Art Exhibits At Four Fairfield County Venues—

A Visual Mosaic By Artists Of The African Diaspora

Picture That, LLC and Stamford Center for the Arts announce the opening of a special multi-location African-American art exhibition, including one presentation in Danbury. The first set of exhibitions will be opening on Martin Luther King Jr Day. The collections have also been timed to coincide with African-American History Month.

“Telling Our Story: A Visual Mosaic by Artists of the African Diaspora” will be displayed at four venues throughout Fairfield County. The collections will showcase art in a variety of media including photography, drawings, paintings, sculpture and tapestry, plus works of art from the Students Visual Arts Program, co-sponsored by Stamford Center for the Arts’ ReachOut and Picture That, LLC.

The exhibitions are part of Stamford Center for the Arts’ African-American Culture Series.

Nineteen artists will have works in the exhibitions: Kenneth Addison of Clinton, Md.; Betty Blayton, Bronx, N.Y.; Bernard, East Orange, N.J.; Aleathia Brown, Bronx, N.Y.; Calvin Coleman, Upper Marlboro, Md.; Stanwyck Cromwell, Hartford; David Huckabe, New Haven; Jahmane, Norwalk; Dolores C. Kemp, Westport; Cora Marshall, New Britain; Robin J. Miller, Bronx, N.Y.; Myrna Morris, Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.; Michael Parchment, Naugatuck; Scott Andre Patterson, East Orange, N.J.; Jo-Ann Thompson-Claybourne, Norwalk; Glenn Tunstull, Claverack, N.Y.; Heather M. Williams, Jersey City, N.J.; and Dmitri Wright, Greenwich.

Community exhibitions will be on view from January 16 until February 28 at Sackler Gallery at The Palace Theatre, 61 Atlantic Street in Stamford, and The Richard & Hinda Rosenthal Gallery at Rich Forum, 307 Atlantic Street in Stamford.

An opening reception for the Sackler Gallery show is planned for Thursday, February 2, from 5 to 9 pm.

An opening reception for the Rosenthal Gallery show will be held the following week, on Thursday, February 9, also from 5 to 9 pm.

The public is welcome to both of the opening receptions, free of charge. The openings will both offer artist talks, hors d’oeuvres, live jazz and student art awards for the nearly 50 students participating in the exhibits.

Corporate exhibitions will be on display from February 1 through February 28 at Cendant Mobility Headquarters Gallery at Cendant Mobility, 40 Apple Ridge Road in Danbury, and DIAGEO Fine Arts Gallery at DIAGEO, 801 Main Avenue in Norwalk.

To view the corporate exhibitions and attend the receptions (and to learn the date and times for the receptions), call 203-977-8203.

Stamford Center for the Arts’ ReachOut was created to insure that all members of the regional community have the opportunity to participate in the arts and utilize the facilities SCA offers. ReachOut does this through programs that provide opportunities to attend the theater and participate in programs that enhance awareness of the arts in the community, and arts-exposure programs for students that challenge and nurture the next generation of artists, writers, actors, dancers, musicians and theatergoers.

Established in 1992, Picture That, LLC, is a Stamford-based company that promotes cultural inclusion and diversity through the arts by offering corporations, non-profit organizations, religious institutions and private collectors three primary services: cultural fine art, rotating awareness exhibits and cultural inclusion consulting services.

The company is certified as a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) by the Connecticut Minority Supplier Development Council (CMSDC) and the State of Connecticut.

For additional information call 203-325-4466 or visit SCA’s website at www.OnlyAtSCA.com