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Emerging New Canaan Artist Gunnar Magnus solo show entitled Concrete at CB Gallery in Katonah, NY May 18th from 5pm to 8pm coinciding with the Katonah Art Stroll. CB Gallery is located at 23 Valley Rd., Katonah NY 10536. Live Music and Refreshment will be served. Contact: artgallerycb@gmail.com tel: 917 520 3234.
Two generations ago, Sandra Pelletier’s grandparents made their way from Italy to Fairfield County by way of Brooklyn—to the Huntington section of Shelton, specifically. There, they purchased and worked a large dairy farm, and some years later, Pelletier’s father married into the family and built a small house on 70 acres next door. “It was a small, five-room ranch but we had probably the richest life in the world because it was such a wonderful experience to grow up in that environment,” Pelletier recalled Friday from inside Sorelle Gallery, which opened three weeks ago at 84 Main St. “We felt we were like Tom Sawyer kids. We had great tree forts all over the place, so it was a creative and rich artistic environment.
Three springs ago—her first in New Canaan—Serena Gillespie found herself walking downtown when she noticed, and felt moved by, works of art in storefront windows. Attracted to a display that included peonies flowers, Gillespie made inquiries and discovered that she was experiencing Art in the Windows. That’s how she came to find out about the Carriage Barn Arts Center (home of the New Canaan Society for the Arts), which organized the event. “For me, art has always had to connect with me personally,” Gillespie, now president of the art center’s Board of Trustees, recalled on a recent evening as fellow board members, Carriage Barn staff and business owners gathered at the Waveny property during a kickoff/planning gathering for the Seventh Annual Art in the Windows. “If it talks to me and brings back a memory, that’s when it connects with me.