Community Events Calendar
Join YCBA educator James Vanderberg for this three-part series to explore how artistic processes can be an avenue for looking closely and inspiring your own artwork.
Both Blake and Locke use collage, text, printing, and color to imagine new worlds of possibility and challenge the status quo. The workshops explore William Blake: Burning Bright and Hew Locke: Passages through a close investigation of material and process to see how the artists create innovative ways of shifting perspectives and opening the imagination. Ultimately we create our own imagined worlds through printmaking, collage, and word play.
Adults of all artistic abilities are welcome to join. All materials are supplied.
Registration is required; program limited to twelve people. This program meets on Thursdays, October 2, 16, and 23, 5:30–6:45 pm.
To join us for this program, please register here.
If you need to cancel or cannot attend the full run of this program, please email ycba.education@yale.edu as soon as possible so we can open your spot to someone on the waiting list.
To learn more, please visit: https://britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-programs/create-community-imagined-worlds-art-william-blake-and-hew-locke
Create Community: Imagined Worlds in the art of William Blake and Hew Locke
Come read your poem or a favorite, sing a song, play a tune …the mic is yours!
OPEN MIC
Refresh your fall wardrobe with unique, artful styles! The highly anticipated Designers Circus pop-up shopping event returns to the Guilford Art Center October 2–4 , offering an exciting selection of women’s clothing and accessories at exceptional prices. Admission is free and all are welcome.
Event Hours:
- Thursday, October 2: 10 AM – 5 PM
- Friday, October 3: 10 AM – 5 PM
- Saturday, October 4: 10 AM – 3 PM
Boston’s premier destination for high-quality, one-of-a-kind women’s fashion, Designers Circus features pieces from over 70 local, national, and international designers—priced 50% to 90% below boutique retail. Shoppers will find distinctive casual wear, work attire, and special occasion outfits for women of all ages, sizes, and styles.
During the event, the Shop at Guilford Art Center will also be open, offering handcrafted jewelry, accessories, home décor, and more—perfect complements to your purchases.
A portion of proceeds from Designers Circus sales will support Guilford Art Center’s educational programs, which foster creativity and learning throughout the community.
Please note: All sales are final; no returns, refunds, credits, or exchanges.
For more information, visit www.guilfordartcenter.org or call 203-453-5947.
Designers Circus Pop-Up Clothing & Accessories Sale at Guilford Art Center
Once again Spectrum Art Gallery will have pieces that feature the colors and textures of Fall as we say goodbye to Summer and turn the gallery into an autumn adventure.
The show opens with a reception on Friday, September 19, 6:30 - 8:30pm with wine and food. The Open House Weekend is Saturday,September 20, from 1-6 pm and Sunday, September 21, 1-5pm. The show closes on November 8, 2025.
Emerging Autumn
Join us on the first Friday of the month for a one-hour, in-person tour of the Leslie P. and George H. Hume American Furniture Study Center at the Collection Studies Center, Yale West Campus. See more than 1,300 examples of American furniture and clocks from the 17th century to the present in this facility, which opened in 2019, as well as an outstanding collection of contemporary wood art.
Registration required; space is limited.
Registered visitors will receive a confirmation email including directions to the site, where there is ample free parking. Unregistered visitors cannot be accommodated.
Furniture Study Highlights Tour
This class is designed for all levels including those who want to improve their drawing skills to those who want to continue at their own level and work on specific skills. We will work with charcoal, pencil and ink as the major drawing tools. For those who want to add color to their drawings, pastels can also be incorporated.
If you want to know more about basic drawing skills like perspective, tonal drawing, creating structure, etc. this is the class for you. We will also investigate “the figure” studying the Masters’ figure drawings from references in books and the Internet; Rubens, Del Sarto, Michelangelo, etc.
Material list available upon registration.
Chris Kunze graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Painting/Illustration. He has had a long & successful career in Advertising and Promotion. His illustrations and designs have been used in books, magazines, newspapers, product packaging and logo design.
Chris’ fine art has always remained important throughout his career as a commercial artist. He has had many solo and group shows in New York City, Westchester County and lower Connecticut, showcasing his oil paintings, watercolors and illustrations. Chris was part of an ongoing show at the Arthur Kalaher Fine Art in Sag Harbor, NY from 2011-2019. In 2018 he had a solo show of his watercolors at Teatown Lake Reservation.
In 2019 Chris began his participation in Arthouse. NYC’s “Healthcare Heroes Show”. He has memorialized several healthcare workers who lost their lives during the height of the Covid pandemic. These oil portraits were given to their families and were on view at the Big Plaza Screen in New York City.
Teaching is a passion that has come to the forefront in the past 15 years for Chris. He has been teaching a plethora of subjects among them drawing, oil painting, watercolors, and more at local Westchester art schools. He is currently teaching at Scarsdale Adult School, in Scarsdale, NY, and Spectrum Gallery in Centerbrook, CT.
Chris grew up in Europe and Westchester County. He currently resides in Salem, Connecticut.
Drawing 101 and Beyond
Join our volunteer museum educators for an interactive exploration of highlights from our collection. In a New Light: Five Centuries of British Art features works from the sixteenth century to the present, now on view in a reimagined installation.
Tours meet in the Entrance Court by the Visitor Services desk.
Tour of Collection Highlights
Jeanne Rosier Smith has painted full time for twenty years, after earning a PhD in English and teaching American literature. “The longer I study the landscape, the more I cherish what each season reveals. In the studio I draw on plein air time and sensory memory: mist in the lungs, wind in grasses, the crunch of snow, the heat of sun and wet sand. At the easel I focus on light, color, texture, and rhythm. Simply noticing what is before us rewards us with awe and wonder. Finding beauty can lift the spirit,” says Jeanne.
Her solo show celebrates New England landscapes and seascapes across the year: brilliant light on snow, spring apple blossoms, the hush of a summer meadow, pounding surf, and autumn mist. Thirty new pastels invite the viewer in with fresh, unexpected expressions of mood and atmosphere. This is Jeanne’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. She is a Master Pastelist with the Pastel Society of America, a Copley Society Master Artist, and an Eminent Pastelist with the International Association of Pastel. She is also a signature member of the American Society of Marine Artists and the American Impressionist Society. She has given talks and demonstrations at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her work has received top national awards, has been featured in leading art magazines, and is collected worldwide.
Join us on Friday, October 3, from 5 to 8 PM for the opening reception. Jeanne will be present to share her inspiration and technique, and invites you to walk through the seasons with her.
Jeanne Rosier Smith: Songs of the Seasons · Oct 3, 5 to 8 PM
FINAL STOP: ALIEN INVASION
OCTOBER 3, 4, 10, 11, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 31 and NOV. 1
FOR TICKETS OR MORE INFO VISIT THEHAUNTEDTROLLEY.COM
THE HAUNTED TROLLEY proudly presents ALIEN INVASION: CONNECTICUT. An Exclusive OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD Experience at the Shore Line Trolley Museum, 17 River Street, East Haven, CT.
Take an unforgettable ride aboard an ancient trolley with hosts who will turn your evening into a journey you will never forget. Be part of an exclusive interactive Halloween event that is limited to only 40 passengers per adventure. The all-new event, including a pre-ride orientation and introduction to the plot, is an interactive 30-45 minute show/presentation combining an alien invasion, thrills, theater, audience participation, and a heavy dose of comedy – where you help decide the outcome of this curated UFO adventure.
Expect fun + mystery + a lot of laughs.
** This event is produced by TheHauntedTrolley and not by The Shore Line Trolley Museum – museum membership discounts and complimentary passes do not apply
Alien Invasion: Connecticut An Out-of-this-world Halloween Adventure!
Refresh your fall wardrobe with unique, artful styles! The highly anticipated Designers Circus pop-up shopping event returns to the Guilford Art Center October 2–4 , offering an exciting selection of women’s clothing and accessories at exceptional prices. Admission is free and all are welcome.
Event Hours:
- Thursday, October 2: 10 AM – 5 PM
- Friday, October 3: 10 AM – 5 PM
- Saturday, October 4: 10 AM – 3 PM
Boston’s premier destination for high-quality, one-of-a-kind women’s fashion, Designers Circus features pieces from over 70 local, national, and international designers—priced 50% to 90% below boutique retail. Shoppers will find distinctive casual wear, work attire, and special occasion outfits for women of all ages, sizes, and styles.
During the event, the Shop at Guilford Art Center will also be open, offering handcrafted jewelry, accessories, home décor, and more—perfect complements to your purchases.
A portion of proceeds from Designers Circus sales will support Guilford Art Center’s educational programs, which foster creativity and learning throughout the community.
Please note: All sales are final; no returns, refunds, credits, or exchanges.
For more information, visit www.guilfordartcenter.org or call 203-453-5947.
Designers Circus Pop-Up Clothing & Accessories Sale at Guilford Art Center
All Aboard the Pumpkin Patch Trolley at the Shore Line Trolley Museum!
Bring the whole family to enjoy a fun-filled fall adventure at the Shore Line Trolley Museum’s Pumpkin Patch , running weekends in October & on Monday, October 13th!
What’s Included?
- Take a scenic trolley ride to our pumpkin patch!
- Pick your perfect sugar pumpkin to take home!
- Enjoy seasonal activities and fall-themed fun for all ages!
Join us for a magical autumn day your family won’t forget!
School Groups, Daycares, Large Groups:
· Special charter weekend and weekday rates are available for groups of 12 or more
Dates: Weekends in October
All Aboard the Pumpkin Patch Trolley
Once again Spectrum Art Gallery will have pieces that feature the colors and textures of Fall as we say goodbye to Summer and turn the gallery into an autumn adventure.
The show opens with a reception on Friday, September 19, 6:30 - 8:30pm with wine and food. The Open House Weekend is Saturday,September 20, from 1-6 pm and Sunday, September 21, 1-5pm. The show closes on November 8, 2025.
Emerging Autumn
Join our Student Guides to learn more about In a New Light: Five Centuries of British Art. Each tour is created by a Student Guide to explore a specific theme in the museum’s collection.
Tours meet in the Entrance Court by the Visitors Service Desk
Tour of Collection Spotlights
Join a volunteer museum educator to explore one of the most original and enigmatic figures in British art. William Blake: Burning Bright features the YCBA’s extraordinary Blake holdings, including his illuminated books, watercolors, and hand-colored prints. Discover how Blake fused image and text to express radical ideas about religion, politics, and the human spirit during a time of global upheaval.
Tours meet in the Entrance Court by the Visitor Services desk.
