WCSU Higgins Gallery Show Highlights University’s Role As Regional Center For The Arts

DANBURY — Work by 15 critically acclaimed artists working in diverse media ranging from pastel and oil paintings to ceramics, photography and sculpture is being featured in a major exhibition on view through November 23 at Western Connecticut State University.

“Fifteen Artists, One Exhibition,” organized by the WCSU Art Department in collaboration with Washington (Conn.) Art Association (WAA), showcases the works of 15 regionally and nationally recognized artists who have taught at WAA.

The exhibition can be viewed Mondays through Thursdays between noon and 4 pm in Higgins Gallery, within Higgins Hall, on Dr James Roach Avenue (off Osborne Street).

Darby Cardonsky is curator for the Higgins Gallery exhibition and for 22 years was co-owner of the former Bachelier Cardonsky Gallery in Kent. She described the WCSU/WAA collaboration as an important event highlighting the university’s role as a regional center for the arts.

“The university gallery is a focal point where great art is displayed, creating discussions and attracting a diverse and energetic audience,” she observed. “Our mission is to bring exceptional exhibitions to the community surrounding WCSU.”

The university and the association, founded in 1932, have brought together a spectrum of works by artists who have exhibited widely in the Northeast, across the United States and abroad. The breadth of experience represented in the show includes painters whose careers span four decades or more such as Charles Cajori and Lois Dodd, co-founders of the Tanager Gallery, and Barbara Grossman, a co-founder of the Bowery Gallery, legendary exhibition spaces for New York’s avant-garde artistic community.

The exhibition also features paintings by Eric Aho, Ira Barkoff, Souby Boski, Wolf Kahn, Marija McCarthy and Ruth Miller; works in mixed media by Nancy Lasar; ceramic works by Elizabeth MacDonald and Ann Mallory; sculpture by Philip Grausman; and photography by Judith Petrovich and Carl Weese.

For more information, contact the WCSU Office of University Relations at 203-837-8486 or Washington Art Association at 860-868-2878.