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Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press at Lyman Allyn
Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New LondonInk and Time: European Prints from the Wetmore Collection at Fairfield University Art Museum
Fairfield University Art Museum 200 Barlow Road, FairfieldEntre Mundos: Art of Abiayala at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art 600 Main Street, HartfordDavid LaChapelle: All of a Sudden at The Benton
The Willian Benton Museum of Art 245 Glenbrook Road, StorrsNative Prospects: Indigeneity and Landscape at Florence Griswold Museum
Florence Griswold Museum 96 Lyme Street, Old LymeNaqutiwowok/Continuance: Connecticut’s Tribal Communities Create at Florence Griswold Museum
Florence Griswold Museum 96 Lyme Street, Old LymeCoffee: A Connecticut Story at Connecticut Museum of Culture and History
Connecticut Museum of Culture and History 1 Elizabeth Street, HartfordThe Arethusa Collection From Italian Renaissance to Contemporary British Art: Hillstead
Hillstead Museum 35 Mountain Rd, FarmingtonThe Art of Work: Painting Labor in Nineteenth-Century Denmark at the Bruce Museum
Bruce Museum 1 Museum Drive, GreenwichThe Space We Exist In The Space We Exist In: Curator Larry Ossei-Mensah at Heather Gaudio Fine Art in Greenwich
Heather Gaudio Fine Art 382 Greenwich Ave, GreenwichFive Points Arts Center : The Art Heist Returns Party in Torrington
Five Points Arts 855 University Drive, TorringtonWeek of Events
City Lights: Bridgeport Art Trail
City Lights: Bridgeport Art Trail
November 7-10, 2024 City-wide Arts Bash THURSDAY BAT NIGHT KICKOFF “It’s like an artists’ home company party”, mingle and meander. The BAT city-wide celebration starts downtown at four arts venues! View art and socialize with the creative community. See new art and popular favorites. Enjoy live music and reception fare. For more information City Lights […]
Ink and Time: European Prints from the Wetmore Collection at Fairfield University Art Museum
Ink and Time: European Prints from the Wetmore Collection at Fairfield University Art Museum
Bellarmine Hall Galleries September 12 – December 21, 2024 This exhibition samples the richness of European print culture between the late 15th and late 18th centuries through more than fifty woodcuts, engravings, and etchings, including work by Raphael, Dürer, Rembrandt, and Canaletto. The exhibition explores themes including the collaborative nature of printmaking, the continuing demand for technical […]
Entre Mundos: Art of Abiayala at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Entre Mundos: Art of Abiayala at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Through December 15, 2024 Entre Mundos: Art of Abiayala brings together works by artists with ties to Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. Ranging in time from antiquity to the present, the artists represented share personal or ancestral connections with these lands, offering glimpses into their regional artistic practices. Taking the form of textiles, furniture, […]
Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press at Lyman Allyn
Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press at Lyman Allyn
October 13, 2024 – January 5, 2025 There is no singular way to address the conversation of race and representation in contemporary art. Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press presents the unique vision and personal narratives of African American artists from across the country. Channeling the poetics of the human experience, […]
David LaChapelle: All of a Sudden at The Benton
David LaChapelle: All of a Sudden at The Benton
Now through December 15, 2024 Artist David LaChapelle is one of the most frequently published photographers, best known for his large-scale, hyper-clear photographs of celebrities and for his iconic music videos (for Mariah Carey, Elton John, Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, among others). He was born in Hartford in 1963 and grew up in Simsbury and Farmington. He […]
Native Prospects: Indigeneity and Landscape at Florence Griswold Museum
