Week of Events
Divine Geometry Islamic Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
November 27, 2024–April 13, 2025 Divine Geometry is a multimedia exhibition that explores the Islamic arts holdings within the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art’s expansive collections. Through floral motifs, geometric patterns, calligraphy, and other means, the exhibition presents the artistic language of Islamic art through an assemblage of objects rarely seen by the public. The Wadsworth […]
Dawn & Dusk: Tonalism in Connecticut at Fairfield University Art Museum
Bellarmine Hall Galleries January 17 – April 12, 2025 This exhibition explores Tonalism in the United States from the 1880s to the early 20th century, through artists from the Northeast such as George Inness, John Henry Twachtman, and John Francis Murphy. Tonalism is a transitional movement that grew out of and reacted to the Hudson […]
To See This Place: Awakening to Our Common Home at Walsh Gallery: Fairfield
January 24 – March 29, 2025 Environmental threats and climate change are urgent matters of concern at Jesuit universities, where conversations on this topic often take place in reference to two documents by Pope Francis: Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home (2015) and the 2023 update Laudate Deum. Artists play an indispensable role in our collective […]
Jim Dine: “This Is Me” at Yale University Art Gallery
Through early June Jim Dine: “This Is Me” is on view on the museum’s fourth floor through early June. The selection of works showcases the avatars for the artist himself, ranging from paintbrushes to house and garden tools to character studies and crows. The extremely personal images—the creations of a self-described expressionist thinker—demonstrate the workings of […]
Posters from the Odesa City Letters Project at Connecticut College
Posters from the Odesa City Letters Project at Connecticut College
January 21 through March 7, 2025 From the Cooper Union Show: "Since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Odesa City Letters project has turned into a charitable poster studio. They create posters originating in traditional Ukrainian graphics and typography in the name of courage, collecting funds to support Ukraine's defenders. So far, they […]
2025 Digital Media & Design Faculty Exhibition & Talks at The Benton Museum
2025 Digital Media & Design Faculty Exhibition & Talks at The Benton Museum
This biennial exhibition features new work by the exceptional artists and designers who teach in UConn’s Digital Media & Design Department in the School of Fine Arts. The variety of media featured reflects the diverse academic concentrations offered by the department, including Motion Design & Animation, Web/Interactive Media Design, Game Design, Digital Culture, and Digital Film/Video Production. Public Programs: Opening […]
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 […]
Conversation with Collector Tony Yurgaitis at Hillstead
Conversation with Collector Tony Yurgaitis at Hillstead
Hillstead hosts Tony Yurgaitis, owner of Arethusa Farm in Litchfield, for a conservation about art collecting with our Executive Director, Dr. Anna Swinbourne. Tony’s personal story, which fuses appreciation of art of all kinds with a passion for farming, is a familiar one at Hill-Stead. Tony and members of the Pope family, who also designed […]
Blue Grass, Green Skies: American Impressionism from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art at New Britain Museum of American Art
Blue Grass, Green Skies: American Impressionism from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art at New Britain Museum of American Art
January 24, 2025 - May 18, 2025 "It must not be assumed that American Impressionism and French Impressionism are identical. The American painter accepted the spirit, not the letter of the new doctrine." - Christian Brinton, 1916 In 1874, a group of avant-garde French artists, including Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, […]
Celebrate the Spring Season with a Visit to the Lyme Art Association
Celebrate the Spring Season with a Visit to the Lyme Art Association
Four Acts and the Jane Penfield Solo Show are both on view February 28 – April 10, 2025. Opening Reception: Sunday, March 2 from 2 – 4 pm. The Lyme Art Association invites you to its historic galleries this spring to see An Exhibition in Four Acts, an exhibit showcasing the diversity of styles created by its talented member […]
Lyme Academy of Fine Arts: True To Form: Academic Figure Studies from the Late 19th to Early 20th Centuries
Lyme Academy of Fine Arts: True To Form: Academic Figure Studies from the Late 19th to Early 20th Centuries
March 1-April 27, 2025 The Lyme Academy of Fine Arts is proud to present True To Form: Academic Figure Studies from the Late 19th to Early 20th Centuries, an exhibition that celebrates the significance of the human figure in academic art training. Opening Saturday, March 1st, the exhibition will be on view through Sunday, April […]