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Exhibition - Re/Presenting: Art Beyond the Color Line
What does it mean to truly observe a person, and to depict them—or ourselves—with love and care? Systems like colonialism and white supremacy categorize, label, and create hierarchies among different bodies that can shape or distort our perceptions of ourselves and each other.
Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 9:00 a.m. ET
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Exhibition - It Happened In Hartford
It Happened In Hartford: 150 Years of the Mark Twain House September 2024 marks the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Clemens family in their newly built Hartford home and 50 years since the Mark Twain House formally opened as a Museum.
Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 9:30 a.m. ETThe Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford, CT -
Anita Kunz: Original Sisters Portraits of Tenacity and Courage
Original Sisters is a series of portraits that reveals and honors the contributions of history-making women.
Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ETNorman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA -
Exhibition - Blue Grass, Green Skies: American Impressionism and Realism from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
In 1874, a group of avant-garde French artists, including Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, organized the first exhibition of the “Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers, etc.” in Paris.
Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ETNew Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT -
Exhibition: Wide Awakes: Campaigning for Lincoln
During a time of deep political division and fears of a civil war, five young men from Hartford, Connecticut formed a campaign organization that became a nationwide movement and helped elect a president.
Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ETConnecticut Museum of Culture and History, Hartford, CT -
Exhibition - Minnie Negoro: From Heart Mountain to UConn
Before becoming an award-winning ceramicist and the founder of the UConn ceramics program, in spring 1942, Minnie Negoro was a young college senior at UCLA on the verge of her college graduation.
Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ETWilliam Benton Museum of Art, Storrs Mansfield, CT -
Exhibition - Encounters with the Collection: Art and Human Rights
Encounters with the Collection: Art and Human Rights is the fourth in a series of annual collection gallery rotations that bring fresh perspectives to the interpretation of the Benton’s holdings. This installation is mounted in collaboration with the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute’s Research Program on Arts & Human Rights at UConn.
Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ETWilliam Benton Museum of Art, Storrs Mansfield, CT -
Exhibition: Birth, Death, And Alphabets
The Salisbury Association Historical Society Presents an Exhibition of Samplers from the Collection of Alexandra Peters.
Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ETSalisbury Association Historical Society, Salisbury, CT -
Housatonic Camera Club Photography Exhibition
Join us to celebrate the Scoville Library’s first Housatonic Camera Club Exhibition.
Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ETScoville Memorial Library, Salisbury, CT -
Exhibition: ‘Manifestations and Memories’ by Deborah Leonard
Artist Statement: This is me formalizing the sacred places around our thoughts - noting the holy spaces between our hopes.
Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ETFarmington Valley Arts Center, Avon, CT
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AARP Smart Driver™: Plainville Senior Center
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AARP Smart Driver™: East Haddam Senior Center
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Systems like colonialism and white supremacy categorize, label, and create hierarchies among different bodies that can shape or distort our perceptions of ourselves and each other.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 9:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-it-happened-in-hartford-2025-04-09-hartford-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-IT-HAPPENED-IN-HARTFORD" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-it-happened-in-hartford-2025-04-09-hartford-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-IT-HAPPENED-IN-HARTFORD">Exhibition - It Happened In Hartford</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">It Happened In Hartford: 150 Years of the Mark Twain House September 2024 marks the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Clemens family in their newly built Hartford home and 50 years since the Mark Twain House formally opened as a Museum.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 9:30 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>The Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/anita-kunz-original-sisters-portraits-of-tenacity-and-courage-2025-04-09-stockbridge-ma.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-ANITA-KUNZ-ORIGINAL-SISTERS-PORTRAITS-OF-TENACITY-AND-COURAGE" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/anita-kunz-original-sisters-portraits-of-tenacity-and-courage-2025-04-09-stockbridge-ma.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-ANITA-KUNZ-ORIGINAL-SISTERS-PORTRAITS-OF-TENACITY-AND-COURAGE">Anita Kunz: Original Sisters Portraits of Tenacity and Courage</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">Original Sisters is a series of portraits that reveals and honors the contributions of history-making women.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-blue-grass-green-skies-american-impressionism-and-realism-from-the-los-angeles-county-museum-of-art-2025-04-09-new-britain-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-BLUE-GRASS-GREEN-SKIES-AMERICAN-IMPRESSIONISM-AND-REALISM-FROM-THE-LOS-ANGELES-COUNTY-MUSEUM-OF-ART" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-blue-grass-green-skies-american-impressionism-and-realism-from-the-los-angeles-county-museum-of-art-2025-04-09-new-britain-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-BLUE-GRASS-GREEN-SKIES-AMERICAN-IMPRESSIONISM-AND-REALISM-FROM-THE-LOS-ANGELES-COUNTY-MUSEUM-OF-ART">Exhibition - Blue Grass, Green Skies: American Impressionism and Realism from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">In 1874, a group of avant-garde French artists, including Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, organized the first exhibition of the “Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers, etc.” in Paris.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-wide-awakes-campaigning-for-lincoln-2025-04-09-hartford-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-WIDE-AWAKES-CAMPAIGNING-FOR-LINCOLN" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-wide-awakes-campaigning-for-lincoln-2025-04-09-hartford-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-WIDE-AWAKES-CAMPAIGNING-FOR-LINCOLN">Exhibition: Wide Awakes: Campaigning for Lincoln</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">During a time of deep political division and fears of a civil war, five young men from Hartford, Connecticut formed a campaign organization that became a nationwide movement and helped elect a president.