Arts & Culture of Fairfield County

 Greenwich Art Society Studio School, Winter Term 2025

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Registration begins December 12th for new students!

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Classes start Tuesday, January 7, 2024!

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Enroll asap on 12/9/24 to hold your place in class!

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If not already a member, please log into your account before Dec. 9 and pay for membership first to get tuition discount before registering for classes.

​

Log in to your account here to renew membership:

​

Renew here!

​

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Register online for your favorite class or check out

​

our newer classes -- Classical Portrait Drawing,

​

Painting Classes, Beginning Drawing, and more!!!

​

​

See full class schedule here

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Create your own account and then select and pay 

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for your classes!

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Our Mission: "To enhance our legacy of personalized visual arts education, outstanding art exhibitions, and children's community outreach."

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 Traditional Painting with Andrew Lattimore

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Adult Classes | Available

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Program Description

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This class will offer academic training within the subject of your choice and using the medium of your choice. You can bring materials from home to set up a small still-life or use the simple still-life items available in the studio. You can also paint from a photograph or copy a portrait of a famous artist. During the class, students will share their painting with the group, and he will provide constructive feedback as well as answer any questions at that time. We will discuss many elements of painting such as value, design, composition, and color. The first day I’ll review the objectives of this class and I will also do a demonstration of a still life. 

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Special Notes

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• *The use of cell phones or headphones is NOT permitted in class. 

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Instructor

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Andrew Lattimore

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Andrew Lattimore has lived in the Hudson Valley Region for most of his life. He studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts in New York with Daniel Greene, Edmond Fitzgerald and Harvey Dinnerstein. He studied life drawing and anatomy with artist and anatomist Stephen R. Peck, author of Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist. He also studied at the Academia di Belle Arti and Studio Simi in Florence, Italy. Today he is a recognized portrait painter, who is represented by Portraits Inc. in New York and Portrait Brokers of America in Birmingham, Alabama. He recently completed the official portrait of Gov. George Pataki for the New York State Capitol.

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A noted painter of the figure and still life, he is also a prominent landscape painter whose work has recently been featured in Plein-Air Magazine. Andrew Lattimore’s work is in numerous collections throughout the U.S. and Europe.

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Opening reception is on Sunday January 26, 2025, 5:00p.m. - 7:00p.m.

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The Gallery at La Zingara Bar

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8 PT Barnum Square, Bethel, CT

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The Exhibition runs from January 26 through March 16, 2025

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Gallery hours: Wed-Sun 12pm - 8 pm

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Please join Wilton Library for an Author Talk program with Samantha Greene Woodruff, who will speak about her latest novel The Trade Off. Inspired by the true story of a pioneering investment legend, The Trade Off is a powerful novel about identity, sacrifice, family loyalties, and the complex morality of money. In this historical novel, a brilliant and ambitious young woman strives to find her place amid the promise and tumult of 1920s Wall Street.

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Bea Abramovitz has a gift for math and numbers. With her father, she studies the burgeoning Wall Street market's stocks and patterns in the financial pages. After college she's determined to parlay her talent for the prediction game into personal and professional success. But in the 1920s, in a Lower East Side tenement, opportunities for women don't just come knocking. Bea will have to create them.

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It's easier for her golden-boy twin brother, Jake, who longs to reclaim all their parents lost after fleeing the pogroms in Russia to come to America. Well intentioned but undisciplined, Jake has a charm that can carry him only so far on Wall Street. So Bea devises a plan. They'll be a secret team, and she'll be the brains behind the broker. As Jake's reputation, his heedless ego, and the family fortune soar, Bea foresees catastrophe: an impending crash that could destroy everything if she doesn't finally take control.

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Samantha Greene Woodruff  is the author of two #1 Amazon bestselling historical fiction novels, The Lobotomist’s Wife(2002) and The Trade Off (2024). Sam has a BA in history from Wesleyan University and an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business. She spent fifteen years at Viacom’s Nickelodeon before leaving to parent her two young children. After studying in the continuing education program at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, Woodruff completed her first novel, The Lobotomist’s Wife, which was an Amazon First Reads pick. Her writing has appeared in Newsweek, Writer’s Digest, Female First, Read 650 and more. In addition, she has contributed an essay entitled “Jew-ish” about her lifelong conflicted relationship with Judaism, to the anthology, On Being Jewish Now (2024) edited by Zibby Owens. All proceeds from the book will go to Artists Against Antisemitism, a non-profit founded in the aftermath of the October 7 attacks in Israel. Woodruff lives in southern Connecticut with her husband, two children, two dogs and a small reptile zoo. For more information visit www.samanthawoodruff.com or follow her @samgwoodruffauthor on Facebook, Instagram and Threads.

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Elm Street Books will be on site to sell copies of The Trade Off, which Samantha will sign. A portion of the proceeds goes to Wilton Library.

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The media sponsor of this Author Talk is GOOD Morning Wilton.

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Registration required.

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Join the Chamber of Commerce and local representatives at the 2025 Legislative Breakfast on January 28th at La Zingara Restaurant at 8am.

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The annual community art exhibition for the Kershner Gallery in the Fairfield Public Library is now on view through February 1. This exhibit features over 60 pieces of original art created by area artists in all mediums, sizes, and styles. The gallery is open during all library hours.

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You are invited to visit the Gallery at the Greens Farms Church in Westport to see pressed flower designs by Wethersfield artist Marguerite Alpert of The Flowered Press. She is known for taking fresh plants apart and then drying them in handmade wooden presses. She then composes unique designs from the dried plant material, which offers a novel view of nature. Her process allows exquisite details to be revealed and invites the viewer to take a closer look. Stop by the gallery and immerse yourself in this winter garden! 

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This show runs from December 12, 2024 to February 11, 2025

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You are also invited to attend the opening reception on January 15th, 6-8pm. Details are on the invitation.

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All work is available for sale directly from the artist.

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Marguerite participates in juried art events and exhibitions, conducts workshops, accepts commissions, and offers speaking engagements.

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You are invited to visit the Gallery at the Greens Farms Church in Westport to see pressed flower designs by Wethersfield artist Marguerite Alpert of The Flowered Press. She is known for taking fresh plants apart and then drying them in handmade wooden presses. She then composes unique designs from the dried plant material, which offers a novel view of nature. Her process allows exquisite details to be revealed and invites the viewer to take a closer look. Stop by the gallery and immerse yourself in this winter garden! 

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This show runs from December 12, 2024 to February 11, 2025

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You are also invited to attend the opening reception on January 15th, 6-8pm. Details are on the invitation.

​

All work is available for sale directly from the artist.

​

Marguerite participates in juried art events and exhibitions, conducts workshops, accepts commissions, and offers speaking engagements.

​

You are invited to visit the Gallery at the Greens Farms Church in Westport to see pressed flower designs by Wethersfield artist Marguerite Alpert of The Flowered Press. She is known for taking fresh plants apart and then drying them in handmade wooden presses. She then composes unique designs from the dried plant material, which offers a novel view of nature. Her process allows exquisite details to be revealed and invites the viewer to take a closer look. Stop by the gallery and immerse yourself in this winter garden! 

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This show runs from December 12, 2024 to February 11, 2025

​

You are also invited to attend the opening reception on January 15th, 6-8pm. Details are on the invitation.

​

All work is available for sale directly from the artist.

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Marguerite participates in juried art events and exhibitions, conducts workshops, accepts commissions, and offers speaking engagements.

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 NOW ON VIEW: January 16 – February 17, 2025

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Large in format, bold in color, brash in context.  We call them the "giants" of our collection. Representing a range of styles and mediums, many of these works have not been on view for decades, including mammoth works by Hunt Slonem, Rhonda Wall and Nicholas Krushenik. Others you may recognize from previous exhibitions; works from Peter Bradley, William Ronald and Steven Brent. We're pleased to present them once more before they return to our collections vault.

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SM&NC exhibition are always free to Members and included in the price of daily admission for visitors.

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The Gallery at GFC welcomes Connecticut artist Marguerite Alpert, whose art is on display from December 12, 2014 to February 10, 2025. Working with dried plant material, Ms. Alpert creates framed pieces that are more than collages, photographs or paintings, yet contain elements of each of those mediums. Her designs run the gamut from quiet and peaceful to bold and energizing, every one a delightful arrangement of natural elements in patterns and shapes nature itself could only admire.

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Please join us for a reception and demonstration on January 15, 2025 from 6-8 PM.

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The Greenwich Art Society is offering:​

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BEGINNER & INTERMEDIATE ACRYLIC LANDSCAPE PAINTING

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JOE FAMA

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8 TUESDAYS

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Jan. 7 – Feb. 25

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10:00 am to 12:00 pm

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​Program Description

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New students will discover the fundamentals needed to capture form, shading, composition, and study values with the three primary colors. We will be painting from still life subject matter as well as landscapes. You will also be learning how to set up a full palette and how to create a strong compositional design. Students will learn to see and express color, values and the illusion of depth as they take their own photos as a point of inspiration to create their own interpretation rather than a copy.  Classes will include lectures, demonstrations, as well as individual instruction. If you are new to the class, please bring a drawing or painting as a sample of your skill level to the first class. 

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For more information or to register visitwww.greenwichartsociety.org

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Local artists who have asked to exhibit their works at Wilton Library will be showcased in "Through a Different Set of Eyes," the library's January art exhibition. This exhibition features eleven artists from Wilton and surrounding towns who have submitted inquiries expressing an interest to display their works at the library. Their works represent a wide variety of styles, media, and subject matter. The artists include: Christopher Breining (Norwalk), Runfang Cui (Wilton), Lorraine Gelard (Norwalk), Bill Jones, Bob Leidner (Wilton), Leila Mgaloblishvili (Wilton), Beth Marie Reifers (Norwalk), Carolyn Reifers (Wilton), Christopher Seep (Ridgefield), Carole Southall (Wilton), and Katherine Southall (Norwalk). 

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The Opening Reception on Friday, January 10 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. is free and open to the public. Exhibition runs through January 30. A majority of the works will be available for purchase with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the library. 

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The Flinn Gallery is pleased to present Camera-less, featuring the work of Joanne Dugan, Amanda Marchand, Anne Arden McDonald and Liz Nielsen. The exhibition will introduce the public to four of the most innovative practitioners of camera-less photography working today. These artists challenge traditional expectations of photographic representation with experimental, process-driven works that push boundaries both technical and conceptual.

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What is camera-less photography?

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It might seem a contradiction in terms but actually, the very first photographic images were created without a camera. In this practice, images are captured on photo-sensitive paper without the use of a lens. Light, chemicals and a light-sensitive surface are its fundamental ingredients. Removing the camera means that light and chemicals interact directly without the intermediary of a camera or a negative.

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The technique of making photographic images without a camera dates back to the early 18oos, at the dawn of photography. Rediscovered by the Surrealists in the 1920s, camera-less or direct photography is seeing a resurgence today, with a growing number of contemporary artists pushing the possibilities of this medium far beyond where their predecessors left off. This exhibition highlights the work of four groundbreaking artists who create powerful and highly original images by casting shadows and filtering light on photographic paper, or by chemically manipulating its surface. The striking works on display, ranging from figurative to abstract, represent the leading edge of what is possible in this emerging field.

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Joanne Dugan  is interested in the visual act as a dynamic, cognitive process that connects people through shared viewing experiences. Her one-of-a-kind images begin with cyanotype or silver gelatin photograms and light paintings, which are hand cut and collaged. Dugan is informed by Buddhist principles and meditation and interested in the physical qualities of photography as a medium.

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Amanda Marchand  works with lumen printing in which black & white photo papers are exposed to the sun to reveal latent color. Her images relate to the passage of time, the natural world and our changing climate. She utilizes books as mark makers, referencing endangered species and the practice of art.

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Anne Arden McDonald  employs an unorthodox collection of materials and methods from the domestic and scientific realms to create her chemigrams. Her highly experimental techniques involve altering the surface of silver gelatin paper and applying materials such as glue, bleach, broken glass, developer and fixer to produce images inspired by atoms and planets, exploring the microcosm and macrocosm of our experience.

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Liz Nielsen  has been systematically exploring the possibilities of camera-less photography, making vividly colored photograms in the color darkroom. Her large-scale compositions straddle the border between abstraction and figuration, recalling simple natural forms such as landscapes, arches or groupings of smoothly curved stones. She calls them “Light Paintings,” evoking the performative nature of their creation.

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Caren Winnall is the curator for Camera-less. The exhibit runs through March 5, 2025.

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Events: 

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Opening reception: Thursday, January 16, 2025 from 6-8pm

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Artist Talk: Sunday, February 2, 2025 at 2 pm

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The Flinn Gallery is a non-profit organization sponsored by the Friends of Greenwich Library and is located on the second floor of the library at 101 Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, CT. The gallery welcomes visitors daily Monday to Saturday, 10am-5pm, Thursday until 8pm, and Sunday 1pm-5pm.

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Silvermine Arts Center welcomes 27 new members into its historic Guild of Artists, with an exhibition presenting innovative work in a variety of mediums and styles. The exhibition will run from January 11 through February 6. The gallery is open Tuesday - Saturday 10 - 4pm.

