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SUMMARY:Opening Reception: Art\, Jazz + The Blues with WestPAC
DESCRIPTION:Register Here For the Opening Reception. \nArt\, Jazz + the Blues is a collaboration between the Westport Public Art Collections (WestPAC) + MoCA\CT. \nThis exhibit\, curated by Anne Boberski\, Ive Covaci and the WestPAC Committee—explores the powerful intersections between visual art and music\, drawing from the rich holdings of the Westport Public Art Collections (WestPAC). \nThe exhibition centers on Giants of the Blues\, a sweeping series of seven group portraits by Westport native Eric von Schmidt (1931–2007) honoring blues\, jazz\, and folk musicians from the 1920s to the 1960s. Complementing von Schmidt’s paintings are approximately forty artworks from the WestPAC collection depicting musicians\, inspired by musical themes\, or exploring the resonances between musical and visual forms. A selection of important loans from galleries\, museums\, artists and private collections deepen the conversation\, and a screening room features historic performance footage of musicians portrayed in von Schmidt’s paintings. As the jazz great Charlie Parker once said\, the show invites visitors to “hear with your eyes and see with your ears.” \nWestport has long been home to a thriving community of artists and musicians. Since the early 20th century\, the town has attracted generations of illustrators\, painters\, performers\, composers\, and cultural innovators\, and this exhibition highlights the interconnections between artists in our own community and their relationship to broader national and international movements. Today\, music and the visual arts remain a vital part of Westport’s identity\, nurtured through its many performing arts venues\, public art collection\, schools awarded for excellence in music and arts education\, and creative networks. Art\, Jazz + the Blues celebrates this legacy while looking forward to its vibrant future. \nEric von Schmidt’s deep connection to blues and folk music traces back to his youth in Westport\, where he often painted alongside his father\, esteemed illustrator Harold von Schmidt (1893–1982). He fell in love with the blues when he heard Leadbelly on the radio\, and early exposure to the Smithsonian’s music archives ignited a lifelong passion. After graduating from Staples High School and studying at the Art Students League and in Italy on a Fulbright\, von Schmidt moved to Cambridge\, MA\, where he became a central figure in the American folk revival. A prolific artist\, performer\, and mentor to musicians like Bob Dylan and Joan Baez\, von Schmidt also designed album covers and authored prize-winning books on music. Dylan once described him as “a man who can sing the bird off the wire and the rubber off a tire.” \nMoCA\CT is grateful to the generous support of Art\, Jazz + the Blues sponsors Conlon Amendola\, Attorneys at Law + Design Within Reach + The Ellis Family + Bill and Jodi Felton + Hofstetter Baron Group + Honda of Westport + KMS Team at COMPASS + Cynthia and Carl Muller + Joyce Pauker + Russell Insurance + Sabina and Harlan Stone + The Joyce Thompson Art Fund \nMoCA\CT is also grateful to the generous support of Art\, Jazz + the Blues partners A&S Fine Foods + Chocolatieree/ Laureen “Ree” Haynes + Imageworks + Westport Journal + Dan Woog/ 06880 + WPKN + WSHU
URL:https://mocact.org/events-calendar/opening-reception-art-jazz-the-blues-with-westpac/
LOCATION:MoCA\CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142215
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception: Enough Already
DESCRIPTION:Register Here: $10 general\, $8 for seniors + students \nEnough Already (formerly titled Riveting) was organized by the Dayton Art Institute and curated by Jerry Smith + Mariah Postlewait. \nThe MoCA\CT presentation is organized by the museum’s Arts Advisory Committee. \nEnough Already presents extraordinary art by contemporary women artists drawn from the significant private collection of Sara M. and Michelle Vance Waddell. This bold exhibition expresses the collectors’ personal interest in finding emergent artistic voices and powerful artistic statements that speak to prominent social issues of the day\, including those relating to LGBTQ+ communities and reproductive rights. All major mediums are included: paintings\, sculptures\, works on paper\, photographs and textiles. Themes range from humorous and irreverent