Dawn & Dusk: Tonalism in Connecticut
Jan. 17 – April 1 2
The Met: Live in HDVerdi’s Aida Jan. 25
Spring Soirée
Michael Feinstein April 6
JAN - JULY 2025
Famous & Family: Through the Lens of Trude Fleischmann
May 2 – July 26
Czech National Philharmonic Orchestra of Moravia First U.S. tour with guest conductor Pavel
Feb. 6
Dear Friends,
Welcome to this first edition of Fairfield University’s twice-annual guide to our Arts & Minds programming. We are excited to have launched this new format, offering you an overview of the University’s arts and cultural events for the season within this handy, user-friendly brochure.
Fairfield University’s Center for Arts & Minds seeks to forge partnerships within the arts community, our academic experts, visiting performers and thinkers, and the Connecticut community at large. Our aim is to spark the imagination and enrich the lives of our friends and neighbors, as we promote our region as a destination for theatre, music, dance, fine art, and public affairs programming — deepening our connectedness to one another at a time when the world
needs it most. With the world class programming that we have on offer, we hope you’ll join us.
Of course, the arts and humanities have been an integral part of Fairfield University as a liberal arts institution since it was founded in 1942, an expression of the almost 500-year tradition of Jesuit education. Our Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts has presented arts programming from around the world; the Fairfield University Art Museum has inspired curiosity through its collection and exhibitions; and our academic centers, like the Carl & Dorothy Bennett Center for Judaic Studies and the Center for Catholic Studies, have presented significant writers and thinkers to our students and to the community at large.
But, there has not been an entity that has brought all of these programs
together in one place, to present them to you as an expression of our University’s vision and mission — until now.
So, on behalf of Fairfield University
President Mark R. Nemec, PhD, I invite you to join us, to be entertained, to be challenged by new conversations, and to embrace, with us, a hope-filled future.
Looking forward to seeing you.
Warm regards,
Philip Eliasoph, PhD
Fairfield University
Professor of Art History and Visual Culture
Special Assistant to the President for Arts and Culture
Fairfield University 1720 Post Rd. Fairfield, CT artsminds@fairfield.edu
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The Center for Arts & Minds is a collaboration of arts organizations and academic centers at Fairfield University, all of which express the University’s mission of service to the common good, offering arts and cultural programming, entertainment, academic research, lifelong learning, and intellectual enrichment to our community and beyond. As the modern, Jesuit
Catholic University, rooted in one of the world’s oldest intellectual and spiritual traditions, Fairfield has more than 6,000 undergraduate and graduate students from 46 states, 74 countries, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico enrolled in the University’s five schools, with locations in Fairfield, Bridgeport and Austin, Texas, and programs abroad. In the spirit of rigorous and sympathetic inquiry into all dimensions of human
Pilobolus Is A Fungus, an interactive performance for young audiences, will be performed for the Quick Center’s School Matinee Series in January.
experience, Fairfield welcomes students and neighbors of all ages from diverse backgrounds to share ideas and engage in open conversations. The University main campus in Fairfield is located in the heart of a region where the future takes shape, on a stunning campus on the Connecticut coast just an hour from New York City. Learn more at fairfield.edu/arts-and-minds
The members of the Center for Arts & Minds include:
The Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts; The Fairfield University Art Museum; The Arts Institute of the College of Arts and Sciences; The Center for Social Impact; The Center for Catholic Studies; The Carl and Dorothy Bennett Center for Judaic Studies; The Kanarek Center for Palliative Care; The Patrick J. Waide Center for Applied Ethics, and The Center for Climate, Coastal, and Marine Studies.
This Fairfield University Art Museum exhibition explores Tonalism in the United States from the 1880s to the early 20th century, through artists from the Northeast, such as George Inness, John Henry Twachtman, and John Francis Murphy. Tonalism is a transitional movement that grew out of and reacted to the Hudson River School of
John Francis Murphy, Sleepy Hollow, 1885, oil on canvas. Private collection, Connecticut.
painting and laid the groundwork for modernism. Evocative landscapes, calling to mind a spiritual connection to the natural world, often painted from memory, are the primary expression of this movement. The more than 50 artworks in this exhibition are drawn from private and institutional collections.
Thursday, January 16
Fairfield University
Art Museum
Dawn & Dusk: Tonalism in Connecticut
Opening Night Lecture and Reception
Bellarmine Hall
Galleries, Diffley Board Room and streaming on thequicklive.com
5 p.m. Lecture
Curator Mary Ann Hollihan will be in conversation with the Museum’s Executive Director Carey Weber to celebrate the opening of the exhibition.
6 - 8 p.m.
Join us in the Bellarmine Hall Galleries and Great Hall for live music and conversation.
Free, registration at fairfield.edu/museum
Tuesday, January 21
Fairfield University
Art Museum
Lecture: “‘To Paint without Paint ’: Tonalism and Transcendence”
Adrienne Bell, PhD, Professor of Art History, Marymount Manhattan College
5 p.m.
Bellarmine Hall, Diffley Board Room and streaming on thequicklive.com
Free, registration at fairfield.edu/museum
Walsh Gallery, (inside Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts) On view January 24 – March 29, 2025
To See This Place: Awakening to Our Common Home
Mary Mattingly, Still Life Returning, 2023, print of mixed media collage, ed. 1/5.
Environmental threats and climate change are urgent matters of concern at Jesuit universities, where conversations on these issues are often framed by reference to two documents by Pope Francis: Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home (2015) and the 2023 update Laudate Deum. Artists play an indispensable role in our collective response to climate change. To See This Place, curated by Al Miner and David Brinker, will present work by
Athena LaTocha, Mary Mattingly, and Tyler Rai, three contemporary artists whose outlook resonates with the themes of Laudato Si’ and Laudate Deum. The three artists employ diverse media — critiquing economic systems that perpetuate environmental destruction and drawing attention to people who have been marginalized and historically excluded or harmed. This exhibition will open at Saint Louis University’s Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, Fall 2025.
Thank you to our sponsor M&T Bank/Wilmington Trust, Aquarion Water Co., Delamar/Southport
Soprano Angel Blue makes her long-awaited Met role debut as the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country, one of opera’s defining roles.
American soprano Angel Blue takes the lead as the Ethiopian princess caught between love and country in a new production of Verdi’s Aida by Michael Mayer. The staging immerses audiences in the grandeur of ancient Egypt with intricate projections and dazzling animations. Romanian-Hungarian mezzosoprano Judit Kutasi stars as Aida’s rival, Amneris, alongside Polish tenor Piotr Beczała as the soldier Radamès, completing opera’s greatest love triangle. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the performance.
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Saturday, January 25
The Met: Live in HD –Verdi’s Aida 11:30 a.m. pre-screening talk 12:30 p.m. (live)
Single Tickets: $35 | $30 seniors, $5 children/students
Quick Center Member: $25/ticket
Free Pre-screening talk with Fairfield University’s Assistant Professor, Visual and Performing Arts, Joanna Chang, PhD, DMA. at 11:30 a.m. in the Dolan School of Business Event Hall.
Thank you to our sponsor
Sturges Ridge of Fairfield
Thursday, January 23
Fairfield University
Art Museum
To See This Place: Awakening to Our Common Home
Opening Night Lecture and Reception
Quick Center for the Arts, Kelley Theatre and streaming on thequicklive.com
5:30 p.m. Lecture
6:30 p.m. Reception
Conversation with co-curators of the exhibition: Al Miner, Independent Curator and Deputy Director, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and David Brinker, Director, Saint
SAVE WITH THE MET: LIVE IN HD SUBSCRIPTION!
