Fairfield Arts Commission's Next Arts Mixer Set For Early April

FAIRFIELD, CT — The Fairfield Arts Commission is inviting artists, creatives and residents to its next Fairfield Arts Mixer, scheduled for 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on April 2 at Fairfield University’s Center for Arts & Minds in the university’s downtown building at 1720 Post Road. The event is free and open to the public, and refreshments will be served.

According to organizers, the networking event is an outgrowth of the Community Conversation on the Arts workshop the commission held this past year. Advanced registration is strongly encouraged for the April 2 event, because space is limited. For more information, the town directed residents to contact the Office of Community & Economic Development at arts@fairfieldct.org.

Fairfield University said its Center for Arts & Minds was created to build creative partnerships with neighbors in the arts community, spark imagination and promote the university and the region as destinations for theater, music, dance, fine art and community programming. In addition to meeting other creatives, attendees will be able to see the center’s latest installation in the Fairfield University Downtown 1720 gallery space.

The exhibition, “Icons on Ammo Boxes: Christian Art of Hope and Sorrow from the War in Ukraine,” features work by artists Sonia Atlantova and Oleksandr Klymenko. According to the event announcement, the artists transform fragments of ammunition boxes from the front lines of the war in Ukraine into sacred icons.

The exhibition includes 27 works, including selections from the Mariupol Deisis (2022), a Marian series (2025) dedicated to Ukrainian children held in captivity, the icon of Mother of God with Child that was presented to Pope Leo XIV by Ukraine’s president and first lady, and a newly created icon of St. Ignatius of Loyola.

The exhibition is hosted by Fairfield University’s Center for Social Impact and Center for Arts & Minds and will remain on view through May 22.