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In addition to compelling works in painting and sculpture, several of Silvermine’s new Guild members explore innovative processes and materials. Barbara Hocker’s water-inspired works weave photos, prints, and paintings together. The environment—water in particular—is a subject that concerns many of the new Guild members including Susan Hoffman Fishman, who explores disappearing lakes. Her works are both dazzling and shocking. Bonnie Ralston takes found steel and corrodes it directly onto paper using salt, water, and common household acids. Her works exist somewhere between drawings and prints. According to the artist, they reframe the destructive moment as a source of unexpected beauty and possibility. Color theory, inspired in part by architectural or geometric form, takes center stage in the work of Marc Kemeny and Paul Landesman. 

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The Guild’s new sculptors draw on both natural and mythical forms. Tini Pinto’s biophilic ceramic works are as joyful as they are skillfully crafted. Irja Boden describes her stacked forms, which are both embossed and layered, as abstract works that convey a narrative. Aleksandra Scepanovic explores displaced identities and finds a certain human resilience in the theme of wholeness through fractured forms. 

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Since its inception, Guild membership has been a selective peer jurying process. As a result, the Guild has held its membership to high standards. Many members have work represented in permanent collections of some of the world's most prestigious museums, as well as prominent private and corporate collections. This exhibition offers visitors an opportunity to engage with the newest members of this dynamic community of professional artists and learn about their works.

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 Heather Gaudio Fine Art  is pleased to present Reflections on Light, a group exhibition featuring works by four female artists.  The show opens January 25th and runs through March 8th, 2025. 

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Creating the visual discourse at the gallery will be paintings by  Miya Ando ,  Pegan Brooke  and  Kathleen Jacobs  alongside sculptures by  Ann Gardner. These artists share a preoccupation with the nature of light and its ephemeral qualities. Fleeting aspects and impermanent moments are harnessed and captured into serene visual experiences intended to give the viewer pause and consider our relationship with nature.  Each artist uses their specific medium and unique process to create beautifully contemplative and nuanced artworks that are sublime records of time, place and experiences.  Including Miya Ando’s work in the exhibition is made possible with the generous collaboration of Sundaram Tagore Gallery in New York City. 

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Miya Ando  meticulously studies the sky, chronicling different times of day, location, weather and seasonal changes in her artworks. The artist’s practice is rooted in mono no aware, a concept from her Japanese heritage that refers to the awareness of impermanence and beauty, or a sensitivity to ephemera. Ando’s upbringing bridges the cultures and languages of two distinct worlds: the Redwood Forest of Northern California and a Buddhist temple in Japan. Her sculptures, paintings, drawings and installations reflect this cultural duality as well as the dialogue between the natural and the man-made.  On view in the exhibition are sublime works that reflect her sensitivity to nature and passage of time.  The images are sourced from photographs she takes and documents of a particular place and moment in the sky’s timeline. These images are then screen printed on metal sheets -- the material chosen not only for its physical properties but also as a nod to the swordsmith trade of her forebearers. The artist layers her printing techniques with thin veils of ink and pigment mixed with urethane over the metallic surface.  Some areas are left bare, allowing for the underlying sheen and color to assert itself, while a shift in tonality, luster and opacity render nuanced silvery clouds in the composition. For Ando, her creative process is a full immersion into her cultural background as well as an expression of the impermanence and human interdependence with nature.  Ando’s works are in many important collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Nassau County Museum of Art; Detroit Institute of Art; Luftmuseum Amberg, Germany, among others. Her exhibition roster includes the Noguchi Museum, New York; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany; Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Ando was also commissioned to create an artwork for the historic The Glass House in New Canaan, CT. 

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Pegan Brooke ’s paintings investigate light and its reflective qualities on water in all its forms – as a flowing river, a frozen lake, snow-capped mountain, and the like.  For Brooke, the fleeting nature of light bouncing off these surfaces is filled with countless possibilities of subtle change.  Locations also play an important part in her practice, for the light and experiences vary from Pont Aven in Brittany, France, to the Pacific Ocean near her studio in Bolinas and the San Francisco Bay area, to the Silver Creek in Idaho, to the Inland Seto Sea in Japan. Each region offers distinct light qualities and reflective experiences for the artist.  Mixing micas into her pigments, Brooke’s abstract paintings offer an interplay between shimmer and flatness, luminosity and opaqueness.  The soft brushstrokes arranged in linear patterns seem to appear and recede from the canvas, creating a symbiotic relationship between ambient light and the shifting position of the viewer. The artist’s palette with metallic sheens is reduced to whites, light and dark greys or warm ambers that underscore the elusive nature of the composition, reminiscent of evanescent moments in the light. The works in the exhibition were just featured in a solo show at the Katzen Arts Center at American University in Washington, D.C.  Brooke’s paintings have been exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Oakland Museum; San Diego Museum; Des Moines Art Center and Museum; São Paulo Biennale and the Monterey Museum of Art in California.  Her works are included in many prestigious private and public collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; U.S. Embassies in Sri Lanka and Bolivia; Berkley Art Museum; University of Nebraska Art Museum; Bank of America International HQ; Charles R. Schwab and Steven Chase Collection, among others.

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Kathleen Jacobs’  depictions of time, light, atmosphere and weather patterns are quite literal in that her process becomes a physical record of all.  The artist wraps her linen canvases on the trunks of different arbor species, leaving them exposed to the elements over months or years.  She returns to them periodically to apply layers of pigment and oil stick using frottage to trace the relief of the wood grains that act as support to the canvases. The linens absorb multi-layers of pigments hand-applied by the artist which get combined with Mother Nature’s patina, creating beautifully atmospheric compositions. When the weathered canvases are removed from the outdoors and taken into the artist’s studio, they continue to absorb pigments which are rubbed on the front and the back of the canvases.  Once stretched, the canvases are re-oriented so that the bark markings run horizontally across the canvas, becoming reminiscent of cloud patterns or waves on bodies of water. Jacobs is also an acrobatic pilot, so it is no coincidence that her paintings share her views from the heights above and are titled after fixed navigation points in the sky.  Jacobs has had a prolific career with numerous solo and group exhibitions in the United States and Europe.  Her works were installed at The Mount in Lenox, Massachusetts and have been extensively documented in film and written about. The artist lives and works in Massachusetts.

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Seattle-based artist  Ann Gardner  is renowned for her investigations with one of the most ancient man-made materials: glass. As her primary medium, the properties of glass have allowed Gardner to explore her preoccupation with the perception of light and space, color, pattern, volume and other characteristics.  Gardner hand-cuts large sheets of the colored and reflective material into tiny mosaics which are then arranged into large wall-mounted or free-standing sculptural structures. The artist is also known for creating hand-blown glass orbs with soft hues that can be presented as a single table-top form or arranged in clusters suspended from the ceiling.  For Gardner, it is essential that artworks be in complete harmony with the environments they occupy.  Light, vital to people and artworks, is often overlooked because as an element it is invisible to the naked eye.  When it comes to glass, light becomes fundamental in highlighting key elements that are important to glassworks. The physical properties of glass combined with the ephemerality of light creates a dance between the two. Gardner’s decades-long career includes working on many site-specific installations that grace notable institutions including the Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters in Norfolk, Virginia; County Operations Center in San Diego, California; the Bellevue Art Museum, Washington; and the Rosewood Abu Dabi Hotel, UAE, to name a few.  Her work has been the subject of multiple exhibitions including at the Boise Art Museum, Idaho; Bellevue Arts Museum; Katonah Museum of Art, New York and at the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.  Gardner’s works are in multiple important museum and private collections here and abroad.

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Heather Gaudio Fine Art  specializes in emerging and established artists, offering painting, works on paper, photography, and sculpture. The gallery provides a full range of art advisory services, from forming and maintaining a collection, to securing secondary market material, to assisting with framing and installation. The focus is on each individual client, selecting art that best serves his or her vision, space, and resources. The six exhibitions offered every year are designed to present important talent and provide artwork appealing to a broad range of interests. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday; 10:30am to 5:30pm; and by appointment. 

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 Greenwich Art Society Studio School, Winter Term 2025

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Registration begins December 12th for new students!

​

Classes start Tuesday, January 7, 2024!

​

Enroll asap on 12/9/24 to hold your place in class!

​

​

If not already a member, please log into your account before Dec. 9 and pay for membership first to get tuition discount before registering for classes.

​

Log in to your account here to renew membership:

​

Renew here!

​

​

Register online for your favorite class or check out

​

our newer classes -- Classical Portrait Drawing,

​

Painting Classes, Beginning Drawing, and more!!!

​

​

See full class schedule here

​

​

Create your own account and then select and pay 

​

for your classes!

​

​

Our Mission: "To enhance our legacy of personalized visual arts education, outstanding art exhibitions, and children's community outreach."

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A new show at the Rowayton Arts Center (RAC), “From the RAC Studio,” will be on view January 12 through February 1, 2025. This all media exhibition features over 100 pieces of artwork by RAC Instructors and students created in the past year.

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Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from 12 to 5 pm plus Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm.

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RAC celebrates the study, creation and appreciation of the arts through classes, exhibitions and events open to all in the community. For over 60 years, this nonprofit organization has been a cultural gem in Rowayton, CT. The gallery and art school overlook the scenic Five Mile River at 145 Rowayton Avenue with space for regional artists to exhibit their art and a classroom for workshops and classes at all levels offered to children and adults.

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Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.

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Opening reception is on Sunday January 26, 2025, 5:00p.m. - 7:00p.m.

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The Gallery at La Zingara Bar

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8 PT Barnum Square, Bethel, CT

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The Exhibition runs from January 26 through March 16, 2025

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Gallery hours: Wed-Sun 12pm - 8 pm

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 It’s Winter Thyme! Art Exhibition & Tasting

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Meet local artists and enjoy tastings from some of Stamford’s best local restaurants!

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Tuesday, January 28th - Columbus Park Trattoria 

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Tuesday, February 4th - Chez Vous Bistro

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5:30-7 PM

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$20 SAA MEMBERS 

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$25 GENERAL ADMISSION

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Join us for a special event celebrating our current food-themed exhibition "IT'S WINTER THYME!"

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• Enjoy special tastings provided by some of Stamford's best local restaurants
• Meet local artists
• Purchase affordable artwork
• Support local art and our Gallery's non-profit, community-focused initiative

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Don't miss your chance to cast your secret ballot for our winner! The PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD will be voted on by exhibition-goers including local artists, SAA Members, SAA Board Members, and the general public! The winner will be announced at our Closing Reception on February 4th. 

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Curated by 2024-25 Korry Fellow Juanita Sunday and featuring regional artists Carl Bocicault, Tyler Goldchain, Imo Nse Imeh, Iyaba Ibo Mandigo, Tea Montgomery, Saint Phifer, Andre Rochester, Bizzie Ruth, Dario Tejada, Kamar Thomas, and Yves Wilson.

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MASC explores the intricate intersections of masculinity and Blackness, illuminating the complex layers of identity, expression, and societal expectation.

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The exhibition examines the metaphorical "masks" worn to navigate a world rife with stereotypes and cultural pressures. MASC challenges monolithic notions of masculinity, offering a nuanced exploration of strength, vulnerability, and self-reclamation. Each piece invites audiences to witness the delicate balance between the external personas shaped by societal expectations and the authentic selves seeking liberation and visibility.

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The annual community art exhibition for the Kershner Gallery in the Fairfield Public Library is now on view through February 1. This exhibit features over 60 pieces of original art created by area artists in all mediums, sizes, and styles. The gallery is open during all library hours.

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You are invited to visit the Gallery at the Greens Farms Church in Westport to see pressed flower designs by Wethersfield artist Marguerite Alpert of The Flowered Press. She is known for taking fresh plants apart and then drying them in handmade wooden presses. She then composes unique designs from the dried plant material, which offers a novel view of nature. Her process allows exquisite details to be revealed and invites the viewer to take a closer look. Stop by the gallery and immerse yourself in this winter garden! 

​

This show runs from December 12, 2024 to February 11, 2025

​

You are also invited to attend the opening reception on January 15th, 6-8pm. Details are on the invitation.

​

All work is available for sale directly from the artist.

​

Marguerite participates in juried art events and exhibitions, conducts workshops, accepts commissions, and offers speaking engagements.

​

You are invited to visit the Gallery at the Greens Farms Church in Westport to see pressed flower designs by Wethersfield artist Marguerite Alpert of The Flowered Press. She is known for taking fresh plants apart and then drying them in handmade wooden presses. She then composes unique designs from the dried plant material, which offers a novel view of nature. Her process allows exquisite details to be revealed and invites the viewer to take a closer look. Stop by the gallery and immerse yourself in this winter garden! 

​

This show runs from December 12, 2024 to February 11, 2025

​

You are also invited to attend the opening reception on January 15th, 6-8pm. Details are on the invitation.

​

All work is available for sale directly from the artist.

​

Marguerite participates in juried art events and exhibitions, conducts workshops, accepts commissions, and offers speaking engagements.