to thought-provoking. \nThe show will feature internationally recognized artists including Louise Bourgeois\, Deborah Butterfield\, Barbara Kruger\, Ana Mendieta\, Catherine Opie\, Cindy Sherman\, Lorna Simpson\, Kiki Smith\, Mickalene Thomas\, and Carrie Mae Weems\, featured alongside under-recognized artists. One of the highlights will be Carolee Schneemann’s Interior Scroll (1974/75)\, a groundbreaking achievement of feminist art that remains relevant and controversial to this day. \nSara Vance Waddell is a Cincinnati-based arts philanthropist and advertising media executive who has been consciously collecting feminist-leaning art over much of the past decade. \nProgramming Overview \nTo accompany the exhibition\, MoCA\CT will host a series of special programs\, including conversations\, performances\, and film screenings: \n\nOn the Art of Collecting with Sara Vance Waddell | Thursday\, November 13\, 4:30pm\nOpening Reception | Thursday\, November 13\, 6–8pm\nStoryfest: Short films + spoken word performances curated by Dusty McCullough | Saturday\, November 22\, 6pm\nFilm Screening: Bloodroot followed by Q+A with Anne Laurie Medonis and book signing with Emily Larned | Tuesday\, December 2\, 6pm\nAdult art workshop: Encaustic collage with Leslie Giuliani – December 4\, 12pm\nCommunity Conversation: Gallery talk with Luciana McClure Lewis – January 8\, 6pm\nTeen art workshop: Mixed media with Peri Pfenninger – January 17\,  1–4pm\nCommunity Conversation: Gallery talk with Kathryn Turley-Sonne – January 29\, 6pm\nFilm screening: Eva Hesse followed by a Q+A with Marcie Begleiter – February 6\, 6pm\n\n  \nNote: This exhibition contains nude images and addresses sexual relations\, reproductive rights and violence.
URL:https://mocact.org/events-calendar/opening-reception-enough-already/
LOCATION:MoCA\CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251025T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251025T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142215
CREATED:20250829T152507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250829T152507Z
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SUMMARY:Docent-Led Exhibition Tour
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the current exhibition from an expert docent. No advance registration required; all tours included in Museum admission. Remember\, gallery admission is FREE for MoCA Members.
URL:https://mocact.org/events-calendar/docent-led-exhibition-tour-4/2025-10-25/
LOCATION:MoCA\CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142215
CREATED:20250829T152507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250829T152507Z
UID:10004720-1760792400-1760797800@mocact.org
SUMMARY:Docent-Led Exhibition Tour
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the current exhibition from an expert docent. No advance registration required; all tours included in Museum admission. Remember\, gallery admission is FREE for MoCA Members.
URL:https://mocact.org/events-calendar/docent-led-exhibition-tour-4/2025-10-18/
LOCATION:MoCA\CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251011T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251011T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142215
CREATED:20250829T152507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250829T152507Z
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SUMMARY:Docent-Led Exhibition Tour
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the current exhibition from an expert docent. No advance registration required; all tours included in Museum admission. Remember\, gallery admission is FREE for MoCA Members.
URL:https://mocact.org/events-calendar/docent-led-exhibition-tour-4/2025-10-11/
LOCATION:MoCA\CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251004T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251004T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142215
CREATED:20250319T162314Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250703T140035Z
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion with Tod Papageorge + Yale MFA alums
DESCRIPTION:MoCA CT presents a panel discussion between exhibiting artist\, Tod Papageorge and a select few alumni such as John Pilson from the Yale School of Art to discuss the history\, present and future of education on photography. This conversation will be moderated by the exhibition organizer\, photographer and educator\, Lisa Kereszi.\n\n\nRegister.
