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Featuring intriguing Connecticut creators and the art they create, this segment celebrates the array of cultural assets that are so important to the quality of life and economic vitality of our state.

Hartbeat Ensemble
HartBeat Ensemble is the capitol city’s professional theatre for the community—currently celebrating it’s tenth season. Unlike many of the state’s stage companies, Hartbeat digs into Greater Hartford’s people and its stories, both past and present-- using drama, physical theatre, comedy, and music to bring audiences together beyond the barriers of gender, class, and race. Their hope is to inspire... read more
 
Scapegoat Garden Dance
Artistic Director and Choreographer Deborah Goffe creates captivating modern dance theatre. Uninterested in copying the traditional dance world’s focus on beauty and perfection, her Hartford-based company, Scapegoat Garden, conceives and performs a stunning new work called “re-Birth”. In their newly acquired performance studio, meet Goffe and her dynamic company as it performs scenes from “re-Bir... read more
 
Elizabeth MacDonald, Clay Artist
Elizabeth MacDonald is a gifted artist with a unique and colorful background. After training as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, she built a career in the regional theatre. But working with clay proved to be her ultimate artistic destiny. Today she lives and works in western Connecticut, where this recipient of the Governor’s Arts Award creates her iconic ceramic landscape... read more
 
NOAH PREMINGER, Jazz Saxophonist
West Hartford’s Noah Preminger is a rising star in the jazz world. At age 25, his talents as a young tenor saxophonist have been authenticated not only by his growing number of U.S. and European club dates, but two critically acclaimed CDs; his latest, Before The Rain. In Spotlight On The Arts, the graduate of Hall High School and its illustrious Concert Jazz Band performs at the Liquid Lounge, an... read more
 
Kevin Van Aelst
 Ed Wierzbicki highlights Kevin Van Aelst, a modern photographer who takes the things we use every day and transforms them into witty art.... read more
 
Masque Theatre
Ed Wierzbicki explores the work of Larry Hunt and Adelka Polak, two Connecticut artists who took their award-winning Masque Theatre to the Pierrot International Festival of Puppetry in Bulgaria to discover how the non-verbal “language” of mask and puppet theatre can transcend the spoken word.... read more
 
Andes Manta
Ed Wierzbicki’s segment highlights the music of Andes Manta, a group of four brothers from Ecuador who perform the folk music of their country on more than 35 traditional instruments. ... read more
 
Walter Wick
This week Ed Wierzbicki interviews Walter Wick.  Walter Wick is most famous for co-creating the I-Spy children’s book series. He has made his passion for trinkets a creative and lucrative career that delights young people (and their parents) world-wide.                ... read more
 
The New Britain Museum of American Art
Ed Wierzbicki interviews two men that were commissioned to write a piece for the opening of The New Britain Museum of American Art. They tie technology and music together in ways that’s never been done before.... read more
 
Judy Dworin Performance Project
This segment profiles the Judy Dworin Performance Project – a collaborative performance group based on movement and dance that brings a sense of social responsibility to its performances.... read more
 
Horton Foote/Michael Wilson
Pultizer Prize winning playwright Horton Foote, recently passed away at age 92. But his rich body of work over a lifetime in the American theatre, seemed to resonate with Connecticut audiences. We take a look at his ten year creative partnership with Hartford Stage, and its artistic director Michael Wilson.... read more
 
An Interview with Mark Lamos
He led Hartford Stage from 1980 to 1997, earning it a Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theater. He's directed at the Met, on Broadway, and around the country.  Now, Mark Lamos has come back to Connecticut …. and he’s ready to make difference.   ... read more
 
Kent Film Festival
The Kent Film Festival was a dream of Frank and Patrice Galterio, who made it a reality in a single year: 2006. Since then, for one weekend each spring, the festival takes over the village, drawing local residents, weekend homeowners and visitors from near and far who help to fill local inns and guesthouses. Attendance growth year-over-year has been 200%+ since 2006. ... read more
 
Prodigy Musicians
School music programs--and arts education in general—are considered vital to a young person’s development and success. Yet, in a tough economy, it’s a real struggle to keep good arts programs going, or to fund needy ones adequately.     Recently, Spotlight reporter Ed Wierzbicki discovered a teen music prodigy who won’t let her dreams of classical performance get in the way of helping others. He... read more
 
Expressions Pottery
    For many of us, cooking up that special meal or drink is an improvisation. Once we’ve got the basics, we prefer to dabble instead of sticking to the recipe.  But how about your plates, serving platters, or that mug filled with an after dinner Cappuccino?  Ed Wierzbicki sets out to learn about the aesthetics of pottery, the other “side” of the food experience.        ... read more
 
Radius
Radius, the successful professional artist development program presented by The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and the Ridgefield Guild of Artists, has been instrumental in jump-starting the careers of many area artists. Now, the partners have created Full Circle: Ten Years of Radius—a special anniversary exhibition. ... read more
 
Dancer Laura Halzack
Laura Halzack grew up in Suffield and began her dance training at the age of four.  She went on to full-time pre-professional training as high school sophomore, practicing 6 days a week.   After graduating Summa Cum Laude with a degree in History from the University of New Hampshire, Laura studied at the Hartt School. Now, her dream has come true. She’s a professional dancer with the world famous... read more
 
Puppetry and Object Theater
American theater is experiencing resurgence in the use of puppetry, masks and objects, and not just for kids. Meet some up and coming Connecticut theater professionals who combine the old and the new, people and puppetry, to reach a new audiences. ... read more