$28/ticket with the purchase of 5-6
$27/ticket with the purchase of 7-8
fairfield.edu/quick
Louis University Museum of Contemporary Religious Art. Part of the Edwin L. Weisl, Jr Lectureships in Art
Catherine Punsalan-Manlimos, PhD, Vice President for Mission Integration at Seattle University
Center for Catholic Studies
Wednesday, January 29
History, funded by the Robert Lehman Foundation. Free, registration at fairfield.edu/museum
Saturday, January 25
The Met: Live in HD – Verdi’s Aida 11:30 a.m. pre-screening talk, 12:30 p.m. (live)
Quick Center for the Arts
American soprano Angel Blue takes the lead as the Ethiopian princess caught between love and country in a new production of Verdi’s Aida by Michael Mayer. $35 | $30 seniors, $5 children/students Quick Center Member: $25 fairfield.edu/quick
Wednesday, January 29
The 2025 Bellarmine Lecture
“Contextual, Adaptive, and Catholic: A Reflection on Jesuit Education”
Catherine PunsalanManlimos, PhD, Seattle University
7 p.m.
Dolan School of Business Event Hall
Drawing on more than 35 years of experience with Jesuit education, Catherine PunsalanManlimos, PhD, vice president for mission integration at Seattle University, reflects on how being contextual and adaptive enables Jesuit colleges and universities to offer a distinctive educational experience that is culturally relevant and genuinely Catholic.
This year the Quick shows the transformative power of theatre through a film about a play. The film, Sing Sing, is based on a prison theatre program called Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA). Post-show Q&A with playwright, director, and producer Brent Buell, and Patrick Brooks, MFA, Fairfield University Associate Professor of Visual and Performing Arts and Director of the Media Institute.
Wednesday, January 29 / Curated by Cheryl Wiesenfeld 7 p.m. | Post Show Q&A
Thank you to our sponsors
Jamie Hulley Arts Foundation and WPKN.
Presented by the Center for Catholic Studies. Free, registration at fairfield.edu/cs
Wednesday, January 29
Global Theatre Series Sing Sing
Curated by Cheryl Wiesenfeld
7 p.m.
Quick Center for the Arts
Following the film screening, which is based on a prison theatre program called Rehabilitation Through
the Arts (RTA), on- and off-Broadway producer Cheryl Wiesenfeld will be joined on stage with actors and the creator of RTA for a conversation. This year the Quick shows the transformative power of theatre through a film, not a play.
$25 | $15 Quick Members, $5 Fairfield University students fairfield.edu/quick
Friday, January 31
Gallery Talk: A Landscape Artist Responds – Suzanne Chamlin, MFA on
Tonalism exhibition
12 p.m.
Fairfield University Art Museum, Bellarmine Hall Galleries
Suzanne Chamlin, MFA, associate professor of studio art at Fairfield University and an artist whose own practice focuses on landscape, will offer her reflections on the paintings on view in the exhibition Dawn & Dusk: Tonalism in Connecticut. Free, registration at fairfield.edu/museum
THURS FEB 6
The Czech National Philharmonic Orchestra of Moravia is one of the leading and oldest symphony orchestras in the Czech Republic. Based in Olomouc, the orchestra focuses on the work of great
Pavel Šnajdr, guest conductor, Czech National Philharmonic Orchestra of Moravia
composers of the 19th and 20th centuries along with the performance of contemporary Czech compositions. For their first United States tour, their program will feature the works of Antonín Dvo ák.
Thursday, February 6
The Czech National Philharmonic Orchestra of Moravia
Thursday, February 6
7:30 p.m.
Monday, February 3
Inspired Writers Series Presented by the MFA Program
7 p.m.
Rev. Lynn Casteel Harper, an essayist, minister, and chaplain, will be in conversation with author and Fairfield University MFA faculty member Phil Klay, MFA. Her debut book, On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear (Catapult, 2020), was named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle selection. fairfield.edu/artsminds
et to songs by the 1970s duo The Carpenters, untitled sad piece examines the sensation of a sinking heart. In quiet reiterative solos, touching duets, and one wild investigatory burst of galumphing, five dancers respond to the deep sadness in the grain of Karen Carpenter’s voice, initiate from the dancers’ hearts, and find tenderness. Led by acclaimed choreographer and Connecticut College professor Heidi Henderson. There is a humor and light within the discovery of what touches our hearts most deeply.
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Saturday, February 8 elephant JANE dance , untitled sad piece 8 p.m.
Theatre Fairfield students in the 2024 production of The Lightning Thief, The Percy Jackson Musical.
THURSSAT FEB 6 - 8
Annually, the students of Theatre Fairfield produce a show as a part of the Independent Play Project. This year, they are mounting the musical
Next to Normal, which is sponsored by the Jamie Hulley Arts Foundation as well as by the Arts Institute within the College of Arts and Sciences.
THEATRE FAIRFIELD AT THE QUICK CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Thursday, February 6 - Saturday, February 8 Student Independent Play Project Purchase tickets at theatre-fairfield.org
Jonathan
Tuesday, February 4
Open VISIONS
Forum: Espresso with Jonathan Santlofer
“The Lost Van Gogh: Nazi Looting, Interpol Agents, Art Sleuths on a Mission”
7:30 p.m.
Dolan School of Business Event Hall
Fans of “behind-thescenes stories” won’t want to miss Jonathan Santlofer’s discussion of art history and historical fiction. Presented with the Art History Department, the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, and the Fairfield University Art Museum
Thank you to our sponsor Cohen and Wolf Attorneys at Law
$20 | $5 Fairfield University student Quick Center Member: $10 fairfield.edu/quick
Thursday, February 6
Czech National Philharmonic Orchestra of Moravia 7:30 p.m.
Quick Center for the Arts
The Czech National Philharmonic Orchestra of Moravia is one of the leading and oldest
symphony orchestras in the Czech Republic. Thank you to our sponsors The Silverman Group and WPKN.
$40 | $5 Fairfield University Student Quick Center Member: $25 fairfield.edu/quick
Thursday, February 6Saturday, February 8
Student Independent Play Project
Next to Normal Book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by Tom Kitt
Thursday and Friday, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, 2 p.m.
An unflinching look at a suburban family struggling with the effects of mental illness. Theatre Fairfield at the Quick Center for the Arts.
Purchase tickets at theatre-fairfield.org
untitled sad piece dancers.
Saturday, February 8
elephant JANE dance untitled sad piece 8 p.m.
Quick Center for the Arts
Set to songs by the 1970s duo The Carpenters, untitled sad piece examines the sensation of a sinking heart. Thank you to our sponsor WPKN.
$35 | $5 Fairfield University student Quick Center Member: $25 fairfield.edu/quick
Wednesday, February 12
The Waide Center for Applied Ethics Virtual Seminar Series “Environmental Ethics in the Anthropocene”
J. Baird Callicott, PhD, University Research Professor and Regents Professor of Philosophy, University of North Texas (Retired) 4-5:30 p.m.
Invited speakers in this series present
a work-in-progress or recently published paper on topics relevant to applied ethics. The seminars aim to provide speakers with feedback on their current research projects. At least half of each meeting is devoted to Q&A and general discussion. Free, online.
Register at fairfield.edu/ artsminds
Thursday, February 13 Art in Focus
John Francis Murphy,
Sleepy Hollow, 1885
12 p.m. in-person, 1 p.m. streaming on the quicklive.com
Fairfield University Art Museum, Bellarmine Hall Galleries
Our spring 2025 Art in Focus series begins with a piece from the new exhibition Dawn & Dusk: Tonalism in Connecticut! Join Curator of Education Michelle DiMarzo, PhD, for an informal conversation in the galleries or online via thequicklive.com.
