PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography: Lisa Elmaleh and Jessica Wolff at WCSU Gallery
Visual & Performing Arts Center WCSU Art Gallery 43 Lake Ave Extension, DanburySept 12–Oct 13, 2024 Opening Reception: Thurs, Sept 12, 2024, 6:00–8:00 pm Lisa Elmaleh is a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow. Her photographic series, Tierra Prometida, captures the multifaceted aspects of migration at the border between the United States and Mexico. Created with a 1930s-era large format camera, her work encompasses the people, landscape, migratory routes, and humanitarian efforts there. […]
Learn The Art of Cyanotype at Carriage Barn Arts
Carriage Barn Arts Center 681 South Avenue, New CanaanArtist & instructor Fruma Markowitz returns to lead Cyanotype workshops. In this morning intro session: Learn the process, experiment and develop your skills. Create prints on paper using the cyanotype historical photographic process. Learn how the non-toxic cyanotype chemicals (potassium ferricyanide and ferric ammonium citrate) react in exposure to sun/UV light to produce permanent, magical blue and […]
Mystical Murmurs: An Enchanted Environment by Adrien Broom at Florence Griswold Museum
Florence Griswold Museum 96 Lyme Street, Old LymeSeptember 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, […]
Miles Huston: Overshoot at The Aldrich Museum
Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum 258 Main Street, RidgefieldSeptember 4, 2024 to January 6, 2025 Miles Huston's Overshoot series situates archival aerial photographs of small family farms above unfolded vegetable boxes, highlighting the shift in our collective viewing position from an on the ground horizontal plane to a novel geo-spatial view from above. The work suggests that modern ecological policies and contemporary farming, while streamlined […]
43rd Annual Outdoor Arts Festival at the Bruce Museum
Bruce Museum 1 Museum Drive, GreenwichSaturday and Sunday, October 12 & 13, 2024, 10:00 AM–5:00 PM This festival features original fine art in painting, drawing and prints, mixed media, sculpture, and photography, along with children’s activities, demonstrations and food. Festival hours: 10 am – 5 pm Festival parking: Island Beach parking lot, Steamboat Road, Steamboat Road Commuter Garage, Museum Drive […]
Their Kindred Earth: Photographs by William Earle Williams at Florence Griswold Museum
Florence Griswold Museum 96 Lyme Street, Old LymeFebruary 22–June 22, 2025 Land holds history. Some histories are better known than others, preserved by those who valued particular stories and wanted them remembered. What do we know about the land we live on? Who preceded us and what transpired? History books leave holes and silences along with assumptions that have been passed down […]