Stephen Karam's hilarious 2007 off-Broadway hit comes to Hartford's TheaterWorks!  Three high school students in Salem, Oregon go on a modern day witch hunt involving sex, lies & YouTube videos!

June 12 through July 14, 2009

Artist Reception May 1, 6 - 8 p.m.

Chet Kempczynski

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Hartford Public Library opens ARTWALK, a new exhibition space in Downtown Hartford.  The ARTWALK will draw from a diverse community of artists to showcase the creative spirit of Metro Hartford.  The inaugural show features Hartford native Chet Kempczynski.  Kempczynski attended the Hartford Art School and the Paier School of Art, Connecticut, where he studied with the realist painter Ken Davies. Over the last four decades, he has exhibited extensively in the U.S., Spain and France.  This retrospective show captures the transitions in his work from small and precise still life images in oil to oil monotypes that capture the exterior and interior light, color and essence of landscapes. The ARTWALK is made possible through the generosity of our donors, including the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.

…Age is a dynamic public art collaboration between Greater Hartford cultural organizations.  Created under the banner of the national Age in America project, the exhibition represents a conversation between generations of artists, poets, and community members and showcases the unique contributions of participating organizations working together with the theme of age and aging in our region.    

Main Street walkway between Hartford Public Library and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Thursday, May 14 through Friday, August 28

Opening Reception, 5:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m. Hartford Public Library, Hartford History Center, 3^rd Floor

Group exhibition of photos by architects highlighting the ways these designers perceive their surroundings through the camera´s lens and present their images as art. Guest curator: Roberto Espejo.

Plant Clinic Open for the Season

Monday, May 11, 9:00am- 12 noon and 12:30- 3:30pm

Having a plant or gardening dilemma? Bring any questions or plant samples to the UCONN Master Gardeners for help. The Plant Clinic is open Monday through Friday throughout the growing season.  This is a FREE service. Call 203-322-6971 for questions, visit www.bartlettarboretum.org or email visitorservices@bartlettarboretum.org

 Opening Reception: Friday May 15, 6-8pm & Film and Multimedia Project Screenings begin 7pm

The annual Arts and Media Festival showcases projects produced by MxCC’s Broadcast Communications, Fine Arts, Graphic Design and Multimedia students.  In addition to the student film and multimedia projects screening, student works are displayed throughout the Jean Burr Smith Library, Pegasus Gallery and the Niche.  This exhibition allows each instructor to share the most accomplished examples of student skill, ingenuity and creativity with our entire campus and local community.

The Jean Burr Smith Library is located on the first floor of Chapman Hall,Hours: Monday - Thursday 8:30am-8:00pm Friday 8:30am-4:30pm & Saturday 8:30am-1:30pm when classes are in session.

Pegasus Gallery, Hours: Monday & Wednesday 5pm-8pm & Saturday 9:30-1:30pm when classes are in session.

The Niche is located on the first floor of Founders Hall and open: Mondays through Thursdays 8:30am-6:00pm, Fridays & Saturdays 8:30am-4:30pm when classes are in session.

Begins Wednesday, June 24, and operate every Wednesday from 10:00am-2:00pm ending on September 9th. Our market will be held on the Great Lawn area and features local, grown products from CT. Have lunch at the Bartlett. Buy a sandwich made with fresh, local produce. Collection D'Objets D'Art. A special market addition featuring a table of gently used, new and surplus items with 50% of the proceeds being donated to the Bartlett. Call 203-322-6971 for questions, visit www.bartlettarboretum.org or email visitorservices@bartlettarboretum.org for information.

Trinity College will host the 60th Annual Plumb Memorial Carillion Concerts and the 35th Annual Chamber Music Series as part of the 2009 Summer Music Series.  The music series, held annually at the College, features performances every Wednesday during the summer, over a nine-week period.  The performances are free and open to the public and will be held rain or shine.  Attendees are encouraged to bring a picnic.  For a complete schedule, please visit: www.trincoll.edu.  

The Stevens-Frisbie House in Cromwell Connecticut is open each Sunday afternoon for visitors. The House is a museum of Cromwell history and features exhibits about the Frisbie and Ranney families.  Admission is Free.

