Hammered & Nailed

Saturday night at ArtSpace saw lots of Art as well as performance Art, poetry and dancing..  Here are many of the exhibitors:

Amber Lewis

Amber with portrait of her grandfather

Hardworking organizer Ashleigh Kay

Ashley Kraushadr

Benjamin Parker

Betsy Barrett

Chris Cox

Chris Dufour

A bunch of clowns

House Dancers

Ethan Boisvert

Fernando

Hollie Moorea

Jim Trudel

Jonathan Judd

Josh Gordon

Joshua Briggs

Kris Syphers

Lauren Niezabitowski

Leonard Bullaro

Marie Hammer

Mathhew Cassar

Matthew Seremet

Mellissa Escolas

Mike DeRosa

Rusty Hammer

Thaddeus Oliveria

Weekend Art

Openings Tonight

 

Celebrate! West Hartford

This Week in Art

Tuesday was the opening reception for Alan Falk's moving and very personal Ancient Journey, New Direction at the Charter Oak Cultural Center.  The show remains up until May 28th.

Alan Falk

On Thursday there was a big crowd to hear Catherine Cabaniss speak about her new exhibition at the New Britain Museum of American Art.  Palimpsest is a series based on Celtic and pre-Celtic words and imagery, and can be seen until July 31st.

Catherine Cabaniss

Manchester Community College is holding their annual Spring Art Festival.  Friday was the opening of the Visual Fine Arts Students exhibition which hangs until June 24th.  Here are just a few of the participants:

Quron D. Brown

Quron with MCC President, Dr. Gena Glickman

Jennifer Kelly

Brandon Brownlee

Rachel Rubenbauer

Ryan Cournoyer

Lauren Savage

Callista Berman

Linda Blanchard

Chris Generis

Art on a Spring Saturday

The New Hartford Art League opened their annual Juried Open at New Hartford Town Hall.  Art will hang until July 9.  Here are few of the participants:

Marie Hammer

Sanford Parisky

Pam Jones

Carleton Taylor

The Chet and John Kempczynski Gallery was open this weekend.  If you would like to make an appointment to see their work send to kempczynskigallery@cox.net.

Chet Kempczynski

John Kempczynski

Silpe Gallery at the University of Hartford was the scene of Crazed, the exhibition of BFA ceramicists/potters.  The show is up until May 15th.

 

Lauren Young

Bryan Adams

Kiayani Douglas

Lucia Ann Esposito & Professor Matt Towers

Jess Schillinger

Kayla Hushin

Friday Night Openings

The Broad Street Gallery is showing Jackrabbit, the earthy Art of Jack Reed.  Completing his fellowship at Trinity College, Jack explained how he determines that a tree is dead, yet standing, and how he removes the bark to create his canvas.  Lots of moss was also added to the exhibit to complete the woodsy setting.  The show will hang until ???

Jack Reed

The Charter Oak Center is hosting ArtSparks, an exhibition of Art by senior citizens with intellectual disabilities.  When we arrived, most of the artists had already left, so Albert will have to represent them all.

Albert

The Goldfarb Learning Center at Congregation Beth Israel had a reception for the opening of an exhibit of photographs by Molly McGuire.  This is part of an ongoing exhibition of Art there.

Molly McGuire talking about her photographs

The Farmington Valley Art Center in Avon held their May Open Studios as well as an opening for the Art on the Line show.  Here are some of the participants.

Fran Huffnagle

Laura Krag

Betty Wood Gardiner

Melissa Croghan

Robin McCall

Mike Dennan

Mallorie Ostrowitz