WMODA Mermaid Adventure June 12th

 

Explore the enchanted world of the fired arts at WMODA during Museum Week 2021. Mermaids Experience the Mermaid's Adventure on Saturday, June 12 from 10am to 4pm and celebrate Mershark Rhanu's magical contribution to WMODA. On land, Rhanu is better known as Alex Barth and she will share her passion for sharks and ocean conservation. See Rhanu's new wearable glass top made especially for her by glass artist and fashion designer Chelsea Rousso. Learn more Rainbows Follow the pirate's treasure map to find miniature ceramics hidden around the museum. Watch them being made on the potter's wheel by Alex Meiklejohn. Redeem your prize at the end of the rainbow in our Hot Glass Gallery, which is on fire with rainbow glass art for Pride Month. Check out Chihuly's rainbow of Macchias, meet glass artist Anne Orvieto, and shop for a rainbow of jewelry presented by Italianissimo. Learn more Fairies Experience the sensational Lladró Niagara chandelier in our Fantastique exhibit with all the luminous porcelain fairies dancing to magical music composed by Dave Rosenthal. Watch Dave's new video, which he filmed and produced to launch our creative cultural campaign on social media for Museum Week 2021. Guess how many fairies are hanging on the Lladró chandelier to enter a prize drawing. See the video

Six Summit Gallery's Upcoming Show 'Order & Chaos' Features Artist Vito Bonanno

 

Art lovers and collectors are cordially invited to experience the newest exhibition at Six Summit Gallery, 'Order & Chaos', featuring artists Marian Doherty & Vito Bonanno. Enjoy the Opening Reception on Saturday, June 12th from 12-4pm at 314 Flat Rock Place, Suite 140 in Westbrook, Connecticut. This exhibition is on view now through June 30, 2021. The gallery has over 7,000 SF of space to distance, in two adjacent galleries. 

Vito Bonanno, is a returning Westbrook artist whose work is collected internationally. He has been featured in Art Basel Miami and is in the permanent corporate collection of AMAZON, Google, and The Hartford. Vito brings 20 new pieces of a mix of hyper-focused aesthetic blending street art, pop culture, hopes and dreams from his unfiltered world to the canvas by tapping into the daily emotional and social challenges of living with autism.

Locust Projects Announces 3 New Exhibitions & More In June 2021

 

ANNOUNCING THREE NEW EXHIBITIONS MEET THE ARTISTS RECEPTION THURSDAY, JUNE 10 | 6-8PM Reception supported by RotariUSA On view through August 7 | Wed-Sat | 11am-5pm

MAIN GALLERY TAL AMITAI-LAVI & TAL FRANK: Homeline Homeline is composed of domestic elements created out of unexpectedly weightless materials, including light and nylon strings: a window, a projected carpet, and a slowly flowing curtain creating reflections, inversions, illusions, and space disruptions and an illusionistic, dreamlike environment. Viewers are confronted by their perception and senses, entering a world whose foundations are fragile, in which life-sized architectural structures have lost their functionality and expected physicality. LEARN MORE. Image: Tal Frank in studio testing video projections for the carpet work in Homeline. Photography by Zony Maya.

PROJECT ROOM Juan Ledesma: Rhythm of Speech

Ledesma’s first solo presentation, Rhythm of Speech, draws connections between diverse musical traditions and collective lived experiences by exploring the musical potential of spoken accents. Although accents are commonly considered linguistic indicators of nationality, cultural upbringing, or socio-economic background, Ledesma aims to reframe language as a collective repository of sounds that can be used towards creative musical compositions. LEARN MORE.

MOBILE STUDIO LAB MFA: Victoria Ravelo: Hidden in Plain View

The seventh edition of the LAB MFA summer exhibition program features Victoria Ravelo, recent MFA graduate from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University. Ravelo will be in residence through June 30th, during which time she will transform the storefront Mobile Studio into a working laboratory in which she will create sugar sculptures daily making references the ties of the local community to the Caribbean and the impact the sugar industry has had on the Caribbean as well as its historical significance and influence globally. LEARN MORE. Image: Victoria Ravelo, Untitled (fragments), 2020. Sugar, molasses, eleke beads, achiote, human hair. Photo by Evan Rosato.

EXHIBITION PROGRAM: Homeline A Virtual Roundtable with Tal Amitai-Lavi and Tal Frank. Moderated by Tami Katz-Freiman Saturday, June 26 | 12PM

Join us for a conversation between multidisciplinary visual artists Tal Amitai-Lavi and Tal Frank, moderated by curator Tami-Katz Freiman. They will discuss their current exhibition, Homeline, in the context of their previous work, touching on their mutual interest in material simulation, optical illusions, architectural elements, labor intensive practice, and immersive experiences. Homeline, which uses weightless materials including light and nylon strings to create domestic elements such as a window, a carpet, and a curtain, will be explored from a post-pandemic perspective. REGISTER HERE