Tour of William Blake
FINAL STOP: ALIEN INVASION
OCTOBER 3, 4, 10, 11, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 31 and NOV. 1
FOR TICKETS OR MORE INFO VISIT THEHAUNTEDTROLLEY.COM
THE HAUNTED TROLLEY proudly presents ALIEN INVASION: CONNECTICUT. An Exclusive OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD Experience at the Shore Line Trolley Museum, 17 River Street, East Haven, CT.
Take an unforgettable ride aboard an ancient trolley with hosts who will turn your evening into a journey you will never forget. Be part of an exclusive interactive Halloween event that is limited to only 40 passengers per adventure. The all-new event, including a pre-ride orientation and introduction to the plot, is an interactive 30-45 minute show/presentation combining an alien invasion, thrills, theater, audience participation, and a heavy dose of comedy – where you help decide the outcome of this curated UFO adventure.
Expect fun + mystery + a lot of laughs.
** This event is produced by TheHauntedTrolley and not by The Shore Line Trolley Museum – museum membership discounts and complimentary passes do not apply
Alien Invasion: Connecticut An Out-of-this-world Halloween Adventure!
In this festive fall sewing class, students will learn basic skills like hand stitching, embroidery, and how to use a sewing machine. We’ll design and sew original costumes—for yourself, a pet, a doll, or anyone you choose—perfect for Halloween or any dress-up occasion.
No store-bought ideas here—bring your imagination and get creative! Fabric scraps will be provided, but students are welcome to bring textiles from home to reuse and recycle.
Let’s get stitching and bring your ideas to life!
Tuition for this class includes a fee of $20 for materials provided by CAW.
Fun with Sewing:Costumes Edition
All Aboard the Pumpkin Patch Trolley at the Shore Line Trolley Museum!
Bring the whole family to enjoy a fun-filled fall adventure at the Shore Line Trolley Museum’s Pumpkin Patch , running weekends in October & on Monday, October 13th!
What’s Included?
- Take a scenic trolley ride to our pumpkin patch!
- Pick your perfect sugar pumpkin to take home!
- Enjoy seasonal activities and fall-themed fun for all ages!
Join us for a magical autumn day your family won’t forget!
School Groups, Daycares, Large Groups:
· Special charter weekend and weekday rates are available for groups of 12 or more
Dates: Weekends in October
All Aboard the Pumpkin Patch Trolley
Once again Spectrum Art Gallery will have pieces that feature the colors and textures of Fall as we say goodbye to Summer and turn the gallery into an autumn adventure.
The show opens with a reception on Friday, September 19, 6:30 - 8:30pm with wine and food. The Open House Weekend is Saturday,September 20, from 1-6 pm and Sunday, September 21, 1-5pm. The show closes on November 8, 2025.
Emerging Autumn
Zentangle turns drawings into artistic designs while reducing stress and improving focus. Learning Zentangle improves manual dexterity and problem solving to turn mistakes into creative positives. No previous Zentangle experience is necessary.
In this class create several Zentangle “Tiles”. Tiles are usually square 4×4 smooth white cardstock.
Learn to draw specific “ tangles” or unique patterns on the tiles. Copies of Zentangle books will be provided for inspiration as well as colored pencils and assorted permanent markers. Learn circular and free-form shaped “tangles” experimenting with your favorite colors when ready. As class progresses you create your own “tangles” based on 5 of your favorite activities.
The final class focuses on finishing your 16×24 inch painting on canvas, drawing your “tangles” with permanent markers and highlighting areas with other mixed media. Your finished painting will be your own Zentangle Abstract Self Portrait!!
Sharon Lee Mullen-Reynolds knew in High School that she was to be an Art teacher. That is exactly what she did; for 36 years she taught Visual Art in the city of New Haven. Her career hi-light was teaching 22 years at the Betsy Ross Arts Magnet Middle School. During her tenure there she was a published Fellow at Yale N.H.Teachers Institute for 2 years, the Department Chairperson for 8 years and creator of As Far As The Eye Can See a school-wide art exhibit.
Since her retirement in 2016, she has been attending numerous art exhibits and installations locally and in NYC, specifically Frida Kahlo’s exhibit at the Brooklyn Art Museum which led her to create Frida- inspired floral headpieces. In 2017 she started The Kindness Rock art installation at the Branford Festival.
Sharon is an artist who believes that art can heal your soul. In 2022 she sold her headpieces at the Ukrainian Roman Catholic church for the benefit of Ukraine’s War effort and donated 5 Ukrainian Strong “Petals for Peace” paintings to raise additional funds. These paintings were showcased on Channel 8 news.
In addition to her headpieces, Sharon works in mixed-media, crafts, collage, and watercolor landscape en plein air. Sharon’s artwork has been exhibited at City-Wide Open Studios, The ARTS Council, Calligraphers Guild, and is currently exhibited at Spectrum Gallery in Centerbrook, Connecticut.
Zentangles
We invite families to join us for folktales, myths, and exciting stories from around the world that highlight objects in the collection and inspire children of all ages to view art in new ways.
Meet by the couches in the Gallery lobby.
On Sunday, October 5, ASL interpretation will be available for this program.
Stories and Art
Join our Student Guides to learn more about In a New Light: Five Centuries of British Art. Each tour is created by a Student Guide to explore a specific theme in the museum’s collection.
Tours meet in the Entrance Court by the Visitors Service Desk
Tour of Collection Spotlights
Join our volunteer museum educators for an in-depth tour of the museum’s iconic building, designed by modernist architect Louis I. Kahn (1901–1974).
Tours meet in the Entrance Court by the Visitor Services desk.
Tour of the YCBA Architecture
New and experienced students will focus on making pottery on the wheel.
Start by using methods of wedging, centering, hand and finger positioning for raising a vessel, and positioning one’s body for dealing with a mass of clay on the wheel. Demonstrations will cover the importance of trimming techniques and various forming processes.
Wear clothes that can get dirty.
Techniques for Wheel Throwing
Explore the shapes and patterns of the natural world through the art of papercutting.
Students will learn to design and cut original compositions using freehand techniques with precision tools and fine scissors. Beginning with simple forms and gradually advancing in complexity, all work is created at a manageable 5 x 7″ scale. Finished papercuts are assembled into a hand-crafted softcover book featuring framed pockets to hold and display the artwork. A reusable page template allows for flexible expansion. The final result will be a beautifully bound collection of intricate, personal designs.
We will also take a field trip to a local professional paper cutter’s studio and gallery for a demonstration.
This is a course for both beginners and those with some experience. Many of the basic skills of bookbinding will be taught including measuring, cutting, folding, and gluing.
Enrollment in this class includes one 3 hour monitored practice session a week.
Tuition for this class includes a fee of $8 for basic materials provided by CAW.
This class will take place in a studio accessed by a flight of stairs. For any accommodations please send a confidential email to registrar@creativeartsworkshop.org
A Book of Papercutting
Discover your creative potential in our Introduction to Drawing course, designed for adults of all skill levels—even if you’ve never picked up a pencil before. In this welcoming and supportive environment, you’ll explore fundamental techniques like shading, line work, and composition while experimenting with a variety of drawing materials. Each session encourages personal expression and growth, helping you build confidence and find your unique artistic voice. Whether you’re looking to relax, learn something new, or rekindle a love for art, this class is the perfect starting point. No prior experience needed—just bring your curiosity and creativity!
Introduction To Drawing
Join us for a lively discussion that celebrates a dazzling new monograph on the British artist Hew Locke, published by the Yale Center for British Art on the occasion of the exhibition Hew Locke: Passages. The most comprehensive account of Locke’s work to date, the book features an interview with this visionary artist and thematic essays from leading curators, critics, and scholars of contemporary art, and showcases the remarkable breadth of the artist’s distinctive practice. Following this program, please join us for a book signing with Locke.
To learn more, please visit: https://britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-programs/book-discussion-and-signing-hew-locke-passages
Book Discussion and Signing | “Hew Locke: Passages”
In this 5-week class start by examining the still life’s of Monet, Van Gogh, Matisse and Moroni through visuals and discussion. Then studying visuals of contemporary approaches to the Still Life.
Learn how to make gel prints with acrylic paint on paper for your backgrounds including cutting and tearing of designed papers for your still life.
Focus on how to approach vessels in the still life collage through sketching, tracing and cutting out patterns. Finally, learn how to overlay the still life components over your finished background including placement and composition and the application of paint, highlighted areas and shading. Complete the still life discussing with the class your process, composition and materials used.
Material list available upon registration.
Regina Thomas’ collage and mixed media art is a mélange of visual stimuli, colors, and shapes involving different genres from the representational to the abstract. These multi-layered works portray her view of the world, never realistic, injecting her own narratives, metaphors, and icons. Regina works instinctually, and her desire is to stimulate and intrigue the viewer, make a connection, bringing their own experiences to the work.
Regina has lived and traveled throughout Asia and Europe. While in London, she attended Richmond University concentrating on the Art Disciplines as well as Studio classes. Upon her return to the states she continued refining her art through classes and workshops at RISD (Rhode Island School of Design), The New Art Center in Newton – MA, South Shore Art Center – MA, West Hartford Art League, Creative Arts Workshop/New Haven, CT, Yale University and The British Art Museum.
Regina has been included in many juried exhibitions in New England. Thomas shows in private galleries and has private collectors across the U.S., Europe, South America and Asia. Her most recent shows have been at The John Slade Ely House in New Haven, and The Spectrum Gallery in Centerbrook where she also holds classes in collage and mixed media art.
Dates: Tuesdays: Sept. 16, 23; 30; October 7, 15
On Zoom - The Art of Still Life
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN MOVED FROM MILLER HALL TO THE STERLING DIVINITY QUADRANGLE's GREAT HALL.
This year’s annual Kavanagh Lecture will be given by Teresa Berger, Professor Emerita of Liturgical Studies and the Thomas E. Golden Jr. Professor Emerita of Catholic Theology at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity School.
The event is sponsored by the Kavanagh Lecture series and Liturgy Symposium series. The Kavanagh Lecture, presented by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, is named for the late Professor Emeritus of Liturgics Aidan J. Kavanagh O.S.B., and given in conjunction with Convocation Week at Yale Divinity School.
This presentation focuses on an underappreciated liturgical motif, namely that all creation sings. Often thought of as poetic exaggeration or as merely metaphoric, the motif is an ancient one. From the claim that morning stars broke into song at the dawn of time (Job 38:7) to today’s creation-attuned new hymns, the conviction that all creation sings has endured in the Christian tradition. The poetic nature of hymnody, in which this conviction is most prominently embedded, shielded this particular motif from more anthropocentric tendencies that begin to manifest in liturgical texts with the onset of modernity. Today, in an intriguing twist, the ancient motif also aligns with newly emerging scientific insights. Whether it is the recognition that other-than-human creatures communicate through sound (e.g., “whale song”) or NASA’s project to “sonify” the universe (for human ears, that is), lines of inquiry have opened that enable a re-reading of this ancient motif, in the face of unprecedented ecological devastation.
