Spectrum Art Gallery's first show of 2025 is "Life in Motion". A six-week show opening on January 24, 2025. The gallery will have images of people or objects in motion. Questions to think about what does motion do to a person or object? What stops it? What makes motion accelerate? What can make motion dangerous? What makes motion beautiful and exciting! The Opening Reception is Friday, January 24, 6:30-9 pm, with wine, food and good company! The show will close Saturday, March 8, 2025.
Life in Motion
Slapstick:
Curated by Kevin Daly
January 11 - March 16, 2025
Located at Ball & Socket Arts in The Workshop Gallery, Building 3.
Opening Reception on Saturday, January 11, 2025 4-7PM
Slapstick is a physical type of humor involving play, exaggeration and activities which may exceed the boundaries of common sense. In Slapstick, each of the artists included explores abstraction in a highly personal way with a sense of play and experimentation, both in process and in materials. The work included is unpretentiously formal, borrowing aesthetic attributes from Pop Art. This work successfully exudes the fun and delight of creation.
Featured Artists:
Cat Balco
https://catbalco.com/home.html
https://www.rickwesterfineart.com/cat-balco
Melanie Carr
https://www.melaniecarr.com/bio
Andy Cunningham
https://www.andycunningham.net/bio
Niki Lederer
Suzan Shutan
Taro Suzuki
https://www.highnoongallery.com/artist-page/taro-suzuki
Slapstick
Two of City Gallery’s contemporary photographers — Joy Bush and Tom Peterson — will be featured in ALONE, a new photography exhibit at City Gallery, on view from January 31 - March 2. There will be an Artists Reception on Sunday, February 23, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Free and open to the public. City Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Gallery hours are Friday - Sunday, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m., or by appointment. For more, contact City Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, newhavencity-gallery.org.
Alone: A Contemporary Photography Exhibit at City Gallery
This class provides step-by-step instruction for those seeking the fundamentals of watercolor painting. Class includes demos and structured exercises. Participants learn color mixing, dark and light and basic color theory principles. Different brush stroke techniques are addressed for specific effects i.e. wet on wet & dry stubble applications. Participants paint from still life setups and/or photo references from home. Everyone is encouraged to work on an ongoing painting at home to help solidify techniques learned in class. This piece may be brought into class on the last day for an open critique session. Material list sent upon registration.
Chris Kunze graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Painting/Illustration. He has had a long & successful career in Advertising and Promotion. His illustrations and designs have been used in books, magazines, newspapers, product packaging and logo design.
Chris’ fine art has always remained important throughout his career as a commercial artist.
He has had many solo and group shows in New York City, Westchester County and lower Connecticut, showcasing his oil paintings, watercolors and illustrations. Chris was part of an ongoing show at the Arthur Kalaher Fine Art in Sag Harbor, NY from 2011-2019. In 2018 he had a solo show of his watercolors at Teatown Lake Reservation.
In 2019 Chris began his participation in Arthouse.NYC’s “Healthcare Heroes Show”.
He has memorialized several healthcare workers who lost their lives during the height of the Covid pandemic. These oil portraits were given to their families and were on view at the
Big Plaza Screen in New York City.
Teaching is a passion that has come to the forefront in the past 15 years for Chris. He has been teaching a plethora of subjects among them drawing, oil painting, watercolors, and more at local Westchester art schools. He is currently teaching at Scarsdale Adult School.
Chris grew up in Europe and Westchester County. He currently resides in Salem, Connecticut.
Experience Watercolor - Beginner & Beyond
The Peabody Museum in New Haven is one of the oldest and largest university natural history museums in the world . And it can be your children’s classroom!
Join us for an inspiring art class in the newly expanded museum. This is a fantastic opportunity to draw a variety of natural artifacts, including plants, animals, and fossils, while enhancing your observational drawing skills. Participants will learn to notice finer details and improve their ability to draw from life, unlocking a whole new world of artistic expression. The Peabody’s expansive collections—featuring dinosaur bones, plant matter, reptiles, and much more—provide the perfect backdrop for this exploration.
Please note that drop-off and pick-up will take place in the museum lobby.
Wednesday morning session is perfect for home-school families.
Tuition for this class includes a fee of $20 for materials provided by CAW.
Art and Nature – Sketching at the Peabody Museum
Explore the creative possibilities of clay by shaping and molding it into one-of-a-kind works of art. Working with clay helps young people develop fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and emotional expression through hands-on activities. Above all, clay sparks imagination, encouraging children to think creatively and express themselves in new ways. The tuition for this class includes a materials fee of $20 for basic materials provided by CAW. School Policies Students who withdraw 48 hours prior to the first class are eligible for a refund or credit toward another class, less a $25 registration fee. Please click here for more details.
Adventures In Clay
Registration is now open for Winter Programs at Oddfellows Playhouse Youth Theater located at 128 Washington Street in Middletown! Beginning January 6, weekly classes in theater, dance, circus, and visual arts will be offered for toddlers to 20 year olds.
Winter Theater, Dance, and Circus classes start January 6 in Middletown
Liminal: Coastal Science in Sacred Music is a concert and symposium featuring the Coastal Conservatory with EcoSono Ensemble and Yale University special guests.
This event will be held in Harkness Hall's Sudler Recital Hall, 100 Wall Street, New Haven, CT.
Integrating eco-acoustic performance with intellectual exchange across science and ethics, the Coastal Conservatory creates immersive ways of listening to coastal change. In this concert, EcoSono Ensemble will perform music made with data produced by the Virginia Coast Reserve Long-term Ecological Research site about sea level rise, oyster reef restoration, shorebird extinction, and sea grass meadows. In symposial reflections, scholars and scientists will consider how music made from sonified data and with ecological relations may be heard as a new sacred music of the environment. Co-directed by faculty from music, environmental sciences, and religious studies from the University of Virginia, the Conservatory has been recognized by the Mellon Foundation, NSF, and NPR for its integrative way into relations by which coasts are being transformed. This event includes Yale students and faculty in live performance and scholarly conversation.
Speakers and performers include Matthew Burtner, Karen McGlathery, Willis Jenkins and the EcoSono Ensemble.
EcoSono Ensemble:
- Lisa Edwards-Burrs, voice
- I-Jen Fang, percussion
- Kelly Sulick, flute
- Naima Burrs, violin
- Kevin Davis, cello
Free and open to the public. Livestream link.
View event site for more details and full schedule.
Sponsored by the Institute of Sacred Music’s Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture Initiative.
Liminal: Coastal Science in Sacred Music
Paws and Pixels is an exciting new course designed for young artists who want to create animal drawings using Procreate. Starting with the basics, we’ll guide students through sketching techniques and gradually move on to more advanced, realistic animal illustrations.
Throughout the course, students will learn how to observe and analyze animal shapes and proportions, replicate different textures like fur, glossy skin, and more, using Procreate’s powerful features. As they advance, students will explore techniques like blending modes, clipping masks, and blur effects to add depth and realism to their art.
The tuition for this class includes a materials fee of $20 for basic materials provided by CAW
Paws and Pixels
No typical sand or slides at this playground!
CAW’s playground has colored sand, wood, clay, tempera and watercolor paints, markers, tissue paper and more items than we have space to list here. Students will use all these supplies to create projects including masks, paper dolls, animals, birds, insects, portraits, and imaginary creatures.
How will they do all this? By cutting, folding, stomping, splashing, blending, texturing, painting, and coloring (after they mix their own unique colors).
Bet you wish you could stay too!
Wednesday morning session is perfect for home-school families.
Tuition for this class includes a fee of $20 for materials provided by CAW.
Art Playground
Registration is now open for Winter Programs at Oddfellows Playhouse Youth Theater located at 128 Washington Street in Middletown! Beginning January 6, weekly classes in theater, dance, circus, and visual arts will be offered for toddlers to 20 year olds.
Winter Theater, Dance, and Circus classes start January 6 in Middletown
Show up for your creative self in 2025 with the Saturday Drawing Club.
Explore weekly prompts and materials combined with a mix of conversation, creative time, and feedback. Bring an ongoing project or start from scratch.
Tuition for this class includes a fee of $10 for basic materials provided by CAW.
Saturday Drawing
Would you like to explore watercolors? Feeling unsure or out of practice? You can do it!
Watercolors are a whimsical and simple way to explore ideas, make memorable sketches of your travels or daily life, and develop visual self-expression.
Students will learn about materials, look at examples, create color studies, make thumbnail sketches to generate ideas and compositions, and develop sketches and paintings that explore color, line, shape, texture, and more.
Whether you enjoy landscape, still life, abstract, or contemporary art, you will have the space and support to develop your style and learn helpful techniques to help you on your creative journey.
Watercolor for Beginners
Creativity meets skill development for young artists!
Students will learn representational drawing and painting through observation of real objects and images. They’ll explore color theory, texture creation, and value with pencils, pastels, watercolors, and tempera. The focus is on developing eye-hand coordination, drawing skills, and fostering creativity in a supportive environment.
