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48 Hours of Art - First Night Hartford
Accepting Artists Submissions: for FREE public event
Artists in Real Time board member Phillip Fortune is preparing an installation that will be part of 48 Hours of Art - First Night Hartford.
Greater Hartford area artists can submit their work to be projected during the First Night Hartford event. Image files MUST be received by December 20 2007 to be eligible to be included in the event. Image quality, locale and appropriateness of imagery are important to be included in this Greater Hartford family event.
The 48 Hours of Art project headed by Anne Cubberly consists of installations by Greater Hartford area artists.
Submission Requirements - read on.
Wim-Bash 2007 - Live Music at it's best
Hartford CT - WIM-BASH! 2007NovaSound and Sully's Pub Present Wim-Bash - August 11 2007
Living Colour - Corey Glover, Will Calhoun, Vernon Reid, Doug Wimbish
Little Axe - Doug, Skip McDonald, Keith Leblanc
Red Lotus
OTHERWISE
Rolla
Jaeme Brennan
Desiree Bassett
John McCarthy
Saa Bell
Kevin Gibbs
Rod & Steve
Tiki Time House Party
Djs, Spoken Word...
Download a poster
Call for Entries - Radius: Emerging Artists from CT and Southeastern NY
CALL FOR ENTRIES!
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and Ridgefield Guild of Artists
Radius: Emerging Artists from Connecticut and Southeastern New York
The jamie strange gypsy jam: Free Live Music Show
The jamie strange gypsy jam.Monday, May 28th at 8 p.m. at Charter Oak Cultural Center
FREE! All Ages!
After roaming the globe in true techno-gypsy fashion, jamie strange have come back home to film a set of their greatest hits in front of an appreciative audience. Angela Grano, Chris Phillips, Johnny Steiber and James Petrus come together again to breathe life into the dynamic, award-winning, original band jamie strange followed by an electric gypsy tribal jam!
Refreshments will be provided.
Charter Oak Cultural Center
21 Charter Oak Avenue
Hartford, CT 06106
www.charteroakcenter.org
Artists in Real Time - Free Workshops
Third of three free monthly programs for artists
Photographing Your Artwork.
Thursday, June 14th at 6:00 p.m.
Hartford Public Library, 550 Main Street, 3rd floor program room.
Phil Fortune, of Fortune Works, will share tips and techniques for artists on photographing their work for submitting for exhibitions, presentation, marketing, publications, internet and archiving. He will discuss use of high and low resolution, lighting, and background. For over 12 years, Fortune Work's designer capabilities include advanced web page design, search engine optimization/marketing, conventional photography, digital photography, and QuickTime VR panoramas.
Real pARTy 07 - Real Art Ways
Saturday, April 14, 2007, 7pm - Midnight
Dress: Creative Black Tie
Is it really the coolest party of the year? Come see for yourself.
Martinis, burlesque, pancakes at midnight, and an original work of art to take home – all that and truly fabulous and surprising auction items.
We sold out the real pARTy ’05 and the real pARTy ’06 – don’t be left out of this one!
Tickets are available now.
$175 per person
860.232.1006 x115
WIM-BASH! = BESTEST Live Music show to hit Hartford!
OK, If there is a music experience not to miss - this is one of them! Doug Wimbish [Bassist/Producer - Surgar Hill Studio Band, Living Colour, Madonna, Rolling Stones - you name it!] is bringing an incredible collection of Artists to Hartford CT! The line up include Skip McDonald, Keith Leblanc (orig. Sugar Hill folks with Doug), Will Calhoun (Living Colour etc), Marky G, Desiree Bassett (Phenom 13 year old guitarists (watch her on the Flying V 3rd tune in)), Hartford's own 4 time winner Hartford Advocate Grand Band Slam "Best Vocalist" - Angela Luna (Grano),
WIM-BASH! at Sully's Pub Saturday August 5 2006 - From 5:00 pm on.