Free and open to the public.
Speaker bio:
Teresa Berger is Professor Emerita of Liturgical Studies and the Thomas E. Golden Jr. Professor Emerita of Catholic Theology at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity School. She holds doctorates in both theology and in liturgical studies. Originally from Germany, Berger taught ecumenical theology at Duke Divinity School for many years before moving to Yale. Recent publications include an edited volume, Full of Your Glory: Liturgy, Cosmos, Creation (2019), and a monograph titled @ Worship: Liturgical Practices in Digital Worlds (2018). She is currently working on a book that seeks to re-root a theology of liturgy in God’s primordial activity in creation.
Contact: Katya Vetrov
Photo credit: Mara Lavitt
All Creation Sings Your Praises: Tracing a Liturgical Motif, in the Face of Ecological Devastation
Renowned visual artist and Yale alum Leo Villareal ’90 will present Celestial Garden (Yale), a new exhibition in The Dome at Yale Schwarzman Center. This never-before-exhibited artwork features an original soundscape and employs a suite of ten projectors that map the entire dome’s intrados. Villareal, whose work explores the physicality of light in both the spatial and temporal dimensions, uses custom software to orchestrate the perpetually evolving, abstract compositions, inspired by nature’s intricate, ever-changing patterns. Plush carpets and seating allow a contemplative pause for viewers to be immersed in a dynamic and continuously unfolding interplay of light and sound.
Free and open to the public Tuesdays through Saturdays from 12-6pm with extended hours on Thursdays until 8pm.
Celestial Garden (Yale)
Step into a world where history meets harmony at the Bluegrass Jam at the Museum! Dive deep into the heart of American bluegrass music, as the Shore Line Trolley Museum transforms into a vibrant stage for an evening of musical enchantment.
On the first Tuesday of each month, as the clock strikes 6:00pm, witness a musical rendezvous that celebrates the soulful rhythms and spirited tunes of bluegrass. Whether you're a seasoned musician or someone who simply loves the melodies, there's a spot for you in this musical extravaganza. Come with friends, family, or venture solo – all are welcome!
Set against the backdrop of the Shore Line Trolley Museum's historic charm, attendees will be treated to the mesmerizing sounds of bluegrass, surrounded by the timeless allure of vintage trolleys. It's not just a concert; it's a journey through time, where every note echoes the legacy of a cherished American musical tradition.
Bring along your curiosity and immerse yourself in an evening of musical brilliance. Whether you're strumming along or swaying to the rhythms, Bluegrass Jam at the Museum promises memories that will linger long after the last chord is played.
While the event itself is a gift to music lovers, we kindly suggest a donation of any amount to support the Shore Line Trolley Museum's continued dedication to preserving history and promoting the arts.
Mark your calendars, spread the word, and let's make history together at Bluegrass Jam at the Museum. A night of melodies, memories, and magic awaits!
Bluegrass Jam at the Museum
Welcome to the New Haven Rock Climbing Meetup!
Hosted by City Climb Gym
We aim to introduce everyone to indoor rock climbing, and encourage people of all abilities to join.
We meet from 6:00PM-8:00PM on Tuesday evenings, at City Climb Gym in New Haven, CT. Let's say hello in the lobby, get harnessed up, and head out to the top-rope area. Anyone with a name tag is down to meet new people and climb!
If you’ve RSVP’d for the Meetup, your first time is free!
Subsequent day passes will $12 with rental gear offered for $5.
BELAY CERTIFICATION
If you are already belay certified at City Climb then you're all set. If you aren't, but know how to belay, we can get you a quick belay test and you'll be good to go.
Have no experience belaying? Don't worry! We can belay for you! After your first Meetup we do recommend that you schedule a Belay Class with the front desk, though. It'll make climbing as a group easier during the following Meetups.
What to bring:
A water bottle and a killer attitude
Important to know:
City Climb is located at 342 Winchester Ave New Haven, CT. Turn off the road next to Strength Haven on Winchester. Go straight down the driveway and you'll be in the parking lot! Looking forward to seeing you there!
Climb New Haven!
Once again Spectrum Art Gallery will have pieces that feature the colors and textures of Fall as we say goodbye to Summer and turn the gallery into an autumn adventure.
The show opens with a reception on Friday, September 19, 6:30 - 8:30pm with wine and food. The Open House Weekend is Saturday,September 20, from 1-6 pm and Sunday, September 21, 1-5pm. The show closes on November 8, 2025.
Emerging Autumn
In this 5-week class start by examining the still life’s of Monet, Van Gogh, Matisse and Moroni through visuals and discussion. Then studying visuals of contemporary approaches to the Still Life.
Learn how to make gel prints with acrylic paint on paper for your backgrounds including cutting and tearing of designed papers for your still life.
Focus on how to approach vessels in the still life collage through sketching, tracing and cutting out patterns. Finally, learn how to overlay the still life components over your finished background including placement and composition and the application of paint, highlighted areas and shading. Complete the still life discussing with the class your process, composition and materials used.
Material list available upon registration.
Regina Thomas’ collage and mixed media art is a mélange of visual stimuli, colors, and shapes involving different genres from the representational to the abstract. These multi-layered works portray her view of the world, never realistic, injecting her own narratives, metaphors, and icons. Regina works instinctually, and her desire is to stimulate and intrigue the viewer, make a connection, bringing their own experiences to the work.
Regina has lived and traveled throughout Asia and Europe. While in London, she attended Richmond University concentrating on the Art Disciplines as well as Studio classes. Upon her return to the states she continued refining her art through classes and workshops at RISD (Rhode Island School of Design), The New Art Center in Newton – MA, South Shore Art Center – MA, West Hartford Art League, Creative Arts Workshop/New Haven, CT, Yale University and The British Art Museum.
Regina has been included in many juried exhibitions in New England. Thomas shows in private galleries and has private collectors across the U.S., Europe, South America and Asia. Her most recent shows have been at The John Slade Ely House in New Haven, and The Spectrum Gallery in Centerbrook where she also holds classes in collage and mixed media art.
At Spectrum - The Art of Still Life
In this 5-week painting class, children ages 7-11 years old paint a landscape inspired by Shel Silverstein’s book, The Giving Tree, create an African collage and alphabet art as they learn to use watercolor, tempura and acrylic paint. They become familiar with the work of artists Stuart Davis and Yayoi Kusama. As they study African patterns from Ghana, they learn the types of collage used in these art forms. Other fun 3-D projects are designing Kindness Rocks each with a positive saying or wish and the seasonal pumpkin with a variety of polka dot patterns in the style of Kusama. This is a fun, seasonal painting class where children learn a variety of art techniques and become comfortable with several fine art mediums. No experience necessary. All materials included.. Happy Fall!
Sharon Lee Mullen-Reynolds knew in High School that she was to be an Art teacher. That is exactly what she did; for 36 years she taught Visual Art in the city of New Haven. Her career hi-light was teaching 22 years at the Betsy Ross Arts Magnet Middle School. During her tenure there she was a published Fellow at Yale N.H.Teachers Institute for 2 years, the Department Chairperson for 8 years and creator of As Far As The Eye Can See a school-wide art exhibit.
Since her retirement in 2016, she has been attending numerous art exhibits and installations locally and in NYC, specifically Frida Kahlo’s exhibit at the Brooklyn Art Museum which led her to create Frida- inspired floral headpieces. In 2017 she started The Kindness Rock art installation at the Branford Festival.
Sharon is an artist who believes that art can heal your soul. In 2022 she sold her headpieces at the Ukrainian Roman Catholic church for the benefit of Ukraine’s War effort and donated 5 Ukrainian Strong “Petals for Peace” paintings to raise additional funds. These paintings were showcased on Channel 8 news.
In addition to her headpieces, Sharon works in mixed-media, crafts, collage, and watercolor landscape en plein air. Sharon’s artwork has been exhibited at City-Wide Open Studios, The ARTS Council, Calligraphers Guild, and is currently exhibited at Spectrum Gallery in Centerbrook, Connecticut.
Seasonal Painting for Children Ages 7-11
In this 5-sessoin class, children ages 7-11 years old create felted jewelry, animals, flowers and hair clips using wet and needle felting techniques. All materials included. No experience is necessary.
Cathy Lovell’s lifelong interest in the creative arts continues to guide her through a gratifying career as both art educator and studio artist. A graduate of the University of New Hampshire and Wesleyan University, Cathy has taught in the Newton, MA, Greenwich, CT and East Lyme, CT public school systems. She has also taught private classes in various fields including stained glass, jewelry making and silver work, enameling, ceramics, glass bead making, and quilting.
In the interest of furthering her own education, Cathy received a scholarship to attend the Pilchuck Glass School where she worked with Dale Chihuly and Patrick Reyntiens. Her interest in felting began with a workshop led by Lynne Ocone at the Guilford Art Center. Cathy is a member of the Northeast Felt makers Guild where she has had the privilege of participating in classes given by world renowned felt makers. Cathy credits her friend and fellow felt maker Catherine Stebinger with sharing ongoing creative energy, inspiration, and encouragement. Her work is currently exhibited at Spectrum Gallery in Centerbrook, Connecticut.
The Timeless Craft of Felting for Children
Join us for an opening reception at Miller Hall for the ISM's new art exhibit, Lucasen Brown: Stanza, featuring a talk by exhibit artist and curator Lucasen Brown S.T.M. '25 and guest speaker Nora Heimann M.Div. '26. Reception begins at 5 p.m. and artist talk at 5:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public.
Exhibition curated by Lucasen Brown.
Lucasen Brown: Stanza will be on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Miller Hall at 406 Prospect Street, New Haven from October 9 - December 5. Exhibit is free and open to the public.
Contact: Anesu Nyamupingidza
Photo credit: Eliot Duncan
Exhibition Opening Reception for Lucasen Brown: Stanza
Once again Spectrum Art Gallery will have pieces that feature the colors and textures of Fall as we say goodbye to Summer and turn the gallery into an autumn adventure.
The show opens with a reception on Friday, September 19, 6:30 - 8:30pm with wine and food. The Open House Weekend is Saturday,September 20, from 1-6 pm and Sunday, September 21, 1-5pm. The show closes on November 8, 2025.
Emerging Autumn
This class focuses on learning to draw detailed fall botanicals using colored pencil. Each week focuses on a different topic supplied by the instructor. Participants will learn about form, light and shading. There is a $10 materials fee due to the instructor at the start of session one.
