Quintet at Gallery on the Green

5 Artist/Professors:
Matthew Best, Terry Donsen Feder, Susan Bogle Finnegan, Val Lyons, Mark Snyder

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 10, 2022 from 6:00-8:00 pm.

The gallery is located near the intersection of Dowd Avenue and Route 44 at 5 Canton Green Road in Canton.
Gallery Hours F-S 1-5pm

More at link: Gallery on the Green.

A. Walter Kendra: A Life in Art

Gallery on the Green presents “A. Walter Kendra: A Life in Art” plus a Group Show, “Down to Earth”
Canton, CT - Friday, April 22 to Saturday, May 21, 2022

The Gallery on the Green (Canton CT) presents a retrospective of prints, paintings, and drawings by Connecticut artist A. Walter Kendra, who has devoted more than 60 years to creating work that speaks to his passion for architecture, landscape, and nature, especially nature. The exhibition displays the evolution of his studio practice over the years, revealing startling differences as well as continuity as Kendra transforms his direct observations of the world around him into abstractions. “All of my work is abstracted from nature, and there’s an echo of representation in them, yet they transcend that. I always like my work to transcend, not mimic color or form.”

On April 23 from 6:00-8:00 pm there will be an opening reception for the Kendra exhibit. The reception including refreshments is free, and the public is warmly invited.

Gallery on the Green link

Michelle Cotugno and Poetry Broadsides

Artist Talk and Printers Panel: Sat. March 26, 2PM.

Michelle Cotugno will speak about her artwork, followed by brief presentations by letterpress printers, including: Gary Metras (Adastra Press); Barry Sternlieb (Mad River Press) with collaborating artist Julio Grande; Greg Joly (Bull Thistle Press); Ed Rayher (Swamp Press); Robin Price (Robin Price Printer); Jenni Friedman (Stone Dragon Press); John O’Donnell (Counterproof Press). Event hosted by Jim Finnegan.

ArtWalk, Hartford Public Library, 500 Main Street, Hartford, CT 06105

Part of the exhibition…

WORDS in CLAY, WORDS on PAPER
March 11 to April 24, 2022
ArtWalk, Hartford Public Library
500 Main Street, Hartford, CT 06105
https://www.hplct.org/classes-seminars-exhibits/artwalk

This exhibit honors the written word, highlighting the dynamic collaboration between writers and artists. Sculptural clay works by Michelle Cotugno are displayed along with a selection of fine letterpress poetry broadsides selected by James Finnegan.

Words in Clay: Michelle Cotugno’s objects are made from clay, these “leaves” are hand-printed by the artist. Featuring the words of Walt Whitman, Gertrude Stein, Kurt Cobain, H.D., among others. Cotugno reverses the notion of ‘ekphrasis’ (writers speaking to/about art); here the artist creates the physical object from clay on which she prints, letter by letter, words of important poets and writers that speak to her.

Words on Paper: James Finnegan has selected the broadsides that will accompany Cotugno’s artwork. He called upon many letterpress printers throughout New England to contribute their broadsides, with attention to works by Connecticut poets. Most of the broadsides involve a collaboration between an artist and a poet and are printed on fine paper by a letterpress printer. Wallace Stevens, Susan Howe, Marilyn Nelson, Clare Rossini, Ada Limón, Yusef Komunyakaa, Cortney Davis, and many other poets are included in the broadsides presented.

Upcoming Event—
Poetry Reading: Sat. April 9, 2PM
Featuring various poets whose work is included in the exhibit.

Olu Oguibe interview

In 2018, a 52-foot-high concrete obelisk standing in a town square in Kassel, Germany, was quietly dismantled and removed by right-wing anti-immigration activists. The piece called “Monument to Strangers and Refugees” bears the words, “I was a stranger and you took me in.”

Nigerian-born artist Olu Oguibe was commissioned to create the installation as part of an international art event called “documenta 14.” In 2019, the monument was returned to the city and now stands in a different location.

Oguibe is a multimedia artist and writer who lives and works in Vernon, Connecticut. His work has been exhibited in museums, galleries and outdoor spaces around the world. [continues]

Olu Oguibe website

Prison Arts Program thru Feb. 28

Prison Arts! An exhibit of works from the Community Partners in Action Prison Arts Program Permanent Collection, on display through Feb. 28, 2022 Please feel free to stop by the gallery to experience this exhibit in-person. If you're not able to make it in-person your welcome to scroll down to see the exhibit virtually.

The Prison Arts Program, initiated in 1978, works inside Connecticut prisons to positively and constructively change the lives of the incarcerated and the prison environment by encouraging unique, personal, and evolving artistic pursuits. These pursuits can engender hope in a hopeless place. Participants develop purpose, creativity, self-discipline, work ethic, self-esteem, technical and communication skill development, thoughtfulness, introspection, critical thinking, and calm.

