Apr 26 Friday
March 18 - May 3
Wesleyan Potters, Inc. is a non-profit school and cooperative guild that offers courses, workshops, and demonstration in pottery, jewelry, weaving and sewing. It was founded in 1948 to promote crafts education in Middletown and is the oldest school for crafts in Connecticut. Wesleyan Potters is located at 350 South Main Street and features spacious, well-equipped studios and the Gallery Shop. See more at www.wesleyanpotters.com.
This exhibition was organized by Lynne Scullion and includes ceramic works created with traditional and experimental techniques and approaches. Artists include Evelyn Abernathy, Steven Bernard, Rebecca Brewer, Cricket Carufe, Paula Dennen, Elisa Eaton, David Frank, Pat Gatzke, Anne Graebe, Shawn Hansen, Beth Hargett, Lyn Harper, Adam Hart, Patrick Herzing, Cindy Koniushesky, John Lipsky, Annamaria Moran, Steve Picano, Natalie Pittman, Jackie Rome, Melissa Schmitt, Lynne Scullion, Linda Sershen.
The Niche is in Founders Hall across from the Registrar’s Office
March 18 - May 3Opening Reception on Thursday March 28, 12:30-2:00pm.
Landi Hou practices papercutting, the traditional art form of meticulous cutting images from paper with scissors or a knife. The craft of papercutting is practiced by diverse cultures globally and ranges from simple designs to intricate and detailed patterns and scenery.
Hou’s approach to papercutting blends the characteristics of Eastern and Western techniques to craft her own unique designs. Her works emphasize sophisticated details and dynamic compositions.
Hou has led papercutting workshops and participated in major cultural events in both Connecticut and Massachusetts. In January 2024, she was awarded the Outstanding Chinese Heritage Advancement Award by the Chinese-American Heritage Association for her contribution to the community. One of the state senators attended the ceremony to present the award. Hou holds a master’s degree in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She serves as a professional staff member, and adjunct faculty at CT-State Community College, Middlesex Campus. While her daily professional focus centers on education, her commitment to paper cutting serves as a reflection of her deep affection for this distinctive art form.
Pegasus Gallery is located within the library on the first floor of Chapman Hall
Going us for ongoing adult classes and season youth & teen classes at SCDT!
Check out our current offerings here:
Adult Classes: https://www.scdtnoho.com/adult-class-schedule.html
Youth Classes: https://www.scdtnoho.com/youth-class-schedule1.html
Our updated Spring season schedule will be out soon!
The Amherst Public Art Commission presents an exhibition of paintings by local artist Christine Mirabel at the Amherst Town Hall Gallery. The show opens on March 4, 2024, and runs through April 30, 2024. Meet the artist at a reception in the Gallery on Friday, March 8th, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm.
Blues, purples, and splashes of red. Christine Mirabel’s paintings are inspired by nature as she depicts beauty and tranquility. Water is a favorite element, recurring in figurative and abstract forms. Cityscapes appear, too, suggesting excitement and contrasting experiences.
Explore the captivating worlds of mystery and wonder in this exhibition featuring highlights from the Norman Rockwell Museum’s Permanent Collection, which now holds almost 25,000 illustrations by prominent artists working across genres and time periods. On display are cover art for award-winning novels and mysteries, children’s book illustrations inspired by classic tales, fantastical anthropomorphic drawings, and heart-stopping editorial images.
Exhibit Link: https://www.nrm.org/2023/12/mysteryandwonder/
March 9 Members Receptionhttps://www.nrm.org/2023/12/mysteryandwonder/RSVP https://tickets.nrm.org/
New Monotypes by Arch MacInnesWe All Matter – We Are All Matter by Amy Dawn KotelPastel Landscapes by Donna M. Roy
Reception: April 6, 3-5 PM
In “Recycled Art/Art Recycled” the members of the Canton Artists’ Guild imaginatively explore diverse aspects of the meaning of recycling. Some have made art from recycled materials or created art that reflects the idea of recycling. Other artists have taken a previous piece of work and transformed it into something entirely new. Come see these intriguing takes on recycling in prints, drawings, paintings, photographs, sculptures, ceramics, collages and fiber art. In upstairs galleries are two solo shows. “Mind & Nature” features drawings and paintings in which Harriet Caldwell explores the functioning of the human and animal mind. The incredibly intelligent ravens are a particular focus. Caldwell has a BFA from Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, where she taught for 18 years. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in many states. She has received multiple awards for her work, including a 2012 Fellowship from the Connecticut Office of the Arts, a 1996 Painting Fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, a grant from the Puffin Foundation and a Millay Resident Fellowship. Caldwell’s work has been included in “Tu non uccidere” [Thou Shall Not Kill] published in Bologna, Italy (2008) and in Poetica Magazine, Holocaust Edition (2014). “Pandora’s Box” series, the second solo show, features abstract and whimsical sculpture of Stephen Klema. Klema describes these as an exploration of “the processes of accretion and loss—one desire to contain against the other desire to expand; the polarization of forces echoing the constant push and pull from order to chaos and back again.” His sculpture is fabricated using abutting, overlapping and interlocking stained and painted elements intricately assembled to yield a coherent and evocative work. Klema received his MFA from the Hartford Art School, and his BFA from the Atlanta College of Art. He is a highly accomplished artist who has had indoor and outdoor sculpture in juried exhibits across the nation, with permanent installations in New York, Ohio, Connecticut and New Hampshire. Within our region Klema’s indoor sculptures have been shown at the Becket Arts Center, Five Points Gallery, Silvermine Galleries, the Mattatuck Museum, Farmington Valley Arts Center, Limner Gallery, Kehler Liddell Gallery, and Real Art Ways. An opening reception is on Saturday, April 20 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. The public is warmly invited to attend this free reception.
We invite you to enjoy our 53rd Annual Conference: Liberating Literacies: Stories That Sing! You will be in the presence of some wonderful keynote speakers such as: Gholdy Muhammad our Thursday Morning Keynote, Kelly Gallagher Thursday Afternoon Keynote, Lorena Escoto Germán Friday Morning Keynote and Lauren WolkFriday Afternoon Keynote and 2024 Children's Literature Award Recipient. There are many other wonderful speakers joining the line-up. Please check out the website and learn more about the schedule for each day!
Join us on Friday, April 26 for a public reading and reception with Mason Currey, author of the Daily Rituals books. This event is free and open to the public. RSVPs are required.
In 2007, while procrastinating on a magazine article due the next morning, Mason Currey launched the Daily Routines blog, which, to his surprise, eventually attracted international press attention and thousands of visitors a day. In 2009, Currey shuttered the blog to research a book on the same theme. When it was published in 2013, Daily Rituals: How Artists Work was reviewed by the New Yorker, the Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, and the Believer and named one of NPR’s best books of the year. It has since been translated into 17 languages.
In 2019, Currey published a sequel, Daily Rituals: Women at Work, featuring profiles of the day-to-day working lives of 143 women writers, artists, and performers. Booklist said, “The spectrum of creativity is radiant, and each artist’s rituals of concentration and balancing act between art and life are revelatory and awe-inspiring.”
In addition to compiling the Daily Rituals books, Currey was a design-magazine editor for ten years, working as the managing editor of Metropolis, the executive editor of Print, and a senior editor at Core77. His freelance writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, and Slate, and he has delivered talks on the creative process to art students, writers’ groups, and the partners of the design consultancy IDEO.