Nancy Bentivegna is a botanical artist who received her training at the New York Botanical Gardens through the Botanical Art and Illustration Program. After completing the program in 2010, she relocated to Boston. For the past eleven years she has been teaching a variety of botanical art classes in Boston and the greater Boston area. These courses are based on the instruction she received at the NYBG and include colored pencil, graphite, pen and ink and watercolor pencil.
Nancy prefers to work in watercolor pencil combined with colored pencil for depth and detail. She does custom pieces for clients both in the Boston area and New York. She recently relocated to Essex and will be offering classes at the Spectrum Gallery in Centerbrook.
Fall Botanicals in Colored Pencils
Once again Spectrum Art Gallery will have pieces that feature the colors and textures of Fall as we say goodbye to Summer and turn the gallery into an autumn adventure.
The show opens with a reception on Friday, September 19, 6:30 - 8:30pm with wine and food. The Open House Weekend is Saturday,September 20, from 1-6 pm and Sunday, September 21, 1-5pm. The show closes on November 8, 2025.
Emerging Autumn
Each year, the Institute of Sacred Music organizes a series of Zoom lectures that focus on late antique and Byzantine art and architecture. The Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture lecture series is offered in collaboration with the departments of Classics and History of Art and is organized by Robert S. Nelson (History of Art, emeritus), Felicity Harley (Yale Divinity School/ISM), Justin Willson (History of Art) and Vasileios Marinis (Yale Divinity School/ISM).
Free and open to the public, but registration is required.
View the Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture page for specific event dates, titles and presenters.
Contact: Katya Vetrov
Image: Mosaic Floor with Views of Alexandria and Memphis, ca. 540 CE, The Yale-British School Excavations at Gerasa, Yale University Art Gallery
Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture Lecture Series
This class is designed for all levels including those who want to improve their drawing skills to those who want to continue at their own level and work on specific skills. We will work with charcoal, pencil and ink as the major drawing tools. For those who want to add color to their drawings, pastels can also be incorporated.
If you want to know more about basic drawing skills like perspective, tonal drawing, creating structure, etc. this is the class for you. We will also investigate “the figure” studying the Masters’ figure drawings from references in books and the Internet; Rubens, Del Sarto, Michelangelo, etc.
Material list available upon registration.
Chris Kunze graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Painting/Illustration. He has had a long & successful career in Advertising and Promotion. His illustrations and designs have been used in books, magazines, newspapers, product packaging and logo design.
Chris’ fine art has always remained important throughout his career as a commercial artist. He has had many solo and group shows in New York City, Westchester County and lower Connecticut, showcasing his oil paintings, watercolors and illustrations. Chris was part of an ongoing show at the Arthur Kalaher Fine Art in Sag Harbor, NY from 2011-2019. In 2018 he had a solo show of his watercolors at Teatown Lake Reservation.
In 2019 Chris began his participation in Arthouse. NYC’s “Healthcare Heroes Show”. He has memorialized several healthcare workers who lost their lives during the height of the Covid pandemic. These oil portraits were given to their families and were on view at the Big Plaza Screen in New York City.
Teaching is a passion that has come to the forefront in the past 15 years for Chris. He has been teaching a plethora of subjects among them drawing, oil painting, watercolors, and more at local Westchester art schools. He is currently teaching at Scarsdale Adult School, in Scarsdale, NY, and Spectrum Gallery in Centerbrook, CT.
Chris grew up in Europe and Westchester County. He currently resides in Salem, Connecticut.
Drawing 101 and Beyond
Think critically about why John Minton, a prominent mid-century white artist from England, made vivid homoerotic paintings of Black men in Jamaica.
Join Jackson Davidow for a series of conversations that explore LGBTQ histories within the YCBA’s collection. Each session considers lesser-known artworks of different media from the eighteenth century to the present that uncover hidden narratives, challenge traditional interpretations, and illuminate the lives and legacies of important queer individuals in British art history.
To learn more, please visit: https://britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-programs/find-your-story-here-street-corner-jamaica
Find Your Story Here: “A Street Corner in Jamaica”
FINAL STOP: ALIEN INVASION
OCTOBER 3, 4, 10, 11, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 31 and NOV. 1
FOR TICKETS OR MORE INFO VISIT THEHAUNTEDTROLLEY.COM
THE HAUNTED TROLLEY proudly presents ALIEN INVASION: CONNECTICUT. An Exclusive OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD Experience at the Shore Line Trolley Museum, 17 River Street, East Haven, CT.
Take an unforgettable ride aboard an ancient trolley with hosts who will turn your evening into a journey you will never forget. Be part of an exclusive interactive Halloween event that is limited to only 40 passengers per adventure. The all-new event, including a pre-ride orientation and introduction to the plot, is an interactive 30-45 minute show/presentation combining an alien invasion, thrills, theater, audience participation, and a heavy dose of comedy – where you help decide the outcome of this curated UFO adventure.
Expect fun + mystery + a lot of laughs.
** This event is produced by TheHauntedTrolley and not by The Shore Line Trolley Museum – museum membership discounts and complimentary passes do not apply
Alien Invasion: Connecticut An Out-of-this-world Halloween Adventure!
The Outdoor Autumn Arts Festival is a two-day event on the Madison Town Green, Madison, Connecticut. There will be Representational and Abstract Painters, Sculptors, Illustrators, Photographers, Original Printmakers, Fabric Artists, Glass and Wood Artisans, Jewelry Designers, Crafters and artists working in oil, acrylic,
watercolor, photography, pencil and charcoal, pen & ink, paper, mixed media, fabric, glass, wood, stone and clay. It is Saturday, October 11, 10-5 pm and Sunday, October 12 from 12-5 pm.
Autumn Arts Festival on the Madison Green
Exhibition open Wednesday through Sunday from 10am to 4pm with free parking and admission EXCEPT Saturday, June 7; Friday, July 4 (Independence Day); Thursday, November 27 (Thanksgiving Day); Wednesday, December 24 (Christmas Eve); and Thursday, December 25 (Christmas Day).
In remembrance of Pope Francis, who passed on April 21, 2025, the Blessed Michael McGivney Pilgrimage Center is honored to present this exhibit illustrating the pope’s outreach to the peripheries during his 47 international trips.
Learn more: https://www.michaelmcgivneycenter.org/exhibits/francis-pope-of-the-peripheries/
Exhibit | Francis: Pope of the Peripheries
All Aboard the Pumpkin Patch Trolley at the Shore Line Trolley Museum!
Bring the whole family to enjoy a fun-filled fall adventure at the Shore Line Trolley Museum’s Pumpkin Patch , running weekends in October & on Monday, October 13th!
What’s Included?
- Take a scenic trolley ride to our pumpkin patch!
- Pick your perfect sugar pumpkin to take home!
- Enjoy seasonal activities and fall-themed fun for all ages!
Join us for a magical autumn day your family won’t forget!
School Groups, Daycares, Large Groups:
· Special charter weekend and weekday rates are available for groups of 12 or more
Dates: Weekends in October
All Aboard the Pumpkin Patch Trolley
Join our volunteer museum educators for an interactive exploration of highlights from our collection. In a New Light: Five Centuries of British Art features works from the sixteenth century to the present, now on view in a reimagined installation.
Tours meet in the Entrance Court by the Visitor Services desk.
Tour of Collection Highlights
Once again Spectrum Art Gallery will have pieces that feature the colors and textures of Fall as we say goodbye to Summer and turn the gallery into an autumn adventure.
The show opens with a reception on Friday, September 19, 6:30 - 8:30pm with wine and food. The Open House Weekend is Saturday,September 20, from 1-6 pm and Sunday, September 21, 1-5pm. The show closes on November 8, 2025.
Emerging Autumn
Celebrate community and creativity at the 8th Annual New Haven Chalk Art Festival, hosted by The Shops at Yale in Downtown New Haven.
Stroll the Broadway District to see more than 60 artists transform sidewalks and streets into vibrant works of art, enjoy live music from The RumRunners, and bring the kids for free activities in the Family Fun Zone—including chalk art lessons with The Giggling Pig New Haven, crafts, and face painting.
Guests can also enjoy exclusive shopping offers, $0.99 and $1.99 dining deals, plus complimentary kettle corn and Italian ice.
Free parking is available at the 150 York Street Garage with event validation.
Artists will compete for more than $2,800 in prizes, with categories for professionals, amateurs, teens, and groups. Visitors can cast their votes in the People’s Choice Awards for a chance to win one of five $50 restaurant gift cards just for voting! The festival is free and open to all, with festivities taking place on Broadway Island, Elm Street in front of Maison B Café, and in the courtyard behind Apple and Sherkaan Indian Street Food.
The rain date for this event is Sunday, October 12, 12–4 pm.
Visit our website for more information: https://theshopsatyale.com/chalkart/
8th Annual New Haven Chalk Art Festival — Saturday, October 11, 12–4 pm
Join our Student Guides to learn more about In a New Light: Five Centuries of British Art. Each tour is created by a Student Guide to explore a specific theme in the museum’s collection.
Tours meet in the Entrance Court by the Visitors Service Desk
Tour of Collection Spotlights
Join a volunteer museum educator to explore one of the most original and enigmatic figures in British art. William Blake: Burning Bright features the YCBA’s extraordinary Blake holdings, including his illuminated books, watercolors, and hand-colored prints. Discover how Blake fused image and text to express radical ideas about religion, politics, and the human spirit during a time of global upheaval.
Tours meet in the Entrance Court by the Visitor Services desk.
Tour of William Blake
FINAL STOP: ALIEN INVASION
OCTOBER 3, 4, 10, 11, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 31 and NOV. 1
FOR TICKETS OR MORE INFO VISIT THEHAUNTEDTROLLEY.COM
THE HAUNTED TROLLEY proudly presents ALIEN INVASION: CONNECTICUT. An Exclusive OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD Experience at the Shore Line Trolley Museum, 17 River Street, East Haven, CT.
Take an unforgettable ride aboard an ancient trolley with hosts who will turn your evening into a journey you will never forget. Be part of an exclusive interactive Halloween event that is limited to only 40 passengers per adventure. The all-new event, including a pre-ride orientation and introduction to the plot, is an interactive 30-45 minute show/presentation combining an alien invasion, thrills, theater, audience participation, and a heavy dose of comedy – where you help decide the outcome of this curated UFO adventure.
Expect fun + mystery + a lot of laughs.
** This event is produced by TheHauntedTrolley and not by The Shore Line Trolley Museum – museum membership discounts and complimentary passes do not apply
Alien Invasion: Connecticut An Out-of-this-world Halloween Adventure!
All Aboard the Pumpkin Patch Trolley at the Shore Line Trolley Museum!
Bring the whole family to enjoy a fun-filled fall adventure at the Shore Line Trolley Museum’s Pumpkin Patch , running weekends in October & on Monday, October 13th!
What’s Included?