For further information or to support the CPA Prison Arts Program please contact: Jeffrey Greene, Program Manager / 860.722.9450 / cpaprisonarts@gmail.com

The Monastery Gallery of Art

Working Through / Working Forward

Working Through / Working Forward

October 14 – December 7. Monday – Friday (closed weekends)

1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., Widener Gallery, Austin Arts Ctr., Trinity College, Hartford CT.

Showing works by David Borawski, Joe Bun Keo, Rosalyn Driscoll, Tekla McInerney, Deborra Stewart-Pettengill.

https://www.trincoll.edu/austin-arts-center/

Where are the Women?

Edith Dale Monson (1875-1977). Flowering Tree. Oil on canvas.

Where Are The Women?
Rediscovering the Origins of Connecticut Women Artists
June 10 – Aug. 21, 2021

Press Link

The Art Museum, University of Saint Joseph is located in Bruyette Athenaeum on the University’s main campus at 1678 Asylum Avenue, West Hartford. It is open Wednesday through Saturday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; closed Monday, Tuesday, and Sunday. Admission is free. For more information, visit www.usj.edu/artmuseum.

Paier College of Art

Paier College of Art has announced it is moving from Hamden to Bridgeport, where it will expand its offerings and change its name to Paier College. [Read More]

A new gallery devoted to artworks reflecting the LGBTQ experience

Elliott Grinnell's "God of Valley"

A new gallery in Hartford that will be devoted to artworks reflecting the LGBTQ experience is being inaugurated this month with “Trans-cending Art,” a show of work by transgender Connecticut artists.

The gallery is inside Chez Est, the gay bar-restaurant at 458 Wethersfield Ave. The exhibit will run until Nov. 30. The dates coincide with Trangender Awareness Week, which is Nov. 13 to 19. Events will be held in conjunction with that observance, starting with an in-person and virtual fundraiser for a transgender hotline on Nov. 8.

See article by Susan Dunne in the Hartford Courant.

Pablo Delano's Hartford Seen

Pablo Delano presents Hartford “in a state of flux,” where the layering of architecture, small businesses, and residential neighborhoods reflect the city’s history.

View some of his gritty yet colorful photographs here: https://wespress.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2020/06/11/enjoy-a-slide-show-from-pablo-delanos-hartford-seen/ 

Use discount code Q301 for 30% off.

Nick Stolfi interview

WEST HARTFORD — The Scholastic Art awards honored a Silver Key to Kingswood Oxford’s Nick Stolfi ’20 of Burlington for his meticulous artwork according to an email from the school. We catch up with the artist.

READ INTERVIEW

Open Studio Hartford 2019

Open Studio Hartford

Artist posters for Hartford Athletic

[Poster by Corey Pane]

Hartford Athletic starts playing games in its new home Dillon Stadium on July 13, and each week the fans will be greeted by a new poster custom-designed by a local artist.

A 12 by 18 inch poster, similar to rock-concert posters, will be designed for each home game, says to Cynthia Bulaong, executive director of Artists in Real Time, which is coordinating the project with the professional soccer team. The posters will hang in the stadium for each day’s game and be sold to the public.

See Hartford Courant article by Susan Dunne.

Sol LeWitt: A LIfe of Ideas

New bio details artist Sol LeWitt’s complex, contentious relationship with Hartford

Lary Bloom will be speaking about “Sol LeWitt: A LIfe of Ideas" on June 2, 4 p.m., at Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek, Chester; June 5, at 5:30 p.m. Lyman-Allyn Museum, New London; Sept. 5, 7 p.m., Institute Library, New Haven; Sept. 12, 5:30 at NBMAA; and Sept. 15 at 2 p.m. at Florence Griswold Museum.

Art in Hartford's Empty Storefronts

Empty storefronts of Hartford have been filled with dozens of artworks.
By SUSAN DUNNE
HARTFORD COURANT - APR 09, 2019

For years, Union Place in Hartford has been a forlorn sight, with 157 linear feet of empty storefronts. Until now.

The three vacant properties across the street from the train station have been filled with 31 pieces of art by 16 local artists to be observed by passers-by.

Gallerist Eric Ben-Kiki, working with Union Place Realty property manager Lisa Drazen, has finished the installation of a pop-up art gallery called the “Inside Out Project: Hartford” as a way of "weaving contemporary art into people’s daily lives.”

An opening reception, with many of the artists present, will be April 26 from 6 to 9 p.m. on the sidewalk outside the storefronts, and inside the former Seven Sins bar, which is one of the vacancies that Drazen wants to fill.

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