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Upcoming Events
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Sep
29
Artist Talk: John ODonnell 1:00pm
Artist Talk: John ODonnell
Friday, September 29th, 2023
01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
The Benton Museum of Art
John O’Donnell, Associate Professor of Printmaking at UConn, will give a talk about his artistic research in conjunction with the 2023 Studio Art Faculty Exhibition.
Professor O’Donnell is a printmaker and new media artist who utilizes appropriated images and objects relating to art history, popular media and consumer culture to create rough-hewn assemblages. This collage sensibility reflects temporary solutions and failed ambitions within a culture saturated with irony and perpetual innuendo. O’Donnell has performed at venues across the US and mounted solo exhibitions at the New Britain Museum of American Art; Art Space, New Haven; New Bedford Museum of Art, New Bedford, MA; and Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, among others. Recent residencies include ChaNorth, Pine Plains, NY; Flowerbox Projects, Miami, FL; and Blue House Gallery, Dayton, OH.
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Oct
5
First Thursday Open House 4:30pm
First Thursday Open House
Thursday, October 5th, 2023
04:30 PM - 07:00 PM
The Benton Museum of Art
Open house in partnership SHaW and The Beanery Cafe
4:30-6:30pm
Visit with cute Pet Therapy dogs Wrigley & Lady Juno
In partnership with Student Health and Wellness (SHaW)4:30-6:30pm
Open Mic at The Beanery
The Beanery Café will be open for drinks and snacks4:30-7pm
In the Galleries:
- Live DJ - Spooky Tunes with Prof P
- Decorate your own trick or treat bag and get some treats!
- Pick up the new limited edition art sticker
- Do a fun scavenger hunt in the galleries with friends
- 20% off Sale in the Museum Store
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Oct
10
Homeschool Program: Spooky Watercolors 10:30am
Homeschool Program: Spooky Watercolors
Tuesday, October 10th, 2023
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
The Benton Museum of Art
The Museum’s homeschool programs, designed for aspiring artists ages 6-12, are the perfect opportunity to view special exhibitions, try new art techniques, and explore creative writing activities.
To register for a program please contact Mollie Sixsmith, Curator of Education, at 860-486-1711 or via email mollie.sixsmith@uconn.edu
Theme: Spooky Watercolors
$10 per student
After a wild and wacky scavenger hunt in the galleries, students will use watercolors, black glue, and mixed media to design and create their own creepy-crawly painting. -
Oct
10
Artist Talk: Janet Pritchard 1:00pm
Artist Talk: Janet Pritchard
Tuesday, October 10th, 2023
01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
The Benton Museum of Art
Janet L. Pritchard, Professor of Photography at UConn, will give a talk about her artistic research in conjunction with the 2023 Studio Art Faculty Exhibition.
Professor Pritchard’s photographs have appeared in FlakPhoto Projects, Fine Art Photography Daily, Fraction Magazine, LensCulture, Lenscratch, The Photo Review, and View Camera Magazine, among others. Her awards and fellowships include a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Photography, a Jay and Deborah Last Fellowships at the American Antiquarian Society, and a National Endowment for the Arts Summer Institute Fellowship at the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Her Artist-in-Residence awards include the Institute for Electronic Arts, Jentel Foundation, Millay Colony for the Arts, Ucross Foundation, and Vindolanda Trust, UK.
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Museum as Classroom: Teaching and Learning with Art
October 25, 2023–March 8, 2024
Seeing Climate Change?
January 16 – July 28, 2024
2024 Studio Art + Digital Media & Design Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition
March 30-May 5, 2024