Community Day! Whirls and Twirls at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Visit the Wadsworth Atheneum this Saturday, September 26th from 10 am-5 pm, for free day of music and art. The Wadsworth is collaborating with the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts to present programming inspired by Hartford artist Sol LeWitt’s Whirls and Twirls wall drawing, on view in the museum.   Guests will enjoy live jazz and dance performances by students from the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, choreographed by Deborah Goffe, Artistic Director of Scapegoat Garden, and hands on art activities.

Visitors can also take part in docent-led explorations of works in the galleries and a tour of the recent installation of the Hudson River School collection. More family fun will be available with a Storybook Time and a game of Twister for young children.

The museum is also offering several showings of the 30-minute film, “The Way Things Go,” by Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss. The film documents a 100-foot long chain link assemblage of ordinary objects including tires, ladders, trash bags, and soap that resembles a Rube Goldberg Machine. The movie, a work of art itself, has been on display at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, and at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark.

Family box lunches will be available through The Russell at the Wadsworth Atheneum.

This Community Day launches the museum’s monthly program of Last Saturdays for Families with free admission from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm.  The Wadsworth Atheneum is located at 600 Main Street in Hartford, CT. For more information visit www.wadsworthatheneum.org.

Tags: Art, Art Galleries, Art Shows, Hartford, Hartford County

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