Seeing Climate Change? Exhibition at The Benton
The Willian Benton Museum of Art 245 Glenbrook Road, StorrsNow through July 28, 2024 Technically, we can’t see climate change because climate is an abstraction, a categorical name for what we expect the weather to be. What we can see are natural phenomena related to climate such as tropical forests, desert dunes, and creeping ice sheets. This exhibition invites you to learn to see […]
Art Opening: Munch and Kirchner: Anxiety and Expression
Yale University Art Gallery 1111 Chapel Street, New HavenNow through June 23, 2024: Featuring more than 60 works on paper, this exhibition is the first to examine the prints of Edvard Munch alongside those of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, elucidating the fascinating overlaps in their creative output and personal biographies and demonstrating how these artists suffered from—and attempted to cope with—the anxieties of their […]
Phoebe’s BookCellar Fill-A-Bag Sale
Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library 2 Library Lane, Old LymePhoebe’s BookCellar Fill-A-Bag Sale Purchase a bag for $5 and fill it with quality books, CDs, and DVDs on display in the Library’s Community Room. All proceeds benefit the Library.
Chinese Dinner: White Gate Farm
White Gate Farm 83 Upper Pattagansett Road, East LymeChinese Dinner — Fresh and Fragrant ! Gather friends of come alone and make new ones at this delicious family style dinner in the cozy Inn. Groups of 4 or more will be seated at their own table. Smaller parties will be at a communal table. BYOB is welcome. We all know how hard it […]
Lecture Series: Coastal Perspectives: A Tale of Two Estuaries: Patrick Lynch
Avery Point Auditorium 1084 Shennecossett Road, GrotonPlease join us for our 28th season. This annual lecture series spans the breadth of human interactions with coastal waters, including speakers from the natural and social sciences as well as arts and humanities. A Tale of Two Estuaries Patrick Lynch, artist | author | designer | photographer Connecticut’s two largest riverine estuaries have long […]
Design in Dialogue: A Conversation with Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
Yale University Art Gallery 1111 Chapel Street, New HavenIn a career that has spanned over 50 years, the renowned graphic designer, public artist, and educator Sheila Levrant de Bretteville (b. 1940, B.F.A. 1963, M.F.A. 1964) has created community-based and politically responsive work that champions principles of advocacy and inclusion. To celebrate the opening of the exhibition Sheila Levrant de Bretteville: Community, Activism, and Design, […]
Unsilenced: Music from Afghanistan – Arson Fahim & Cuatro Puntos Ensemble
Lutheran Church of Saint Mark 75 Griswold St, Glastonbury, CTThis is a project organized and sponsored by Cuatro Puntos, in partnership with Arson Fahim. It features 12 musicians still inside Afghanistan who recorded their music in secret in 2023, not allowing even the ultimate in threats and possible punishments to stop them from their art. Cuatro Puntos ("four points" in Spanish) is a […]
Women in the Arts Lecture Series: Page Knox, Women Surrealists & Their Trans-Atlantic Voyages
Carriage Barn Arts Center 681 South Avenue, New CanaanIn collaboration with the New Canaan Library: Please join Dr. Knox for a discussion about the under-appreciated Female Surrealists...painters and photographers, Lee Miller, Kay Sage, Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington who, in their journeys of self-discovery, ventured across the Atlantic to find new personal and universal truths. These international artists both championed Surrealist ideas and pushed against them to […]