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Graffiti Ceramic Art Exhibit Brings Everyone to the Table
On Exhibit at UConn’s Contemporary Art Galleries Oct 30 – Dec 1, 2017 Artist Talk & Reception Oct 30 @ 5pm – 7pm Arena Gallery UConn Art Building with a Performance by the UConn Chamber Singers In New Life: A Table for Everyone, Philadelphia-based ceramic artist Roberto Lugo uses porcelain, earthenware, china paints, ceramic decals, […]
Puppets and Special Effects Entertain in New ESPN Fantasy Football Show
If you sit down at 5pm and turn on ESPN 2, instead of sports you may be bewildered by eagles falling from the sky, talking fish, sassy puppets, and much more. The Fantasy Show with Matthew Berry is a show dedicated to Fantasy Football, and we had the honor of sitting down with the creative […]
‘Outside My Name or Through Other Eyes’ Reinterprets the Harlem Renaissance and American Modernism
Outside My Name or Through Other Eyes, an exhibit featuring the work of Brooklyn, NY artist William Villalongo, opens at UConn’s Contemporary Art Galleries on September 11. The artwork weaves the artist’s aesthetic and social interests together with aspects of Pablo Picasso and Aaron Douglas’s visual vocabulary. Villalongo’s paintings, collage works and prints draw upon […]
‘Be Our Guest’ in a Puppet Ant Building Workshop
The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry will once again offer fall community puppet-building workshops with acclaimed Boston puppeteer Sara Peattie, to design and build over-life-size puppets of army ants and their associated species (“guests”) for the Celebrate Mansfield Parade and a special Ant Migration Pageant with the Hartford Hot Several Brass Band in Storrs, […]
John Bell Honored with NEFA Rebecca Blunk Fund Award
The New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) is pleased to present John Bell, Director of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry and Associate Professor of Dramatic Arts at the University of Connecticut, and Trudi Cohen of Cambridge, MA as awardees of the 2017 Rebecca Blunk Fund. Recipients receive awards of $2,500 in unrestricted support […]
Finding Common Ground: Opera and Baseball
The UConn baseball team and UConn's opera company spent some time on each other's turf this year, and found they have much in common.
An Art Museum’s Role on Campus
The William Benton Museum of Art, has a permanent collection of 6,500 works of art, and serves not only as UConn’s campus art museum but as Connecticut’s State Art Museum. The Benton hosts talks, campus art walks, academic and non-academic discussions, musical performances, family programs, and many special exhibitions throughout the year. The Museum was […]
Exhibit Opening: Obstreperous Puppets at The Ballard
The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry will present the grand opening of its new exhibition Obstreperous Puppets: The Puppeteers Cooperative on Thursday, June 22, 2017 at 5:00 p.m. “We are very happy that Sara Peattie has curated this exhibition for the Ballard Institute,” Ballard Director John Bell said, “and excited to see all these amazing […]
Dramatic Arts has Big Showing at USITT Conference
Brighid Deangelis ‘17, a UConn SFA Dramatic Arts student studying Technical Theater and Design with a concentration in Costume Design, attended the The United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) conference and returned with 2nd place in Costuming and 6th place Best Overall Technician in the Tech Olympics after competing against 45 other teams! We […]
‘Star Crossed Lovers’ to be Final Symphony Performance
The UConn Symphony Orchestra’s final concert of the year will be this Thursday, April 27th at 8:00pm in von der Mehden Recital Hall. The concert is called “Star Crossed Lovers,” and features music by Bernstein, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, and Chopin. We sat down with special guest artist Dr. Angelina Gadeliya, a first year piano professor at […]