Join us for an elegant evening celebrating the art of printmaking. Experience an extraordinary selection of original fine art prints, available through both silent and live auctions, featuring more than 100 works by acclaimed printmakers as well as rising talents. This is your chance to acquire distinctive pieces while supporting the Center for Contemporary Printmaking. Now in its 26th year, our Annual Benefit Auction & Party returns to the Carriage Barn Arts Center in the historic Waveny Park, New Canaan. Guests will have the exclusive opportunity to view and bid on one-of-a-kind monotypes created during Monothon Print Week—a tradition that unites leading and emerging artists in the studio.
Join Executive Director Kimberly Henrikson for an exclusive preview of the extraordinary fine art prints featured in the Center for Contemporary Printmaking’s 26th Annual Benefit Auction & Party, taking place just two days later on Saturday, November 1. This special event offers art lovers a chance to enjoy a relaxed conversation about the Live Auction works. Kimberly will highlight the artists, share insights into the printmaking processes behind the pieces, and answer questions from attendees. Guests will be able to view the full selection of auction prints in advance, giving them the opportunity to identify their favorites and plan their bidding strategies ahead of Saturday’s celebration. As CCP’s signature fundraiser, MONOTHON supports vital youth education programs, community outreach initiatives, exhibitions, artist residencies, and ongoing studio improvements.
This week on 0684-Radi0, our free podcast (subscribe here in the iTunes Store), we talk to Janet Dinger, program and events manager at the Carriage Barn Arts Center, and Lexi Gazy, market master of the New Canaan Farmers Market, about the second annual Farm-To-Barn Brunch. Launched last year to celebrate 25 years of the Farmers Market, it’s scheduled for March 3. Here are recent episodes of 0684-Radi0:
The Board of Selectmen this week approved use of Waveny Park for an arts festival operated by one of New Canaan’s best-established nonprofit organizations. The Carraige Barn Arts Center has proposed use of the area immediately outside its own building and the nearby Powerhouse Theatre for a one-time event to be held on Sunday, Oct. 1. Hilary Wittmann, the Carriage Barn’s executive director, said the festival will be free and open to the public and will coincide with her organization’s 45 Annual Member Show, featuring “artists, demonstrations, performances and workshops and in addition to the sale of painting, sculpture, jewelry and ceramics.”
“Approximately 35 artists would exhibit in 10-by-10 display spaces or tents in the park,” Wittmann told the selectmen at their regular meeting, held Tuesday in Town Hall and via videoconference. “In the parking area and courtyard area of the Carriage Barn and Powerhouse Theatre, that sort of section of the park.”
First Selectman Kevin Moynihan and Selectmen Kathleen Corbet and Nick Williams voted 3-0 in favor of the use of Waveny.
New Canaan High School’s annual exhibition, “Through Our Eyes XI” (see sample gallery above) opens Friday at the Carriage Barn Arts Center and runs through April 1. There’s an opening reception from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday. We put some questions to the Carriage Barn’s executive director, Hilary Wittmann, ahead of the show. Here’s our exchange:
New Canaanite: “Through Our Eyes XI,” the annual New Canaan High School exhibition, opens this week at the Carriage Barn Arts Center. Tell us about how the show comes together in terms of curation and submissions, and the partnership between your organization and NCHS.