- Take a scenic trolley ride to our pumpkin patch!
- Pick your perfect sugar pumpkin to take home!
- Enjoy seasonal activities and fall-themed fun for all ages!
Join us for a magical autumn day your family won’t forget!
School Groups, Daycares, Large Groups:
· Special charter weekend and weekday rates are available for groups of 12 or more
Dates: Weekends in October
All Aboard the Pumpkin Patch Trolley
Once again Spectrum Art Gallery will have pieces that feature the colors and textures of Fall as we say goodbye to Summer and turn the gallery into an autumn adventure.
The show opens with a reception on Friday, September 19, 6:30 - 8:30pm with wine and food. The Open House Weekend is Saturday,September 20, from 1-6 pm and Sunday, September 21, 1-5pm. The show closes on November 8, 2025.
Emerging Autumn
The Outdoor Autumn Arts Festival is a two-day event on the Madison Town Green, Madison, Connecticut. There will be Representational and Abstract Painters, Sculptors, Illustrators, Photographers, Original Printmakers, Fabric Artists, Glass and Wood Artisans, Jewelry Designers, Crafters and artists working in oil, acrylic,
watercolor, photography, pencil and charcoal, pen & ink, paper, mixed media, fabric, glass, wood, stone and clay. It is Saturday, October 11, 10-5 pm and Sunday, October 12 from 12-5 pm.
Autumn Arts Festival on the Madison Green
Zentangle turns drawings into artistic designs while reducing stress and improving focus. Learning Zentangle improves manual dexterity and problem solving to turn mistakes into creative positives. No previous Zentangle experience is necessary.
In this class create several Zentangle “Tiles”. Tiles are usually square 4×4 smooth white cardstock.
Learn to draw specific “ tangles” or unique patterns on the tiles. Copies of Zentangle books will be provided for inspiration as well as colored pencils and assorted permanent markers. Learn circular and free-form shaped “tangles” experimenting with your favorite colors when ready. As class progresses you create your own “tangles” based on 5 of your favorite activities.
The final class focuses on finishing your 16×24 inch painting on canvas, drawing your “tangles” with permanent markers and highlighting areas with other mixed media. Your finished painting will be your own Zentangle Abstract Self Portrait!!
Sharon Lee Mullen-Reynolds knew in High School that she was to be an Art teacher. That is exactly what she did; for 36 years she taught Visual Art in the city of New Haven. Her career hi-light was teaching 22 years at the Betsy Ross Arts Magnet Middle School. During her tenure there she was a published Fellow at Yale N.H.Teachers Institute for 2 years, the Department Chairperson for 8 years and creator of As Far As The Eye Can See a school-wide art exhibit.
Since her retirement in 2016, she has been attending numerous art exhibits and installations locally and in NYC, specifically Frida Kahlo’s exhibit at the Brooklyn Art Museum which led her to create Frida- inspired floral headpieces. In 2017 she started The Kindness Rock art installation at the Branford Festival.
Sharon is an artist who believes that art can heal your soul. In 2022 she sold her headpieces at the Ukrainian Roman Catholic church for the benefit of Ukraine’s War effort and donated 5 Ukrainian Strong “Petals for Peace” paintings to raise additional funds. These paintings were showcased on Channel 8 news.
In addition to her headpieces, Sharon works in mixed-media, crafts, collage, and watercolor landscape en plein air. Sharon’s artwork has been exhibited at City-Wide Open Studios, The ARTS Council, Calligraphers Guild, and is currently exhibited at Spectrum Gallery in Centerbrook, Connecticut.
Zentangles
Join our Student Guides to learn more about In a New Light: Five Centuries of British Art. Each tour is created by a Student Guide to explore a specific theme in the museum’s collection.
Tours meet in the Entrance Court by the Visitors Service Desk
Tour of Collection Spotlights
Join our volunteer museum educators for an in-depth tour of the museum’s iconic building, designed by modernist architect Louis I. Kahn (1901–1974).
Tours meet in the Entrance Court by the Visitor Services desk.
Tour of the YCBA Architecture
Kyshona lends her voice and music to those who feel silenced, forgotten or alone. She began her career as a music therapist, writing her first songs with patients under her care. She was compelled to write independently and find her own voice, an endeavor that led her to the Nashville creative community and songwriting culture. Since then, she balances her music career with her passion to heal in community through her organization, Your Song.
Kyshona’s new project LEGACY focuses on family. Through stories, photos, film, ancestry and genealogy research, and travels in the power of place, Kyshona shares her story while inviting listeners and concert goers to join her in exploration of self healing and growth. In 2020, her song Listen was an anthem for many. About that album, one reviewer wrote: “Amidst these hard, divisive times this set of songs is a salve for the grief many of us are feeling.” On the album Kyshona blends roots, rock, R&B, and folk to uplift the marginalized and bring awareness to the masses.
Audiences will find a common thread of hope, empowerment, and overcoming adversity in her work. The show doesn’t end when the last song is sung. After her powerful performances, concertgoers often ask, “What can I do?” Her response? “Listen.”
Robbie Collomore Concerts: Kyshona
All Aboard the Pumpkin Patch Trolley at the Shore Line Trolley Museum!
Bring the whole family to enjoy a fun-filled fall adventure at the Shore Line Trolley Museum’s Pumpkin Patch , running weekends in October & on Monday, October 13th!
What’s Included?
- Take a scenic trolley ride to our pumpkin patch!
- Pick your perfect sugar pumpkin to take home!
- Enjoy seasonal activities and fall-themed fun for all ages!
Join us for a magical autumn day your family won’t forget!
School Groups, Daycares, Large Groups:
· Special charter weekend and weekday rates are available for groups of 12 or more
Dates: Weekends in October
All Aboard the Pumpkin Patch Trolley
Explore and develop designs for relief, intaglio, and monotype printmaking in this hands-on course.
Class time will focus on creating original designs and concepts as students experiment with print plate substrates, including Corian®, Tetra-Pak®, vinyl records, and various recycled and found materials. Examples of different print styles will be shared to illustrate these techniques.
This course is suitable for beginners and advanced students alike.
Includes one 3-hour weekly practice session during monitored practice hours.
Experimental Printmaking
This exhibition will be on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Miller Hall at 406 Prospect Street, New Haven from October 9 - December 5 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12 - 4 p.m., except for Thanksgiving week, when the ISM is closed.
Lucasen Brown: Stanza presents a series of twenty intimate-scaled abstract paintings developed during Brown's time at Yale Institute of Sacred Music/Yale Divinity School (2023-2025). The exhibition also includes a selection of works on paper with corresponding poems by 2025 ISM graduate Emily Chan from a small book-length collaboration.
Each painting has an association for the artist: a life event, a place, a feeling, a person. Brown explores ways the painting process weaves memory, trauma and spiritual repair: "Wholeness, to me, is when I am just a painter in the world who allows a world of feeling into my abstract paintings—a place where everything belongs.” The paintings hold space for viewers to consider their own healing through faith, noticing, and remaining open to uncertainty.
Paint, for Brown, becomes both a surface and a subject. The artist hopes the paintings evoke corporeality, silence, interiority, and sacred everydayness. The repetition of marks on the painting surfaces is meditative and accretive.
The paintings are informed by textile, specifically Lenore Tawney's open-warp weavings; art movements including Minimalism and Pattern Painting and Decoration; and essays, namely Roland Barthes' theory of text and textile.
The exhibition traces the paintings’ transition from grid-based abstraction to a more intuitive and emotionally attuned process that pushes beyond the limitation of the grid. The artist realized his painting world, emotional and liberative, could no longer be confined to a grid.
Free and open to the public.
Exhibition curated by Lucasen Brown.
All are welcome to join us for an opening reception for this art exhibit on Wednesday, October 8 at 5 p.m.
Contact: Anesu Nyamupingidza
Art credit: Lucasen Brown, Just Walking Around, Oil on Linen, 2025
Lucasen Brown: Stanza (Art Exhibition)
In this 5-week class start by examining the still life’s of Monet, Van Gogh, Matisse and Moroni through visuals and discussion. Then studying visuals of contemporary approaches to the Still Life.
Learn how to make gel prints with acrylic paint on paper for your backgrounds including cutting and tearing of designed papers for your still life.
Focus on how to approach vessels in the still life collage through sketching, tracing and cutting out patterns. Finally, learn how to overlay the still life components over your finished background including placement and composition and the application of paint, highlighted areas and shading. Complete the still life discussing with the class your process, composition and materials used.
Material list available upon registration.
Regina Thomas’ collage and mixed media art is a mélange of visual stimuli, colors, and shapes involving different genres from the representational to the abstract. These multi-layered works portray her view of the world, never realistic, injecting her own narratives, metaphors, and icons. Regina works instinctually, and her desire is to stimulate and intrigue the viewer, make a connection, bringing their own experiences to the work.
Regina has lived and traveled throughout Asia and Europe. While in London, she attended Richmond University concentrating on the Art Disciplines as well as Studio classes. Upon her return to the states she continued refining her art through classes and workshops at RISD (Rhode Island School of Design), The New Art Center in Newton – MA, South Shore Art Center – MA, West Hartford Art League, Creative Arts Workshop/New Haven, CT, Yale University and The British Art Museum.
Regina has been included in many juried exhibitions in New England. Thomas shows in private galleries and has private collectors across the U.S., Europe, South America and Asia. Her most recent shows have been at The John Slade Ely House in New Haven, and The Spectrum Gallery in Centerbrook where she also holds classes in collage and mixed media art.
Dates: Tuesdays: Sept. 16, 23; 30; October 7, 15
On Zoom - The Art of Still Life
Once again Spectrum Art Gallery will have pieces that feature the colors and textures of Fall as we say goodbye to Summer and turn the gallery into an autumn adventure.
The show opens with a reception on Friday, September 19, 6:30 - 8:30pm with wine and food. The Open House Weekend is Saturday,September 20, from 1-6 pm and Sunday, September 21, 1-5pm. The show closes on November 8, 2025.
Emerging Autumn
This exhibition will be on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Miller Hall at 406 Prospect Street, New Haven from October 9 - December 5 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12 - 4 p.m., except for Thanksgiving week, when the ISM is closed.
Lucasen Brown: Stanza presents a series of twenty intimate-scaled abstract paintings developed during Brown's time at Yale Institute of Sacred Music/Yale Divinity School (2023-2025). The exhibition also includes a selection of works on paper with corresponding poems by 2025 ISM graduate Emily Chan from a small book-length collaboration.
Each painting has an association for the artist: a life event, a place, a feeling, a person. Brown explores ways the painting process weaves memory, trauma and spiritual repair: "Wholeness, to me, is when I am just a painter in the world who allows a world of feeling into my abstract paintings—a place where everything belongs.” The paintings hold space for viewers to consider their own healing through faith, noticing, and remaining open to uncertainty.
