The Keyes Gallery

An Exhibition SPACE AT THE WILLOUGHBY WALLACE MEMORIAL LIBRARY

The Keyes Gallery

The Keyes Gallery is named in honor of Morgan Keyes, a Stony Creek resident, who donated funds to the library campaign for the 2002 renovation project. Since the renovation was completed, the Keyes Gallery has provided space for monthly art exhibitions, children’s story times, author events, concerts, cultural programs and many community meetings.

Keyes Gallery Mission: The Keyes Gallery at the Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library, is an exhibition space dedicated to providing enrichment, education, and cultural enjoyment to the local community as well as visitors from far and wide. A cycle of changing exhibitions introduces the work of emerging and established Connecticut visual artists. 

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Current & Upcoming Gallery Exhibitions

LAURA BARR | HERE AND THERE
Painting / Mixed Media
February 28-March 24, 2025 (Extended to April 7, 2025)

OPENING RECEPTION: March 2, 2025, 4 – 6 pm

Bio
Laura Barr‘s work is distinguished by rich color, simplified form and light made material.
Barr works in series, primarily in oil on canvas.

She studied at Tufts University’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In addition to her BFA, she also holds a BA in Art History from Tufts University and studied at the Tyler School of Art in Rome, Italy.

Her work has been exhibited at Gallery Naga, Boston, MA, Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY, and other galleries in the northeast, including Kehler Liddell Gallery and the Ely Center of Contemporary Art in New Haven, CT, the Alexey von Schlippe Gallery, University of Connecticut at Avery Point, CT, and The Paul Mellon Art Center, Wallingford, CT. She is affiliated with 3 Walls Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, is an Associate Artist Member, Lyme Art Association, is a member of the New Haven Paint and Clay Club, and is an Elected Member, Connecticut Women Artists.

Awards include Second Honorable Mention, New England Landscape, Lyme Art Association, 2023, New Haven Paint and Clay Club Active Member Memorial Award Honoring Emily Bett, 2023 and the Gantner Gallery Award, Essex Art Association, 2019. Her work is in many collections including Yale-New Haven Health Services, New Haven, CT, and The Shapiro Center for Writing, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.

THE MISSING PICTURES
Sean Kernan
Photographs
April 11-May 26, 2025

OPENING RECEPTION: April 13, 2025, 4 – 6 pm
ARTISTS TALK + SCREENING: April 16, 7 pm

Bio
Sean Kernan is a photographer, writer, and teacher who came to photography from theater. 
He is the author of two monographs, The Secret Books (with Jorge Luis Borges) and 
Among Trees (with Anthony Doerr), a book on creativity called Looking Into the Light (http://www.lookingintothelight.com), and Darrell Petit In Stone, a book on the work of the sculptor.

He has exhibited at galleries and museums in France, Egypt, Mexico, South Korea, and Italy,
as well as in theUS, and has created media for performance pieces with Alison Chase at MASS MoCA, Guggenheim Projects in New York, and Portland Performing Arts Festival, most recently a theater/dance/multimedia piece, The Drowned Man.

His photos have been published in the New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, New York, Harpers, Bloomberg, Communication Arts, Graphis, Polyrama (Switzerland), Photo World (China), as well as magazines in Iran, Greece, Italy, and Switzerland, and has done a wide range of advertising work for clients such as AT&T, Amex, GE, Pratt & Whitney, Dow Jones, Harvard, and Knoll.

He has produced and directed several award-winning documentaries: The Kampala Boxing Club, about boxing in Africa; Crow Stories, about the Crow Tribe of Montana; A Mind of Winter, about the feeling of cold; and The Visitor, filmed in his great-grandfather’s house in upstate
New York.

He has taught and lectured at the New School/Parsons, Art Center (Pasadena), Yale Medical School, International Center for Photography, University of Texas, Wesleyan University, and has won numerous awards, most recently from the Center in Santa Fe for teaching, as well as a an honorary doctorate from Art Center in Pasadena. He writes and lectures about creativity, the arts and commerce, with articles in Communication Arts, Graphis, and Lenswork, among others.

2025 Jurying Weekend for Future Art Exhibits: March 28-30, 2025

Receiving for in person drop off submissions: Friday, March 28, 2025 4-6 pm
Pick Up for in person submissions: Sunday, March 30, 2025 10-12 am

•  Artists bring in 3 pieces representative of their work, maximum of 10 pieces for
Group Submissions
NEW! In addition to in person drop off submissions, we are now accepting Artist Submissions
online. Scroll down and click “Artist Submission Online” button for more information.

•  2D Hanging Work Accepted, including Photography.
    No Computer Manipulated, or AI Art

•  Entry Fee of $25 benefits the Friends of WWML,
    Group Fee $100

•  NEW! We are now accepting Curatorial Submissions online. Scroll down and click
“Curatorial Submission” button for more information.

Exhibiting Artists are responsible for:
•  Installing + Deinstalling their work
•  Publicity
•  Hosting the Opening reception – all food and drink, set-up and clean-up

Exhibition Space:
This is a beautiful, spacious exhibition space in scenic Stony Creek.
In the spirit of supporting opportunities for artists, there is no commission on sales. Exhibitions are sponsored by The Friends of Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library (WWML). The Friends of WWML will help promote your event through postcard mailings to their extensive list, eblasts, on their web site and on Instagram.

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