DUETS

Chucho Valdés

Dianne Reeves

Joe Lovano

Friday, May 3, 2024 • 8 p.m.

$100 Spring Soirée (includes ticket to concert)

$50 | $5 Fairfield University student

H Quick Member: $30 H

Calling all jazz lovers to a once-in-a-lifetime evening with three masters of jazz.

Since 2021, these three legends have been creating rare and magical evenings filled with their original takes on jazz standards. Winner of seven Grammys and three Latin Grammy Awards, the Cuban pianist, composer, and arranger Chucho Valdés is the most influential figure in modern Afro-Cuban jazz. Five-time Grammy Award-winner Dianne Reeves is the pre-eminent jazz vocalist in the world today — her arsenal of talents is richly on display in each and every song of her limitless repertoire. Hailed by The New York Times as “one of the greatest musicians in jazz history,” Grammy Award-winning saxophone titan Joe Lovano has distinguished himself as a prescient and pathfinding force in the arena of creative music.

“ In a duet with Valdés, Lovano serves as the voice of reason. The juxtaposition of Valdés’ ornate, extravagant comping and Lovano’s declarative urgency made tunes like Charlie Parker’s ‘Confirmation’ sound both familiar and fresh.”

– Thomas Conrad, Jazz Times

All museum galleries are open to the public, and admission is free. For more information on our current and upcoming exhibitions, events, and programs, please visit fairfield.edu/museum

Fall 2023

In Real Times. Arthur Szyk: Artist and Soldier for Human Rights

September 29 – December 16, 2023

Featuring more than 50 works by the acclaimed Polish Jewish miniaturist and political cartoonist Arthur Szyk (18941951), this exhibition honors the power and importance of democratic ideals. Organized around the theme of human rights, the works presented helped raise awareness of the plight of European Jews, and advocated for religious tolerance, racial equality, and human dignity. This exhibition was organized by University of California, Berkeley, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life.

Faculty Liaison: Philip Eliasoph, PhD, Professor of Art History & Visual Culture and Exhibition Coordinator

Thursday, September 28 • 5 p.m.

Opening Night Lecture: “Arthur Szyk: Art – Propaganda – Memory,”

Philip Eliasoph, PhD

Bellarmine Hall: Diffley Board Room + streaming on Vimeo (registration required)

Exhibition Opening Night Reception • 6-8 p.m.

Bellarmine Hall Galleries and Great Hall

Wednesday, October 4 • 5 p.m.

Szyk Symposium Keynote Address: “Depicting Evil: Arthur Szyk’s Anti-Nazi Caricatures,” Steven Luckert, PhD, Senior Program Curator, Levine Institute for Holocaust Education, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. (Szyk Symposium continues all day on October 5th!)

Kelley Center Presentation Room + streaming on thequicklive.com

Thursday, October 12 • 5 p.m.

Artist’s Talk: “Elephants, Donkeys & Twitter Birds: How Cartoon Symbols Have Shaped Politics,” Award-winning illustrator Sean Kelly

Bellarmine Hall: Diffley Board Room + streaming on thequicklive.com

Thursday, October 19 • 5 p.m.

Lecture: “How Arthur Szyk’s Cover Art for Collier’s Magazine Helped Americans Visualize the Evil of Fascism,” Deborah Varat, PhD, Professor of Art History, Southern New Hampshire University*

Bellarmine Hall: Diffley Board Room + streaming on thequicklive.com

Caption: Arthur Szyk, Madness, 1941, watercolor, gouache, ink and graphite on paper

Spring 2024

Helen Glazer: Walking in Antarctica

February 2 – March 16, 2024

This interdisciplinary exhibition includes photography and sculpture made from 3D scans of ice and rock formations, inspired and informed by the artist Helen Glazer’s experiences as a grantee of the National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. An audio tour takes the visitor on a series of “walks” through the Antarctic landscape, narrated by the artist.

Faculty Liaison: Brian Walker, PhD, Professor of Biology

Thursday, February 1 • 5 p.m.

Opening Night Lecture: “The Cultural Dimensions of Landscape,” Artist Helen Glazer

Bellarmine Hall: Diffley Board Room + streaming on the quicklive.com

Exhibition Opening Night Reception • 6-8 p.m.

Bellarmine Hall Galleries and Great Hall

Date to be determined.

Lecture: “Long Ago and Far Away: Three ‘Summers’ on a Remote Antarctic Island,” Brian Walker, PhD, Professor of Biology Diffley Board Room: Bellarmine Hall + streaming on the quicklive.com

Suzanne Chamlin: Studies in Color

April 5 – July 27, 2024

In this exhibition of recent work, Chamlin explores ideas about color theory and light through a series of landscape and interior stills. For each of her paintings, Chamlin sets a highly specific palette; experimentation within this limited range then guides her decisions about process and pictorial space.

Suzanne Chamlin is associate professor of studio art in the Department of Visual & Performing Arts at Fairfield University. Her drawings are in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Nelson Atkins Museum.

