Registration for the Launch of Wilton Up Close 2011 Teen Photography Project

Monday, August 15 through Tuesday, September 6.
Wilton Up Close 2011 is a Wilton Library project for students in grades 8-12. The students will work with Daryl Hawk, renowned photographer, who will teach them about photographing their surroundings. The heart of the program is to try and unplug, slow down and truly observe the everyday landscape. Students will also be asked to write reflections about their photographs and experience. The project will conclude with an exhibit in the main gallery of the Library in February 2012.

The dates are as follows:

• 9/13-Wilton Town Center Kick Off Meeting/Photo/Writing, 4-6:30 pm, (Rain date 9/14);
• 9/27-Weir Farm Photo/Writing, 4-6 pm, (Rain date 10/4);
• 10/11-Millstone Farm Photo/Writing, 4- 6 pm, (Rain date 10/12);
• 11/1-Photo Selection, 5-8 pm; 12/6 or 12/7 – Attend one of these writing workshops, 5-7 pm;
• 1/10/12 or 1/11/12 – Attend one of these photo framing sessions, 5-7 pm.

LIMITED REGISTRATION (25 Students).
Cost is $50/student. To register, contact Meg Fuentes at 203-762-3950 x 224 or email mfuentes@wiltonlibrary.org by Tuesday, 9/6/11. Payment must be received to secure a spot.

Good Reads, Great Kids

Monday, August 22, 4-6:30 pm
Kids in grades 2 and 3 are invited to join this new book club!! Children and their parents will have the opportunity to meet and discuss books as a group. For this session children are invited to bring a book that they have read recently to talk about in this group setting. In addition to personal selections, we will all discuss the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. Pizza will be provided and we will watch the movie after our discussion. Note the time change for this one session. Please note grade change to Grades 2 and 3. Parents and guardians must be present. Sponsored by the Sherman Family Fund. Registration required.

Weir Farm Artist-in-Residence

Exhibition/Reception: Josh Dorman
Monday, August 22, 6-7:30 pm
August brings Josh Dorman to the Weir Farm artist in residency program. Dorman says he paints in order to see things that would not exist if he did not paint them. He collects outdated and antique works on paper, such as topographic maps. In the same vein, he also looks to the artists of the past for inspiration, artists like Klee, Redon, Turner, Breughel as well as Romanesque and Sienese art and inked Chinese landscapes-none of which he feels seem distant or ancient, but eternally present. He writes that he ”cannot fathom why any contemporary artist would be content to be of this moment only.” The forms that he uses in his art are from the ”same family of forms in images of the solar system, botany, airplane engineering, cattle disease, microbiology… To create a place on the canvas where these images can live together seems natural.” Co-sponsored by Weir Farm Art Center and Weir Farm National Historic Site and presented by Wilton Library. Registration suggested.