Saturday, September 25, 2021
University of New Haven English Prof. Dr. Randall Horton has just published a book of poetry based on the years he spent in prison.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, September 16, 2021
Connecticut Literary Festival will be Oct. 22 and 23 in Hartford, sponsored by the CCSU English Department.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:23PMWednesday, September 15, 2021
The Connecticut Book Awards, which honors books written about Connecticut and/or by Connecticut residents, will be Oct. 22 in Hartford.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:17AMSunday, September 12, 2021
The third annual Hartford’s L.I.T. Book Festival, a three-day celebration of reading and writing, will be held Sept. 17 to 19.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, September 10, 2021
Meriden Mall will soon be home to a dinner theater, where a local troupe will present musical plays and other entertainers will perform while diners enjoy a meal.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:26PMFriday, September 3, 2021
Thirty six projects by artists of color received a total of $329,500 in funding from Hartford’s Free Center from its Independent Artists Fund.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:59AMThursday, September 2, 2021
A casting call has been put out for a Hallmark Channel Christmas movie that will be shot in Hartford in September.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:29AMMonday, August 30, 2021
Cinestudio, the art house theater on the campus of Trinity College in Hartford, has appointed Lew Michaels as its new executive director. Michaels was most recently general manager of the Sh…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:09PMWeHa Bear Fair, a public art project during which 12 artist-painted bears will be installed in West Hartford Center and Blue Back Square, will be revealed in a ceremony from 4:30 to 6 p.m. o…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:36PMConnecticut’s Flagship Producing Theaters will require vaccination and masks for all indoor spaces, they announced on Monday.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:48PMThursday, August 26, 2021
East Hartford residents are invited to participate in a community paint day Friday from 2:30-5:30 p.m. to work together on a mural of The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Sc…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:25PMAnyone can have a song custom-written and sung by a Broadway star through The Broadway Song Shoppe website, co-founded by Branford native and Broadway musical director Greg Kenna.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:31PMThursday, August 12, 2021
The 2021 season of the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival at the Hill Stead Museum, 35 Mountain Road in Farmington, will be held Sept. 10 to 12, with headliners Nick Flynn, Martin Espada and Conn…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:26AMThe Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts has become the first big art venue in the Greater Hartford area to require proof of COVID-19 vaccination to attend events, it was announced on Thu…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:14AMThursday, August 5, 2021
An employee of Real Art Ways was fired on Thursday for what he said was termed “gross insubordination” after presenting Executive Director Will K. Wilkins with a demand for a mask mandat…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:18PMTuesday, August 3, 2021
The CT Office of the Arts has named its 2021 state Arts Heroes. They will be honored at a ceremony Sept. 1, along with the 2020 Arts Heroes.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:02AMWednesday, June 30, 2021
Tuition will be free to the Yale School of Drama for all present and future students, thanks to a $150 million gift from film producer David Geffen. The school will be renamed the David Geff…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:04AMTuesday, June 22, 2021
Min Jung Kim, who is leaving her position as CEO of New Britain Museum of American Art, will become director of the St. Louis Art Museum in Missouri.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:23PMFriday, June 18, 2021
Min Jung Kim has resigned as CEO of the New Britain Museum of American Art.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:12AMMonday, June 14, 2021
Artist Leonardo Drew, who grew up in Bridgeport, has an exhibit up now at Wadsworth Atheneum of his “monstrosities,” sculptures he creates from the remains of old sculptures he created a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:30AMWednesday, June 2, 2021
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Gov. Ned Lamont, Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin and arts and culture leaders on Wednesday highlighted Hartford’s recognition as the best U.S. city for artists to …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:51PMTuesday, June 1, 2021
Five indigenous women writers will get together virtually to chat about writing, culture and representation on June 3, in an event presented by the International Festival of Arts and Ideas.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:33PMSaturday, May 29, 2021
February is Black History Month, but Juneteenth is in June, so a lot of galleries and museums in Connecticut are showing Black art exhibits.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, May 21, 2021
The tallest mural in Connecticut, a 100-foot image of a young woman watering flowers, has been painted at the corner of Ann Uccello and Pearl streets in Hartford.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, May 10, 2021
Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, which reopened Sept. 25 and then closed again on Oct. 16, citing strict university protocols pertaining to the coronavirus pandemic, will reopen aga…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:54AMWednesday, April 28, 2021
Free Center in Hartford and Middletown, with the Hill-Stead Museum, are looking for Black artists to submit self-portraits for an exhibit.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:46AMWednesday, April 14, 2021
The 14th annual SWAN Day CT (Support Women Artists Now) will be held April 17 from Free Center in Middletown. The event is virtual and can be seen on Facebook Live.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, April 9, 2021
In the wake of the departure of Tom Loughman as CEO of Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, the museum’s board chairman William Peelle says that diversity and inclusion will be a big factor g…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:04AMWednesday, March 24, 2021
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford is extending its free admission period through June 2021. Admission has been free since the museum reopened in June 2020 after the coronavirus pa…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:12AMThursday, February 25, 2021
Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven received a gift of six artworks by famed abstract expressionists Mark Rothko and Franz Kline.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:09PMMonday, February 22, 2021
A new 4D cinema with a two-story screen was unveiled on Monday at Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk. It replaces the six-story IMAX screen that had to be destroyed to make way for a bridge constr…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:23PM 
