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Instructor Name: Sophia DeJesus-Sabella Date: June 22, 2022 Time: 1:00 – 5:00 Ages: 18+ This workshop will introduce students to the process of tapestry weaving, starting with building a frame loom and ending with a finished tapestry piece. Students will explore color, texture, and image making by working with a variety of tapestry weaving techniques. […]
West Gallery: Balam Soto & Mary Anne McCarthy Balam Soto and Mary Ann McCarthy are both inspired by the Greek word dendrites, which refers to trees found in nature and also to neurons in the human brain that resemble trees; however, their approaches to artmaking are vastly different. McCarthy’s intricate silverpoint drawings of nature and […]
East Gallery Kasey Ramirez - Red Sky In Morning Kasey Ramirez’s drawings and prints explore the tension between stability and impermanence. Ramirez states, “In my drawings and prints, buildings become a stand-in for humans, a metaphor for man-made efforts to create shelters that are ultimately vulnerable to environmental extremes.” Ramirez’s charcoal drawings depict skeletal structures […]
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 […]