Paint, for Brown, becomes both a surface and a subject. The artist hopes the paintings evoke corporeality, silence, interiority, and sacred everydayness. The repetition of marks on the painting surfaces is meditative and accretive.
The paintings are informed by textile, specifically Lenore Tawney's open-warp weavings; art movements including Minimalism and Pattern Painting and Decoration; and essays, namely Roland Barthes' theory of text and textile.
The exhibition traces the paintings’ transition from grid-based abstraction to a more intuitive and emotionally attuned process that pushes beyond the limitation of the grid. The artist realized his painting world, emotional and liberative, could no longer be confined to a grid.
Free and open to the public.
Exhibition curated by Lucasen Brown.
All are welcome to join us for an opening reception for this art exhibit on Wednesday, October 8 at 5 p.m.
Contact: Anesu Nyamupingidza
Art credit: Lucasen Brown, Just Walking Around, Oil on Linen, 2025
Lucasen Brown: Stanza (Art Exhibition)
In this 5-week class start by examining the still life’s of Monet, Van Gogh, Matisse and Moroni through visuals and discussion. Then studying visuals of contemporary approaches to the Still Life.
Learn how to make gel prints with acrylic paint on paper for your backgrounds including cutting and tearing of designed papers for your still life.
Focus on how to approach vessels in the still life collage through sketching, tracing and cutting out patterns. Finally, learn how to overlay the still life components over your finished background including placement and composition and the application of paint, highlighted areas and shading. Complete the still life discussing with the class your process, composition and materials used.
Material list available upon registration.
Regina Thomas’ collage and mixed media art is a mélange of visual stimuli, colors, and shapes involving different genres from the representational to the abstract. These multi-layered works portray her view of the world, never realistic, injecting her own narratives, metaphors, and icons. Regina works instinctually, and her desire is to stimulate and intrigue the viewer, make a connection, bringing their own experiences to the work.
Regina has lived and traveled throughout Asia and Europe. While in London, she attended Richmond University concentrating on the Art Disciplines as well as Studio classes. Upon her return to the states she continued refining her art through classes and workshops at RISD (Rhode Island School of Design), The New Art Center in Newton – MA, South Shore Art Center – MA, West Hartford Art League, Creative Arts Workshop/New Haven, CT, Yale University and The British Art Museum.
Regina has been included in many juried exhibitions in New England. Thomas shows in private galleries and has private collectors across the U.S., Europe, South America and Asia. Her most recent shows have been at The John Slade Ely House in New Haven, and The Spectrum Gallery in Centerbrook where she also holds classes in collage and mixed media art.
At Spectrum - The Art of Still Life
In this 5-week painting class, children ages 7-11 years old paint a landscape inspired by Shel Silverstein’s book, The Giving Tree, create an African collage and alphabet art as they learn to use watercolor, tempura and acrylic paint. They become familiar with the work of artists Stuart Davis and Yayoi Kusama. As they study African patterns from Ghana, they learn the types of collage used in these art forms. Other fun 3-D projects are designing Kindness Rocks each with a positive saying or wish and the seasonal pumpkin with a variety of polka dot patterns in the style of Kusama. This is a fun, seasonal painting class where children learn a variety of art techniques and become comfortable with several fine art mediums. No experience necessary. All materials included.. Happy Fall!
Sharon Lee Mullen-Reynolds knew in High School that she was to be an Art teacher. That is exactly what she did; for 36 years she taught Visual Art in the city of New Haven. Her career hi-light was teaching 22 years at the Betsy Ross Arts Magnet Middle School. During her tenure there she was a published Fellow at Yale N.H.Teachers Institute for 2 years, the Department Chairperson for 8 years and creator of As Far As The Eye Can See a school-wide art exhibit.
Since her retirement in 2016, she has been attending numerous art exhibits and installations locally and in NYC, specifically Frida Kahlo’s exhibit at the Brooklyn Art Museum which led her to create Frida- inspired floral headpieces. In 2017 she started The Kindness Rock art installation at the Branford Festival.
Sharon is an artist who believes that art can heal your soul. In 2022 she sold her headpieces at the Ukrainian Roman Catholic church for the benefit of Ukraine’s War effort and donated 5 Ukrainian Strong “Petals for Peace” paintings to raise additional funds. These paintings were showcased on Channel 8 news.
In addition to her headpieces, Sharon works in mixed-media, crafts, collage, and watercolor landscape en plein air. Sharon’s artwork has been exhibited at City-Wide Open Studios, The ARTS Council, Calligraphers Guild, and is currently exhibited at Spectrum Gallery in Centerbrook, Connecticut.
Seasonal Painting for Children Ages 7-11
In this 5-sessoin class, children ages 7-11 years old create felted jewelry, animals, flowers and hair clips using wet and needle felting techniques. All materials included. No experience is necessary.
Cathy Lovell’s lifelong interest in the creative arts continues to guide her through a gratifying career as both art educator and studio artist. A graduate of the University of New Hampshire and Wesleyan University, Cathy has taught in the Newton, MA, Greenwich, CT and East Lyme, CT public school systems. She has also taught private classes in various fields including stained glass, jewelry making and silver work, enameling, ceramics, glass bead making, and quilting.
In the interest of furthering her own education, Cathy received a scholarship to attend the Pilchuck Glass School where she worked with Dale Chihuly and Patrick Reyntiens. Her interest in felting began with a workshop led by Lynne Ocone at the Guilford Art Center. Cathy is a member of the Northeast Felt makers Guild where she has had the privilege of participating in classes given by world renowned felt makers. Cathy credits her friend and fellow felt maker Catherine Stebinger with sharing ongoing creative energy, inspiration, and encouragement. Her work is currently exhibited at Spectrum Gallery in Centerbrook, Connecticut.
The Timeless Craft of Felting for Children
In this interdisciplinary class combining printmaking and bookmaking, students will experiment with creating their own artist books from start to finish. We’ll develop and sequence stories, design visuals through relief and linocut printmaking, and learn foundational bookbinding stitches and techniques. Whether you’re interested in making zines, illustrated narratives, or abstract book projects, you’ll have the freedom to make it your own. No experience required!
The tuition for this class includes a materials fee of $20 for basic materials provided by CAW.
Build A Book! For Teens
Beyond the technical craft of printmaking lies the art of visual communication. This class is designed for printmakers of all levels and will provide you with a deeper knowledge of design concepts, enabling you to make more informed artistic decisions and infuse your printmaking with intention and impact. This class exercises will focus on monotype, but the principals can be applied to any printmaking technique.
Through a blend of hands-on exercises, and constructive critiques, where students will learn to:
- explore the power of line
- understand how positive and negative spaces interact
- discover how to use light and dark tonality to create depth, emphasis, and mood
- add texture for visual richness
- understand how to see and create compositional balance
In the second half of the class students will work on creating new compositions or rework past prints using design principals.
Color and Design Principles in Printmaking - 1
Once again Spectrum Art Gallery will have pieces that feature the colors and textures of Fall as we say goodbye to Summer and turn the gallery into an autumn adventure.
The show opens with a reception on Friday, September 19, 6:30 - 8:30pm with wine and food. The Open House Weekend is Saturday,September 20, from 1-6 pm and Sunday, September 21, 1-5pm. The show closes on November 8, 2025.
Emerging Autumn
This class focuses on learning to draw detailed fall botanicals using colored pencil. Each week focuses on a different topic supplied by the instructor. Participants will learn about form, light and shading. There is a $10 materials fee due to the instructor at the start of session one.
Nancy Bentivegna is a botanical artist who received her training at the New York Botanical Gardens through the Botanical Art and Illustration Program. After completing the program in 2010, she relocated to Boston. For the past eleven years she has been teaching a variety of botanical art classes in Boston and the greater Boston area. These courses are based on the instruction she received at the NYBG and include colored pencil, graphite, pen and ink and watercolor pencil.
Nancy prefers to work in watercolor pencil combined with colored pencil for depth and detail. She does custom pieces for clients both in the Boston area and New York. She recently relocated to Essex and will be offering classes at the Spectrum Gallery in Centerbrook.
Fall Botanicals in Colored Pencils
Join YCBA educator James Vanderberg for this three-part series to explore how artistic processes can be an avenue for looking closely and inspiring your own artwork.
Both Blake and Locke use collage, text, printing, and color to imagine new worlds of possibility and challenge the status quo. The workshops explore William Blake: Burning Bright and Hew Locke: Passages through a close investigation of material and process to see how the artists create innovative ways of shifting perspectives and opening the imagination. Ultimately we create our own imagined worlds through printmaking, collage, and word play.
Adults of all artistic abilities are welcome to join. All materials are supplied.
Registration is required; program limited to twelve people. This program meets on Thursdays, October 2, 16, and 23, 5:30–6:45 pm.
To join us for this program, please register here.
If you need to cancel or cannot attend the full run of this program, please email ycba.education@yale.edu as soon as possible so we can open your spot to someone on the waiting list.
To learn more, please visit: https://britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-programs/create-community-imagined-worlds-art-william-blake-and-hew-locke
Create Community: Imagined Worlds in the art of William Blake and Hew Locke
Learn the versatile and popular craft of silkscreen/serigraph printmaking.
Students will transfer photo images (photography, drawing, painting, or multimedia art) to the printing screens and print onto paper, fabric, or wood panel. Image separations (digital and hand) to print images with more than one color as well as learning how to register multiple colors for printing will be discussed.
Includes one 3-hour practice session per week during monitored practice hours.
Silkscreen/Serigraph Printmaking
In this festive fall sewing class, students will learn basic skills like hand stitching, embroidery, and how to use a sewing machine. We'll design and sew original costumes—for yourself, a pet, a doll, or anyone you choose—perfect for Halloween or any dress-up occasion. No store-bought ideas here—bring your imagination and get creative! Fabric scraps will be provided, but students are welcome to bring textiles from home to reuse and recycle. Let’s get stitching and bring your ideas to life! Tuition for this class includes a fee of $20 for materials provided by CAW.
Fun With Sewing: Costume addition
Once again Spectrum Art Gallery will have pieces that feature the colors and textures of Fall as we say goodbye to Summer and turn the gallery into an autumn adventure.
The show opens with a reception on Friday, September 19, 6:30 - 8:30pm with wine and food. The Open House Weekend is Saturday,September 20, from 1-6 pm and Sunday, September 21, 1-5pm. The show closes on November 8, 2025.
Emerging Autumn
This class is designed for all levels including those who want to improve their drawing skills to those who want to continue at their own level and work on specific skills. We will work with charcoal, pencil and ink as the major drawing tools. For those who want to add color to their drawings, pastels can also be incorporated.
