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Housatonic Museum of Art The HMA has one of the most significant collections of any two-year college in the U.S.

🎉Next Week!🎉Join us for a panel discussion featuring Fiona Vernal, Kate Schramm, and Lyle Cairdeas, who will each guide ...
10/16/2026

🎉Next Week!🎉

Join us for a panel discussion featuring Fiona Vernal, Kate Schramm, and Lyle Cairdeas, who will each guide our understanding of how to make and use oral histories. Lunch will be provided.

Fiona Vernal, Director of Engaged, Public, Oral, and Community Histories (EPOCH) and Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies at the University of Connecticut
Kate Schramm, Director of Cultural Sustainability, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History
Lyle Cairdeas, Exhibitions and Collections Manager, Mattatuck Museum

📅Monday October 19, 2026 from 12:30pm - 1:45pm
🏢Lafayette Hall, Room L-109
🥪Lunch will be provided.
🎟Free and open to the public.

RSVP here: https://housatonicmuseum.org/index.php?option=com_rsform...

Check out the link in our bio to find out more.

See Mora’s cover of The Ladies' Home Journal and others in “Making his Mark in Connecticut: The Creative Process of F. L...
10/14/2026

See Mora’s cover of The Ladies' Home Journal and others in “Making his Mark in Connecticut: The Creative Process of F. Luis Mora”

🗓 On view: September 9, 2026 - February 19, 2027
📍 Lafayette Hall, CT State Housatonic — Burt Chernow Galleries 🎟 Free + open to all
🚗 Free parking at 870 Lafayette Blvd in Bridgeport, CT
🕧The Burt Chernow Galleries are open Monday-Friday, 8:30 am - 7:00 pm

Visit https://housatonicmuseum.org/what-s-on/1665-making-his-mark-in-connecticut-the-creative-process-of-f-luis-mora to find out more.

🎉You're invited!🎉Did you know that Connecticut residents have free tools to record their own stories? Learn how to tell ...
10/13/2026

🎉You're invited!🎉

Did you know that Connecticut residents have free tools to record their own stories? Learn how to tell your story and record those of your family, friends, and community members. Join us for a panel discussion featuring Fiona Vernal, Kate Schramm, and Lyle Cairdeas, who will each guide our understanding of how to make and use oral histories.

Fiona Vernal, Director of Engaged, Public, Oral, and Community Histories (EPOCH) and Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies at the University of Connecticut
Kate Schramm, Director of Cultural Sustainability, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History
Lyle Cairdeas, Exhibitions and Collections Manager, Mattatuck Museum

📅Monday October 19, 2026 from 12:30pm - 1:45pm
Lafayette Hall, Room L-109

🥪Lunch will be provided.
🎟Free and open to the public.

RSVP here: https://housatonicmuseum.org/index.php?option=com_rsform&view=rsform&formId=67

Check out the link in our bio to find out more.

Thank you to the artists and visitors for coming to the opening reception of “Ellis Island: Arriving”. We couldn’t do it...
10/13/2026

Thank you to the artists and visitors for coming to the opening reception of “Ellis Island: Arriving”. We couldn’t do it without you.

🗓 On view: September 30, 2026
📍 CT State Housatonic, Beacon Hall, Second Floor
🎟 Free + open to all
🚗 Free parking at 870 Lafayette Blvd in Bridgeport, CT

Visit https://housatonicmuseum.org/what-s-on/1680-ellis-island-arriving to find out more.

🎉Tonight is the night!🎉Join us for the opening reception of “Ellis Island: Arriving”This collaborative project is an ode...
09/30/2026

🎉Tonight is the night!🎉

Join us for the opening reception of “Ellis Island: Arriving”

This collaborative project is an ode to the 275,000 patients who passed through its halls and the enduring stories they carried. Drawn to its abandoned rooms, paint-peeled walls, and shadowed traces of lives left behind, two artists developed their distinct approaches.

Leland Smith’s photographs, rich in texture, color, and tone, suggest the wonder of a newly arrived immigrant's first glimpse of an unfamiliar world. Julia Arstorp’s black-and-white collages and diptychs turn toward memory by weaving narratives of the past to reveal the hospital’s symbolic presence.

Together, their complementary perspectives invite visitors to consider the Ellis Island Immigration Hospital not only as a place where people arrived, but also as a place where stories began and still remain.

🎉 Opening Reception: September 30 | 4:30–6:00 PM
🥪Light refreshments will be served
🗓 On view: September 30, 2026
📍 CT State Housatonic, Beacon Hall, Second Floor
🎟 Free + open to all
🚗 Free parking at 870 Lafayette Blvd in Bridgeport, CT

Visit https://housatonicmuseum.org/what-s-on/1681-opening-reception-for-ellis-island-arriving to find out more.

