Books for adults, children, and young adults. Fiction, non-fiction, vintage, coffee table books, graphic novels, sci-fi/fantasy, and other categories will be available. In addition, there will be jigsaw puzzles and a variety of gift items. Cash, check, or Venmo. $5 admission 10:00am-11:00am / Free admission 11:00am-4:30pm.
All proceeds from the sale support library programs.
FRIENDS of the Library Book Sale
Arthur Nager: Building Stories
Opening Celebration February 23
February 17, 2025 – June 1, 2025
After decades of photographing everyday life, artist Arthur Nager turned his attention to documenting the Naugatuck Valley. This exhibition compares Nager’s earlier works in black and white with recent color compositions of the region that capture the architecture and landscape of the Greater Waterbury area.
Arthur Nager: Building Stories
August 15, 2024 – September 21, 2025
Celebrating the year-long loan of three Georgia O’Keeffe paintings, this exhibition unites the Mattatuck Museum’s collection with O’Keeffe’s life and work through common themes.
These unique spotlight exhibitions celebrate the year-long loan of three Georgia O’Keeffe paintings and will unite the Mattatuck Museum’s collection with O’Keeffe’s life and work through common themes, creating a unique dialogue between her work and other celebrated artists. Each unique pairing will be curated and narrated by a different member of the Museum’s curatorial department and offer a distinctive perspective on the Mattatuck Collection in relation to the works and story of Georgia O’Keeffe.
Exhibit: O'Keeffe in Conversation
Kenise Barnes Fine Art is honored to present an exhibition featuring hand-painted cyanotypes by Julia Whitney Barnes and drawings by Sarah Morejohn.
Julia Whitney Barnes is well known for her innovations in Cyanotype (camera-less photographic printing process) paintings. Whitney Barnes’ multi-step process includes harvesting flora (flowers and weeds being equally important) and combining several species into a single composition on photo sensitive cotton paper. After exposing the work to UV light, the resulting blue and white image is carefully hand-painted in many layers of watercolor, gouache, and ink, reanimating the vitality to the ghost of the objects. The artist is most interested in creating work that feels both beautiful and mysterious. Her artwork symbolizes resilience and are the records of the historical moment in which they were made, the process, and the artist’s will and interest in reasserting the presence of the image.
Whitney Barnes recently completed permanent public installations in The Botanist’s Mural, Vassar College/Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, Brooklyn Botanical: PS 253 (glass commission), Public Art in Public Schools/Percent for Art, Brooklyn, NY, Planting Utopia (interior installation), Albany International Airport, Albany, NY, Planting Utopia (interior and exterior installation), Shaker Heritage Society, Albany, NY. The artist has received the following honors and awards; Maker-Creator Research Fellowship, Winterthur Museum, Library & Garden (2024-25), Individual Artist Grant, (partnering with Shaker Heritage Society), New York State Council on the Arts (2018), Individual Artist Commission, NY State Decentralization Grant, Arts Mid-Hudson, Poughkeepsie, NY (2015), Gowanus Public Arts Initiative Grant (ArtsGowanus, The Old Stone House & District 39), Brooklyn, NY, Residency with Site-Specific Installation & Fellowship, Fjellerup I Bund I Grund, Fjellerup, Denmark, to name a few. Her work has been featured in Architectural Record, Times Union, The B Magazine, The Jealous Curator, Create Magazine, American Art Collector Magazine and many other publications and podcasts. Julia Whitney Barnes earned her BFA Fine Arts, Painting, Parsons the New School for Design, New York, NY and her MFA Fine Arts, Painting & Combined Media, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY. The artist lives and works in NY.
Sarah Morejohn’s fascination with non-linear patterns in nature drives her work. Through drawing, she considers how the relationship to nature is mediated both by objective understanding and subjective imagining of it. Considering the symbolic connections between nature, the body, and climate change Morejohn draws partial six-fold symmetries. By building a drawing line by line, sharp angles soften and wiggle, cell-like shapes minnow along while branches and flowers become a part of the flotsam disconnected from the earth. Figurative snow crystals become interlaced with one another and their environment, jumbling towards their own future transformations. Morejohn’s drawing process is intuitive and organic, artifacts of the process, drips, spills, flaws and mistakes are embraced. By collaging the imperfect pieces of her drawings together the work becomes a metaphor for the ever-changing uncertainties of life.
