Anyone stopping outside the Old State House at midday on Wednesday was able to try out dozens of interactive arts activities, from learning how to create zentangles to correctly holding a violin.
This event, sponsored by the Greater Hartford Arts Council, featured arts and cultural organizations from Hartford and beyond, including Charter Oak Cultural Center, Hartford Stage, New Britain Museum of American Art, Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Judy Dworin Performance Project, Mark Twain House & Museum, Hill-Stead Museum, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, The Amistad Center for Art & Culture, Ballet Theatre Company, Connecticut Landmarks, TheaterWorks, and Real Art Ways.
The Arts Council says this event was designed as part of an initiative that intends to “encourage citizens to embrace their artistic side, participate in and support the arts in their communities.”
Anne Brodsky
Dare we ask what a zentangle is?
Kerri Provost
Doodling patterns
Richard
Let us hope that on this path of embracing our artistic side and the road branches out and everyone becomes an artist that the first line of business will be to put and end to war, feed the hungry, cloth the naked, abolish the prisons, house those without homes, throw the mighty down from high places and lift up the weak. Let us keep our fingers crossed that we will via the celebration of life/art be able to do that and not spend our time making foolish mock ups of past artistic expressions.