Calendar of Events

5-6pm Gallery Viewing
6pm Artist Talk – In museum

Sculpture, installation, and performance intersect with sound in the works of artist Naama Tsabar. Listen in as Tsabar explores her approach to creating interactive sound sculptures and learn about her process for building site-specific performances with local communities of women and gender non-conforming performers. Free with required registration.

Session I: Fridays, June 3, 10, 17; 3-4:30pm has been canceled. Click here to sign up for the July session. 

Explore visual expression through drawing in the galleries at the Wadsworth with Hartford-based artist Andre Rochester. Each session includes three classes, each progressing through new drawing techniques and focusing on a different gallery in the museum. Open to adults of all levels of artistic ability. $90 per session/$75 Members and students. Basic materials and museum admission included. Space is limited and advanced registration is required.

Join the Hartford Gay Men’s Chorus for their 10th Anniversary Concert Singing from the Heart of Hartford. For the past decade, HGMC has journeyed through songs from Broadway, popular artists, holidays music, and classics from many cultures and decades. The evening features some of the chorus’s favorite songs in a celebratory performance to remember. $30-45. For tickets and information, visit www.hgmc.org.

Join the Hartford Gay Men’s Chorus for their 10th Anniversary Concert Singing from the Heart of Hartford. For the past decade, HGMC has journeyed through songs from Broadway, popular artists, holidays music, and classics from many cultures and decades. The evening features some of the chorus’s favorite songs in a celebratory performance to remember. $30-45. For tickets and information, visit www.hgmc.org.

Session I: Fridays, June 3, 10, 17; 3-4:30pm has been canceled. Click here to sign up for the July session. 

Explore visual expression through drawing in the galleries at the Wadsworth with Hartford-based artist Andre Rochester. Each session includes three classes, each progressing through new drawing techniques and focusing on a different gallery in the museum. Open to adults of all levels of artistic ability. $90 per session/$75 Members and students. Basic materials and museum admission included. Space is limited and advanced registration is required.

Explore the works on view in Morgan Great Hall while you listen to an informal musical performance by Connecticut-based vocal ensemble Voce Concitato (Alice Matteson, soprano; Meredith Neumann, alto; Noah Hay, tenor; Matthew Cramer, bass-baritone) accompanied by harpsichordist Stephen Gamboa-Diaz. The ensemble will perform works from the late-Renaissance through the Baroque. Free with museum admission.

Images courtesy of Voce Concitato and Stephen Gamboa-Diaz

Session I: Fridays, June 3, 10, 17; 3-4:30pm has been canceled. Click here to sign up for the July session. 

Explore visual expression through drawing in the galleries at the Wadsworth with Hartford-based artist Andre Rochester. Each session includes three classes, each progressing through new drawing techniques and focusing on a different gallery in the museum. Open to adults of all levels of artistic ability. $90 per session/$75 Members and students. Basic materials and museum admission included. Space is limited and advanced registration is required.

In advance of Fired Up: Glass Today, the Wadsworth has acquired an important sculpture by one of the world’s leading hot glass sculptors Martin Blank. Join objects conservator Casey Mallinckrodt as she reveals the processes involved in preparing Torso (c. 2010) for display and learn about the steps involved in caring for the wide range of glass objects in the museum collection. Free with museum admission. Meet in front of the Museum Shop.

Edward Russell Thaxter was a promising American sculptor of the late-nineteenth century but died in Florence at just twenty-four years of age before his first masterpiece, Love’s First Dream, was completed. Chief curator Matthew Hargraves explores the story behind Thaxter’s brief career and traces the story of Love’s First Dream from first idea to finished marble and its journey from Florence to Hartford. Free with museum admission. Meet in front of the Museum Shop.

The Wadsworth is pleased to host the season finale performance of the Arazzo Music Festival, a new initiative building community through musical performances here in Connecticut. Join Connecticut cellist and festival director Samuel DeCaprio as he performs an evening of string music in Morgan Great Hall with musicians from across the region. The program centers around Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s String Sextet in D minor “Souvenir de Florence”, Op. 70 (1890). Free with required registration.