First Thursdays: Double Header Opening

Escape into art with a new experience every month! Cash bar, nibbles, live music, and more. Celebrate the opening of two new exhibitions with live music, fall-themed cocktails, and drawing in the galleries. Discover Peter Waite: Social Memory, Paintings 1987–2025 with the artist and explore the cultural significance and transitional nature of public spaces. Learn about Gerald Incandela’s distinctive photographic process, which conceptually merges drawing and photography, while he discusses his new exhibition, Gerald Incandela: Photographic Drawings. Stay for a…

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November 6, 2025 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

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Escape into art with a new experience every month!

Cash bar, nibbles, live music, and more. Celebrate the opening of two new exhibitions with live music, fall-themed cocktails, and drawing in the galleries. Discover Peter Waite: Social Memory, Paintings 1987–2025 with the artist and explore the cultural significance and transitional nature of public spaces. Learn about Gerald Incandela’s distinctive photographic process, which conceptually merges drawing and photography, while he discusses his new exhibition, Gerald Incandela: Photographic Drawings. Stay for a screening of Wings of Desire at 8pm.

Free. Registration encouraged.

First Thursdays is generously funded by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All Program.

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Virtual Gallery Talk: Maureen Kelleher, Social Justice Quilts Project

Maureen Kelleher, co-founder of the Social Justice Collaboration Quilts Project at Angola Prison, will speak about her work with the incarcerated quilt creators and the process of creating the pieces on view in the exhibition Stitching Time. The talk will be livestreamed here. About the Exhibition: Stitching Time features 12 quilts created by men who are incarcerated in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola Prison. These works of art, and accompanying recorded interviews, tell the story of a…

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The Bruce Museum proudly presents iCreate 2025, our annual juried exhibition showcasing exceptional artistic talent from high school students across the region. Now in its 17th year, this celebrated exhibition transforms our gallery into a vibrant showcase of emerging creativity, featuring works selected from hundreds of submissions representing dozens of schools throughout Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York. Major support for iCreate 2025 is generously provided by an anonymous donor, with additional support from the CT Department of Economic and…

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