All Madison Events

Eagle Watches on the CT River

Starts Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 08:00 AM Ends Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 01:00 PM 907 Boston Post Rd Madison, CT 06443 203-245-9056 http://www.theaudubonshop.com jjcon@comcast.net Winter's cold brings dozens of Bald Eagles down the Connecticut River from Canada in search of ice - free fishing. Last year, over 50 eagles wintered on the lower Connecticut. Their 6 - 8 foot wing span make the Bald Eagle the largest predator in North America. Beginning Saturday January 23, 2010 The Audubon Shop in Madison presents its Twenty-second Annual Eagle Watches on the Connecticut River. Other dates include (Saturdays) Jan. 30, Feb. 6, 13, 20, 27. Leader Jerry Connolly of The Audubon Shop will help participants spot eagles from a variety of locations on the river, and will discuss the bird's natural history on this land - based trip. Tickets are $20.00, and include a soup & sandwich lunch at Oliver's Taverne in Essex. Pre-registration is required. Binoculars are recommended and available for rental. Call the shop at 203-245-9056 for tickets and information. Space is limited.

Five Fridays Lenten Concert Series

Starts Friday, March 5, 2010 at 12:00 PM Ends Friday, April 2, 2010 at 12:00 PM First Congregational Church of Madison 26 Meetinghouse Lane Madison, CT 06443 (203) 245-2739, ext. 12 http://www.fccmadison.org nbayreuther@fccmadison.org "Music at the Meetinghouse" presents the Five Fridays Lenten Concert Series: half hour organ concerts during the last five Fridays in Lent. On these dates from 12:15-12:45 pm, the public is invited to bring and eat their lunch in the sanctuary while listening to meditative organ music. March 5th: Jay Lindsay, organist at St. Augustine's Catholic Church in Seymour March 12th: Bill Speed, organist at the First Congregational Church of Guilford March 19th: Paul Jordan, organist at the St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Madison March 26th: Chelsea Chen, Artist-in-Residence at Emmanuel Presbyterian Church in Manhattan April 2nd: Nathan Bayreuther, organist at the First Congregational Church of Madison These concerts are the music department's Lenten gift to the community.

Portrait and Figure Painting Class with Jerry Weiss

Starts Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 09:00 AM Ends Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 04:00 PM The Mercy Center Old Lyme Madison, CT 06443 203-710-5502 http://www.ruggierogallery.com kim@ruggierogallery.com Join highly accomplished artist Jerry Weiss in a Portrait and Figure Painting class at the Mercy Center in Madison for six Tuesdays beginning on February 2. Mr. Weiss is principally a portrait and figure artist who works from life. He is also a self-taught landscape artist who teaches figure drawing and landscape painting year-round at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts in Old Lyme, Connecticut, as well as at workshops around the country. He also writes a monthly column for The Artist's Magazine, entitled 'Master Class'. The Mercy Center is set on 33 acres of breath-taking, ocean front property with a beautiful and private beach. The primary objective of this course is to improve one's skills in portrait and figure painting. It is intended for intermediate and advanced students, and designed to benefit those who wish to improve their painting of the portrait and clothed figure, with initial emphasis on the importance of draftsmanship. Working from the model, students are encouraged to be attentive to the relationship of color and tonal values throughout the painting. Light is studied for its effect on the large planes of the body, for the ways in which it models and clarifies form, and for its contribution to the richness of color which gives life to the figure. In this course students will note the linear rhythms, physical construction, and color harmonies of the draped human form, and the structure and character of the portrait. The course will emphasize technical proficiency, while at the same time encouraging individual perceptions of and responses to the subject. Critiques are designed so as to better enable students to evaluate their own work. The cost for six Tuesdays is $595 plus $65 model fee. Weiss has had one-man exhibitions at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, and galleries in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Maine. His paintings are in numerous public, private and corporate collections, including the New Britain Museum of American Art; the Boca Raton Museum of Art; the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston; Pfizer, Inc., in Groton, Connecticut; Debevoise and Plimpton, New York and the Harvard Club of New York City. Weiss has taught workshops and lectured in Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Maine, New Mexico, New York, and Washington. He is listed in Who's Who in American Art and Who's Who in the East. Presently representation includes The Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, Connecticut, Ruggiero Gallery, Madison, Connecticut, Jenkins and Ingram, Wiscasset, Maine, and Portraits Inc., New York, New York. For more information please visit www.jerrynweiss.com. Portrait and Figure Painting will be held on Tuesdays, February 2nd through March 9th, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. There is limited space available. For more information or to sign up for this exciting class, please go to www.ruggierogallery.com and click on Painting Workshop. For more information, contact Kimberly Ruggiero at 203-710-5502 or by email at kim@ruggierogallery.com.