​

You are invited to visit the Gallery at the Greens Farms Church in Westport to see pressed flower designs by Wethersfield artist Marguerite Alpert of The Flowered Press. She is known for taking fresh plants apart and then drying them in handmade wooden presses. She then composes unique designs from the dried plant material, which offers a novel view of nature. Her process allows exquisite details to be revealed and invites the viewer to take a closer look. Stop by the gallery and immerse yourself in this winter garden! 

​

This show runs from December 12, 2024 to February 11, 2025

​

You are also invited to attend the opening reception on January 15th, 6-8pm. Details are on the invitation.

​

All work is available for sale directly from the artist.

​

Marguerite participates in juried art events and exhibitions, conducts workshops, accepts commissions, and offers speaking engagements.

​

 NOW ON VIEW: January 16 – February 17, 2025

​

Large in format, bold in color, brash in context.  We call them the "giants" of our collection. Representing a range of styles and mediums, many of these works have not been on view for decades, including mammoth works by Hunt Slonem, Rhonda Wall and Nicholas Krushenik. Others you may recognize from previous exhibitions; works from Peter Bradley, William Ronald and Steven Brent. We're pleased to present them once more before they return to our collections vault.

​

SM&NC exhibition are always free to Members and included in the price of daily admission for visitors.

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This January, Geary Gallery proudly presents "The Prismatic Palette" featuring the multi-hued, multi-faceted still lifes and seascapes of Ridgewood, NJ artist, Rebecca J. Leer. Her exhibit runs January 2-31. All are welcome and admission is free. The Geary Gallery is open Wednesday through Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and is located at 576 Boston Post Road, Darien, CT 06820. For more details, call (203) 655-6633 or visit our website: www.gearygallery.com.

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The Gallery at GFC welcomes Connecticut artist Marguerite Alpert, whose art is on display from December 12, 2014 to February 10, 2025. Working with dried plant material, Ms. Alpert creates framed pieces that are more than collages, photographs or paintings, yet contain elements of each of those mediums. Her designs run the gamut from quiet and peaceful to bold and energizing, every one a delightful arrangement of natural elements in patterns and shapes nature itself could only admire.

​

Please join us for a reception and demonstration on January 15, 2025 from 6-8 PM.

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Local artists who have asked to exhibit their works at Wilton Library will be showcased in "Through a Different Set of Eyes," the library's January art exhibition. This exhibition features eleven artists from Wilton and surrounding towns who have submitted inquiries expressing an interest to display their works at the library. Their works represent a wide variety of styles, media, and subject matter. The artists include: Christopher Breining (Norwalk), Runfang Cui (Wilton), Lorraine Gelard (Norwalk), Bill Jones, Bob Leidner (Wilton), Leila Mgaloblishvili (Wilton), Beth Marie Reifers (Norwalk), Carolyn Reifers (Wilton), Christopher Seep (Ridgefield), Carole Southall (Wilton), and Katherine Southall (Norwalk). 

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The Opening Reception on Friday, January 10 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. is free and open to the public. Exhibition runs through January 30. A majority of the works will be available for purchase with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the library. 

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The Flinn Gallery is pleased to present Camera-less, featuring the work of Joanne Dugan, Amanda Marchand, Anne Arden McDonald and Liz Nielsen. The exhibition will introduce the public to four of the most innovative practitioners of camera-less photography working today. These artists challenge traditional expectations of photographic representation with experimental, process-driven works that push boundaries both technical and conceptual.

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What is camera-less photography?

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It might seem a contradiction in terms but actually, the very first photographic images were created without a camera. In this practice, images are captured on photo-sensitive paper without the use of a lens. Light, chemicals and a light-sensitive surface are its fundamental ingredients. Removing the camera means that light and chemicals interact directly without the intermediary of a camera or a negative.

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The technique of making photographic images without a camera dates back to the early 18oos, at the dawn of photography. Rediscovered by the Surrealists in the 1920s, camera-less or direct photography is seeing a resurgence today, with a growing number of contemporary artists pushing the possibilities of this medium far beyond where their predecessors left off. This exhibition highlights the work of four groundbreaking artists who create powerful and highly original images by casting shadows and filtering light on photographic paper, or by chemically manipulating its surface. The striking works on display, ranging from figurative to abstract, represent the leading edge of what is possible in this emerging field.

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Joanne Dugan  is interested in the visual act as a dynamic, cognitive process that connects people through shared viewing experiences. Her one-of-a-kind images begin with cyanotype or silver gelatin photograms and light paintings, which are hand cut and collaged. Dugan is informed by Buddhist principles and meditation and interested in the physical qualities of photography as a medium.

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Amanda Marchand  works with lumen printing in which black & white photo papers are exposed to the sun to reveal latent color. Her images relate to the passage of time, the natural world and our changing climate. She utilizes books as mark makers, referencing endangered species and the practice of art.

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Anne Arden McDonald  employs an unorthodox collection of materials and methods from the domestic and scientific realms to create her chemigrams. Her highly experimental techniques involve altering the surface of silver gelatin paper and applying materials such as glue, bleach, broken glass, developer and fixer to produce images inspired by atoms and planets, exploring the microcosm and macrocosm of our experience.

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Liz Nielsen  has been systematically exploring the possibilities of camera-less photography, making vividly colored photograms in the color darkroom. Her large-scale compositions straddle the border between abstraction and figuration, recalling simple natural forms such as landscapes, arches or groupings of smoothly curved stones. She calls them “Light Paintings,” evoking the performative nature of their creation.

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Caren Winnall is the curator for Camera-less. The exhibit runs through March 5, 2025.

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Events: 

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Opening reception: Thursday, January 16, 2025 from 6-8pm

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Artist Talk: Sunday, February 2, 2025 at 2 pm

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The Flinn Gallery is a non-profit organization sponsored by the Friends of Greenwich Library and is located on the second floor of the library at 101 Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, CT. The gallery welcomes visitors daily Monday to Saturday, 10am-5pm, Thursday until 8pm, and Sunday 1pm-5pm.

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Silvermine Arts Center welcomes 27 new members into its historic Guild of Artists, with an exhibition presenting innovative work in a variety of mediums and styles. The exhibition will run from January 11 through February 6. The gallery is open Tuesday - Saturday 10 - 4pm.

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In addition to compelling works in painting and sculpture, several of Silvermine’s new Guild members explore innovative processes and materials. Barbara Hocker’s water-inspired works weave photos, prints, and paintings together. The environment—water in particular—is a subject that concerns many of the new Guild members including Susan Hoffman Fishman, who explores disappearing lakes. Her works are both dazzling and shocking. Bonnie Ralston takes found steel and corrodes it directly onto paper using salt, water, and common household acids. Her works exist somewhere between drawings and prints. According to the artist, they reframe the destructive moment as a source of unexpected beauty and possibility. Color theory, inspired in part by architectural or geometric form, takes center stage in the work of Marc Kemeny and Paul Landesman. 

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The Guild’s new sculptors draw on both natural and mythical forms. Tini Pinto’s biophilic ceramic works are as joyful as they are skillfully crafted. Irja Boden describes her stacked forms, which are both embossed and layered, as abstract works that convey a narrative. Aleksandra Scepanovic explores displaced identities and finds a certain human resilience in the theme of wholeness through fractured forms. 

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Since its inception, Guild membership has been a selective peer jurying process. As a result, the Guild has held its membership to high standards. Many members have work represented in permanent collections of some of the world's most prestigious museums, as well as prominent private and corporate collections. This exhibition offers visitors an opportunity to engage with the newest members of this dynamic community of professional artists and learn about their works.

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 Heather Gaudio Fine Art  is pleased to present Reflections on Light, a group exhibition featuring works by four female artists.  The show opens January 25th and runs through March 8th, 2025. 

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Creating the visual discourse at the gallery will be paintings by  Miya Ando ,  Pegan Brooke  and  Kathleen Jacobs  alongside sculptures by  Ann Gardner. These artists share a preoccupation with the nature of light and its ephemeral qualities. Fleeting aspects and impermanent moments are harnessed and captured into serene visual experiences intended to give the viewer pause and consider our relationship with nature.  Each artist uses their specific medium and unique process to create beautifully contemplative and nuanced artworks that are sublime records of time, place and experiences.  Including Miya Ando’s work in the exhibition is made possible with the generous collaboration of Sundaram Tagore Gallery in New York City. 

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Miya Ando  meticulously studies the sky, chronicling different times of day, location, weather and seasonal changes in her artworks. The artist’s practice is rooted in mono no aware, a concept from her Japanese heritage that refers to the awareness of impermanence and beauty, or a sensitivity to ephemera. Ando’s upbringing bridges the cultures and languages of two distinct worlds: the Redwood Forest of Northern California and a Buddhist temple in Japan. Her sculptures, paintings, drawings and installations reflect this cultural duality as well as the dialogue between the natural and the man-made.  On view in the exhibition are sublime works that reflect her sensitivity to nature and passage of time.  The images are sourced from photographs she takes and documents of a particular place and moment in the sky’s timeline. These images are then screen printed on metal sheets -- the material chosen not only for its physical properties but also as a nod to the swordsmith trade of her forebearers. The artist layers her printing techniques with thin veils of ink and pigment mixed with urethane over the metallic surface.  Some areas are left bare, allowing for the underlying sheen and color to assert itself, while a shift in tonality, luster and opacity render nuanced silvery clouds in the composition. For Ando, her creative process is a full immersion into her cultural background as well as an expression of the impermanence and human interdependence with nature.  Ando’s works are in many important collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Nassau County Museum of Art; Detroit Institute of Art; Luftmuseum Amberg, Germany, among others. Her exhibition roster includes the Noguchi Museum, New York; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany; Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Ando was also commissioned to create an artwork for the historic The Glass House in New Canaan, CT. 

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Pegan Brooke ’s paintings investigate light and its reflective qualities on water in all its forms – as a flowing river, a frozen lake, snow-capped mountain, and the like.  For Brooke, the fleeting nature of light bouncing off these surfaces is filled with countless possibilities of subtle change.  Locations also play an important part in her practice, for the light and experiences vary from Pont Aven in Brittany, France, to the Pacific Ocean near her studio in Bolinas and the San Francisco Bay area, to the Silver Creek in Idaho, to the Inland Seto Sea in Japan. Each region offers distinct light qualities and reflective experiences for the artist.  Mixing micas into her pigments, Brooke’s abstract paintings offer an interplay between shimmer and flatness, luminosity and opaqueness.  The soft brushstrokes arranged in linear patterns seem to appear and recede from the canvas, creating a symbiotic relationship between ambient light and the shifting position of the viewer. The artist’s palette with metallic sheens is reduced to whites, light and dark greys or warm ambers that underscore the elusive nature of the composition, reminiscent of evanescent moments in the light. The works in the exhibition were just featured in a solo show at the Katzen Arts Center at American University in Washington, D.C.  Brooke’s paintings have been exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Oakland Museum; San Diego Museum; Des Moines Art Center and Museum; São Paulo Biennale and the Monterey Museum of Art in California.  Her works are included in many prestigious private and public collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; U.S. Embassies in Sri Lanka and Bolivia; Berkley Art Museum; University of Nebraska Art Museum; Bank of America International HQ; Charles R. Schwab and Steven Chase Collection, among others.

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Kathleen Jacobs’  depictions of time, light, atmosphere and weather patterns are quite literal in that her process becomes a physical record of all.  The artist wraps her linen canvases on the trunks of different arbor species, leaving them exposed to the elements over months or years.  She returns to them periodically to apply layers of pigment and oil stick using frottage to trace the relief of the wood grains that act as support to the canvases. The linens absorb multi-layers of pigments hand-applied by the artist which get combined with Mother Nature’s patina, creating beautifully atmospheric compositions. When the weathered canvases are removed from the outdoors and taken into the artist’s studio, they continue to absorb pigments which are rubbed on the front and the back of the canvases.  Once stretched, the canvases are re-oriented so that the bark markings run horizontally across the canvas, becoming reminiscent of cloud patterns or waves on bodies of water. Jacobs is also an acrobatic pilot, so it is no coincidence that her paintings share her views from the heights above and are titled after fixed navigation points in the sky.  Jacobs has had a prolific career with numerous solo and group exhibitions in the United States and Europe.  Her works were installed at The Mount in Lenox, Massachusetts and have been extensively documented in film and written about. The artist lives and works in Massachusetts.

