During the month of July, we will be exhibiting the work of three teaching artists from the Connecticut Office of the Arts and the Higher Order Thinking (HOT) Schools Program – Mark Patnode, Sanna Stanley and Roger Tremblay. Since the Green Street Arts Center is now home to Connecticut’s renowned HOT Schools program and Wesleyan will be the host site of the HOT Schools Summer Institute, July 14-18, Green Street is pleased to simultaneously showcase some of Connecticut’s finest teaching artists.
On Thursday, July 3rd, from 5-8:00 p.m. (in conjunction with Middletown’s Gallery Walk series) there will be an opening reception for The Creative Process. Check out the Middletown fireworks after over the river. The work of Patnode, Stanley and Tremblay will remain on display at Green Street from July 3rd through July 25th during regular business hours (M-TH 9a.m.-5p.m. Fridays during summer 9a.m.-noon).
As the show is titled The Creative Process, each of these artists (while working in vastly differing media) will present both works in-progress and finished artwork as well. Mark Patnode is a painter, Sanna Stanley an illustrator, and Roger Tremblay is an engineer-turned-artist with a passion for mathematical patterns and refers to his creations as “computational art”. Tremblay will also display an in-progress light sculpture. This trio’s diverse assortment of specialties are aptly representative of the Office of the Arts’ and HOT Schools’ extensive roster of teaching artists with endlessly varied styles and approaches to art-making. Certainly, each of these three exhibiting artists brings a unique vision to their creative process and to their teaching practice.