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Elite Syncopation: Music of the Harlem Renaissance
Sunday, September 14, 2025 at 3:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall
Sunday, September 14, 2025 at 3:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall
FREE!
The quintet Elite Syncopation, an ensemble specializing in performances of early blues, ragtime, and jazz, will present a concert of classic American music from 100 years ago, focusing on key musicians of the Harlem Renaissance, including Duke Ellington, Scott Joplin, and Jelly Roll Morton.
Art History Lecture: Sonja Drimmer
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 4:30pm
Boger Hall, Room 112, 41 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown, Connecticut
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 4:30pm
Boger Hall, Room 112, 41 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown, Connecticut
FREE!
Sonja Drimmer, Associate Professor of Medieval Art at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will discuss the relationship between artificial intelligence and the practice of art history.
Opening Reception for Gary Red Oak O’Neil's Excavations Exhibition
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 4:30pm
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 4:30pm
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
FREE!
Gary Red Oak O’Neil presents a solo exhibition of his longstanding ceramic practice, including new works inspired by a current archaeological dig in Glastonbury that unearths material culture that offers glimpses of Wangunk (the Indigenous people of Central Connecticut) interactions with early 17th-century British settlers.
Opening Reception: DFT 2025 Exhibition
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 4:30pm
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 4:30pm
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
FREE!
Can evasion, insistence on privacy, and opting out facilitate freedom? Drawing from science fiction, “Dark Forest Theory” (DFT) suggests that civilizations (such as extraterrestrial life) hide in order to preserve themselves. Through a variety of media including sculpture, painting, video, installation, performance, and sound—this group exhibition, featuring an intergenerational group of artists across the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, an online radio station, an online TV station, and a zine explores how this theory, when merged with Black critical theory, creates the possibility for individuals to gain agency through concealment.
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