Our new exhibition, INSIDE OUT, featuring the work of Connecticut artists Annette Voreyer and Sergey Stepanenko, will be on view from February 8 through March 29. The opening reception will be held on Thursday, February 13, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. The artists will give a brief talk at the reception at 6:00 pm. The Kershner Gallery, inside the Fairfield Public Library, is open during all library hours for your convenience.
New Exhibition! "INSIDE OUT"
Our new exhibition, INSIDE OUT, featuring the work of Connecticut artists Annette Voreyer and Sergey Stepanenko, will be on view from February 8 through March 29. The opening reception will be held on Thursday, February 13, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. The artists will give a brief talk at the reception at 6:00 pm. The Kershner Gallery, inside the Fairfield Public Library, is open during all library hours for your convenience.
New Exhibition! "INSIDE OUT"
A new show at the Rowayton Arts Center (RAC), “Abstraction,” will be on view March 16 through April 5, 2025. This all media exhibition features artwork by RAC Exhibiting Members with a larger degree of independence from visual references.
The opening reception is free and open to the public on Sunday, March 16 from 4 pm to 6 pm. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from 12 to 5 pm and Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm.
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 studio for workshops and classes at all levels offered to children and adults. Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.
Rowayton Arts Center "Abstraction" Exhibition
The Professionals Ensemble Group & Concert provides professional instrumentalists an opportunity to meet and collaborate with their peers to showcase their ensemble group pieces to audiences at the Schubert Club Professionals Ensemble Group Concert held in the Spring of every year.
IMPORTANT EVENT DETAILS:
Date/Time:
March 29, 2025 from 2:00pm -4:00pm
Location :
Pequot Library 720 Pequot Avenue Southport, CT
Visit www.schubertclub.org for more information
Professionals Ensemble Group Concert
Kids in 3rd through 5th grade can come and play games, bring your friends and make new ones too!
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Kid Gaming
A special evening with author Gregory Maguire, who will discuss his new book Elphie: The Wicked Childhood, a prequel to the international bestseller Wicked, Maguire's 1995 novel that was adapted into the long-running, Tony Award-winning Broadway musical and the blockbuster major motion picture of the same name.
Elphie chronicles the formative years of Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West, unveiling her intriguing past and setting the stage for the global phenomenon that is Wicked.
Teens and adults.
A small reception will open the presentation at 6:30pm; book sale and signing hosted by Elm Street Books will follow.
Registration required.
What happened to young Elphaba before her witchy powers took hold in Wicked? Almost 30 years after the publication of the original novel, for the first time Gregory Maguire reveals the story of prickly young Elphie, the future Wicked Witch of the West. Elphaba will grow up to have a feisty and somewhat uncompromising character in adult life. But she is always a one-off, from her infancy; Elphie is the riveting coming-of-age story of a very peculiar and relatable young girl.
Gregory Maguire is the New York Times bestselling author of the Wicked Years, a series that includes Wicked, the beloved classic that is the basis for the Broadway musical and the major motion picture. The series includes the titles Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men and Out of Oz. His series Another Day continues the story of Oz with The Brides of Maracoor, The Oracle of Maracoor and The Witch of Maracoor. Other novels include A Wild Winter Swan, Hiddensee, After Alice, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Lost and Mirror Mirror. His novels for children include Cress Watercress, Leaping Beauty and Egg & Spoon, winner of a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Honor.
Maguire lives in New England and France.
An Evening With Gregory Maguire, Author of Elphie: A Wicked Childhood
Westport Country Playhouse stages the comedy Theatre People from Mar. 25 - Apr. 12
Who doesn’t love theatre people? It’s 1948, and the brightest names on Broadway have descended upon a glamorous Newport mansion for a weekend of romance, chaos, and more than a few misunderstandings. Join an unforgettable cast of characters populated by a pair of scheming playwrights, a couple of misbehaving actors, a star-struck young author and a disgruntled housekeeper for a comedy that’s a love letter to the theatre and all the people who make it. Author Paul Slade Smith conjures the spirit of the classic screwball comedies of yesteryear with irresistible charm and backstage antics certain to leave you breathless with laughter. After all, who doesn’t love theatre people? Directed by Mark Shanahan, Westport Country Playhouse artistic director.
Theatre People
Learn how the municipal government in Bethel functions and how to participate in our town's democratic civic process.
If you're new in town or want to be more informed and involved this event is for you!
This is a non-partisan event.
Municipal Government: How It Works & How To Participate
On view March 7 — May 27 at the SM&NC: Jeremiah Chechik, artist, film director and photographer, is obsessed with the porous boundary between fact and fiction. The subtly investigative prints he creates explore our “post truth” reality, melding 21st century advanced digital design with traditional printing on Hahnemühle paper. The resulting images are more than just visually stunning and thoroughly aesthetic — they also raise key questions about the nature of truth and knowledge in our media-saturated age. Learn more about this exhibition at stamfordmuseum.org/explorer
Exhibition organized by Katharine T. Carter & Associates
SM&NC Exhibitions are always free to Members and included in the price of daily admission for visitors.
Exhibition on View: "Jeremiah Chechik: Explorer"
All In This Together: Highlights from our Printmaking Programs
Exhibition Dates: March 4-30, 2025
Over the past 12 months, the Center for Contemporary Printmaking has facilitated the printmaking projects of dozens of artists. We’ve hosted Artists-in-Residence, conducted collaboration and editioning services, offered workshops across a spectrum of printmaking processes, and mentored high school students through our Grace Ross Shanley Fellowship Program.
Our March 2025 Exhibition highlights some of the prints that have been produced at CCP through our suite of programs. The variety and excellence of the work displayed in our gallery this month serves as both example and inspiration to our community, and underscores our dedication to the art of print.
Artists included in the Exhibition:
Miguel A. Aragón, Enrique Figueredo, Richard Haas, Will McCarthy, Anette Millington, Hans Neleman, Sok Song, Bryn Sumner, Falk Töpfer, Theresa Wenzel, and youth program participants.
Images credit: Theresa Wenzel, Sparrow Rocket, linocut, 2024.
All In This Together: Highlights from our Printmaking Programs
This March, Geary Gallery proudly presents:
The Beauty of the World Is Around Us and In the Artist’s Soul
From Odessa to Darien
A retrospective of works by Lev Meshberg (1933-2007)
Special Event: Saturday, March 8, 5pm-7pm
Exhibition: March 1-29
The special event on Saturday, March 8 will honor the life and works of Ukranian-born and Darien, CT resident, artist Lev Meshberg (1933-2007). The event celebrating this internationally known painter is open to the public. The month-long exhibition features his autobiographical, symbolic and enigmatic paintings and runs March 1-29, 2025. 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.
Lev Meshberg: The Beauty of the World is Around Us and In the Artist’s Soul at the Geary Gallery, Darien, CT
The first monographic exhibition of her work in nearly two decades, Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist traces the artist’s pioneering approaches to abstraction in the United States.
Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist
Best known for his conceptual and street photography, Kenji Nakahashi (Japanese, 1947–2017) produced a highly experimental body of work grounded in the everyday.
Kenji Nakahashi: Strange Beauty
On Thin Ice: Alaska’s Warming Wilderness transports visitors to the Arctic to confront the startling impacts of climate change. Remarkable animals from the Bruce’s natural history collections are paired with scale landscape models that showcase Alaska’s diverse ecosystem. The installation highlights both subtle and dramatic shifts occurring across the Alaskan landscape, bringing attention to the impact of rising temperatures.
On Thin Ice: Alaska’s Warming Wilderness
The Flinn Gallery is pleased to present Biophilia, an exhibition featuring the work of six women artists: Carol Bouyoucos, Loren Eiferman, Julie Evans, Heide Follin, Christina Massey, and Sui Park. Curated by Ellen Hawley, the show explores the concept of biophilia, a term coined by Harvard naturalist Dr. Edward O. Wilson, referring to humanity’s intrinsic affinity for nature and life.
Drawing inspiration from both real and imagined aspects of the natural world, these artists explore the intersection of nature, imagination, and technology. Their diverse practices reflect personal connections to the environment, sustainability, and the fragility of life. Their works are expressed through a dynamic range of 2D and 3D materials, textures, and colors. Using a range of materials and techniques—from traditional painting to upcycled sculptures—they offer unique perspectives on ecological responsibility and the evolving relationship between humans and the Earth.
Carol Bouyoucos , for example, combines photography and digital tools to create vibrant, surreal landscapes that evoke nature while incorporating technological intervention. Loren Eiferman takes a different approach, transforming discarded wood into intricate sculptures inspired by mythical 15th century plant references from The Voynich Manuscript, while weaving in a conversation about ecological healing with her series Nature Will Heal.
Julie Evans ’ earthy ceramic sculptures, with their organic shapes and textures, also seek to bridge the familiar and the unfamiliar that evolve from her background as a painter. Only recently, she recently began making ceramic sculpture. Similarly, Heide Follin ’s layered botanical imagery on canvas, fabric, or wood panels, reflects her interest in ecosystems and their unseen, energetic connections. The vibrancy and texture of her abstract compositions capture the energy of growing things, evoking both their beauty and complexity. A quote reads: “My interests in eco-systems include the examinations of things that grow; their energies, gestures, movements, entanglements, textures and personalities.”
Christina Massey ’s uses repurposed aluminum cans to create colorful, abstract works that merge painting, sculpture, and sustainability, incorporating glass blown elements she recently learned to create. The otherworldly, colorful abstractions she creates live somewhere between that of painting and sculpture, craft and fine art, process based and conceptual.
Lastly, Sui Park manipulates industrial materials like plastic zip ties to form dynamic, biomorphic sculptures that reflect nature’s subtle transformations. They are non–durable, disposable, trivial, inexpensive and easily consumed materials. Park writes, “I often find these moments from nature.
I think nature allows us to pause and find things that have been overlooked and are inspiring. Through these forms, I attempt to express seemingly static yet dynamic characteristics of our evolving lives. While they resemble transitions and transformations of nature, the forms are to capture subtle but continuous changes in our emotions, sentiments, memories and expectations.”
Biophilia invites viewers to pause and reconsider their relationship with the natural world, offering reimagined life forms and reinterpreted landscapes through the artists' unique visions.
Events:
- Opening reception: Thursday, March 13, 2025, from 6-8pm
- Artist Talk: Sunday, March 30 @ 2 pm
- Greenwich Library Friend’s Friday Film: Date TBA
Biophilia is curated by Flinn Gallery committee member Ellen Hawley. 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 Mon. to Sat., 10am-5pm, Thurs. until 8pm, and Sun. 1-5pm.
Biophilia
The return of the Wilton Art Council’s annual photography exhibit for photographers in three divisions: Adult, High School, and Youth (through 8th grade). The judged exhibition features the works of amateur and professional photographers in a range of styles and subject matter.