Sarah Morejohn’s work in in the collections of Heustis Hall, 1% for Art Oregon Arts Commission, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, Echo Laboratory, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, Ursell Laboratory, Physics Department, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, Project Art & Medical Museum, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, Iowa City, IA. She was awarded residencies at Jentel Artist Residency, Banner, WY and Playa Art and Science Residency, Summer Lake, OR. Morejohn earned her BFA in Painting and Drawing, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. The artist lives and works in CA.
Please contact Lani Ming Holloway, Associate Director, Lani@kbfa.com, 860 560 3085 with inquires or to arrange a preview of the exhibition.
Convert Light Energy
Yarn Bomb Drop-in Sessions are taking place at Five Points Gallery throughout the spring - free and open to the public of all ages, skills and techniques welcome!
Fridays (weekly):
1 - 2:30 PM
April 11, 18, 25
May 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
Yarn Bomb Drop-in Sessions
Please join us in a celebration of Bob's life and times.
Bring along a song, a story, a memorable event, or an expression of love to share. The gathering will be at the JCC in Sherman. Bring your own beverage, and if you wish an appetizer or snack to share. It's a chance to bid a fond farewell to a very dear friend and fellow musician!
This is a free event, donations welcome!
A Celebration of Life: Bob Fink "Dr. Keys"
We are having a craft event with Mommy’s Board Silly
Auxiliary Post 1672
Friday, May 2nd, at 7:00 PM, 2nd Home will have Brian DuFord and 2nd Home's own Sean P. McGlynn. Brian will be playing a great renaissance and classical music set from 7:00 - 8:00, and then Sean will join him from 8:00 - 10:00 for two hours of 60's - 90's classic rock.
For reservations call 860-238-4500 or email us at momanddad@2ndhomelounge.com
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Brian DuFord and Sean P. McGlynn at 2nd Home Restaurant/Lounge
Paint and sip located above Toothpick on Water Street in Torrington!
BYOB! Painting new types of still life's every week.
All materials included in price
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Sip Dip Done
Examine the bold and direct capabilities of woodcut and monotype in combination. Learn to print multiple layers of transparent inks and observe how images develop with lush color relationships and luminous surfaces. Participants will develop skills in color ink mixing, registration, printing, and stencil making.
Layered Color Woodcut/Monotype
with Jim Lee
Saturdays, May 3, 10 & 17, 2025
9 AM – 5 PM
Members: $252 / Non-Members: $280
Layered Color Woodcut/Monotype
Books for adults, children, and young adults. Fiction, non-fiction, vintage, coffee table books, graphic novels, sci-fi/fantasy, and other categories will be available. In addition, there will be jigsaw puzzles and a variety of gift items. Cash, check, or Venmo. Free admission 9:00am-4:30pm.
All proceeds from the sale support library programs.
FRIENDS of the Library Book Sale
the ticking tent is the original brocantes-style shopping market. featuring over 60 curated artisans, antiques dealers, vintage jewelry & boutique brands for the home and more. at t.t.t. we believe in the art of discovery & the finest craftsmanship. vetted by its founders christina juarez and benjamin reynaert, the ticking tent is bursting with unique, beloved and sought after treasures from the most talented artisans and bespoke brands from across the globe.
the ticking tent
Create four beautiful abstract landscapes using fluid acrylics, mediums, layering, and distinctive mark-making techniques. Instructor, Heather Neilson will teach you how to work with GOLDEN fluid paints and mediums to build layers to add depth and complexity to your pieces. You will also learn color principles to apply to your paintings and experiment with mark-making to bring character and texture to your artwork.
Instructor: Heather Neilson
Saturday, May 3, 2025
10 AM - 2:30 PM
Ages: 18+
Members: $81
Non-Members: $90
Abstract Landscapes
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