Fairfield University Art Museum
An Gorta Mór: Selections from Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Walsh Gallery: Fairfield
Fairfield University Art Museum 200 Barlow Road, FairfieldApril 11 – August 16, 2025 This exhibition will present some of the highlights of the collection of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum. This remarkable collection investigates the Irish Famine of 1845-1852 and its impact through art, by some of the most eminent Irish and Irish-American artists of the past 170 years. James Arthur O’Connor, Scene in […]
Stitching Time: at Fairfield University Art Museum
Fairfield University Art Museum 200 Barlow Road, FairfieldSeptember 12-December 20, 2025 Stitching Time: Social Justice Collaboration Quilts Project and Give Me Life: CPA Prison Arts Program Stitching Time features 12 quilts created by men who are incarcerated in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola Prison. These works of art, and accompanying recorded interviews, tell the story of a unique inside-outside quilt […]
Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy at Fairfield University Art Museum
Fairfield University Art Museum 200 Barlow Road, FairfieldSeptember 19-December 20, 2025 Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy explores monuments and their representations in public spaces as flashpoints of fierce debate over national identity, politics, and race that have raged for centuries. Offering a historical foundation for understanding today’s controversies, the exhibition features fragments of a statue of King George III torn down by American Revolutionaries, a souvenir […]