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, Hartford, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-minnie-negoro-from-heart-mountain-to-uconn-2025-04-09-storrs-mansfield-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-MINNIE-NEGORO-FROM-HEART-MOUNTAIN-TO-UCONN" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-minnie-negoro-from-heart-mountain-to-uconn-2025-04-09-storrs-mansfield-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-MINNIE-NEGORO-FROM-HEART-MOUNTAIN-TO-UCONN">Exhibition - Minnie Negoro: From Heart Mountain to UConn</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">Before becoming an award-winning ceramicist and the founder of the UConn ceramics program, in spring 1942, Minnie Negoro was a young college senior at UCLA on the verge of her college graduation.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs Mansfield, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-encounters-with-the-collection-art-and-human-rights-2025-04-09-storrs-mansfield-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-ENCOUNTERS-WITH-THE-COLLECTION-ART-AND-HUMAN-RIGHTS" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-encounters-with-the-collection-art-and-human-rights-2025-04-09-storrs-mansfield-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-ENCOUNTERS-WITH-THE-COLLECTION-ART-AND-HUMAN-RIGHTS">Exhibition - Encounters with the Collection: Art and Human Rights</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">Encounters with the Collection: Art and Human Rights is the fourth in a series of annual collection gallery rotations that bring fresh perspectives to the interpretation of the Benton’s holdings. This installation is mounted in collaboration with the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute’s Research Program on Arts & Human Rights at UConn.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs Mansfield, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-birth-death-and-alphabets-2025-04-09-salisbury-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-BIRTH-DEATH-AND-ALPHABETS" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-birth-death-and-alphabets-2025-04-09-salisbury-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-BIRTH-DEATH-AND-ALPHABETS">Exhibition: Birth, Death, And Alphabets</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">The Salisbury Association Historical Society Presents an Exhibition of Samplers from the Collection of Alexandra Peters.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Salisbury Association Historical Society, Salisbury, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/housatonic-camera-club-photography-exhibition-2025-04-09-salisbury-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-HOUSATONIC-CAMERA-CLUB-PHOTOGRAPHY-EXHIBITION" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/housatonic-camera-club-photography-exhibition-2025-04-09-salisbury-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-HOUSATONIC-CAMERA-CLUB-PHOTOGRAPHY-EXHIBITION">Housatonic Camera Club Photography Exhibition</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">Join us to celebrate the Scoville Library’s first Housatonic Camera Club Exhibition.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Scoville Memorial Library, Salisbury, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-manifestations-and-memories-by-deborah-leonard-2025-04-09-avon-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-MANIFESTATIONS-AND-MEMORIES-BY-DEBORAH-LEONARD" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-manifestations-and-memories-by-deborah-leonard-2025-04-09-avon-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-MANIFESTATIONS-AND-MEMORIES-BY-DEBORAH-LEONARD">Exhibition: ‘Manifestations and Memories’ by Deborah Leonard</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">Artist Statement: This is me formalizing the sacred places around our thoughts - noting the holy spaces between our hopes.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Farmington Valley Arts Center, Avon, CT </div> </li> </ul> <div class="ar-show-more clearfix"> <div class="aarpe-spinner"></div> <a href="#" data-url='/ajax/events/next_page/' data-options='{"tags":"aarp-ae","show":10,"page":1,"show_limit":3,"limit":15,"images":"yes","max-days":365,"max-miles":45,"min":50,"more":"yes","lat":41.82640075683594,"lng":-72.72969818115234,"latlng":"41.826400756836,-72.729698181152","radius":45,"has_next_page":true}' class="show-more btn col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-lg-6"> <span class="icon-down-arrow"></span> <span>View More</span> <span class="icon-down-arrow"></span> </a> </div> <div class="image-provided-by clearfix small" align="right">Images provided by <a href="https://www.americantowns.com/bloomfield-ct/" target="_blank">AmericanTowns.com</a>, Ticketmaster</div> </div> </div></div><div class="module clearfix"><div class="module-spacer"> <p>Is there an event that we should know about? 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Systems like colonialism and white supremacy categorize, label, and create hierarchies among different bodies that can shape or distort our perceptions of ourselves and each other.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 9:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-it-happened-in-hartford-2025-04-09-hartford-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-IT-HAPPENED-IN-HARTFORD" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-it-happened-in-hartford-2025-04-09-hartford-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-IT-HAPPENED-IN-HARTFORD">Exhibition - It Happened In Hartford</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">It Happened In Hartford: 150 Years of the Mark Twain House September 2024 marks the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Clemens family in their newly built Hartford home and 50 years since the Mark Twain House formally opened as a Museum.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 9:30 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>The Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/anita-kunz-original-sisters-portraits-of-tenacity-and-courage-2025-04-09-stockbridge-ma.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-ANITA-KUNZ-ORIGINAL-SISTERS-PORTRAITS-OF-TENACITY-AND-COURAGE" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/anita-kunz-original-sisters-portraits-of-tenacity-and-courage-2025-04-09-stockbridge-ma.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-ANITA-KUNZ-ORIGINAL-SISTERS-PORTRAITS-OF-TENACITY-AND-COURAGE">Anita Kunz: Original Sisters Portraits of Tenacity and Courage</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">Original Sisters is a series of portraits that reveals and honors the contributions of history-making women.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-blue-grass-green-skies-american-impressionism-and-realism-from-the-los-angeles-county-museum-of-art-2025-04-09-new-britain-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-BLUE-GRASS-GREEN-SKIES-AMERICAN-IMPRESSIONISM-AND-REALISM-FROM-THE-LOS-ANGELES-COUNTY-MUSEUM-OF-ART" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-blue-grass-green-skies-american-impressionism-and-realism-from-the-los-angeles-county-museum-of-art-2025-04-09-new-britain-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-BLUE-GRASS-GREEN-SKIES-AMERICAN-IMPRESSIONISM-AND-REALISM-FROM-THE-LOS-ANGELES-COUNTY-MUSEUM-OF-ART">Exhibition - Blue Grass, Green Skies: American Impressionism and Realism from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">In 1874, a group of avant-garde French artists, including Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, organized the first exhibition of the “Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers, etc.” in Paris.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-wide-awakes-campaigning-for-lincoln-2025-04-09-hartford-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-WIDE-AWAKES-CAMPAIGNING-FOR-LINCOLN" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-wide-awakes-campaigning-for-lincoln-2025-04-09-hartford-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-WIDE-AWAKES-CAMPAIGNING-FOR-LINCOLN">Exhibition: Wide Awakes: Campaigning for Lincoln</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">During a time of deep political division and fears of a civil war, five young men from Hartford, Connecticut formed a campaign organization that became a nationwide movement and helped elect a president.