Tuition for this class includes a fee of $20 for basic materials provided by CAW.
Junior Artists
Creativity meets skill development for young artists!
Students will learn representational drawing and painting through observation of real objects and images. They’ll explore color theory, texture creation, and value with pencils, pastels, watercolors, and tempera. The focus is on developing eye-hand coordination, drawing skills, and fostering creativity in a supportive environment.
Tuition for this class includes a fee of $20 for basic materials provided by CAW.
Junior Artists
Do you love keeping a journal or planner? My Digital Diary is a fun and creative class where you’ll learn how to make your own stylish digital journal! Using digital sketching techniques on Procreate, you’ll create beautiful illustrations to capture your thoughts, hobbies, and habits.
In this class we’ll create graphics, illustrations, and character designs that reflect your personal style – making your diary fun to look at and use.
The tuition for this class includes a materials fee of $20 for basic materials provided by CAW.
My Digital Diary
Join Yale Swing Blues & Fusion in New Haven for Hop Into Spring 2025: A Lindy Hop & Balboa Dance weekend with nationally recognized instructors Jennifer Barnett and Dominic Hanna! This weekend will be jam packed with lessons for dancers of all levels and includes an incredible evening of social dancing to the Wes Lewis Quintet, featuring vocals by Teddy Horangic. Here's a link to the event: https://www.facebook.com/share/15bfiw14tB/
And don’t wait -- very affordable early bird pricing ends January 31st: https://ko-fi.com/yaleswingbluesfusion
Sign up for one lesson, one day, or the whole weekend!
Rideshares from New Haven will be set up for those who need transportation to the High Lane Club. We will also try to connect anyone who needs overnight housing with a local host. Contact us at https://www.facebook.com/share/g/16GAniWmnq/ for details!
Hop Into Spring 2025
Explore and develop designs for relief, intaglio, and monotype printmaking in this hands-on course. Class time will focus on creating original designs and concepts as students experiment with print plate substrates, including Corian®, Tetra-Pak®, vinyl records, and various recycled and found materials. Examples of different print styles will be shared to illustrate these techniques. This course is suitable for beginners and advanced students alike. The inks used can be cleaned up with soap and water, and students will need to bring their own paper for the first session. Includes one 3-hour weekly practice session during monitored practice hours. Tuition for this class includes a fee of $20 for basic materials provided by CAW including Linoleum blocks and black and white ink.
Experimental Printmaking
Spectrum Art Gallery's first show of 2025 is "Life in Motion". A six-week show opening on January 24, 2025. The gallery will have images of people or objects in motion. Questions to think about what does motion do to a person or object? What stops it? What makes motion accelerate? What can make motion dangerous? What makes motion beautiful and exciting! The Opening Reception is Friday, January 24, 6:30-9 pm, with wine, food and good company! The show will close Saturday, March 8, 2025.
Life in Motion
Slapstick:
Curated by Kevin Daly
January 11 - March 16, 2025
Located at Ball & Socket Arts in The Workshop Gallery, Building 3.
Opening Reception on Saturday, January 11, 2025 4-7PM
Slapstick is a physical type of humor involving play, exaggeration and activities which may exceed the boundaries of common sense. In Slapstick, each of the artists included explores abstraction in a highly personal way with a sense of play and experimentation, both in process and in materials. The work included is unpretentiously formal, borrowing aesthetic attributes from Pop Art. This work successfully exudes the fun and delight of creation.
Featured Artists:
Cat Balco
https://catbalco.com/home.html
https://www.rickwesterfineart.com/cat-balco
Melanie Carr
https://www.melaniecarr.com/bio
Andy Cunningham
https://www.andycunningham.net/bio
Niki Lederer
Suzan Shutan
Taro Suzuki
https://www.highnoongallery.com/artist-page/taro-suzuki
Slapstick
Two of City Gallery’s contemporary photographers — Joy Bush and Tom Peterson — will be featured in ALONE, a new photography exhibit at City Gallery, on view from January 31 - March 2. There will be an Artists Reception on Sunday, February 23, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Free and open to the public. City Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Gallery hours are Friday - Sunday, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m., or by appointment. For more, contact City Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, newhavencity-gallery.org.
Alone: A Contemporary Photography Exhibit at City Gallery
Explore, learn, and practice drawing exercises and techniques in a supportive environment. Increase visual perception, skills and confidence, and develop your unique style. Work with drawing pencils, charcoal, pastels, watercolor and ink/pens. Weekly demos and exercises include mark-making, line, value, form, texture and shading. Subjects include animals, everyday objects, portraits, autumn and nature inspirations, as well as students’ interests. We draw from observation, references and imagination. All materials provided. Join us!
For returning students, the class will include both new projects and some review.
The tuition for this class includes a fee of $20 for basic materials provided by CAW.
Saturday Sketching
In this magical experience, students will bring a forest fairy tale to life using markers and colored pencils. They’ll create a series of six enchanting illustrations united by a common theme, with a focus on color, composition, and texture.
As they delve into the world of fairy tales, students will learn how to combine markers and colored pencils to produce vibrant and imaginative artwork. This class will spark creativity, enhance drawing skills, and introduce new techniques for using these materials to capture the magic of the forest!
The tuition for this class includes a materials fee of $20 for basic materials provided by CAW.
A Forest Fairy Tale
Class time focuses on simple Still-Life set-ups ~a bottle, a bowl with fruit, etc. Objects are studied from a tabletop perspective. How to create volume, depth and weight are introduced as participants investigate the power of thin and thick line applications which help to create the shape and mass of objects. Individual attention will be given to each student at their skill level.
In the third week participants bring photos or objects from home to draw in an effort to improve how they see and, therefore, their drawing skills. Material list available upon registration.
Chris Kunze graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Painting/Illustration. He has had a long & successful career in Advertising and Promotion. His illustrations and designs have been used in books, magazines, newspapers, product packaging and logo design.
Chris’ fine art has always remained important throughout his career as a commercial artist.
He has had many solo and group shows in New York City, Westchester County and lower Connecticut, showcasing his oil paintings, watercolors and illustrations. Chris was part of an ongoing show at the Arthur Kalaher Fine Art in Sag Harbor, NY from 2011-2019. In 2018 he had a solo show of his watercolors at Teatown Lake Reservation.
In 2019 Chris began his participation in Arthouse.NYC’s “Healthcare Heroes Show”.
He has memorialized several healthcare workers who lost their lives during the height of the Covid pandemic. These oil portraits were given to their families and were on view at the
Big Plaza Screen in New York City.
Teaching is a passion that has come to the forefront in the past 15 years for Chris. He has been teaching a plethora of subjects among them drawing, oil painting, watercolors, and more at local Westchester art schools. He is currently teaching at Scarsdale Adult School.
Chris grew up in Europe and Westchester County. He currently resides in Salem, Connecticut.
Everyone Can Draw
Instructed by Annie Sailer
39 Putnam Ave, Hamden CT
Annie Sailer Adult Intermediate Dance Class
Adventures in Music Productions and The Recording Den bring everyone a very intimate concert experience.
Muses Rising because the Muses were the Greek goddesses of poetic inspiration, the adored deities of song, dance, and memory and on February 22nd we will be bringing 3 inspirational female songwriters to the stage at The Recording Den.
We will have limited space for this one so, get your tickets today!
Doors open at 2:30pm and music starts at 3pm.
Our lineup:
Remy Adair
Claire Lane
Liz McNicholl
Muses Rising
See objects and space in a new light while discovering creative techniques to bring your drawing style to life.
Explore how to add depth, light, shadow, and perspective to your drawings with colored pencils.
Focus on beginning your art journey and achieving impressive results along the way!
The tuition for this class includes a materials fee of $20 for basic materials provided by CAW.
Creative Effects with Colored Pencils
All are welcome to attend a performance of Schola Cantorum with Juilliard415, conducted by Schola's principal guest conductor Masaaki Suzuki.
Repertoire:
JS Bach: Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, BWV 106
JS Bach: Köthener Trauermusik, BWV 244a
Free and open to the public.
View event page for more details.
Schola Cantorum is a chamber choir that performs sacred music from the sixteenth century to the present day in concert settings and choral services around the world. It is sponsored by Yale Institute of Sacred Music and led by interim conductor Stefan Parkman. Masaaki Suzuki is the ensemble’s principal guest conductor. Open by audition to students from all departments and professional schools across Yale University, the choir has a special interest in historically informed performance practice, often in collaboration with instrumentalists from Juilliard415.
Yale Schola Cantorum presents: Klagt, Kinder – Köthener Trauermusik
Join Yale Swing Blues & Fusion in New Haven for Hop Into Spring 2025: A Lindy Hop & Balboa Dance weekend with nationally recognized instructors Jennifer Barnett and Dominic Hanna! This weekend will be jam packed with lessons for dancers of all levels and includes an incredible evening of social dancing to the Wes Lewis Quintet, featuring vocals by Teddy Horangic. Here's a link to the event: https://www.facebook.com/share/15bfiw14tB/
And don’t wait -- very affordable early bird pricing ends January 31st: https://ko-fi.com/yaleswingbluesfusion
Sign up for one lesson, one day, or the whole weekend!