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Seattle-based artist  Ann Gardner  is renowned for her investigations with one of the most ancient man-made materials: glass. As her primary medium, the properties of glass have allowed Gardner to explore her preoccupation with the perception of light and space, color, pattern, volume and other characteristics.  Gardner hand-cuts large sheets of the colored and reflective material into tiny mosaics which are then arranged into large wall-mounted or free-standing sculptural structures. The artist is also known for creating hand-blown glass orbs with soft hues that can be presented as a single table-top form or arranged in clusters suspended from the ceiling.  For Gardner, it is essential that artworks be in complete harmony with the environments they occupy.  Light, vital to people and artworks, is often overlooked because as an element it is invisible to the naked eye.  When it comes to glass, light becomes fundamental in highlighting key elements that are important to glassworks. The physical properties of glass combined with the ephemerality of light creates a dance between the two. Gardner’s decades-long career includes working on many site-specific installations that grace notable institutions including the Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters in Norfolk, Virginia; County Operations Center in San Diego, California; the Bellevue Art Museum, Washington; and the Rosewood Abu Dabi Hotel, UAE, to name a few.  Her work has been the subject of multiple exhibitions including at the Boise Art Museum, Idaho; Bellevue Arts Museum; Katonah Museum of Art, New York and at the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.  Gardner’s works are in multiple important museum and private collections here and abroad.

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Heather Gaudio Fine Art  specializes in emerging and established artists, offering painting, works on paper, photography, and sculpture. The gallery provides a full range of art advisory services, from forming and maintaining a collection, to securing secondary market material, to assisting with framing and installation. The focus is on each individual client, selecting art that best serves his or her vision, space, and resources. The six exhibitions offered every year are designed to present important talent and provide artwork appealing to a broad range of interests. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday; 10:30am to 5:30pm; and by appointment. 

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 Greenwich Art Society Studio School, Winter Term 2025

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Registration begins December 12th for new students!

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Classes start Tuesday, January 7, 2024!

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Enroll asap on 12/9/24 to hold your place in class!

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If not already a member, please log into your account before Dec. 9 and pay for membership first to get tuition discount before registering for classes.

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Log in to your account here to renew membership:

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Renew here!

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Register online for your favorite class or check out

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our newer classes -- Classical Portrait Drawing,

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Painting Classes, Beginning Drawing, and more!!!

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See full class schedule here

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Create your own account and then select and pay 

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for your classes!

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Our Mission: "To enhance our legacy of personalized visual arts education, outstanding art exhibitions, and children's community outreach."

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A new show at the Rowayton Arts Center (RAC), “From the RAC Studio,” will be on view January 12 through February 1, 2025. This all media exhibition features over 100 pieces of artwork by RAC Instructors and students created in the past year.

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Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from 12 to 5 pm plus Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm.

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RAC celebrates the study, creation and appreciation of the arts through classes, exhibitions and events open to all in the community. For over 60 years, this nonprofit organization has been a cultural gem in Rowayton, CT. The gallery and art school overlook the scenic Five Mile River at 145 Rowayton Avenue with space for regional artists to exhibit their art and a classroom for workshops and classes at all levels offered to children and adults.

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Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.

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CALLING ALL YOUNG MUSICIANS!!!

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The Schubert Club's Young Musicians Festival (YMF) provides adjudicated performance opportunities for students under 18 years of age who receive private instrumental and/or voice instruction. Show off your hard work and receive a gold cup!

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Important Dates:

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Deadline for applications: January 31, 2025.

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Young Musicians Festival: March 1-2, 2025

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For more information or to register: www.schubertclub.org/YMF

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The Greenwich Art Society is offering:

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INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED WATERCOLOR

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GREAT CORENS

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11 WEDNESDAYS

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Jan. 8 – March 19

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5:00 pm to 7:30 pm

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Program Description

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How do watercolorists paint with such accuracy, have you often wondered? In this ongoing class, you obtain the technical secrets to painting with watercolors by using different brush techniques and color palettes, from neutrals to brights, from dry brush to washes, or from delicate shades to deepest shadows, and obtain insight into the color wheel, primary-secondary-tertiary colors and using complementary colors to great effect so as to put you on the path of artistic achievement.

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Max. 8 students.

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Opening reception is on Sunday January 26, 2025, 5:00p.m. - 7:00p.m.

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The Gallery at La Zingara Bar

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8 PT Barnum Square, Bethel, CT

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The Exhibition runs from January 26 through March 16, 2025

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Gallery hours: Wed-Sun 12pm - 8 pm

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 Following the film screening, on- and off-Broadway producer, Cheryl Wiesenfeld, will be joined on stage with actors and the creator of RTA for a conversation with Brent Buell, and Patrick Brooks Associate Professor Visual and Performing Arts at Fairfield University, and hopefully one of the gifted actors from the film.

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Theater that Changes Our World has always showcased plays that teach us a lesson, open us up to other narratives, and connect us to ourselves and our greater world. Theater has the power to transform!

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This year we show the transformative power of theater through a film, not a play. This film is based on a prison theater program called Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA).

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It was started in 1996 after a small group of men in prison expressed an interest in putting on a play at the prison. Along with Katherine Vockins, the founder of RTA, the program was formed. That year, they wrote and staged their first play. The play marked the beginning of Rehabilitation Through the Arts, which is now active in eight prisons throughout New York, including men and women’s prisons with maximum and medium security.

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Theater, as we’ve shown audiences over 10 years at The Quick, does have the power to change our world. Over the years of our program, we’ve focused on social justice and incarceration in such plays as CELL, GUN COUNTRY, SHARED SENTENCES and SURVIVING TROUBLED WATERS: FROM PRISON TO FREEDOM THROUGH MUSIC.

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The program of Rehabilitation Through the Arts does just that: It teaches incarcerated people how to restore their lives through theater which, in stark contrast to the current system of criminal punishment, is based on respect and human dignity.

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Brent Buell is a playwright, director and producer. For ten years he volunteered with RTA directing theater in New York’s maximum-security prisons with plays ranging from John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” to original work by the prisoners.

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One of Brent’s plays, a comedy, “Breakin’ the Mummy’s Code” premiered at Sing Sing, and became the inspiration for A24’s film “Sing Sing” directed by Greg Kwedar and starring Oscar-nominated actor Colman Domingo and Clarence Maclin. Buell is portrayed in the film by Oscar-nominated Paul Raci. The film is out now and has been short listed on many “best of” lists.

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The film beautifully captures the visceral sense of seeing these men reluctantly join the cast of the play, and yielding to it, becoming part of the journey and life of the play, and through it becoming transformed.

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So, in my 10th year as part of “Theatre that Changes Our World” program, I feel this film grasps and portrays what we do perfectly.

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Curated by 2024-25 Korry Fellow Juanita Sunday and featuring regional artists Carl Bocicault, Tyler Goldchain, Imo Nse Imeh, Iyaba Ibo Mandigo, Tea Montgomery, Saint Phifer, Andre Rochester, Bizzie Ruth, Dario Tejada, Kamar Thomas, and Yves Wilson.

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MASC explores the intricate intersections of masculinity and Blackness, illuminating the complex layers of identity, expression, and societal expectation.

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The exhibition examines the metaphorical "masks" worn to navigate a world rife with stereotypes and cultural pressures. MASC challenges monolithic notions of masculinity, offering a nuanced exploration of strength, vulnerability, and self-reclamation. Each piece invites audiences to witness the delicate balance between the external personas shaped by societal expectations and the authentic selves seeking liberation and visibility.

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The annual community art exhibition for the Kershner Gallery in the Fairfield Public Library is now on view through February 1. This exhibit features over 60 pieces of original art created by area artists in all mediums, sizes, and styles. The gallery is open during all library hours.

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You are invited to visit the Gallery at the Greens Farms Church in Westport to see pressed flower designs by Wethersfield artist Marguerite Alpert of The Flowered Press. She is known for taking fresh plants apart and then drying them in handmade wooden presses. She then composes unique designs from the dried plant material, which offers a novel view of nature. Her process allows exquisite details to be revealed and invites the viewer to take a closer look. Stop by the gallery and immerse yourself in this winter garden! 

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This show runs from December 12, 2024 to February 11, 2025

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You are also invited to attend the opening reception on January 15th, 6-8pm. Details are on the invitation.

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All work is available for sale directly from the artist.

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Marguerite participates in juried art events and exhibitions, conducts workshops, accepts commissions, and offers speaking engagements.

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You are invited to visit the Gallery at the Greens Farms Church in Westport to see pressed flower designs by Wethersfield artist Marguerite Alpert of The Flowered Press. She is known for taking fresh plants apart and then drying them in handmade wooden presses. She then composes unique designs from the dried plant material, which offers a novel view of nature. Her process allows exquisite details to be revealed and invites the viewer to take a closer look. Stop by the gallery and immerse yourself in this winter garden! 

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This show runs from December 12, 2024 to February 11, 2025

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You are also invited to attend the opening reception on January 15th, 6-8pm. Details are on the invitation.

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All work is available for sale directly from the artist.

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Marguerite participates in juried art events and exhibitions, conducts workshops, accepts commissions, and offers speaking engagements.

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You are invited to visit the Gallery at the Greens Farms Church in Westport to see pressed flower designs by Wethersfield artist Marguerite Alpert of The Flowered Press. She is known for taking fresh plants apart and then drying them in handmade wooden presses. She then composes unique designs from the dried plant material, which offers a novel view of nature. Her process allows exquisite details to be revealed and invites the viewer to take a closer look. Stop by the gallery and immerse yourself in this winter garden! 

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This show runs from December 12, 2024 to February 11, 2025

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You are also invited to attend the opening reception on January 15th, 6-8pm. Details are on the invitation.

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All work is available for sale directly from the artist.

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Marguerite participates in juried art events and exhibitions, conducts workshops, accepts commissions, and offers speaking engagements.

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 NOW ON VIEW: January 16 – February 17, 2025

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Large in format, bold in color, brash in context.  We call them the "giants" of our collection. Representing a range of styles and mediums, many of these works have not been on view for decades, including mammoth works by Hunt Slonem, Rhonda Wall and Nicholas Krushenik. Others you may recognize from previous exhibitions; works from Peter Bradley, William Ronald and Steven Brent. We're pleased to present them once more before they return to our collections vault.

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SM&NC exhibition are always free to Members and included in the price of daily admission for visitors.

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This January, Geary Gallery proudly presents "The Prismatic Palette" featuring the multi-hued, multi-faceted still lifes and seascapes of Ridgewood, NJ artist, Rebecca J. Leer. Her exhibit runs January 2-31. All are welcome and admission is free. The Geary Gallery is open Wednesday through Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and is located at 576 Boston Post Road, Darien, CT 06820. For more details, call (203) 655-6633 or visit our website: www.gearygallery.com.

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The Gallery at GFC welcomes Connecticut artist Marguerite Alpert, whose art is on display from December 12, 2014 to February 10, 2025. Working with dried plant material, Ms. Alpert creates framed pieces that are more than collages, photographs or paintings, yet contain elements of each of those mediums. Her designs run the gamut from quiet and peaceful to bold and energizing, every one a delightful arrangement of natural elements in patterns and shapes nature itself could only admire.

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Please join us for a reception and demonstration on January 15, 2025 from 6-8 PM.

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Local artists who have asked to exhibit their works at Wilton Library will be showcased in "Through a Different Set of Eyes," the library's January art exhibition. This exhibition features eleven artists from Wilton and surrounding towns who have submitted inquiries expressing an interest to display their works at the library. Their works represent a wide variety of styles, media, and subject matter. The artists include: Christopher Breining (Norwalk), Runfang Cui (Wilton), Lorraine Gelard (Norwalk), Bill Jones, Bob Leidner (Wilton), Leila Mgaloblishvili (Wilton), Beth Marie Reifers (Norwalk), Carolyn Reifers (Wilton), Christopher Seep (Ridgefield), Carole Southall (Wilton), and Katherine Southall (Norwalk). 

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The Opening Reception on Friday, January 10 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. is free and open to the public. Exhibition runs through January 30. A majority of the works will be available for purchase with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the library. 

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The Flinn Gallery is pleased to present Camera-less, featuring the work of Joanne Dugan, Amanda Marchand, Anne Arden McDonald and Liz Nielsen. The exhibition will introduce the public to four of the most innovative practitioners of camera-less photography working today. These artists challenge traditional expectations of photographic representation with experimental, process-driven works that push boundaries both technical and conceptual.

​

What is camera-less photography?

​

It might seem a contradiction in terms but actually, the very first photographic images were created without a camera. In this practice, images are captured on photo-sensitive paper without the use of a lens. Light, chemicals and a light-sensitive surface are its fundamental ingredients. Removing the camera means that light and chemicals interact directly without the intermediary of a camera or a negative.

​

The technique of making photographic images without a camera dates back to the early 18oos, at the dawn of photography. Rediscovered by the Surrealists in the 1920s, camera-less or direct photography is seeing a resurgence today, with a growing number of contemporary artists pushing the possibilities of this medium far beyond where their predecessors left off. This exhibition highlights the work of four groundbreaking artists who create powerful and highly original images by casting shadows and filtering light on photographic paper, or by chemically manipulating its surface. The striking works on display, ranging from figurative to abstract, represent the leading edge of what is possible in this emerging field.

​

Joanne Dugan  is interested in the visual act as a dynamic, cognitive process that connects people through shared viewing experiences. Her one-of-a-kind images begin with cyanotype or silver gelatin photograms and light paintings, which are hand cut and collaged. Dugan is informed by Buddhist principles and meditation and interested in the physical qualities of photography as a medium.