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, Hartford, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-minnie-negoro-from-heart-mountain-to-uconn-2025-04-09-storrs-mansfield-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-MINNIE-NEGORO-FROM-HEART-MOUNTAIN-TO-UCONN" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-minnie-negoro-from-heart-mountain-to-uconn-2025-04-09-storrs-mansfield-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-MINNIE-NEGORO-FROM-HEART-MOUNTAIN-TO-UCONN">Exhibition - Minnie Negoro: From Heart Mountain to UConn</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">Before becoming an award-winning ceramicist and the founder of the UConn ceramics program, in spring 1942, Minnie Negoro was a young college senior at UCLA on the verge of her college graduation.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs Mansfield, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-encounters-with-the-collection-art-and-human-rights-2025-04-09-storrs-mansfield-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-ENCOUNTERS-WITH-THE-COLLECTION-ART-AND-HUMAN-RIGHTS" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-encounters-with-the-collection-art-and-human-rights-2025-04-09-storrs-mansfield-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-ENCOUNTERS-WITH-THE-COLLECTION-ART-AND-HUMAN-RIGHTS">Exhibition - Encounters with the Collection: Art and Human Rights</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">Encounters with the Collection: Art and Human Rights is the fourth in a series of annual collection gallery rotations that bring fresh perspectives to the interpretation of the Benton’s holdings. 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Systems like colonialism and white supremacy categorize, label, and create hierarchies among different bodies that can shape or distort our perceptions of ourselves and each other.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 9:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-it-happened-in-hartford-2025-04-09-hartford-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-IT-HAPPENED-IN-HARTFORD" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-it-happened-in-hartford-2025-04-09-hartford-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-IT-HAPPENED-IN-HARTFORD">Exhibition - It Happened In Hartford</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">It Happened In Hartford: 150 Years of the Mark Twain House September 2024 marks the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Clemens family in their newly built Hartford home and 50 years since the Mark Twain House formally opened as a Museum.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 9:30 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>The Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/anita-kunz-original-sisters-portraits-of-tenacity-and-courage-2025-04-09-stockbridge-ma.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-ANITA-KUNZ-ORIGINAL-SISTERS-PORTRAITS-OF-TENACITY-AND-COURAGE" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/anita-kunz-original-sisters-portraits-of-tenacity-and-courage-2025-04-09-stockbridge-ma.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-ANITA-KUNZ-ORIGINAL-SISTERS-PORTRAITS-OF-TENACITY-AND-COURAGE">Anita Kunz: Original Sisters Portraits of Tenacity and Courage</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">Original Sisters is a series of portraits that reveals and honors the contributions of history-making women.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-blue-grass-green-skies-american-impressionism-and-realism-from-the-los-angeles-county-museum-of-art-2025-04-09-new-britain-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-BLUE-GRASS-GREEN-SKIES-AMERICAN-IMPRESSIONISM-AND-REALISM-FROM-THE-LOS-ANGELES-COUNTY-MUSEUM-OF-ART" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-blue-grass-green-skies-american-impressionism-and-realism-from-the-los-angeles-county-museum-of-art-2025-04-09-new-britain-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-BLUE-GRASS-GREEN-SKIES-AMERICAN-IMPRESSIONISM-AND-REALISM-FROM-THE-LOS-ANGELES-COUNTY-MUSEUM-OF-ART">Exhibition - Blue Grass, Green Skies: American Impressionism and Realism from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">In 1874, a group of avant-garde French artists, including Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, organized the first exhibition of the “Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers, etc.” in Paris.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-wide-awakes-campaigning-for-lincoln-2025-04-09-hartford-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-WIDE-AWAKES-CAMPAIGNING-FOR-LINCOLN" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-wide-awakes-campaigning-for-lincoln-2025-04-09-hartford-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-WIDE-AWAKES-CAMPAIGNING-FOR-LINCOLN">Exhibition: Wide Awakes: Campaigning for Lincoln</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">During a time of deep political division and fears of a civil war, five young men from Hartford, Connecticut formed a campaign organization that became a nationwide movement and helped elect a president.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, Hartford, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-minnie-negoro-from-heart-mountain-to-uconn-2025-04-09-storrs-mansfield-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-MINNIE-NEGORO-FROM-HEART-MOUNTAIN-TO-UCONN" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-minnie-negoro-from-heart-mountain-to-uconn-2025-04-09-storrs-mansfield-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-MINNIE-NEGORO-FROM-HEART-MOUNTAIN-TO-UCONN">Exhibition - Minnie Negoro: From Heart Mountain to UConn</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">Before becoming an award-winning ceramicist and the founder of the UConn ceramics program, in spring 1942, Minnie Negoro was a young college senior at UCLA on the verge of her college graduation.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs Mansfield, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-encounters-with-the-collection-art-and-human-rights-2025-04-09-storrs-mansfield-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-ENCOUNTERS-WITH-THE-COLLECTION-ART-AND-HUMAN-RIGHTS" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-encounters-with-the-collection-art-and-human-rights-2025-04-09-storrs-mansfield-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-ENCOUNTERS-WITH-THE-COLLECTION-ART-AND-HUMAN-RIGHTS">Exhibition - 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Systems like colonialism and white supremacy categorize, label, and create hierarchies among different bodies that can shape or distort our perceptions of ourselves and each other.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 9:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-it-happened-in-hartford-2025-04-09-hartford-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-IT-HAPPENED-IN-HARTFORD" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-it-happened-in-hartford-2025-04-09-hartford-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-IT-HAPPENED-IN-HARTFORD">Exhibition - It Happened In Hartford</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">It Happened In Hartford: 150 Years of the Mark Twain House September 2024 marks the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Clemens family in their newly built Hartford home and 50 years since the Mark Twain House formally opened as a Museum.