Rideshares from New Haven will be set up for those who need transportation to the High Lane Club. We will also try to connect anyone who needs overnight housing with a local host. Contact us at https://www.facebook.com/share/g/16GAniWmnq/ for details!
Hop Into Spring 2025
Spectrum Art Gallery's first show of 2025 is "Life in Motion". A six-week show opening on January 24, 2025. The gallery will have images of people or objects in motion. Questions to think about what does motion do to a person or object? What stops it? What makes motion accelerate? What can make motion dangerous? What makes motion beautiful and exciting! The Opening Reception is Friday, January 24, 6:30-9 pm, with wine, food and good company! The show will close Saturday, March 8, 2025.
Life in Motion
Slapstick:
Curated by Kevin Daly
January 11 - March 16, 2025
Located at Ball & Socket Arts in The Workshop Gallery, Building 3.
Opening Reception on Saturday, January 11, 2025 4-7PM
Slapstick is a physical type of humor involving play, exaggeration and activities which may exceed the boundaries of common sense. In Slapstick, each of the artists included explores abstraction in a highly personal way with a sense of play and experimentation, both in process and in materials. The work included is unpretentiously formal, borrowing aesthetic attributes from Pop Art. This work successfully exudes the fun and delight of creation.
Featured Artists:
Cat Balco
https://catbalco.com/home.html
https://www.rickwesterfineart.com/cat-balco
Melanie Carr
https://www.melaniecarr.com/bio
Andy Cunningham
https://www.andycunningham.net/bio
Niki Lederer
Suzan Shutan
Taro Suzuki
https://www.highnoongallery.com/artist-page/taro-suzuki
Slapstick
Two of City Gallery’s contemporary photographers — Joy Bush and Tom Peterson — will be featured in ALONE, a new photography exhibit at City Gallery, on view from January 31 - March 2. There will be an Artists Reception on Sunday, February 23, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Free and open to the public. City Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Gallery hours are Friday - Sunday, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m., or by appointment. For more, contact City Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, newhavencity-gallery.org.
Alone: A Contemporary Photography Exhibit at City Gallery
Creativity meets skill development for young artists!
Students will learn representational drawing and painting through observation of real objects and images. They’ll explore color theory, texture creation, and value with pencils, pastels, watercolors, and tempera. The focus is on developing eye-hand coordination, drawing skills, and fostering creativity in a supportive environment.
Tuition for this class includes a fee of $20 for basic materials provided by CAW.
Junior Artists
Creativity meets skill development for young artists!
Students will learn representational drawing and painting through observation of real objects and images. They’ll explore color theory, texture creation, and value with pencils, pastels, watercolors, and tempera. The focus is on developing eye-hand coordination, drawing skills, and fostering creativity in a supportive environment.
Tuition for this class includes a fee of $20 for basic materials provided by CAW.
Junior Artists
On February 23, Essex Winter Series Jazz Advisor Jeff Barnhart will present his Essex Eight! Hot music of the 1920s and 1930s will be dished up by internationally celebrated jazz musicians who he's also proud to call friends. You'll be amazed at the virtuosity and versatility of: Jeff Barnhart (piano, vocals); Andy Schumm (cornet, clarinet, piano); Dan Levinson (reeds); Billy Novick (reeds); Jim Fryer (trombone, euphonium, vocal); Vince Giordano (string bass, tuba, bass sax, vocal); Arnt Arntzen (banjo/guitar, vocal); Bill Reynolds (drums). While this octet has never appeared anywhere prior to gracing the stage at Old Saybrook High School, you'll marvel at the synergy that makes the group sound as if they've been performing together for decades! Jeff Barnhart's Essex Eight has been carefully curated to bring out the best in each of these world-class musicians. You'll be talking about this concert for years to come.
This toe-tapping, hand-clapping – maybe even up-and-dancing – event will be followed by the award-winning Terra String Quartet on March 9 at Congregation Beth Shalom (Chester) and flutist Tara Helen O’Connor with Eight Emerging Artist Alumni on April 6 at Valley Regional High School (Deep River).
Concerts begin at 3 pm and are general admission. For tickets visit www.essexwinterseries.com or call 860-272-4572. For all our venues, parking, entry and seating accessibility is available.
This year's jazz concert is dedicated to the memory of Sharon D. Clark, generously funded by long-time EWS concert sponsors: Her loving husband, Herb Clark, the Clark Family, and good friends, Jacqueline Hubbard and Norman Needleman. Our 2025 season is sponsored by ASP Trust and this jazz concert is sponsored by the Clark Group and Tower Laboratories.
Essex Winter Series presents Hot Jazz with Jeff Barnhart's Essex Eight on 2/23/2025
New and experienced students will focus on making pottery on the wheel.
Start by using methods of wedging, centering, hand and finger positioning for raising a vessel, and positioning one’s body for dealing with a mass of clay on the wheel. Demonstrations will cover the importance of trimming techniques and various forming processes.
Wear clothes that can get dirty.
Pottery tool kits are available for sale in the studio for $27. Cash or check only.
Firing fees are $3/pound. Cash or check only.
Includes one 3-hour weekly practice session during monitored practice hours on a first-come, first-served basis.
Techniques for Wheel Throwing
Two of City Gallery’s contemporary photographers — Joy Bush and Tom Peterson — will be featured in ALONE, a new photography exhibit at City Gallery, on view from January 31 - March 2. There will be an Artists Reception on Sunday, February 23, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Free and open to the public. City Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Gallery hours are Friday - Sunday, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m., or by appointment. For more, contact City Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, newhavencity-gallery.org.
Alone: A Contemporary Photography Exhibit at City Gallery
Learn how to make a clamshell box–a box that looks like a book, especially when set on a shelf. The design can be easily adapted in shape and size to accommodate a wide range of objects from prints, small objects, or books. Students will to the pieces and construct the two-tray cloth-covered box accented with decorative paper. Many of the basic bookbinding techniques will be taught such as measuring, cutting, and gluing.
No experience necessary. Intermediate students may work on independent box projects.
Plus receive one 3-hour monitored open bench session each week.
Introduction to Boxmaking: The Clamshell Box
Registration is now open for Winter Programs at Oddfellows Playhouse Youth Theater located at 128 Washington Street in Middletown! Beginning January 6, weekly classes in theater, dance, circus, and visual arts will be offered for toddlers to 20 year olds.
Winter Theater, Dance, and Circus classes start January 6 in Middletown
Medieval liturgical prescriptions are not often read for theological meaning, but such ritual instructions are encoded with theology. Ritual acts and gestures are communicative in ways similar and dissimilar to texts and words. In the case of the eucharist, what is the meaning of the sign of the cross made over (or with) the bread and the wine? Are words alone, i.e., the eucharistic prayer, not enough? Attending to the ritual gestures prescribed in the canon, and accounting for how they are communicated textually and graphically, allows for a richer account of eucharistic theology in the period before the Eucharistic synthesis of the high Middle Ages.
Free and open to the public.
This event is part of the ISM Liturgy Symposium Series.
Contact: Katya Vetrov
Tyler Sampson holds a Ph.D in liturgical studies from The Catholic University of America. He was most recently a lecturer at CUA and a senior lecturer and affiliate professor at Virginia Theological Seminary. His research focuses on the history and theology of Christian liturgy in the first millennium, particularly the developments and adaptations of the liturgy of the city of Rome. While at the ISM, he will expand on his dissertation research with a project entitled, “Ordo et Ratio: Ordering, Explaining, and Celebrating Liturgy in the Early Medieval West.” With this project he aims to deepen our understanding of this critical period of liturgical history by placing manuscripts of liturgical handbooks at the center. These understudied books, with instructions, commentaries, and other texts, were central to enacting the liturgical reform of the Carolingians and reveal the creativity and diversity of its implementation.
The Eucharist, The Cross, and Ritual Modes of Theology
Develop your pottery skills as you focus on wheel-throwing techniques in stoneware and porcelain. Lessons will cover both functional and decorative pottery with emphasis on classical forms as we know them. Students will be shown how to apply glazes and/or oxide washes to achieve desired results, such as combining glaze colors and the application of wood ash to create unexpected effects on their work. Wear clothes that can get dirty. Pottery tool kits are available for sale in the studio for $27 and firing fees are $3/pound. Cash or check only. Includes one 3-hour weekly practice session during monitored practice hours on a first-come, first-served basis.
Intermediate and Advanced Pottery
Learn basic metalsmithing for making jewelry, developing new skills, or strengthen existing ones. Weekly demonstrations introduce tools and techniques required for working with nonferrous sheet metal and wire. Demonstrations may include sawing, filing, cold-connecting, soldering, surface embellishment, forging, shaping, fold forming, finishing, and patina coloring.