​

Amanda Marchand  works with lumen printing in which black & white photo papers are exposed to the sun to reveal latent color. Her images relate to the passage of time, the natural world and our changing climate. She utilizes books as mark makers, referencing endangered species and the practice of art.

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Anne Arden McDonald  employs an unorthodox collection of materials and methods from the domestic and scientific realms to create her chemigrams. Her highly experimental techniques involve altering the surface of silver gelatin paper and applying materials such as glue, bleach, broken glass, developer and fixer to produce images inspired by atoms and planets, exploring the microcosm and macrocosm of our experience.

​

Liz Nielsen  has been systematically exploring the possibilities of camera-less photography, making vividly colored photograms in the color darkroom. Her large-scale compositions straddle the border between abstraction and figuration, recalling simple natural forms such as landscapes, arches or groupings of smoothly curved stones. She calls them “Light Paintings,” evoking the performative nature of their creation.

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Caren Winnall is the curator for Camera-less. The exhibit runs through March 5, 2025.

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Events: 

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Opening reception: Thursday, January 16, 2025 from 6-8pm

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Artist Talk: Sunday, February 2, 2025 at 2 pm

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The Flinn Gallery is a non-profit organization sponsored by the Friends of Greenwich Library and is located on the second floor of the library at 101 Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, CT. The gallery welcomes visitors daily Monday to Saturday, 10am-5pm, Thursday until 8pm, and Sunday 1pm-5pm.

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The Greenwich Art Society is offering:

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INTERMEDIATE ACRYLIC LANDSCAPE PAINTING with JOE FAMA

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8 THURSDAYS

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Jan. 9 – Feb. 27

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10:00 am to 12:00 pm

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Program Description

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Students will take their own photos as a point of inspiration to create their own interpretation rather than a copy. From their photos, students will produce a value sketch to learn how to SEE the values. The value sketch will be the guide for the painting. They will also learn how to set up a palette for landscape painting. Students will learn to see and express color, values and the illusion of depth. Classes will include lectures, demonstrations, as well as individual instruction. If you are new to the class, please bring a drawing or painting as a sample of your skill level to the first class.

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Max. 8 students.

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Silvermine Arts Center welcomes 27 new members into its historic Guild of Artists, with an exhibition presenting innovative work in a variety of mediums and styles. The exhibition will run from January 11 through February 6. The gallery is open Tuesday - Saturday 10 - 4pm.

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In addition to compelling works in painting and sculpture, several of Silvermine’s new Guild members explore innovative processes and materials. Barbara Hocker’s water-inspired works weave photos, prints, and paintings together. The environment—water in particular—is a subject that concerns many of the new Guild members including Susan Hoffman Fishman, who explores disappearing lakes. Her works are both dazzling and shocking. Bonnie Ralston takes found steel and corrodes it directly onto paper using salt, water, and common household acids. Her works exist somewhere between drawings and prints. According to the artist, they reframe the destructive moment as a source of unexpected beauty and possibility. Color theory, inspired in part by architectural or geometric form, takes center stage in the work of Marc Kemeny and Paul Landesman. 

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The Guild’s new sculptors draw on both natural and mythical forms. Tini Pinto’s biophilic ceramic works are as joyful as they are skillfully crafted. Irja Boden describes her stacked forms, which are both embossed and layered, as abstract works that convey a narrative. Aleksandra Scepanovic explores displaced identities and finds a certain human resilience in the theme of wholeness through fractured forms. 

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Since its inception, Guild membership has been a selective peer jurying process. As a result, the Guild has held its membership to high standards. Many members have work represented in permanent collections of some of the world's most prestigious museums, as well as prominent private and corporate collections. This exhibition offers visitors an opportunity to engage with the newest members of this dynamic community of professional artists and learn about their works.

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 Heather Gaudio Fine Art  is pleased to present Reflections on Light, a group exhibition featuring works by four female artists.  The show opens January 25th and runs through March 8th, 2025. 

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Creating the visual discourse at the gallery will be paintings by  Miya Ando ,  Pegan Brooke  and  Kathleen Jacobs  alongside sculptures by  Ann Gardner. These artists share a preoccupation with the nature of light and its ephemeral qualities. Fleeting aspects and impermanent moments are harnessed and captured into serene visual experiences intended to give the viewer pause and consider our relationship with nature.  Each artist uses their specific medium and unique process to create beautifully contemplative and nuanced artworks that are sublime records of time, place and experiences.  Including Miya Ando’s work in the exhibition is made possible with the generous collaboration of Sundaram Tagore Gallery in New York City. 

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Miya Ando  meticulously studies the sky, chronicling different times of day, location, weather and seasonal changes in her artworks. The artist’s practice is rooted in mono no aware, a concept from her Japanese heritage that refers to the awareness of impermanence and beauty, or a sensitivity to ephemera. Ando’s upbringing bridges the cultures and languages of two distinct worlds: the Redwood Forest of Northern California and a Buddhist temple in Japan. Her sculptures, paintings, drawings and installations reflect this cultural duality as well as the dialogue between the natural and the man-made.  On view in the exhibition are sublime works that reflect her sensitivity to nature and passage of time.  The images are sourced from photographs she takes and documents of a particular place and moment in the sky’s timeline. These images are then screen printed on metal sheets -- the material chosen not only for its physical properties but also as a nod to the swordsmith trade of her forebearers. The artist layers her printing techniques with thin veils of ink and pigment mixed with urethane over the metallic surface.  Some areas are left bare, allowing for the underlying sheen and color to assert itself, while a shift in tonality, luster and opacity render nuanced silvery clouds in the composition. For Ando, her creative process is a full immersion into her cultural background as well as an expression of the impermanence and human interdependence with nature.  Ando’s works are in many important collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Nassau County Museum of Art; Detroit Institute of Art; Luftmuseum Amberg, Germany, among others. Her exhibition roster includes the Noguchi Museum, New York; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany; Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Ando was also commissioned to create an artwork for the historic The Glass House in New Canaan, CT. 

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Pegan Brooke ’s paintings investigate light and its reflective qualities on water in all its forms – as a flowing river, a frozen lake, snow-capped mountain, and the like.  For Brooke, the fleeting nature of light bouncing off these surfaces is filled with countless possibilities of subtle change.  Locations also play an important part in her practice, for the light and experiences vary from Pont Aven in Brittany, France, to the Pacific Ocean near her studio in Bolinas and the San Francisco Bay area, to the Silver Creek in Idaho, to the Inland Seto Sea in Japan. Each region offers distinct light qualities and reflective experiences for the artist.  Mixing micas into her pigments, Brooke’s abstract paintings offer an interplay between shimmer and flatness, luminosity and opaqueness.  The soft brushstrokes arranged in linear patterns seem to appear and recede from the canvas, creating a symbiotic relationship between ambient light and the shifting position of the viewer. The artist’s palette with metallic sheens is reduced to whites, light and dark greys or warm ambers that underscore the elusive nature of the composition, reminiscent of evanescent moments in the light. The works in the exhibition were just featured in a solo show at the Katzen Arts Center at American University in Washington, D.C.  Brooke’s paintings have been exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Oakland Museum; San Diego Museum; Des Moines Art Center and Museum; São Paulo Biennale and the Monterey Museum of Art in California.  Her works are included in many prestigious private and public collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; U.S. Embassies in Sri Lanka and Bolivia; Berkley Art Museum; University of Nebraska Art Museum; Bank of America International HQ; Charles R. Schwab and Steven Chase Collection, among others.

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Kathleen Jacobs’  depictions of time, light, atmosphere and weather patterns are quite literal in that her process becomes a physical record of all.  The artist wraps her linen canvases on the trunks of different arbor species, leaving them exposed to the elements over months or years.  She returns to them periodically to apply layers of pigment and oil stick using frottage to trace the relief of the wood grains that act as support to the canvases. The linens absorb multi-layers of pigments hand-applied by the artist which get combined with Mother Nature’s patina, creating beautifully atmospheric compositions. When the weathered canvases are removed from the outdoors and taken into the artist’s studio, they continue to absorb pigments which are rubbed on the front and the back of the canvases.  Once stretched, the canvases are re-oriented so that the bark markings run horizontally across the canvas, becoming reminiscent of cloud patterns or waves on bodies of water. Jacobs is also an acrobatic pilot, so it is no coincidence that her paintings share her views from the heights above and are titled after fixed navigation points in the sky.  Jacobs has had a prolific career with numerous solo and group exhibitions in the United States and Europe.  Her works were installed at The Mount in Lenox, Massachusetts and have been extensively documented in film and written about. The artist lives and works in Massachusetts.

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Seattle-based artist  Ann Gardner  is renowned for her investigations with one of the most ancient man-made materials: glass. As her primary medium, the properties of glass have allowed Gardner to explore her preoccupation with the perception of light and space, color, pattern, volume and other characteristics.  Gardner hand-cuts large sheets of the colored and reflective material into tiny mosaics which are then arranged into large wall-mounted or free-standing sculptural structures. The artist is also known for creating hand-blown glass orbs with soft hues that can be presented as a single table-top form or arranged in clusters suspended from the ceiling.  For Gardner, it is essential that artworks be in complete harmony with the environments they occupy.  Light, vital to people and artworks, is often overlooked because as an element it is invisible to the naked eye.  When it comes to glass, light becomes fundamental in highlighting key elements that are important to glassworks. The physical properties of glass combined with the ephemerality of light creates a dance between the two. Gardner’s decades-long career includes working on many site-specific installations that grace notable institutions including the Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters in Norfolk, Virginia; County Operations Center in San Diego, California; the Bellevue Art Museum, Washington; and the Rosewood Abu Dabi Hotel, UAE, to name a few.  Her work has been the subject of multiple exhibitions including at the Boise Art Museum, Idaho; Bellevue Arts Museum; Katonah Museum of Art, New York and at the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.  Gardner’s works are in multiple important museum and private collections here and abroad.

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Heather Gaudio Fine Art  specializes in emerging and established artists, offering painting, works on paper, photography, and sculpture. The gallery provides a full range of art advisory services, from forming and maintaining a collection, to securing secondary market material, to assisting with framing and installation. The focus is on each individual client, selecting art that best serves his or her vision, space, and resources. The six exhibitions offered every year are designed to present important talent and provide artwork appealing to a broad range of interests. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday; 10:30am to 5:30pm; and by appointment. 

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 Greenwich Art Society Studio School, Winter Term 2025

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Registration begins December 12th for new students!

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Classes start Tuesday, January 7, 2024!

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Enroll asap on 12/9/24 to hold your place in class!

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Our Mission: "To enhance our legacy of personalized visual arts education, outstanding art exhibitions, and children's community outreach."

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A new show at the Rowayton Arts Center (RAC), “From the RAC Studio,” will be on view January 12 through February 1, 2025. This all media exhibition features over 100 pieces of artwork by RAC Instructors and students created in the past year.

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Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from 12 to 5 pm plus Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm.

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RAC celebrates the study, creation and appreciation of the arts through classes, exhibitions and events open to all in the community. For over 60 years, this nonprofit organization has been a cultural gem in Rowayton, CT. The gallery and art school overlook the scenic Five Mile River at 145 Rowayton Avenue with space for regional artists to exhibit their art and a classroom for workshops and classes at all levels offered to children and adults.

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Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.

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The Greenwich Art Society presents:

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FIGURE DRAWING IN THE STUDIO

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NOMI SILVERMAN

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7 THURSDAYS

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Jan.30 – March 13

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5:00 pm to 7:30 pm

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Learn the human figure’s structure while drawing a figure from observation. Working from the model, emphasis on gesture, balance and proportion will be stressed in order to develop believable form. Students should leave this class with a better understanding of the figure’s key anatomical landmarks while forming a sense of expressive gesture.

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Nomi Silverman

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Nomi Silverman attended the High School of Art and Design and Barnard College. She also studied with Daniel Greene, David Leffel, Gustav Rheiberger, Harvey Dinnerstein, Ron Sherr, George Nama, Bob Blackburn, Burt Silverman, and Michael Mazur. She has had solo shows at The Fairfield Arts Center, A-Space Gallery in New Haven, CT, The Housatonic Museum in Bridgeport, CT, The Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk CT, A Shenere Velt Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, the Silvermine Guild of Art in New Canaan, CT, and the Greenwich Arts Center Gallery in Greenwich, CT, amongst others. She has also shown in many group shows including the Print Triennial, Politically Speaking, Contemporary American Printmaking at the William Patterson University, and National Drawing, at the College of NJ. She has won many awards and received a grant from the Puffin Foundation and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts and received a fellowship to Duke University. Selected articles, reviews and books include The New York Times, The Stamford Advocate, the LA Times, The Philadelphia Weekly, Venu Magazine and “Strokes of Genus 3” by North Light Books. Her work is in the collection of the New York Public Library, The Slater Memorial Museum, The William Benton Museum of Art, The Library of Congress, The Mattatuck Museum, the Boston Public Library, The Housatonic Museum of Art, The Hunterdon Museum of Art and numerous national and international collections.

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Opening reception is on Sunday January 26, 2025, 5:00p.m. - 7:00p.m.

