Exhibition

Civic / Civil Engagement – Annual Members Exhibition

EXHIBITION DETAILS:
LOCATION: Grace Ross Shanley Gallery
JUROR: Carey Mack Weber, Executive Director, Fairfield University Art Museum
OPENING DATE: Sunday, November 17, 2024
CLOSING DATE: Sunday, February 16, 2025
OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, November 17, 2024, 2:00-4:00

This year’s Members Exhibition theme is Civic/Civil Engagement. Realizing that the election looms large this year, rather than trying to ignore it, we asked our artists to explore what civil civic engagement means to them and how they express their perspectives through printmaking. The work on view demonstrates their efforts to contribute to the discourse in a constructive way to bring about greater understanding.

Awards Juror

Carey Mack Weber – Executive Director, Fairfield University Art Museum
Carey Mack Weber has served as the Frank and Clara Meditz Executive Director of the Fairfield University Art Museum since 2019. Ms. Weber has over 25 years of experience working in museums and galleries. She spent more than a decade working in fine art galleries in New York City, notably serving as Director of Susan Sheehan Gallery and Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art. She was integral to the creation of the university’s art museum in 2010, assisting Dr. Jill Deupi, the founding director, in developing exhibitions, programming, setting up the Collections Management systems, and creating policies. The Museum, which is comprised of the Bellarmine Hall Galleries and the Walsh Gallery in the Quick Center for the Arts, was accredited by the American Alliance of Museums earlier this year. Ms. Weber also serves as the President of the Connecticut Art Trail, a nationally recognized partnership between twenty-four world-class museums and historic sites. She is the CT State Representative for the Association of Academic Art Museums and Galleries, is on the Advisory Board of the Maguire Museum at St. Joseph’s University, and is on the Board of Directors of the Connecticut League of Museums. She is an active member of the American Alliance of Museums, the New England Museum Association, and the Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County.

Award Winners

Exhibiting Artists:
Melanie Allen
Betty Ball
Liz Bannish
Donna Barack
Lois Bender
Marian “Bing” Bingham
Helen Cantrell
Ruth O. Carlucci
Diane Cherr
Jane Cooper
Beatrice del Perugia
Penny Dell
Katharine Draper
Jose Ney Mila Espinosa
William Evertson
Alanna Fagan
Bonnie Figgatt
Terri Garneau
Melinda Green Tepler
Mari Gyorgyey
John Harris
Adair Heitmann
Kate Henderson
Bonnie Johnson
Natasha Karpinskaia
Gali Katz
Randolph Keltz
Natalia Koren Kropf
Ellen Lazarus
Lynne Lederman
Mary Louise Long
Luanda Lozano
Cynthia MacCollum
Toni Miraldi
Heidi Palmer
Sachin Pannuri
Helen Pasternack
Shelly Ramsay
Stephanie Regen
Margot Rocklen
Margaret Roleke
Barbara Shapiro
Christopher Shore
Nomi Silverman
Bridget Stevens
Eileen Tavolacci
Ann Marie Tetelman
Anne Louise Tetenbaum
Karen Vogel
Jo Yarrington
Joan Zamore