The tuition for this class includes a fee of $40 for basic materials provided by CAW.
Metalsmithing/ Jewelry
Symphonia: Dialogues of Landscape, Ritual, and Resilience aims to explore the profound and intricate intersections of religious, ecological, and expressive themes through the works of four Chicago-based artists: Joanne Aono, Karen Azarnia, Jon Seals, and Michelle Wasson. Envisioned as an artistic conversation that transcends traditional boundaries, the exhibition is designed to encourage contemplation and dialogue, creating an immersive experience for the viewer to explore.
As an artist and farmer, Joanne Aono explores the intersection of nature and the cultural significance of food sovereignty across communities, drawing on humanity's historical reliance on the earth for survival. Through large drawings on agricultural fabric and small panel drawings depicting foraged foods and cultivated plants, Aono conveys themes of impermanence, the passage of time, and the interconnectedness of life, emphasizing the essential care needed for the holistic sustenance of the Earth and its elements.
Through painting, Karen Azarnia explores themes of time, home, memory, and natural life cycles. Navigating the delicate balance between abstraction and representation, works from her Verdant series are characterized by lushness and generosity – an act of care for the viewer. The work seeks to inspire renewal and resilience, drawing parallels between the meditative rhythms of nature and the painting process.
Employing a unique mixed-media approach, Jon Seals utilizes materials directly harvested from environmentally shifting landscapes. The symbiotic exchange with the soil, water, and plant life is evident in artworks created through pouring, dipping, and combining hand-drawn and painted elements. The integration of water sourced on-site deepens the artist's connection with the land and sea.
Michelle Wasson's paintings serve as a sensual refuge, intuitively created from memory and imagination. Her canvases, flowing between landscape, still life, and the figurative, portray surreal planes where divine vessels evoke the power of nature to create, destroy, and create anew, offering a reflection of our shared humanity in the natural world.
While each artist in Symphonia offers a distinct viewpoint embodied through their own uniquely built worlds, together these worlds intertwine to culminate into something much larger. It is through this simple yet powerful act of shared connection in which Symphonia ultimately seeks to inspire a renewed sense of environmental consciousness, and a commitment to preserving the sacred harmony within our world.
Free and open to the public.
Exhibition co-curated by Karen Azarnia & Jon Seals.
This exhibition will be on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Miller Hall at 406 Prospect Street, New Haven from January 23-March 6 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12-4 p.m.
All are welcome to join us for an opening reception for this art exhibit on Wednesday, January 22 at 5 p.m.
Sponsored by the Institute of Sacred Music’s Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture Initiative.
We are excited to announce that the ISM will be linking its exhibitions to the Smartify app. The app is available as a free download from the App Store and Google Play, or you can access content through the Smartify webpage at app.smartify.org. The Smartify app will allow you to directly scan artworks that are on display, as well as QR codes that are placed around the exhibition, to receive more information. You will also be able to save your favorite artworks and share them to social media.
Contact: Anesu Nyamupingidza
Art credit: Michelle Wasson: Golden Lacuna, Aurea Nova Series, 2023
Art Exhibit: Symphonia: Dialogues of Landscape, Ritual and Resilience
Two of City Gallery’s contemporary photographers — Joy Bush and Tom Peterson — will be featured in ALONE, a new photography exhibit at City Gallery, on view from January 31 - March 2. There will be an Artists Reception on Sunday, February 23, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Free and open to the public. City Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Gallery hours are Friday - Sunday, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m., or by appointment. For more, contact City Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, newhavencity-gallery.org.
Alone: A Contemporary Photography Exhibit at City Gallery
In this class enter the Art of the Abstract using mixed mediums, fluid acrylics, acrylic ink, neocrayons, pencils and permanent markers. This requires some self-examination and exploration to find your visual inspiration to actualize the art and to create a finished work by the end of the 5-week session.
Start with a couple of small 5 x7 mat boards doing fast, fun, instinctual exercises and small expanding scribbles and doodles. Then graduate to a larger substrate and with some guidance go through the steps to complete your abstract work of art.
Supply list available upon registration and instructions for caring for your new supplies to use them again and again.
Regina Thomas’ collage and mixed media art is a mélange of visual stimuli, colors, and shapes involving different genres from the representational to the abstract. These multi-layered works portray her view of the world, never realistic, injecting her own narratives, metaphors, and icons. Regina works instinctually, and her desire is to stimulate and intrigue the viewer, make a connection, bringing their own experiences to the work.
Regina has lived and traveled throughout Asia and Europe. While in London, she attended Richmond University concentrating on the Art Disciplines as well as Studio classes. Upon her return to the states she continued refining her art through classes and workshops at RISD (Rhode Island School of Design), The New Art Center in Newton – MA, South Shore Art Center – MA, West Hartford Art League, Creative Arts Workshop/New Haven, CT, Yale University and The British Art Museum.
Regina has been included in many juried exhibitions in New England. Thomas shows in private galleries and has private collectors across the U.S., Europe, South America and Asia. Her most recent shows have been at The John Slade Ely House in New Haven, and The Spectrum Gallery in Centerbrook where she also holds classes in collage and mixed media art.
Zoom Mixed Media Abstract Painting
Registration is now open for Winter Programs at Oddfellows Playhouse Youth Theater located at 128 Washington Street in Middletown! Beginning January 6, weekly classes in theater, dance, circus, and visual arts will be offered for toddlers to 20 year olds.
Winter Theater, Dance, and Circus classes start January 6 in Middletown
Join Yale Consort for a service of Vespers. The Office of Evening Prayer, according to the current Roman rite and sung in Latin, will include a range of music from Gregorian chant to 8-voice polyphony.
Free and open to the public.
This service features music of Palestrina.
Due to the off-campus nature of Yale Consort events, they will not be livestreamed. We invite you to join us in person as you are able.
Yale Consort, a newly formed professional vocal ensemble conducted by Professor James O’Donnell and sponsored by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, provides high quality choral music for a series of evening services in local parishes and chapels.
Evening Vespers with Yale Consort
Instructed by Annie Sailer
39 Putnam Avenue
Hamden, CT 06517
Annie Sailer Adult Intermediate Dance Class
Symphonia: Dialogues of Landscape, Ritual, and Resilience aims to explore the profound and intricate intersections of religious, ecological, and expressive themes through the works of four Chicago-based artists: Joanne Aono, Karen Azarnia, Jon Seals, and Michelle Wasson. Envisioned as an artistic conversation that transcends traditional boundaries, the exhibition is designed to encourage contemplation and dialogue, creating an immersive experience for the viewer to explore.
As an artist and farmer, Joanne Aono explores the intersection of nature and the cultural significance of food sovereignty across communities, drawing on humanity's historical reliance on the earth for survival. Through large drawings on agricultural fabric and small panel drawings depicting foraged foods and cultivated plants, Aono conveys themes of impermanence, the passage of time, and the interconnectedness of life, emphasizing the essential care needed for the holistic sustenance of the Earth and its elements.
Through painting, Karen Azarnia explores themes of time, home, memory, and natural life cycles. Navigating the delicate balance between abstraction and representation, works from her Verdant series are characterized by lushness and generosity – an act of care for the viewer. The work seeks to inspire renewal and resilience, drawing parallels between the meditative rhythms of nature and the painting process.
Employing a unique mixed-media approach, Jon Seals utilizes materials directly harvested from environmentally shifting landscapes. The symbiotic exchange with the soil, water, and plant life is evident in artworks created through pouring, dipping, and combining hand-drawn and painted elements. The integration of water sourced on-site deepens the artist's connection with the land and sea.
Michelle Wasson's paintings serve as a sensual refuge, intuitively created from memory and imagination. Her canvases, flowing between landscape, still life, and the figurative, portray surreal planes where divine vessels evoke the power of nature to create, destroy, and create anew, offering a reflection of our shared humanity in the natural world.
While each artist in Symphonia offers a distinct viewpoint embodied through their own uniquely built worlds, together these worlds intertwine to culminate into something much larger. It is through this simple yet powerful act of shared connection in which Symphonia ultimately seeks to inspire a renewed sense of environmental consciousness, and a commitment to preserving the sacred harmony within our world.
Free and open to the public.
Exhibition co-curated by Karen Azarnia & Jon Seals.
This exhibition will be on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Miller Hall at 406 Prospect Street, New Haven from January 23-March 6 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12-4 p.m.
All are welcome to join us for an opening reception for this art exhibit on Wednesday, January 22 at 5 p.m.
Sponsored by the Institute of Sacred Music’s Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture Initiative.
We are excited to announce that the ISM will be linking its exhibitions to the Smartify app. The app is available as a free download from the App Store and Google Play, or you can access content through the Smartify webpage at app.smartify.org. The Smartify app will allow you to directly scan artworks that are on display, as well as QR codes that are placed around the exhibition, to receive more information. You will also be able to save your favorite artworks and share them to social media.
