Archive for the ‘Art & Literature’ Category

Create 2011

Posted by Edwin Bartlett On May - 23 - 2011
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Guilford Art Center announces its second annual springtime benefit evening on campus filled fantastic food, great art and dance-able music: Create 2011, on Saturday June 4, 6:30-11pm. Create guests will savor fresh, local, plentiful cuisine by New Haven’s Caseus Fromagerie & Bistro, as well as a great selection of wines, beer, and signature cocktails. Music [...]

An Evening With Sebastian Junger

Posted by Edwin Bartlett On May - 12 - 2011

Otis Library is pleased to announce author Sebastian Junger as the featured speaker for its signature fundraiser, Evening with an Author. Mr. Junger is internationally acclaimed best-selling author of the” Perfect Storm”, “A Death in Belmmont”, and most recently,” WAR”. As a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and as a contributor to ABC News, he [...]

Blackstone Library Happenings

Posted by Edwin Bartlett On May - 9 - 2011
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Friends of the Blackstone Library lecture Film Noir on Tuesday May 10, at 7:00 PM. French critics were the first to notice an important trend in many American films of the 1940s. They called it film noir or “black film”. These films were darker than normal, both visually and thematically, and seemed to reflect a [...]

Guilford Art Center Opens New Exhibit: Poser

Posted by Edwin Bartlett On May - 6 - 2011
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Guilford Art Center announces its latest exhibit, Poser is a juried group exhibit. The show is on view  May 13-June 26, 2011 in the Center’s Mill Gallery. Poser presents art works in all media that explore various notions of posing for an image, as it relates to artist, subject and/or viewer. Works explore such aspects [...]

14th Anual Westville Village Artwalk

Posted by Edwin Bartlett On May - 5 - 2011

  Westville Village Renaissance Alliance (WVRA) announces our upcoming 14th Annual Westville Village ArtWalk, one of the largest community-based arts festivals in New England, to be held Friday, May 6 and Saturday, May 7, 2011. ArtWalk takes place on Whalley Avenue from West Rock Avenue at beautiful Edgewood Park to Blake Street, on the west [...]

Guilford Art Center Announces Registration For Summer Art Classes

Posted by Edwin Bartlett On April - 13 - 2011
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Guilford, CT — Guilford Art Center announces its 2011 summer youth program June 27 – August 19. Summer youth classes are designed for students ages 3 ½ to 13, and offer all sorts of art experiences, from painting and drawing to ceramics, photography, mixed media and more. Classes are scheduled on a weekly basis and [...]

The Art Center In Killingworth.

Posted by Edwin Bartlett On April - 12 - 2011
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The Arts Center in Killingworth is taking registration for summer classes and fall shows.  For additional information, please check the following press releases, and follow the links. Fashion in July at the Arts Center at Killingworth Registration is now filing for July Fashion Weeks. In Fashion I (July 11-15), 9:30-4:30, “fashionistas” spend the mornings learning [...]

Steve Depino: Beyond The Shot

Posted by Edwin Bartlett On March - 22 - 2011

Since starting the websites over a year ago, I have been exposed to many new things. Some things are easy, such as going to events, finding and listening to new bands, and meeting new people. Some things are not so easy. Writing (still need an editor) and photography. Most people think of photography as “point [...]

Hygienic Art XXXII – Salon des Indépendants

Posted by Edwin Bartlett On January - 14 - 2011

On January 29, 2011 New London’s Hygienic Art Gallery kicks off its 32nd annual no-holds-barred Arts Festival.  The two week Festival features hot new art (painting, sculpture, photography), live music (rock, cabaret, folk punk, R&B …)…

Hammered Edge Studio Chester

Posted by Edwin Bartlett On January - 6 - 2011
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Kathryne Wright, owner/artist of Hammered Edge LLC Studio & Gallery in the center of Chester, will exhibit a selection of her one-of-a-kind handmade masks and headdresses at Chester Village West in January. The exhibit is part of Chester Village West’s monthly shows of works by Chester artists. Wright’s exhibit opens with a public reception on [...]