Free, registration at fairfield.edu/museum
Tuesday, February 18
Open VISIONS Forum: Espresso with Lucy Ferriss, PhD
“Education Is Her Weapon: AFSO’s
Mission in Afghanistan” 7:30 p.m.
Dolan School of Business Event Hall
A hundred thousand women were abruptly expelled from college in Afghanistan in
December 2022. Afghan Female Student Outreach (AFSO) began as eight Connecticut professors who stepped into this emergency, and has since grown to a worldwide collective serving 500 students, with 2,500 on our waitlist. Dr. Ferriss will talk about the situation, how students are coping with it, and what AFSO is doing to build a pathway for them to complete their education and build their futures. Presented with The Center for Social Impact.
Thank you to our sponsor Cohen and Wolf.
$20 | $5 Fairfield University student Quick Center Member: $10 fairfield.edu/quick
THURS FEB 27
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM
Thursday, February 27, 5-6:30 p.m.
Workshop: Painting Landscapes with Watercolor
A free mini-workshop led by artist and Fairfield University Associate Professor of Visual and Performing Arts Suzanne Chamlin, MFA
Thank you to our sponsors WPKN, Wealthspire Advisors, and Fairfield Lifestyle.
When renowned klezmer clarinetist David Krakauer (last at the Quick with Abraham Inc.) and South African pianist and composer Kathleen Tagg found an opportunity to escape their
Manhattan apartment and head to a farm in the Adirondacks for a few weeks early in the pandemic, they seized it. Two weeks turned into three months, and a new project – Good Vibes Explosion – was born.
Thursday, February 20
Krakauer & Tagg’s Good Vibes Explosion
7:30 p.m.
Daniel Pearl Memorial Concert presented with the Bennett Center for Judaic Studies
Good Vibes Explosion is a high-octane mix of dance music, blending square dance, polka, hora, calypso, hornpipe, and hip-hop.
Emil Carlsen, Golden Tree, 1904, oil on canvas. Private collection, Connecticut.
JAN 17APR 12
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM
Bellarmine Hall Galleries
On view January 17 – April 12, 2025
Dawn & Dusk: Tonalism in Connecticut
Thursday, February 20
Krakauer & Tagg’s Good Vibes Explosion Quick Center for the Arts
Daniel Pearl Memorial Concert presented with the Bennett Center for Judaic Studies
7:30 p.m.
A musical celebration featuring renowned klezmer clarinetist David Krakauer (last at the Quick with Abraham Inc.) and South African pianist and composer Kathleen Tagg. An exuberant, high-octane mix of dance music, blending square dance, polka, hora, calypso, hornpipe, and hip-hop. It’s pure joy. $25 | $5 Fairfield University student Quick Center Member: $20 fairfield.edu/quick
Wednesday, February 26
Open VISIONS Forum: Espresso with Michael Davis, PhD
Annual Department of History Lectureship
“Medieval Bones to Today’s Inspiring Spires: The Dedication & Recovery of Notre Dame Cathedral”
7:30 p.m.
Dolan School of Business Event Hall
Thank you to our sponsor Cohen and Wolf Attorneys at Law
$20 | $5 Fairfield University student Quick Center Member: $10 fairfield.edu/quick
Thursday, February 27
A Free Mini-Workshop: Painting Landscapes with Watercolor
Led by artist and Fairfield University
Associate Professor of Visual and Performing Arts Suzanne Chamlin, MFA. Fairfield
University Art Museum
5-6:30 p.m.
Bellarmine Hall, Museum Classroom. Due to the needs of space and supplies, participation is strictly limited, and registration is required! Presented in conjunction with Dawn & Dusk: Tonalism in Connecticut
Free, registration at fairfield.edu/museum
Thursday, February 27
America Media with the College of Arts and Sciences presents “Where is God in the liturgy? The way forward for liturgical reform” The Rev. John Baldovin, S.J., Boston College School of Theology & Ministry 7 p.m.
Dolan School of Business Event Hall. Free, registration at fairfield.edu/cs
SAVE THE DATE FAMILY DAYS!
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM
Bellarmine Hall Galleries and Museum Classroom
Select Saturdays, 12:30-2 p.m. and 2:30-4 p.m.
February 8: All About Landscape
March 15: Earth-friendly Arts
April 12: Luck of the Irish May 10: Gold & Glitter in Vienna
Space limited; registration required fairfield.edu/museum
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Sunday, March 2 / 4 p.m.
I Said What I Said / Castle of our Skins
Castle of our Skins, Boston’s concert and educational series dedicated to celebrating Black artistry, presents a mix of music and spoken word. Solo and chamber works by composers Brian Raphael Nabors, Mason Bynes, Fred Onovwerosuoke,
and Damien Geter intertwine with the poetry of Castle of our Skins’ 2024-2025 Shirley Graham Du Bois Creative-inResidence, Carmin Wong.
Sunday, March 2
I Said What I Said Castle of our Skins 4 p.m.
Quick Center for the Arts
Castle of our Skins, Boston’s concert and educational series dedicated to celebrating Black artistry, presents a mix of music and spoken word that speaks to the power of one’s voice. Solo and chamber works by composers Brian Raphael Nabors, Mason Bynes, Fred Onovwerosuoke, and Damien Geter intertwine with the poetry of Castle of our Skins’ 20242025 Shirley Graham Du Bois Creative-inResidence, Carmin Wong. Personal, intimate and simultaneously universal,
I Said What I Said invites audience members to reflect on their own agency, power, and creative strength.
$35 | Free for Fairfield University students with Stag ID
Quick Center Member: $25 fairfield.edu/quick
Monday, March 3
National Theatre Live The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
7 p.m.
Quick Center for the Arts
Three-time Olivier Award-winner Sharon D. Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who; Sex Education) in this joyful reimagining
of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy. Directed by Max Webster. $25 | $20 seniors, $10 children/nonFairfield University student | $5 Fairfield University student
Quick Center Member: $20 fairfield.edu/quick
Tuesday, March 4
Open VISIONS Forum: Espresso with Janet Wallach “Flirting With Danger: Socialite & Spy Marguerite Harrison” 7:30 p.m.
Dolan School of Business Event Hall
Janet Wallach has written extensively about notable women in history, from
Ronk Adék lu j (Gwendolen) in The Importance of Being Earnest at the National Theatre (c) Marc Brenner.
DOLAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS EVENT HALL
Tuesday, March 4 / 7:30 p.m.
Open VISIONS Forum: Espresso with Janet Wallach “Flirting With Danger: Socialite & Spy - Marguerite Harrison”
Presented with the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program
the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East. Her book, Desert Queen; The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell (1996), has been translated into 12 languages and was a New York Times notable book of the year. Presented with the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program.
Thank you to our
sponsors Cohen and Wolf Attorneys at Law. $20 | $5 Fairfield
University student Quick Center Member: $10 fairfield.edu/quick
Wednesday, March 5
The Waide Center for Applied Ethics Virtual Seminar Series “Good Ethics and Bad Choices: The
Relevance of Behavioral Economics for Medical Ethics”
Jennifer BlumenthalBarby, PhD, Professor of Ethics and Associate Director for the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine 4-5:30 p.m.
