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The Five Points Draw-a-thon returns this year at the Five Points Arts Center! All ages and skill levels welcome. Free and open to the public. Join us on Sunday, June 27, from 10am-6pm. This is an outdoor event - come explore the Art Center grounds and draw under the sun (or in the shade). (The […]
Five Points Gallery will be CLOSED on Sunday July 4th.
Featuring work by photographers Joy Bush and Tom Peterson Photographers Joy Bush and Tom Peterson explore the QUIET PLACES in a new pop-up show at Five Points Annex in Torrington, on view from July 22 - August 1, Thursday - Sunday, Noon - 4PM. Together in this intimate gallery setting, the works of these two […]
Collage: Method and Metaphor Dates: July 26-29 Time: 1-4 PM Location: Five Points Arts Center Drawing Lab Instructor: Stephen Maine Ages: 18+ Cost: $275 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 […]
BOONDOCKS FILM SOCIETY COMES TO FIVE POINTS Saturday, August 7th, 7-10:30pm (film at dusk) 6:00pm Cocktail Hour WILD STYLE (1982) Directed by Charlie Ahearn A 1982 ode to street art and the early days of hip-hop. This seminal film will feel all too familiar, even to those who have never seen it. Featuring rare hip-hop […]
Master Class Workshop: Matrices + Monotype = Monoprints Dates: August 13 – 15 Time: 10 AM – 4 PM Location: Five Points Arts Center Print Lab Instructors: Kathleen Schroeder and John Willis Cost: $550 This three-day master class is geared toward intermediate and advance printmakers. Participants must have experience with either linoleum relief prints or […]
Celebrating the city-wide NWCT Creative Festival, Five Points invites your to tour the Five Points Launchpad Studios. Studios will be open to the public from 11am - 4pm on Saturday August 14th. Located at 5 water Street above Five Points Gallery. (second floor walk-up) Visitors will be able to tour the studios, and talk with […]
Remembering Ground Zero August 19th - September 25th, 2021 Opening Reception: Friday, August 20, 6 pm Virtual Artist talk: Friday September 10, 6:00PM Five Points Gallery, 33 Main Street, Torrington, CT 06790 Remembering Ground Zero: 20th Anniversary Show is a retrospective exhibition that remembers September 11th through paintings and art work that recall both […]
Constructing the Human Figure Dates: August 24 & 26 Time: 1-4 PM Location: Five Points Arts Center Painting Lab Instructor: Brandon Brownlee Ages: 18+ Cost: $125 This two-day workshop will guide students through constructing a drawing of the human figure through the use of a both linear and tonal approaches. The workshop will be broken […]
Workshop Description In this workshop, art instructor, Janet Iffland, will share her step by step procedures to a successful landscape painting as well as identify the common painting pitfalls. You will learn how to pick your subject, rough out drawing, pick focal point, color values and apply paint to create an impressive painting. You will […]