Got Art!
Art Lectures and Demonstrations
Since 1962, Glastonbury Arts has fostered engagement in and appreciation for art in all its forms through its series of art lectures and demonstrations. Each Got Art presentation provides a window-in to the creative experience for original art and handmade craft. Popular to artists, students, and art appreciators alike. Learn about an artist's sources of inspiration, techniques and processes.
All programs are FREE and open to the public.
Upcoming 2025 Got Art Presentations
Portraits in Oil with Sam D'Ambruoso, Saturday, March 15, 1:00 to 3:00 pm at Glastonbury Arts
Working from a live model, Sam D’Ambruoso of Middlebury CT will demonstrate the techniques for producing an oil portrait. Sam is a painter and teacher with decades of experience exhibiting and selling his artwork and presenting workshops here in the United States as well as in Italy. From portraits to landscapes to still lifes, light becomes the drama and the effective use of color provides a key ingredient for bringing a composition together in a painterly style. His paintings are represented in public and private collections worldwide.
Sam is a member of the Lyme Art Association and is an Elected Artist at the Kent Art Association and shows his work in regional and national exhibitions. Current projects include Landscapes of New England, Tuscany, Amalfi, and Capri as well as selected portrait commissions. Sam is an official United States Coast Guard Artist and was elected a landscape-painting instructor at the Arts and Materials Show, sponsored by American Artist Magazine, in Pasadena, CA. His most recent landscape of the Connecticut River area is in the State of Connecticut Permanent Art Collection. www.SamDAmbruoso.com
Find Your Sources of Inspiration with Nancy Cooke Bunnell, Saturday, March 29, 1:00 to 3:00 pm at Glastonbury Arts
Nancy Cooke Bunnell is a painter and teacher who works out of her studio in rural northeastern Connecticut. Learn about the sources of inspiration for her artwork, the result of a lifetime of creatively interacting with color saturated flora, riverbeds, thick woodlands, peaceful farms, and nature. Her imagery spans from a more formal realism to energy invoked experimental abstraction and design. Get inspired to create from the world around you.
Nancy is an award-winning pastel and acrylic painter as well as an experienced state certified art teacher for over 18 years teaching to all ages. She trained at Southern Connecticut State University, UConn, and Eastern Connecticut State University. She has taught art at the Community School of Arts, Art Center East, West Hartford Art League, and Glastonbury Arts. Her pastels have won first in the state at the Connecticut Pastel Society and have won numerous high-ranking awards at Art Center East, the Munson Art Center, and throughout the state. Nancy has also shown work on Canyon Road, New Mexico.
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