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TDP Gallery Gene Gort - Drawn To Code Gene Gort utilizes computer programming as a means to produce “drawings”. The images generated from computer code create animations, data visualizations, and digital prints. Gort writes, “I am drawn to the concepts of interactivity, repetition, variability, and unpredictability that the process allows.” The exhibition will feature both […]
Five Points Arts Center is hosting its first-ever Artist’s Residency from June 26 - July 3, 2022. On Friday, July 1st from 1 pm - 4 pm, the artists will be conducting an open house for visitors. Come see the results of the Water Women collective's residency at Five Points (855 University Drive). Three of […]
Join Five Points Gallery on Friday, July 8th at 6:30 PM for this Virtual Artist Talk and learn more about the artists and artwork from two of our three current exhibitions. Click Here to Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aiUuKC_lRPm4CWqEzLE-XQ Moderated by Matthew Best. Kasey Ramirez’s drawings and prints explore the tension between stability and impermanence. Ramirez states, “In […]
Instructor Name: Stephen Maine Date: July 9, 2022 Time: 10:00 – 5:00 A truly democratic art form, collage requires few technical skills, yet its conceptual reach is boundless. Collage employs spatial disruption as an organizing principle, its interplay of fragmentation and continuity accommodating and even celebrating contingencies of concept, process, and form. Suited to artists […]
Morning Classes: 9:00 - 12:00 Lunch: 12:00 - 1:00 Afternoon Classes: 1:00 - 4:00 Each class is capped at 12 students ages 13-17 Come explore the beautiful Five Points Art Center campus and create art in our fabulous labs! Students who are serious about artmaking will flourish in this environment that allows them to work […]
What's New is Old Again: How the digital revolution has spurred a renewed interest in handmade Historical photographic processes With Luther Gerlach Friday, July 15, 6:30 PM Five Points Arts Center located at: 855 University Drive, Torrington, CT Click here to register: https://fivepointsarts.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/fivepointsarts/event.jsp?event=409&
Instructor Name: Ethan Newman Date: July 16, 2022 Time(s): 10:00 – 1:00 What makes a successful composition? This workshop will explore the critical role of composition in painting and drawing, and dive into its often complex relationship with color. The workshop will close out with a casual group critique of the work created in the […]
Instructor Name: Luther Gerlach Date: July 16, 2022 Time: 10:00 – 4:00 Invented by Henry Fox Talbot in the early 1830s, salt prints are the earliest photographs on paper. For contemporary students, this is a fun, relatively easy process to make images. You’ll come away with an intimate understanding of the origins of photography, the […]
Instructor Name: Sophia DeJesus-Sabella Date: July 21, 2022 Time: 10:00 - 1:00 Darning is the technique of mending a hole in cloth by stitching and interweaving yarn by hand. The process incorporates embroidery and weaving to create beautiful, functional repairs. We will move through the mending process from start to finish, learning embroidery stitches, weaving patterns, and color theory […]
Instructor Name: Kait Lennon Date: July 23, 2022 Time: 10:00 – 2:00 Workshop Description This workshop will have us reconnecting with nature and ourselves, to slow down, focus and observe. Venturing outside, we’ll pull inspiration from the landscape around us. Whether you feel a strong connection to a particular plant, the dance of the leaves […]