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 9:30 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>The Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/anita-kunz-original-sisters-portraits-of-tenacity-and-courage-2025-04-09-stockbridge-ma.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-ANITA-KUNZ-ORIGINAL-SISTERS-PORTRAITS-OF-TENACITY-AND-COURAGE" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/anita-kunz-original-sisters-portraits-of-tenacity-and-courage-2025-04-09-stockbridge-ma.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-ANITA-KUNZ-ORIGINAL-SISTERS-PORTRAITS-OF-TENACITY-AND-COURAGE">Anita Kunz: Original Sisters Portraits of Tenacity and Courage</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">Original Sisters is a series of portraits that reveals and honors the contributions of history-making women.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-blue-grass-green-skies-american-impressionism-and-realism-from-the-los-angeles-county-museum-of-art-2025-04-09-new-britain-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-BLUE-GRASS-GREEN-SKIES-AMERICAN-IMPRESSIONISM-AND-REALISM-FROM-THE-LOS-ANGELES-COUNTY-MUSEUM-OF-ART" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-blue-grass-green-skies-american-impressionism-and-realism-from-the-los-angeles-county-museum-of-art-2025-04-09-new-britain-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-BLUE-GRASS-GREEN-SKIES-AMERICAN-IMPRESSIONISM-AND-REALISM-FROM-THE-LOS-ANGELES-COUNTY-MUSEUM-OF-ART">Exhibition - Blue Grass, Green Skies: American Impressionism and Realism from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">In 1874, a group of avant-garde French artists, including Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, organized the first exhibition of the “Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers, etc.” in Paris.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-wide-awakes-campaigning-for-lincoln-2025-04-09-hartford-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-WIDE-AWAKES-CAMPAIGNING-FOR-LINCOLN" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-wide-awakes-campaigning-for-lincoln-2025-04-09-hartford-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-WIDE-AWAKES-CAMPAIGNING-FOR-LINCOLN">Exhibition: Wide Awakes: Campaigning for Lincoln</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">During a time of deep political division and fears of a civil war, five young men from Hartford, Connecticut formed a campaign organization that became a nationwide movement and helped elect a president.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, Hartford, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-minnie-negoro-from-heart-mountain-to-uconn-2025-04-09-storrs-mansfield-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-MINNIE-NEGORO-FROM-HEART-MOUNTAIN-TO-UCONN" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-minnie-negoro-from-heart-mountain-to-uconn-2025-04-09-storrs-mansfield-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-MINNIE-NEGORO-FROM-HEART-MOUNTAIN-TO-UCONN">Exhibition - Minnie Negoro: From Heart Mountain to UConn</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">Before becoming an award-winning ceramicist and the founder of the UConn ceramics program, in spring 1942, Minnie Negoro was a young college senior at UCLA on the verge of her college graduation.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs Mansfield, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-encounters-with-the-collection-art-and-human-rights-2025-04-09-storrs-mansfield-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-ENCOUNTERS-WITH-THE-COLLECTION-ART-AND-HUMAN-RIGHTS" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-encounters-with-the-collection-art-and-human-rights-2025-04-09-storrs-mansfield-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-ENCOUNTERS-WITH-THE-COLLECTION-ART-AND-HUMAN-RIGHTS">Exhibition - Encounters with the Collection: Art and Human Rights</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">Encounters with the Collection: Art and Human Rights is the fourth in a series of annual collection gallery rotations that bring fresh perspectives to the interpretation of the Benton’s holdings. This installation is mounted in collaboration with the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute’s Research Program on Arts & Human Rights at UConn.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs Mansfield, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-birth-death-and-alphabets-2025-04-09-salisbury-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-BIRTH-DEATH-AND-ALPHABETS" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-birth-death-and-alphabets-2025-04-09-salisbury-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-BIRTH-DEATH-AND-ALPHABETS">Exhibition: Birth, Death, And Alphabets</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">The Salisbury Association Historical Society Presents an Exhibition of Samplers from the Collection of Alexandra Peters.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Salisbury Association Historical Society, Salisbury, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/housatonic-camera-club-photography-exhibition-2025-04-09-salisbury-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-HOUSATONIC-CAMERA-CLUB-PHOTOGRAPHY-EXHIBITION" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/housatonic-camera-club-photography-exhibition-2025-04-09-salisbury-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-HOUSATONIC-CAMERA-CLUB-PHOTOGRAPHY-EXHIBITION">Housatonic Camera Club Photography Exhibition</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">Join us to celebrate the Scoville Library’s first Housatonic Camera Club Exhibition.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Scoville Memorial Library, Salisbury, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-manifestations-and-memories-by-deborah-leonard-2025-04-09-avon-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-MANIFESTATIONS-AND-MEMORIES-BY-DEBORAH-LEONARD" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-manifestations-and-memories-by-deborah-leonard-2025-04-09-avon-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-MANIFESTATIONS-AND-MEMORIES-BY-DEBORAH-LEONARD">Exhibition: ‘Manifestations and Memories’ by Deborah Leonard</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">Artist Statement: This is me formalizing the sacred places around our thoughts - noting the holy spaces between our hopes.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Farmington Valley Arts Center, Avon, CT </div> </li> </ul> <div class="ar-show-more clearfix"> <div class="aarpe-spinner"></div> <a href="#" data-url='/ajax/events/next_page/' data-options='{"tags":"aarp-ae","show":10,"page":1,"show_limit":3,"limit":15,"images":"yes","max-days":365,"max-miles":45,"min":50,"more":"yes","lat":41.82640075683594,"lng":-72.72969818115234,"latlng":"41.826400756836,-72.729698181152","radius":45,"has_next_page":true}' class="show-more btn col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-lg-6"> <span class="icon-down-arrow"></span> <span>View More</span> <span class="icon-down-arrow"></span> </a> </div> <div class="image-provided-by clearfix small" align="right">Images provided by <a href="https://www.americantowns.com/bloomfield-ct/" target="_blank">AmericanTowns.com</a>, Ticketmaster</div> </div> </div></div><div class="module clearfix"><div class="module-spacer"> <p>Is there an event that we should know about? 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Systems like colonialism and white supremacy categorize, label, and create hierarchies among different bodies that can shape or distort our perceptions of ourselves and each other.