee Old-Timey Town! 🧚🏽♀️ Everyone has a history, including the wee faerie folk. Inspired by the living history museums in the human world such as Mystic Seaport, Greenfield Village, Sturbridge Village, and Colonial Williamsburg, Yesterville is just the place for the faeries to experience the joys […]
Encounters with the Collection: Art and Human Rights at The Benton
Encounters with the Collection: Art and Human Rights at The Benton
Now through July 28, 2025 Encounters with the Collection: Art and Human Rights is the fourth in a series of annual collection gallery rotations that bring fresh perspectives to the interpretation of the Benton’s holdings. This installation is mounted in collaboration with the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute’s Research Program on Arts & Human Rights at UConn. […]
Edges of Ailey at the Whitney Museum
Edges of Ailey at the Whitney Museum
Edges of Ailey, opening at the Whitney Museum of American Art on September 25, is the first large-scale museum exhibition to celebrate the life, dances, influences, and enduring legacy of visionary artist and choreographer Alvin Ailey (b. 1931, Rogers, Texas; d. 1989, New York, New York). This dynamic showcase—described as an “extravaganza” by curator Adrienne Edwards—brings […]
Exhibit: “Weston…What Lies Beneath” at Weston History & Culture Center
Exhibit: “Weston…What Lies Beneath” at Weston History & Culture Center
Through March 2, 2025. Open Sundays and Thursdays from 1pm - 4pm. The yard of one of Weston’s oldest homes, the Peter Thorp House, reveals its past lives in the new exhibit, “Weston…What Lies Beneath” at the Weston History & Culture Center. What started out as a weekend garden project turned into a discovery of […]
Clinton Art Society Presents Autumn Members Exhibition
Clinton Art Society Presents Autumn Members Exhibition
September 26 through November 14, 2024 The Clinton Art Society (CAS) is pleased to present the Autumn Members Exhibition. The opening reception is Thursday, September 26 from 4:30pm to 6:30pm and is free and open to the public. “The Autumn Members Exhibition is an exciting event for the Clinton Art Society as we welcome the […]
44th Annual Faber Birren National Color Show: Stamford
44th Annual Faber Birren National Color Show: Stamford
September 26 - October 31, 2024 OPENING RECEPTION: Sept. 26, 5:30 - 7PM In 1980, Faber Birren, world renowned color consultant, author of 27 books on color, endowed the Faber Birren Color Award of $1200 for original and creative expression of color. The Faber Birren Color Award Show has grown from a regional exhibit to […]
With Every Fiber | Long-Term Exhibition at Grace Farms
With Every Fiber | Long-Term Exhibition at Grace Farms
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. […]
Mystical Murmurs: An Enchanted Environment by Adrien Broom at Florence Griswold Museum
Mystical Murmurs: An Enchanted Environment by Adrien Broom at Florence Griswold Museum
September 28–November 3, 2024 In this immersive exhibition contemporary artist Adrien Broom (born 1980) invites audiences to experience the mysterious world of the forest and imagine themselves at faerie-scale. A photographer, set designer, and filmmaker, Broom invites visitors to enter a darkened gallery to encounter a magical installation inspired by the natural environment, faerie folklore, […]