Open to all levels of experience, this workshop offers an in-depth exploration of oil painting techniques and traditional still life. Develop foundational painting skills, including glazing and layering oil paints to create luminosity and depth.
Oil Painting: Explorations in Still Life
with Sarah Paolucci
Wednesdays, May 7, 14, 21 & 28, 2025
10 AM – 1 PM
Members: $162 / Non-Members: $180
Oil Painting: Explorations in Still Life
Yarn Bomb Drop-in Sessions are taking place at Five Points Arts Center throughout the winter and spring - free and open to the public of all ages, skills and techniques welcome!
Wednesdays (weekly):
2 - 4 PM
Jan 8 - May 28
Saturdays:
2 -4 PM
January 11 & 25
February 8 &22
March 8 & 22
April 12 & 26
May 10
Yarn Bomb Drop-in Sessions
Basic Italian I, a 13-session beginner class, will be held on Thursdays, May 8 to July 31, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. The class will cover pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, conversation, and culture. The required text is Learn Italian the Fast and Fun Way by Marcel Danesi, Barron's Publisher, any edition, available online at abebooks.com and other retailers.
Italian class- beginner
Mark your calendars! Jay will be hosting Open Mic Night on Thursday May 29th.
Open Mic Night
Yarn Bomb Drop-in Sessions are taking place at Five Points Gallery throughout the spring - free and open to the public of all ages, skills and techniques welcome!
Fridays (weekly):
1 - 2:30 PM
April 11, 18, 25
May 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
Yarn Bomb Drop-in Sessions
Paint and sip located above Toothpick on Water Street in Torrington!
BYOB! Painting new types of still life's every week.
All materials included in price
RSVP online
Sip Dip Done
- League Runs from June 19- August 8
- 10 Game minimum for each team
- girls and boys entering Grades 5-12 (following the 25-26 School Year)
- Registration Fee: $125 per team
- $50 game fee (Referee Fee: $40 per game per team & Scorekeeper Fee: $10 game per team)
- teams must supply tee shirts to players
- no individual registrations allowed
- mandatory coaches meeting May 31st at 10am at the Torrington Armory (registration and payment will be accepted at the meeting)
Kid's Summer Basketball League
Join an afternoon exploring artistic depictions of Alice’s character and personality, tracing her image from original illustrations to recent works.
“Alice Through the Rabbit Hole and Beyond…”
Presented by Varoujan Froundjian
Saturday, May 31
2 – 3:30 PM
Five Points Arts Center
"Alice Through the Rabbit Hole and Beyond..."
Mail artists have sent in their creative post cards from 17 countries.
Snail mail has never been so creative and clever.
https://personaland.com/hut/exhibition/going-postal-2-gallery-1-of-2
Personaland is an artist-driven global village transforming the world of art by using technology to bridge time zones and cultural boundaries. Our mission is to promote humanity, creativity, and community through a mix of entertainment, enchantment, and imagination.
Since its 2018 launch, Personaland, in its global reach, has showcased over 800 visual artists, filmmakers, musicians, and poets from 68 countries in 32 group art shows and 55 individual exhibitions, many with videos of artist profiles. https://www.personaland.com
Going Postal 2 (in a good way)
We want your wildest image, film, music or poem. NO ENTRY FEE
Deadline for submissions - June 30
https://personaland.com/submit/wearing-wild.php
Personaland is an artist-driven global village transforming the world of art by using technology to bridge time zones and cultural boundaries. Our mission is to promote humanity, creativity, and community through a mix of entertainment, enchantment, and imagination.
Since its 2018 launch, Personaland, in its global reach, has showcased over 800 visual artists, filmmakers, musicians, and poets from 68 countries in 32 group art shows and 55 individual exhibitions, many with videos of artist profiles. https://www.personaland.com
Wearing Wild
HOTCHKISS-FYLER HOUSE MUSEUM
Torrington Historical Society
192 Main Street, Torrington, CT
2025 hours: Wednesday through Saturdays, April 16 - October 31, 2025
Guided tours at 1, 2 and 3 pm
Phone: (860) 482-8260 info@torringtonhistoricalsociety.org
Admission: Adults $10 per person; children under 8 free
The Hotchkiss-Fyler House Museum (b. 1900) will open for the season Wednesday April 16th. The Hotchkiss-Fyler House Museum is a Victorian mansion that was home to two generations of Torrington residents. Gertrude F. Hotchkiss, the last family member to occupy the home, bequeathed the house and contents to the Society in 1956. The interior of this grand house features mahogany paneling, ornate carvings, stenciled walls, murals, parquet floors and ornamental plaster treatments. Original family furnishings collections of fine and decorative arts. Artists represented are: Ammi Phillips, E.I. Couse, Winfield Scott Clime and George Lawrence Nelson.
Hotchkiss-Fyler House Museum Opening for Season
Mail artists have sent in their creative post cards from 17 countries.
Snail mail has never been so creative and clever.
https://personaland.com/hut/exhibition/going-postal-2-gallery-1-of-2
Personaland is an artist-driven global village transforming the world of art by using technology to bridge time zones and cultural boundaries. Our mission is to promote humanity, creativity, and community through a mix of entertainment, enchantment, and imagination.
Since its 2018 launch, Personaland, in its global reach, has showcased over 800 visual artists, filmmakers, musicians, and poets from 68 countries in 32 group art shows and 55 individual exhibitions, many with videos of artist profiles. https://www.personaland.com
Going Postal 2 (in a good way)
We want your wildest image, film, music or poem. NO ENTRY FEE
Deadline for submissions - June 30
https://personaland.com/submit/wearing-wild.php
Personaland is an artist-driven global village transforming the world of art by using technology to bridge time zones and cultural boundaries. Our mission is to promote humanity, creativity, and community through a mix of entertainment, enchantment, and imagination.
Since its 2018 launch, Personaland, in its global reach, has showcased over 800 visual artists, filmmakers, musicians, and poets from 68 countries in 32 group art shows and 55 individual exhibitions, many with videos of artist profiles. https://www.personaland.com
Wearing Wild
HOTCHKISS-FYLER HOUSE MUSEUM
Torrington Historical Society
192 Main Street, Torrington, CT
2025 hours: Wednesday through Saturdays, April 16 - October 31, 2025
Guided tours at 1, 2 and 3 pm
Phone: (860) 482-8260 info@torringtonhistoricalsociety.org
Admission: Adults $10 per person; children under 8 free
The Hotchkiss-Fyler House Museum (b. 1900) will open for the season Wednesday April 16th. The Hotchkiss-Fyler House Museum is a Victorian mansion that was home to two generations of Torrington residents. Gertrude F. Hotchkiss, the last family member to occupy the home, bequeathed the house and contents to the Society in 1956. The interior of this grand house features mahogany paneling, ornate carvings, stenciled walls, murals, parquet floors and ornamental plaster treatments. Original family furnishings collections of fine and decorative arts. Artists represented are: Ammi Phillips, E.I. Couse, Winfield Scott Clime and George Lawrence Nelson.
Hotchkiss-Fyler House Museum Opening for Season
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