A Legacy of Making: 26 Contemporary Artists Inspired by Their Italian Heritage, Connecticut College

Through October 19, 2024


A Legacy of Making is the title given to a series of exhibitions featuring the work of artists who are inspired by their Italian or Italian American culture. Joanne Mattera selected these artists from her book, Italianità: Contemporary Art Inspired by the Italian Immigrant Experience.
Joanne Mattera co-curated the first exhibition in Manhattan with Joseph Sciorra, and she has been independently curating subsequent iterations, with different artists and different work, in Connecticut and Massachusetts. A Legacy of Making: 26 Contemporary Artists Inspired by Their Italian Heritage in the Cummings Art Center at Connecticut College, New London. The exhibition is a greatly expanded iteration of the Manhattan show. Five additional artists are included, and both larger work and a greater number of pieces, along with a site-specific installation, are installed on two levels. The exhibition is up through October 19.
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Entrance to A Legacy of Making: 26 Contemporary Artists Inspired by Their Italian Heritage from Connecticut College's campus green. This ground-level space, entered both from here and from an interior staircase, extends to a skylighted upper level, the Atrium Gallery. Each level is partially viewable from the other, affording you a dramatic view of the installation. Here, work by John Avelluto, foreground; and clockwise around the gallery, by Angelica Bergamini, Diana González Gandolfi, Timothy McDowell, and Carolanna Parlato

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Interior entrance to A Legacy of Making: 26 Contemporary Artists Inspired by Their Italian Heritage. Here: B. Amore on partition wall; Claudio DeMonte sculpture on pedestal

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Installation view in the Atrium Gallery. From left: Patricia Miranda; far end: three by Mary Schiliro; back wall: Elisa D'Arrigo, Lisa Zukowski; right wall: Jennifer Cecere, Milisa Galazzi


Click here to view a walk-through of the entire exhibition.


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