Contact: Anesu Nyamupingidza
Art credit: Michelle Wasson: Golden Lacuna, Aurea Nova Series, 2023
Art Exhibit: Symphonia: Dialogues of Landscape, Ritual and Resilience
Spectrum Art Gallery's first show of 2025 is "Life in Motion". A six-week show opening on January 24, 2025. The gallery will have images of people or objects in motion. Questions to think about what does motion do to a person or object? What stops it? What makes motion accelerate? What can make motion dangerous? What makes motion beautiful and exciting! The Opening Reception is Friday, January 24, 6:30-9 pm, with wine, food and good company! The show will close Saturday, March 8, 2025.
Life in Motion
Two of City Gallery’s contemporary photographers — Joy Bush and Tom Peterson — will be featured in ALONE, a new photography exhibit at City Gallery, on view from January 31 - March 2. There will be an Artists Reception on Sunday, February 23, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Free and open to the public. City Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Gallery hours are Friday - Sunday, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m., or by appointment. For more, contact City Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, newhavencity-gallery.org.
Alone: A Contemporary Photography Exhibit at City Gallery
In this class enter the Art of the Abstract using mixed mediums, fluid acrylics, acrylic ink, neocrayons, pencils and permanent markers. This requires some self-examination and exploration to find your visual inspiration to actualize the art and to create a finished work by the end of the 5-week session.
Start with a couple of small 5 x7 mat boards doing fast, fun, instinctual exercises and small expanding scribbles and doodles. Then graduate to a larger substrate and with some guidance go through the steps to complete your abstract work of art.
Supply list available upon registration and instructions for caring for your new supplies to use them again and again.
Regina Thomas’ collage and mixed media art is a mélange of visual stimuli, colors, and shapes involving different genres from the representational to the abstract. These multi-layered works portray her view of the world, never realistic, injecting her own narratives, metaphors, and icons. Regina works instinctually, and her desire is to stimulate and intrigue the viewer, make a connection, bringing their own experiences to the work.
Regina has lived and traveled throughout Asia and Europe. While in London, she attended Richmond University concentrating on the Art Disciplines as well as Studio classes. Upon her return to the states she continued refining her art through classes and workshops at RISD (Rhode Island School of Design), The New Art Center in Newton – MA, South Shore Art Center – MA, West Hartford Art League, Creative Arts Workshop/New Haven, CT, Yale University and The British Art Museum.
Regina has been included in many juried exhibitions in New England. Thomas shows in private galleries and has private collectors across the U.S., Europe, South America and Asia. Her most recent shows have been at The John Slade Ely House in New Haven, and The Spectrum Gallery in Centerbrook where she also holds classes in collage and mixed media art.
In Gallery Mixed Media Abstract Painting
Registration is now open for Winter Programs at Oddfellows Playhouse Youth Theater located at 128 Washington Street in Middletown! Beginning January 6, weekly classes in theater, dance, circus, and visual arts will be offered for toddlers to 20 year olds.
Winter Theater, Dance, and Circus classes start January 6 in Middletown
Explore and create your own series of linoleum prints in this engaging class.
The instructor will guide students in developing original designs and preparing a linoleum block for inking and printing. The process of carving and printing a 4” x 6” block will be demonstrated, along with a variety of inking and printing techniques. Examples of linoleum prints will be available for inspiration.
This course welcomes both beginners and advanced students. All inks are water-based and easily cleaned with soap and water. Students may purchase their own paper or additional blocks after the first session.
Includes one 3-hour weekly practice session during monitored practice hours.
Exploring Linoleum Block Printmaking
Dive into the creative process of monotype printmaking using direct drawing, stencils, and masking techniques.
This hands-on class introduces innovative approaches to printmaking, allowing students to create bold, dynamic images with clean lines and striking contrasts. Whether you’re an artist looking to expand your skills or a hobbyist seeking a new creative outlet, this class provides the tools and knowledge to make stunning prints.
Students will design and customize stencils from a variety of materials and explore layering techniques in inking to create complex, multi-colored prints. Topics include working with gel plates, screen printing, and plexiglass monotypes. No prior experience is required.
Includes one 3-hour practice session per week during monitored practice hours.
The tuition for this class includes a materials fee of $20 for basic materials provided by CAW.
Introduction to Printmaking and Beyond
Want to try something new? Build your existing skills to grow ideas in a stimulating group of intermediate and advanced potters. Individual projects are encouraged, with demonstrations designed to inspire new ways of looking at throwing, hand-building, and overall design.
Pottery tool kits are available for sale in the studio for $27. Cash or check only.
Firing fees are $3/pound. Cash or check only.
Includes one 3-hour weekly practice session during monitored practice hours on a first-come, first-served basis.
Pottery Beyond The Basics
Learn the various approaches to creating metal sculptures, including welding (oxyacetylene and MIG), brazing, cutting (torch and plasma cutter), hammering, and more.
Includes one 3-hour weekly practice session during monitored practice hours.
Students should wear 100% cotton long sleeves, jeans or work pants, and closed-toe boots. No synthetic mesh, plastic, or cloth.
The tuition for this class includes a materials fee of $40.
All Levels Metal Sculpture
Symphonia: Dialogues of Landscape, Ritual, and Resilience aims to explore the profound and intricate intersections of religious, ecological, and expressive themes through the works of four Chicago-based artists: Joanne Aono, Karen Azarnia, Jon Seals, and Michelle Wasson. Envisioned as an artistic conversation that transcends traditional boundaries, the exhibition is designed to encourage contemplation and dialogue, creating an immersive experience for the viewer to explore.
As an artist and farmer, Joanne Aono explores the intersection of nature and the cultural significance of food sovereignty across communities, drawing on humanity's historical reliance on the earth for survival. Through large drawings on agricultural fabric and small panel drawings depicting foraged foods and cultivated plants, Aono conveys themes of impermanence, the passage of time, and the interconnectedness of life, emphasizing the essential care needed for the holistic sustenance of the Earth and its elements.
Through painting, Karen Azarnia explores themes of time, home, memory, and natural life cycles. Navigating the delicate balance between abstraction and representation, works from her Verdant series are characterized by lushness and generosity – an act of care for the viewer. The work seeks to inspire renewal and resilience, drawing parallels between the meditative rhythms of nature and the painting process.
Employing a unique mixed-media approach, Jon Seals utilizes materials directly harvested from environmentally shifting landscapes. The symbiotic exchange with the soil, water, and plant life is evident in artworks created through pouring, dipping, and combining hand-drawn and painted elements. The integration of water sourced on-site deepens the artist's connection with the land and sea.
Michelle Wasson's paintings serve as a sensual refuge, intuitively created from memory and imagination. Her canvases, flowing between landscape, still life, and the figurative, portray surreal planes where divine vessels evoke the power of nature to create, destroy, and create anew, offering a reflection of our shared humanity in the natural world.
While each artist in Symphonia offers a distinct viewpoint embodied through their own uniquely built worlds, together these worlds intertwine to culminate into something much larger. It is through this simple yet powerful act of shared connection in which Symphonia ultimately seeks to inspire a renewed sense of environmental consciousness, and a commitment to preserving the sacred harmony within our world.
Free and open to the public.
Exhibition co-curated by Karen Azarnia & Jon Seals.
This exhibition will be on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Miller Hall at 406 Prospect Street, New Haven from January 23-March 6 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12-4 p.m.
All are welcome to join us for an opening reception for this art exhibit on Wednesday, January 22 at 5 p.m.
Sponsored by the Institute of Sacred Music’s Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture Initiative.
We are excited to announce that the ISM will be linking its exhibitions to the Smartify app. The app is available as a free download from the App Store and Google Play, or you can access content through the Smartify webpage at app.smartify.org. The Smartify app will allow you to directly scan artworks that are on display, as well as QR codes that are placed around the exhibition, to receive more information. You will also be able to save your favorite artworks and share them to social media.
Contact: Anesu Nyamupingidza
Art credit: Michelle Wasson: Golden Lacuna, Aurea Nova Series, 2023
Art Exhibit: Symphonia: Dialogues of Landscape, Ritual and Resilience
Spectrum Art Gallery's first show of 2025 is "Life in Motion". A six-week show opening on January 24, 2025. The gallery will have images of people or objects in motion. Questions to think about what does motion do to a person or object? What stops it? What makes motion accelerate? What can make motion dangerous? What makes motion beautiful and exciting! The Opening Reception is Friday, January 24, 6:30-9 pm, with wine, food and good company! The show will close Saturday, March 8, 2025.
Life in Motion
Two of City Gallery’s contemporary photographers — Joy Bush and Tom Peterson — will be featured in ALONE, a new photography exhibit at City Gallery, on view from January 31 - March 2. There will be an Artists Reception on Sunday, February 23, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Free and open to the public. City Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Gallery hours are Friday - Sunday, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m., or by appointment. For more, contact City Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, newhavencity-gallery.org.