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 9:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-it-happened-in-hartford-2025-04-09-hartford-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-IT-HAPPENED-IN-HARTFORD" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-it-happened-in-hartford-2025-04-09-hartford-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-IT-HAPPENED-IN-HARTFORD">Exhibition - It Happened In Hartford</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">It Happened In Hartford: 150 Years of the Mark Twain House September 2024 marks the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Clemens family in their newly built Hartford home and 50 years since the Mark Twain House formally opened as a Museum.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 9:30 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>The Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/anita-kunz-original-sisters-portraits-of-tenacity-and-courage-2025-04-09-stockbridge-ma.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-ANITA-KUNZ-ORIGINAL-SISTERS-PORTRAITS-OF-TENACITY-AND-COURAGE" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/anita-kunz-original-sisters-portraits-of-tenacity-and-courage-2025-04-09-stockbridge-ma.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-ANITA-KUNZ-ORIGINAL-SISTERS-PORTRAITS-OF-TENACITY-AND-COURAGE">Anita Kunz: Original Sisters Portraits of Tenacity and Courage</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">Original Sisters is a series of portraits that reveals and honors the contributions of history-making women.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-blue-grass-green-skies-american-impressionism-and-realism-from-the-los-angeles-county-museum-of-art-2025-04-09-new-britain-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-BLUE-GRASS-GREEN-SKIES-AMERICAN-IMPRESSIONISM-AND-REALISM-FROM-THE-LOS-ANGELES-COUNTY-MUSEUM-OF-ART" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-blue-grass-green-skies-american-impressionism-and-realism-from-the-los-angeles-county-museum-of-art-2025-04-09-new-britain-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-BLUE-GRASS-GREEN-SKIES-AMERICAN-IMPRESSIONISM-AND-REALISM-FROM-THE-LOS-ANGELES-COUNTY-MUSEUM-OF-ART">Exhibition - Blue Grass, Green Skies: American Impressionism and Realism from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">In 1874, a group of avant-garde French artists, including Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, organized the first exhibition of the “Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers, etc.” in Paris.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-wide-awakes-campaigning-for-lincoln-2025-04-09-hartford-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-WIDE-AWAKES-CAMPAIGNING-FOR-LINCOLN" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-wide-awakes-campaigning-for-lincoln-2025-04-09-hartford-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-WIDE-AWAKES-CAMPAIGNING-FOR-LINCOLN">Exhibition: Wide Awakes: Campaigning for Lincoln</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">During a time of deep political division and fears of a civil war, five young men from Hartford, Connecticut formed a campaign organization that became a nationwide movement and helped elect a president.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, Hartford, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-minnie-negoro-from-heart-mountain-to-uconn-2025-04-09-storrs-mansfield-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-MINNIE-NEGORO-FROM-HEART-MOUNTAIN-TO-UCONN" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-minnie-negoro-from-heart-mountain-to-uconn-2025-04-09-storrs-mansfield-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-MINNIE-NEGORO-FROM-HEART-MOUNTAIN-TO-UCONN">Exhibition - Minnie Negoro: From Heart Mountain to UConn</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">Before becoming an award-winning ceramicist and the founder of the UConn ceramics program, in spring 1942, Minnie Negoro was a young college senior at UCLA on the verge of her college graduation.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs Mansfield, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-encounters-with-the-collection-art-and-human-rights-2025-04-09-storrs-mansfield-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-ENCOUNTERS-WITH-THE-COLLECTION-ART-AND-HUMAN-RIGHTS" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-encounters-with-the-collection-art-and-human-rights-2025-04-09-storrs-mansfield-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-ENCOUNTERS-WITH-THE-COLLECTION-ART-AND-HUMAN-RIGHTS">Exhibition - Encounters with the Collection: Art and Human Rights</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">Encounters with the Collection: Art and Human Rights is the fourth in a series of annual collection gallery rotations that bring fresh perspectives to the interpretation of the Benton’s holdings. This installation is mounted in collaboration with the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute’s Research Program on Arts & Human Rights at UConn.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs Mansfield, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-birth-death-and-alphabets-2025-04-09-salisbury-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-BIRTH-DEATH-AND-ALPHABETS" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-birth-death-and-alphabets-2025-04-09-salisbury-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-BIRTH-DEATH-AND-ALPHABETS">Exhibition: Birth, Death, And Alphabets</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">The Salisbury Association Historical Society Presents an Exhibition of Samplers from the Collection of Alexandra Peters.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Salisbury Association Historical Society, Salisbury, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/housatonic-camera-club-photography-exhibition-2025-04-09-salisbury-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-HOUSATONIC-CAMERA-CLUB-PHOTOGRAPHY-EXHIBITION" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/housatonic-camera-club-photography-exhibition-2025-04-09-salisbury-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-HOUSATONIC-CAMERA-CLUB-PHOTOGRAPHY-EXHIBITION">Housatonic Camera Club Photography Exhibition</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">Join us to celebrate the Scoville Library’s first Housatonic Camera Club Exhibition.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Scoville Memorial Library, Salisbury, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-manifestations-and-memories-by-deborah-leonard-2025-04-09-avon-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-MANIFESTATIONS-AND-MEMORIES-BY-DEBORAH-LEONARD" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-manifestations-and-memories-by-deborah-leonard-2025-04-09-avon-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-MANIFESTATIONS-AND-MEMORIES-BY-DEBORAH-LEONARD">Exhibition: ‘Manifestations and Memories’ by Deborah Leonard</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">Artist Statement: This is me formalizing the sacred places around our thoughts - noting the holy spaces between our hopes.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Farmington Valley Arts Center, Avon, CT </div> </li> </ul> <div class="ar-show-more clearfix"> <div class="aarpe-spinner"></div> <a href="#" data-url='/ajax/events/next_page/' data-options='{"tags":"aarp-ae","show":10,"page":1,"show_limit":3,"limit":15,"images":"yes","max-days":365,"max-miles":45,"min":50,"more":"yes","lat":41.82640075683594,"lng":-72.72969818115234,"latlng":"41.826400756836,-72.729698181152","radius":45,"has_next_page":true}' class="show-more btn col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-lg-6"> <span class="icon-down-arrow"></span> <span>View More</span> <span class="icon-down-arrow"></span> </a> </div> <div class="image-provided-by clearfix small" align="right">Images provided by <a href="https://www.americantowns.com/bloomfield-ct/" target="_blank">AmericanTowns.com</a>, Ticketmaster</div> </div> </div></div><div class="module clearfix"><div class="module-spacer"> <p>Is there an event that we should know about? 