Reception and awards presentation on Friday, March 21 from 6 to 7:30pm is free and open to the public. Exhibition runs through April 23. A majority of the works will be available for purchase with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the library.
For more information, visit www.wiltonarts.org or contact Beth Schneider at baswilton@yahoo.com.
FOCUS '25 Photography Exhibition
This exhibition explores Tonalism in the United States from the 1880s to the early 20th century, through artists from the Northeast such as George Inness, John Henry Twachtman, and John Francis Murphy. Tonalism is a transitional movement that grew out of and reacted to the Hudson River School of painting and laid the groundwork for modernism. Evocative landscapes, evoking a spiritual connection to the natural world, often painted from memory, are the primary genre of this movement. The more than fifty artworks in this exhibition are drawn from private and institutional collections.
Dawn & Dusk: Tonalism in Connecticut
About the Exhibition: Environmental threats and climate change are urgent matters of concern at Jesuit universities, where conversations on this topic often take place in reference to two documents by Pope Francis: Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home (2015) and the 2023 update Laudate Deum. Artists play an indispensable role in our collective response to climate change. To See This Place: Awakening to Our Common Home, curated by Al Miner and David Brinker, will present work by Athena LaTocha, Mary Mattingly, and Tyler Rai, three contemporary artists whose outlook resonates with the themes of Laudato Si’ and Laudate Deum. Embodying a breadth of personal, geographic, and cultural backgrounds, the three artists create works strongly associated with a sense of place, whether specific or imaginary. They employ media as diverse as photography, sculpture, video, and painting, and often incorporate materials sourced from particular locales. Yet the artists draw forth broader themes from this particularity, critiquing political and economic systems that perpetuate destructive self-interest and drawing attention to people who have been marginalized and historically excluded or harmed. The works are artistically compelling yet can inspire us to creativity and boldness in our efforts to address climate change. This exhibition will open at Saint Louis University's Museum of Contemporary Religious Art in Fall 2025.
Image: Mary Mattingly, Saltwater, 2022, chromogenic dye coupler print. © Mary Mattingly, courtesy of Robert Mann Gallery
To See this Place: Awakening to Our Common Home
We are pleased to announce our upcoming show, Refraction, featuring original abstract watercolor paintings by Connecticut-based artist Nealy Hauschildt on the main wall of Sorelle Gallery. The show will opening Saturday, March 8, 2025, with an Artist Meet & Greet and Opening Reception from 2:00 - 4:00pm on opening day. Visitors will have the opportunity to explore Nealy's artwork, meet with her and learn about her process, and enjoy light refreshments.
Nealy Hauschildt is a Connecticut-based artist. She obtained her BFA from the University of Michigan, during which time she spent four months studying at the Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design in Prague, CZ. Her work has been featured in Thought Art Magazine and CandyFloss Magazine, and has been included in shows and private collections across the country.
"Color plays an enormous role in my work and in how I experience the world," Hauschildt says. "My paintings are a combination of what exists in nature and how I experience my environment. I aim to capture the soul of the landscape through minimalistic, emotive color planes. Just as planned as it is exploratory, my process includes layering transparent washes and allowing room for the paint to evolve on page. I hope for my work to provide a moment of reflection and inspire sight; to reconnect us with land, sea, and sky and ignite an emotional response to color.
"The work included in Refraction focuses on my experience of light affecting color," she continues. "The slow-shifting deep tones of a late summer evening shortly after the sun has set; the sparkling pale mist across the back bowl of a mountain - all of these experiences I recall in impressionistic colorfields. Color is integral to how we experience life, and there is no color without refraction. Color is simply our perception of reflected light. The colors of my surroundings are contained in memories, just as my initial perception is contained in refractions."
Hauschildt's paintings will be on view through Saturday, March 29th. Find her original abstract watercolor paintings at sorellegallery.com.
This On View feature is free and open to the public during gallery hours, Tuesday through Saturday 11:00am - 5:00pm. Street parking is available.
Refraction: A Solo Show Featuring Nealy Hauschildt
Trailer Box Project presents "Acts of Beauty" featuring Artists Katie Bassett and Nicole Bricker. Artist talk March 15th, the show closes April 19, 2025
Free and open to the Public Monday - Friday 11:00AM - 5:00PM or by appointment.
Acts of Beauty - featuring Katie Bassett & Nicole Bricker
The Contemporary Art Modern Project is pleased to welcome March with two new exhibitions and an online exclusive running simultaneously from March 7–April 4, 2025.
In CAMP’s incubator space, Jan Brandt’s solo exhibition, Between Stillness and Growth , explores the tension between bloom and decay through Brandt’s signature use of playful, tactile materials like puffy paint and glitter. Her Hothouse series navigates the fluid boundary between representation and abstraction, creating compositions that pulse with kinetic energy while incorporating moments of stillness. These textures and compositions invite viewers to pause, reflect, and embrace life’s rhythms, offering both a reflection on transition and an exploration of the cycle between chaos and calm.
Curated by Amy Arechavaleta.
The CAMP Gallery is open Tuesday–Saturday , 12 to 5 PM.
For more information, please reach out to our email hello@thecampgallery.com.
The Contemporary Art Modern Project (The CAMP Gallery)
The Contemporary Art Modern Project Gallery specializes is a contemporary art gallery dedicated to raising awareness for emerging and mid-career artists with a unique emphasis on ultra-contemporary approaches to textiles and fiber art. Founded during the height of the pandemic by Melanie Prapopoulos, the gallery has gone on to create a distinctly academic and thought-provoking arts program in North Miami, and beyond. As a gallery, The CAMP remains steadfast in transparency both for the artist and for the collector, building bridges and connections from creation to acquisition. With a robust local and international roster, the gallery represents artists working in textiles and fiber, painting, photography, sculpture, and installation. Looking at art, as a whole, through a reactionary and interdisciplinary approach, the gallery operates as a space wherein creativity and reality co-exist.
Between Stillness And Growth
Our new exhibition, INSIDE OUT, featuring the work of Connecticut artists Annette Voreyer and Sergey Stepanenko, will be on view from February 8 through March 29. The opening reception will be held on Thursday, February 13, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. The artists will give a brief talk at the reception at 6:00 pm. The Kershner Gallery, inside the Fairfield Public Library, is open during all library hours for your convenience.
New Exhibition! "INSIDE OUT"
INSIDE OUT, featuring the work of Connecticut artists Annette Voreyer and Sergey Stepanenko, will be on view from February 8 through March 29. The opening reception will be held on Thursday, February 13, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. The artists will give a brief talk at the reception at 6:00 pm.
New Exhibition! "INSIDE OUT"
Our new exhibition, INSIDE OUT, featuring the work of Connecticut artists Annette Voreyer and Sergey Stepanenko, will be on view from February 8 through March 29. The opening reception will be held on Thursday, February 13, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. The artists will give a brief talk at the reception at 6:00 pm. The Kershner Gallery, inside the Fairfield Public Library, is open during all library hours for your convenience.
New Exhibition! "INSIDE OUT"
In conjunction with our current exhibition, Greenwich During the Revolutionary War: A Frontier Town on the Front Line, the Time Travelers KidStudio returns through June 2025! Step back in time and learn how kids lived in Greenwich 250 years ago. Every Wednesday and Saturday afternoon will feature a new guided craft or activity inspired by the colonial era. Children up to age 12 are welcome to attend with an accompanying adult.
On Wednesday, March 26 the KidStudio will offer top decorating! Have you ever wondered what kids did for fun 300 years ago? Learn about the toys kids played with during the colonial era and decorate your own wooden top to take home with you.
Colonial Toys: Decorate a Top in the Time Travelers KidStudio
A new show at the Rowayton Arts Center (RAC), “Abstraction,” will be on view March 16 through April 5, 2025. This all media exhibition features artwork by RAC Exhibiting Members with a larger degree of independence from visual references.
The opening reception is free and open to the public on Sunday, March 16 from 4 pm to 6 pm. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from 12 to 5 pm and Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm.
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 studio for workshops and classes at all levels offered to children and adults. Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.
Rowayton Arts Center "Abstraction" Exhibition
Music in the Meetinghouse, the concert series of First Church of Fairfield, presents the 2025 return of our beloved Lenten Organ Recital Series, showcasing our renowned Klais pipe organ. Occurring Wednesdays in Lent from 12:15-12:45, the series includes a light luncheon afterward. General admission; free-will offering. Note that we begin a week early this year, on Ash Wednesday (March 5). We are pleased to welcome this year's artists: Connecticut native Ted Babbitt (Mar. 5) is a rising star in the organ world, studying music education and organ at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. He is also Music Director-Organist at All Saints Episcopal Church, in Warner, GA. San Francisco native Ethan Haman (Mar. 12) is Staff Accompanist for the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Director of Music for the Episcopal Church at Yale. He is also the Organist and Assistant Director of Music at Noroton Presbyterian Church in Darien, CT, and Staff Accompanist for the Greater New Haven Community Chorus. Ethan studied at USC and Yale. March 19 we highlight our own Frank Martignetti. Craig Scott Symons (March 26) has been Minister of Music at First Congregational Church of Greenwich since 2016. A graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy, Wayne State, and the University of Michigan, Craig is a prolific choral conductor and recitalist. Sándor Szabó (Apr. 2) of Sacred Heart Church, Dobbs Ferry, NY, is an active conductor, organist, pianist and harpsichordist domestically and internationally. A native of Yugoslavia, he is also Music Director of the Oratorio Society of New Jersey and Organist and Choir Director and Organist at Temple B’nai Abraham, Livingston NJ.
Lenten Organ Recital Series
The Schubert Club introduces CoLab, a new pilot program where all ages and all stages come together to perform works from any genre of music: Parents with their children, grandparents with their grandchildren, friends with friends, teachers with students, all combinations or solo. No rules!
Important Dates/Times:
Deadline for registrations: April 15, 2025
CoLab Recital: May 3, 2025 from 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
For more information or to register visit: https://schubertclub.org/colab/
CoLab: A New Program By The Schubert Club
The Professionals Ensemble Group & Concert provides professional instrumentalists an opportunity to meet and collaborate with their peers to showcase their ensemble group pieces to audiences at the Schubert Club Professionals Ensemble Group Concert held in the Spring of every year.
IMPORTANT EVENT DETAILS:
Date/Time:
March 29, 2025 from 2:00pm -4:00pm
Location :
Pequot Library 720 Pequot Avenue Southport, CT
Visit www.schubertclub.org for more information
Professionals Ensemble Group Concert
If you are struggling with stress, an over-active mind and want to find a new perspective on how mindfulness and meditation can help in navigating the challenges of your everyday life, then join Prabha Makayee as she guides you through the steps of meditation. See what you can accomplish by taking responsibility over what kinds of thoughts you think. With just one second, one breath and one thought of changing your perspective you can realign your well-being to a more peaceful, happy mindset.
