Join the Center for Contemporary Printmaking us as we celebrate the opening of our March 2025 exhibition: All In This Together: Highlights from our Printmaking Programs.
Be among the first to see these fantastic prints created in our studios over the past year. Meet some of the artists in our member community. Gather with other print enthusiasts as you enjoy light appetizers and beverages.
Join us for a performance from Andromeda Turre, an award-winning jazz performer, composer, and educator committed to using her art for positive change.
After delivering memorable performances during our 2022 and 2023 Songs of the Season music series, Turre returns to Grace Farms to headline her own concert and perform songs from her newest project, From The Earth.
From the Earth is a programmatic jazz suite addressing environmental justice and amplifying humanity’s deep connection to the planet. Supported by the 2023 Jazz Road Creative Residencies Grant from SouthArts, funded by Doris Duke and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations, as well as a 2024 Support for Artists Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, From the Earth exemplifies Turre’s vision to use music as a vehicle for empathy, awareness, and social transformation.
The concert schedule is as follows:
4 – 4:30 pm | Q&A and Tea with Grace Farms Music Director Marcus G. Miller
4:30 – 6 pm | Concert featuring Andromeda Turre
6 – 6:15 pm | Meet and Greet with Andromeda Turre
Celebrate Black History Month with a live performance that incorporates poetry and drumming inspired by Iyaba Ibo Mandingo’s journey through South Africa and Nigeria. You won’t want to miss this unique, immersive experience that connects to the current exhibition, “Arwe Journey: Twentieth-Century Afri-Caribbean Migration.”
Free & open to the public. Inclement weather date: Thursday, February 20, 2025 from 7-8pm
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.
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.
The piano series is supported in part by the Greenberg family.
Warren Byrd, born in Hartford, CT, is an Afro-American pianist, composer, vocalist, and percussionist. He has an international touring career, performing with his own groups and with such greats as Archie Shepp, Eddie Henderson, Frank Lacy, Saskia Laroo, Jay Hoggard, Jimmy Green, and Hans Dulfer.
Warren’s Connecticut performances include the Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz, Club 880, City’s Edge, Hot Peas & Butter, the Monday Night Jazz Series at Black Eyed Sally’s, the Hartford Jazz Society’s Fall Concert Series, the Baby Grand Jazz Series at the Hartford Public Library, and the Wadsworth Atheneum’s All That Jazz Black Tie Gala.
Warren was also a top-25 pick in the Thelonious Monk International Piano Competition. His recordings include the jazz album Truth Raised Twice, Jazz in the Wilde (a compilation CD by radio station WWUH), and numerous albums with Saskia Laroo.
Join us for a special edition of Meet for Coffee at the Bruce featuring with viral tiktok artists, and twins, Kira Sabin and Kess Fennel, who are making waves in the art world and inspiring conservation efforts through their shared passion for wildlife and creativity. As part of our ongoing series, which offers a space for engaging conversations in the heart of the Bruce Museum, this event will dive into the story of how Kira and Kess are enriching the Federal Duck Stamp Contest by entering together and bringing attention to this important conservation effort through their art and social media presence.
Pioneering a unique management model that blends conservation with finance, a determined group of conservationists, scientists, and investors fight to restore our native forests which serve as complex, life-sustaining climate champions, and vital economic resources for millions of people.
On Tuesday, October 22 at 5 p.m., Shirley M. Mueller, MD will present a lecture in the Barone Campus Center’s Dogwood Room. An internationally known collector and scholar of Chinese export porcelain, Dr. Mueller is also board-certified in Neurology and Psychiatry. This unique conjunction of interests led her to explore the “neuroeconomics” of collecting in the 2019 book Inside the Head of a Collector: Neuropsychological Forces at Play.
This lecture is presented in conjunction with Ink and Time: European Prints from the Wetmore Collection (Bellarmine Hall Galleries, September 12 – December 21, 2024). The prints in that collection were put together in the early 20th century by Fanny Wetmore, a New London, CT native who donated her collection to Connecticut College. For more information on the exhibition please click here.
This talk will also be livestreamed at https://vimeo.com/event/4408170.
Dr. Mueller’s talk is being presented in partnership with the Arts Institute and the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.