URL:https://mocact.org/events-calendar/panel-discussion-with-tod-papageorge-yale-mfa-alums/
LOCATION:MoCA\CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251004T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251004T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142215
CREATED:20250829T152507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250829T152507Z
UID:10004716-1759582800-1759588200@mocact.org
SUMMARY:Docent-Led Exhibition Tour
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the current exhibition from an expert docent. No advance registration required; all tours included in Museum admission. Remember\, gallery admission is FREE for MoCA Members.
URL:https://mocact.org/events-calendar/docent-led-exhibition-tour-4/2025-10-04/
LOCATION:MoCA\CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250927T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250927T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142215
CREATED:20250829T152507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250829T152507Z
UID:10004714-1758978000-1758983400@mocact.org
SUMMARY:Docent-Led Exhibition Tour
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the current exhibition from an expert docent. No advance registration required; all tours included in Museum admission. Remember\, gallery admission is FREE for MoCA Members.
URL:https://mocact.org/events-calendar/docent-led-exhibition-tour-4/2025-09-27/
LOCATION:MoCA\CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Exhibition
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mocact.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Docent-Tour.jpeg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250920T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250920T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142215
CREATED:20250829T152507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250829T152507Z
UID:10004712-1758373200-1758378600@mocact.org
SUMMARY:Docent-Led Exhibition Tour
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the current exhibition from an expert docent. No advance registration required; all tours included in Museum admission. Remember\, gallery admission is FREE for MoCA Members.
URL:https://mocact.org/events-calendar/docent-led-exhibition-tour-4/2025-09-20/
LOCATION:MoCA\CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Exhibition
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mocact.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Docent-Tour.jpeg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250918T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250918T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142215
CREATED:20250319T162138Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250508T174947Z
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Programming - Art talk with the Tod Papageorge + Lisa Kereszi
DESCRIPTION:Hear from the exhibiting artist of At the Beach\, Tod Papageorge\, in conversation with one of his former students — the organizer of this exhibition\, photographer and educator\, Lisa Kereszi. The two will discuss his process in making pictures\, developing the concept for this exhibition\, and reflect on directing the prestigious Yale MFA in Photography program for almost 35 years.\n\n\nRegister.
URL:https://mocact.org/events-calendar/art-talk-with-the-tod-papageorge-lisa-kereszi/
LOCATION:MoCA\CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250913T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250913T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142215
CREATED:20250829T152507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250829T152507Z
UID:10004710-1757768400-1757773800@mocact.org
SUMMARY:Docent-Led Exhibition Tour
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the current exhibition from an expert docent. No advance registration required; all tours included in Museum admission. Remember\, gallery admission is FREE for MoCA Members.
URL:https://mocact.org/events-calendar/docent-led-exhibition-tour-4/2025-09-13/
LOCATION:MoCA\CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Exhibition
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mocact.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Docent-Tour.jpeg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250906T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250906T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142215
CREATED:20250829T152507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250829T152507Z
UID:10004708-1757163600-1757169000@mocact.org
SUMMARY:Docent-Led Exhibition Tour
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the current exhibition from an expert docent. No advance registration required; all tours included in Museum admission. Remember\, gallery admission is FREE for MoCA Members.
URL:https://mocact.org/events-calendar/docent-led-exhibition-tour-4/2025-09-06/
LOCATION:MoCA\CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Exhibition
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mocact.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Docent-Tour.jpeg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250830T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250830T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142215
CREATED:20250829T152507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250829T152507Z
UID:10004706-1756558800-1756564200@mocact.org
SUMMARY:Docent-Led Exhibition Tour
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the current exhibition from an expert docent. No advance registration required; all tours included in Museum admission. Remember\, gallery admission is FREE for MoCA Members.
URL:https://mocact.org/events-calendar/docent-led-exhibition-tour-4/2025-08-30/
LOCATION:MoCA\CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Exhibition
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mocact.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Docent-Tour.jpeg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250823T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250823T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142215
CREATED:20250829T152507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250829T152507Z
UID:10004704-1755954000-1755959400@mocact.org
SUMMARY:Docent-Led Exhibition Tour
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the current exhibition from an expert docent. No advance registration required; all tours included in Museum admission. Remember\, gallery admission is FREE for MoCA Members.