WEST HARTFORD, CT – As part of its summer exhibition of the permanent collection, the Saint Joseph College Art Gallery will present Beyond Words, an installation of prints that use text as image and message, including screen prints by Sister Mary Corita Kent and posters by the Guerilla Girls. The installation opens on Tuesday, July 7 and runs through Sunday, September 6. 

Beyond Words features prints that embody a deep engagement in cultural and social issues. Sister Mary Corita Kent, who belonged to the Order of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, began exhibiting her screen prints in the early 1950s. Drawing inspiration from advertising and media, she re-contextualized everyday phrases and images in colorful prints on such issues as poverty, social injustice, and war. In the late 1960s her work began to focus on lettering as the major design element in her prints, using texts from song lyrics, fragments of poetry, or contemporary slogans. The Guerrilla Girls, an anonymous group of female artists, was founded in 1985 in response to an exhibition at MoMA in which only 17 out of 165 artists were women. Since then they have made posters, staged public actions, and issued books using humor to state bluntly the facts of discrimination. Their posters on view in Beyond Words address injustice in art, culture and politics.

The installation has been timed to coincide with Saint Joseph College’s 2009 Arts Integration and Multiple Intelligences Project (AIMI) summer programs for children grades 3-8. The theme for Session II (July 13 -July 29) with Jacques d’Amboise and a team from the National Dance Institute is A Celebration of John Lennon, which will culminate in a performance weaving vignettes of Lennon’s life together with original choreography set to his music. 

In addition to Beyond Words, the summer exhibition of works from the Saint Joseph College Art Gallery’s permanent collection will feature such highlights as paintings by Milton Avery, Georgia O’Keeffe, Thomas Hart Benton, and other twentieth-century American masters.

The Saint Joseph College Art Gallery is located in The Bruyette Athenaeum, part of The Carol Autorino Center for the Arts and Humanities. The Art Gallery presents regular exhibitions drawn from its permanent collections as well as loan exhibitions of historic art or of contemporary work by artists of national and international prominence.

The Art Gallery is open Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday: 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.; Thursday: 11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.; and Sunday: 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.; closed Monday.  Admission is free of charge.

 July 6-10, 9am-3pm

Connecting children with nature through science and exploration.

Spend the week exploring the most populous inhabitants on earth, insects. Encounter both the enemies of our garden and the insects that keep them under control. Daily bug patrol in the vegetable garden will always find something new. 

Call 203-322-6971 for questions, visit www.bartlettarboretum.org or email tdupont@bartlettarboretum.org for information.

July 6-10, 9am-3pm

Connecting children with nature through science and exploration.

97% of all animals in the world do not have a backbone.  Meet our hissing cockroach, observe swallowtail and monarch butterflies, hunt for insects under logs in our woods, and scoop in our pond for dragonfly nymphs and other aquatic invertebrates. Call 203-322-6971 for questions, visit www.bartlettarboretum.org or email tdupont@bartlettarboretum.org for information.

July 6-10, 9 am-12 noon

Connecting children with nature through science and exploration.

What are those plants and animals that you see in your backyard? Are they pollinators or decomposers? This week will be spent hunting in our butterfly garden, planting in the greenhouse and searching for wildflowers in our woods. 

Call 203-322-6971 for questions, visit www.bartlettarboretum.org or email tdupont@bartlettarboretum.org for information.

This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to explore the process of fine arts conservation, uncovering the relationship between curators and conservators and the objects entrusted to their care. Each of the works in the exhibition, which includes Asian ceramics, African ritual objects, ancient statues and mosaics, and American and European paintings and decorative arts from the Gallery’s collection, illustrates a different conservation dilemma. What does cleaning a painting’s surface reveal? Should fragmented objects be displayed as pieces or reassembled into a convincing pastiche? Should damaged objects be repaired for aesthetic reasons? The passage of time impacts not only the physical state of an object but also the techniques used to preserve it. Time Will Tell examines the evolving science of conservation and the questions that arise in preserving works of art while staying faithful to the artists’ intentions.

Currently in its 14th season, Shakespeare on the Sound presents Settle's site-specific production of A Midsummer Night's Dream  in beautiful Baldwin Park, Greenwich July 4-12.  Audiences are invited to arrive early and picnic in the park before the performance.  There is no admission fee, but a donation of $20 ($10 for students and seniors) is suggested.  The production is less than a five minute walk from the Greenwich Metro-North stop.  Ample parking is available.