And it's a celebration of Skip McDonald's Birthday to boot!
Snap! Hartford teen photgraphy group exhibit
Snap! is the name a group of students named there group as part of the Greater Hartford Arts Councils Neighborhood Studios summer programs.The Snap! group was based out of Wadsworth Antheneum under the auspices of The Amistad Center. Snap! has an exhibit that will have an opening reception at the Wadsworth on Thursday Aug 3, 6pm. Free!
The show is titled:
Stay! - perspectives of hartford
August 3 - August 6, 2006
Snap! has a website with images and statements from all of the artist.
The Neighborhood Studios - Snap!
Paisley Ramirez - Astounding Sax Player
I heard Paisley Ramirez for the first time last weekend at the Cracker Barrel in Tarrifville CT - WHAT A MIND BLOWING SAXOPHONIST!!!
Betty Friedman
Simsburt CT artist Betty says"I follow the tradition of abstract art that was introduced to me by my maternal grandmother, New York Greenwich Village artist Golee who worked in clay and gouache. As a graduate of Goddard College in Fine Art and Photography, I have spent years studying in museums and with professional artists. As the Director of the Farmington Valley Arts Center in Avon, CT for 20 years, I worked with artists and built a recognized artists community. "
See - Simsbury CT artist Betty Friedman's Drawings, Collage, Photography & Paintings
Bass, How Low Can You Go - The Story Of Sugarhill House Band Bassist Doug Wimbish By JayQuan
Speaking of a national treasure... Hartford's own Doug Wimbish was interviewed by JayQuan in January 2006. The importance of Doug within the history of Hip Hop and the various genres that followed, is not out there.
I saw some Hip Hop conference or something happening at Trinty College and it's a shame the younger people putting on these things don't know who they could tap into right in their own back yard.
Great interview with information you might not have known.
track = "The Message – Definitely. That melody line I came up with, even thought I don’t get credited with it. That was an interesting time. That was the song that turned everything upside down!! We worked on that record. Everything stopped when we started on that song. When Sylvia smelled a hit all other recordings stop, and everyone had to wait till that song was done. Me Skip (McDonald) and Ed Fletcher (Duke Bootee) were all listening to "My Life In The Bush of Ghosts" by Brian Eno and smoking weed. That’s where that song came from. That real tripped out trancy sound had never been done in R&B, pop or any other music."
"This is the story of the journeyman bassist Doug Wimbish..."
http://www.jayquan.com/dwimbish.htm
Jackie McLean - Hartford Jazz Great - passed on Friday
One of the truly great Jazz masters, Jackie McLean passed on Friday eve. I was amazed that the legendary McLean was teaching at th University of Hartford when I went to Art School there. I mean I didn't think that someone with his history and skills would be working with youths of my age.. I mean... why? But that was just part of who Mr. McLean was. He really believed in education and thrived in the enthusiasm of learning and feeling.Dolly McLean and Jackie started the Artists Collective with that enthusiasm and I have totally respected and believe in the Artist's Collective's mission from my first knowledge of it. Back in my early days on the web I had decided to first put sites for organzations that I felt deserved more exposure. The Artist's Collective was one of the first web sites I ever posted. The Artist's Collective, the old Craftery Gallery, Judy Dworin Performance Ensemble and a few others were the first sites i put up for free as I could see no one else was going to to be funding sites for them.
The original Artist's Collective site on xenarts, done in 1995
I'm sure Dolly, Jackie's mentees, and the Artist's Collective will continue to help influence and educate young minds and spirits in a postive energy for many years to come.
