FIRST FRIDAY
EVENTS

JUNE 1st 
 6:00 - 9:00PM


 

NEW EXHIBIT &  
OPENING RECEPTION
   
"Haiku: Paintings & Works by  
Donald E. Munson" // Sponsored by  
The Pomfret School Gallery  
 
  
Silver Circle Gallery and the Pomfret School Gallery are excited to announce the opening reception for the exhibit Haiku: Paintings & Works by Donald E. Munson" in the Pomfret School Gallery on First Friday June 1 from 6-8pm. The display features 36 new works from this notable artist. This body of work showcases pieces grown from poems written by the artist back in 1973. The show will also include pieces from the artist's Numbers series. This collection Munson calls, "many sentences toward a self" will be on display   
through July 29.
 
  
 
For the past 45 years, Donald Munson has earned his place in the art world as a renowned illustrator, graphic designer, and painter with an impressive resume and list of exhibitions and affiliations in the New York Art scene, and his work is in private and public art collections throughout the world. Noteworthy are the facts that his work is in the permanent collection in the Museum of Modern Art, Hecksher Museum in Huntington, NY, the Society of Illustrators Museum of American Illustration in NYC, and he is in the private collections of such people as David Carson and Joerg & Savine Lichtenberg.  Don developed nine commonly used fonts and he served as the vice president of Random House from 1979-1991, where he worked as the Division Vice President, Art Director and created covers for over 500 books. He worked with such authors as William Golding and Isaac Assimov, ultimately winning the Chesley Award as Best Art Director in 1991. Early in his career Donald worked with Salvador Dali at the MoMA, teaching him to utilize a new technique for producing art cards. Mr. Munson has also worked on Broadway set designs, and has had such clients as Readers Digest and New York Times.
 
Read more here




 
 

CURRENT EXHIBIT  

Silver Circle Gallery /// "Trashion Show"
 
In celebration of Earth Day, this featured display will have 2D and 3D work
by gallery members and community artists
that blends fashion and the art of "upcycling", transforming everyday trash into creative treasures.  
   

 
 
              
 
 
     

JEWELRY TRUNK SHOW  
 
Stephanie Moreau /// Savage Salvage Designs
   
 
 
Stephanie Moreau (aka SAVAGE SALVAGE)  is a mixed-media-artist/jewelry-designer based in Woonsocket, RI.  She holds a BFA in Sculpture from Pratt Institute.  She worked as a designer in the fashion jewelry industry in New York City for 15 years, creating for accounts such as Anthropologie and Urban Outfitters.  She now works exclusively on her own line of jewelry, called SAVAGE SALVAGE, made with unusual, upcycled, and re-purposed materials.   In her spare time she is an obsessive mixed-media art journaler, mono-printer, and collector of rusty treasures.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
  
 
           
 
 

FEATURED ARTIST DEMOS
 
           
Woodcarving Demo /// Arrik Kim
       
Watch as Collective Gallery Artist Arrik Kim works his   
wood-carving magic just outside of the gallery!       
 


 
 
 

Painting Demo /// Laura Moorehead

Laura Moorehead, gallery artist and graphic designer,  
will be creating an original painting based on the First Fridays theme, on the sidewalk outside our door.  Stop by to see her progress then head upstairs to enjoy our gallery.
 



 
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