norwalk arts commission

22Haviland Street Gallery • 22 Haviland Street • So. Norwalk, CT.06854 • 203.852.6727
“MEZZANOTTE” • March 12 – April 9 • Hours: Fri. 6-9pm, S/S 1-5pm, Wed 3-5pm
Opening Reception • Saturday, March 13, 3-5pm
Mezzanotte Obscura - film by Lori Petchers • Sunday, March 14, 3pm
www.mezzanotteobscurafilm.com

MEZZANOTTE OBSCURA
A film by Lori Petchers

A screening of Mezzanotte Obscura, a documentary short film about Thomas Mezzanotte, by filmmaker Lori Petchers, is planned for Sunday, March 14 at 3:00pm at 22 Haviland Street Gallery in South Norwalk. Lori will be present, along with the artist, to discuss the making of the film.  Mezzanotte Obscura recently premiered at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Montana, and will be screening at the Portland Women’s Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival, Kent Film Festival and in NewFilmmakers film series at the Anthology Theatre in NYC over the next several months.  For more information please visit:   www.mezzanotteobscurafilm.com

Lori Petchers, a veteran of public television, has worked on numerous film projects, including “The Amistad Revolt: All We Want is Make Us Free,” for which she garnered a regional Emmy nomination.  Fascinated by the creative process, Lori has made several short films on artists and performers.  Currently she is working on a personal essay film as well as The Midlife Project, a web-based compilation of women’s midlife stories.

The screening is in conjunction with 22 Haviland Street Gallery’s newest exhibition, MEZZANOTTE.  The exhibition runs from March 12 – April 9.  Exhibition hours are Fridays 6-9pm, Saturdays & Sundays 1-5pm, and Wednesdays 3-5pm.

Stepping Stones Museum for Children to host Norwalk Arts Commission ArtSpot on February 25, 2010 from 5-8 pm. The event will take place during the museum’s “Get Into It Free” evening and there will be no charge. Special performance and refreshments.

Stepping Stones Museum for Children
Mathews Park, 303 West Avenue
Norwalk, Connecticut 06850
203-899-0606

steppingstonesmuseum.org

Artists may submit works in any medium for consideration for “Expressions 2010,” a juried exhibition with cash prizes at the Rowayton Arts Center (RAC). This exhibit is open to nonmembers as well as members of the Arts Center. Submissions are limited to one work per artist and should be delivered to the RAC Gallery at 145 Rowayton Avenue from 2:00-6:00 p.m. on Monday, February 22, and 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 23. The entry fee is $15 for RAC members and $20 for nonmembers.

Joseph Fucigna, director of the Studio Art Program at Norwalk Community College (NCC), will be the juror, selecting artwork for the exhibit from submissions and choosing the prize winners. He has taught at NCC since 1988, and is an active member of the Norwalk Advisory Commission on the Arts & Culture. With a Master of Fine Arts degree from New York’s School of Visual Arts, he is a multi-media artist, perhaps best known for his sculptures, installations and clayboard ink drawings (www.josephfucigna.com). Fucigna has an extensive exhibition record and has received numerous awards in various media, including the Arts Individual Artist award from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts.

The exhibit will run from February 28-March 21. Awards will be presented during an opening day reception from 4:00-6:00 p.m. Thereafter, the show will be on display from 12:00-5:00 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and from 1:00-4:00 p.m. on Sundays. Admission is free.

Nationally-recognized artist William P. Duffy will conduct a workshop titled “Landscape Painting in Oil” from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, January 30 and 31, at the Rowayton Arts Center (RAC) at 145 Rowayton Avenue. Reservations are required and can be made by calling the Arts Center at 203-866-2744. The fee is $230.00.

According to Joanne Roy, the RAC education director, “We are pleased to be able to present this workshop by William Duffy, an outstanding painter who has been the subject of articles in Sea History, U.S Art, Art Business News, Fine Art Connoisseur and American Art Collector.”

Duffy is a Fellow of the American Society of Marine Artists, member of New England Plein Air Painters and artist member of the Copley Society. His honors include Awards of Excellence from the Oil Painters of America and three Mystic International Exhibitions. His works can be found in private collections throughout the United States and several foreign countries. For more information visit the web site at www.williampduffy.com.

