Experience Mikailwitl For Generaciones Perdidas, a new performance by Marcela Torres in The Aldrich’s Sculpture Garden. Featuring Mitotilliztli danzantes, traditional danza, sound, reggaeton rhythms, and ceremonial elements, the work honors lost lineages and the sacredness of land while paying tribute to the Ramapough Lenape Nation and Lunaape Munsee Delaware Nation. Guests are invited to bring a flower or bouquet as their offering and admission to the collective altar.
Throughout human history, clouds have occupied a unique place at the crossroads of observation, imagination, and inquiry. From ancient sky-gazers to modern meteorologists and engineers, our engagement with clouds and the perpetual motion of the atmosphere reveals both a desire to interpret the world visually and a need to understand its physical processes.
The panel will explore perspectives at the intersection of art, science, and engineering: What is the role of clouds and the turbulent atmosphere in art, science, and engineering? Clouds are always transient: How do we observe, analyze, and understand ephemerality? Clouds and their role in environmental change, from extreme weather to climate change impacts: what are opportunities and challenges in visual communication and public engagement? The panel is held in conjunction with the exhibition Clouds: A Collaboration with Fluid Dynamics.
FREE. Everyone is welcome.
RSVP appreciated.
PANELISTS
Ann Fridlind is a Physical Scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Dr. Fridlind’s studies have concentrated at the intersection of detailed models and rich observational data sets to advance understanding of the clouds that are most relevant to Earth’s climate. She has used a wide array of airborne in situ and ground-based and satellite remote-sensing data to study stratiform clouds from Arctic to Antarctic, tropical to mid-latitude deep convection, mid-latitude continental cumulus and synoptic cirrus, and subtropical stratocumulus. She is also a developer of cloud microphysics schemes in computational codes, such as NASA’s ModelE3 climate model.
Helen Glazer is a visual artist whose work bridges photography and three‑dimensional sculpture. Helen ‘s photography and sculpture made from 3D scans are profoundly influenced by scientific insights into the physical forces that shape ecological environments, including human activity. A 2015 participant in the National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, her solo show of that project, “Walking in Antarctica” is currently touring US museums and galleries. She is working on a photographic landscape history of Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, focused on the impacts of a US Cold War air base and climate change.
Miad Yazdani is a principal fellow at RTRC. Dr. Yazdani is responsible for leading strategic initiatives and defining technology roadmaps particularly pertinent to interfacial physics to ensure RTX’s competitive advantage in key technological areas is preserved and expanded while having impact to business units’ near-term and long-term technological objectives and requirements.
Moderated by George Matheou, Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Manufacturing Engineering. Dr. Matheou’s research focuses on computational fluid dynamics, leveraging theory, advanced algorithms, and data to study complex multi-physics fluid flows, with applications in weather forecasting and climate. Dr. Matheou is recognized for his innovative approaches to research and education, including integrating artistic expression to engage students.
The evening starts with a private tour of our exhibition Fate & Magic: The Art of Maureen McCabe. We will focus on her assemblages that have constellations prominently featured in them. After our tour, we will walk to the UConn Planetarium for a show highlighting the constellations visible to us during the autumn season.
Space is very limited. Purchase your tickets today! Use the link for the event website to purchase tickets and register.
Fee: 10 per person (5 per Benton Member)
Please join us for a magical night filled with constellations. The evening starts with a private tour of our exhibition Fate & Magic: The Art of Maureen McCabe. We will focus on her assemblages that have constellations prominently featured in them. After our tour, we will walk as a group to the UConn Planetarium for a show highlighting the constellations visible in the Northern Hemisphere during the autumn season. Space is very limited so please make your reservation early.
Parking on North Eagleville Road is recommended so your vehicle will be next to the Planetarium at the conclusion of the event. We will gather outside the Planetarium at 5:30pm to walk to the Benton as a group.
An interactive children’s program starting with a story and ending with a cute cloud-themed craft.
$10 per child / $8 per Benton Museum member child (advance registration required)
Designed for ages 4-10 (parents encouraged to stay)
An interactive children’s program starting with a story and ending with a cute cloud-themed craft. Join us as we draw inspiration from our exhibition Clouds: A Collaboration with Fluid Dynamics. The program will begin with a reading of Connecticut author and illustrator, Tomie dePaola’s The Cloud Book. After the story, we will create our own cloud art using straws instead of paintbrushes!
Purchase your tickets today at the event link below.
5pm gallery viewing | 6pm lecture followed by book signing
Grant B. Romer, a leading authority on early photography and former director of the Photograph Conservation Department at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, discusses the breadth of outdoor views captured by daguerreotypists offers insight into mid-19th-century America. Join us before the lecture to view The Scenic Daguerreotype in America 1840–1860. Reservations encouraged.
Free. Registration encouraged.
Presented in partnership with the Daguerreian Society with additional support provided by the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation Fund.