URL:https://mocact.org/events-calendar/docent-led-exhibition-tour-4/2025-08-23/
LOCATION:MoCA\CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Exhibition
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mocact.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Docent-Tour.jpeg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142215
CREATED:20250319T161731Z
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SUMMARY:Community Conversation: Art Nager\, photographer Adult Photo / Storytelling
DESCRIPTION:Register. \nThroughout a 50 – year career as an artist and photo educator\, Arthur Nager has focused on documenting the social landscape\, the people\, structures and places that reflect the character of where and how we live. His goal has been to capture the details of our evolving culture to convey what is timeless and constant in our lives. \nThis presentation includes a survey of his black and white photographs from the 70’s made during trips across the country that capture aspects of the unique cultural landscape and the evolving photographic approach to the medium of the time. \nArthur Nager’s work incorporates chance\, circumstance\, and premonition with the element of irony. Relying on intuition\, he enables the viewer to experience a moment in time – to look past the initial painterly impact of color\, scale\, and form\, to extract meaning that is sometimes implied or disguised. \nNager’s work is part of educational and museum collections including The International Museum of Photography at The George Eastman House; The South Street Seaport Museum; Museum of Art\, Santa Cruz and the Kennebunk Museum in Maine.\nHis recent exhibit in 2025 at the Mattatuck Museum featured work documenting the towns of the Naugatuck Valley from 1988 – 2024. \nAbout Arthur Nager:\nArthur Nager earned his MFA in photography from Visual Studies Workshop and a BA in History and Psychology from the University of Rochester. Early in his career\, he worked at the George Eastman House and studied under Nathan Lyons and Syl Labrot. He taught at the Center of the Eye and Anderson Ranch Arts Center before becoming Director of the Photography Program at the University of Bridgeport\, where he expanded the curriculum and organized a photography lecture series featuring renowned artists such as Arnold Newman and Mary Ellen Mark. \nNager has exhibited widely\, including at the Mattatuck Museum\, Trinity College\, the Ilon Gallery\, and the FaheyBodell Umbrella Arts Gallery. His work\, which captures the evolving social landscape and architectural transformations\, is in the collections of institutions such as the George Eastman House and the South Street Seaport Museum. A recipient of numerous grants\, including a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant\, he continues to create\, exhibit\, and teach in Connecticut and NYC. \nTo learn more about Arthur Nager: https:www.arthurnager.com \n 
URL:https://mocact.org/events-calendar/community-conversation-art-nager/
LOCATION:MoCA\CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Exhibition
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mocact.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/art-nager.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250816T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250816T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142215
CREATED:20250829T152507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250829T152507Z
UID:10004702-1755349200-1755354600@mocact.org
SUMMARY:Docent-Led Exhibition Tour
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the current exhibition from an expert docent. No advance registration required; all tours included in Museum admission. Remember\, gallery admission is FREE for MoCA Members.
URL:https://mocact.org/events-calendar/docent-led-exhibition-tour-4/2025-08-16/
LOCATION:MoCA\CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Exhibition
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mocact.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Docent-Tour.jpeg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250809T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250809T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142215
CREATED:20250829T152507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250829T152507Z
UID:10004700-1754744400-1754749800@mocact.org
SUMMARY:Docent-Led Exhibition Tour
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the current exhibition from an expert docent. No advance registration required; all tours included in Museum admission. Remember\, gallery admission is FREE for MoCA Members.
URL:https://mocact.org/events-calendar/docent-led-exhibition-tour-4/2025-08-09/
LOCATION:MoCA\CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Exhibition
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mocact.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Docent-Tour.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250802T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250802T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142215
CREATED:20250829T152507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250829T152507Z
UID:10004698-1754139600-1754145000@mocact.org
SUMMARY:Docent-Led Exhibition Tour
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the current exhibition from an expert docent. No advance registration required; all tours included in Museum admission. Remember\, gallery admission is FREE for MoCA Members.