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Mindfulness Meditation For Adults
Whether you're a seasoned grandmaster or a beginner eager to learn, this event offers an opportunity to test your strategic prowess. Engage in friendly matches, improve your chess skills, and enjoy intellectual challenges in a welcoming and inclusive environment!
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Chess - All Ages
The Gallery @ GFC welcomes award-winning Greenwich photographer Sally Harris, presenting her latest work “The Colors and Culture of Oaxaca,” in a solo show from March 14—May 14, 2025. The community is invited to meet Sally and see these stunning photographs at an Opening Reception on March 14th from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. Light bites will be served. The Gallery is located at 71 Hillandale Road in Westport. For more information about the artist, please visit her website: sallyharrisphotography.com; for more information about the Gallery please visit greensfarmschurch.org/the-gallery
The Colors and Culture of Oaxaca
Doors open at 6:00pm. Try to be seated by 6:30pm to have your dinner order taken. Showtime begins at 7:00pm when we transform the space into a theater.
Out of respect for the performers and other patrons, please keep talking to a whisper during the performance.
Very Limited Occupancy. Tables seating 2, 4, 5 guests, with tables for 6, 8, 12 available upon request. Single, general admission tickets are also available. See The Attached Seating Chart. Admission Is $15.00 - $25.00 Per Person, Ticket prices may be higher for special performances. Having problems with the ticketing system? Call 203-247-4273
Parking: Please park in LaZingara's lot or on Greenwood Ave. or School Street. Please avoid parking in P.T. Barnum Square.
Check out the band:
Ralph Lalama - Saxophone. Ralph grew up in West Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, graduated from The Dana School of Music of Youngstown State University (Ohio) and was recognized there for his remarkable talent by the legendary Thad Jones, who encouraged him to come to New York. Since that time, Lalama has reached a dignified status as a widely respected master of the tenor through his achievements in the big bands of Woody Herman, Buddy Rich, Carla Bley and the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra - now the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra - with whom he is a featured soloist on Monday nights at New York's Village Vanguard. His experience includes appearances with Barry Harris, James Moody, Harold Danko, Mel Torme, Carmen McRae, Tom Harrell and Joe Morello. He has recorded with Joe Morello, the Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, and the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, under the direction of Jon Faddis - now the John Faddis Jazz Orchestra. He appears on three Joe Lovano Nonet releases on Blue Note: the Grammy-winning, "52nd Street Themes," (2001), "On This Day...At the Vanguard," (2005), and "Streams of Expression" (2006). In 2005 he celebrated another Grammy-winning release with the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra's, "The Way - The Music of Slide Hampton." He is the producer of and performs on a CD of vocalist Nicole Pasternak, "In A Word," (2005, Garagista Music). He is featured on the 2008 Vanguard Jazz Orchestra's "Live at the Village Vanguard" (Planet Arts). His new release as a leader, Ralph Lalama Quartet "Energy Fields" on Mighty Quinn Music came out in October 2008 to a chorus of rave reviews. Jazz icon Dan Morgenstern dubbed it "...one of my best-of-the-year picks, on "Jazz from the Archives," WBGO.
The distinctive Tenorist has led five projects for the Dutch label, Criss-Cross Jazz. "Music for Grown-Ups," (1999) featured notables Richard Wyands at the piano, Peter Washington on bass and Kenny Washington on drums. "Lalama is out front booting things along with that cavernous sound of his and a swing and swagger that is infectious." (allaboutjazz). "Circle Line" (1997) garnered 4½ stars from DownBeat and secured him a spot in the magazine's "Top CDs of the Decade" (Dec. 99). "You Know What I Mean" (1995) received wide acclaim and "Momentum" (1992) with Kenny Barron placed him at No. 2 on NY's WBGO playlist, just behind tenor giant Joe Henderson.
Lalama's playing reveals an enormous depth of musical heart and knowledge. Combined with his muscular sound, executed in a freewheeling, no-holds-barred approach to music, one understands why he so thoroughly connects with musicians and listeners alike. When not busy touring, he dedicates his time to teaching as an adjunct professor at New York University and SUNY Purchase. He has instructed an international collective of students through Manhattan School of Music's Marca Jazz Camp in Venice, Italy and also taught clinics in Assisi, Italy. He also offers private instruction. One of his students, Jonathan Lee, received the 2003 and 2004 National DownBeat Award for Best High School Jazz Soloist. He is a founding member of New York's Westchester (County) Jazz Orchestra (WJO) through which, in addition to their accomplished concert series, he is active in their educational outreach program to jazz students in Westchester County's public schools. As a guest clinician, he has taught at Eastman School of Music, University of Memphis, University of Louisville, University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Temple University. In June 2009, he was featured in a cover story of the publication, Saxophone Journal.
Andrew Wilcox - Piano. Andrew is one of Hartford’s rising young musicians. Originally from Boylston, MA, Andrew has proven himself to be a talented young pianist, with a passion to learn, grow and play. After moving to Hartford at age 18, Andrew quickly sought out his elders and began building relationships with them. These relationships eventually turned into mentors and employers and Andrew has been seen alongside many of these musicians including Haneef Nelson, Nat Reeves, Yoron Israel, Avery Sharpe, Abraham Burton, Jonathan Barber, Alex Tremblay and Matt Dwonszyk.
A respectful student, Andrew was a student of Rick Germanson, Ralph Peterson, Orrin Evans, and the late great Stanley Cowell. Each introduced Andrew to other musicians, but Ralph Peterson introduced Andrew to Jazzmeia Horn, a musician who would time and time again give Andrew chances to prove himself. The most notable test was when Andrew was called as a last minute sub at the Newport Jazz Festival alongside Ms. Horn at the Newport Jazz Festival.
Andrew is a frequent performer in the Northeastern United States where he is a regular member of the Haneef Nelson Quintet and Ed Byrne Quartet, among other groups. In addition, Andrew fronts his own trio and sextet that perform his original compositions and arrangements.
Steven Bulmer - Bass. Steve is a multi-dimensional musician actively performing and recording on upright bass, electric bass and tuba. A native New Englander from Connecticut, Steve enjoys a very active career that spans many musical idioms including jazz, classical, musical theater and pop/rock. Initiated on piano at age 6, his music journey sent him acoustically lower and lower as he was drawn to the inspirational role the bass plays both rhythmically and harmonically in all type of musical idioms. Steve was formally trained at the Eastman School of Music where he received a bachelor’s degree in both Music Education and Music Performance. He subsequently headed west and he received a Master of Music degree from Northwestern University studying with the famous pedagogue and Chicago Symphony Orchestra tubist Arnold Jacobs. Steve performs extensively with regional and national musicians in many settings. He has performed on Broadway in productions of Chicago (the Musical) and Parade! at Lincoln Center doubling on upright bass and tuba. He is first call in the region when national touring shows hire area musicians, and has played in such productions as If/Then, Beautiful – The Carol King Story, Spamalot, Pippin, Mary Poppins, Evita!, The Addams Family, Billy Eliot, Victor/Victoria, and Young Frankenstein and has backed such talents as Mel Tormé, Ray Charles, The Three Irish Tenors, and Josh Groban. Steve is active as a jazz bassist performing throughout New England with many regional artists and ensembles including performances with Phil Woods, John Abercrombie, Ali Ryerson, Kendra Shank, Nick Brignola, Tom Malone, Lou Marini, Matt Parker, Anton Kot, Jeff Holmes, Earl MacDonald and vocalese artist Giacomo Gates.
Tom Melito - Drummer, Tom has been a mainstay on the jazz scene for many years. His drumming has been heard behind such varied artists as Bucky Pizzarelli, Frank Wess, Harry Allen, "Sweets" Edison, Lew Soloff, Herb Ellis, Warren Vache, John Bunch, and Bill Watrous. Tom's talents have been in demand internationally, including numerous tours of Japan, Europe, and South America. He has also performed at most of the world’s largest jazz events including; the JVC, Montreal, and the Berne Jazz Festivals. His numerous television appearances include the CBS Early Show, Entertainment Tonight, and CNN World Beat. Melito has also toured with many singers including the late Etta Jones and Kenny Rankin. He has been featured with Stacy Kent and continues to perform regularly in New York City jazz clubs. Active in jazz education he is an adjunct professor of music at Central Connecticut University. He also plays on Jerry Bergonzi’s CD play along method, and is recording a series of jazz educational CDs for “Windplayer” magazine.
We're sorry, there are no refunds after tickets have been purchased. In the event of a pandemic, rain, snow, or other forms of weather which prohibit a performance, the performance date will be postponed and rescheduled for another date within a reasonable amount of time. If the new date is postponed, a future alternate date will be picked at the discretion of Bethel Jazz and the musical artist. The ticket holder will be notified of postponements, cancelations, and rescheduled dates via email. Tickets are non-refundable and may be transferred to another person in the event a purchaser can not make the rescheduled date. In the event, an artist cancels a date, and Bethel Jazz is unable to reschedule the artist, Bethel Jazz reserves the right to provide a substitute performer of equal quality without notice to the ticket purchaser. If a date is canceled and not rescheduled, Bethel Jazz will provide a refund (in some cases minus the Eventbrite fee) or credit for another performance at the choice of the ticket holder. Bethel Jazz will always do its best to accommodate for changes in seating, table sizes, or changes to tickets.
Ralph Lalama Quartet Feat Andrew Wilcox, Steve Bulmer & Tom Melito
Westport Country Playhouse stages the comedy Theatre People from Mar. 25 - Apr. 12
Who doesn’t love theatre people? It’s 1948, and the brightest names on Broadway have descended upon a glamorous Newport mansion for a weekend of romance, chaos, and more than a few misunderstandings. Join an unforgettable cast of characters populated by a pair of scheming playwrights, a couple of misbehaving actors, a star-struck young author and a disgruntled housekeeper for a comedy that’s a love letter to the theatre and all the people who make it. Author Paul Slade Smith conjures the spirit of the classic screwball comedies of yesteryear with irresistible charm and backstage antics certain to leave you breathless with laughter. After all, who doesn’t love theatre people? Directed by Mark Shanahan, Westport Country Playhouse artistic director.
Theatre People
On view March 7 — May 27 at the SM&NC: Jeremiah Chechik, artist, film director and photographer, is obsessed with the porous boundary between fact and fiction. The subtly investigative prints he creates explore our “post truth” reality, melding 21st century advanced digital design with traditional printing on Hahnemühle paper. The resulting images are more than just visually stunning and thoroughly aesthetic — they also raise key questions about the nature of truth and knowledge in our media-saturated age. Learn more about this exhibition at stamfordmuseum.org/explorer
Exhibition organized by Katharine T. Carter & Associates
SM&NC Exhibitions are always free to Members and included in the price of daily admission for visitors.
