Thursday, August 6, 2020
Sunken Garden Poetry Festival isn’t letting the coronavirus stand in its way. Unlike many cultural events shelved as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 28th annual event, at Hill-Stead…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, August 3, 2020
Hartford Business Improvement District’s “Make a Thing” placemaking competition sought out artistic attractions that could be installed in places throughout Hartford, had about 75 appl…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:51AMFriday, July 31, 2020
As the coronavirus pandemic surges, recedes and surges again, an exhibit at Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic reminds us of a second and more longer-lasting crisis assaulti…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, July 30, 2020
Connecticut Historical Society will reopen to the public on Aug. 18, with free admission until September, to no more than 40 people at a time. It closed in mid-March as a result of the coron…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:38AMSunday, July 19, 2020
The 11th annual Art for AIDS art-grab fundraising event will go on in person in Hartford on Aug. 6 and 8, a two-night event that will implement strict social-distancing, masking, temperature…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:06PMFriday, July 17, 2020
"Hartford Seen," a book of photography by Trinity College Prof. Pablo Delano, shows a collection of photos of Hartford, foregoing the usual images of pretty classical architecture in favor o…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, July 9, 2020
An online exhibit and archive at Connecticut Historical is collecting, and displaying, stories of Black Connecticut women who fought for the right to vote, because white suffragists didn't l…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:48AMWednesday, July 8, 2020
Terrence Bogan, a recent graduate of Mark T. Sheehan High School in Wallingford, won the high school division of Broadway World’s Next on Stage singing competition.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:48AMMonday, July 6, 2020
“The Simpsons” writer Mike Reiss, “The Onion” editor Scott Dickers and Soraya Nadia McDonald, a 2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist for criticism, are among the writers who will participate…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, June 30, 2020
Real Art Ways in Hartford has announced the six recipients of the 2020 Real Art Awards, an annual recognition of emerging contemporary artists. Each artist will receive $2,500 and a solo sho…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:19PMMonday, June 29, 2020
West Hartford Art League has put out a call for proposals for public art projects to be put on 10 bus shelters throughout town.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:42AMSunday, June 21, 2020
An exhibit at Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London, "Stories of Resilience: Encountering Racism," tells the stories of five Black people who live in the New London are who have dealt with ra…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:01AMSaturday, June 20, 2020
Franco Tomaino, a 17-year-old incoming senior at Wethersfield High School, is one of the five finalists in Broadway World’s Next on Stage singing competition.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, June 18, 2020
Hartford's L.I.T., an arts/poetry/entrepreneurship collective, is hosting Brothas Be Heard, a platform for Black men to speak their truths, on June 20.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:00AMWednesday, June 10, 2020
National Endowment for the Arts has announced a new round of grants, and 11 Connecticut organizations got a total of more than $1 million.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:12PMSunday, June 7, 2020
Essential Voices of the Pandemic is an initiative by West Hartford-based Poetry in the Streets, challenging anyone who wants to participate to write a poem to describe their coronavirus expe…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:36AMThursday, June 4, 2020
Kim Hinds Jr., a Black artist from Hartford, has added to the artwork at Heaven Skate Park in Hartford with an image that reads "born a target,” memorializing George Floyd, who was killed …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:12AMWednesday, May 27, 2020
Hartford Foundation for Public Giving establishes Artists of Color Advisory Group, to help creatives struggling from lack of support
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:44PMWednesday, May 13, 2020
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art of Hartford has received a $50,000 grant to restore and upgrade the bronze statue of Nathan Hale that has stood outside the 600 Main St. museum since 1894.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:37PMDrive-in movies in Barkhamsted and Mansfield are reopening this month after being shuttered due to coronavirus pandemic restrictions on large gatherings.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:26AMWednesday, May 6, 2020
The 23rd annual ArtWalk in the Westville neighborhood of New Haven has gone virtual, with musical performances, improv comedy, an art exhibit, live art-making, visits to artists’ studios, …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:03AMWednesday, April 22, 2020
Artists are struggling nationwide, as venues have closed, and performances and exhibits are canceled, due to the coronavirus lockdown. But help is out there for individual artists who have r…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:33PMOnline exhibits, virtual tours and Facebook live events in Connecticut
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:23PMMonday, April 20, 2020
Artist Stewart Wilson of New Hartford, who is known for his tiny Persona sculptures, created personaland.com to give those Personas a place to live and be magical.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:44AMThursday, April 16, 2020
Camp Getaway, the raucous, boozy summer camp for adults in Kent, Connecticut, is the site of a new reality show on Bravo, which will premiere on May 4.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:18PMOcean Vuong, the poet and novelist who was born in Vietnam and raised in Hartford and Glastonbury, is the winner of the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, in recognition of Vuong…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:13PMMonday, March 30, 2020
Keep track of art and history exhibits opening in galleries and museums around Connecticut by local and visiting artists.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:25AMMonday, March 9, 2020
Mamma mia, it’s high school spring production season again, and the auditoriums are alive with the sound of music. Dozens of Capitol Region high schools have musicals and non-musical plays…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:16PMThursday, March 5, 2020
The new exhibit at Wadsworth Atheneum, “Savor: A Revolution in Food Culture,” is as much a historical overview as it is an art exhibit. The show chronicles radical changes in the way foo…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, March 2, 2020
The Greater Hartford Arts Council has announced a new round of funding, totaling $41,975 for 10 upcoming arts events in the capitol region. The grants were supported by the Hartford Foundati…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:29PMSaturday, February 29, 2020
The Nasty Women movement sprang into being in late 2016 as a feminist declaration against the presidential election. Three years later, the movement is still going strong in Connecticut. On …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM 
