Graphic designer Brian Cook has created a Hartford Museum Passport that he hopes will get into the hands of many middle school-aged kids in Hartford. He tells us what this grassroots, community-funded project is all about. Update: the Museum Passport project was funded! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/886104268/hartford-museum-passport

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Ricardo Levins Morales is an artist and activist who has created artwork for social justice for over three decades. He calls what he does “medicinal art.” He recently gave an artist talk at La Paloma Sabanera as part of his recent exhibition, which was sponsored by Center Without Walls and Trinity’s Broad Street Gallery.

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Yep. Knitty Gritty Committee is totally awesome. They brightened up the gazebo in Elizabeth Park with yarn roses. Go check it out before the birds take them to make nests! Pic from the Committee – check out their blog for more photos.

Will K. Wilkins, Executive Director of Real Art Ways talks about the controversy surrounding the Smithsonian’s removal of David Wojnarowicz’s A Fire in My Belly from the National Portrait Gallery. Real Art Ways is showing this piece as a response to the censorship.

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Rabbi Donna Berman from the Charter Oak Cultural Center in Hartford discusses their upcoming public, interactive art exhibit, which brings together multiple faiths to confront the rash of Islamophobia in today’s society.

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Jeffrey Greene discusses the annual Prison Arts Program exhibit now open at Charter Oak Cultural Center in Hartford.  Community Partners in Action has been providing art classes in CT prisons since 1978.

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