Demonstrations by renowned portrait painter Karl Soderlund (Sunday, January 17), Susan Snider (Saturday, January 23), who has exhibited her work at the Handweavers’ Guild of Connecticut Biennial Show, and award-winning watercolor artist Christy Gallagher (Sunday, January 24) will be presented in conjunction with “Artists and Their Mentors,” the current exhibition at the Rowayton Arts Center. Each demonstration will be from 2:00-4:00 p.m. Admission to the demonstrations and to the Arts Center Gallery at 145 Rowayton Avenue is free. The RAC Gallery is open from 12:00-5:00 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1:00-4:00 p.m. on Sundays. For information call 203-866-2744.
Soderlund, who will teach two six-week sessions of “Painting Principles for All Levels,” is sought-after artist for original works and commissioned paintings. His work hangs in more than 250 public and private collections, including the Heisman Trophy portrait collection.

Snider, who will teach “Weaving Pictures” in March, learned to weave more than 35 years ago as an exchange student in Sweden and has studied weaving in Denmark. She is active in the Handweavers’ Guild of Connecticut and is a member of the Handweavers’ Guild of America.

Gallagher, who has taught watercolor classes at RAC for more than 15 years, also has taught at the Lyme Academy and the National Academy in New York. She attended Cooper Union and her paintings have been exhibited In Connecticut, New York, Maine, France and Italy.

High quality artwork will be on display in the 23rd annual Walter Brooks Memorial Watercolor Exhibit at the Rowayton Arts Center, 145 Rowayton Avenue, from January 31-February 21. Award winners selected by Sophia Gevas, director of The Gallery of Contemporary Art at Sacred Heart University, will be announced during an opening day reception from 4:00-6:00 p.m. Thereafter, the show will be on display from 12:00-5:00 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and from 1:00-4:00 p.m. on Sundays.

Walter Brooks, who died in 1987, was a commercial artist and graphic designer. He is best known for a series of books on painting techniques and designs for at least a half dozen United States postage stamps, including an 8-cent San Juan commemorative and a 13-cent Indian head. Brooks was president of the Society of Illustrators and a member of the National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylics. He and his wife, Lois, became members of the Rowayton Arts Center in the early 1960s. The Walter Brooks Memorial Fund, his friends at the Shore and Country Club and Lois Brooks established the Fairfield Watercolor Group.

“Artists and Their Mentors” are spotlighted in an exhibit at the Rowayton Arts Center Gallery at 145 Rowayton Avenue through January 24. RAC gallery hours are 12:00-5:00 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1:00-4:00 p.m. on Sundays. Admission is free. For information call 203-866-2744.

Works featured in the annual show are by Rowayton Arts Center teachers and students (from award-winning artists to beginners) who participated in RAC classes. Artwork by RAC workshop leaders William P. Duffy of Whitinsville, MA, William McCarthy of Hamden and Pamela Williams of South Berwick, ME, also will be on display. All of the teachers are award-winning artists. They are Maralyn Adlin of New Haven, Robert Baxter of Westport, Frank Bruckmann of New Haven, Gallagher of Bridgeport, Anne McCormick of Rowayton, Charles Ray of Redding, Soderlund of Fairfield, Susan Snider of Norwalk and Joanne Roy of Bridgeport.

How might desires and taboos shape a person’s ability to imagine? What role does technology play in wish fulfillment? The Art:21 documentary “Fantasy” explores these questions in the work of four artists Jeff Koons, Mary Heilmann, Florian Maier-Aichen, and Cao Fei, whose works defy convention and transport the audience to unreal worlds and altered states of consciousness. With works at times hallucinatory, irreverent, and sublime, each of these artists pursues a vision first held in the mind’s eye.

This episode of the Peabody Award-winning series Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century will be screened on Thursday, February 11, at 7:00 p.m. at The Rowayton Library, 33 Highland Avenue, Norwalk, CT 06853. The evening, which will include refreshments and a participatory art activity, is hosted by The Rowayton Library and The Rowayton Arts Center in partnership with Art:21, Inc. as part of its Art21 Access ’09 initiative. For information call (203) 838-5038.

For more information about this episode, the featured artists and Art 21, visit the web site at www.art21.org.

I hope you can join the festivities. I will be exhibiting my art.

MINDY GREEN. CURIOUS BY NATURE.

SUNDAY. DECEMBER 20TH
5PM TO 8PM

Brendon’s 101 Gallery
101 Rowayton Ave.
Rowayton. CT

www.mindygreen.com