If you want to know more about basic drawing skills like perspective, tonal drawing, creating structure, etc. this is the class for you. We will also investigate “the figure” studying the Masters’ figure drawings from references in books and the Internet; Rubens, Del Sarto, Michelangelo, etc.
Material list available upon registration.
Chris Kunze graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Painting/Illustration. He has had a long & successful career in Advertising and Promotion. His illustrations and designs have been used in books, magazines, newspapers, product packaging and logo design.
Chris’ fine art has always remained important throughout his career as a commercial artist. He has had many solo and group shows in New York City, Westchester County and lower Connecticut, showcasing his oil paintings, watercolors and illustrations. Chris was part of an ongoing show at the Arthur Kalaher Fine Art in Sag Harbor, NY from 2011-2019. In 2018 he had a solo show of his watercolors at Teatown Lake Reservation.
In 2019 Chris began his participation in Arthouse. NYC’s “Healthcare Heroes Show”. He has memorialized several healthcare workers who lost their lives during the height of the Covid pandemic. These oil portraits were given to their families and were on view at the Big Plaza Screen in New York City.
Teaching is a passion that has come to the forefront in the past 15 years for Chris. He has been teaching a plethora of subjects among them drawing, oil painting, watercolors, and more at local Westchester art schools. He is currently teaching at Scarsdale Adult School, in Scarsdale, NY, and Spectrum Gallery in Centerbrook, CT.
Chris grew up in Europe and Westchester County. He currently resides in Salem, Connecticut.
Drawing 101 and Beyond
Join our volunteer museum educators for an interactive exploration of highlights from our collection. In a New Light: Five Centuries of British Art features works from the sixteenth century to the present, now on view in a reimagined installation.
Tours meet in the Entrance Court by the Visitor Services desk.
Tour of Collection Highlights
FINAL STOP: ALIEN INVASION
OCTOBER 3, 4, 10, 11, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 31 and NOV. 1
FOR TICKETS OR MORE INFO VISIT THEHAUNTEDTROLLEY.COM
THE HAUNTED TROLLEY proudly presents ALIEN INVASION: CONNECTICUT. An Exclusive OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD Experience at the Shore Line Trolley Museum, 17 River Street, East Haven, CT.
Take an unforgettable ride aboard an ancient trolley with hosts who will turn your evening into a journey you will never forget. Be part of an exclusive interactive Halloween event that is limited to only 40 passengers per adventure. The all-new event, including a pre-ride orientation and introduction to the plot, is an interactive 30-45 minute show/presentation combining an alien invasion, thrills, theater, audience participation, and a heavy dose of comedy – where you help decide the outcome of this curated UFO adventure.
Expect fun + mystery + a lot of laughs.
** This event is produced by TheHauntedTrolley and not by The Shore Line Trolley Museum – museum membership discounts and complimentary passes do not apply
Alien Invasion: Connecticut An Out-of-this-world Halloween Adventure!
Show up for your creative self this fall with the Saturday Drawing Club. Our theme is illustrate your life!
Draw upon personal stories, family recipes, and favorite places while creating and learning about sequential art, with weekly prompts and materials combined with a mix of conversation, creative time, and feedback.
Saturday Drawing Club: Illustrate your life
Early learners and their families, start your weekends at the YCBA with stories that bring our exhibitions to life with imagination, wonder, and fun.
This engaging 30-minute story time in our galleries features books that highlight themes and ideas in William Blake: Burning Bright.
Story Time | William Blake
Once again Spectrum Art Gallery will have pieces that feature the colors and textures of Fall as we say goodbye to Summer and turn the gallery into an autumn adventure.
The show opens with a reception on Friday, September 19, 6:30 - 8:30pm with wine and food. The Open House Weekend is Saturday,September 20, from 1-6 pm and Sunday, September 21, 1-5pm. The show closes on November 8, 2025.
Emerging Autumn
Learn the steps to paint beautiful mountains receding into the distance in watercolor. No drawing experience is necessary, but you will need to make a simple, light sketch onto proper watercolor paper before painting. Instructor will explain and demonstrate each stage to help you complete this painting. Just a few colors and a few brushes, particularly large flat ones (plus other basic watercolor supplies) are needed to paint this motif, but if you don’t have large brushes, we can share. Material list available upon registration.
Bivenne Harvey Staiger is known for her colorful, dramatic watercolors of natural motifs she loves, like birds, other animals and flowers, and is the recipient of many prestigious awards. Among the most recent is the Silver Medal from the American Watercolor Society’s 152nd International Exhibition (2019). She is professionally affiliated with many art groups, including but not limited to the Salmagundi Club, American Artists’ Professional League, Academic Artists Association, Connecticut Academy of Fine Artists, Connecticut Watercolor Society, and many others. Bivenne regularly gives instruction, demonstrations and workshops in watercolor, and in fact has an upcoming weekend workshop, focusing on painting flowers in watercolor, at Yale Peabody Museum in August. At least two major solo exhibitions and a few group exhibitions featuring her work, including Spectrum Gallery in Centerbrook, Connecticut, are scheduled for the end of this year and next.
Paint a Misty Mountain Workshop in Watercolor
Join a volunteer museum educator to explore one of the most original and enigmatic figures in British art. William Blake: Burning Bright features the YCBA’s extraordinary Blake holdings, including his illuminated books, watercolors, and hand-colored prints. Discover how Blake fused image and text to express radical ideas about religion, politics, and the human spirit during a time of global upheaval.
Tours meet in the Entrance Court by the Visitor Services desk.
Tour of William Blake
FINAL STOP: ALIEN INVASION
OCTOBER 3, 4, 10, 11, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 31 and NOV. 1
FOR TICKETS OR MORE INFO VISIT THEHAUNTEDTROLLEY.COM
THE HAUNTED TROLLEY proudly presents ALIEN INVASION: CONNECTICUT. An Exclusive OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD Experience at the Shore Line Trolley Museum, 17 River Street, East Haven, CT.
Take an unforgettable ride aboard an ancient trolley with hosts who will turn your evening into a journey you will never forget. Be part of an exclusive interactive Halloween event that is limited to only 40 passengers per adventure. The all-new event, including a pre-ride orientation and introduction to the plot, is an interactive 30-45 minute show/presentation combining an alien invasion, thrills, theater, audience participation, and a heavy dose of comedy – where you help decide the outcome of this curated UFO adventure.
Expect fun + mystery + a lot of laughs.
** This event is produced by TheHauntedTrolley and not by The Shore Line Trolley Museum – museum membership discounts and complimentary passes do not apply
Alien Invasion: Connecticut An Out-of-this-world Halloween Adventure!
In this festive fall sewing class, students will learn basic skills like hand stitching, embroidery, and how to use a sewing machine. We’ll design and sew original costumes—for yourself, a pet, a doll, or anyone you choose—perfect for Halloween or any dress-up occasion.
No store-bought ideas here—bring your imagination and get creative! Fabric scraps will be provided, but students are welcome to bring textiles from home to reuse and recycle.
Let’s get stitching and bring your ideas to life!
Tuition for this class includes a fee of $20 for materials provided by CAW.
Fun with Sewing:Costumes Edition
All Aboard the Pumpkin Patch Trolley at the Shore Line Trolley Museum!
Bring the whole family to enjoy a fun-filled fall adventure at the Shore Line Trolley Museum’s Pumpkin Patch , running weekends in October & on Monday, October 13th!
What’s Included?
- Take a scenic trolley ride to our pumpkin patch!
- Pick your perfect sugar pumpkin to take home!
- Enjoy seasonal activities and fall-themed fun for all ages!
Join us for a magical autumn day your family won’t forget!
School Groups, Daycares, Large Groups:
· Special charter weekend and weekday rates are available for groups of 12 or more
Dates: Weekends in October
All Aboard the Pumpkin Patch Trolley
Once again Spectrum Art Gallery will have pieces that feature the colors and textures of Fall as we say goodbye to Summer and turn the gallery into an autumn adventure.
The show opens with a reception on Friday, September 19, 6:30 - 8:30pm with wine and food. The Open House Weekend is Saturday,September 20, from 1-6 pm and Sunday, September 21, 1-5pm. The show closes on November 8, 2025.
Emerging Autumn
In this workshop celebrate with friends and family the mysterious but highly creative Halloween holiday by learning to craft four Halloween cards. Learn to use paper strips, ink, die cuts and explore card layout and composition. Take home a detailed instruction workshop sheet, list of supplies, information about the techniques and photos of the card/s. To make more cards at home, you will receive a kit which will include white cardstock, die cut pieces, coordinating colored cardstock and any other supplies needed to make more cards on your own. All cards made in the workshop include envelopes.
Introducing Nancy Souza, a teacher, mixed media artist and crafter. Creating unique cards and paper projects using a variety of techniques, colorful cardstock and card layouts including inks, stencils, collage, upcycled vintage items, and more. Souza is a certified teacher, teaching at the elementary & high school levels and graduate level courses at Sacred Heart University Griswold High School campus, including her 6th Year post graduate level.
Twenty-six years ago, a teaching colleague suggested Nancy sign up for a local card making class and the rest is history. It’s been an interesting and rewarding crafting journey both taking classes, sharing with crafting friends and teaching fellow crafters. Souza is a proud Certified Educator, completing 85 cards/projects posted on her Blog and a virtual class demo. Now she is creating samples for Altenew using new release items…and of course, her favorite color is glitter!
Souza’s work is currently exhibited at Spectrum Gallery in Centerbrook, Connecticut.
Halloween Cardmaking & Paper Techniques
Join our volunteer museum educators for an in-depth tour of the museum’s iconic building, designed by modernist architect Louis I. Kahn (1901–1974).
Tours meet in the Entrance Court by the Visitor Services desk.
Tour of the YCBA Architecture
FINAL STOP: ALIEN INVASION
OCTOBER 3, 4, 10, 11, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 31 and NOV. 1
FOR TICKETS OR MORE INFO VISIT THEHAUNTEDTROLLEY.COM
THE HAUNTED TROLLEY proudly presents ALIEN INVASION: CONNECTICUT. An Exclusive OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD Experience at the Shore Line Trolley Museum, 17 River Street, East Haven, CT.
Take an unforgettable ride aboard an ancient trolley with hosts who will turn your evening into a journey you will never forget. Be part of an exclusive interactive Halloween event that is limited to only 40 passengers per adventure. The all-new event, including a pre-ride orientation and introduction to the plot, is an interactive 30-45 minute show/presentation combining an alien invasion, thrills, theater, audience participation, and a heavy dose of comedy – where you help decide the outcome of this curated UFO adventure.
Expect fun + mystery + a lot of laughs.