Thursday, January 16
Fairfi eld University Art Museum: Opening Lecture and Reception, Dawn & Dusk: Tonalism in Connecticut pg. 6, 24
Tuesday, January 21
Fairfi eld University
Art Museum
Lecture: “‘To Paint without Paint’: Tonalism and Transcendence” pg. 8
Thursday, January 23
Fairfi eld University Art Museum: To See This Place: Awakening to Our Common Home Opening Night Lecture and Reception pg. 12
Saturday, January 25
The Met: Live in HD –Verdi’s Aida pgs. 10, 12
Wednesday, January 29
The 2025 Bellarmine Lecture “Contextual, Adaptive, and Catholic: A Refl ection on Jesuit Education” pg. 12
Wednesday, January 29
Global Theatre Series: Sing Sing pg. 13
Friday, January 31
Gallery Talk: A Landscape Artist Responds – Suzanne Chamlin, MFA pg. 13
Monday, February 3
Inspired Writers Series: Rev. Lynn Casteel Harper pg. 16
Tuesday, February 4
Open VISIONS Forum: Espresso with Jonathan Santlofer pg. 19
Thursday, February 6
Czech National Philharmonic Orchestra of Moravia pgs. 14, 19
Thursday, February 6- Saturday, February 8
Student Independent Play Project: Next to Normal pg. 19
Saturday, February 8
elephant JANE dance untitled sad piece pgs. 17, 20
Wednesday, February 12
Waide Center Series “Environmental Ethics in the Anthropocene” pg. 20
Thursday, February 13
Art in Focus: John Francis Murphy, Sleepy Hollow, 1885 pg. 20
Tuesday, February 18
Open VISIONS Forum: Espresso with Lucy Ferriss, PhD pg. 21
Thursday, February 20
Krakauer & Tagg’s Good Vibes Explosion pgs. 22, 25
Wednesday, February 26
Open VISIONS Forum: Espresso with Michael Davis, PhD pg. 25
Thursday, February 27
Mini-Workshop: Painting Landscapes with Watercolor pg. 25
Thursday, February 27
The Rev. John Baldovin, S.J., Boston College School of Theology & Ministry pg. 25
Sunday, March 2
I Said What I Said, Castle of our Skins pgs. 26, 28
Monday, March 3
NT Live: The Importance of Being Earnest pg. 28
Tuesday, March 4
Open VISIONS Forum: Espresso with Janet Wallach pg. 28, 29
Wednesday, March 5
Waide Center Series “Good Ethics and Bad Choices: The Relevance of Behavioral Economics for Medical Ethics” pg. 29
Wednesday, March 5
Gallery Talk: Artist Mary Mattingly pg. 32
Wednesday, March 5
AI Film Series x FTC: Blindsided by AI: The Bigger Picture (2024) pg. 33
Thursday, March 6
Art in Focus
Stanton Macdonald-Wright, “Bright red sun cruelly hot but the wind is of autumn” pg. 32
Saturday, March 15
The Met: Live in HD –Beethoven’s Fidelio pg. 32
Tuesday, March 18
Bennett Center “Was There an End to Prophecy?”
Jack Tannous, PhD pg. 32
Wednesday, March 19
The 19th Annual Lecture in Jewish/Christian Engagement pg. 32
Wednesday, March 19
Open VISIONS Forum with Walter Kirn pg. 32
Sunday, March 23
Lila Downs pg. 33, 34
Tuesday, March 25
Open VISIONS Forum with Stuart Weitzman pg. 36, 37
Wednesday, March 26
Waide Center Series
“AI and the Future of Content” pg. 36
Wednesday, March 26
Virtual Lecture: Tonalism Paintings in the Collection of the FloGris pg. 36
Sunday, March 30
Chamber Music with Orin Grossman, PhD pg. 36
Tuesday, April 1
Open VISIONS Forum with Sally Jenkins pg. 40
Wednesday, April 2
AI Film Series x FTC: The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze (2024) Pg. 29
Thursday, April 3
Bennett Center
Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher Scholar-inResidence Lecture
“Scrolls and Scripture: The History of the Bible in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls Discoveries”
Joseph Angel, PhD Pg. 40
Saturday, April 5
Fairfield University Glee Club Concert, “Future of Futures” pgs. 38, 40
Sunday, April 6
Quick Center Second Annual Spring Soirée
Michael Feinstein pgs. 40, 41
Tuesday, April 8
The Bettie and Samuel Roberts Jewish Art Lectureship: “Distilled Beauty: The Art of Tobi Kahn ” pgs. 42, 43
Wednesday, April 9
Waide Center Series
“Environmental Ethics” pg. 43
Wednesday, April 9
The 18th Annual Commonweal Lecture
Vincent Miller, PhD pg. 44
Wednesday, April 9-Sunday, April 13
Theatre Fairfield Steel Magnolias pg. 44
Thursday, April 10
Art in Focus: Unknown French Artist, Diptych: Scenes from the Life of Christ and the Virgin, ca. 1350-1400, ivory pg. 44
Thursday, April 10
Fairfield University Art Museum: Opening Night Lecture and Reception for An Gorta Mór pg. 44
Tuesday, April 15
Lecture: “The History of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum Collection” pg. 44
Tuesday, April 22
Bennett Center “On Authoritarianism: The Future of Democracy and the Rise of Fascism Worldwide”. Anne Applebaum, Staff Writer at The Atlantic pg. 44
Thursday, April 24
Bennett Center
Annual Holocaust Memorial Program pg. 44
Saturday, April 26
The Met: Live in HD –Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro pg. 47, 48
Monday, April 28
Fairfield University Glee Club, “British Invasion: Music of the British Isles” pg. 47
Thursday, May 1
Fairfield University Art Museum: Opening Lecture and Reception, Famous & Family: Through the Lens of Trude Fleischmann pg. 50
Friday, May 2
Gallery Talk: Heike Herrberg and Barbara Loss Discuss Trude Fleischmann as Family Photographer pg. 29
Wednesday, May 7
AI Film Series x FTC: About a Hero (2024) Pg. 31
Thursday, May 8
Performance: Songs of Ireland and Irish-Americans, performed by the Catfeather Duo pg. 51
Tuesday, May 20
The Met: Live in HDStrauss’s Salome pg. 51
Tuesday, June 10
The Met: Live in HDRossini’s II Barbiere di Siviglia pg. 53
Thursday, June 12
Lecture: Heimat
Photography and the Art of Trude Fleischmann pgs. 52, 53
For a comprehensive listing of all upcoming events and for more information on each, please visit fairfield.edu/ arts-and-minds.
Invited speakers in the series present a work-in-progress or recently published paper. Q&A and general discussion. Free, online. Registration at fairfield.edu/artsminds
Wednesday, March 5
Gallery Talk: Artist Mary Mattingly
Quick Center for the Arts, Walsh Gallery
12:30 p.m.
Artist Mary Mattingly speaks about the work that forms part of the exhibition To See This Place: Awakening to Our Common Home. Free, registration at fairfield.edu/museum
Thursday, March 6
Art in Focus
Stanton MacdonaldWright, “Bright red sun cruelly hot but the wind is of autumn” - Bash, ca. 1966-7, color woodcut
12 p.m. in-person, 1 p.m. streaming on thequicklive.com Fairfield University Art Museum, Bellarmine Hall Galleries
Warm yourself in the imagined heat of this vibrant woodcut, part of a portfolio created by Stanton MacdonaldWright and printer Clifton Karhu using traditional Japanese methods of color woodblock printing. Join Curator of Education Michelle DiMarzo, PhD, for an informal conversation in the galleries or online via
thequicklive.com. Free, registration at fairfield.edu/museum
Saturday, March 15
The Met: Live in HD –Beethoven’s Fidelio 12 p.m. pre-screening talk 1 p.m. (live)
Quick Center for the Arts
After a series of mesmerizing Live in HD performances, Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Leonore, the devoted wife who risks all to rescue her husband from tyranny in Beethoven’s Fidelio. Free, pre-screening talk with Fairfield University Assistant Professor of Visual and Performing Arts Joanna Chang, PhD, DMA, 12 p.m. at the Dolan School of Business Event Hall. Thank you to our sponsor The Watermark at 3030 Park.
