Each month, the Happy Hour Piano Series offers an eclectic mix of musical genres, showcasing the region’s wealth of talented pianists. Held on the fourth Fridays, from 5 to 7 pm, the piano series extends AMP’s exhibit hours. A cash/credit bar offers wine, craft and domestic beer, and assorted beverages.
Garnell Curtis is a dynamic pianist known for his improvisational flair and ability to defy categorization. He’s no stranger to jazz, classical, soul, and pop—and you may hear a bit of all of it in a single song. Garnell’s fresh approach creates a sense of spontaneity and exploration. Prepare to experience piano in a way that breaks traditional boundaries.
Admission: $8 at the door
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The piano series is supported in part by the Greenberg family.
As the Connecticut Art Trail celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2025, we’re thrilled to be doing so with 30 member sites! The Trail is bigger than ever, welcoming the Glass House as a full member and Grace Farms as an affiliate member. With a whole new year ahead of us, it’s a great time to pick up our new Passport-Journal — still just $35 — and explore these amazing destinations in the months ahead.
Read our latest newsletter to learn about the latest news and events on the Connecticut Art Trail, including:
- A distinctive award for the chief curator at the Mattatuck Museum
- The Hartford Dance Collective becoming artists in residence at the New Britain Museum of American Art
- A call for “Recycled Runway” designers from the American Mural Project
- Family programming at Connecticut Art Trail museums, including Joy in the Making at the Florence Griswold Museum, Storytime for Kids at The Aldrich Museum Contemporary Art Museum, and Recess Art Camps at MoCA CT.
- A profile of the latest Connecticut Art Trail member site, The Glass House in New Canaan.
Each month, the Happy Hour Piano Series offers an eclectic mix of musical genres, showcasing the region’s wealth of talented pianists. Held on the fourth Fridays, from 5 to 7 pm, the piano series extends AMP’s exhibit hours. Admission is $6. A cash/credit bar offers wine, craft and domestic beer, and assorted beverages.
Pianist, singer/songwriter, and producer Natalie Hamilton has been praised in both Rolling Stone and Spin magazines. Her compositions “meld the sophistication of jazz with the timeless intimacy of folk” (Ink 19 magazine). She is known for captivating audiences with her sheer artistry, performing both classic jazz compositions and originals. Natalie’s latest album is Live at the Legacy Theater.
The piano series is supported in part by the Greenberg family.
This exhibition explores Tonalism in the United States from the 1880s to the early 20th century, through artists from the Northeast such as George Inness, John Henry Twachtman, and John Francis Murphy. Tonalism is a transitional movement that grew out of and reacted to the Hudson River School of painting and laid the groundwork for modernism. Evocative landscapes, evoking a spiritual connection to the natural world, often painted from memory, are the primary genre of this movement. The more than fifty artworks in this exhibition are drawn from private and institutional collections.
The conversation will be livestreamed on The Quick Live.
Image: Bruce Crane, Sunset, ca. 1890, oil on canvas. Private Collection, Connecticut
This exhibition explores Tonalism in the United States from the 1880s to the early 20th century, through artists from the Northeast such as George Inness, John Henry Twachtman, and John Francis Murphy. Tonalism is a transitional movement that grew out of and reacted to the Hudson River School of painting and laid the groundwork for modernism. Evocative landscapes, evoking a spiritual connection to the natural world, often painted from memory, are the primary genre of this movement. The more than fifty artworks in this exhibition are drawn from private and institutional collections.
Image: Bruce Crane, Sunset, ca. 1890, oil on canvas. Private Collection, Connecticut
2025 marks the double centenary of the birth of American artist George Inness (1825-1894), one of the premier landscape painters of the 19th century. Art historian Adrienne Bell, author of the 2015 George Inness and the Visionary Landscape, will discuss Inness’ relationship to the Tonalism movement on Tuesday, January 21 at 5 p.m. in the Diffley Board Room in Bellarmine Hall. A painting by Inness that has not been publicly exhibited in over 70 years, on loan from the Milton Klein Collection at the Bridgeport Public Library is one of the earliest works in the exhibition Dawn & Dusk: Tonalism in Connecticut,
About the Exhibition: This exhibition explores Tonalism in the United States from the 1880s to the early 20th century, through artists from the Northeast such as George Inness, John Henry Twachtman, and John Francis Murphy. Tonalism is a transitional movement that grew out of and reacted to the Hudson River School of painting and laid the groundwork for modernism. Evocative landscapes, evoking a spiritual connection to the natural world, often painted from memory, are the primary genre of this movement. The more than fifty artworks in this exhibition are drawn from private and institutional collections.
The event will also be livestreamed on The Quick Live. Click here to register for a reminder.