Alone: A Contemporary Photography Exhibit at City Gallery
Instructed by Annie Sailer
39 Putnam Ave, Floor 2, Hamden, CT
Annie Sailer Adult Beginner-Intermediate Dance Class
Using both hand-building techniques and the potter’s wheel, participants learn the foundational skills needed to create basic ceramic cups, bowls, and floral containers. As students refine these skills, they will work on more complex projects. This will enable them to combine techniques, push their creativity, and practice creative problem-solving.
Glazing, slips, and other surface treatments will be explored. There will be instructor demonstrations and individual consultations. Wear clothes that can get dirty.
Pottery tool kits are available for sale in the studio for $27. Cash or check only.
Firing fees are $3/pound. Cash or check only.
Includes one 3-hour weekly practice session during monitored practice hours on a first-come, first-served basis.
Afternoon Clay
Registration is now open for Winter Programs at Oddfellows Playhouse Youth Theater located at 128 Washington Street in Middletown! Beginning January 6, weekly classes in theater, dance, circus, and visual arts will be offered for toddlers to 20 year olds.
Winter Theater, Dance, and Circus classes start January 6 in Middletown
Join us for an unforgettable evening at LEAP's 30th Annual LEAP Year Event , a night of fine dining and engaging conversation to benefit LEAP's free programs for New Haven youth.
The evening begins with a cocktail reception at the historic Dixwell Community (Q) House, where we will honor Ann Baker Pepe and Ed Cleary , our esteemed Co-Board Chairs, with the LEAP Community Leadership Award. Enjoy delicious hors d'oeuvres and drinks as you mingle with other guests. Following the reception, you'll have the opportunity to join intimate dinner conversations hosted by LEAP's generous supporters in beautiful homes and elegant venues around the city.
Engage in stimulating discussions with these fascinating Guests of Honor!
- Reverend William J. Barber, Yale Divinity School
- Norman Silber, author, with special guest Guido Calabresi
- Betsy Lerner, author
- Philip Galanes, advice columnist, The New York Times
- Jacques Pépin, world-renowned chef
- Maurie McInnis, President, Yale University
- Kahlil Greene, The Gen Z Historian
- and more!
Don't Miss Out - Secure Your Tickets Now!
- Reception Only: $25
- First-Time Attendees/Students: $75
- Dinner + Reception: $150
To purchase tickets or for more information, please visit www.leapforkids.org/LYE.
About LEAP
LEAP is a non-profit organization that provides free social and academic enrichment, mentorship, and leadership opportunities for children and teens in New Haven's low-income neighborhoods.
Contact:
Alison Bonds
abonds@leapforkids.org
203-767-7413
LEAP's 30th Annual LEAP Year Event
Etching, a classic intaglio printing technique, involves incising lines into copper through a protected surface and then “etching” them in acid—a method dating back to Dürer and used from the Renaissance to modern times.
This class introduces environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional etching featuring different types of water-based inks, Baldwin’s Ink Ground (B.I.G) and Lascaux grounds, and coffee-lift techniques.
Some products used in this class may be irritating to highly sensitive people.
Includes one 3-hour practice session per week during monitored practice hours.
The tuition for this class includes a materials fee of $20 for basic materials provided by CAW.
Greener Intaglio/Etching Techniques
If you are interested in making ceramic pieces for the home, this class is for you.
Making functional pots is important to all levels of students, whether you throw pots on the wheel or prefer to build by hand. Students will learn ways to modify forms to create pieces uniquely their own.
Classes will include various techniques for pot making as well as considerations pertaining to each form. Surface treatments including engobes, stains, and glazes will also be covered.
Both teacher demonstrations and one-on-one student instruction will occur each week.
Wear clothes that can get dirty.
Pottery tool kits are available for sale in the studio for $27. Cash or check only.
Firing fees are $3/pound. Cash or check only.
Making Functional Pots
Learn basic metalsmithing for making jewelry, developing new skills, or strengthen existing ones. Weekly demonstrations introduce tools and techniques required for working with nonferrous sheet metal and wire. Demonstrations may include sawing, filing, cold-connecting, soldering, surface embellishment, forging, shaping, fold forming, finishing, and patina coloring.
The tuition for this class includes a fee of $40 for basic materials provided by CAW.
Metalsmithing/ Jewelry
Spectrum Art Gallery's first show of 2025 is "Life in Motion". A six-week show opening on January 24, 2025. The gallery will have images of people or objects in motion. Questions to think about what does motion do to a person or object? What stops it? What makes motion accelerate? What can make motion dangerous? What makes motion beautiful and exciting! The Opening Reception is Friday, January 24, 6:30-9 pm, with wine, food and good company! The show will close Saturday, March 8, 2025.
Life in Motion
Slapstick:
Curated by Kevin Daly
January 11 - March 16, 2025
Located at Ball & Socket Arts in The Workshop Gallery, Building 3.
Opening Reception on Saturday, January 11, 2025 4-7PM
Slapstick is a physical type of humor involving play, exaggeration and activities which may exceed the boundaries of common sense. In Slapstick, each of the artists included explores abstraction in a highly personal way with a sense of play and experimentation, both in process and in materials. The work included is unpretentiously formal, borrowing aesthetic attributes from Pop Art. This work successfully exudes the fun and delight of creation.
Featured Artists:
Cat Balco
https://catbalco.com/home.html
https://www.rickwesterfineart.com/cat-balco
Melanie Carr
https://www.melaniecarr.com/bio
Andy Cunningham
https://www.andycunningham.net/bio
Niki Lederer
Suzan Shutan
Taro Suzuki
https://www.highnoongallery.com/artist-page/taro-suzuki
Slapstick
Two of City Gallery’s contemporary photographers — Joy Bush and Tom Peterson — will be featured in ALONE, a new photography exhibit at City Gallery, on view from January 31 - March 2. There will be an Artists Reception on Sunday, February 23, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Free and open to the public. City Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Gallery hours are Friday - Sunday, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m., or by appointment. For more, contact City Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, newhavencity-gallery.org.
Alone: A Contemporary Photography Exhibit at City Gallery
This class provides step-by-step instruction for those seeking the fundamentals of watercolor painting. Class includes demos and structured exercises. Participants learn color mixing, dark and light and basic color theory principles. Different brush stroke techniques are addressed for specific effects i.e. wet on wet & dry stubble applications. Participants paint from still life setups and/or photo references from home. Everyone is encouraged to work on an ongoing painting at home to help solidify techniques learned in class. This piece may be brought into class on the last day for an open critique session. Material list sent upon registration.
Chris Kunze graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Painting/Illustration. He has had a long & successful career in Advertising and Promotion. His illustrations and designs have been used in books, magazines, newspapers, product packaging and logo design.
Chris’ fine art has always remained important throughout his career as a commercial artist.
He has had many solo and group shows in New York City, Westchester County and lower Connecticut, showcasing his oil paintings, watercolors and illustrations. Chris was part of an ongoing show at the Arthur Kalaher Fine Art in Sag Harbor, NY from 2011-2019. In 2018 he had a solo show of his watercolors at Teatown Lake Reservation.
In 2019 Chris began his participation in Arthouse.NYC’s “Healthcare Heroes Show”.
He has memorialized several healthcare workers who lost their lives during the height of the Covid pandemic. These oil portraits were given to their families and were on view at the
Big Plaza Screen in New York City.
Teaching is a passion that has come to the forefront in the past 15 years for Chris. He has been teaching a plethora of subjects among them drawing, oil painting, watercolors, and more at local Westchester art schools. He is currently teaching at Scarsdale Adult School.
Chris grew up in Europe and Westchester County. He currently resides in Salem, Connecticut.
Experience Watercolor - Beginner & Beyond
Many first witnessed the iniquities of apartheid through the lens of South Africa’s late great photographer David Goldblatt. In Goldblatt: A Documentary (2018), the lens is turned on Goldblatt himself in the final years of his life and work. At 86, after 70 years of image making, Goldblatt’s prolific protest-in-pictures against ongoing inequality and social injustice in South Africa is as determined and relentless as ever. Drawing on Goldblatt’s rich body of photographs and featuring interviews with Nadine Gordimer, Zanele Muholi, and William Kentridge, this film is a meditation on identity, place, and longing, set in South Africa’s ever-shifting landscape. Generously sponsored by Jane P. Watkins, M.P.H. 1979, and the Martin A. Ryerson Lectureship Fund.
Offered in conjunction with the exhibition David Goldblatt: No Ulterior Motive. Exhibition co-organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and the Yale University Art Gallery, in collaboration with Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid.
Goldblatt: A Documentary (2018)
Explore the creative possibilities of clay by shaping and molding it into one-of-a-kind works of art. Working with clay helps young people develop fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and emotional expression through hands-on activities. Above all, clay sparks imagination, encouraging children to think creatively and express themselves in new ways. The tuition for this class includes a materials fee of $20 for basic materials provided by CAW. School Policies Students who withdraw 48 hours prior to the first class are eligible for a refund or credit toward another class, less a $25 registration fee. Please click here for more details.
