Paintings, Sculpture
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“RECENT TRANSLATIONS”
The Housatonic Valley Cultural Alliance presents Recent Translations, a collection of neo-post abstracts: acrylics, watercolors, mixed media, and added Auto de Fe Efforts at CityCenter Danbury on Main Street. Artist, Andrew Carson, will be featured as part of HVCA’s 2012 Accessible Art Project from April 16 through May 24. The exhibit can be viewed during CityCenter’s normal business hours.
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Andrew Carson has pursued the underlying understanding and actual practice of painting for over twenty-five years. While his formal training is limited to haphazard schoolboy direction, his continued growth as an academic has been nothing short of near stellar. With both a Bachelor and Masters of Art; with a Masters of Library Science; and a recipient of the Sixth Year Professional Diploma in Educational Leadership, he continues to grows, giving a largely unacademic thought that is best creativity practices-oriented in nature.
His work explores abstracts in content and nature, contrivance and creativity, and timelessness. The gist of his efforts are always directed towards being short, summary-like statements, stretching anywhere from 8” by 11” to 2’ to 3’ in scope and sequence. He never creates simple designs, rather he continually strives to guarantee to strike at and jostle the corpus callosum of his viewer.CityCenter Danbury
Featured Artist- Andrew Carson On exhibit from April 16th — May 24th
“NATURE IN FIBER”
The Gallery in Danbury City Hall Featured Artist- Nike Cutsumpas On exhibit from April 16th — May 24th
The Housatonic Valley Cultural Alliance presents Nature in Fiber, a collection of nature inspired studio art quilts at The Gallery in Danbury City Hall. Artist, Nike Cutsumpas, will be featured as part of HVCA’s 2012 Accessible Art Project from April 16 through May 24. The exhibit can be viewed during Danbury City Hall’s normal business hours.
Nike Cutsumpas shares her creative expression of nature and all the inspiration that surrounds us everyday. She demonstrates these creations through the diversity of fantasy. Creating art with the color and tactile pleasure of fiber is compelling. She hopes that it will please the viewer as a visual feast of color, shape and texture, style and technique. A variety of techniques are used in each piece. Intuitive evaluation is always a part of the designing stage on to completion. New avenues and directions of expression and craft are always calling. She hopes to visit them all.
“Nature in Fiber” showcases Cutsumpas’ observations of nature are a boundless source of inspiration and are demonstrated here through whimsical fantasy. These art quilts have left the convention of traditional quilts. Threads, inks, paints, machine and hand stitching and a palette of textiles, both commercial and hand dyed are collectively used in the creation of these textile art pieces.
The Housatonic Valley Cultural Alliance (HVCA) is a regional arts agency that provides services to creative assets in the Housatonic Valley municipalities of Bethel, Bridgewater, Brookfield, Danbury, New Fairfield, Newtown, New Milford, Ridgefield, Redding, and Sherman Connecticut. HVCA aims to increase the network, collaboration, and conversation within the arts, historical, and culturalcommunity as well as among business and other interest groups to promote economic development. Visit www.hvculturalarts.org
Open Studio "Posibilities" @ Jim Felice Studios, 15 Great Pasture Rd, Danbury, CT |
Open Studio @ Jim Felice Studios, Saturday, 10 am
Sculpture & Painting, Visit artists at work, and view their completed works and works in progress.
Artist's: Jim Felice, Katie Bassett, Kenny Hess, Kve, and various Graffiti artist's
Richter Association for The Arts Members Art Show
April 14 100 Aunt Hack Rd, Danbury, CT
ART SHOW at the RICHTER 4/14-15 2-5pm 4/21 2-5, 4/22 2-4pm Come see the great Members show!
Located at 100 Great Aunt Hack Rd., Danbury Ct
Please visit FB:"Portraits by ShawnaLee" to see 2 oil paintings by Middlebury Artist, ShawnaLee, that will be on display during the Richter Association for the Arts show.
Music
Come Together with The NUTOPIANS... the critically acclaimed band that celebrates the music of John Lennon.
Whether you're a baby Beatlemaniac or a lifelong Lennon fan, Friday, April 13 will be a memorable Day In The Life when the Nutopians recall and re-Imagine the artistry of John Lennon at The Palace Danbury.
The band's stunning breakout CD, IMAGINED, won the Independent Music Award for Best Tribute album 2010.
Formerly "The John Lennon Song Project," the band's new name was suggested by Yoko Ono based on the fictitious nation she and John "founded" to promote world peace.
"With these intelligent and heartfelt renditions of Lennon's best and least known songs, The Nutopians rank right up there with the very best Lennon interpreters ever."
~Pete Fornatale, Music Historian and DJ
Mixed Bag Radio, WFUV FM, New York
April 13 @8:00 PM, $30 Advance/ $35 Door
(203) 794-9944
Theatre
WCSU to host 10-Minute Play and Webisode Festival
DANBURY, CONN. — The Western Connecticut State University department of writing, linguistics and creative process will present a 10-Minute Play and Webisode Festival featuring readings and viewings of works written by students from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 14, in the Student Center Theater on the university's Midtown campus, 181 White Street in Danbury. The event will be free and the public is invited.
The opportunity to experience a stage reading or viewing of their work by professionals, as well as the ability to network with Broadway and media experts, proved enticing enough to yield 78 play and webisode entries from students in the Connecticut State University system. A jury of entertainment and media professionals has narrowed the field to 14 plays and 11 webisodes that will be read or viewed during the festival.
The plays will include: “Ten to Places” by Andrew Hendrick, of Fairfield; “Retake” by Conor Daniel Bartram, of Hamden; “The Pipes are Calling” by Levon Ofgang, of New Fairfield; “Cell Thoughts” by Jazmin Sharif, of Waterbury; “The Collagers” by Jim Goggin, of Naugatuck; “Wanted for Dinner” by Elizabeth Young, of Newtown; “Babysitting Days” by Shawna O’Sullivan, of Newtown; “Clean Sweep” by Thomasina Murray, of Danbury; “Dirt Cheap” by Kristin Askin, of Danbury; “That Thing Called Trust” by Sean Zackrison, of Mount Kisco, N.Y.; “The Traveler’s Daughter” by Lynn Wright, of Monroe; “Curveball” by Tyler Miressi, of Monroe; “The Sixth Shot” by Eric Steiner, of New Milford; and “That’s the Sprirt” by Eileen D. Gonzalez, of Katonah, N.Y.
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