$35 | $30 seniors, $5 children/students (including Fairfield University students) Quick Center Member: $25 fairfield.edu/quick
Free, reservations requested at bennettcenter@fairfield. edu or call (203) 254-4000 ext. 2066.
Wednesday, March 19
The 19th Annual Lecture in Jewish/ Christian Engagement “Catholics and Antisemitism: Reading Nostra Aetate in 2025” Massimo Faggioli, PhD, Villanova University
7 p.m.
Kelley Center
Presentation Room
Presented by The Center for Catholic Studies & The Bennett Center for Judaic Studies
Anti-Semitism is like a mutant virus that changes in different historical contexts, and in all of them Christianity bears a particular responsibility to address and respond to it. In this particular moment, Catholics have a particular role to respond to recent trends, including globalization and the end of the exceptionalism of the Holocaust and the effects of the war in Israel and Palestine. fairfield.edu/cs
Tuesday, March 18 “Was There an End to Prophecy?”
Jack Tannous, PhD, Associate Professor of History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University and Director of the Program in Hellenic Studies
11 a.m.
Presented by The Bennett Center for Judaic Studies Alumni House
Wednesday, March 19
Open VISIONS Forum with Walter Kirn “From Rural County Highway Magazine to the Boston Post Road: Walter Kirn’s American Journey” 7:30 p.m. Quick Center for the Arts
Walter Kirn is the
Fairfield University is the exclusive education partner of FAIRFIELD THEATRE COMPANY in downtown Fairfield.
This series offers a unique opportunity to engage in a dynamic dialogue on the future of AI in storytelling and society.
Wednesday, March 5
7 p.m.
Blindsided by AI: The Bigger Picture (2024)
This documentary provides a perspective on generative AI and its impact on education, featuring interviews and insights from over 15,000 educators.
Wednesday, April 2 7 p.m.
The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze (2024) Directed by Tilda Swinton
A documentary blending neuroscience, AI, and education, the film o ers a dreamlike exploration of how technology is reshaping the way we learn and think.
Wednesday, May 7 7 p.m.
About a Hero (2024) An AI-driven Murder Mystery Inspired by Werner Herzog’s Films
This film is an adaptation of a script co-written by AI trained on Herzog’s body of work (with his permission).
Tickets and more information at fairfieldtheatre.org
critically acclaimed author of multiple novels, including Thumbsucker (adapted for the 2005 film starring Vince Vaughn, Keanu Reeves, and Tilda Swinton), and Up in the Air (made into a film starring George Clooney). Kirn is co-host of the podcast America This Week. His memoir Lost in the Meritocracy:
The Undereducation of an Overachieve chronicles his own adventure going from rural Minnesota to the Ivy League. Join us as this lifelong adventurer takes us to the heartland of Montana with his acerbic wit and wisdom. Thank you to our sponsors Moffly Media & Delamar Southport and WSHU. $35 | $5 Fairfield University student
Quick Center Member: $25 fairfield.edu/quick
Sunday, March 23 Lila Downs 7 p.m.
Quick Center for the Arts
Iconic Grammy- and Latin Grammy Awardwinning singer Lila Downs is one of the world’s most singular
Iconic Grammy and Latin Grammy Award winning singer Lila Downs has one of the most unique voices in the world and is known for her charismatic performances. Her own compositions combine genres and rhythms as diverse as Mexican rancheras and corridos, boleros, jazz standards, hip-hop, cumbia and popular American music.
Thank you to our sponsors WPKN, WSHU, Jamie Hulley Arts Foundation.
SUN MARCH 23
QUICK CENTER FOR THE ARTS Sunday, March 23
7 p.m. Presented with the Fairfield University Center for Social Impact
and powerful voices. Her compelling stage presence and poignant storytelling transcend all language barriers. Raised in Minnesota and Oaxaca, this global superstar’s exquisite artistry bridges traditions from across the Americas, with influences ranging from the folk and ranchera music of Mexico and South America to North American folk, jazz, blues, and hip-hop. In 2023, Downs released her 14th album, La Sánchez , influenced heavily by music from the north of Mexico. Presented with the Fairfield University Center for Social Impact
$35 | $5 Fairfield University student Quick Center Member: $25 fairfield.edu/quick
Tuesday, March 25
Open VISIONS Forum with Stuart Weitzman “An Entrepreneur’s Journey on a Road Less Traveled”
7:30 p.m.
Quick Center for the Arts
Entrepreneur, designer, honoree, mentor, and icon are just some of the titles that Stuart Weitzman has earned on his journey from an apprentice in his family’s shoe factory to building a world-class fashion brand that’s worn by some of the biggest stars on the planet. Weitzman shares his unusual journey about the “importance of
taking risks and remaining authentic.” Presented with the Dolan School of Business, Fashion Marketing program. Thank you to our sponsors Moffly Media, Delamar Southport, and WSHU. $35 | $5 Fairfield University student Quick Center Member: $25 fairfield.edu/quick
Wednesday, March 26
The Waide Center for Applied Ethics Virtual Seminar Series “AI and the Future of Content”
Luciano Floridi, MPhil, PhD, Director of the Digital Ethics Center at Yale University & Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Bologna 4-5:30 p.m.
Luciano Floridi, MPhil, PhD, Director of the Digital Ethics Center at Yale University & Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Bologna. Invited speakers in the series present a work-inprogress or recently published paper. Q&A and general discussion. Free, online. Register at fairfield.edu/artsminds
Wednesday, March 26
Griswold Museum 5 p.m.
Streaming only on the quicklive.com Fairfield University Art Museum
Many of the tonalist artists included in the exhibition Dawn & Dusk: Tonalism in Connecticut frequented the artist’s colony established at Florence Griswold’s boarding house in Lyme, Connecticut – today the Florence Griswold Museum, recently rebranded as the “FloGris.” Paintings by Henry Ward Ranger and Allen Butler Talcott are on loan to the Fairfield University Art Museum for the exhibition. In a special virtual-only lecture, FloGris curator Amy Kurtz Lansing will discuss these and other tonalist works in the museum’s collection.
Free, registration at fairfield.edu/museum
Sunday, March 30
Chamber Music with Orin Grossman, PhD 3 p.m.
Virtual Lecture: Tonalism Paintings in the Collection of the FloGris Amy Kurtz Lansing, Curator, Florence
Quick Center for the Arts
TUES MARCH 25
Stuart Weitzman always believed that a beautiful shoe is useless unless it feels as wonderful as it looks. Born in 1941 on Long Island, New York, Weitzman grew up apprenticing under his father, Seymour, at the Mr. Seymour shoe factory in Haverhill, Massachusetts. In 1986, he launched his namesake brand.
QUICK CENTER FOR THE ARTS
OPEN VISIONS FORUM WITH STUART WEITZMAN
Tuesday, March 25 / 7:30 p.m.
Open VISIONS Forum with Stuart Weitzman “An Entrepreneur’s Journey on a Road Less Traveled”
Presented with the Dolan School of Business, Fashion Marketing program
Orin Grossman, PhD is renowned internationally for his knowledge of music. He lectures and performs concerts throughout the U.S. and Europe, taught for many years at
Fairfield University, and served as the University’s academic vice president. As always, Dr. Grossman will create a delightful afternoon of chamber music with very special guest artists. Thank you to our sponsor WPKN. $35 | $5 Fairfield University student Quick Center Member: $25 fairfield.edu/quick
The Fairfield University Glee Club, under the direction of Rev. John Murray S.J. and musical director Simon Harak became the first student organization formed by the first-ever incoming class of Fairfield University in 1947. Today, the Glee Club is a mixed chorus of more than 100 undergraduate and graduate singers and is led by Michael A. Ciavaglia 04, DMA. Their spring concert, a landmark collaboration between the Glee Club and Jazz Ensemble, includes selections from Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concerts.