What do porcelain and cocaine have in common? In artist David Torres’s work, they share a name and spark a conversation through the artist’s blending of 18th-century Rococo aesthetics and the flashy visual style of 1980s–90s Colombian drug cartels. Join Torres and Vanessa Sigalas, David W. Dangremond Chief Curator, for a conversation about the artist’s process and his sculpture Me White Gold (2023), recently acquired by the Wadsworth. Meet outside the Museum Shop.
Free with museum admission. Registration encouraged.
Presented with support from the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation Fund at the Wadsworth Atheneum.
5pm gallery viewing | 6pm lecture
Contemporary Seneca artist Marie Watt discusses her creative process and artwork that explores the intersection of history, community, and storytelling.
Marie Watt (she/her, b. 1967, Seattle, WA) is a member of the Turtle Clan of the Seneca Nation of Indians whose work draws on images and ideas from Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) protofeminism and Indigenous teachings. Her practice is interdisciplinary, incorporating printmaking, painting, textiles, and sculpture. Watt conducts both solo and collaborative projects, but in all of them she explores how history, community, and storytelling intersect. Watt holds an MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale University; she also has degrees from Willamette University and the Institute of American Indian Arts; and in 2016 she was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa from Willamette University. Selected collections include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Seattle Art Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, the Crystal Bridges Museum, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian and National Museum of American Art, the Tacoma Art Museum, the Denver Art Museum, the Portland Art Museum, and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Watt is represented by PDX Contemporary Art in Portland, OR; Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco, CA; and Marc Straus in New York, NY.
Free. Registration encouraged.
Presented with support from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation and with additional support provided by the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation Fund at the Wadsworth Atheneum.
Art historian Marisa Lerer works on modern and contemporary art in Latin America and Latinx art, with a specific focus on monuments as sites of public memory. Her talk will draw upon the themes introduced by the exhibition Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy and expand outward to consider the history of monuments dedicated to Latinx and Latin American figures in the United States and beyond.
This lecture forms part of the Edwin L. Weisl, Jr. Lectureships in Art History, funded by the Robert Lehman Foundation and is co-sponsored by the program in Latinx, Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
This talk will also be livestreamed. To register for a reminder, click here.
About the Exhibition: Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy (organized by The New York Historical) explores monuments and their representations in public spaces as flashpoints of fierce debate over national identity, politics, and race that have raged for centuries. Offering a historical foundation for understanding today’s controversies, the exhibition features fragments of a statue of King George III torn down by American Revolutionaries, a souvenir replica of a bulldozed monument by Harlem Renaissance sculptor Augusta Savage, and a maquette of New York City’s first public monument to a Black woman, Harriet Tubman, among other objects from The New York Historical’s collection. The exhibition reveals how monument-making and monument-breaking have long shaped American life as public statues have been celebrated, attacked, protested, altered, and removed. For more information, click here.
* This event is a part of Fairfield University Explores 250 Years of the American Experiment: The Promise and Paradox *
Image: Judith F. Baca, Arch of Dignity, Equality, and Justice, San José State University, San José, California, 2005-2008.
Join Curator of Education Michelle DiMarzo for an informal discussion of this work from the exhibition Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy: Johannes Adam Simon Oertel, Pulling Down the Statue of King George III, New York City, 1852-1853, oil on canvas. The New York Historical, Gift of Samuel V. Hoffman, 1925.6. Courtesy of The New York Historical
This event will also be livestreamed at 1 p.m. Click here to register for a reminder.
About the Exhibition: Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy (organized by The New York Historical) explores monuments and their representations in public spaces as flashpoints of fierce debate over national identity, politics, and race that have raged for centuries. Offering a historical foundation for understanding today’s controversies, the exhibition features fragments of a statue of King George III torn down by American Revolutionaries, a souvenir replica of a bulldozed monument by Harlem Renaissance sculptor Augusta Savage, and a maquette of New York City’s first public monument to a Black woman, Harriet Tubman, among other objects from The New York Historical’s collection. The exhibition reveals how monument-making and monument-breaking have long shaped American life as public statues have been celebrated, attacked, protested, altered, and removed.
Join Curator of Education Michelle DiMarzo for an informal discussion of this work from the exhibition Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy: Johannes Adam Simon Oertel, Pulling Down the Statue of King George III, New York City, 1852-1853, oil on canvas. The New York Historical, Gift of Samuel V. Hoffman, 1925.6. Courtesy of The New York Historical
This event will be livestreamed.
About the Exhibition: Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy (organized by The New York Historical) explores monuments and their representations in public spaces as flashpoints of fierce debate over national identity, politics, and race that have raged for centuries. Offering a historical foundation for understanding today’s controversies, the exhibition features fragments of a statue of King George III torn down by American Revolutionaries, a souvenir replica of a bulldozed monument by Harlem Renaissance sculptor Augusta Savage, and a maquette of New York City’s first public monument to a Black woman, Harriet Tubman, among other objects from The New York Historical’s collection. The exhibition reveals how monument-making and monument-breaking have long shaped American life as public statues have been celebrated, attacked, protested, altered, and removed.