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The Gallery at La Zingara Bar

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8 PT Barnum Square, Bethel, CT

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The Exhibition runs from January 26 through March 16, 2025

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Gallery hours: Wed-Sun 12pm - 8 pm

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Dr. Uché Blackstock will discuss her memoir Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine, the story of her career and an account of the deep inequities that still exist in American healthcare, with Sheryl Battles. 

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In a medical system where only 2% of physicians are Black women, Black Americans have far worse health outcomes than any other group in the country. Legacy is a journey through the critical intersection of racism and healthcare, exposing a flawed system of practices and policies that jeopardize the well-being of entire communities. Following Dr. Blackstock’s odyssey from child to medical student to practicing physician, this memoir not only explores the legacy of her mother and other pioneering Black physicians but also the long shadow of inequality in the United States healthcare system. 

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Book sale and signing hosted by Elm Street Books will follow.

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Registration required.

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Dr. Uché Blackstock is a physician and thought leader on bias and racism in healthcare. She appears on air regularly as an MSNBC medical contributor and is the founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity, as well as a former associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and the former faculty director for recruitment, retention, and inclusion in the Office of Diversity Affairs at NYU School of Medicine.

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As children during the 1980s, Dr. Blackstock and her twin sister, Oni, watched their mother lead an organization of Black women physicians: fiercely intelligent women in white coats who cured ills and saved lives. Destined to follow in her footsteps, Uché and her sister went on to become the first Black mother-daughter legacies from Harvard University Medical School. But as her career continued as an ER physician and a professor in academic medicine, Dr. Blackstock became profoundly aware of what she hadn’t seen as a child: the dangerous systemic barriers that Black patients and physicians face.

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Dr. Blackstock also received her undergraduate degree from Harvard . She currently lives in her hometown of Brooklyn, New York, with her two school-age children.

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Sheryl Battles is the former Vice President, Global Diversity, Inclusion and Engagement for Pitney Bowes, Inc. Throughout her career, she has appeared in a wide variety of media outlets including a profile in the book Diverse Voices: Profiles in Leadership, Savoy magazine’s Top Influential Women in Corporate America, Harvard Business Review's Leadership in Your Midst: Tapping the Hidden Strengths of Minority Executives, TIME magazine's Pathways to Power, and Ebony magazine's 100 Most Promising Black Women in Corporate America.

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Presented in partnership with The Links, Incorporated, Fairfield County Chapter.

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Come play music, recite poetry, tell a story, or show off another talent!

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Keep in mind this is an all ages event in a public venue. We trust you to make good choices about appropriate material.

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This is an LGBTQIA+ inclusive and welcoming event series. No cover fee but minimum one drink purchased required (show Molten some love, y’all!)

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Performance slots are assigned on a first come, first served basis IN PERSON. No times will be held or assigned before the event starts. Get there early to grab your spot!

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Join us for a very special event with author Kira Jane Buxton as we celebrate and discuss her new book, Tartufo. The author will be in discussion with Liberty Hardy. Both will join us via Zoom, please sign up HERE to get the link.

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About the book:

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"After nearly losing the election to a geriatric but wildly popular donkey named Maurizio, newly installed Mayor Delizia Miccuci can't help but feel like the sun has finally set on the rural Italian village of Lazzarina Boscarino. Tourists only stop by to ask for directions, Nonna Amara's cherished ristorante is long shuttered...Little do the villagers know that, mere miles away in the forest, local truffle hunter Giovanni Scarpazza has just happened upon something that could change everything. Swollen to massive proportions, soaking the atmosphere in its pungent fumes, potentially worth six figures in certain international circles, a truffle-un tartufo, that is-sits beneath the soil with the power to either be the greatest gift or the foulest curse the village has ever seen-they're not completely sure which since Giuseppina's psychic was a bit unclear on the matter. Tartufo is much more than a charming romp through the foothills of Tuscany. Written in the same enchanting style and raucous humor that defines Hollow Kingdom and Feral Creatures, Buxton's newest story is a reflection on the interconnectedness of life in all its manifestations-and how holding on to harmony in the face of hardship can grow something beautiful and rare beneath the surface"

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Curated by 2024-25 Korry Fellow Juanita Sunday and featuring regional artists Carl Bocicault, Tyler Goldchain, Imo Nse Imeh, Iyaba Ibo Mandigo, Tea Montgomery, Saint Phifer, Andre Rochester, Bizzie Ruth, Dario Tejada, Kamar Thomas, and Yves Wilson.

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MASC explores the intricate intersections of masculinity and Blackness, illuminating the complex layers of identity, expression, and societal expectation.

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The exhibition examines the metaphorical "masks" worn to navigate a world rife with stereotypes and cultural pressures. MASC challenges monolithic notions of masculinity, offering a nuanced exploration of strength, vulnerability, and self-reclamation. Each piece invites audiences to witness the delicate balance between the external personas shaped by societal expectations and the authentic selves seeking liberation and visibility.

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The annual community art exhibition for the Kershner Gallery in the Fairfield Public Library is now on view through February 1. This exhibit features over 60 pieces of original art created by area artists in all mediums, sizes, and styles. The gallery is open during all library hours.

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You are invited to visit the Gallery at the Greens Farms Church in Westport to see pressed flower designs by Wethersfield artist Marguerite Alpert of The Flowered Press. She is known for taking fresh plants apart and then drying them in handmade wooden presses. She then composes unique designs from the dried plant material, which offers a novel view of nature. Her process allows exquisite details to be revealed and invites the viewer to take a closer look. Stop by the gallery and immerse yourself in this winter garden! 

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This show runs from December 12, 2024 to February 11, 2025

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You are also invited to attend the opening reception on January 15th, 6-8pm. Details are on the invitation.

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All work is available for sale directly from the artist.

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Marguerite participates in juried art events and exhibitions, conducts workshops, accepts commissions, and offers speaking engagements.

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You are invited to visit the Gallery at the Greens Farms Church in Westport to see pressed flower designs by Wethersfield artist Marguerite Alpert of The Flowered Press. She is known for taking fresh plants apart and then drying them in handmade wooden presses. She then composes unique designs from the dried plant material, which offers a novel view of nature. Her process allows exquisite details to be revealed and invites the viewer to take a closer look. Stop by the gallery and immerse yourself in this winter garden! 

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This show runs from December 12, 2024 to February 11, 2025

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You are also invited to attend the opening reception on January 15th, 6-8pm. Details are on the invitation.

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All work is available for sale directly from the artist.

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Marguerite participates in juried art events and exhibitions, conducts workshops, accepts commissions, and offers speaking engagements.

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You are invited to visit the Gallery at the Greens Farms Church in Westport to see pressed flower designs by Wethersfield artist Marguerite Alpert of The Flowered Press. She is known for taking fresh plants apart and then drying them in handmade wooden presses. She then composes unique designs from the dried plant material, which offers a novel view of nature. Her process allows exquisite details to be revealed and invites the viewer to take a closer look. Stop by the gallery and immerse yourself in this winter garden! 

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This show runs from December 12, 2024 to February 11, 2025

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You are also invited to attend the opening reception on January 15th, 6-8pm. Details are on the invitation.

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All work is available for sale directly from the artist.

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Marguerite participates in juried art events and exhibitions, conducts workshops, accepts commissions, and offers speaking engagements.

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 NOW ON VIEW: January 16 – February 17, 2025

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Large in format, bold in color, brash in context.  We call them the "giants" of our collection. Representing a range of styles and mediums, many of these works have not been on view for decades, including mammoth works by Hunt Slonem, Rhonda Wall and Nicholas Krushenik. Others you may recognize from previous exhibitions; works from Peter Bradley, William Ronald and Steven Brent. We're pleased to present them once more before they return to our collections vault.

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SM&NC exhibition are always free to Members and included in the price of daily admission for visitors.

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This January, Geary Gallery proudly presents "The Prismatic Palette" featuring the multi-hued, multi-faceted still lifes and seascapes of Ridgewood, NJ artist, Rebecca J. Leer. Her exhibit runs January 2-31. All are welcome and admission is free. The Geary Gallery is open Wednesday through Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and is located at 576 Boston Post Road, Darien, CT 06820. For more details, call (203) 655-6633 or visit our website: www.gearygallery.com.

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The Greenwich Art Society is offering:

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DRAWING & SEEING (all levels) with Joe Fama

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8 Fridays

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Jan. 10 – Feb. 28

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9:30 am to 11:30 am

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Program Description

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Discover the essential drawing fundamentals needed to capture line and shading (value transitions) to render the impression of representational form. Learn also how to observe these visual phenomenon by learning how to see through direct observation. The goal is to apply these principles in producing a well-developed still life or landscape drawing. We will also learn some fundamentals in constructing the human head by drawing from a plaster cast and understanding the planes that make up the structures of the face and head. Drawing media will be in graphite or charcoal pencils.  Max. 8 students.

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The Gallery at GFC welcomes Connecticut artist Marguerite Alpert, whose art is on display from December 12, 2014 to February 10, 2025. Working with dried plant material, Ms. Alpert creates framed pieces that are more than collages, photographs or paintings, yet contain elements of each of those mediums. Her designs run the gamut from quiet and peaceful to bold and energizing, every one a delightful arrangement of natural elements in patterns and shapes nature itself could only admire.

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Please join us for a reception and demonstration on January 15, 2025 from 6-8 PM.

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The Flinn Gallery is pleased to present Camera-less, featuring the work of Joanne Dugan, Amanda Marchand, Anne Arden McDonald and Liz Nielsen. The exhibition will introduce the public to four of the most innovative practitioners of camera-less photography working today. These artists challenge traditional expectations of photographic representation with experimental, process-driven works that push boundaries both technical and conceptual.

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What is camera-less photography?

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It might seem a contradiction in terms but actually, the very first photographic images were created without a camera. In this practice, images are captured on photo-sensitive paper without the use of a lens. Light, chemicals and a light-sensitive surface are its fundamental ingredients. Removing the camera means that light and chemicals interact directly without the intermediary of a camera or a negative.

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The technique of making photographic images without a camera dates back to the early 18oos, at the dawn of photography. Rediscovered by the Surrealists in the 1920s, camera-less or direct photography is seeing a resurgence today, with a growing number of contemporary artists pushing the possibilities of this medium far beyond where their predecessors left off. This exhibition highlights the work of four groundbreaking artists who create powerful and highly original images by casting shadows and filtering light on photographic paper, or by chemically manipulating its surface. The striking works on display, ranging from figurative to abstract, represent the leading edge of what is possible in this emerging field.

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Joanne Dugan  is interested in the visual act as a dynamic, cognitive process that connects people through shared viewing experiences. Her one-of-a-kind images begin with cyanotype or silver gelatin photograms and light paintings, which are hand cut and collaged. Dugan is informed by Buddhist principles and meditation and interested in the physical qualities of photography as a medium.

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Amanda Marchand  works with lumen printing in which black & white photo papers are exposed to the sun to reveal latent color. Her images relate to the passage of time, the natural world and our changing climate. She utilizes books as mark makers, referencing endangered species and the practice of art.

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Anne Arden McDonald  employs an unorthodox collection of materials and methods from the domestic and scientific realms to create her chemigrams. Her highly experimental techniques involve altering the surface of silver gelatin paper and applying materials such as glue, bleach, broken glass, developer and fixer to produce images inspired by atoms and planets, exploring the microcosm and macrocosm of our experience.

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Liz Nielsen  has been systematically exploring the possibilities of camera-less photography, making vividly colored photograms in the color darkroom. Her large-scale compositions straddle the border between abstraction and figuration, recalling simple natural forms such as landscapes, arches or groupings of smoothly curved stones. She calls them “Light Paintings,” evoking the performative nature of their creation.

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Caren Winnall is the curator for Camera-less. The exhibit runs through March 5, 2025.

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Events: 

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Opening reception: Thursday, January 16, 2025 from 6-8pm

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Artist Talk: Sunday, February 2, 2025 at 2 pm

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The Flinn Gallery is a non-profit organization sponsored by the Friends of Greenwich Library and is located on the second floor of the library at 101 Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, CT. The gallery welcomes visitors daily Monday to Saturday, 10am-5pm, Thursday until 8pm, and Sunday 1pm-5pm.

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Silvermine Arts Center welcomes 27 new members into its historic Guild of Artists, with an exhibition presenting innovative work in a variety of mediums and styles. The exhibition will run from January 11 through February 6. The gallery is open Tuesday - Saturday 10 - 4pm.

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In addition to compelling works in painting and sculpture, several of Silvermine’s new Guild members explore innovative processes and materials. Barbara Hocker’s water-inspired works weave photos, prints, and paintings together. The environment—water in particular—is a subject that concerns many of the new Guild members including Susan Hoffman Fishman, who explores disappearing lakes. Her works are both dazzling and shocking. Bonnie Ralston takes found steel and corrodes it directly onto paper using salt, water, and common household acids. Her works exist somewhere between drawings and prints. According to the artist, they reframe the destructive moment as a source of unexpected beauty and possibility. Color theory, inspired in part by architectural or geometric form, takes center stage in the work of Marc Kemeny and Paul Landesman. 