QUICK CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Saturday, April 5 / 7:30 p.m.
of Futures” Concert SAT APRIL 5
Tuesday, April 1
Open VISIONS Forum with Sally Jenkins “The Right Call – Life Lessons from Sports” 7:30 p.m.
Quick Center for the Arts
Presented with the Fairfield University Athletics Department. Legendary sports journalist Sally Jenkins joins us for a special evening with Fairfield’s own athletes andcoaching staff. In 2005, she became the first woman to be inducted into the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Hall of Fame.
Thank You to our Sponsors Moffly Media & Delamar Southport $35 | $5 Fairfield University student
Quick Center Member: $25 fairfield.edu/quick
Thursday, April 3
Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher Scholarin-Residence Lecture “Scrolls and Scripture: The History of the Bible in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls Discoveries”
Joseph Angel, PhD, Professor of Bible and Jewish History at Yeshiva University
5 p.m.
Kelley Center Presentation Room
Presented by The Bennett Center for Judaic Studies Dr. Angel’s research focuses on Jewish literature and history in the Greco-Roman world, with a special
Tuesday, April 1 / 7:30 p.m.
Open VISIONS Forum with Sally Jenkins
“The Right Call – Life Lessons from Sports”
interest in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Free, for reservations and more information, please contact bennettcenter@ fairfield.edu or call (203) 254-4000 ext. 2066.
Saturday, April 5
Fairfield University Glee Club & Jazz Ensemble Concert
“Future of Futures” 7:30 p.m.
Quick Center for the Arts
This landmark collaboration between the University Glee Club and Jazz Ensemble, Prof. Brian Torff, director, includes selections from Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concerts. Tickets and more information at fairfield.edu/quick
Sunday, April 6
Quick Center Second Annual Spring Soirée Michael Feinstein Because of You: A Tribute to Tony Bennett Featuring the Carnegie Hall Ensemble
7 p.m.
Quick Center for the Arts
Spring Soirée tickets will benefit Quick Center programs and will include a pre-concert dinner reception in Bellarmine Hall, VIP seats for the performance, and a postconcert party and meet and greet with Michael Feinstein backstage at the Quick. Supported by the Carnegie Hall Ensemble, Michael Feinstein – the ambassador of the Great
QUICK CENTER FOR THE ARTS Sunday, April 6 / 7 p.m.
Quick Center Second Annual Spring Soirée with Michael Feinstein
Because of You: A Tribute to Tony Bennett Featuring the Carnegie Hall Ensemble fairfield.edu/quick
Thank you to our sponsors Silverman Group, Sturges Ridge of Fairfield, and Wealthspire Advisors.
American Songbook –pays a heartfelt tribute to the legendary Tony Bennett, bringing his iconic songs to life. Feinstein’s dynamic interpretations will create an unforgettable night that honors the legacy of Bennett in all its glory. $500 Spring Soirée Concert Tickets Only: $100 | $5 Fairfield University Student Quick Center Member: $75 fairfield.edu/quick
Tuesday, April 8
The Bettie and Samuel Roberts Jewish Art Lectureship “Distilled Beauty: The Art of Tobi Kahn” 7:30 p.m. Barone Campus Center, Dogwood Room and streaming on thequicklive.com
Tuesday, April 1 7:30 p.m.
Tobi Kahn is a painter and sculptor whose work has been shown in more than 70 solo exhibitions and more than 60 museum and group shows since he was selected as one of nine artists to be included in the 1985 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum exhibition, New Horizons in American Art. Works by Kahn are in major museum,
corporate, and private collections. Free, but registration is required. Presented by Bennett Center for Judaic Studies with Fairfield University Art Museum & Open VISIONS Forum Free, for reservations and more information, please contact bennettcenter@fairfield. edu or call (203) 2544000 ext. 2066.
Tuesday, April 8
Artolution Exhibition Presented by the Center for Arts & Minds & the Center for Social Impact at Fairfield University 1720 Post Rd. Free and Open to the Public By Appointment
Artolution provides collaborative art-making
Wednesday, April 9 7 p.m.
The 18th Annual Commonweal Lecture
Vincent Miller, PhD, University of Dayton Free, registration required.
WED APRIL 9
Presented by the Center for Catholic Studies fairfield.edu/cs
Tuesday, April 8 / 7:30 p.m.
The Bettie and Samuel Roberts
Jewish Art Lectureship
Bennett Center for Judaic Studies with Fairfield
University Art Museum & Open Visions Forum
“DISTILLED
F or more than 40 years, Kahn has been steadfast in the pursuit of his distinct vision and persistent in his commitment to the redemptive possibilities of art. In paint, stone, and bronze, he has explored the correspondence between the intimate and monumental.
experiences to people in vulnerable communities, strengthening mental health, social inclusion and livelihoods. Representative works from their collection will be on view downtown at 1720 Post Rd. by appointment only. For more information please visit, fairfield.edu/arts-andminds
Wednesday, April 9
The Waide Center for
Applied Ethics Virtual Seminar Series
“Environmental Ethics” Stephen Gardiner, PhD, Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Endowed Professor of the Human Dimensions of the Environment & Director of the Program on Ethics at the University of Washington, Seattle 4-5:30 p.m.
Invited speakers in the series present a work-
TUES APRIL 8
in-progress or recently published paper. Q&A and general discussion. Free, online. Register at fairfield.edu/artsminds
Wednesday, April 9
The 18th Annual Commonweal Lecture “Beyond Climate Doom: Hope as Honest, Vulnerable, and Fierce”
Vincent Miller, PhD, University of Dayton 7 p.m.
Bellarmine Hall, Diffley Board Room
Presented by the Center for Catholic Studies fairfield.edu/cs
Wednesday, April 9-Sunday, April 13
Theatre Fairfield Spring Production Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling
7:30 p.m. + 2 p.m. matinees Saturday & Sunday Quick Center for the Arts, Wien Experimental Black Box
For more info and tickets, please visit theatrefairfield.org
Thursday, April 10
Art in Focus
Unknown French Artist, Diptych: Scenes from the Life of Christ and the Virgin, ca. 13501400, ivory 12 p.m. in-person. Bellarmine Hall Galleries and at 1 p.m. streaming on thequicklive.com
Discover the intricacies carved in this delicate devotional object, on long-term loan from the Metropolitan Museum of art. Join Curator of Education Michelle DiMarzo, PhD, for an informal conversation in the galleries. Free, registration at fairfield.edu/museum
Thursday, April 10
Opening Lecture and Reception for An Gorta Mór: Selections from Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum
“Historical Origins of the Great Hunger”
William Abbott, DPhil,
Associate Professor of History and Irish Studies
5:30 p.m. Lecture & 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Reception
Quick Center for the Arts, Kelley Theatre, and streaming on thequicklive.com
Fairfield University
Art Museum
Thank you to our sponsors M&T Bank/Wilmington Trust, Aquarion Water Co.
Free, registration at fairfield.edu/museum
Tuesday, April 15
Lecture: The History of the Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum Collection
Niamh O’Sullivan, PhD, Professor Emerita of Visual Culture, National College of Art and Design, Ireland
6 p.m.