URL:https://mocact.org/events-calendar/docent-led-exhibition-tour-4/2025-08-02/
LOCATION:MoCA\CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Exhibition
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mocact.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Docent-Tour.jpeg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250731T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250731T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142215
CREATED:20250508T180407Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250509T184232Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening of Brief Encounters and a Q+A with Angela Strassheim
DESCRIPTION:  \nRegister.  \nJoin MoCA CT for a screening of Ben Shapiro’s 2012 documentary\, Brief Encounters\, followed by a Q+A with photographer Angela Strassheim on Thursday July 31 at 7pm. Brief Encounters documents internationally acclaimed photographer Gregory Crewdson’s pursuit of his signature\, surreal\, and meticulously staged portraits of suburban life. Crewdson orchestrates dramatic\, large – scale productions\, setting houses ablaze\, constructing 90 – foot sets with crews of sixty\, and temporarily closing city streets\, to manifest his haunting vision of American existence\, reflecting his own anxieties\, dreams\, and inner desires. Brief Encounters offers an intimate study of one of our era’s most celebrated image – makers. \nThis documentary is 1 hour 18 minutes long. \nAbout Angela Strassheim\nAngela Strassheim was born in Bloomfield\, IA in 1969. She currently lives in Easton\, CT. She is an internationally recognized art photographer with an extensive multi – national exhibition record. She holds an MFA from Yale University\, a BFA from Minneapolis College of Art & Design\, as well as a Forensic Photography Certification from Metro – Dade in Miami Florida. Angela’s work has been exhibited in many galleries and museums including The Guggenheim Museum\, The Whitney Museum\, The National Museum of Women in the Arts\, The Art Institute of Chicago\, Yale University Art Gallery\, The Walker Art Center\, The Israel Museum in Jerusalem\, Musee de l’Elysee in Lausanne in Switzerland\, Museum of Modern Art (MACVAL) in Paris\, and the Wellcome Trust Collection in London. \nShe was featured in the Whitney Biennial in 2006. Her work appears in many books including ReGeneration\, 50 Photographers of Tomorrow (Thames & Hudson)\, and Role Models (Scala). She recently produced the cover image and story for Time Magazine’s first issue covering the Corona Virus Pandemic. Other publications include New York Times Magazine\, Harper’s Bazaar\, Exit\, Wired\, Art Pulse\, and Mossless. She has received awards including Women in Photography LTI Lightside Grant\, Bush Fellowship\, McKnight Fellowship\, Jerome Fellowship. Her work is included in many public and private collections including those of the Art Institute of Chicago\, The Whitney Museum of Art\, Yale University Art Museum\, The Israel Museum\, General Mills\, Sir Elton John\, Anthony Podesta\, Andrew Hecht and Peter Norton. Currently\, Angela is working on a series of portraits through a two – way mirror titled The Visitors. \nShe is inviting people to come sit for a moment of vulnerability and to share a deep part of themselves while listening to a short playlist that each sitter has created for themself. This past year she has exhibited in four major group shows; Suburbia: Building The American Dream at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània in Barcelona & Vienna\, Le fait divers: A hypothesis in 26 letters at Museum of Modern Art (MACVAL) in Paris\, and Lucid Dreams which celebrates the 100th anniversary of André Breton’s Manifesto of Surrealism (1924) at The Israel Museum\, Jerusalem.
URL:https://mocact.org/events-calendar/film-screening-of-brief-encounters-and-a-qa-with-angela-strassheim/
LOCATION:MoCA\CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Docent-Led Exhibition Tour
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the current exhibition from an expert docent. No advance registration required; all tours included in Museum admission. Remember\, gallery admission is FREE for MoCA Members.
