Sunday, October 06, 2024 —  Sunday, February 23, 2025 Vik Muniz (Brazilian-American, born 1961) is distinguished as one of the most innovative and creative artists of our time. Endlessly playful and inventive in his approach, Muniz harnesses a remarkable virtuosity in creating his renowned “photographic delusions.” Working with a dizzying array of unconventional materials—including sugar, tomato […]

October 3, 2024–January 5, 2025 Tuesday through Sunday 10am - 5pm Widely acclaimed when it was published in 1987, Joel Sternfeld’s American Prospects has come to be regarded as one of the important early monuments of color photography. Sternfeld (American, b. 1944) was one of a small cohort of pioneers, including William Eggleston, Helen Levitt, and Stephen […]

October 3, 2024–January 5, 2025 Tuesday through Sunday 10am - 5pm Inspired by a line from Henry David Thoreau’s 1854 book, Walden, or Life in the Woods, Every Leaf & Twig: Andrew Wyeth’s Botanical Imagination explores the artist’s lifelong admiration of the influential naturalist and his own sustained engagement with the natural world. Between his birthplace of […]

October 3, 2024–January 5, 2025 Tuesday through Sunday 10am - 5pm Widely acclaimed when it was published in 1987, Joel Sternfeld’s American Prospects has come to be regarded as one of the important early monuments of color photography. Sternfeld (American, b. 1944) was one of a small cohort of pioneers, including William Eggleston, Helen Levitt, and Stephen […]

Through February 21, 2025 In this exhibition, the artist Iyaba Ibo Mandingo tells the story of the Afri-Caribbean migration to Europe and North America in the twentieth century through his paintings and sculptures. On view for the first time as a full series, his sixty-one part painting series, Arwe Journey, depicts the history of the Windrush […]

November 1 to December 14, 2024 The Essex Library will host a new exhibit in the Buel Room from November 1 to December 14 featuring artwork by Keith Michael Fiels. Fiels is the former executive director of the American Library Association. He has been painting for most of his life, receiving art training at the […]

November 9, 2024-ongoing Tuesday through Sunday 10am - 5pm Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. The word ‘impression’ as applied to art . . . really means the only truth because it means going straight to nature for inspiration and not allowing tradition to dictate your […]

Founded in 1989, Vista Life Innovations, Inc., including its newer southeastern campus of New Heights established in 2021, is a 501(c)3 community based, post-secondary nonprofit training program located in Madison, Westbrook, and Pawcatuck Connecticut.  Vista is accredited, program wide, by the National Commission for the Accreditation of Special Education Services (NCASES) and serves individuals with disabilities such […]

November 9, 2024 – January 26, 2025 Wes and Rachelle Siegrist are an American husband and wife team who mesmerize viewers with miniature paintings so exquisitely crafted that they are often mistaken for tiny photographs.  Their tiny treasures, as collectors often refer to them, typically measure less than 9 square inches and appear even more […]

Through February 2, 2025 Buttons On! marks the first-ever retrospective for creative artist, Beau McCall. Proclaimed by American Craft magazine as “The Button Man,” McCall creates wearable and visual art by hand-sewing clothing buttons onto mostly upcycled fabrics, materials, and objects. Buttons On! showcases pieces from McCall’s nearly forty-year career, the debut of several new works, and select archival material. Organized […]