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The Guild’s new sculptors draw on both natural and mythical forms. Tini Pinto’s biophilic ceramic works are as joyful as they are skillfully crafted. Irja Boden describes her stacked forms, which are both embossed and layered, as abstract works that convey a narrative. Aleksandra Scepanovic explores displaced identities and finds a certain human resilience in the theme of wholeness through fractured forms. 

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Since its inception, Guild membership has been a selective peer jurying process. As a result, the Guild has held its membership to high standards. Many members have work represented in permanent collections of some of the world's most prestigious museums, as well as prominent private and corporate collections. This exhibition offers visitors an opportunity to engage with the newest members of this dynamic community of professional artists and learn about their works.

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 Heather Gaudio Fine Art  is pleased to present Reflections on Light, a group exhibition featuring works by four female artists.  The show opens January 25th and runs through March 8th, 2025. 

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Creating the visual discourse at the gallery will be paintings by  Miya Ando ,  Pegan Brooke  and  Kathleen Jacobs  alongside sculptures by  Ann Gardner. These artists share a preoccupation with the nature of light and its ephemeral qualities. Fleeting aspects and impermanent moments are harnessed and captured into serene visual experiences intended to give the viewer pause and consider our relationship with nature.  Each artist uses their specific medium and unique process to create beautifully contemplative and nuanced artworks that are sublime records of time, place and experiences.  Including Miya Ando’s work in the exhibition is made possible with the generous collaboration of Sundaram Tagore Gallery in New York City. 

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Miya Ando  meticulously studies the sky, chronicling different times of day, location, weather and seasonal changes in her artworks. The artist’s practice is rooted in mono no aware, a concept from her Japanese heritage that refers to the awareness of impermanence and beauty, or a sensitivity to ephemera. Ando’s upbringing bridges the cultures and languages of two distinct worlds: the Redwood Forest of Northern California and a Buddhist temple in Japan. Her sculptures, paintings, drawings and installations reflect this cultural duality as well as the dialogue between the natural and the man-made.  On view in the exhibition are sublime works that reflect her sensitivity to nature and passage of time.  The images are sourced from photographs she takes and documents of a particular place and moment in the sky’s timeline. These images are then screen printed on metal sheets -- the material chosen not only for its physical properties but also as a nod to the swordsmith trade of her forebearers. The artist layers her printing techniques with thin veils of ink and pigment mixed with urethane over the metallic surface.  Some areas are left bare, allowing for the underlying sheen and color to assert itself, while a shift in tonality, luster and opacity render nuanced silvery clouds in the composition. For Ando, her creative process is a full immersion into her cultural background as well as an expression of the impermanence and human interdependence with nature.  Ando’s works are in many important collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Nassau County Museum of Art; Detroit Institute of Art; Luftmuseum Amberg, Germany, among others. Her exhibition roster includes the Noguchi Museum, New York; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany; Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Ando was also commissioned to create an artwork for the historic The Glass House in New Canaan, CT. 

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Pegan Brooke ’s paintings investigate light and its reflective qualities on water in all its forms – as a flowing river, a frozen lake, snow-capped mountain, and the like.  For Brooke, the fleeting nature of light bouncing off these surfaces is filled with countless possibilities of subtle change.  Locations also play an important part in her practice, for the light and experiences vary from Pont Aven in Brittany, France, to the Pacific Ocean near her studio in Bolinas and the San Francisco Bay area, to the Silver Creek in Idaho, to the Inland Seto Sea in Japan. Each region offers distinct light qualities and reflective experiences for the artist.  Mixing micas into her pigments, Brooke’s abstract paintings offer an interplay between shimmer and flatness, luminosity and opaqueness.  The soft brushstrokes arranged in linear patterns seem to appear and recede from the canvas, creating a symbiotic relationship between ambient light and the shifting position of the viewer. The artist’s palette with metallic sheens is reduced to whites, light and dark greys or warm ambers that underscore the elusive nature of the composition, reminiscent of evanescent moments in the light. The works in the exhibition were just featured in a solo show at the Katzen Arts Center at American University in Washington, D.C.  Brooke’s paintings have been exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Oakland Museum; San Diego Museum; Des Moines Art Center and Museum; São Paulo Biennale and the Monterey Museum of Art in California.  Her works are included in many prestigious private and public collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; U.S. Embassies in Sri Lanka and Bolivia; Berkley Art Museum; University of Nebraska Art Museum; Bank of America International HQ; Charles R. Schwab and Steven Chase Collection, among others.

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Kathleen Jacobs’  depictions of time, light, atmosphere and weather patterns are quite literal in that her process becomes a physical record of all.  The artist wraps her linen canvases on the trunks of different arbor species, leaving them exposed to the elements over months or years.  She returns to them periodically to apply layers of pigment and oil stick using frottage to trace the relief of the wood grains that act as support to the canvases. The linens absorb multi-layers of pigments hand-applied by the artist which get combined with Mother Nature’s patina, creating beautifully atmospheric compositions. When the weathered canvases are removed from the outdoors and taken into the artist’s studio, they continue to absorb pigments which are rubbed on the front and the back of the canvases.  Once stretched, the canvases are re-oriented so that the bark markings run horizontally across the canvas, becoming reminiscent of cloud patterns or waves on bodies of water. Jacobs is also an acrobatic pilot, so it is no coincidence that her paintings share her views from the heights above and are titled after fixed navigation points in the sky.  Jacobs has had a prolific career with numerous solo and group exhibitions in the United States and Europe.  Her works were installed at The Mount in Lenox, Massachusetts and have been extensively documented in film and written about. The artist lives and works in Massachusetts.

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Seattle-based artist  Ann Gardner  is renowned for her investigations with one of the most ancient man-made materials: glass. As her primary medium, the properties of glass have allowed Gardner to explore her preoccupation with the perception of light and space, color, pattern, volume and other characteristics.  Gardner hand-cuts large sheets of the colored and reflective material into tiny mosaics which are then arranged into large wall-mounted or free-standing sculptural structures. The artist is also known for creating hand-blown glass orbs with soft hues that can be presented as a single table-top form or arranged in clusters suspended from the ceiling.  For Gardner, it is essential that artworks be in complete harmony with the environments they occupy.  Light, vital to people and artworks, is often overlooked because as an element it is invisible to the naked eye.  When it comes to glass, light becomes fundamental in highlighting key elements that are important to glassworks. The physical properties of glass combined with the ephemerality of light creates a dance between the two. Gardner’s decades-long career includes working on many site-specific installations that grace notable institutions including the Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters in Norfolk, Virginia; County Operations Center in San Diego, California; the Bellevue Art Museum, Washington; and the Rosewood Abu Dabi Hotel, UAE, to name a few.  Her work has been the subject of multiple exhibitions including at the Boise Art Museum, Idaho; Bellevue Arts Museum; Katonah Museum of Art, New York and at the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.  Gardner’s works are in multiple important museum and private collections here and abroad.

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Heather Gaudio Fine Art  specializes in emerging and established artists, offering painting, works on paper, photography, and sculpture. The gallery provides a full range of art advisory services, from forming and maintaining a collection, to securing secondary market material, to assisting with framing and installation. The focus is on each individual client, selecting art that best serves his or her vision, space, and resources. The six exhibitions offered every year are designed to present important talent and provide artwork appealing to a broad range of interests. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday; 10:30am to 5:30pm; and by appointment. 

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 Greenwich Art Society Studio School, Winter Term 2025

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Registration begins December 12th for new students!

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Classes start Tuesday, January 7, 2024!

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Enroll asap on 12/9/24 to hold your place in class!

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If not already a member, please log into your account before Dec. 9 and pay for membership first to get tuition discount before registering for classes.

​

Log in to your account here to renew membership:

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Renew here!

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Register online for your favorite class or check out

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our newer classes -- Classical Portrait Drawing,

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Painting Classes, Beginning Drawing, and more!!!

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See full class schedule here

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Create your own account and then select and pay 

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for your classes!

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Our Mission: "To enhance our legacy of personalized visual arts education, outstanding art exhibitions, and children's community outreach."

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A new show at the Rowayton Arts Center (RAC), “From the RAC Studio,” will be on view January 12 through February 1, 2025. This all media exhibition features over 100 pieces of artwork by RAC Instructors and students created in the past year.

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Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from 12 to 5 pm plus Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm.

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RAC celebrates the study, creation and appreciation of the arts through classes, exhibitions and events open to all in the community. For over 60 years, this nonprofit organization has been a cultural gem in Rowayton, CT. The gallery and art school overlook the scenic Five Mile River at 145 Rowayton Avenue with space for regional artists to exhibit their art and a classroom for workshops and classes at all levels offered to children and adults.

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Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.

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Opening reception is on Sunday January 26, 2025, 5:00p.m. - 7:00p.m.

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The Gallery at La Zingara Bar

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8 PT Barnum Square, Bethel, CT

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The Exhibition runs from January 26 through March 16, 2025

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Gallery hours: Wed-Sun 12pm - 8 pm

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"Pride and Prejudice," a new adaptation based on Jane Austen's classic novel, is the 3rd production in Westport Community Theatre's acclaimed season, running January 31 – February 16, 2025. Marriage is far from Elizabeth Bennet’s top concern, yet with four sisters, a determinedly match-making mother, and a parade of ill-suited suitors, the topic is inescapable. When Elizabeth, strong-willed and independent, crosses paths with the intriguing yet reserved Mr. Darcy, she resolves to keep her emotions in check. However, the path to the truth proves more tangled than expected...

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From the creators of Magical Mystery Doors comes Zeppelin Reimagined. Zeppelin Reimagined is not just another Led Zeppelin tribute band; they are a groundbreaking experience that merges the timeless power of classic rock with the cutting-edge technology of today. With a dynamic stage presence, LED screens, and a visual spectacle that complements their sound, Zeppelin Reimagined offers a fresh take on the iconic music of Led Zeppelin.

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Curated by 2024-25 Korry Fellow Juanita Sunday and featuring regional artists Carl Bocicault, Tyler Goldchain, Imo Nse Imeh, Iyaba Ibo Mandigo, Tea Montgomery, Saint Phifer, Andre Rochester, Bizzie Ruth, Dario Tejada, Kamar Thomas, and Yves Wilson.

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MASC explores the intricate intersections of masculinity and Blackness, illuminating the complex layers of identity, expression, and societal expectation.

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The exhibition examines the metaphorical "masks" worn to navigate a world rife with stereotypes and cultural pressures. MASC challenges monolithic notions of masculinity, offering a nuanced exploration of strength, vulnerability, and self-reclamation. Each piece invites audiences to witness the delicate balance between the external personas shaped by societal expectations and the authentic selves seeking liberation and visibility.

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 NOW ON VIEW: January 16 – February 17, 2025

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Large in format, bold in color, brash in context.  We call them the "giants" of our collection. Representing a range of styles and mediums, many of these works have not been on view for decades, including mammoth works by Hunt Slonem, Rhonda Wall and Nicholas Krushenik. Others you may recognize from previous exhibitions; works from Peter Bradley, William Ronald and Steven Brent. We're pleased to present them once more before they return to our collections vault.

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SM&NC exhibition are always free to Members and included in the price of daily admission for visitors.

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The Gallery at GFC welcomes Connecticut artist Marguerite Alpert, whose art is on display from December 12, 2014 to February 10, 2025. Working with dried plant material, Ms. Alpert creates framed pieces that are more than collages, photographs or paintings, yet contain elements of each of those mediums. Her designs run the gamut from quiet and peaceful to bold and energizing, every one a delightful arrangement of natural elements in patterns and shapes nature itself could only admire.

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Please join us for a reception and demonstration on January 15, 2025 from 6-8 PM.

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The Flinn Gallery is pleased to present Camera-less, featuring the work of Joanne Dugan, Amanda Marchand, Anne Arden McDonald and Liz Nielsen. The exhibition will introduce the public to four of the most innovative practitioners of camera-less photography working today. These artists challenge traditional expectations of photographic representation with experimental, process-driven works that push boundaries both technical and conceptual.

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What is camera-less photography?

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It might seem a contradiction in terms but actually, the very first photographic images were created without a camera. In this practice, images are captured on photo-sensitive paper without the use of a lens. Light, chemicals and a light-sensitive surface are its fundamental ingredients. Removing the camera means that light and chemicals interact directly without the intermediary of a camera or a negative.

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The technique of making photographic images without a camera dates back to the early 18oos, at the dawn of photography. Rediscovered by the Surrealists in the 1920s, camera-less or direct photography is seeing a resurgence today, with a growing number of contemporary artists pushing the possibilities of this medium far beyond where their predecessors left off. This exhibition highlights the work of four groundbreaking artists who create powerful and highly original images by casting shadows and filtering light on photographic paper, or by chemically manipulating its surface. The striking works on display, ranging from figurative to abstract, represent the leading edge of what is possible in this emerging field.