URL:https://mocact.org/events-calendar/docent-led-exhibition-tour-4/2025-07-26/
LOCATION:MoCA\CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250719T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250719T143000
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CREATED:20250829T152507Z
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SUMMARY:Docent-Led Exhibition Tour
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the current exhibition from an expert docent. No advance registration required; all tours included in Museum admission. Remember\, gallery admission is FREE for MoCA Members.
URL:https://mocact.org/events-calendar/docent-led-exhibition-tour-4/2025-07-19/
LOCATION:MoCA\CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250712T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250712T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142215
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SUMMARY:Docent-Led Exhibition Tour
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the current exhibition from an expert docent. No advance registration required; all tours included in Museum admission. Remember\, gallery admission is FREE for MoCA Members.
URL:https://mocact.org/events-calendar/docent-led-exhibition-tour-4/2025-07-12/
LOCATION:MoCA\CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250705T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250705T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142215
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UID:10004690-1751720400-1751725800@mocact.org
SUMMARY:Docent-Led Exhibition Tour
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the current exhibition from an expert docent. No advance registration required; all tours included in Museum admission. Remember\, gallery admission is FREE for MoCA Members.
URL:https://mocact.org/events-calendar/docent-led-exhibition-tour-4/2025-07-05/
LOCATION:MoCA\CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250628T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250628T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142215
CREATED:20250829T152507Z
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UID:10004688-1751115600-1751121000@mocact.org
SUMMARY:Docent-Led Exhibition Tour
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the current exhibition from an expert docent. No advance registration required; all tours included in Museum admission. Remember\, gallery admission is FREE for MoCA Members.
URL:https://mocact.org/events-calendar/docent-led-exhibition-tour-4/2025-06-28/
LOCATION:MoCA\CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250626T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250626T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142215
CREATED:20250319T164429Z
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception of Tod Papageorge: At the Beach + In the Pool: On Influence
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, June 26\n6 – 8 PM\nRSVP Here. \nMoCA CT will be presenting a major photography exhibition\, Tod Papageorge: At the Beach\, alongside works by Papageorge’s former graduate students\, In the Pool. The companion exhibitions were organized by the photographer Lisa Kereszi\, and showcase the work of Tod Papageorge (b. 1940)\, a Connecticut – based\, internationally – acclaimed artist and teacher whose contributions to American street photography in the 1960s helped shape the genre. His work is held in more than thirty prominent public collections\, including the Museums of Modern Art in New York and San Francisco. \nAt the Beach\, making its East Coast debut at MoCA CT\, will feature work in the form of large – scale black and white photographs that Papageorge produced with medium – format cameras during several trips to the beaches of Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s. As he has written about this project: “I think that part of what these pictures are about is the difference between our preconceptions of a place and what\, when we get there\, that place turns out to be. To describe a subject and\, at the same time\, reinvent it\, is a double intention on the part of the photographer that we should be used to by now when we look at photographs. With these pictures\, I worked with the belief that the closer I came to describing the literal nature of the place and people I was photographing\, the more surprising the pictures might be\, all while transforming the casual\, unselfconscious physicality of these beachgoers into resonant form and meaning.” \nThe title of the adjacent exhibition\, In the Pool\, refers to the nickname for the classroom Papageorge taught in for the last third of his teaching career\, a renovated swimming pool within the School of Art building. As a professor and the Director of Graduate Studies in Photography at the Yale School of Art from 1979 – 2013\, Papageorge mentored many future influential photographers and art educators\, with 41 of his students going on to receive Guggenheim Fellowships\, a significant marker of achievement in the art and photography world. This part of the exhibition commemorates that fact by exhibiting a single print from each of those Guggenheim Fellows\, as well as presenting work through a looping slide show of virtually all 295 of Papageorge’s former MFA students. It’s also worth noting that the work composing In the Pool was made while the photographers were students in the Yale program\, years before being selected (by each one of them) for a portfolio created in honor of Papageorge’s retirement as director of the program. These nearly 300 pictures\, then\, serve to offer some insight into the nature of influence and mentorship in the arts\, and to suggest the power of the ongoing moment that is the still – developing history of photography.
