PUTNAM — During the Oct. 3 First Friday explore the art  created by Julie Watt and students of the Visual Arts Exploration Class at the Complex Performing and Creative Arts Center.  It can be seen on Front Street on the storefront across from the Bradley Playhouse

Project Concept #1:   Peace  •  Love  •  Unity  •  Community     2012

Julie Watt explains “Our world is brought together by those close to us; those in close proximity and those brought to us within our own families.  This world travels through paths that twist and turn and that lead us down roads which allow us to grow individually and collectively as a community.  We travel together down these paths, much as streets in a small town, to further our communities and to unite in ways that push us as human beings, to push us to become better human beings.  This yearning to join together, to better our community is fostered through heritage, through our families and their lineage.  Joining together as pieces of a puzzle, we are linked by our “families” and fit together as collective members of a community.  Of this community.  This yearning and teaching and learning through generations is what makes a community whole and strong.  Community is brought together through love, peace and unity… unity in coming together to better ourselves and our families.  And our neighbor’s family.  And their neighbor’s family.  Working together, we can become a community of richness and wholeness, of vast differences where love and peace of youth join and become richness and depth of wisdom and age.  Together we can unify to educate our children and help and support the elderly.  Together we can be strength for our neighbor.  Together we can become one as a community tied in richness of peace, love and unity.  Community through unity.”

3-board triptych - Abstract painting    Julie Watt with students:  Molly Archambault, Kate Archamabult, Elena DeLuca, Taylor Martin, Sarah Swenson, Sienna Jessurun, Kathryn Slowik, Katie Lusa, Rachel Loos

Project Concept #2: Development  •  Extention •  Expansion   2014

“The origin is affected within community through growth, with the light and radiance that is Art.  What was there shall now be affected.  What is affected shall now, potentially, be transformed.”  

4th board addition  Collaborative concept development and abstract painting application.  

Julie Watt with students Kate Archamabult, Elena DeLuca, Kourtney Slowik, Lindsay O’Dea

 

 

 

 

Connecting with neighbors

WOODSTOCK — Woodstock Academy and its Board of Trustees are focusing on building  and maintaining  relationships  with its neighbors this year. The academy will host forums to discuss and address any issues, questions or concerns. “We hope to host bi- annual meetings with our neighbors moving forward as a way to come together,  discuss issues and build partnerships with our community,” said Headmaster Christopher Sandford. “An open line of communication and strong relationships are key components and commitments of the Board of Trustees’ strategic plan.”

Recently the academy’s Buildings and Grounds Committee held the first meeting to discuss the public address (P.A.) system. The committee collected  feedback  on the use of the P.A. system at the turf field in Bentley Athletic Complex. In response to concerns raised by neighbors, Woodstock Academy hired a new sound technician, removed the old P.A. system, and built a limiter for the sound system to help control noise. “We are hopeful that these changes have made a significant, noticeable difference for our neighbors,” said Robert Blackmer, chairman of the Woodstock Academy Buildings and Grounds Committee. “We feel that these changes, and a few more, will continue to demonstrate that we take our neighbors’ concerns seriously and are willing to work with them for the betterment of the Historic District.” For more information  call  the Headmaster’s office at (860) 963-6592 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

 

 

Hosting

Putnam Bank hosted a Northeastern CT Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours event recently and the bank’s managers came dressed to the nines. Courtesy photo.