Around Middletown in 80 Days: Day 32

Zilkha Art Gallery
Wesleyan University
(12 P.M. to 8 P.M.)

From Phileas's Journal:
Yesterday, whilst sipping a most sumptious cup of fine tea at Javapalooza, I was engaged in conversation by a student of the local university, Wesleyan. An art student, he had nothing but glorious words for the University's Center For the Arts, and in particular, the Ezra and Cecile Zilka Gallery, a host of fine exhibits that generally rotate on a monthly basis. Intrigued by his praise for the Zilkha Gallery, I gathered my travelling companion Passepartout and headed to campus.
The Gallery was offering a most unique exhibit entitled "Paul Villinksi: Emergency Response Studio". Inspired by trip taken by artist Paul Villinski to post-Katrina New Orleans, the exhibit explores the idea of creating living and working areas for artists displaced by natural disasters and for artists seeking to work in post-disaster settings. Curator Nina Felshin showed Passepatout and me an installment of Villinski's Response Studio as well as the process by which the studio was constructed. We were also informed on the concept of movable housing, "green" technology, and "green" building materials, subjects about which I knew very little until today. Indeed it was a most enlightening visit, and a visit which I highly suggest to all.


Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
Paul Villinski: Emergency Response Studio
Nina Felshin, curator
Saturday, September 12 through Sunday, November 8, 2009
Hours: Tuesday-Sunday, noon-4pm. Friday, noon-8pm.
http://www.wesleyan.edu/cfa/events.html#exhibitions