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iCreate 2025: Annual Juried Exhibition of High School Talent
The Bruce Museum proudly presents iCreate 2025, our annual juried exhibition showcasing exceptional artistic talent from high school students across the region. Now in its 17th year, this celebrated exhibition transforms our gallery into a vibrant showcase of emerging creativity, featuring works selected from hundreds of submissions representing dozens of schools throughout Connecticut, New Jersey, […]
Exhibition: Famous & Family: Through the Lens of Trude Fleischmann
Austrian-born Trude Fleischmann (1895-1990) was one of the most accomplished female photographers of the 20th century. After great success in Vienna in the 20s photographing artists, models, and performers, she fled the Anschluss in 1938, first to Paris and then New York. She opened a studio on Fifth Avenue in 1940 and photographed many of […]
Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy
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 […]
Stitching Time: The Social Justice Collaboration Quilts Project and Give Me Life: CPA Prison Arts Program
Stitching Time features 12 quilts created by men who are incarcerated in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola Prison. These works of art, and accompanying recorded interviews, tell the story of a unique inside-outside quilt collaboration. The exhibition focuses our attention on the quilt creators, people often forgotten by society when discussing the […]
Art in Focus: Tong Yin Yee Shung Gun, Chinese Laundry, 1899
Join Curator of Education Michelle DiMarzo for an informal discussion of this work from the exhibition Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy: Stafford Mantle Northcote, Tong Yin Yee Shung Gun, Chinese Laundry, 1899, oil on canvas. The New York Historical, Gift of George A. Zabriskie, 1946.255 Want to join the virtual conversation at 1pm? Click here to […]
Virtual Art in Focus: Tong Yin Yee Shung Gun, Chinese Laundry, 1899
Join Curator of Education Michelle DiMarzo for an informal discussion of this work from the exhibition Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy: Stafford Mantle Northcote, Tong Yin Yee Shung Gun, Chinese Laundry, 1899, oil on canvas. The New York Historical, Gift of George A. Zabriskie, 1946.255 This event will be livestreamed. Want to join the conversation in […]
Open Arts Studio
Drop into the Arts Studio for a facilitated series designed by artists, curators, and educators that invites families to play, create, and experiment with sensory-rich materials and different modes of artmaking. For ages 4–11 with adult caregivers.
Livestream Lecture: Sculpting the Past: Art, Identity, and Commemoration
Kelley H. Di Dio, Rush C. Hawkins Professor of Art History at the University of Vermont, discusses the issues around public commemoration of the past, with a particular focus on the Southern United States. Her talk forms part of the Edwin L. Weisl, Jr. Lectureships in Art History, funded by the Robert Lehman Foundation. This […]
Lecture: Sculpting the Past: Art, Identity, and Commemoration
Kelley H. Di Dio, Rush C. Hawkins Professor of Art History at the University of Vermont, discusses the issues around public commemoration of the past, with a particular focus on the Southern United States. Her talk forms part of the Edwin L. Weisl, Jr. Lectureships in Art History, funded by the Robert Lehman Foundation. About […]