Adventures In Clay
Registration is now open for Winter Programs at Oddfellows Playhouse Youth Theater located at 128 Washington Street in Middletown! Beginning January 6, weekly classes in theater, dance, circus, and visual arts will be offered for toddlers to 20 year olds.
Winter Theater, Dance, and Circus classes start January 6 in Middletown
Paws and Pixels is an exciting new course designed for young artists who want to create animal drawings using Procreate. Starting with the basics, we’ll guide students through sketching techniques and gradually move on to more advanced, realistic animal illustrations.
Throughout the course, students will learn how to observe and analyze animal shapes and proportions, replicate different textures like fur, glossy skin, and more, using Procreate’s powerful features. As they advance, students will explore techniques like blending modes, clipping masks, and blur effects to add depth and realism to their art.
The tuition for this class includes a materials fee of $20 for basic materials provided by CAW
Paws and Pixels
Registration is now open for Winter Programs at Oddfellows Playhouse Youth Theater located at 128 Washington Street in Middletown! Beginning January 6, weekly classes in theater, dance, circus, and visual arts will be offered for toddlers to 20 year olds.
Winter Theater, Dance, and Circus classes start January 6 in Middletown
Show up for your creative self in 2025 with the Saturday Drawing Club.
Explore weekly prompts and materials combined with a mix of conversation, creative time, and feedback. Bring an ongoing project or start from scratch.
Tuition for this class includes a fee of $10 for basic materials provided by CAW.
Saturday Drawing
Would you like to explore watercolors? Feeling unsure or out of practice? You can do it!
Watercolors are a whimsical and simple way to explore ideas, make memorable sketches of your travels or daily life, and develop visual self-expression.
Students will learn about materials, look at examples, create color studies, make thumbnail sketches to generate ideas and compositions, and develop sketches and paintings that explore color, line, shape, texture, and more.
Whether you enjoy landscape, still life, abstract, or contemporary art, you will have the space and support to develop your style and learn helpful techniques to help you on your creative journey.
Watercolor for Beginners
Do you love keeping a journal or planner? My Digital Diary is a fun and creative class where you’ll learn how to make your own stylish digital journal! Using digital sketching techniques on Procreate, you’ll create beautiful illustrations to capture your thoughts, hobbies, and habits.
In this class we’ll create graphics, illustrations, and character designs that reflect your personal style – making your diary fun to look at and use.
The tuition for this class includes a materials fee of $20 for basic materials provided by CAW.
My Digital Diary
Mark your calendars! We're kicking off something sweet ! 🍪
🎉 Introducing Cookie39's Free Cookie of the Month 🎉
The first 39 people to visit Cookie39 on the 1st day of each month in 2025 will receive a FREE Cookie of the Month. Doors open daily at 11am sharp. First come, first served.
Monthly flavors to be announced on Instagram @cookiethirtynine.
Made from scratch daily, baked fresh, and served warm. Tell all of your cookie-loving friends, spread the word, and don’t miss out! 🍪✨
🎉 Introducing Cookie39's Free Cookie of the Month 🎉
Explore and develop designs for relief, intaglio, and monotype printmaking in this hands-on course. Class time will focus on creating original designs and concepts as students experiment with print plate substrates, including Corian®, Tetra-Pak®, vinyl records, and various recycled and found materials. Examples of different print styles will be shared to illustrate these techniques. This course is suitable for beginners and advanced students alike. The inks used can be cleaned up with soap and water, and students will need to bring their own paper for the first session. Includes one 3-hour weekly practice session during monitored practice hours. Tuition for this class includes a fee of $20 for basic materials provided by CAW including Linoleum blocks and black and white ink.
Experimental Printmaking
Spectrum Art Gallery's first show of 2025 is "Life in Motion". A six-week show opening on January 24, 2025. The gallery will have images of people or objects in motion. Questions to think about what does motion do to a person or object? What stops it? What makes motion accelerate? What can make motion dangerous? What makes motion beautiful and exciting! The Opening Reception is Friday, January 24, 6:30-9 pm, with wine, food and good company! The show will close Saturday, March 8, 2025.
Life in Motion
Slapstick:
Curated by Kevin Daly
January 11 - March 16, 2025
Located at Ball & Socket Arts in The Workshop Gallery, Building 3.
Opening Reception on Saturday, January 11, 2025 4-7PM
Slapstick is a physical type of humor involving play, exaggeration and activities which may exceed the boundaries of common sense. In Slapstick, each of the artists included explores abstraction in a highly personal way with a sense of play and experimentation, both in process and in materials. The work included is unpretentiously formal, borrowing aesthetic attributes from Pop Art. This work successfully exudes the fun and delight of creation.
Featured Artists:
Cat Balco
https://catbalco.com/home.html
https://www.rickwesterfineart.com/cat-balco
Melanie Carr
https://www.melaniecarr.com/bio
Andy Cunningham
https://www.andycunningham.net/bio
Niki Lederer
Suzan Shutan
Taro Suzuki
https://www.highnoongallery.com/artist-page/taro-suzuki
Slapstick
Two of City Gallery’s contemporary photographers — Joy Bush and Tom Peterson — will be featured in ALONE, a new photography exhibit at City Gallery, on view from January 31 - March 2. There will be an Artists Reception on Sunday, February 23, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Free and open to the public. City Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Gallery hours are Friday - Sunday, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m., or by appointment. For more, contact City Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, newhavencity-gallery.org.
Alone: A Contemporary Photography Exhibit at City Gallery
In this magical experience, students will bring a forest fairy tale to life using markers and colored pencils. They’ll create a series of six enchanting illustrations united by a common theme, with a focus on color, composition, and texture.
As they delve into the world of fairy tales, students will learn how to combine markers and colored pencils to produce vibrant and imaginative artwork. This class will spark creativity, enhance drawing skills, and introduce new techniques for using these materials to capture the magic of the forest!
The tuition for this class includes a materials fee of $20 for basic materials provided by CAW.
A Forest Fairy Tale
Class time focuses on simple Still-Life set-ups ~a bottle, a bowl with fruit, etc. Objects are studied from a tabletop perspective. How to create volume, depth and weight are introduced as participants investigate the power of thin and thick line applications which help to create the shape and mass of objects. Individual attention will be given to each student at their skill level.
In the third week participants bring photos or objects from home to draw in an effort to improve how they see and, therefore, their drawing skills. Material list available upon registration.
Chris Kunze graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Painting/Illustration. He has had a long & successful career in Advertising and Promotion. His illustrations and designs have been used in books, magazines, newspapers, product packaging and logo design.
Chris’ fine art has always remained important throughout his career as a commercial artist.
He has had many solo and group shows in New York City, Westchester County and lower Connecticut, showcasing his oil paintings, watercolors and illustrations. Chris was part of an ongoing show at the Arthur Kalaher Fine Art in Sag Harbor, NY from 2011-2019. In 2018 he had a solo show of his watercolors at Teatown Lake Reservation.
In 2019 Chris began his participation in Arthouse.NYC’s “Healthcare Heroes Show”.
He has memorialized several healthcare workers who lost their lives during the height of the Covid pandemic. These oil portraits were given to their families and were on view at the
Big Plaza Screen in New York City.
Teaching is a passion that has come to the forefront in the past 15 years for Chris. He has been teaching a plethora of subjects among them drawing, oil painting, watercolors, and more at local Westchester art schools. He is currently teaching at Scarsdale Adult School.
Chris grew up in Europe and Westchester County. He currently resides in Salem, Connecticut.
Everyone Can Draw
Instructed by Annie Sailer
39 Putnam Ave, Hamden CT
Annie Sailer Adult Intermediate Dance Class
See objects and space in a new light while discovering creative techniques to bring your drawing style to life.
Explore how to add depth, light, shadow, and perspective to your drawings with colored pencils.
Focus on beginning your art journey and achieving impressive results along the way!
The tuition for this class includes a materials fee of $20 for basic materials provided by CAW.
Creative Effects with Colored Pencils
Part documentary, part narrative film, Come Back, Africa (1959) follows the lives of real inhabitants of South Africa’s segregated townships during the late 1950s, a decade into the government’s consolidated and implemented apartheid laws that restricted the freedoms and movement of Black South Africans and other multiethnic groups who fell under the category of “coloured.” Not trained in acting, the cast members dramatize real events from their lives in a scripted yet improvised way, highlighting the cruelties and injustices of apartheid in everyday moments. The narrative tells the story of Zachariah, a young Zulu farmer who arrives in Johannesburg from his rural village to find work in the gold mines. State-mandated “pass laws” heavily restrict Zachariah’s ability to find employment and housing, forcing him to contend with the cruel reality of apartheid while trying to provide for his family. Generously sponsored by Jane P. Watkins, M.P.H. 1979.
Offered in conjunction with the exhibition David Goldblatt: No Ulterior Motive. Exhibition co-organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and the Yale University Art Gallery, in collaboration with Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid.