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Joanne Dugan  is interested in the visual act as a dynamic, cognitive process that connects people through shared viewing experiences. Her one-of-a-kind images begin with cyanotype or silver gelatin photograms and light paintings, which are hand cut and collaged. Dugan is informed by Buddhist principles and meditation and interested in the physical qualities of photography as a medium.

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Amanda Marchand  works with lumen printing in which black & white photo papers are exposed to the sun to reveal latent color. Her images relate to the passage of time, the natural world and our changing climate. She utilizes books as mark makers, referencing endangered species and the practice of art.

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Anne Arden McDonald  employs an unorthodox collection of materials and methods from the domestic and scientific realms to create her chemigrams. Her highly experimental techniques involve altering the surface of silver gelatin paper and applying materials such as glue, bleach, broken glass, developer and fixer to produce images inspired by atoms and planets, exploring the microcosm and macrocosm of our experience.

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Liz Nielsen  has been systematically exploring the possibilities of camera-less photography, making vividly colored photograms in the color darkroom. Her large-scale compositions straddle the border between abstraction and figuration, recalling simple natural forms such as landscapes, arches or groupings of smoothly curved stones. She calls them “Light Paintings,” evoking the performative nature of their creation.

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Caren Winnall is the curator for Camera-less. The exhibit runs through March 5, 2025.

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Events: 

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Opening reception: Thursday, January 16, 2025 from 6-8pm

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Artist Talk: Sunday, February 2, 2025 at 2 pm

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The Flinn Gallery is a non-profit organization sponsored by the Friends of Greenwich Library and is located on the second floor of the library at 101 Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, CT. The gallery welcomes visitors daily Monday to Saturday, 10am-5pm, Thursday until 8pm, and Sunday 1pm-5pm.

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Silvermine Arts Center welcomes 27 new members into its historic Guild of Artists, with an exhibition presenting innovative work in a variety of mediums and styles. The exhibition will run from January 11 through February 6. The gallery is open Tuesday - Saturday 10 - 4pm.

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In addition to compelling works in painting and sculpture, several of Silvermine’s new Guild members explore innovative processes and materials. Barbara Hocker’s water-inspired works weave photos, prints, and paintings together. The environment—water in particular—is a subject that concerns many of the new Guild members including Susan Hoffman Fishman, who explores disappearing lakes. Her works are both dazzling and shocking. Bonnie Ralston takes found steel and corrodes it directly onto paper using salt, water, and common household acids. Her works exist somewhere between drawings and prints. According to the artist, they reframe the destructive moment as a source of unexpected beauty and possibility. Color theory, inspired in part by architectural or geometric form, takes center stage in the work of Marc Kemeny and Paul Landesman. 

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The Guild’s new sculptors draw on both natural and mythical forms. Tini Pinto’s biophilic ceramic works are as joyful as they are skillfully crafted. Irja Boden describes her stacked forms, which are both embossed and layered, as abstract works that convey a narrative. Aleksandra Scepanovic explores displaced identities and finds a certain human resilience in the theme of wholeness through fractured forms. 

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Since its inception, Guild membership has been a selective peer jurying process. As a result, the Guild has held its membership to high standards. Many members have work represented in permanent collections of some of the world's most prestigious museums, as well as prominent private and corporate collections. This exhibition offers visitors an opportunity to engage with the newest members of this dynamic community of professional artists and learn about their works.

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The Greenwich Art Society has Children's Classes on Saturdays!

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YOUNG ARTISTS IN THE STUDIO, AGES 6-8

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11 SATURDAYS

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Jan. 11 – March 22

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10:30 am to 12:00 pm

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This class will explore new approaches to creativity with children. Using drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, and sculpture children will learn new skills and improve on old ones as they experiment with new media and different techniques. To reinforce their understanding, children will learn about important artists who are either historically significant or are forerunners in contemporary art. Come join in and stretch your imagination in a relaxed, fun environment. Materials supplied. 

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DRAWING AND PAINTING FOR THE JUNIOR ARTIST – AGES 9-12

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11 SATURDAYS

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Jan. 11 – March 22

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12:30 to 2:00 pm

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Learn about drawing from observation by exploring form, shape, space and composition. Learn about materials and how to use them to create space in your drawings. Learn about painting techniques, color mixing and more. To reinforce their understanding, children will learn about important artists who are either historically significant or are forerunners in contemporary art. Materials used will be pencil, charcoal, pen and ink and paint.

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 Heather Gaudio Fine Art  is pleased to present Reflections on Light, a group exhibition featuring works by four female artists.  The show opens January 25th and runs through March 8th, 2025. 

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Creating the visual discourse at the gallery will be paintings by  Miya Ando ,  Pegan Brooke  and  Kathleen Jacobs  alongside sculptures by  Ann Gardner. These artists share a preoccupation with the nature of light and its ephemeral qualities. Fleeting aspects and impermanent moments are harnessed and captured into serene visual experiences intended to give the viewer pause and consider our relationship with nature.  Each artist uses their specific medium and unique process to create beautifully contemplative and nuanced artworks that are sublime records of time, place and experiences.  Including Miya Ando’s work in the exhibition is made possible with the generous collaboration of Sundaram Tagore Gallery in New York City. 

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Miya Ando  meticulously studies the sky, chronicling different times of day, location, weather and seasonal changes in her artworks. The artist’s practice is rooted in mono no aware, a concept from her Japanese heritage that refers to the awareness of impermanence and beauty, or a sensitivity to ephemera. Ando’s upbringing bridges the cultures and languages of two distinct worlds: the Redwood Forest of Northern California and a Buddhist temple in Japan. Her sculptures, paintings, drawings and installations reflect this cultural duality as well as the dialogue between the natural and the man-made.  On view in the exhibition are sublime works that reflect her sensitivity to nature and passage of time.  The images are sourced from photographs she takes and documents of a particular place and moment in the sky’s timeline. These images are then screen printed on metal sheets -- the material chosen not only for its physical properties but also as a nod to the swordsmith trade of her forebearers. The artist layers her printing techniques with thin veils of ink and pigment mixed with urethane over the metallic surface.  Some areas are left bare, allowing for the underlying sheen and color to assert itself, while a shift in tonality, luster and opacity render nuanced silvery clouds in the composition. For Ando, her creative process is a full immersion into her cultural background as well as an expression of the impermanence and human interdependence with nature.  Ando’s works are in many important collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Nassau County Museum of Art; Detroit Institute of Art; Luftmuseum Amberg, Germany, among others. Her exhibition roster includes the Noguchi Museum, New York; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany; Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Ando was also commissioned to create an artwork for the historic The Glass House in New Canaan, CT. 

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Pegan Brooke ’s paintings investigate light and its reflective qualities on water in all its forms – as a flowing river, a frozen lake, snow-capped mountain, and the like.  For Brooke, the fleeting nature of light bouncing off these surfaces is filled with countless possibilities of subtle change.  Locations also play an important part in her practice, for the light and experiences vary from Pont Aven in Brittany, France, to the Pacific Ocean near her studio in Bolinas and the San Francisco Bay area, to the Silver Creek in Idaho, to the Inland Seto Sea in Japan. Each region offers distinct light qualities and reflective experiences for the artist.  Mixing micas into her pigments, Brooke’s abstract paintings offer an interplay between shimmer and flatness, luminosity and opaqueness.  The soft brushstrokes arranged in linear patterns seem to appear and recede from the canvas, creating a symbiotic relationship between ambient light and the shifting position of the viewer. The artist’s palette with metallic sheens is reduced to whites, light and dark greys or warm ambers that underscore the elusive nature of the composition, reminiscent of evanescent moments in the light. The works in the exhibition were just featured in a solo show at the Katzen Arts Center at American University in Washington, D.C.  Brooke’s paintings have been exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Oakland Museum; San Diego Museum; Des Moines Art Center and Museum; São Paulo Biennale and the Monterey Museum of Art in California.  Her works are included in many prestigious private and public collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; U.S. Embassies in Sri Lanka and Bolivia; Berkley Art Museum; University of Nebraska Art Museum; Bank of America International HQ; Charles R. Schwab and Steven Chase Collection, among others.

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Kathleen Jacobs’  depictions of time, light, atmosphere and weather patterns are quite literal in that her process becomes a physical record of all.  The artist wraps her linen canvases on the trunks of different arbor species, leaving them exposed to the elements over months or years.  She returns to them periodically to apply layers of pigment and oil stick using frottage to trace the relief of the wood grains that act as support to the canvases. The linens absorb multi-layers of pigments hand-applied by the artist which get combined with Mother Nature’s patina, creating beautifully atmospheric compositions. When the weathered canvases are removed from the outdoors and taken into the artist’s studio, they continue to absorb pigments which are rubbed on the front and the back of the canvases.  Once stretched, the canvases are re-oriented so that the bark markings run horizontally across the canvas, becoming reminiscent of cloud patterns or waves on bodies of water. Jacobs is also an acrobatic pilot, so it is no coincidence that her paintings share her views from the heights above and are titled after fixed navigation points in the sky.  Jacobs has had a prolific career with numerous solo and group exhibitions in the United States and Europe.  Her works were installed at The Mount in Lenox, Massachusetts and have been extensively documented in film and written about. The artist lives and works in Massachusetts.

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Seattle-based artist  Ann Gardner  is renowned for her investigations with one of the most ancient man-made materials: glass. As her primary medium, the properties of glass have allowed Gardner to explore her preoccupation with the perception of light and space, color, pattern, volume and other characteristics.  Gardner hand-cuts large sheets of the colored and reflective material into tiny mosaics which are then arranged into large wall-mounted or free-standing sculptural structures. The artist is also known for creating hand-blown glass orbs with soft hues that can be presented as a single table-top form or arranged in clusters suspended from the ceiling.  For Gardner, it is essential that artworks be in complete harmony with the environments they occupy.  Light, vital to people and artworks, is often overlooked because as an element it is invisible to the naked eye.  When it comes to glass, light becomes fundamental in highlighting key elements that are important to glassworks. The physical properties of glass combined with the ephemerality of light creates a dance between the two. Gardner’s decades-long career includes working on many site-specific installations that grace notable institutions including the Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters in Norfolk, Virginia; County Operations Center in San Diego, California; the Bellevue Art Museum, Washington; and the Rosewood Abu Dabi Hotel, UAE, to name a few.  Her work has been the subject of multiple exhibitions including at the Boise Art Museum, Idaho; Bellevue Arts Museum; Katonah Museum of Art, New York and at the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.  Gardner’s works are in multiple important museum and private collections here and abroad.

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Heather Gaudio Fine Art  specializes in emerging and established artists, offering painting, works on paper, photography, and sculpture. The gallery provides a full range of art advisory services, from forming and maintaining a collection, to securing secondary market material, to assisting with framing and installation. The focus is on each individual client, selecting art that best serves his or her vision, space, and resources. The six exhibitions offered every year are designed to present important talent and provide artwork appealing to a broad range of interests. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday; 10:30am to 5:30pm; and by appointment. 

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 Greenwich Art Society Studio School, Winter Term 2025

​

Registration begins December 12th for new students!

​

Classes start Tuesday, January 7, 2024!

​

Enroll asap on 12/9/24 to hold your place in class!

​

​

If not already a member, please log into your account before Dec. 9 and pay for membership first to get tuition discount before registering for classes.

​

Log in to your account here to renew membership:

​

Renew here!

​

​

Register online for your favorite class or check out

​

our newer classes -- Classical Portrait Drawing,

​

Painting Classes, Beginning Drawing, and more!!!

​

​

See full class schedule here

​

​

Create your own account and then select and pay 

​

for your classes!

​

​

Our Mission: "To enhance our legacy of personalized visual arts education, outstanding art exhibitions, and children's community outreach."

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You are invited to visit the Gallery at the Greens Farms Church in Westport to see pressed flower designs by Wethersfield artist Marguerite Alpert of The Flowered Press. She is known for taking fresh plants apart and then drying them in handmade wooden presses. She then composes unique designs from the dried plant material, which offers a novel view of nature. Her process allows exquisite details to be revealed and invites the viewer to take a closer look. Stop by the gallery and immerse yourself in this winter garden! 

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This show runs from December 12, 2024 to February 11, 2025

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You are also invited to attend the opening reception on January 15th, 6-8pm. Details are on the invitation.

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All work is available for sale directly from the artist.

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Marguerite participates in juried art events and exhibitions, conducts workshops, accepts commissions, and offers speaking engagements.

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You are invited to visit the Gallery at the Greens Farms Church in Westport to see pressed flower designs by Wethersfield artist Marguerite Alpert of The Flowered Press. She is known for taking fresh plants apart and then drying them in handmade wooden presses. She then composes unique designs from the dried plant material, which offers a novel view of nature. Her process allows exquisite details to be revealed and invites the viewer to take a closer look. Stop by the gallery and immerse yourself in this winter garden! 

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This show runs from December 12, 2024 to February 11, 2025

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You are also invited to attend the opening reception on January 15th, 6-8pm. Details are on the invitation.

​

All work is available for sale directly from the artist.

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Marguerite participates in juried art events and exhibitions, conducts workshops, accepts commissions, and offers speaking engagements.

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