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Systems like colonialism and white supremacy categorize, label, and create hierarchies among different bodies that can shape or distort our perceptions of ourselves and each other.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 9:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-it-happened-in-hartford-2025-04-09-hartford-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-IT-HAPPENED-IN-HARTFORD" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-it-happened-in-hartford-2025-04-09-hartford-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-IT-HAPPENED-IN-HARTFORD">Exhibition - It Happened In Hartford</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">It Happened In Hartford: 150 Years of the Mark Twain House September 2024 marks the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Clemens family in their newly built Hartford home and 50 years since the Mark Twain House formally opened as a Museum.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 9:30 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>The Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/anita-kunz-original-sisters-portraits-of-tenacity-and-courage-2025-04-09-stockbridge-ma.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-ANITA-KUNZ-ORIGINAL-SISTERS-PORTRAITS-OF-TENACITY-AND-COURAGE" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/anita-kunz-original-sisters-portraits-of-tenacity-and-courage-2025-04-09-stockbridge-ma.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-ANITA-KUNZ-ORIGINAL-SISTERS-PORTRAITS-OF-TENACITY-AND-COURAGE">Anita Kunz: Original Sisters Portraits of Tenacity and Courage</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">Original Sisters is a series of portraits that reveals and honors the contributions of history-making women.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-blue-grass-green-skies-american-impressionism-and-realism-from-the-los-angeles-county-museum-of-art-2025-04-09-new-britain-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-BLUE-GRASS-GREEN-SKIES-AMERICAN-IMPRESSIONISM-AND-REALISM-FROM-THE-LOS-ANGELES-COUNTY-MUSEUM-OF-ART" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-blue-grass-green-skies-american-impressionism-and-realism-from-the-los-angeles-county-museum-of-art-2025-04-09-new-britain-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-BLUE-GRASS-GREEN-SKIES-AMERICAN-IMPRESSIONISM-AND-REALISM-FROM-THE-LOS-ANGELES-COUNTY-MUSEUM-OF-ART">Exhibition - Blue Grass, Green Skies: American Impressionism and Realism from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">In 1874, a group of avant-garde French artists, including Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, organized the first exhibition of the “Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers, etc.” in Paris.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-wide-awakes-campaigning-for-lincoln-2025-04-09-hartford-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-WIDE-AWAKES-CAMPAIGNING-FOR-LINCOLN" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-wide-awakes-campaigning-for-lincoln-2025-04-09-hartford-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-WIDE-AWAKES-CAMPAIGNING-FOR-LINCOLN">Exhibition: Wide Awakes: Campaigning for Lincoln</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">During a time of deep political division and fears of a civil war, five young men from Hartford, Connecticut formed a campaign organization that became a nationwide movement and helped elect a president.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, Hartford, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-minnie-negoro-from-heart-mountain-to-uconn-2025-04-09-storrs-mansfield-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-MINNIE-NEGORO-FROM-HEART-MOUNTAIN-TO-UCONN" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-minnie-negoro-from-heart-mountain-to-uconn-2025-04-09-storrs-mansfield-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-MINNIE-NEGORO-FROM-HEART-MOUNTAIN-TO-UCONN">Exhibition - 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It Happened In Hartford</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">It Happened In Hartford: 150 Years of the Mark Twain House September 2024 marks the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Clemens family in their newly built Hartford home and 50 years since the Mark Twain House formally opened as a Museum.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 9:30 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>The Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/anita-kunz-original-sisters-portraits-of-tenacity-and-courage-2025-04-09-stockbridge-ma.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-ANITA-KUNZ-ORIGINAL-SISTERS-PORTRAITS-OF-TENACITY-AND-COURAGE" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/anita-kunz-original-sisters-portraits-of-tenacity-and-courage-2025-04-09-stockbridge-ma.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-ANITA-KUNZ-ORIGINAL-SISTERS-PORTRAITS-OF-TENACITY-AND-COURAGE">Anita Kunz: Original Sisters Portraits of Tenacity and Courage</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">Original Sisters is a series of portraits that reveals and honors the contributions of history-making women.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-blue-grass-green-skies-american-impressionism-and-realism-from-the-los-angeles-county-museum-of-art-2025-04-09-new-britain-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-BLUE-GRASS-GREEN-SKIES-AMERICAN-IMPRESSIONISM-AND-REALISM-FROM-THE-LOS-ANGELES-COUNTY-MUSEUM-OF-ART" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-blue-grass-green-skies-american-impressionism-and-realism-from-the-los-angeles-county-museum-of-art-2025-04-09-new-britain-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-BLUE-GRASS-GREEN-SKIES-AMERICAN-IMPRESSIONISM-AND-REALISM-FROM-THE-LOS-ANGELES-COUNTY-MUSEUM-OF-ART">Exhibition - 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It Happened In Hartford</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">It Happened In Hartford: 150 Years of the Mark Twain House September 2024 marks the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Clemens family in their newly built Hartford home and 50 years since the Mark Twain House formally opened as a Museum.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 9:30 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>The Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/anita-kunz-original-sisters-portraits-of-tenacity-and-courage-2025-04-09-stockbridge-ma.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-ANITA-KUNZ-ORIGINAL-SISTERS-PORTRAITS-OF-TENACITY-AND-COURAGE" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/anita-kunz-original-sisters-portraits-of-tenacity-and-courage-2025-04-09-stockbridge-ma.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-ANITA-KUNZ-ORIGINAL-SISTERS-PORTRAITS-OF-TENACITY-AND-COURAGE">Anita Kunz: Original Sisters Portraits of Tenacity and Courage</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">Original Sisters is a series of portraits that reveals and honors the contributions of history-making women.