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This exhibition was curated in its entirety by the students in the University of Connecticut, under the direction of Professor Françoise Dussart. Dotted Dialogues features contemporary paintings and sculptures from Aboriginal communities in Central Australia. In the early 1980s, new governmental policies encouraged Indigenous communities to partake in various initiatives meant to counteract the er...

The exhibition in this series is inspired by the title of a painting by Mathias Marrum who was born in the Federal Republic of Germany (former West Germany) but arrived to the Griffis Art Center from Mojacar, Almeria, and Kingdom of Spain. Color and emotion were the foremost influences in the selection of artwork for this exhibition: with a choice of work by artists from over forty-five countries ...

The exhibition has over 30 works of art in a wide range of media, from Nobu Fukui’s complex collage Incredulity, 2013, to glass masterpieces such as K. William LeQuier’s Confluence, 2011. The establishment of a gallery focused solely on 21st century art will allow the Museum to expand and enhance its contemporary arts educational activities and present our visitors with a wide range of powerful an...

This retrospective exhibit brings 150 years of Chase to life through archival photographs and objects which tell the story of the School through the student experience. In 2005, St. Margaret’s-McTernan changed its name to Chase Collegiate School, honoring the Chase family, which helped to found both. From the beginning until the present day, by educating tomorrow’s leaders and inspiring in each st...

Drawing from the collection of the Second Ward Foundation, the museum presents video artists from Brazil, Germany and beyond who explore how chance determines outcome, how control can be ceded, and how collaboration furthers conceptual development. Artists include Rivane Neuenschwander and Cao Guimarães, and Carolee Schneemann among others. Monday: Closed Sundays: 12 noon - 5:00 p.m.

Curated by artist Duvian Montoya, this exhibition explores the artistic and biographical evolution of fives artists by pairing an earlier work with a presently produced one. The exhibition includes painting, mixed media reliefs, street art/graffiti and fiber installations by Jamison Banks, Amy Bilden, Vincent Calenzo, Duvian Montoya and Jahmane West. Monday: Closed Sundays: 12 noon - 5:00 p.m.

A floor sculpture will be created for the exhibition at the Mattatuck. This retrospective of wall relief sculptures by Don Gummer reaches from the 1970s to the present. Gummer’s multi-layered sculptures, and the drawings that accompany them, reference architectural history from Renaissance Italy to traditional Japan to colonial house design. Monday: Closed Sundays: 12 noon - 5:00 p.m.

The exhibition in this series is inspired by a gift of calligraphy by Zhang Zhibang, in the Winter of 1992, “Year of the Monkey” while visiting his son Christopher Z.Y. Zhang who is from Shanghai, People’s Republic of China. Artworks selected for this exhibition represent a diversity of artists that painted and worked in New London and the surrounding areas – many in a realistic or impressionistic...

This selection of nearly 50 works examines social history, identity and race, as well as nostalgia for the traditional portraits that once defined photography, and outlines the transformation of photographic portraiture throughout modernist movements such as Dadaism and Surrealism. Unmediated traditional portraits going back to the 1940s are displayed in concert with symbolic portrayals using obje...

The exhibition features a selection of paintings, drawings, sculpture, and photographs by some of the artists that lived in this bohemian community that are also represented in the museum’s permanent collection. The personal connections and relationships that developed between these artistic and social circles are illustrated using photographs, artists’ letters, and exhibition announcements from t...