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Current Exhibitions

Apr 3 First Thursday Open House 4:30pm
First Thursday Open House

Thursday, April 3rd, 2025

04:30 PM - 07:00 PM

The Benton Museum of Art
3-6:30pm
At The Beanery
The Beanery Café is open for drinks and snacks
3:30-6:15pm
SUBOG hosts an Open Mic evening with limited free coffee and baked goods for students

4:30-7pm
In the Galleries:
Visit with cute Pet Therapy Dogs Oliver & Tori
Live DJ with WHUS
Craft: Make friendship bracelets with SAA
Pick up an art sticker
Do a fun scavenger hunt in the galleries with friends

20% off in the Museum Gift Store all day
Contact Information:
benton@uconn.edu

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Apr 9 Exhibition Walkthrough with artist Mara Gillen Beckwith 12:30pm

Exhibition Walkthrough with artist Mara Gillen Beckwith

Wednesday, April 9th, 2025

12:30 PM - 01:30 PM

The Benton Museum of Art

About the Exhibition: A seminal yet under-recognized potter of the American Studio Ceramics movement and the founder of the UConn ceramics program, Minnie Negoro got her start behind barbed wire in Wyoming. While finishing up her senior year at UCLA in spring 1942, Negoro was forcibly removed from the West Coast along with120,000 other Japanese Americans. At Heart Mountain, the former art major worked for a short-lived ceramics plant intended to manufacture tableware for the army and other War Relocation Authority camps. Negoro left Heart Mountain two years later to study at Alfred University’s preeminent ceramics program and soon made a name for herself. Her work was shown internationally and locally at museums including the Smithsonian, the Museum of Modern Art, and The Benton—all while almost single-handedly running the UConn ceramics program from 1965 to 1989.
Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the UConn ceramics program, this exhibition features privately-owned, rarely exhibited works on loan from Negoro’s friends and former students.

Speaker Bio: Learn more about Mara Gillen Beckwith

Contact Information:
benton@uconn.edu

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Apr 15 Hop into spring with FUN FROGS! 10:30am

Hop into spring with FUN FROGS!

Tuesday, April 15th, 2025

10:30 AM

The Benton Museum of Art

An interactive children’s program starting in the gallery to view a work of art by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation). Her piece All of My Relations Book I, uses text and image to highlight the interconnectedness of all living things. “On our reservation, teaching stories are always filled with animals,” says the artist. After discussing the work, we will create a fun frog craft to usher in the start of spring.
Reservations Required.

Contact Matthew Marshall, Curator of Education at matthew.marshall@uconn.edu

Contact Information:
Reservations Required.

Contact Matthew Marshall, Curator of Education at matthew.marshall@uconn.edu

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Apr 17 Fly into spring with BABY BIRDS! 10:30am

Fly into spring with BABY BIRDS!

Thursday, April 17th, 2025

10:30 AM

The Benton Museum of Art

An interactive children’s program starting with a story and ending with a cute bird-themed craft. Join us as we draw inspiration from a piece on view by artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (citizen of Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation). In her work, All of My Relations Book I, she showcases nature and all the animals in it. The program will begin with a story featuring wildlife with birds as the central characters. After the story, we will create our own bird nest with baby birds.
Reservations Required.

Contact Matthew Marshall, Curator of Education at matthew.marshall@uconn.edu

Contact Information:
Reservations Required.

Contact Matthew Marshall, Curator of Education at matthew.marshall@uconn.edu

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Apr 22 DMD MFA Candidates Talks 10:00am

DMD MFA Candidates Talks

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

The Benton Museum of Art

Open to the public.
Listen to DMD MFA candidates Nooshin Farashaei, Maryam Farhadi, Amara Khaled, Nurudeen Musa, Tariq Rakha, Christian Romero talk about their work currently on view in the museum’s East Gallery.

Contact Information:
benton@uconn.edu

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The William Benton Museum of Art

Current Exhibitions

Minnie Negoro: From Heart Mountain to UConn

2025 Studio Art & DMD Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

Encounters with the Collection: Art and Human Rights