Anne Hebebrand - contemporary abstract painting
Anne Hebebrand’s contemporary and abstract paintings are poetic expressions in color. Hebebrand combines subtle color combinations and graphic detail to create works that are a delight to the eye. Color, lines and shapes interact with each other creating a wonderful choreography. Anne Hebebrand's contemporary and abstract paintings
Susbhobha Jenner - Decorative Art Murals
Resident earns teaching award - 'AVON POST'
By:Ken Harrison, Staff Writer - 01/05/2006
Before she moved to Avon in 2003, Jenner was a teacher at the Sacred Heart Academy in Stamford, where she taught advanced mathematics, a career that she has continued at the University of Hartford's University High School of Science and Engineering in Hartford for the past two years. Jenner, who came to the United States with her family from India in 1997, started her professional career in her newly adopted home as a computer project analyst before taking her teaching position at Sacred Heart and then in Hartford.
Stephen Brown - Painter - talks about having a stroke
Friend, artist, and professor at Hartford Art School, Stephen Brown had a stroke last year and has been working within his art to return to a sense of himself. I think there is great value in keeping awareness of everthing & everyone that is around us,... as much as we can.I am posting a recent letter from Stephen Brown in hoping that it will help others, if nothing other than to remind fellow artists that we are all in this together. And that we are all so lucky to be able to make art at all, and how art and relationships have aided in Stephen's recovery.
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Stephen Pat Brown
On Oct 8 I suffered a stroke. I lost use of my left hand and have had difficulty with my right. I am right -handed. The stroke changed everything. I took so much for granted. I was afraid that I would never be able to make art again. I know that sounds dramatic, but it was and is my fear even today.
I also lost my sense of smell and taste. As a result I have had great difficulty in eating. All perfumes, scented soaps, cooking foods, make me ill. This may never be recovered. But, I can accept that, because the use of my hands has returned. Not the way I was, but I can use them. I can now grasp a brush and I can draw with pastel...
Judith Bird Murals and Faux Finishes in Connecticut
Judith Bird does Fine Art and Interior Design work that is displayed in many private homes, businesses, and public institutions in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
Judith's web site and gallery of her work has joined the xenarts community using an artist hosting solution from Fortune Works Web Hosting.Judith Bird's Murals and Faux Finishes CT - Connecticut - New England
Christina Brine sells condos to Hartford creatives!
Christina Brine's new web site is in the process of supplying artist and professionals that want to buy a Condo or House in the Greater hartford area of Connecticut that fit their personalities and work styles. Christina is a ERA Sales Associate that has been involved in the Hartford art scene for over 10 years. So if you would like to buy a condo in the Hartford Connecticut area check out what Christina can find for you.
Buy or Sales of condos, a condominium or house in or around Hartford CT
Angela Luna Grano - nee jamie strange
I know there have been people wondering where our good friend Angela Luna Grano vocalists for Hartford's own jamie strange band, has gotten off to. WELL our Ms. Angela Luna has been out in California and doing some gigs around LA. To name drop a couple... Key Club, The Temple Bar. We send Ang our best and hey... make sure she keeps us up to date with what is going on.
Visit Angela Luna to say Hey and ask her "what up" in the LA music scene.
Felix Bronner - Oil Painter - Collages
One reviewer has characterized Felix Bronner's work as “in a controlled but playful style, not unlike Chagall’s two distinctive abstract works.” Another speaks of Bronner’s abstractions as “complex in their compositions, but never visually overwhelming,” “charged with beautifully orchestrated colors,” “stunning and gentle.”Felix Bronner's Oil Paintings and Collages
Elisabeth Moss - Artist - Expressive Art Workshops
Elisabeth Moss is an artist whose paintings reflect themes of the shamanic feminine, mystery, love and whimsy. She passionately believes in the power of art to heal and voice the intuitive
beauty within.Elisabeth gives workshops in Expressive Art:
"Expressive art is a process which uses any art form~ painting, drawing, sculpture, collage, movement, sound making, music, poetry, journaling etc. to express authentic emotions and feelings for the purpose of healing, wellbeing, deeper connection to Self & others, grounding, and an overall experience of ALIVEness."
Art and Expressive Art Workshops by Elisabeth Moss