Native Prospects: Indigeneity and Landscape at Florence Griswold Museum
NOVEMBER 16, 2024–FEBRUARY 9, 2025 Native Prospects: Indigeneity and Landscape juxtaposes an Indigenous approach to the articulation of land with the American landscape paintings of Thomas Cole. The exhibition presents 19th-century paintings by Thomas Cole featuring Native figures, in context with Indigenous works of historic and cultural value, and artworks by contemporary Indigenous artists: Teresa Baker […]
Naqutiwowok/Continuance: Connecticut’s Tribal Communities Create at Florence Griswold Museum
Naqutiwowok/Continuance: Connecticut’s Tribal Communities Create at Florence Griswold Museum
NOVEMBER 16, 2024–FEBRUARY 9, 2025 People from Connecticut’s five recognized tribes are collaborating to curate an exhibition that will be on view at the FloGris Museum in conjunction with the exhibition Native Prospects: Indigeneity and Landscape, curated by Dr. Scott Manning Stevens. The exhibition project emerged from the FloGris Museum’s interest elaborating upon Native Prospects with the perspectives […]
Coffee: A Connecticut Story at Connecticut Museum of Culture and History
Coffee: A Connecticut Story at Connecticut Museum of Culture and History
Coffee is more than a hot drink or a boost of caffeine. For Connecticans, it’s hundreds of years of history. It has fueled new ideas, social reform, and workers’ rights. It is comfort in wartime and connections across cultures. It is universal, yet distinctly Connecticut. Coffee: A Connecticut Story is a multisensory exhibition that explores our state’s […]
The Arethusa Collection From Italian Renaissance to Contemporary British Art: Hillstead
The Arethusa Collection From Italian Renaissance to Contemporary British Art: Hillstead
November 16, 2024 through March 30, 2025 Tony Yurgaitis, owner of Arethusa Farm in Litchfield, has been collecting since boyhood. From Renaissance Madonnas to contemporary paintings, Picasso ceramics to Murano glass, and folkloric weathervanes to Danish silver, Tony has acquired works of art of all kinds from all around the world. He is a collector […]
The Art of Work: Painting Labor in Nineteenth-Century Denmark at the Bruce Museum
The Art of Work: Painting Labor in Nineteenth-Century Denmark at the Bruce Museum
November 16, 2024–June 15, 2025 Tuesday through Sunday 10am - 5pm One hundred and fifty years ago a group of French artists staged their first independent exhibition in Paris and a radical movement called Impressionism was born. In July of that year, Danish artist Michael Ancher (1849–1927) joined Karl Madsen (1855–1938) in Skagen, Denmark, a […]
The Space We Exist In The Space We Exist In: Curator Larry Ossei-Mensah at Heather Gaudio Fine Art in Greenwich
The Space We Exist In The Space We Exist In: Curator Larry Ossei-Mensah at Heather Gaudio Fine Art in Greenwich
November 16- January 18, 2025 Ghanaian-American curator Larry Ossei-Mensah. The exhibition features an ensemble of artists working in various mediums, from painting, textiles, works on paper to sculpture. The featured artists include Patrick Alston, Kim Dacres, Deborah Dancy, Clara Nartey, Patrick Quarm, Shinique Smith, and Austin Uzor. This compelling exhibition runs from November 16, 2024, […]
John Guzman: Solo Exhibition at Real Artways
John Guzman: Solo Exhibition at Real Artways
Oct 17 - Dec 17 OPEN 7 days: 2-9 PM John Guzman’s drawings and paintings are a byproduct of experiences and reflections of the artist’s environment, growing up in San Antonio’s Southside. While growing up, John witnessed the psychological and physical deterioration of his peers suffering from various forms of self destructive behaviors. In those […]
Five Points Arts Center : The Art Heist Returns Party in Torrington
Five Points Arts Center : The Art Heist Returns Party in Torrington
POSTPONED UNTIL JUNE 7, 2025 You’re Invited to party and “steal” outstanding artwork by stellar artists for a great cause! Saturday, November 16, 2024, 6-8 PM Who does it benefit? Proceeds benefit Five Points Arts’ exhibition & education programming. What is it? An evening of tomfoolery where “witnesses” (what’s a heist without witnesses!) Artists, and “Thieves” party for […]