George Inness, Durham, Connecticut, 1879, oil on wood panel. Lent by The Milton Klein Collection, Bridgeport Public Library
2025 marks the double centenary of the birth of American artist George Inness (1825-1894), one of the premier landscape painters of the 19th century. Art historian Adrienne Bell, author of the 2015 George Inness and the Visionary Landscape, will discuss Inness’ relationship to the Tonalism movement on Tuesday, January 21 at 5 p.m. in the Diffley Board Room in Bellarmine Hall. A painting by Inness that has not been publicly exhibited in over 70 years, on loan from the Milton Klein Collection at the Bridgeport Public Library is one of the earliest works in the exhibition Dawn & Dusk: Tonalism in Connecticut,
About the Exhibition: This exhibition explores Tonalism in the United States from the 1880s to the early 20th century, through artists from the Northeast such as George Inness, John Henry Twachtman, and John Francis Murphy. Tonalism is a transitional movement that grew out of and reacted to the Hudson River School of painting and laid the groundwork for modernism. Evocative landscapes, evoking a spiritual connection to the natural world, often painted from memory, are the primary genre of this movement. The more than fifty artworks in this exhibition are drawn from private and institutional collections.
The event will be livestreamed on The Quick Live.
George Inness, Durham, Connecticut, 1879, oil on wood panel. Lent by The Milton Klein Collection, Bridgeport Public Library
About the Exhibition: Environmental threats and climate change are urgent matters of concern at Jesuit universities, where conversations on this topic often take place in reference to two documents by Pope Francis: Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home (2015) and the 2023 update Laudate Deum. Artists play an indispensable role in our collective response to climate change. To See This Place: Awakening to Our Common Home, curated by Al Miner and David Brinker, will present work by Athena LaTocha, Mary Mattingly, and Tyler Rai, three contemporary artists whose outlook resonates with the themes of Laudato Si’ and Laudate Deum. Embodying a breadth of personal, geographic, and cultural backgrounds, the three artists create works strongly associated with a sense of place, whether specific or imaginary. They employ media as diverse as photography, sculpture, video, and painting, and often incorporate materials sourced from particular locales. Yet the artists draw forth broader themes from this particularity, critiquing political and economic systems that perpetuate destructive self-interest and drawing attention to people who have been marginalized and historically excluded or harmed. The works are artistically compelling yet can inspire us to creativity and boldness in our efforts to address climate change. This exhibition will open at Saint Louis University’s Museum of Contemporary Religious Art in Fall 2025.
This event forms part of the Edwin L. Weisl, Jr. Lectureships in Art History, funded by the Robert Lehman Foundation. The conversation will also be livestreamed on The Quick Live.
Image: Mary Mattingly, Saltwater, 2022, chromogenic dye coupler print. © Mary Mattingly, courtesy of Robert Mann Gallery
About the Exhibition: Environmental threats and climate change are urgent matters of concern at Jesuit universities, where conversations on this topic often take place in reference to two documents by Pope Francis: Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home (2015) and the 2023 update Laudate Deum. Artists play an indispensable role in our collective response to climate change. To See This Place: Awakening to Our Common Home, curated by Al Miner and David Brinker, will present work by Athena LaTocha, Mary Mattingly, and Tyler Rai, three contemporary artists whose outlook resonates with the themes of Laudato Si’ and Laudate Deum. Embodying a breadth of personal, geographic, and cultural backgrounds, the three artists create works strongly associated with a sense of place, whether specific or imaginary. They employ media as diverse as photography, sculpture, video, and painting, and often incorporate materials sourced from particular locales. Yet the artists draw forth broader themes from this particularity, critiquing political and economic systems that perpetuate destructive self-interest and drawing attention to people who have been marginalized and historically excluded or harmed. The works are artistically compelling yet can inspire us to creativity and boldness in our efforts to address climate change. This exhibition will open at Saint Louis University’s Museum of Contemporary Religious Art in Fall 2025.
This event forms part of the Edwin L. Weisl, Jr. Lectureships in Art History, funded by the Robert Lehman Foundation. The conversation will also be livestreamed on The Quick Live. Click here to register for a reminder.
Image: Mary Mattingly, Saltwater, 2022, chromogenic dye coupler print. © Mary Mattingly, courtesy of Robert Mann Gallery
Suzanne Chamlin, Associate Professor of Studio Art and an artist whose own practice focuses on landscape, will offer her reflections on the paintings on view in the exhibition Dusk & Dawn: Tonalism in Connecticut on Friday, January 31 at 12 noon in the Bellarmine Hall Galleries. Space is limited.
(Note: Professor Chamlin’s work was featured in a 2024 exhibition in the Bellarmine Hall Galleries; click here to learn more!)
About the Exhibition: This exhibition explores Tonalism in the United States from the 1880s to the early 20th century, through artists from the Northeast such as George Inness, John Henry Twachtman, and John Francis Murphy. Tonalism is a transitional movement that grew out of and reacted to the Hudson River School of painting and laid the groundwork for modernism. Evocative landscapes, evoking a spiritual connection to the natural world, often painted from memory, are the primary genre of this movement. The more than fifty artworks in this exhibition are drawn from private and institutional collections.
Image: J. Alden Weir, Connecticut Hilltops, ca. 1900, oil on panel. Private collection, Connecticut