Photos from IN STEREO, a live gallery performance in Clarissa Tossin’s exhibit, Stereoscopic Vision on Tuesday, February 21, 2017 in the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery. IN STEREO pairs Wesleyan artists in music, poetry and dance in a series of pop-up performances that are related to or inspired by Clarissa Tossin’s work. This event spotlighted dancers and choreographers Sarah Mininsohn ’17 and Rick Manayan ’17 and their work-in-progress showing of Attentive Abandon in dialogue with a work of art or theme in Stereoscopic Vision.
Photos by Perceptions Photography. Click here to view the entire album on Flickr.
Photos from IN STEREO, a live gallery performance in Clarissa Tossin’s exhibit, Stereoscopic Vision on Tuesday, February 14, 2017 in the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery. IN STEREO pairs Wesleyan artists in music, poetry and dance in a series of pop-up performances that are related to or inspired by Clarissa Tossin’s work. Curated by Wesleyan’s slam poetry team WeSlam, this performance features student poets Rafe Forman ’20, Jennifer Gagné ’19, Meghana Kandlur ’18, Rick H. Manayan ’17, Monica Sun ’18, Clarity Bian ’19, and Lili Kadets ’17 in dialogue with a work of art or theme in Stereoscopic Vision.
Photos by Perceptions Photography. Click here to view the entire album on Flickr.
Photos from the gallery walkthrough of the exhibition Stereoscopic Vision by the Brazilian-born, Los Angeles-based artist Clarissa Tossin on Tuesday, February 7, 2017 in the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery. The event also featured the first of three pop-up performances called IN STEREO, which pairs Wesleyan artists in music, poetry and dance in a series of pop-up performances that are related to or inspired by Clarissa’s work.
Photos by Perceptions Photography. Click here to view the entire album on Flickr.
These photos are from Monday, January 9 of the Volkswagen Brasilia that is part of one of the works in the upcoming exhibition, Clarissa Tossin: Stereoscopic Vision, being brought into the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery. The opening reception will be held on Tuesday, January 31 at 4:30 p.m.
Photos by John Elmore. Click here to view the entire album on Flickr.
Jonathan Galassi is a poet, a novelist, and renowned translator of Italian poetry gave reading in the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery on Wednesday, November 30, 2016.
Photos by Sandy Aldieri of Perceptions Photography. Click here to view the entire album on Flickr.
An opening reception was held for FLYING CARPETS—new paintings by David Schorr on Tuesday, November 1, 2016 in the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery. The exhibition explores the conviction of childhood imagination, remembering the pleasure of playing with toys on his grandmother’s oriental carpets.
Images by Sandy Aldieri of Perceptions Photography. Click here to view the entire album on Flickr.
On Tuesday, September 13, 2016 Wesleyan President Michael S. Roth ’78 spoke with artist Charles Traub, Chair of the M.F.A. in Photography and Related Media Department at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, about the here is new york project. Mr. Traub, a noted photographer, was one of the original organizers of the exhibition in 2001. Mr. Roth is a historian, curator, and writer who has authored books on the topic of trauma and memory, and has often turned to photography and film as he considers how people make sense of the past.
Click here to view the full album on Flickr. Photos by Sandy Aldieri of Perceptions Photography
An opening reception was held to view the talents of the seniors in the Art Studio Program of Wesleyan’s Department of Art and Art History. Works featured by Milo Farley, Molly Grund, Nathan Harris, Caroline MacNeille, and Evan Ortiz were on display in the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery from Tuesday, March 29 through Sunday, April 3, 2016. Click here to view the full album on Flickr. Photos by Sandy Aldieri of Perceptions Photography.
Pamela Tatge, Director, Center for the Arts. Image by Sandy Aldieri of Perceptions Photography.
It is astonishing to me that Friday April 1 is my last day at Wesleyan University, after nearly seventeen years. I wanted to send you a note to thank you for being patrons of the Center for the Arts. There is simply no way we can ever welcome artists to Wesleyan without the presence of an engaged and committed audience. You have no idea how wonderful it was for me to look out at you from the Crowell Concert Hall or CFA Theater stage, or to see you at an opening in the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery. I knew that you were there to join me in celebrating what the arts can tell us about other cultures and other worlds; how they can help us to make sense of the world in which we live; and how they can make us feel both the exhilaration and the sadness of what it means to be alive. I want to thank you, in particular, for the times you bought a ticket to a performance by an artist whom you didn’t know but, because we at the CFA felt it was an important artist or group, you took the risk.
In these last days at my desk overlooking the CFA Courtyard, I am reflecting on so many great moments when we shared such joy and excitement not only for visiting and faculty artists, but also when we marveled together at the virtuosity and creative power of Wesleyan students and all that they have to offer us.
I will miss my Wesleyan and Middletown families greatly, but as an alum and parent of a member of the class of 2016, I know that I will return often and continue to experience the arts as only Wesleyan can present them. I also want to take the opportunity to introduce Laura Paul, Interim Director of the Center for the Arts, who will lead the CFA in its next chapter. Together we have been planning a 2016–17 season of performances and exhibitions that I know you will enjoy.
If, by any chance, you are free this Friday, April 1, I will be in Crowell Concert Hall at 8pm to introduce the great Wu Man and the Shanghai Quartet. I would love the chance to say goodbye and thank you in person; if not, I hope you will come to visit me this summer at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Becket, Massachusetts (if you missed the announcement in January, I’m going there to be their new Executive Director)!
Thank you again for your generous support of the Center for the Arts.
An opening reception was held for “We Chat”—A Dialogue in Contemporary Chinese Art on Tuesday, January 26, 2016 in the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery. The exhibition features works by ten young artists that reflect the state of China today, and raise questions about the sustainability of national and cultural identity in an increasingly globalized world.
Click here to view the full album on Flickr. Photos by Sandy Aldieri of Perceptions Photography.
