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Art in Focus: Rembrandt, Three Trees, 1643
Next up in our Art in Focus series is Rembrandt’s Three Trees, his largest landscape print and one in which he combined multiple techniques to produce this dramatic vision of a sudden storm rolling across the flat countryside. Join us at 12 noon on Thursday, November 14 in the Bellarmine Hall Galleries for informal conversation […]
Virtual Art in Focus: Rembrandt, Three Trees, 1643
Next up in our Virtual Art in Focus series is Rembrandt’s Three Trees, his largest landscape print and one in which he combined multiple techniques to produce this dramatic vision of a sudden storm rolling across the flat countryside. Join us at 1pm on Thursday, October 10 on thequicklive.com for informal conversation about this work, […]
Workshop: Making Engraved Prints
Note: This event has sold out. Please join the waitlist! Join us on Thursday, November 14 from 5:30-8:30 pm, for a hands-on workshop! Learn to design, carve, and print your own engraved prints, led by Master Printer Chris Shore (Center for Contemporary Printmaking). Supplies provided. Space is limited and registration is required. Presented in conjunction […]
Cocktails & Conversations: Poskas: Father and Son
Enjoy two themed cocktails created by a talented bartender from Litchfield Distillery while enjoying an evening with Peter Poskas II and Peter Poskas III to hear about their art practice and current exhibition, Poskas: Father and Son. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions of the artists, as well as view the exhibition. Sponsored […]
Bruce Inspires: Duck Stamp Painting with Kira and Kess
Join viral tiktok artists, and twins, Kira Sabin and Kess Fennel as they teach you how to paint your own duck stamp painting. In this hour and half long workshop, you will learn about the rules and regulations of creating and submitting your own duck painting to the Federal Duck Stamp Contest, along with sketching […]
Nights Out: The Evolutionary History of Eastern North America
Chase Brownstein is no stranger to the SM&NC. Now a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University’s Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, he has identified and cataloged over 1,500 specimens in our paleontology collection over the past decade. Eastern North America is known as a hotspot of ancient groups of animals and plants — but are […]
Nights Out: The Evolutionary History of Eastern North America
Chase Brownstein is no stranger to the SM&NC. Now a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University’s Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, he has identified and cataloged over 1,500 specimens in our paleontology collection over the past decade. Eastern North America is known as a hotspot of ancient groups of animals and plants — but are […]
Member Perk: Peter Kirkiles Studio Tour
PETER KIRKILES Standard Space Invite “Join your fellow members for a studio tour and live casting demonstration with sculptor Peter Kirkiles in South Kent. Learn about Kirkiles’ process, his work as a professional metal fabricator, and his piece ‘Calder’s Pliers’ soon to be on view at the Mattatuck.” Van available for transportation from Museum […]
World Classic Play
November 15-17 and 22-24 Fridays and Saturdays 6:00-8:00 PM; Sundays 2:00-4:00 PM “World Classic” is what happens when you take the quintessential American domestic drama away from white suburbia. It explores the identity issues created by assimilation through the eyes of two generations of an immigrant family. Like “The Humans” or “August Osage County” before it, […]