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-blue-grass-green-skies-american-impressionism-and-realism-from-the-los-angeles-county-museum-of-art-2025-04-09-new-britain-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-BLUE-GRASS-GREEN-SKIES-AMERICAN-IMPRESSIONISM-AND-REALISM-FROM-THE-LOS-ANGELES-COUNTY-MUSEUM-OF-ART" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-blue-grass-green-skies-american-impressionism-and-realism-from-the-los-angeles-county-museum-of-art-2025-04-09-new-britain-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-BLUE-GRASS-GREEN-SKIES-AMERICAN-IMPRESSIONISM-AND-REALISM-FROM-THE-LOS-ANGELES-COUNTY-MUSEUM-OF-ART">Exhibition - 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Systems like colonialism and white supremacy categorize, label, and create hierarchies among different bodies that can shape or distort our perceptions of ourselves and each other.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 9:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-it-happened-in-hartford-2025-04-09-hartford-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-IT-HAPPENED-IN-HARTFORD" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-it-happened-in-hartford-2025-04-09-hartford-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-IT-HAPPENED-IN-HARTFORD">Exhibition - It Happened In Hartford</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">It Happened In Hartford: 150 Years of the Mark Twain House September 2024 marks the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Clemens family in their newly built Hartford home and 50 years since the Mark Twain House formally opened as a Museum.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 9:30 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>The Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/anita-kunz-original-sisters-portraits-of-tenacity-and-courage-2025-04-09-stockbridge-ma.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-ANITA-KUNZ-ORIGINAL-SISTERS-PORTRAITS-OF-TENACITY-AND-COURAGE" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/anita-kunz-original-sisters-portraits-of-tenacity-and-courage-2025-04-09-stockbridge-ma.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-ANITA-KUNZ-ORIGINAL-SISTERS-PORTRAITS-OF-TENACITY-AND-COURAGE">Anita Kunz: Original Sisters Portraits of Tenacity and Courage</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">Original Sisters is a series of portraits that reveals and honors the contributions of history-making women.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-blue-grass-green-skies-american-impressionism-and-realism-from-the-los-angeles-county-museum-of-art-2025-04-09-new-britain-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-BLUE-GRASS-GREEN-SKIES-AMERICAN-IMPRESSIONISM-AND-REALISM-FROM-THE-LOS-ANGELES-COUNTY-MUSEUM-OF-ART" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-blue-grass-green-skies-american-impressionism-and-realism-from-the-los-angeles-county-museum-of-art-2025-04-09-new-britain-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-BLUE-GRASS-GREEN-SKIES-AMERICAN-IMPRESSIONISM-AND-REALISM-FROM-THE-LOS-ANGELES-COUNTY-MUSEUM-OF-ART">Exhibition - Blue Grass, Green Skies: American Impressionism and Realism from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">In 1874, a group of avant-garde French artists, including Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, organized the first exhibition of the “Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers, etc.” in Paris.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-wide-awakes-campaigning-for-lincoln-2025-04-09-hartford-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-WIDE-AWAKES-CAMPAIGNING-FOR-LINCOLN" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-wide-awakes-campaigning-for-lincoln-2025-04-09-hartford-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-WIDE-AWAKES-CAMPAIGNING-FOR-LINCOLN">Exhibition: Wide Awakes: Campaigning for Lincoln</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">During a time of deep political division and fears of a civil war, five young men from Hartford, Connecticut formed a campaign organization that became a nationwide movement and helped elect a president.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, Hartford, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-minnie-negoro-from-heart-mountain-to-uconn-2025-04-09-storrs-mansfield-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-MINNIE-NEGORO-FROM-HEART-MOUNTAIN-TO-UCONN" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-minnie-negoro-from-heart-mountain-to-uconn-2025-04-09-storrs-mansfield-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-MINNIE-NEGORO-FROM-HEART-MOUNTAIN-TO-UCONN">Exhibition - Minnie Negoro: From Heart Mountain to UConn</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">Before becoming an award-winning ceramicist and the founder of the UConn ceramics program, in spring 1942, Minnie Negoro was a young college senior at UCLA on the verge of her college graduation.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs Mansfield, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-encounters-with-the-collection-art-and-human-rights-2025-04-09-storrs-mansfield-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-ENCOUNTERS-WITH-THE-COLLECTION-ART-AND-HUMAN-RIGHTS" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-encounters-with-the-collection-art-and-human-rights-2025-04-09-storrs-mansfield-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-ENCOUNTERS-WITH-THE-COLLECTION-ART-AND-HUMAN-RIGHTS">Exhibition - Encounters with the Collection: Art and Human Rights</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">Encounters with the Collection: Art and Human Rights is the fourth in a series of annual collection gallery rotations that bring fresh perspectives to the interpretation of the Benton’s holdings. This installation is mounted in collaboration with the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute’s Research Program on Arts & Human Rights at UConn.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs Mansfield, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-birth-death-and-alphabets-2025-04-09-salisbury-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-BIRTH-DEATH-AND-ALPHABETS" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-birth-death-and-alphabets-2025-04-09-salisbury-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-BIRTH-DEATH-AND-ALPHABETS">Exhibition: Birth, Death, And Alphabets</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">The Salisbury Association Historical Society Presents an Exhibition of Samplers from the Collection of Alexandra Peters.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Salisbury Association Historical Society, Salisbury, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/housatonic-camera-club-photography-exhibition-2025-04-09-salisbury-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-HOUSATONIC-CAMERA-CLUB-PHOTOGRAPHY-EXHIBITION" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/housatonic-camera-club-photography-exhibition-2025-04-09-salisbury-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-HOUSATONIC-CAMERA-CLUB-PHOTOGRAPHY-EXHIBITION">Housatonic Camera Club Photography Exhibition</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">Join us to celebrate the Scoville Library’s first Housatonic Camera Club Exhibition.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Scoville Memorial Library, Salisbury, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-manifestations-and-memories-by-deborah-leonard-2025-04-09-avon-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-MANIFESTATIONS-AND-MEMORIES-BY-DEBORAH-LEONARD" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-manifestations-and-memories-by-deborah-leonard-2025-04-09-avon-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-MANIFESTATIONS-AND-MEMORIES-BY-DEBORAH-LEONARD">Exhibition: ‘Manifestations and Memories’ by Deborah Leonard</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">Artist Statement: This is me formalizing the sacred places around our thoughts - noting the holy spaces between our hopes.