** This event is produced by TheHauntedTrolley and not by The Shore Line Trolley Museum – museum membership discounts and complimentary passes do not apply
Alien Invasion: Connecticut An Out-of-this-world Halloween Adventure!
All are welcome to join us for a concert of organ music by Janette Fishell performed on Yale’s Newberry Organ. The concert is part of the Great Organ Music at Yale series. Janette Fishell is professor of music at the Jacobs School of Music.
Free and open to the public.
Repertoire includes works by Howells, Tournier, Reger, Barraine and Eben.
Contact: Clifton Massey
Artist bio:
Janette Fishell is professor of music at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, where she teaches Applied Organ and Organ Pedagogy. Her students have distinguished careers as performers, educators, and church musicians throughout the US, Europe, and Asia. Chair of the Organ Department from 2009-2023, she resumes that role in 2025, leading an innovative team of educators committed to shaping future leaders in the fields of church music, performance and pedagogy.
A frequent guest artist and teacher at conservatories, universities and concert series throughout the United States, she has been a featured solo recitalist at five national conventions of the American Guild of Organists and in July, 2024, became the first female recitalist to present the endowed Saint Cecelia Recital at the Biennial Convention of the AGO in San Francisco. In addition, she frequently plays concert tours in Europe, the United Kingdom and Asia and regularly teaches at international summer schools in the US and Europe. Dr. Fishell concertizes throughout North America under the management of Karen McFarlane Artists.
Widely recognized as a leading authority on the organ music of the Petr Eben, she recently completed Velvet Revolution, a two volume, six-disc collection of that composer’s complete solo organ works for the Dutch classical music label Brilliant Classics. Volume one, issued in October 2022, garnered international critical praise, earning a place on Germany’s prestigious Schalpattenkritik’s best new keyboard recordings list of 2022; volume two will be released in mid-2025.
Other performance projects since joining the IU faculty include cycles of the complete organ works of J.S. Bach, César Franck, a recording of Beethoven’s complete works for organ and mechanical clock for NAXOS, and collaboration with percussionist Joseph Gramley, her colleague at the Jacobs School of Music. Other recordings for the NAXOS, Pro Organo and Loft labels feature her as organ soloist, accompanist, choral conductor and composer.
A life-long church musician, she is the recipient of the Paul Creston Award for contributions to sacred music and was named Young Organist of the Year by Keyboard Arts, Inc. while an undergraduate student. She has served as organist and organist/choirmaster at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Greenville, NC, The Episcopal Church of All Saints, Indianapolis, Interim Organist at Christ Church Episcopal Cathedral, Indianapolis, and is now Director of Music/Organist at Trinity Episcopal Church, Bloomington. Her compositions have been published by St. James Music Press, Wayne Leupold Editions, and Morning Star Music.
Future projects include research in the field of organ pedagogy, an exploration that will lay the foundation for a book on the subject.
Great Organ Music at Yale with Janette Fishell
Explore the shapes and patterns of the natural world through the art of papercutting.
Students will learn to design and cut original compositions using freehand techniques with precision tools and fine scissors. Beginning with simple forms and gradually advancing in complexity, all work is created at a manageable 5 x 7″ scale. Finished papercuts are assembled into a hand-crafted softcover book featuring framed pockets to hold and display the artwork. A reusable page template allows for flexible expansion. The final result will be a beautifully bound collection of intricate, personal designs.
We will also take a field trip to a local professional paper cutter’s studio and gallery for a demonstration.
This is a course for both beginners and those with some experience. Many of the basic skills of bookbinding will be taught including measuring, cutting, folding, and gluing.
Enrollment in this class includes one 3 hour monitored practice session a week.
Tuition for this class includes a fee of $8 for basic materials provided by CAW.
This class will take place in a studio accessed by a flight of stairs. For any accommodations please send a confidential email to registrar@creativeartsworkshop.org
A Book of Papercutting
Once again Spectrum Art Gallery will have pieces that feature the colors and textures of Fall as we say goodbye to Summer and turn the gallery into an autumn adventure.
The show opens with a reception on Friday, September 19, 6:30 - 8:30pm with wine and food. The Open House Weekend is Saturday,September 20, from 1-6 pm and Sunday, September 21, 1-5pm. The show closes on November 8, 2025.
Emerging Autumn
In this 5-sessoin class, children ages 7-11 years old create felted jewelry, animals, flowers and hair clips using wet and needle felting techniques. All materials included. No experience is necessary.
Cathy Lovell’s lifelong interest in the creative arts continues to guide her through a gratifying career as both art educator and studio artist. A graduate of the University of New Hampshire and Wesleyan University, Cathy has taught in the Newton, MA, Greenwich, CT and East Lyme, CT public school systems. She has also taught private classes in various fields including stained glass, jewelry making and silver work, enameling, ceramics, glass bead making, and quilting.
In the interest of furthering her own education, Cathy received a scholarship to attend the Pilchuck Glass School where she worked with Dale Chihuly and Patrick Reyntiens. Her interest in felting began with a workshop led by Lynne Ocone at the Guilford Art Center. Cathy is a member of the Northeast Felt makers Guild where she has had the privilege of participating in classes given by world renowned felt makers. Cathy credits her friend and fellow felt maker Catherine Stebinger with sharing ongoing creative energy, inspiration, and encouragement. Her work is currently exhibited at Spectrum Gallery in Centerbrook, Connecticut.
The Timeless Craft of Felting for Children
In this 5-week painting class, children ages 7-11 years old paint a landscape inspired by Shel Silverstein’s book, The Giving Tree, create an African collage and alphabet art as they learn to use watercolor, tempura and acrylic paint. They become familiar with the work of artists Stuart Davis and Yayoi Kusama. As they study African patterns from Ghana, they learn the types of collage used in these art forms. Other fun 3-D projects are designing Kindness Rocks each with a positive saying or wish and the seasonal pumpkin with a variety of polka dot patterns in the style of Kusama. This is a fun, seasonal painting class where children learn a variety of art techniques and become comfortable with several fine art mediums. No experience necessary. All materials included.. Happy Fall!
Sharon Lee Mullen-Reynolds knew in High School that she was to be an Art teacher. That is exactly what she did; for 36 years she taught Visual Art in the city of New Haven. Her career hi-light was teaching 22 years at the Betsy Ross Arts Magnet Middle School. During her tenure there she was a published Fellow at Yale N.H.Teachers Institute for 2 years, the Department Chairperson for 8 years and creator of As Far As The Eye Can See a school-wide art exhibit.
Since her retirement in 2016, she has been attending numerous art exhibits and installations locally and in NYC, specifically Frida Kahlo’s exhibit at the Brooklyn Art Museum which led her to create Frida- inspired floral headpieces. In 2017 she started The Kindness Rock art installation at the Branford Festival.
Sharon is an artist who believes that art can heal your soul. In 2022 she sold her headpieces at the Ukrainian Roman Catholic church for the benefit of Ukraine’s War effort and donated 5 Ukrainian Strong “Petals for Peace” paintings to raise additional funds. These paintings were showcased on Channel 8 news.
In addition to her headpieces, Sharon works in mixed-media, crafts, collage, and watercolor landscape en plein air. Sharon’s artwork has been exhibited at City-Wide Open Studios, The ARTS Council, Calligraphers Guild, and is currently exhibited at Spectrum Gallery in Centerbrook, Connecticut.
Seasonal Painting for Children Ages 7-11
Once again Spectrum Art Gallery will have pieces that feature the colors and textures of Fall as we say goodbye to Summer and turn the gallery into an autumn adventure.
The show opens with a reception on Friday, September 19, 6:30 - 8:30pm with wine and food. The Open House Weekend is Saturday,September 20, from 1-6 pm and Sunday, September 21, 1-5pm. The show closes on November 8, 2025.
Emerging Autumn
This exhibition will be on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Miller Hall at 406 Prospect Street, New Haven from October 9 - December 5 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12 - 4 p.m., except for Thanksgiving week, when the ISM is closed.
Lucasen Brown: Stanza presents a series of twenty intimate-scaled abstract paintings developed during Brown's time at Yale Institute of Sacred Music/Yale Divinity School (2023-2025). The exhibition also includes a selection of works on paper with corresponding poems by 2025 ISM graduate Emily Chan from a small book-length collaboration.
Each painting has an association for the artist: a life event, a place, a feeling, a person. Brown explores ways the painting process weaves memory, trauma and spiritual repair: "Wholeness, to me, is when I am just a painter in the world who allows a world of feeling into my abstract paintings—a place where everything belongs.” The paintings hold space for viewers to consider their own healing through faith, noticing, and remaining open to uncertainty.
Paint, for Brown, becomes both a surface and a subject. The artist hopes the paintings evoke corporeality, silence, interiority, and sacred everydayness. The repetition of marks on the painting surfaces is meditative and accretive.
The paintings are informed by textile, specifically Lenore Tawney's open-warp weavings; art movements including Minimalism and Pattern Painting and Decoration; and essays, namely Roland Barthes' theory of text and textile.
The exhibition traces the paintings’ transition from grid-based abstraction to a more intuitive and emotionally attuned process that pushes beyond the limitation of the grid. The artist realized his painting world, emotional and liberative, could no longer be confined to a grid.
Free and open to the public.
Exhibition curated by Lucasen Brown.
All are welcome to join us for an opening reception for this art exhibit on Wednesday, October 8 at 5 p.m.
Contact: Anesu Nyamupingidza
Art credit: Lucasen Brown, Just Walking Around, Oil on Linen, 2025
Lucasen Brown: Stanza (Art Exhibition)
This class focuses on learning to draw detailed fall botanicals using colored pencil. Each week focuses on a different topic supplied by the instructor. Participants will learn about form, light and shading. There is a $10 materials fee due to the instructor at the start of session one.
Nancy Bentivegna is a botanical artist who received her training at the New York Botanical Gardens through the Botanical Art and Illustration Program. After completing the program in 2010, she relocated to Boston. For the past eleven years she has been teaching a variety of botanical art classes in Boston and the greater Boston area. These courses are based on the instruction she received at the NYBG and include colored pencil, graphite, pen and ink and watercolor pencil.
Nancy prefers to work in watercolor pencil combined with colored pencil for depth and detail. She does custom pieces for clients both in the Boston area and New York. She recently relocated to Essex and will be offering classes at the Spectrum Gallery in Centerbrook.
Fall Botanicals in Colored Pencils
Once again Spectrum Art Gallery will have pieces that feature the colors and textures of Fall as we say goodbye to Summer and turn the gallery into an autumn adventure.
The show opens with a reception on Friday, September 19, 6:30 - 8:30pm with wine and food. The Open House Weekend is Saturday,September 20, from 1-6 pm and Sunday, September 21, 1-5pm. The show closes on November 8, 2025.