Exhibition on View: "Jeremiah Chechik: Explorer"
All In This Together: Highlights from our Printmaking Programs
Exhibition Dates: March 4-30, 2025
Over the past 12 months, the Center for Contemporary Printmaking has facilitated the printmaking projects of dozens of artists. We’ve hosted Artists-in-Residence, conducted collaboration and editioning services, offered workshops across a spectrum of printmaking processes, and mentored high school students through our Grace Ross Shanley Fellowship Program.
Our March 2025 Exhibition highlights some of the prints that have been produced at CCP through our suite of programs. The variety and excellence of the work displayed in our gallery this month serves as both example and inspiration to our community, and underscores our dedication to the art of print.
Artists included in the Exhibition:
Miguel A. Aragón, Enrique Figueredo, Richard Haas, Will McCarthy, Anette Millington, Hans Neleman, Sok Song, Bryn Sumner, Falk Töpfer, Theresa Wenzel, and youth program participants.
Images credit: Theresa Wenzel, Sparrow Rocket, linocut, 2024.
All In This Together: Highlights from our Printmaking Programs
This March, Geary Gallery proudly presents:
The Beauty of the World Is Around Us and In the Artist’s Soul
From Odessa to Darien
A retrospective of works by Lev Meshberg (1933-2007)
Special Event: Saturday, March 8, 5pm-7pm
Exhibition: March 1-29
The special event on Saturday, March 8 will honor the life and works of Ukranian-born and Darien, CT resident, artist Lev Meshberg (1933-2007). The event celebrating this internationally known painter is open to the public. The month-long exhibition features his autobiographical, symbolic and enigmatic paintings and runs March 1-29, 2025. 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.
Lev Meshberg: The Beauty of the World is Around Us and In the Artist’s Soul at the Geary Gallery, Darien, CT
The first monographic exhibition of her work in nearly two decades, Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist traces the artist’s pioneering approaches to abstraction in the United States.
Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist
Best known for his conceptual and street photography, Kenji Nakahashi (Japanese, 1947–2017) produced a highly experimental body of work grounded in the everyday.
Kenji Nakahashi: Strange Beauty
On Thin Ice: Alaska’s Warming Wilderness transports visitors to the Arctic to confront the startling impacts of climate change. Remarkable animals from the Bruce’s natural history collections are paired with scale landscape models that showcase Alaska’s diverse ecosystem. The installation highlights both subtle and dramatic shifts occurring across the Alaskan landscape, bringing attention to the impact of rising temperatures.
On Thin Ice: Alaska’s Warming Wilderness
The Flinn Gallery is pleased to present Biophilia, an exhibition featuring the work of six women artists: Carol Bouyoucos, Loren Eiferman, Julie Evans, Heide Follin, Christina Massey, and Sui Park. Curated by Ellen Hawley, the show explores the concept of biophilia, a term coined by Harvard naturalist Dr. Edward O. Wilson, referring to humanity’s intrinsic affinity for nature and life.
Drawing inspiration from both real and imagined aspects of the natural world, these artists explore the intersection of nature, imagination, and technology. Their diverse practices reflect personal connections to the environment, sustainability, and the fragility of life. Their works are expressed through a dynamic range of 2D and 3D materials, textures, and colors. Using a range of materials and techniques—from traditional painting to upcycled sculptures—they offer unique perspectives on ecological responsibility and the evolving relationship between humans and the Earth.
Carol Bouyoucos , for example, combines photography and digital tools to create vibrant, surreal landscapes that evoke nature while incorporating technological intervention. Loren Eiferman takes a different approach, transforming discarded wood into intricate sculptures inspired by mythical 15th century plant references from The Voynich Manuscript, while weaving in a conversation about ecological healing with her series Nature Will Heal.
Julie Evans ’ earthy ceramic sculptures, with their organic shapes and textures, also seek to bridge the familiar and the unfamiliar that evolve from her background as a painter. Only recently, she recently began making ceramic sculpture. Similarly, Heide Follin ’s layered botanical imagery on canvas, fabric, or wood panels, reflects her interest in ecosystems and their unseen, energetic connections. The vibrancy and texture of her abstract compositions capture the energy of growing things, evoking both their beauty and complexity. A quote reads: “My interests in eco-systems include the examinations of things that grow; their energies, gestures, movements, entanglements, textures and personalities.”
Christina Massey ’s uses repurposed aluminum cans to create colorful, abstract works that merge painting, sculpture, and sustainability, incorporating glass blown elements she recently learned to create. The otherworldly, colorful abstractions she creates live somewhere between that of painting and sculpture, craft and fine art, process based and conceptual.
Lastly, Sui Park manipulates industrial materials like plastic zip ties to form dynamic, biomorphic sculptures that reflect nature’s subtle transformations. They are non–durable, disposable, trivial, inexpensive and easily consumed materials. Park writes, “I often find these moments from nature.
I think nature allows us to pause and find things that have been overlooked and are inspiring. Through these forms, I attempt to express seemingly static yet dynamic characteristics of our evolving lives. While they resemble transitions and transformations of nature, the forms are to capture subtle but continuous changes in our emotions, sentiments, memories and expectations.”
Biophilia invites viewers to pause and reconsider their relationship with the natural world, offering reimagined life forms and reinterpreted landscapes through the artists' unique visions.
Events:
- Opening reception: Thursday, March 13, 2025, from 6-8pm
- Artist Talk: Sunday, March 30 @ 2 pm
- Greenwich Library Friend’s Friday Film: Date TBA
Biophilia is curated by Flinn Gallery committee member Ellen Hawley. 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 Mon. to Sat., 10am-5pm, Thurs. until 8pm, and Sun. 1-5pm.
Biophilia
The return of the Wilton Art Council’s annual photography exhibit for photographers in three divisions: Adult, High School, and Youth (through 8th grade). The judged exhibition features the works of amateur and professional photographers in a range of styles and subject matter.
Reception and awards presentation on Friday, March 21 from 6 to 7:30pm is free and open to the public. Exhibition runs through April 23. A majority of the works will be available for purchase with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the library.
For more information, visit www.wiltonarts.org or contact Beth Schneider at baswilton@yahoo.com.
FOCUS '25 Photography Exhibition
This exhibition explores Tonalism in the United States from the 1880s to the early 20th century, through artists from the Northeast such as George Inness, John Henry Twachtman, and John Francis Murphy. Tonalism is a transitional movement that grew out of and reacted to the Hudson River School of painting and laid the groundwork for modernism. Evocative landscapes, evoking a spiritual connection to the natural world, often painted from memory, are the primary genre of this movement. The more than fifty artworks in this exhibition are drawn from private and institutional collections.
Dawn & Dusk: Tonalism in Connecticut
About the Exhibition: Environmental threats and climate change are urgent matters of concern at Jesuit universities, where conversations on this topic often take place in reference to two documents by Pope Francis: Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home (2015) and the 2023 update Laudate Deum. Artists play an indispensable role in our collective response to climate change. To See This Place: Awakening to Our Common Home, curated by Al Miner and David Brinker, will present work by Athena LaTocha, Mary Mattingly, and Tyler Rai, three contemporary artists whose outlook resonates with the themes of Laudato Si’ and Laudate Deum. Embodying a breadth of personal, geographic, and cultural backgrounds, the three artists create works strongly associated with a sense of place, whether specific or imaginary. They employ media as diverse as photography, sculpture, video, and painting, and often incorporate materials sourced from particular locales. Yet the artists draw forth broader themes from this particularity, critiquing political and economic systems that perpetuate destructive self-interest and drawing attention to people who have been marginalized and historically excluded or harmed. The works are artistically compelling yet can inspire us to creativity and boldness in our efforts to address climate change. This exhibition will open at Saint Louis University's Museum of Contemporary Religious Art in Fall 2025.
Image: Mary Mattingly, Saltwater, 2022, chromogenic dye coupler print. © Mary Mattingly, courtesy of Robert Mann Gallery
To See this Place: Awakening to Our Common Home
We are pleased to announce our upcoming show, Refraction, featuring original abstract watercolor paintings by Connecticut-based artist Nealy Hauschildt on the main wall of Sorelle Gallery. The show will opening Saturday, March 8, 2025, with an Artist Meet & Greet and Opening Reception from 2:00 - 4:00pm on opening day. Visitors will have the opportunity to explore Nealy's artwork, meet with her and learn about her process, and enjoy light refreshments.
Nealy Hauschildt is a Connecticut-based artist. She obtained her BFA from the University of Michigan, during which time she spent four months studying at the Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design in Prague, CZ. Her work has been featured in Thought Art Magazine and CandyFloss Magazine, and has been included in shows and private collections across the country.
"Color plays an enormous role in my work and in how I experience the world," Hauschildt says. "My paintings are a combination of what exists in nature and how I experience my environment. I aim to capture the soul of the landscape through minimalistic, emotive color planes. Just as planned as it is exploratory, my process includes layering transparent washes and allowing room for the paint to evolve on page. I hope for my work to provide a moment of reflection and inspire sight; to reconnect us with land, sea, and sky and ignite an emotional response to color.
"The work included in Refraction focuses on my experience of light affecting color," she continues. "The slow-shifting deep tones of a late summer evening shortly after the sun has set; the sparkling pale mist across the back bowl of a mountain - all of these experiences I recall in impressionistic colorfields. Color is integral to how we experience life, and there is no color without refraction. Color is simply our perception of reflected light. The colors of my surroundings are contained in memories, just as my initial perception is contained in refractions."
Hauschildt's paintings will be on view through Saturday, March 29th. Find her original abstract watercolor paintings at sorellegallery.com.
This On View feature is free and open to the public during gallery hours, Tuesday through Saturday 11:00am - 5:00pm. Street parking is available.
Refraction: A Solo Show Featuring Nealy Hauschildt
Trailer Box Project presents "Acts of Beauty" featuring Artists Katie Bassett and Nicole Bricker. Artist talk March 15th, the show closes April 19, 2025
Free and open to the Public Monday - Friday 11:00AM - 5:00PM or by appointment.
Acts of Beauty - featuring Katie Bassett & Nicole Bricker
The Contemporary Art Modern Project is pleased to welcome March with two new exhibitions and an online exclusive running simultaneously from March 7–April 4, 2025.
In CAMP’s incubator space, Jan Brandt’s solo exhibition, Between Stillness and Growth , explores the tension between bloom and decay through Brandt’s signature use of playful, tactile materials like puffy paint and glitter. Her Hothouse series navigates the fluid boundary between representation and abstraction, creating compositions that pulse with kinetic energy while incorporating moments of stillness. These textures and compositions invite viewers to pause, reflect, and embrace life’s rhythms, offering both a reflection on transition and an exploration of the cycle between chaos and calm.
Curated by Amy Arechavaleta.
The CAMP Gallery is open Tuesday–Saturday , 12 to 5 PM.
For more information, please reach out to our email hello@thecampgallery.com.