Thursday, April 4 • 5 p.m.

Opening Night Lecture: Artist Suzanne Chamlin

Bellarmine Hall: Diffley Board Room, + streaming on Vimeo

Exhibition Opening Night Reception • 6-8 p.m.

Bellarmine Hall Galleries and Great Hall

Captions:

Fall 2023

Szyk: The Interactive Experience

September 29 – December 16, 2023

This experience is designed to complement the Arthur Szyk exhibition on view in the Museum’s Bellarmine Hall Galleries. It offers additional resources and hands-on materials for deeper engagement with the exhibition’s content. The space will provide visitors with two digital workstations, one of which will allow visitors to create their own Arthur Szyk-inspired cartoons, and one which will allow visitors to enlarge the small-scale works in the exhibition to wall-size images, so that they can be fully enjoyed and analyzed. Visitors can pause the slideshow and zoom in on any image to reveal unexpected details and extraordinary craftsmanship. The gallery will feature areas devoted to film screenings, hands-on art making, reflection on the exhibition and the art of Arthur Szyk and how it relates to today’s times, and the remix experience described above. The ambient sound track playing in the gallery (which will also be available as a Spotify playlist) is curated to include music from Szyk’s lifetime, focusing on the 1930s and ’40s.

Faculty Liaison: Philip Eliasoph, PhD, Professor of Art History and Visual Culture, Exhibition Coordinator

Spring 2024

Streaming: Sculpture and Works

on Paper by Christy Rupp

January 19 – April 27, 2024

One of the early pioneers in the field of ecological art activism, Christy Rupp’s intricate collages, wall installations, and free-standing sculptures chronicle the ongoing tension between natural systems and the environment in transition, and call our attention to our interconnectedness with non-humans and habitat. Transmuting detritus gathered from the waste stream through collage and sculpture and informed by science and the historical representation of natural history, the artwork in this exhibition examines the way we frame our opinions of nature, using irony and wit to represent the human impact on our natural habitat.

Faculty Liaison: Brian Walker, PhD, Professor of Biology

Thursday, January 18

Opening Night Lecture: Christy Rupp • 5 p.m.

Quick Center for the Arts: Kelley Theatre + streaming on thequicklive.com

Opening Night Reception • 6-8 p.m.

Quick Center for the Arts: Lobby and Walsh Gallery

Peter Anton: Just Desserts

May 10 – July 27, 2024

This whimsical exhibition of Peter Anton’s outsized, hyper-realistic sculptures of sweets will include ice cream cones, cakes, and confections. Anton has experimented with various methods, including wood, metal, plaster, resin, and oil and acrylic paints to achieve the physicality of his monumental desserts. He chooses subjects that encourage people to think about their own relationship to food, and the memories and nostalgia that these childhood favorites conjure.

Faculty Liaison: Scott Lacy, PhD, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology

Date to be determined

Lecture: “The Anthropology of Sweets”

Scott Lacy, PhD, Professor of Anthropology and Sociology

Location to be determined + streaming on thequicklive.com

Date to be determined • 3-5 p.m.

Ice Cream Social and Candy Party

Quick Center for the Arts: Lobby and Walsh Gallery

Captions:

Christy Rupp, Pangolin, 2015, mixed media. Peter Anton, Dark Bar Chaos, 2022. © Peter Anton

*This event is part of the Edwin L. Weisl, Jr. Lectureships in Art History, funded by the Robert Lehman Foundation

2023-24 SEASON

DollHouse

a drama by Theresa Rebeck based on Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

Directed by Jan Mason

October 17–October 21, 2023

This contemporary adaptation sheds a fresh new light on Nora’s struggle to reclaim herself. In the tony suburbs of Connecticut, Nora’s children are cared for by a nanny, her husband’s best friend is in love with her, and her stifling marriage is crumbling. Nora also has a secret, the revelation of which irrevocably sets her life on a new course.

Project X

by Judy Tate

Created from Interviews of Fairfield University Alumni, Students, Faculty, and Staff.

Directed by Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr.

October 25 & 26, 2023

February 14 & 15, 2024 in conjunction with MLK & Black History Month celebrations.

This is an original piece that investigates race and privilege at Fairfield University, but also reflects America’s 21st century struggle with race and social justice. These are screenings of the recorded live performance.

Theatre in the Raw

The Lucille Lortel Festival of New Plays

Directed by Jackob Hofmann

November 30, December 2 & 3, 2023

This is Theatre Fairfield’s biennial original work, commissioned just for us. Previous Raw pieces include Project X, Authenticity, and One State/Two State/ Red State/Blue State

Independent Play Project

our annual student-produced piece. Sponsored by the Jamie Hulley Arts Foundation.

January 26-28, 2024

What play will they do? That’s up to our students. Previous Indy Projects have included: Woman & Scarecrow, Rabbit Hole, Proof, Constellations, Doubt: a Parable, A Kid Like Jake, The Shape of Things, Gruesome Playground Injuries, How I Learned to Drive, and Speech & Debate