Barone Campus Center, Dogwood Room and streaming on thequicklive.com
Curator Niamh
O’Sullivan joins us from Dublin to recount the development of the collection of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum. The museum formed part of Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., before its closure in 2022, and will reopen in a new space in Fairfield, Conn., in the future.
Free, registration at fairfield.edu/museum
Tuesday, April 22
“On Authoritarianism: The Future of Democracy and the Rise of Fascism Worldwide”
Dawn & Dusk: Tonalism in Connecticut Fairfield University
Art Museum
Saturday, April 12
Anne Applebaum, Staff Writer at The Atlantic and Senior Fellow at the Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University
7:30 p.m.
Quick Center for the Arts
Applebaum co-leads a project on 21st-century disinformation. She is author of Gulag: A History, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and, most recently, Autocracy Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World (2024). Presented by The Bennett Lecture in Judaic Studies
Purchase tickets at fairfield.edu/quick
Thursday, April 24
Annual Holocaust Memorial Program
2 p.m.
Barone Campus Center, Dogwood Room
Presented by The Bennett Center for Judaic Studies with Campus Ministry and the Jewish Federation of Greater Fairfield County.
Free, for reservations and more information, please contact bennettcenter@ fairfield.edu or call (203) 254-4000 ext. 2066.
Alfred Downing
Fripp, RWS, An Irish Peasant and Her Child, ca. 1848, oil on canvas. Courtesy Quinnipiac University and Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum Fairfield Exhibit.
THURS APRIL 10
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM in the Quick Center Lobby and Walsh Gallery.
Thursday, April 10 / Opening Lecture 5:30 p.m.
Historical Origins of the Great Hunger
William Abbott, DPhil, Fairfield University, Associate Professor of History and Irish Studies Reception, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Please register to attend both events at fairfield.edu/museum
Thank you to our sponsors M&T Bank/Wilmington Trust, Aquarion Water Co.
APRIL 9JUNE 13
REFUGEE ART FROM AROUND THE WORLD
rtolution is a globally renowned non-profit which operates in support with UNHCR, whose mission is to empower crisis-affected communities around the world
through collaborative art-making. This exhibition from Artolution was recently on view at the United Nations headquarters, and will consist of highlighted artworks and murals from refugee camps around the globe.
Saturday, April 26
The Met: Live in HD –Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro
12 p.m. pre-screening talk 1 p.m. (live)
Quick Center for the Arts
Mozart’s timeless comedy returns to cinemas worldwide with a live transmission from the Metropolitan Opera. Conductor Joana Mallwitz, making her Met debut, leads a stellar ensemble cast. Pre-screening talk with Fairfield University’s Orin Grossman, PhD. $35 | $30 seniors, $5 children/students Quick Center Member: $25 fairfield.edu/quick
Monday, April 28
Fairfield University Glee Club Pops Concert
“British Invasion: Music of the British Isles” 7:30 p.m.
Quick Center for the Arts
This year, the Glee Club’s annual Pops concert features songs from the great British artists from the 1960s through today, performed by the Glee Club, outstanding soloists, duets, and small groups, and accompanied by the Pops Band. Tickets and more information at fairfield.edu/quick
SAT
APRIL 26
American bassbaritone Michael
Sumuel as Figaro and Ukrainian soprano Olga Kulchynska as Susanna.
On April 26, Mozart’s timeless comedy returns to cinemas worldwide with a live transmission from the Metropolitan Opera. Conductor Joana Mallwitz, making her Met debut, leads a stellar ensemble cast, including
American bass-baritone Michael Sumuel as Figaro, Ukrainian soprano Olga Kulchynska as Susanna, Canadian baritone Joshua Hopkins as Count, Italian soprano Federica Lombardi as his anguished wife, and French mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa as Cherubino.
QUICK CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Saturday, April 26 / 12 p.m.
Free Pre-screening talk with Fairfield University’s
Orin Grossman, PhD, Dolan School of Business Event Hall
1 p.m. (live) at the Quick Center
For more information and tickets, please visit fairfield.edu/quick
Austrian-born photographer Trude Fleischmann (1895-1990) photographed many of the artists and intellectuals of the day, including Albert Einstein.
BELLARMINE HALL
On view Friday, May 2 – Saturday, July 26
Famous & Family: Through the Lens of Trude Fleischmann
fairfield.edu/museum
Thank you to our sponsors
M&T Bank/Wilmington Trust, Aquarion Water Co, Delamar/Southport.
Thursday, May 1
Opening Lecture:
Famous & Family: Through the Lens of Trude Fleischmann
Frauke Kreutler, Curator, Wien Museum, Vienna, Austria 5 p.m.
Bellarmine Hall, Diffley Board Room and streaming on thequicklive.com
Curator Frauke Kreutler joins us from Vienna to introduce the firstever monographic exhibition of photographer Trude Fleischmann’s work in the United States. Austrian-born Fleischmann (1895-1990) was one of the most accomplished female photographers of
the 20th century. Kreutler also curated the major 2011 Fleischmann retrospective at the Wien Museum.
Part of the Edwin L. Weisl, Jr. Lectureships in Art History, funded by the Robert Lehman Foundation. Free, registration at fairfield.edu/museum
Thursday, May 1
Reception: Famous & Family: Through the Lens of Trude Fleischmann 6-8 p.m.
Bellarmine Hall
Galleries and Great Hall
Join us as we celebrate the opening of Famous & Family: Through the Lens of Trude Fleischmann with drinks, light appetizers, and Viennese music performed by a string quartet.
Free, registration at fairfield.edu/museum
Friday, May 2
Gallery Talk: Heike Herrberg and Barbara Loss Discuss Trude Fleischmann as Family Photographer
12 p.m.
Bellarmine Hall Galleries
In this unique and highly personal conversation, Trude Fleischmann’s cousin Barbara Loss and Heike Herrberg, her biographer, speak in the gallery about Fleischmann’s photographs of friends and family, both those taken pre-war in Austria and post-war in Connecticut. They will also unpack the familial and personal relationships revealed in the photographs.
Free, registration at fairfield.edu/museum
Thursday, May 8
Performance: Songs of Ireland and IrishAmericans, performed by the Catfeather Duo 6 p.m.
Fairfield University Art Museum Walsh Gallery
Rick Spencer and Dawn Indermuehle will perform songs that are thought of and labeled as “Irish” – though many of our most well-known Irish songs are, in fact, of American origin. Some were composed by Irish immigrants, some by descendants of those immigrants, and some by enthusiastic fans of Irish music. This program presents examples of all three, along with historical information on music we think of as “Irish.” Free, registration at fairfield.edu/museum
Tuesday, May 20
The Met: Live in HDStrauss’s Salome
12 p.m. pre-screening talk
1 p.m. (encore) Quick Center for the Arts
Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to conduct Strauss’s oneact tragedy. Leading the company’s first new production of the work in 20 years, Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting.
Thank you to our sponsor The Watermark at 3030 Park.
Free pre-screening talk with Fairfield University’s Orin Grossman, PhD, to take place at the Dolan School of Business Event Hall. $35 | $30 seniors, $5 children/students. Quick Center Member: $25 fairfield.edu/quick
THURS
JUNE 12
Austrian-born Trude Fleischmann (18951990) was one of the most accomplished female photographers of the 20th century. After great success in Vienna in the 20s photographing artists, models, and performers, she fled the Anschluss in 1938, first to Paris and then New York. She opened a studio
on Fifth Avenue in 1940 and photographed many of the artists and intellectuals of the day, including Eleanor Roosevelt and Albert Einstein. This exhibition will include loans from the Wien Museum in Vienna, Austria, private collections, and the New York Public Library, as well as never-before-exhibited works from family collections.