The Contemporary Art Modern Project (The CAMP Gallery)
The Contemporary Art Modern Project Gallery specializes is a contemporary art gallery dedicated to raising awareness for emerging and mid-career artists with a unique emphasis on ultra-contemporary approaches to textiles and fiber art. Founded during the height of the pandemic by Melanie Prapopoulos, the gallery has gone on to create a distinctly academic and thought-provoking arts program in North Miami, and beyond. As a gallery, The CAMP remains steadfast in transparency both for the artist and for the collector, building bridges and connections from creation to acquisition. With a robust local and international roster, the gallery represents artists working in textiles and fiber, painting, photography, sculpture, and installation. Looking at art, as a whole, through a reactionary and interdisciplinary approach, the gallery operates as a space wherein creativity and reality co-exist.
Between Stillness And Growth
INSIDE OUT, featuring the work of Connecticut artists Annette Voreyer and Sergey Stepanenko, will be on view from February 8 through March 29. The opening reception will be held on Thursday, February 13, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. The artists will give a brief talk at the reception at 6:00 pm.
New Exhibition! "INSIDE OUT"
Our new exhibition, INSIDE OUT, featuring the work of Connecticut artists Annette Voreyer and Sergey Stepanenko, will be on view from February 8 through March 29. The opening reception will be held on Thursday, February 13, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. The artists will give a brief talk at the reception at 6:00 pm. The Kershner Gallery, inside the Fairfield Public Library, is open during all library hours for your convenience.
New Exhibition! "INSIDE OUT"
Our new exhibition, INSIDE OUT, featuring the work of Connecticut artists Annette Voreyer and Sergey Stepanenko, will be on view from February 8 through March 29. The opening reception will be held on Thursday, February 13, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. The artists will give a brief talk at the reception at 6:00 pm. The Kershner Gallery, inside the Fairfield Public Library, is open during all library hours for your convenience.
New Exhibition! "INSIDE OUT"
A new show at the Rowayton Arts Center (RAC), “Abstraction,” will be on view March 16 through April 5, 2025. This all media exhibition features artwork by RAC Exhibiting Members with a larger degree of independence from visual references.
The opening reception is free and open to the public on Sunday, March 16 from 4 pm to 6 pm. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from 12 to 5 pm and Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm.
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 studio for workshops and classes at all levels offered to children and adults. Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.
Rowayton Arts Center "Abstraction" Exhibition
The Professionals Ensemble Group & Concert provides professional instrumentalists an opportunity to meet and collaborate with their peers to showcase their ensemble group pieces to audiences at the Schubert Club Professionals Ensemble Group Concert held in the Spring of every year.
IMPORTANT EVENT DETAILS:
Date/Time:
March 29, 2025 from 2:00pm -4:00pm
Location :
Pequot Library 720 Pequot Avenue Southport, CT
Visit www.schubertclub.org for more information
Professionals Ensemble Group Concert
Lifetime of Looking is a public program at the Bruce for adults experiencing cognitive decline, such as Alzheimer’s Disease, and their family members and caregivers. During this guided, interactive program, trained educators provide the opportunity for conversation and discussion through art on exhibit and art-making opportunities.
Programs take place one Thursday each month from 2-3:30pm. The program is free with museum admission and advanced registration is required. Please contact Kathleen Holko at kholko@brucemuseum.org or (203) 413-6741 to sign up or further information.
March 27 Theme: Women in Art
April 24 Theme: Nature in Bloom
May 22 Theme: Waterside Escapes
June 26 Theme: Three-Dimensional Art
Lifetime of Looking: Women in Art
As part of Pequot Library’s ongoing art and architecture lecture series, join New York Times bestselling architectural writer Witold Rybczynski on March 27 at 6:00 p.m. for a riveting Meet the Author. Aside from promoting his most recent book, The Driving Machine: A Design History of the Car, Rybczynski will dive into his lengthy career in the world of design and architectural criticism. Rybczynski currently serves as the Martin and Margy Meyerson Professor Emeritus of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, where he concentrates on design and development, as well as architectural theory.
Meet the Author: Witold Rybczynski
The Gallery @ GFC welcomes award-winning Greenwich photographer Sally Harris, presenting her latest work “The Colors and Culture of Oaxaca,” in a solo show from March 14—May 14, 2025. The community is invited to meet Sally and see these stunning photographs at an Opening Reception on March 14th from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. Light bites will be served. The Gallery is located at 71 Hillandale Road in Westport. For more information about the artist, please visit her website: sallyharrisphotography.com; for more information about the Gallery please visit greensfarmschurch.org/the-gallery
The Colors and Culture of Oaxaca
Join Ramblin' Dan Stevens for an entertaining and educational program encompassing the history of the Blues music in America, from its origins in the African American tradition of the deep south to the present.
Hear classic blues pieces played on authentic vintage instruments interspersed with historical images, video and educational material. The music is traced chronologically through its development in different regions of the south and follows the great African American migration to important centers like Memphis, Chicago and beyond. The roots of rock and roll, jazz and even hip hop can be traced to this important form. Of special interest are pieces performed on Dan's homemade, three stringed "Cigar Box Guitar" and one stringed "Diddley Bow", both primitive instruments used by early bluesmen and played with a "bottleneck" slide.
Presenter "Ramblin" Dan Stevens is a veteran touring bluesman and teacher who has entertained audiences throughout the US, Germany, UK, Canada and Virgin Islands. As a finalist in the International Blues Challenge on Beale St. in Memphis TN and protege of the legendary folk/blues icon, Dave Van Ronk, Dan has been lauded for his ability as a raconteur and for the authenticity of his approach gained by many years on the road as a traveling blues musician.
Click Here for more information on Ramblin' Dave.
This is a hybrid event; you can choose to attend in person or on Zoom.
Blues 101 - A History of the Blues
Westport Country Playhouse stages the comedy Theatre People from Mar. 25 - Apr. 12
Who doesn’t love theatre people? It’s 1948, and the brightest names on Broadway have descended upon a glamorous Newport mansion for a weekend of romance, chaos, and more than a few misunderstandings. Join an unforgettable cast of characters populated by a pair of scheming playwrights, a couple of misbehaving actors, a star-struck young author and a disgruntled housekeeper for a comedy that’s a love letter to the theatre and all the people who make it. Author Paul Slade Smith conjures the spirit of the classic screwball comedies of yesteryear with irresistible charm and backstage antics certain to leave you breathless with laughter. After all, who doesn’t love theatre people? Directed by Mark Shanahan, Westport Country Playhouse artistic director.
Theatre People
Come play music, recite poetry, tell a story, or show off another talent!
Keep in mind this is an all ages event in a public venue. We trust you to make good choices about appropriate material.
This is an LGBTQIA+ inclusive and welcoming event series. No cover fee but minimum one drink purchased required (show Molten some love, y’all!)
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!
Open Mic Night – Hosted by Bethel CT Pride & Molten Java
John Basile is an accomplished jazz guitarist and composer known for his soulful melodic playing, sophisticated harmonic sense, and deep conversational approach to improvisation.
As an accompanist he has worked with Peggy Lee, Sylvia Sims, Rosemary Clooney and Tony Bennett's as well as live and recorded performances with contemporary instrumentalists George Mraz, Michael Becker, Tom Harrell, Eddie Gomez, John Abercrombie and Red Mitchell to name just a few.
Basile has released 11 highly acclaimed solo releases showcasing his prowess as both a composer and player. His latest release "Satisfied", is an organ trio in the tradition of the great guitar/organ combinations in the past
Musically John's guitar style utilizes a finger-style technique that approaches the guitar like a piano, comping chord fragments and playing melodies simultaneously. He demonstrates a conversational approach to improvising by weaving sophisticated single lines above a sparse harmonic landscape - all with a deeply swinging approach.
Jazz Guitarist John Basile plays at Jazz at the Post
Adventure season is back! 🌲⚡ We’re kicking things off on Friday, March 28, and it’s time to climb higher, zip faster, and make some unforgettable memories.
Mark your calendar, rally your crew, and get ready for another incredible season in the trees. We’ll see you up there!
Happens on the following Dates:
Mar 28, 2025, 2:00pm to 8:00pm Timezone: EDT
Mar 29, 2025, 10:00am to 8:00pm Timezone: EDT
Mar 30, 2025, 10:00am to 6:00pm Timezone: EDT
Mar 31, 2025, 10:00am to 6:00pm Timezone: EDT
Season Opening Weekend at The Adventure Park at the Discovery Museum
On view March 7 — May 27 at the SM&NC: Jeremiah Chechik, artist, film director and photographer, is obsessed with the porous boundary between fact and fiction. The subtly investigative prints he creates explore our “post truth” reality, melding 21st century advanced digital design with traditional printing on Hahnemühle paper. The resulting images are more than just visually stunning and thoroughly aesthetic — they also raise key questions about the nature of truth and knowledge in our media-saturated age. Learn more about this exhibition at stamfordmuseum.org/explorer
Exhibition organized by Katharine T. Carter & Associates
SM&NC Exhibitions are always free to Members and included in the price of daily admission for visitors.
Exhibition on View: "Jeremiah Chechik: Explorer"
All In This Together: Highlights from our Printmaking Programs
Exhibition Dates: March 4-30, 2025
Over the past 12 months, the Center for Contemporary Printmaking has facilitated the printmaking projects of dozens of artists. We’ve hosted Artists-in-Residence, conducted collaboration and editioning services, offered workshops across a spectrum of printmaking processes, and mentored high school students through our Grace Ross Shanley Fellowship Program.
Our March 2025 Exhibition highlights some of the prints that have been produced at CCP through our suite of programs. The variety and excellence of the work displayed in our gallery this month serves as both example and inspiration to our community, and underscores our dedication to the art of print.
Artists included in the Exhibition:
Miguel A. Aragón, Enrique Figueredo, Richard Haas, Will McCarthy, Anette Millington, Hans Neleman, Sok Song, Bryn Sumner, Falk Töpfer, Theresa Wenzel, and youth program participants.
Images credit: Theresa Wenzel, Sparrow Rocket, linocut, 2024.
All In This Together: Highlights from our Printmaking Programs
This March, Geary Gallery proudly presents:
The Beauty of the World Is Around Us and In the Artist’s Soul
From Odessa to Darien
A retrospective of works by Lev Meshberg (1933-2007)
Special Event: Saturday, March 8, 5pm-7pm
Exhibition: March 1-29
The special event on Saturday, March 8 will honor the life and works of Ukranian-born and Darien, CT resident, artist Lev Meshberg (1933-2007). The event celebrating this internationally known painter is open to the public. The month-long exhibition features his autobiographical, symbolic and enigmatic paintings and runs March 1-29, 2025. 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.
Lev Meshberg: The Beauty of the World is Around Us and In the Artist’s Soul at the Geary Gallery, Darien, CT
The first monographic exhibition of her work in nearly two decades, Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist traces the artist’s pioneering approaches to abstraction in the United States.
Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist
Best known for his conceptual and street photography, Kenji Nakahashi (Japanese, 1947–2017) produced a highly experimental body of work grounded in the everyday.
Kenji Nakahashi: Strange Beauty
On Thin Ice: Alaska’s Warming Wilderness transports visitors to the Arctic to confront the startling impacts of climate change. Remarkable animals from the Bruce’s natural history collections are paired with scale landscape models that showcase Alaska’s diverse ecosystem. The installation highlights both subtle and dramatic shifts occurring across the Alaskan landscape, bringing attention to the impact of rising temperatures.
On Thin Ice: Alaska’s Warming Wilderness
The Flinn Gallery is pleased to present Biophilia, an exhibition featuring the work of six women artists: Carol Bouyoucos, Loren Eiferman, Julie Evans, Heide Follin, Christina Massey, and Sui Park. Curated by Ellen Hawley, the show explores the concept of biophilia, a term coined by Harvard naturalist Dr. Edward O. Wilson, referring to humanity’s intrinsic affinity for nature and life.
Drawing inspiration from both real and imagined aspects of the natural world, these artists explore the intersection of nature, imagination, and technology. Their diverse practices reflect personal connections to the environment, sustainability, and the fragility of life. Their works are expressed through a dynamic range of 2D and 3D materials, textures, and colors. Using a range of materials and techniques—from traditional painting to upcycled sculptures—they offer unique perspectives on ecological responsibility and the evolving relationship between humans and the Earth.
Carol Bouyoucos , for example, combines photography and digital tools to create vibrant, surreal landscapes that evoke nature while incorporating technological intervention. Loren Eiferman takes a different approach, transforming discarded wood into intricate sculptures inspired by mythical 15th century plant references from The Voynich Manuscript, while weaving in a conversation about ecological healing with her series Nature Will Heal.
Julie Evans ’ earthy ceramic sculptures, with their organic shapes and textures, also seek to bridge the familiar and the unfamiliar that evolve from her background as a painter. Only recently, she recently began making ceramic sculpture. Similarly, Heide Follin ’s layered botanical imagery on canvas, fabric, or wood panels, reflects her interest in ecosystems and their unseen, energetic connections. The vibrancy and texture of her abstract compositions capture the energy of growing things, evoking both their beauty and complexity. A quote reads: “My interests in eco-systems include the examinations of things that grow; their energies, gestures, movements, entanglements, textures and personalities.”
Christina Massey ’s uses repurposed aluminum cans to create colorful, abstract works that merge painting, sculpture, and sustainability, incorporating glass blown elements she recently learned to create. The otherworldly, colorful abstractions she creates live somewhere between that of painting and sculpture, craft and fine art, process based and conceptual.
Lastly, Sui Park manipulates industrial materials like plastic zip ties to form dynamic, biomorphic sculptures that reflect nature’s subtle transformations. They are non–durable, disposable, trivial, inexpensive and easily consumed materials. Park writes, “I often find these moments from nature.
I think nature allows us to pause and find things that have been overlooked and are inspiring. Through these forms, I attempt to express seemingly static yet dynamic characteristics of our evolving lives. While they resemble transitions and transformations of nature, the forms are to capture subtle but continuous changes in our emotions, sentiments, memories and expectations.”
Biophilia invites viewers to pause and reconsider their relationship with the natural world, offering reimagined life forms and reinterpreted landscapes through the artists' unique visions.
Events:
- Opening reception: Thursday, March 13, 2025, from 6-8pm
- Artist Talk: Sunday, March 30 @ 2 pm
- Greenwich Library Friend’s Friday Film: Date TBA
Biophilia is curated by Flinn Gallery committee member Ellen Hawley. 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 Mon. to Sat., 10am-5pm, Thurs. until 8pm, and Sun. 1-5pm.
Biophilia
The return of the Wilton Art Council’s annual photography exhibit for photographers in three divisions: Adult, High School, and Youth (through 8th grade). The judged exhibition features the works of amateur and professional photographers in a range of styles and subject matter.
Reception and awards presentation on Friday, March 21 from 6 to 7:30pm is free and open to the public. Exhibition runs through April 23. A majority of the works will be available for purchase with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the library.
For more information, visit www.wiltonarts.org or contact Beth Schneider at baswilton@yahoo.com.
FOCUS '25 Photography Exhibition
This exhibition explores Tonalism in the United States from the 1880s to the early 20th century, through artists from the Northeast such as George Inness, John Henry Twachtman, and John Francis Murphy. Tonalism is a transitional movement that grew out of and reacted to the Hudson River School of painting and laid the groundwork for modernism. Evocative landscapes, evoking a spiritual connection to the natural world, often painted from memory, are the primary genre of this movement. The more than fifty artworks in this exhibition are drawn from private and institutional collections.
Dawn & Dusk: Tonalism in Connecticut
About the Exhibition: Environmental threats and climate change are urgent matters of concern at Jesuit universities, where conversations on this topic often take place in reference to two documents by Pope Francis: Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home (2015) and the 2023 update Laudate Deum. Artists play an indispensable role in our collective response to climate change. To See This Place: Awakening to Our Common Home, curated by Al Miner and David Brinker, will present work by Athena LaTocha, Mary Mattingly, and Tyler Rai, three contemporary artists whose outlook resonates with the themes of Laudato Si’ and Laudate Deum. Embodying a breadth of personal, geographic, and cultural backgrounds, the three artists create works strongly associated with a sense of place, whether specific or imaginary. They employ media as diverse as photography, sculpture, video, and painting, and often incorporate materials sourced from particular locales. Yet the artists draw forth broader themes from this particularity, critiquing political and economic systems that perpetuate destructive self-interest and drawing attention to people who have been marginalized and historically excluded or harmed. The works are artistically compelling yet can inspire us to creativity and boldness in our efforts to address climate change. This exhibition will open at Saint Louis University's Museum of Contemporary Religious Art in Fall 2025.
Image: Mary Mattingly, Saltwater, 2022, chromogenic dye coupler print. © Mary Mattingly, courtesy of Robert Mann Gallery
To See this Place: Awakening to Our Common Home
We are pleased to announce our upcoming show, Refraction, featuring original abstract watercolor paintings by Connecticut-based artist Nealy Hauschildt on the main wall of Sorelle Gallery. The show will opening Saturday, March 8, 2025, with an Artist Meet & Greet and Opening Reception from 2:00 - 4:00pm on opening day. Visitors will have the opportunity to explore Nealy's artwork, meet with her and learn about her process, and enjoy light refreshments.
Nealy Hauschildt is a Connecticut-based artist. She obtained her BFA from the University of Michigan, during which time she spent four months studying at the Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design in Prague, CZ. Her work has been featured in Thought Art Magazine and CandyFloss Magazine, and has been included in shows and private collections across the country.
"Color plays an enormous role in my work and in how I experience the world," Hauschildt says. "My paintings are a combination of what exists in nature and how I experience my environment. I aim to capture the soul of the landscape through minimalistic, emotive color planes. Just as planned as it is exploratory, my process includes layering transparent washes and allowing room for the paint to evolve on page. I hope for my work to provide a moment of reflection and inspire sight; to reconnect us with land, sea, and sky and ignite an emotional response to color.
"The work included in Refraction focuses on my experience of light affecting color," she continues. "The slow-shifting deep tones of a late summer evening shortly after the sun has set; the sparkling pale mist across the back bowl of a mountain - all of these experiences I recall in impressionistic colorfields. Color is integral to how we experience life, and there is no color without refraction. Color is simply our perception of reflected light. The colors of my surroundings are contained in memories, just as my initial perception is contained in refractions."
Hauschildt's paintings will be on view through Saturday, March 29th. Find her original abstract watercolor paintings at sorellegallery.com.
This On View feature is free and open to the public during gallery hours, Tuesday through Saturday 11:00am - 5:00pm. Street parking is available.
Refraction: A Solo Show Featuring Nealy Hauschildt
Trailer Box Project presents "Acts of Beauty" featuring Artists Katie Bassett and Nicole Bricker. Artist talk March 15th, the show closes April 19, 2025
Free and open to the Public Monday - Friday 11:00AM - 5:00PM or by appointment.
Acts of Beauty - featuring Katie Bassett & Nicole Bricker
The Contemporary Art Modern Project is pleased to welcome March with two new exhibitions and an online exclusive running simultaneously from March 7–April 4, 2025.
In CAMP’s incubator space, Jan Brandt’s solo exhibition, Between Stillness and Growth , explores the tension between bloom and decay through Brandt’s signature use of playful, tactile materials like puffy paint and glitter. Her Hothouse series navigates the fluid boundary between representation and abstraction, creating compositions that pulse with kinetic energy while incorporating moments of stillness. These textures and compositions invite viewers to pause, reflect, and embrace life’s rhythms, offering both a reflection on transition and an exploration of the cycle between chaos and calm.
Curated by Amy Arechavaleta.
The CAMP Gallery is open Tuesday–Saturday , 12 to 5 PM.
For more information, please reach out to our email hello@thecampgallery.com.
The Contemporary Art Modern Project (The CAMP Gallery)
The Contemporary Art Modern Project Gallery specializes is a contemporary art gallery dedicated to raising awareness for emerging and mid-career artists with a unique emphasis on ultra-contemporary approaches to textiles and fiber art. Founded during the height of the pandemic by Melanie Prapopoulos, the gallery has gone on to create a distinctly academic and thought-provoking arts program in North Miami, and beyond. As a gallery, The CAMP remains steadfast in transparency both for the artist and for the collector, building bridges and connections from creation to acquisition. With a robust local and international roster, the gallery represents artists working in textiles and fiber, painting, photography, sculpture, and installation. Looking at art, as a whole, through a reactionary and interdisciplinary approach, the gallery operates as a space wherein creativity and reality co-exist.
Between Stillness And Growth
Our new exhibition, INSIDE OUT, featuring the work of Connecticut artists Annette Voreyer and Sergey Stepanenko, will be on view from February 8 through March 29. The opening reception will be held on Thursday, February 13, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. The artists will give a brief talk at the reception at 6:00 pm. The Kershner Gallery, inside the Fairfield Public Library, is open during all library hours for your convenience.
New Exhibition! "INSIDE OUT"
INSIDE OUT, featuring the work of Connecticut artists Annette Voreyer and Sergey Stepanenko, will be on view from February 8 through March 29. The opening reception will be held on Thursday, February 13, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. The artists will give a brief talk at the reception at 6:00 pm.
New Exhibition! "INSIDE OUT"
Our new exhibition, INSIDE OUT, featuring the work of Connecticut artists Annette Voreyer and Sergey Stepanenko, will be on view from February 8 through March 29. The opening reception will be held on Thursday, February 13, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. The artists will give a brief talk at the reception at 6:00 pm. The Kershner Gallery, inside the Fairfield Public Library, is open during all library hours for your convenience.
