Celebrate West Hartford

The rain finally stopped and everyone came out to Celebrate West Hartford! to see the Art and other attractions in downtown West Hartford.  Here are a few of the participants:

Robin Grace of West Kingston, RI

Elaine Thompson of Ellenville, NY

Mary Cottle Smeallie of West Hartford

Bill Finks of Manhattan

Tatyana Eliseeva of Cranston, RI

Fran Henderson of Canton, MA

While I'm in downtown West Hartford, here are a couple of pictures of young artists from the Cromwell Home who showed their Art at the First Church of Christ Congregational on Main Street.

Ashlee

Megan

Rosalind

Shows in Middletown & New Britain

While they were doing a salt firing out back, the Wesleyan Potters of Middletown hosted the opening of a show by member potters who have hand built objects on display.  Here are some of the honored artists:

Lois Etheridge

Martha Hundley

Diane Palmquist

Alice Schumacher

Meanwhile, over at the Art League of New Britain they were celebrating the opening of two shows of abstract and expressive Art: Chaotic States by Laurencia Ciprus and work by Andrew Springman.

Laurencia Ciprus

Laurencia with her installation, Activism as a Spectator Sport

Andrew Springman

Weekend Art Shows

Hartford Fine Art & Framing was host, on Saturday eve, to the Premier Fine Art Competition & Exhibition which is being presented in conjunction with the Wethersfield Academy for the Arts. A very nice show in a beautiful facility, the Art will remain until June 20th.  Here are some of the participants:

Alexander Anisimov

Angela Falstrom

David Bareford

Jennifer McCalmont

Kelli Folsom

Patricia Corbett

On Sunday, I went to the Show in the Park at Manchester's Memorial Park.  Sponsored by the Manchester Art League, there was actually some Art there to be seen.  Here are a few exhibitors:

Angela Pinney

Christina Reveruzzi

Jaya Thiruvan

Kae Ashtin

Kathleen

Kerry Kozaczuk painted this piece on stage while several bands performed at Swan Day CT in Haddam.  She did another painting at the Show in the Park.  Here is a video of her Swan Day "performance".

Tom Trial

Friday Night Hilights

We began with the Wethersfield Art League's 53rd Annual Members Juried Art Show at Keeney Memorial Cultural Center.  Congrats to the participants.  The Art will be on display until the end of June.

Lorraine Ficara - 1st Prize

Patricia Bullock

Barbara DeRobertis

Helen Gorski

Pat Tanger

Joan Zawacki

Carol Carnemolla with her granddaughter who is in the painting.

Linda Boisvert-DeStefano

Mary Chellstorp

Anne Sheffield

Next we hopped I-91 to Windsor and the Rough Around the Edges Art Show in the warehouse at the end of Skitchewaug Street.  Organized by Sarah McKay, this show had a terrific range of styles and personalities, but was only for one night.  Next year's show is scheduled for the Windsor Art Center on July 14.

Elizabeth Dargie

David McKay

Sarah McKay

Terese Newman

Gabrielle McKay

Chris Creath with Bunnesha

Matthew Levine

Alivia Atwood

Silpe Gallery at the University of Hartford closed out their season with an exhibition called Focus on Process, showing the work of five printmaking artists.  There were demonstrations at the opening for the show that will hang until the end of the month.

Keiji Shinohara

Robert Parker

Bryan Gill

Chet Kempczynski

Michael Rubino