URL:https://mocact.org/events-calendar/opening-reception-of-tod-papageorge-at-the-beach-in-the-pool-on-influence/
LOCATION:MoCA\CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250621T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250621T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142215
CREATED:20250829T152507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250829T152507Z
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SUMMARY:Docent-Led Exhibition Tour
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the current exhibition from an expert docent. No advance registration required; all tours included in Museum admission. Remember\, gallery admission is FREE for MoCA Members.
URL:https://mocact.org/events-calendar/docent-led-exhibition-tour-4/2025-06-21/
LOCATION:MoCA\CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250614T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250614T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142215
CREATED:20250829T152507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250829T152507Z
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SUMMARY:Docent-Led Exhibition Tour
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the current exhibition from an expert docent. No advance registration required; all tours included in Museum admission. Remember\, gallery admission is FREE for MoCA Members.
URL:https://mocact.org/events-calendar/docent-led-exhibition-tour-4/2025-06-14/
LOCATION:MoCA\CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250607T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250607T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142215
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SUMMARY:Docent-Led Exhibition Tour
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the current exhibition from an expert docent. No advance registration required; all tours included in Museum admission. Remember\, gallery admission is FREE for MoCA Members.
URL:https://mocact.org/events-calendar/docent-led-exhibition-tour-4/2025-06-07/
LOCATION:MoCA\CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250531T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250531T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142215
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UID:10004680-1748696400-1748701800@mocact.org
SUMMARY:Docent-Led Exhibition Tour
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the current exhibition from an expert docent. No advance registration required; all tours included in Museum admission. Remember\, gallery admission is FREE for MoCA Members.
URL:https://mocact.org/events-calendar/docent-led-exhibition-tour-4/2025-05-31/
LOCATION:MoCA\CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250529T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250529T190000
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CREATED:20250314T203936Z
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SUMMARY:Gallery Talk: "O Say Can You See": Artists Reimagine the Flag
DESCRIPTION:From left to right\, top to bottom. Frederic Edwin Church\, Our Banner in the Sky\, c. 1861. Oil on canvas. Fine Art Museums of San Francisco. Banks Violette\, Not Yet Titled (Flag Edition)\, 2010. Marines of the 28th Regiment of the Fifth Division planted an American flag atop Mount Suribachi\, Iwo Jima\, on Feb. 23\, 1945. Joe Rosenthal/Associated Press. Barbara Kruger\, Untitled\, 1991. Photographic silkscreen/vinyl. Courtesy Mary Boone Gallery. \n“O Say Can You See”: Artists Reimagine the Flag\, a gallery talk with Dr. Robin Jaffee Frank on May 29\, 2025 from 6-7pm.\nRegister Here. \nFree for MoCA Members; $10 General Admission \nIn conjunction with Banks Violette’s fraught representations of the American flag in MoCA CT’s solo exhibition\, join Dr. Robin Jaffee Frank for a historical investigation of Old Glory as an iconic and ubiquitous symbol in American art and culture. Artists have incorporated its graphic stars and stripes into their work to achieve aesthetic ends\, critique social and political inequalities\, celebrate freedom and democracy\, support and mourn our troops\, and express despair and hope. For many American citizens\, as well as people around the world\, our flag is a uniquely powerful and complex symbol of nationhood. \nAn independent curator\, Robin Jaffee Frank has organized numerous exhibitions at museums throughout the US\, lectured extensively\, and published widely on American visual culture from the colonial through contemporary periods. She formerly served as Chief Curator and Curator of American Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford\, Connecticut\, and Senior Associate Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven\, Connecticut. Robin holds a PhD in the history of art from Yale University. \nImage of Dr. Robin Jaffee Frank. \n 
URL:https://mocact.org/events-calendar/gallery-talk-o-say-can-you-see-artists-reimagine-the-flag/
LOCATION:MoCA\CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Exhibition
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