New Exhibition! "INSIDE OUT"
We ♥️ our Members! Curated by SAA board members Valeria Ochoa and Neha Karir, our upcoming exhibition 'MEMBERS SHOW 2025' celebrates the impressive and diverse talents of our wonderful SAA Members. 🍷 Join us at The Gallery for a special OPENING RECEPTION on Thursday, March 6th, 5:30-7 PM. The exhibition will remain open during regular gallery hours from March 6-April 11.
Gallery Hours:
Friday-Sunday 12-3 PM
Members Show 2025
Take your artistic abilities to the level: Draw from life while observing a professional figure model!
This 3-hour event is perfect for artists who want to deepen their understanding of anatomy, proportion, and form. With live models—both nude and clothed—posing in a variety of timed stills, you’ll have the perfect opportunity to sharpen your skills through focused practice.
This event is open to ALL artists, regardless of skill level. We provide a friendly and supportive environment (with snacks included!). Join today and see fast improvements to your style!
Session Details:
- Location: Second Floor, Room 267 (Fine Art Studio)
- What to Bring: Your own drawing materials
- Exclusive Offer: UConn students enjoy a 75% discount!
✨ Don’t miss this chance to grow as an artist—space is limited, so register now! ✨ Take your artistic abilities to the level: Draw from life while observing a professional figure model!
This 3-hour event is perfect for artists who want to deepen their understanding of anatomy, proportion, and form. With live models—both nude and clothed—posing in a variety of timed stills, you’ll have the perfect opportunity to sharpen your skills through focused practice.
This event is open to ALL artists, regardless of skill level. We provide a friendly and supportive environment (with snacks included!). Join today and see fast improvements to your style!
Session Details:
- Location: Second Floor, Room 267 (Fine Art Studio)
- What to Bring: Your own drawing materials
- Exclusive Offer: UConn students enjoy a 75% discount!
✨ Don’t miss this chance to grow as an artist—space is limited, so register now! ✨
Stamford Art Association Presents: Figure Drawing at UConn Stamford
A new show at the Rowayton Arts Center (RAC), “Abstraction,” will be on view March 16 through April 5, 2025. This all media exhibition features artwork by RAC Exhibiting Members with a larger degree of independence from visual references.
The opening reception is free and open to the public on Sunday, March 16 from 4 pm to 6 pm. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from 12 to 5 pm and Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm.
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 studio for workshops and classes at all levels offered to children and adults. Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.
Rowayton Arts Center "Abstraction" Exhibition
The Schubert Club introduces CoLab, a new pilot program where all ages and all stages come together to perform works from any genre of music: Parents with their children, grandparents with their grandchildren, friends with friends, teachers with students, all combinations or solo. No rules!
Important Dates/Times:
Deadline for registrations: April 15, 2025
CoLab Recital: May 3, 2025 from 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
For more information or to register visit: https://schubertclub.org/colab/
CoLab: A New Program By The Schubert Club
The Professionals Ensemble Group & Concert provides professional instrumentalists an opportunity to meet and collaborate with their peers to showcase their ensemble group pieces to audiences at the Schubert Club Professionals Ensemble Group Concert held in the Spring of every year.
IMPORTANT EVENT DETAILS:
Date/Time:
March 29, 2025 from 2:00pm -4:00pm
Location :
Pequot Library 720 Pequot Avenue Southport, CT
Visit www.schubertclub.org for more information
Professionals Ensemble Group Concert
Join the Stamford Art Association's FREE open mic event! This is the perfect place for music artists, comedians, and public speakers to showcase their creative talent and connect with other local artists!
Enjoy live music, comedy, and other performances and support Stamford's art community!
Date: March 28, 2025
Time: 6-9PM
Address: 39 Franklin St, Stamford, CT
Sign up now and get ready for a vibrant evening of live entertainment!
FREE Open Mic at The Townhouse Gallery
The Gallery @ GFC welcomes award-winning Greenwich photographer Sally Harris, presenting her latest work “The Colors and Culture of Oaxaca,” in a solo show from March 14—May 14, 2025. The community is invited to meet Sally and see these stunning photographs at an Opening Reception on March 14th from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. Light bites will be served. The Gallery is located at 71 Hillandale Road in Westport. For more information about the artist, please visit her website: sallyharrisphotography.com; for more information about the Gallery please visit greensfarmschurch.org/the-gallery
The Colors and Culture of Oaxaca
Join our dance workshop led by folk dance choreographer Miriam Reyes. No dance experience is required—just bring your energy and get ready to immerse yourself in the vibrant Andean musical styles of Peru and Ecuador.
FREE for Children
$10 for Adults
Folkloric Dances of the Andes - Interactive Dance Workshop
Westport Country Playhouse stages the comedy Theatre People from Mar. 25 - Apr. 12
Who doesn’t love theatre people? It’s 1948, and the brightest names on Broadway have descended upon a glamorous Newport mansion for a weekend of romance, chaos, and more than a few misunderstandings. Join an unforgettable cast of characters populated by a pair of scheming playwrights, a couple of misbehaving actors, a star-struck young author and a disgruntled housekeeper for a comedy that’s a love letter to the theatre and all the people who make it. Author Paul Slade Smith conjures the spirit of the classic screwball comedies of yesteryear with irresistible charm and backstage antics certain to leave you breathless with laughter. After all, who doesn’t love theatre people? Directed by Mark Shanahan, Westport Country Playhouse artistic director.
Theatre People
Erin Kinsey is a rising star in country music, blending heartfelt storytelling with undeniable talent. Hailing from Texas, Kinsey’s passion for music ignited at just 11 years old, setting her on a path that led straight to Nashville. Now 24, she has quickly made a name for herself with a distinctive voice, compelling songwriting, and an impressive musicality that spans seven instruments.
Erin Kinsey
On view March 7 — May 27 at the SM&NC: Jeremiah Chechik, artist, film director and photographer, is obsessed with the porous boundary between fact and fiction. The subtly investigative prints he creates explore our “post truth” reality, melding 21st century advanced digital design with traditional printing on Hahnemühle paper. The resulting images are more than just visually stunning and thoroughly aesthetic — they also raise key questions about the nature of truth and knowledge in our media-saturated age. Learn more about this exhibition at stamfordmuseum.org/explorer
Exhibition organized by Katharine T. Carter & Associates
SM&NC Exhibitions are always free to Members and included in the price of daily admission for visitors.
Exhibition on View: "Jeremiah Chechik: Explorer"
All In This Together: Highlights from our Printmaking Programs
Exhibition Dates: March 4-30, 2025
Over the past 12 months, the Center for Contemporary Printmaking has facilitated the printmaking projects of dozens of artists. We’ve hosted Artists-in-Residence, conducted collaboration and editioning services, offered workshops across a spectrum of printmaking processes, and mentored high school students through our Grace Ross Shanley Fellowship Program.
Our March 2025 Exhibition highlights some of the prints that have been produced at CCP through our suite of programs. The variety and excellence of the work displayed in our gallery this month serves as both example and inspiration to our community, and underscores our dedication to the art of print.
Artists included in the Exhibition:
Miguel A. Aragón, Enrique Figueredo, Richard Haas, Will McCarthy, Anette Millington, Hans Neleman, Sok Song, Bryn Sumner, Falk Töpfer, Theresa Wenzel, and youth program participants.
Images credit: Theresa Wenzel, Sparrow Rocket, linocut, 2024.
All In This Together: Highlights from our Printmaking Programs
March 29 through June 1
Reception: Thursday, April 10, 6-8 pm, in the Trefz Forum; click here for more information. (Reception kicks off at 6 pm, followed by a conversation between 5iveFingaz and Miggs Burroughs at 7 pm.) Click here for more on VersoFest 2025!
In the Sheffer Gallery: Visual Verses
Visual Verses is an immersive art exhibit that merges the expressive power of visual art with the profound impact of language. Each painting in this collection is paired with original phrases crafted to evoke thought, emotion, and reflection. The artwork transcends traditional boundaries, using bold colors and dynamic compositions to amplify the messages embedded within the text. This fusion of imagery and words invites viewers to engage not only with the aesthetics but also with the deeper narratives and meanings behind each piece.
At its core, Visual Verses carries a strong social conscience, addressing themes of justice, equality, and human connection. The text-based elements of the exhibit deliver positive messages meant to inspire, uplift, and provoke meaningful conversations. Through this harmonious blend of art and language, the exhibit aims to spark awareness and foster a sense of community, encouraging viewers to reflect on their role in shaping a more compassionate and just world.
In the South Gallery: Interactive Community Participation Mural
This Interactive Community Participation Mural will be designed by 5ive, with members of the community to help fill it in on Saturday, April 5, from 10 am to 2 pm during the VersoFest 2025 Weekend Kickoff Celebration hosted by 5ive (also featuring DJs and other fun fare for the whole family!) This exhibit will invite the viewer to participate in the making of the artwork, interacting with the canvas and materials so that both tactile processes and community contribution are as much a part of the piece as the art itself.
In the Jesup Gallery: Graffiti Art Mural
More information regarding scheduled mural participation times and 5ive’s Jesup Gallery exhibit is forthcoming. Stay tuned and join in on the fun at VersoFest 2025!
In addition to his art exhibits, 5iveFingaz will also be leading two back-to-back sessions of his Verso University course Graffiti 101: Finding Your Voice as a Graffiti Artist on Saturday, April 5.
About 5iveFingaz
5iveFingaz is a visionary artist whose work seamlessly bridges the realms of street art, contemporary expression, and social consciousness. Renowned for his distinctive fusion of bold visuals and thought-provoking text, 5iveFingaz crafts pieces that resonate deeply with audiences, challenging them to reflect on both personal experiences and broader societal issues. His signature style often features vibrant colors juxtaposed with powerful, concise phrases that speak directly to the heart of human experience, exploring themes of love, resilience, unity, and justice. Emerging from a background rich in urban culture and creative exploration, 5iveFingaz honed his artistic voice through a unique blend of trained and self-taught techniques and active community engagement. His art transcends traditional canvases, finding life on walls, public spaces, and unconventional surfaces, transforming everyday environments into platforms for inspiration and dialogue. The artist’s work has garnered global attention not only for its striking aesthetic appeal but also for its profound ability to connect with diverse audiences on an intimate level.
At the core of his practice lies the "Love More Than Ever" movement, a heartfelt initiative that underscores the importance of uplifting one another with kindness and understanding. 5iveFingaz’s unwavering commitment to positive messaging and social awareness drives his creative process, with each piece serving as a rallying cry for change. His work urges viewers to reflect on their roles in fostering a more compassionate and equitable world. Through exhibitions, collaborations, and public art projects, he amplifies voices that are often unheard, using art as a powerful tool for empowerment and community building. As his influence continues to grow, 5iveFingaz remains steadfast in his mission to spark meaningful conversations and inspire action, solidifying his place as a transformative figure in the contemporary art scene.