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Farmington Valley Arts Center, Avon, CT </div> </li> </ul> <div class="ar-show-more clearfix"> <div class="aarpe-spinner"></div> <a href="#" data-url='/ajax/events/next_page/' data-options='{"tags":"aarp-ae","show":10,"page":1,"show_limit":3,"limit":15,"images":"yes","max-days":365,"max-miles":45,"min":50,"more":"yes","lat":41.82640075683594,"lng":-72.72969818115234,"latlng":"41.826400756836,-72.729698181152","radius":45,"has_next_page":true}' class="show-more btn col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-lg-6"> <span class="icon-down-arrow"></span> <span>View More</span> <span class="icon-down-arrow"></span> </a> </div> <div class="image-provided-by clearfix small" align="right">Images provided by <a href="https://www.americantowns.com/bloomfield-ct/" target="_blank">AmericanTowns.com</a>, Ticketmaster</div> </div> </div></div><div class="module clearfix"><div class="module-spacer"> <p>Is there an event that we should know about? 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Systems like colonialism and white supremacy categorize, label, and create hierarchies among different bodies that can shape or distort our perceptions of ourselves and each other.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 9:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-it-happened-in-hartford-2025-04-09-hartford-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-IT-HAPPENED-IN-HARTFORD" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-it-happened-in-hartford-2025-04-09-hartford-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-IT-HAPPENED-IN-HARTFORD">Exhibition - It Happened In Hartford</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">It Happened In Hartford: 150 Years of the Mark Twain House September 2024 marks the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Clemens family in their newly built Hartford home and 50 years since the Mark Twain House formally opened as a Museum.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 9:30 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>The Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/anita-kunz-original-sisters-portraits-of-tenacity-and-courage-2025-04-09-stockbridge-ma.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-ANITA-KUNZ-ORIGINAL-SISTERS-PORTRAITS-OF-TENACITY-AND-COURAGE" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/anita-kunz-original-sisters-portraits-of-tenacity-and-courage-2025-04-09-stockbridge-ma.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-ANITA-KUNZ-ORIGINAL-SISTERS-PORTRAITS-OF-TENACITY-AND-COURAGE">Anita Kunz: Original Sisters Portraits of Tenacity and Courage</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">Original Sisters is a series of portraits that reveals and honors the contributions of history-making women.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-blue-grass-green-skies-american-impressionism-and-realism-from-the-los-angeles-county-museum-of-art-2025-04-09-new-britain-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-BLUE-GRASS-GREEN-SKIES-AMERICAN-IMPRESSIONISM-AND-REALISM-FROM-THE-LOS-ANGELES-COUNTY-MUSEUM-OF-ART" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-blue-grass-green-skies-american-impressionism-and-realism-from-the-los-angeles-county-museum-of-art-2025-04-09-new-britain-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-BLUE-GRASS-GREEN-SKIES-AMERICAN-IMPRESSIONISM-AND-REALISM-FROM-THE-LOS-ANGELES-COUNTY-MUSEUM-OF-ART">Exhibition - Blue Grass, Green Skies: American Impressionism and Realism from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">In 1874, a group of avant-garde French artists, including Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, organized the first exhibition of the “Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers, etc.” in Paris.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-wide-awakes-campaigning-for-lincoln-2025-04-09-hartford-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-WIDE-AWAKES-CAMPAIGNING-FOR-LINCOLN" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-wide-awakes-campaigning-for-lincoln-2025-04-09-hartford-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-WIDE-AWAKES-CAMPAIGNING-FOR-LINCOLN">Exhibition: Wide Awakes: Campaigning for Lincoln</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">During a time of deep political division and fears of a civil war, five young men from Hartford, Connecticut formed a campaign organization that became a nationwide movement and helped elect a president.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, Hartford, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-minnie-negoro-from-heart-mountain-to-uconn-2025-04-09-storrs-mansfield-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-MINNIE-NEGORO-FROM-HEART-MOUNTAIN-TO-UCONN" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-minnie-negoro-from-heart-mountain-to-uconn-2025-04-09-storrs-mansfield-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-MINNIE-NEGORO-FROM-HEART-MOUNTAIN-TO-UCONN">Exhibition - 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It Happened In Hartford</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">It Happened In Hartford: 150 Years of the Mark Twain House September 2024 marks the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Clemens family in their newly built Hartford home and 50 years since the Mark Twain House formally opened as a Museum.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 9:30 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>The Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford, CT </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/anita-kunz-original-sisters-portraits-of-tenacity-and-courage-2025-04-09-stockbridge-ma.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-ANITA-KUNZ-ORIGINAL-SISTERS-PORTRAITS-OF-TENACITY-AND-COURAGE" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/anita-kunz-original-sisters-portraits-of-tenacity-and-courage-2025-04-09-stockbridge-ma.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-ANITA-KUNZ-ORIGINAL-SISTERS-PORTRAITS-OF-TENACITY-AND-COURAGE">Anita Kunz: Original Sisters Portraits of Tenacity and Courage</a></h3> <div class="xd-flex"> <div class="description">Original Sisters is a series of portraits that reveals and honors the contributions of history-making women.</div> </div> <div class="detail" style="align-items: flex-start;"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/calendar.svg" class="icon calendar"/> <div class="repeated-events"> Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. ET </div> </div> <div class="detail"> <img src="https://cdn-aarp.americantowns.com/img/vcc2/icons/location.svg" class="icon location opacity-75" style="margin: 0 -2px;"/>Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA </div> </li> <li class="vcc-item item card-link " data-url="/event/exhibition-blue-grass-green-skies-american-impressionism-and-realism-from-the-los-angeles-county-museum-of-art-2025-04-09-new-britain-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-BLUE-GRASS-GREEN-SKIES-AMERICAN-IMPRESSIONISM-AND-REALISM-FROM-THE-LOS-ANGELES-COUNTY-MUSEUM-OF-ART" data-pageindex="1"> <div class="top"> </div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/event/exhibition-blue-grass-green-skies-american-impressionism-and-realism-from-the-los-angeles-county-museum-of-art-2025-04-09-new-britain-ct.html" data-formelementid="LOCAL-BTN-CLK-EVENTS-EXHIBITION-BLUE-GRASS-GREEN-SKIES-AMERICAN-IMPRESSIONISM-AND-REALISM-FROM-THE-LOS-ANGELES-COUNTY-MUSEUM-OF-ART">Exhibition - 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