May/June 2025

Bellarmine Hall Galleries, opening May 2: Famous & Family: Through the Lens of Trude Fleischmann. This landmark exhibition is the first solo museum presentation of Austrian-born photographer Trude Fleischmann’s (1895–1990) work to be presented in the U.S. Walsh Gallery (Quick Center), ongoing: An Gorta Mór: Selections from Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum. This exhibition presents highlights of the Ireland Great Hunger Museum’s collection, exploring the impact of the Irish Famine of 1845–1952 through artwork from the past 170 years.

May 4–June 22: Old In Art School: Colleen Coleman, Howard el-Yasin, Sarah Heinemann, Amos Paul Kennedy Jr, Mary Lesser, Susan Luss, Barbara Marks, Barbara Owen, Nell Painter, Gina Palacios, Allison Pasquesi, Carl Patow. Opening May 25: Fethi Meghelli & Fabiana Comas Risquez, Kasey Ramirez, Michelle Young Lee. Reception: Sunday, May 4, 1–4:30 p.m. with panel discussion Sharon Louden’s Last Artist Standing book tour.

The Bruce Museum is a world-class institution offering a changing array of exceptional exhibitions and educational programs that cultivate discovery and wonder through the power of art and science. Opening March 6: On Thin Ice: Alaska’s Warming Wilderness. Opening April 4: Isamu Noguchi: Metal the Mirror. Through April 27: Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist. Kenji Nakahashi: Strange Beauty. Ongoing: The Art of Work: Painting Labor in Nineteenth-Century Denmark. Nature’s Impressions: The Modernist Landscape. Hockney/Origins: Works from the Roy B. and Edith J. Simpson Collection. Tara Donovan: Aggregations. Gabriel Dawe: Plexus no. 43. The Robert R. Wiener Mineral Gallery. Permanent Science Galleries: Natural Cycles Shape our Land. Admission: Adults $20, Students/Sr. Citizens $15. Free for children under 5; free on Tuesdays.

Through June 22: Their Kindred Earth: Photographs by William Earle Williams. Williams’ poignant images make visible little-known sites significant to enslavement, emancipation, and African Americans’ contributions to Connecticut history and culture. The photos prompt viewers to consider familiar landscapes in a new light and to imagine, perhaps for the first time, what life was like for enslaved people in Connecticut 200 years ago.

The Gallery’s encyclopedic holdings range from ancient times to the present day and represent cultures from around the globe. Through January 5: The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876–1917. Opening February 21: David Goldblatt: No Ulterior Motive. Free and open to the public.

Ongoing: Modern Women: Georgia O’Keeffe & Kay Sage; The Art of Elizabeth Catlett From the Collection of Samella Lewis & The Art of Leisure. Opening June 22: Debut location for The Body Imagined: Figurative Art in the Bank of America Collection. This exhibition has been loaned through the Bank of America Art in Our Communities® program. Join the Mattatuck in exciting adventures in art and history.

May 3–11: The second round of BFA Thesis Exhibitions features the painting, printmaking, and sculpture departments in Joseloff Gallery for Outro/Interlude, and students from the ceramics, integrated media arts, and photography departments in Silpe Gallery for searching, the same as you. Opening reception: Saturday, May 3, 6–7 p.m. May 16–24: Post Baccalaureate ceramics students host Acts of Preservation, in Joseloff Gallery. Opening reception: Friday, May 16, 6–8 p.m. Opening May 30–June 28: MEANDERS/MEANDRE: Romanian Artists in CT brings together Romanian-born artists practicing in the Northeast U.S. and in Romania and invites the audience to ask: What experiences mold and erode our paths? What do we carry with us, what do we leave behind? What journeys have marked us, unfolding in our art?