One (1) Hour Historical Walking Tour

Overture to “Der Freischutz,” by von Weber, Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor by Chopin featuring pianist, Richard Dowling, and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8 in G Major.

 The exhibit uses historic photographs, artifacts, and first-hand accounts to explore 260 years of Cornwall’s relationship with its forests, showing how and why the town transformed from forest to farm and back to forest. The exhibit will also explore changing attitudes about the forest, from the 18^th century view of woods as a source of timber to more recent concepts of the forest as a setting for recreation and as a vital ecosystem.

In the Rio Grande River Valley of central New Mexico and eastern Arizona, the Pueblos, a people spread over 19 communities, continue to practice their ancient art of pottery-making.  Descendents of the Anasazi, the Pueblo People, still use the traditional coiling methods and decorative patterns that have distinguished their work for centuries..

This exhibit compares and contrasts the unique style of each Pueblo community and highlights individual artists who have shaped this timeless craft.

 The museum is open Monday through Saturday from 10:00am - 5:00pm* and Sunday 12:00pm to 5:00pm *      *Last admission 4:30pm

Good food and music will always bring people together!  We invite you to join with IAIS staff, members and friends for our second annual clambake and drumming fundraiser. 

 Enjoy traditional indigenous foods of lobster, clams, corn and potatoes, then listen to the sounds of Native drumming around the campfire in our replicated Algonkian Village.

 We welcome back the Sint-Sink Singers, host musician Mark Ingram and Dawn Cloud-Alter along with the Vermillion Singers for an evening filled with good food, good company and good drumming.  Feel free to bring your own chairs, blankets, beverages/libations, drums and rattles. 

  Registration and prepayment required by September 15th.    

*rain date Sunday, September 23^rd   4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

$15 tickets with valid student ID available beginning at 10 am on any wednesday, Thursday or Friday for that evening's performance.

Opening Reception: Friday, August 10, 6-8pm

Artist Demonstration Day: Saturday, August 4^th, 1-3:30pm.

Please see attached images.

The Connecticut Pastel Society, a statewide fine arts organization with national

outreach, is pleased to be returning to the Lyme Art Association for their 2012

Signature Member’s Exhibition.  This juried exhibition of more than 50 paintings

created by the Society’s premier members will be on display and for sale from

August 3 through September 22 in the Goodman Gallery at the Lyme Art

Association, 90 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT. Tuesday-Saturday 10-5pm, Sunday, 1-5pm.

This year’s exhibition will include a first time ever trio Artist Demonstration Day

on August 4^th, 1:00-3:30 pm.  The public as well as fellow artists are encouraged

to attend this free opportunity to see how a painting comes to life.  You will have

the opportunity to either experience a still life demonstration by Alain Picard,

a cityscape by Janet A. Cook and a macro landscape by Karen Israel.  The

artwork created by these three well known artists, will be graciously

donated and offered for sale at our premier silent auction throughout the six weeks of the

exhibition.  Bids will commence at the Opening Reception on August 10th at 6 pm

and end at 4 pm on the final day of the exhibit, September 22^nd.  Bids will be accepted

throughout the exhibit, either on the auction bid sheet accompanying the

paintings or by phone to the LAA at 860-434-7802.  All proceeds

from the auction will benefit the Connecticut Pastel Society.

Matthew Garrett extracts his imagery from unremarkable environments, isolating the visual murmurs of our surroundings. The images themselves don’t rest in one place--or on one thought--as they bounce from the slightly cryptic, to the strictly abstract and over to the plainly beautiful, before returning to more vernacular descriptions in which things are exactly as they appear to be.

Gerald Saladyga sees landscape painting not as a romantic representation of the past, but as an ongoing inspiration from an ever-changing environment. His current series of landscapes began in 2008 and culminated in 2012 with a present a view of the planet as a cartoon of itself, perhaps too real to be funny or too unreal to be taken seriously.

Saturday, September 22, 2012 

5 p.m.- 7 p.m.
Free event!

Join us for ASAP’s inaugural Celebration of Emerging Artists at the Woodhall School’s beautiful, newly renovated art gallery and theatre. Gifted visual artists, musicians, writers, and dancers will be featured in the evening’s remarkable exhibit and performance. These young adults, selected from across northwestern Connecticut to receive scholarships through ASAP’s 2012 Summer Grant Program, spent the summer refining their talents at prominent arts institutions across the world such as RISD, NYU Classical Voice Summer Intensive, The Alasdair Fraser Fiddle Program at the Gaelic College, Ile of Skye, Scotland, MICA Summer Pre-College Program in Tuscany, Italy, and the Boston Ballet. Enjoy a catered cocktail reception in the gallery prior to the performance.

The Arts Council of Greater New Haven presents an exhibition of works by Connecticut artists Joan Fitzsimmons, Laura Barr, Alexis Neider, Barbara Marks, and Lisa Hess Hesselgrave.

The exhibition will take place at Katalina’s cupcake shop at 74 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, and will be on display from September 10^th until November 2^nd, 2012. Katalina’s is open to the public during business hours, Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.  

An artists’ reception is scheduled for Tuesday, September 18, from 5 to 7 p.m. The public is invited to attend. Refreshments and light appetizers will be served, including cupcakes, of course!

The exhibit will feature artwork that revolves around the theme of food, including colorful and playful paintings of indulgent breakfasts and black and white photographs of emptied glasses. The exhibition, curated by our Director of Artistic Services & Programs, Debbie Hesse, brings together all the abundance and the lack that the theme summons within all of us, roughly three times a day.

This exhibition will also complement the Arts Paper’s September issue “The Art of Food,” which will highlight local culinary talent, delve into international eating trends, discuss food documentaries, and goes behind-the-scenes in the article “The Ballet of Service.”

For more information about this exhibition and the Arts Paper, call the Arts Council at (203) 772-2788. High-resolution images are available upon request.

The Arts Council of Greater New Haven, publisher of The Arts Paper, is a regional nonprofit arts agency that provides leadership to and advocates for member artists and arts organizations and connects them to one another, to audiences, and to the Greater New Haven community. Visit the Arts Council online at newhavenarts.org.

Featuring New Works by Frank Stella.

On view September 22 – November 30, 2012.

Open Thursday – Monday, 9:30 a.m.– 5:30 p.m.

Tickets start at $30, including tour of the site.

Featuring first sculpture in residence: Ken Price, Doola (2011) On view September 22 – November 30, 2012

Open Thursday – Monday, 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.

Tickets start at $30, including tour of the site.
 

Once the home of some of Hartford’s richest citizens, the neighborhood surrounding Hartford Hospital gives us a glimpse of architectural styles from the mid-19^th century through to the Modern era. Join Hartford Preservation Alliance’s Mary Falvey on a tour of the architectural treasures of the neighborhood

One of the most incredible shows you will ever see! Jeff & Tess Evason perform mind-blowing feats of interactive psychic magic and uncanny mind reading demonstrations, while David & Dania present one of the most original and astonishing magic acts ever seen on stage, with staggering, flashing costume transformations, which happen in front of your very eyes in just fractions of a second. It’s reality TV live on stage, and audience interactive... starring YOU. You’ll love it!

Limited seating available

~*TWO CHANCES TO ENJOY THEIR TALENT*~ 7 p.m. & 9 p.m.