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM, BELLARMINE HALL GALLERIES
Thursday, June 12 / Lecture: Heimat Photography and the Art of Trude Fleischmann / 5 p.m.
Tuesday, June 10
The Met: Live in HDRossini’s II Barbiere di Siviglia
12 p.m. pre-screening talk 1 p.m. (encore)
Quick Center for the Arts
Russian mezzo-soprano
Aigul Akhmetshina stars as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongside American tenor Jack Swanson, making his Met debut as her secret beloved, Count Almaviva. Moldovan baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky shines as Figaro, the ingenious barber of Seville, with Hungarian bass-baritone Peter Kálmán as Dr. Bartolo and Russian bass
Rossini’s II Barbiere di Siviglia.
Alexander Vinogradov as Don Basilio completing the principal cast. Giacomo Sagripanti conducts Bartlett Sher’s madcap production. Pre-screening talk with Michael A. Ciavaglia 04, DMA, director of choral music at Fairfield University, will take place at the Wien Experimental Theatre. Thank you to our sponsor The Watermark at 3030 Park.
$35 | $30 seniors, $5 children/students fairfield.edu/quick
Thursday, June 12
Lecture: Heimat Photography and the Art of Trude
Fleischmann
Elizabeth Cronin, Robert B. Menschel
Curator of Photography, Wallach Division, The New York Public Library
5 p.m. Bellarmine Hall, Diffley Board Room and streaming on thequicklive.com
Elizabeth Cronin, author of Heimat Photography in Austria (2015), explores Trude Fleischmann in relation to this aspect of 1930s visual culture. Fairfield University Art Museum fairfield.edu/museum
TUES JUNE 10
QUICK CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Tuesday, June 10 / The Met: Live in HD 12 p.m. pre-screening talk / 1 p.m. (encore)
in the
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This summer, the Quick celebrates its 34th season of Missoula Children’s Theatre Camps. This renowned children’s summer theatre program offers six sessions from which to choose with a performance on the
Friday evening at the end of each session. A total of 60 community children, grades 1-12, may be registered in each weekly session. A variety of speaking and ensemble roles are offered. No advance preparation is needed. Learn more at fairfield.edu/quick
For more information on the summer 2025 Missoula Children’s Theatre sessions and other education programs at the Quick Center, please visit fairfield.edu/quickcamps
July 7 - Aug 15
Missoula Children’s Theatre Summer 2025
Sessions:
July 7 - 11:
Blackbeard the Pirate
July 14 - 18:
The Snow Queen
July 21 - 25:
Alice in Wonderland
July 28 - Aug 1:
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Aug 4 - 8:
The Princess and the Pea
Aug 11 - 15:
Treasure Island
Quick Members, Fairfield University Faculty and Staff can start registration on January 27, 2025 with guaranteed session enrollment until February 2. All other registrations will be processed on a first-come, first-served basis starting February 3.
An Gorta Mór: Selections from Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum
Fairfield University Art Museum, Walsh Gallery (inside the Quick Center for the Arts)
Saturday, Aug 16
APRIL 11 -AUG 16
An Gorta Mór: Selections from Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum will present some of the highlights of the collection of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum. This remarkable collection investigates the Irish Famine of 1845-1852 and its impact through art, by some of the most eminent Irish and Irish-American artists of the past 170 years.
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM
April 11 - Aug 16 / Walsh Gallery (inside the Quick Center for the Arts)
As we celebrate our 15th anniversary in 2025, the Fairfield University Art Museum is delighted to introduce a new membership program through which you can choose to support the exhibitions and programs you enjoy the most at the level of generosity that best reflects your appreciation for the work that we do.
Friends of the Fairfield University Art Museum wishing to become more involved with our Museum while receiving amazing benefits and supporting our mission are invited to join one of
Free Membership:
• Access to free gallery talks
• Invitations to free exhibition openings and access to over 60 annual free programs, including Family Day events, Meditation in the Gallery, and Art Parties
• Participation in the College and University Art Museums Reciprocal Program, which offers complimentary admission to over 80 museums
• Subscription to quarterly e-newsletter
($250 – $999) includes:
• All benefits of Free Membership +
• Advance notice of museum public programs and events — Hear about our programs,
our Patron Societies.
While we are proud to offer a “free” membership option as part of our commitment to access and inclusivity, joining as a member of one of our societies will help us bring more prestigious exhibitions and special programs to our galleries, always presented at no cost to our visitors. Your generosity will also enable individuals from across the country to enjoy all exhibitions and programs in person or virtually, in English and Spanish.
most of which sell out within minutes, and register online a week before everyone else!
• Invitations to special preview events with the artists or exhibition curators
($1,000 - $2,009) includes:
• All benefits of Docent Society +
• VIP reserved seating at most Museum programs and public events
• Invitation to the President’s annual Holiday Party
• Invitation to Arts & Minds season preview VIP Event in June
($2,010 - $4,999) includes:
• All benefits of Curator Society +
• Private tour of one exhibition/year with the Museum Director or Curator of Education
• Recognition on the Museum’s website
• Invitations to special events, guided tours, and trips with the Museum Director
($5,000 and above) includes:
• All benefits of 2010 Society +
• Private tour of all exhibitions with the Museum Director or Curator of Education
• Opportunity for named support of one exhibition in the Museum’s annual calendar of events
JOIN US IN CELEBRATING THIS SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY YEAR BY BECOMING A MEMBER TODAY!
All membership gifts and donations enable us to offer exceptional exhibitions and programs that are always free and accessible to all!
Thank you for your consideration. We are deeply grateful for your support as a member, a donor, a visitor, an event attendee, or a follower and look forward to seeing you at many of our events.
The Quick Center for the Arts offers Members incredible access, including the best prices in town for world-class performances and lectures; the opportunity to meet artists and speakers in a more intimate setting; VIP parking access; and being able to spend time with like-minded arts and culture fans.
It becomes pretty easy to see why Quick Membership ensures you make the most of your time with us while also ensuring the Quick can continue to present unforgettable experiences. We have updated our levels of giving with new ways to maximize your Quick Membership. Whether you are joining for the first time, or renewing, we encourage you to visit us online at fairfield.edu/quick and click on SUPPORT to learn how to join. BE A PART OF THE QUICK EXPERIENCE. JOIN TODAY!
The Met: Live in HD - Strauss’s Salome will be at the Quick on May 20.
As part of a Jesuit Institution committed to social impact, the Quick Center for the Arts provides broad access to high-quality arts instruction and meaningful exposure to diverse arts experiences and performances to K-12th grade students.
Arts for All ensures that youth from under-resourced communities gain access to the arts and mentorship on their path to adulthood. This season, the Quick has already served more than 1,500 K-12th grade students providing learning and access to artists, including Cirque Kikasse, Machine de Cirque, Baye & Asa, and Owls.
Support for the Arts for All initiative is provided by individual donors and partners, including the Howard and Katherine Aibel Foundation, the Herman Goldman Foundation, and the Lundberg Family Foundation.
South African Choreographer Thuthuka
leads a dance and music workshop for students at the Regional Center for the Arts in Trumbull, Conn.
Fairfield University 1720 Post Road
Fairfield, Connecticut 06824-5195 (Electronic service requested)
Our University’s new Center for Arts & Minds has been founded to forge creative partnerships and spark the imagination, as we work together to promote our region as a destination for theatre, music, dance, talks, fine art, and community programming — deepening our connectedness to one another as friends and neighbors when the world needs it most.
Philip Eliasoph, PhD Fairfield University Professor of Art History and Visual Culture Special Assistant to the President for Arts and Culture