Come Back, Africa (1959)
Come March 1 as we build a hive in Marquand Chapel with The Chapel in the Hive.
Performers:
Joseph Campana, poetry
Kurt Stallmann, music
Experience The Chapel in the Hive, a forty-minute live performance by poet/scholar Joseph Campana and composer/performer Kurt Stallmann, who draw from history and natural history and reflecting on them through literary and electro-eco-acoustic techniques. The audience will be immersed in sound, words, and images that evoke and render palpable the long history of human devotion to bees. Inspired by a multidisciplinary exploration of environmental issues with a specific focus on biodiversity and multispecies worlds, Campana and Stallmann consider the sacred character of nature through the powerful but diminutive figure of the honeybee. This collaborative work draws on stories, proverbs, and parables from different traditions to ask: if a chapel can really fit in a hive what would it sound like? What does Orpheus have to do with bees? Is anger like a honey-coated knife? And, in an age of environmental turmoil, can nature still be miraculous?
A post-concert panel discussion will follow the event.
Free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the ISM’s Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture Initiative.
The Chapel in the HIve
Join us for an unforgettable evening at LEAP's 30th Annual LEAP Year Event , a night of fine dining and engaging conversation to benefit LEAP's free programs for New Haven youth.
The evening begins with a cocktail reception at the historic Dixwell Community (Q) House, where we will honor Ann Baker Pepe and Ed Cleary , our esteemed Co-Board Chairs, with the LEAP Community Leadership Award. Enjoy delicious hors d'oeuvres and drinks as you mingle with other guests. Following the reception, you'll have the opportunity to join intimate dinner conversations hosted by LEAP's generous supporters in beautiful homes and elegant venues around the city.
Engage in stimulating discussions with these fascinating Guests of Honor!
- Reverend William J. Barber, Yale Divinity School
- Norman Silber, author, with special guest Guido Calabresi
- Betsy Lerner, author
- Philip Galanes, advice columnist, The New York Times
- Jacques Pépin, world-renowned chef
- Maurie McInnis, President, Yale University
- Kahlil Greene, The Gen Z Historian
- and more!
Don't Miss Out - Secure Your Tickets Now!
- Reception Only: $25
- First-Time Attendees/Students: $75
- Dinner + Reception: $150
To purchase tickets or for more information, please visit www.leapforkids.org/LYE.
About LEAP
LEAP is a non-profit organization that provides free social and academic enrichment, mentorship, and leadership opportunities for children and teens in New Haven's low-income neighborhoods.
Contact:
Alison Bonds
abonds@leapforkids.org
203-767-7413
LEAP's 30th Annual LEAP Year Event
Spectrum Art Gallery's first show of 2025 is "Life in Motion". A six-week show opening on January 24, 2025. The gallery will have images of people or objects in motion. Questions to think about what does motion do to a person or object? What stops it? What makes motion accelerate? What can make motion dangerous? What makes motion beautiful and exciting! The Opening Reception is Friday, January 24, 6:30-9 pm, with wine, food and good company! The show will close Saturday, March 8, 2025.
Life in Motion
Slapstick:
Curated by Kevin Daly
January 11 - March 16, 2025
Located at Ball & Socket Arts in The Workshop Gallery, Building 3.
Opening Reception on Saturday, January 11, 2025 4-7PM
Slapstick is a physical type of humor involving play, exaggeration and activities which may exceed the boundaries of common sense. In Slapstick, each of the artists included explores abstraction in a highly personal way with a sense of play and experimentation, both in process and in materials. The work included is unpretentiously formal, borrowing aesthetic attributes from Pop Art. This work successfully exudes the fun and delight of creation.
Featured Artists:
Cat Balco
https://catbalco.com/home.html
https://www.rickwesterfineart.com/cat-balco
Melanie Carr
https://www.melaniecarr.com/bio
Andy Cunningham
https://www.andycunningham.net/bio
Niki Lederer
Suzan Shutan
Taro Suzuki
https://www.highnoongallery.com/artist-page/taro-suzuki
Slapstick
Two of City Gallery’s contemporary photographers — Joy Bush and Tom Peterson — will be featured in ALONE, a new photography exhibit at City Gallery, on view from January 31 - March 2. There will be an Artists Reception on Sunday, February 23, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Free and open to the public. City Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Gallery hours are Friday - Sunday, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m., or by appointment. For more, contact City Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, newhavencity-gallery.org.
Alone: A Contemporary Photography Exhibit at City Gallery
We invite families to join us for folktales, myths, and exciting stories from around the world that highlight objects in the collection and inspire children of all ages to view art in new ways.
Meet by the couches in the Gallery lobby.
Stories and Art
Registration is now open for Winter Programs at Oddfellows Playhouse Youth Theater located at 128 Washington Street in Middletown! Beginning January 6, weekly classes in theater, dance, circus, and visual arts will be offered for toddlers to 20 year olds.
Winter Theater, Dance, and Circus classes start January 6 in Middletown
Symphonia: Dialogues of Landscape, Ritual, and Resilience aims to explore the profound and intricate intersections of religious, ecological, and expressive themes through the works of four Chicago-based artists: Joanne Aono, Karen Azarnia, Jon Seals, and Michelle Wasson. Envisioned as an artistic conversation that transcends traditional boundaries, the exhibition is designed to encourage contemplation and dialogue, creating an immersive experience for the viewer to explore.
As an artist and farmer, Joanne Aono explores the intersection of nature and the cultural significance of food sovereignty across communities, drawing on humanity's historical reliance on the earth for survival. Through large drawings on agricultural fabric and small panel drawings depicting foraged foods and cultivated plants, Aono conveys themes of impermanence, the passage of time, and the interconnectedness of life, emphasizing the essential care needed for the holistic sustenance of the Earth and its elements.
Through painting, Karen Azarnia explores themes of time, home, memory, and natural life cycles. Navigating the delicate balance between abstraction and representation, works from her Verdant series are characterized by lushness and generosity – an act of care for the viewer. The work seeks to inspire renewal and resilience, drawing parallels between the meditative rhythms of nature and the painting process.
Employing a unique mixed-media approach, Jon Seals utilizes materials directly harvested from environmentally shifting landscapes. The symbiotic exchange with the soil, water, and plant life is evident in artworks created through pouring, dipping, and combining hand-drawn and painted elements. The integration of water sourced on-site deepens the artist's connection with the land and sea.
Michelle Wasson's paintings serve as a sensual refuge, intuitively created from memory and imagination. Her canvases, flowing between landscape, still life, and the figurative, portray surreal planes where divine vessels evoke the power of nature to create, destroy, and create anew, offering a reflection of our shared humanity in the natural world.
While each artist in Symphonia offers a distinct viewpoint embodied through their own uniquely built worlds, together these worlds intertwine to culminate into something much larger. It is through this simple yet powerful act of shared connection in which Symphonia ultimately seeks to inspire a renewed sense of environmental consciousness, and a commitment to preserving the sacred harmony within our world.
Free and open to the public.
Exhibition co-curated by Karen Azarnia & Jon Seals.
This exhibition will be on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Miller Hall at 406 Prospect Street, New Haven from January 23-March 6 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12-4 p.m.
All are welcome to join us for an opening reception for this art exhibit on Wednesday, January 22 at 5 p.m.
Sponsored by the Institute of Sacred Music’s Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture Initiative.
We are excited to announce that the ISM will be linking its exhibitions to the Smartify app. The app is available as a free download from the App Store and Google Play, or you can access content through the Smartify webpage at app.smartify.org. The Smartify app will allow you to directly scan artworks that are on display, as well as QR codes that are placed around the exhibition, to receive more information. You will also be able to save your favorite artworks and share them to social media.
Contact: Anesu Nyamupingidza
Art credit: Michelle Wasson: Golden Lacuna, Aurea Nova Series, 2023
Art Exhibit: Symphonia: Dialogues of Landscape, Ritual and Resilience
Registration is now open for Winter Programs at Oddfellows Playhouse Youth Theater located at 128 Washington Street in Middletown! Beginning January 6, weekly classes in theater, dance, circus, and visual arts will be offered for toddlers to 20 year olds.
Winter Theater, Dance, and Circus classes start January 6 in Middletown
Join Yale Consort for a service of Choral Evensong, focused on music, readings, and quiet contemplation. Through hymns, psalms, canticles, and reflections, the centuries-old tradition of Choral Evensong invites us to come together in stillness and prayer.
Free and open to the public.
Due to the off-campus nature of Yale Consort events, they will not be livestreamed. We invite you to join us in person as you are able.
Yale Consort, a newly formed professional vocal ensemble conducted by Professor James O’Donnell and sponsored by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, provides high quality choral music for a series of evening services in local parishes and chapels.
Contact: Clifton Massey
Choral Evensong With Yale Consort
Instructed by Annie Sailer
39 Putnam Avenue
Hamden, CT 06517