In “Making his Mark in Connecticut: The Creative Process of F. Luis Mora”, you will see preliminary sketches and pastel ...
09/28/2026

In “Making his Mark in Connecticut: The Creative Process of F. Luis Mora”, you will see preliminary sketches and pastel works to finished oil paintings.

🗓 On view: September 9, 2026 - February 19, 2027
📍 Lafayette Hall, CT State Housatonic — Burt Chernow Galleries
🎟 Free + open to all
🚗 Free parking at 870 Lafayette Blvd in Bridgeport, CT
🕧The Burt Chernow Galleries are open Monday-Friday, 8:30 am - 7:00 pm

Visit https://housatonicmuseum.org/what-s-on/1665-making-his-mark-in-connecticut-the-creative-process-of-f-luis-mora to find out more.

🎉You're invited! 🎉Join us for the opening reception of "Ellis Island: Arriving"The Ellis Island Immigration Hospital was...
09/24/2026

🎉You're invited! 🎉

Join us for the opening reception of "Ellis Island: Arriving"

The Ellis Island Immigration Hospital was once a place of arrival, hope, and new beginnings for immigrants entering the United States. Between 1902 and 1951, the hospital treated over 275,000 patients. Ellis Island itself operated from 1892 to 1954.

This collaborative project is an ode to the 275,000 patients who passed through its halls and the enduring stories they carried. Drawn to its abandoned rooms, paint-peeled walls, and shadowed traces of lives left behind, two artists developed their distinct approaches.

Leland Smith’s photographs, rich in texture, color, and tone, suggest the wonder of a newly arrived immigrant's first glimpse of an unfamiliar world. Julia Arstorp’s black-and-white collages and diptychs turn toward memory by weaving narratives of the past to reveal the hospital’s symbolic presence.

Together, their complementary perspectives invite visitors to consider the Ellis Island Immigration Hospital not only as a place where people arrived, but also as a place where stories began and still remain.

🎉 Opening Reception: September 30 | 4:30–6:00 PM
🥪Light refreshments will be served
🗓 On view: September 30, 2026
📍 CT State Housatonic, Beacon Hall, Second Floor
🎟 Free + open to all
🚗 Free parking at 870 Lafayette Blvd in Bridgeport, CT

Visit https://housatonicmuseum.org/what-s-on/1681-opening-reception-for-ellis-island-arriving to find out more.

See this and other works featuring Rosemary in “Making his Mark in Connecticut: The Creative Process of F. Luis Mora”🗓 O...
09/24/2026

See this and other works featuring Rosemary in “Making his Mark in Connecticut: The Creative Process of F. Luis Mora”

🗓 On view: September 9, 2026 - February 19, 2027
📍 Lafayette Hall, CT State Housatonic — Burt Chernow Galleries 🎟 Free + open to all
🚗 Free parking at 870 Lafayette Blvd in Bridgeport, CT
🕧The Burt Chernow Galleries are open Monday-Friday, 8:30 am - 7:00 pm

Visit https://housatonicmuseum.org/what-s-on/1665-making-his-mark-in-connecticut-the-creative-process-of-f-luis-mora to find out more.

✨Thank you for coming to the Making His Mark in Connecticut: The Creative Process of F. Luis Mora opening reception. You...
09/15/2026

✨Thank you for coming to the Making His Mark in Connecticut: The Creative Process of F. Luis Mora opening reception. Your presence and support mean the world to us.🎨

The exhibition was curated by Dr. Cynthia Roznoy with insight from Benjamin Ortiz. This project is supported by funding through CT Humanities, the Wyeth Foundation for American Art, and America 250 | CT. Special thanks to lead donor, Elizabeth Fray.

🗓 On view: September 9, 2026 - February 19, 2027
📍 Lafayette Hall, CT State Housatonic — Burt Chernow Galleries 🎟 Free + open to all
🚗 Free parking at 870 Lafayette Blvd in Bridgeport, CT

🕧The Burt Chernow Galleries are open Monday-Friday, 8:30 am - 7:00 pm

Get to know Mora in Making his Mark in Connecticut: The Creative Process of F. Luis Mora, now on view at the Burt Cherno...
09/11/2026

Get to know Mora in Making his Mark in Connecticut: The Creative Process of F. Luis Mora, now on view at the Burt Chernow Galleries.

🗓 On view: September 9, 2026 - February 19, 2027
📍 Lafayette Hall, CT State Housatonic — Burt Chernow Galleries
🎟 Free + open to all
🚗 Free parking at 870 Lafayette Blvd in Bridgeport, CT

🕧The Burt Chernow Galleries are open Monday-Friday, 8:30 am - 7:00 pm

Visit https://housatonicmuseum.org/what-s-on/1665-making-his-mark-in-connecticut-the-creative-process-of-f-luis-mora to find out more.

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900 Lafayette Boulevard
Bridgeport, CT
06604

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 7pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 7pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 7pm
Thursday 8:30am - 7pm
Friday 8:30am - 7pm

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