5iveFingaz Art Exhibits at VersoFest 2025
This March, Geary Gallery proudly presents:
The Beauty of the World Is Around Us and In the Artist’s Soul
From Odessa to Darien
A retrospective of works by Lev Meshberg (1933-2007)
Special Event: Saturday, March 8, 5pm-7pm
Exhibition: March 1-29
The special event on Saturday, March 8 will honor the life and works of Ukranian-born and Darien, CT resident, artist Lev Meshberg (1933-2007). The event celebrating this internationally known painter is open to the public. The month-long exhibition features his autobiographical, symbolic and enigmatic paintings and runs March 1-29, 2025. 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.
Lev Meshberg: The Beauty of the World is Around Us and In the Artist’s Soul at the Geary Gallery, Darien, CT
The first monographic exhibition of her work in nearly two decades, Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist traces the artist’s pioneering approaches to abstraction in the United States.
Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist
Best known for his conceptual and street photography, Kenji Nakahashi (Japanese, 1947–2017) produced a highly experimental body of work grounded in the everyday.
Kenji Nakahashi: Strange Beauty
On Thin Ice: Alaska’s Warming Wilderness transports visitors to the Arctic to confront the startling impacts of climate change. Remarkable animals from the Bruce’s natural history collections are paired with scale landscape models that showcase Alaska’s diverse ecosystem. The installation highlights both subtle and dramatic shifts occurring across the Alaskan landscape, bringing attention to the impact of rising temperatures.
On Thin Ice: Alaska’s Warming Wilderness
The Flinn Gallery is pleased to present Biophilia, an exhibition featuring the work of six women artists: Carol Bouyoucos, Loren Eiferman, Julie Evans, Heide Follin, Christina Massey, and Sui Park. Curated by Ellen Hawley, the show explores the concept of biophilia, a term coined by Harvard naturalist Dr. Edward O. Wilson, referring to humanity’s intrinsic affinity for nature and life.
Drawing inspiration from both real and imagined aspects of the natural world, these artists explore the intersection of nature, imagination, and technology. Their diverse practices reflect personal connections to the environment, sustainability, and the fragility of life. Their works are expressed through a dynamic range of 2D and 3D materials, textures, and colors. Using a range of materials and techniques—from traditional painting to upcycled sculptures—they offer unique perspectives on ecological responsibility and the evolving relationship between humans and the Earth.
Carol Bouyoucos , for example, combines photography and digital tools to create vibrant, surreal landscapes that evoke nature while incorporating technological intervention. Loren Eiferman takes a different approach, transforming discarded wood into intricate sculptures inspired by mythical 15th century plant references from The Voynich Manuscript, while weaving in a conversation about ecological healing with her series Nature Will Heal.
Julie Evans ’ earthy ceramic sculptures, with their organic shapes and textures, also seek to bridge the familiar and the unfamiliar that evolve from her background as a painter. Only recently, she recently began making ceramic sculpture. Similarly, Heide Follin ’s layered botanical imagery on canvas, fabric, or wood panels, reflects her interest in ecosystems and their unseen, energetic connections. The vibrancy and texture of her abstract compositions capture the energy of growing things, evoking both their beauty and complexity. A quote reads: “My interests in eco-systems include the examinations of things that grow; their energies, gestures, movements, entanglements, textures and personalities.”
Christina Massey ’s uses repurposed aluminum cans to create colorful, abstract works that merge painting, sculpture, and sustainability, incorporating glass blown elements she recently learned to create. The otherworldly, colorful abstractions she creates live somewhere between that of painting and sculpture, craft and fine art, process based and conceptual.
Lastly, Sui Park manipulates industrial materials like plastic zip ties to form dynamic, biomorphic sculptures that reflect nature’s subtle transformations. They are non–durable, disposable, trivial, inexpensive and easily consumed materials. Park writes, “I often find these moments from nature.
I think nature allows us to pause and find things that have been overlooked and are inspiring. Through these forms, I attempt to express seemingly static yet dynamic characteristics of our evolving lives. While they resemble transitions and transformations of nature, the forms are to capture subtle but continuous changes in our emotions, sentiments, memories and expectations.”
Biophilia invites viewers to pause and reconsider their relationship with the natural world, offering reimagined life forms and reinterpreted landscapes through the artists' unique visions.
Events:
- Opening reception: Thursday, March 13, 2025, from 6-8pm
- Artist Talk: Sunday, March 30 @ 2 pm
- Greenwich Library Friend’s Friday Film: Date TBA
Biophilia is curated by Flinn Gallery committee member Ellen Hawley. 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 Mon. to Sat., 10am-5pm, Thurs. until 8pm, and Sun. 1-5pm.
Biophilia
The return of the Wilton Art Council’s annual photography exhibit for photographers in three divisions: Adult, High School, and Youth (through 8th grade). The judged exhibition features the works of amateur and professional photographers in a range of styles and subject matter.
Reception and awards presentation on Friday, March 21 from 6 to 7:30pm is free and open to the public. Exhibition runs through April 23. A majority of the works will be available for purchase with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the library.
For more information, visit www.wiltonarts.org or contact Beth Schneider at baswilton@yahoo.com.
FOCUS '25 Photography Exhibition
A new show at the Rowayton Arts Center (RAC), “Abstraction,” will be on view March 16 through April 5, 2025. This all media exhibition features artwork by RAC Exhibiting Members with a larger degree of independence from visual references.
The opening reception is free and open to the public on Sunday, March 16 from 4 pm to 6 pm. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from 12 to 5 pm and Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm.
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 studio for workshops and classes at all levels offered to children and adults. Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.
Rowayton Arts Center "Abstraction" Exhibition
This exhibition explores Tonalism in the United States from the 1880s to the early 20th century, through artists from the Northeast such as George Inness, John Henry Twachtman, and John Francis Murphy. Tonalism is a transitional movement that grew out of and reacted to the Hudson River School of painting and laid the groundwork for modernism. Evocative landscapes, evoking a spiritual connection to the natural world, often painted from memory, are the primary genre of this movement. The more than fifty artworks in this exhibition are drawn from private and institutional collections.
Dawn & Dusk: Tonalism in Connecticut
About the Exhibition: Environmental threats and climate change are urgent matters of concern at Jesuit universities, where conversations on this topic often take place in reference to two documents by Pope Francis: Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home (2015) and the 2023 update Laudate Deum. Artists play an indispensable role in our collective response to climate change. To See This Place: Awakening to Our Common Home, curated by Al Miner and David Brinker, will present work by Athena LaTocha, Mary Mattingly, and Tyler Rai, three contemporary artists whose outlook resonates with the themes of Laudato Si’ and Laudate Deum. Embodying a breadth of personal, geographic, and cultural backgrounds, the three artists create works strongly associated with a sense of place, whether specific or imaginary. They employ media as diverse as photography, sculpture, video, and painting, and often incorporate materials sourced from particular locales. Yet the artists draw forth broader themes from this particularity, critiquing political and economic systems that perpetuate destructive self-interest and drawing attention to people who have been marginalized and historically excluded or harmed. The works are artistically compelling yet can inspire us to creativity and boldness in our efforts to address climate change. This exhibition will open at Saint Louis University's Museum of Contemporary Religious Art in Fall 2025.
Image: Mary Mattingly, Saltwater, 2022, chromogenic dye coupler print. © Mary Mattingly, courtesy of Robert Mann Gallery
To See this Place: Awakening to Our Common Home
We are pleased to announce our upcoming show, Refraction, featuring original abstract watercolor paintings by Connecticut-based artist Nealy Hauschildt on the main wall of Sorelle Gallery. The show will opening Saturday, March 8, 2025, with an Artist Meet & Greet and Opening Reception from 2:00 - 4:00pm on opening day. Visitors will have the opportunity to explore Nealy's artwork, meet with her and learn about her process, and enjoy light refreshments.
Nealy Hauschildt is a Connecticut-based artist. She obtained her BFA from the University of Michigan, during which time she spent four months studying at the Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design in Prague, CZ. Her work has been featured in Thought Art Magazine and CandyFloss Magazine, and has been included in shows and private collections across the country.
"Color plays an enormous role in my work and in how I experience the world," Hauschildt says. "My paintings are a combination of what exists in nature and how I experience my environment. I aim to capture the soul of the landscape through minimalistic, emotive color planes. Just as planned as it is exploratory, my process includes layering transparent washes and allowing room for the paint to evolve on page. I hope for my work to provide a moment of reflection and inspire sight; to reconnect us with land, sea, and sky and ignite an emotional response to color.
"The work included in Refraction focuses on my experience of light affecting color," she continues. "The slow-shifting deep tones of a late summer evening shortly after the sun has set; the sparkling pale mist across the back bowl of a mountain - all of these experiences I recall in impressionistic colorfields. Color is integral to how we experience life, and there is no color without refraction. Color is simply our perception of reflected light. The colors of my surroundings are contained in memories, just as my initial perception is contained in refractions."
Hauschildt's paintings will be on view through Saturday, March 29th. Find her original abstract watercolor paintings at sorellegallery.com.
This On View feature is free and open to the public during gallery hours, Tuesday through Saturday 11:00am - 5:00pm. Street parking is available.
Refraction: A Solo Show Featuring Nealy Hauschildt
The Contemporary Art Modern Project is pleased to welcome March with two new exhibitions and an online exclusive running simultaneously from March 7–April 4, 2025.
In CAMP’s incubator space, Jan Brandt’s solo exhibition, Between Stillness and Growth , explores the tension between bloom and decay through Brandt’s signature use of playful, tactile materials like puffy paint and glitter. Her Hothouse series navigates the fluid boundary between representation and abstraction, creating compositions that pulse with kinetic energy while incorporating moments of stillness. These textures and compositions invite viewers to pause, reflect, and embrace life’s rhythms, offering both a reflection on transition and an exploration of the cycle between chaos and calm.
Curated by Amy Arechavaleta.
The CAMP Gallery is open Tuesday–Saturday , 12 to 5 PM.
For more information, please reach out to our email hello@thecampgallery.com.
The Contemporary Art Modern Project (The CAMP Gallery)
The Contemporary Art Modern Project Gallery specializes is a contemporary art gallery dedicated to raising awareness for emerging and mid-career artists with a unique emphasis on ultra-contemporary approaches to textiles and fiber art. Founded during the height of the pandemic by Melanie Prapopoulos, the gallery has gone on to create a distinctly academic and thought-provoking arts program in North Miami, and beyond. As a gallery, The CAMP remains steadfast in transparency both for the artist and for the collector, building bridges and connections from creation to acquisition. With a robust local and international roster, the gallery represents artists working in textiles and fiber, painting, photography, sculpture, and installation. Looking at art, as a whole, through a reactionary and interdisciplinary approach, the gallery operates as a space wherein creativity and reality co-exist.
