I am very happy to tell you that I will have a number of my photographs adorning the walls of Café Atlantique in downtown Milford (33 River Street, 203-882-1602) from July 16 through month’s end. To celebrate, there will be a reception (cash bar) from 6-9pm on Tuesday, July 20. Café Atlantique is a wonderful [...]

This July, offer your teen or yourself a unique art and cultural experience! Flamenco & Gypsy Culture Evenings (July 19-23, 6-10pm, $275), teens and adults learn the footwork, arm movements, and clapping in rhythm needed for the dance of Flamenco. Explore this rich culture with videos, gypsy music, and props such as fans, hair combs and [...]

This July, offer your teen a unique art experience during Fashion Week (July 12-16, $350) for ages 11-16, illustrate, design, and sew your creations.  Be part of a fashion shoot and show!  To register for Art Weeks, call (860) 663-5593. Registration form online at www.artscenterkillingworth.org. Arts Center at Killingworth, 276 North Parker Hill Rd, Killingworth, CT 06419.

This July, offer your child a unique art experience! In Music & Art Week (July 26-30 $275), for ages 7-11, spend mornings having a “musical experience” singing, playing movement and rhythm games. Then become a “rock star” composing a tune. Afternoons draw using oil pastels, create architectural drawings and stylized portraits. 3-D art includes sculpting with [...]

Old Lyme, Conn. ─ Art work by Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts alumni T. Allen “Tim” Lawson of Rockport, Maine and Glenn Olsen of Niantic, Connecticut has been selected for the Founder’s Prize and the President’s Prize respectively in the Eighth Alumni Exhibition hosted by the College. The award-winning work, in all media, was [...]

An unusual opportunity to purchase limited edition collectible bronze medals from America’s greatest sculptors from the 1930-1990’s including medals created by Laci deGerenday and Elisabeth Gordon Chandler, along with other works of art from the private collection of two important American sculptors of the 20th century will take place in the Academic Center of the [...]

In contrast to his advertising commissions where he presents slickly rendered images of perfect people and products, Allen’s paintings seek to explore the beauty in imperfections as he seeks to explore and understand nature. “I’m inclined towards the underexposed rather than the obvious, even in my strongly delineated work, so that the beauty of beach [...]

There is an installation of extraordinary art piece images at New Haven’s hippest restaurant/cocktail laboratory, 116 Crown . http://www.116crown.com/ that is definitely worth the trip.  Focused to the point of abstraction, the often hidden world of materials and craft reveal themselves in architect Duo Dickinson’s (www.duodickinson.com) haunting images of the decaying walls of Venice and [...]

During the month of April, the Left Bank Gallery Essex is honored to feature the work of Connecticut artist Paul Batch. Batch creates traditional landscape paintings in oil, poetically capturing the fleeting and ephemeral light cast by the passing sun or rising moon. The artist focuses on transition, painting times of day or changing weather [...]

And writers, photographers, musicians, designers and you, too.  Two Weeks  ago I attended Shoreline Out and About’s social media and power networking breakfast and was surprised at the number of people who weren’t taking advantage of social media to promote their businesses.  Social media (blogging, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) is one of the greatest tools available [...]

While on Twitter about a week ago, one of my followers led me to this book.  Tom Shroder, a newspaper journalist became involved with Ian Stevenson, a professor at The University of Virginia who investigated the past life stories of children.  Stevenson traveled all over the world looking for cases.  Stevenson brought Mr Shroder along [...]

The Shoreline Arts Alliance is pleased to announce the First Honors and Honorable Mention awards for IMAGES 2010, its 29th annual statewide-juried photography competition and exhibition at the Mill Gallery of the Guilford Art Center, 411 Church Street (Rt. 77) in Guilford, CT. First honors have been awarded to: David Gillich-Milford, Dana Osborn-Middlebury, Alan Shulik-Guilford [...]

I saw a photo of the painting and couldn’t quite understand what was going on in it. What was the medium? There were glorious washes of color. Some almost transparent and some areas quite dense and saturated. There were shimmering rocks and leaves and something that looked like bubbles or maybe moss. I didn’t understand. [...]

The Gallery of Fine Art at Venetucci Home proudly features Robert Noreika February 1- 28, with an artists reception Sunday, February 7, 2-4PM Mr. Noreika is a prominent painter and illustrator whose paintings hang in both corporate and private collections throughout th United States, Europe and Japan. Noreika’s passion for art is matched by a [...]

On January 30, 2010 the Hygienic Art will kick off its 31 annual no-holds-barred Art Exhibition st and Multi-Media Music and Performing Arts Festival in downtown New London Connecticut. The two week (three weekend) festival features mostly free events – lots of hot new art; rock, cabaret and folk music; theater and fashion shows. All [...]