Virtual Art in Focus: Unknown French Artist, Diptych: Scenes from the Life of Christ and the Virgin, ca. 1350-1400, ivory
Discover the intricacies carved in this delicate devotional object, on long-term loan from the Metropolitan Museum of art!
Join Curator of Education Michelle DiMarzo online!
Image: Unknown French Artist, Diptych: Scenes from the Life of Christ and the Virgin, ca. 1350-1400, ivory. Lent by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 (17.190.214)
Opening Lecture: Join William Abbott, associate professor of History, as he discusses the historical origins of the Great Hunger/Irish Famine on Thursday, April 10 at 5:30 p.m. in the Quick Center for the Arts, Kelley Theatre.
Presented in conjunction with An Gorta Mór: Selections from Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, organized by Quinnipiac University and the Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum of Fairfield Exhibition (Walsh Gallery, April 11-August 16).
About the Exhibition: This exhibition presents highlights from the collection of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, which explores the impact of the Irish Famine of 1845-1852 through artwork produced by eminent Irish and Irish-American artists of the past 170 years. The works on view in the exhibition will include paintings by late 19th- and early 20th‐century artists like James Brenan, Daniel Macdonald, James Arthur O’Connor and Jack B. Yeats, as well as sculptures, paintings, and works on paper by contemporary artists including John Behan, Rowan Gillespie, Brian Maguire, and Hughie O’Donoghue. The exhibition is presented by Quinnipiac University and the Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum of Fairfield Exhibition.
The event will also be livestreamed, click here to register for a reminder.
Image: James Arthur O’Connor, Scene in Connemara, 1828, oil on canvas. Courtesy of Quinnipiac University and the Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum of Fairfield Exhibition.
Livestream Opening Lecture: Join William Abbott, associate professor of History, as he discusses the historical origins of the Great Hunger/Irish Famine on Thursday, April 10 at 5:30 p.m. in the Quick Center for the Arts, Kelley Theatre!
Presented in conjunction with An Gorta Mór: Selections from Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, organized by Quinnipiac University and the Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum of Fairfield Exhibition (Walsh Gallery, April 11-August 16).
About the Exhibition: This exhibition presents highlights from the collection of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, which explores the impact of the Irish Famine of 1845-1852 through artwork produced by eminent Irish and Irish-American artists of the past 170 years. The works on view in the exhibition will include paintings by late 19th- and early 20th‐century artists like James Brenan, Daniel Macdonald, James Arthur O’Connor and Jack B. Yeats, as well as sculptures, paintings, and works on paper by contemporary artists including John Behan, Rowan Gillespie, Brian Maguire, and Hughie O’Donoghue. The exhibition is presented by Quinnipiac University and the Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum of Fairfield Exhibition.
Image: James Arthur O’Connor, Scene in Connemara, 1828, oil on canvas. Courtesy of Quinnipiac University and the Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum of Fairfield Exhibition.
Join us for a reception to celebrate the opening of the new exhibition An Gorta Mór: Selections from Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum on Thursday, April 10 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Quick Center Lobby and Walsh Gallery.
About the Exhibition: This exhibition presents highlights from the collection of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, which explores the impact of the Irish Famine of 1845-1852 through artwork produced by eminent Irish and Irish-American artists of the past 170 years. The works on view in the exhibition will include paintings by late 19th- and early 20th‐century artists like James Brenan, Daniel Macdonald, James Arthur O’Connor and Jack B. Yeats, as well as sculptures, paintings, and works on paper by contemporary artists including John Behan, Rowan Gillespie, Brian Maguire, and Hughie O’Donoghue. The exhibition is presented by Quinnipiac University and the Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum of Fairfield Exhibition.
Image: James Arthur O’Connor, Scene in Connemara, 1828, oil on canvas. Courtesy of Quinnipiac University and the Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum of Fairfield Exhibition.
Curator Niamh O’Sullivan joins us from Dublin to recount the development of the collection of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum. The museum formed part of Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT before its closure in 2022, and will reopen in a new space in Fairfield, CT in the future.
About the Exhibition: This exhibition presents highlights from the collection of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, which explores the impact of the Irish Famine of 1845-1852 through artwork produced by eminent Irish and Irish-American artists of the past 170 years. The works on view in the exhibition will include paintings by late 19th- and early 20th‐century artists like James Brenan, Daniel Macdonald, James Arthur O’Connor and Jack B. Yeats, as well as sculptures, paintings, and works on paper by contemporary artists including John Behan, Rowan Gillespie, Brian Maguire, and Hughie O’Donoghue. The exhibition is presented by Quinnipiac University and the Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum of Fairfield Exhibition.
The event will also be livestreamed.
Image: Rowan Gillespie, Statistic I, 2010, bronze. Courtesy Quinnipiac University and the Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum Fairfield Exhibition.© Rowan Gillespie
Connecticut is a small state with a big arts scene, and you can find world-class museums and cultural sites just a short drive away. Spring is right around the corner, and hitting the road to visit the destinations on the Connecticut Art Trail is a great cabin fever cure. Don’t forget that the Passport-Journal gives you a key to all of these sites, and unlocks several additional benefits as well!
Read our latest newsletter to learn about the latest news and events on the Connecticut Art Trail, including:
- The recognition of Old Lyme as a top small town arts destination, in part due to the Florence Griswold Museum and Lyme Art Association
- A new director and CEO at the Bruce Museum
- The 10th anniversary of a program connecting medical students with artwork at the Yale University Art Gallery and Yale Center for British Art
- Family art programs at the Yale University Art Gallery, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, and the Fairfield University Art Museum
- A look at Andromeda and Perseus, a Renaissance painting that was one of the key pieces of art in the initial collection at the Fairfield University Art Museum
Jeremiah Chechik, award-winning photographer, film director, and producer, considers himself first and foremost a photographer and is obsessed with the boundary between fact and fiction. The subtly investigative prints he creates explore our “post truth” reality, melding 21st century advanced digital design with traditional printing on paper. The resulting images are more than just visually stunning and thoroughly aesthetic – they also raise key questions about the nature of truth and knowledge in our media saturated age.
Jeremiah Chechik, artist, film director, and photographer, is obsessed with the porous boundary between fact and fiction. The subtly investigative prints he creates explore our “post truth” reality, melding 21st century advanced digital design with traditional printing on Hahnemühle paper. The resulting images are more than just visually stunning and thoroughly aesthetic — they also raise key questions about the nature of truth and knowledge in our media-saturated age.
Jeremiah Chechik, artist, film director and photographer, is obsessed with the porous boundary between fact and fiction. The subtly investigative prints he creates explore our “post truth” reality, melding 21st century advanced digital design with traditional printing on Hahnemühle paper. The resulting images are more than just visually stunning and thoroughly aesthetic — they also raise key questions about the nature of truth and knowledge in our media-saturated age.
Featuring a selection of more than fifty works from the Hechinger Collection, this exhibition celebrates the transformation of common industrial objects into extraordinary works of art exploring tools as icons of labor, labor as a component of creativity, and creativity as a form of play. The showcased works illustrate how artists manipulate their subjects to forge entirely novel forms. They feature artists who embrace tools as a hallmark of civilization or for humor and social commentary.