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

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.