The Hoxie Gallery, named after William D. and Lavinia B. Hoxie, is a public art gallery that generally displays the work of local area artists. In keeping with the overall mission of the Memorial and Library Association, we offer art exhibits to the community by providing exhibit space for area artists. Each exhibit is booked for the period of one month.
If you are interested in exhibiting your art work at the Hoxie Gallery,
please review the following Exhibit application information.
This Month in the Hoxie Gallery
Please join David Cundy for the Opening Reception of his exhibit.
Wednesday, January 8th at 5 PM
David Cundy is an author, artist and poet. His debut children's book, Animals Spell Love (Godine, 2017), features typographic word-pictures of the word "Love" in sixteen languages. Inappropriate Anagrams (Hymnself, 2018) – for adults – features humorous biographical anagram poems and portraits in the spirit of Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, e. e. cummings, Georges Perec and Raymond Queneau.
David has read at the St. Mark's Poetry Project's New Year's Day Marathon Reading, and at Triple Canopy's The Making of Americans Gertrude Stein Marathon. He has interviewed some of America's most esteemed poets, including Galway Kinnell, former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, and Marie Ponsot, and reviewed collections by Nobelist Wislawa Szymborska and Ursula K. Le Guin and Jean Valentine, among others.
David has designed type at Linotype in New York and with Matthew Carter in London. He was a protégé of Paul Rand at Yale. His graphic design firm, Design Trust, has created graphics for many major organizations, including the Brooklyn Museum, Columbia University and Parsons School of Design. David has served on the board of directors of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts and has taught in Yale's graduate graphic design program. As an educator, David has taught media at Fairfield University and others.
David is a listed author at the Connecticut Center for the Book and the Connecticut State Library. He is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and the Connecticut Poetry Society.
David's studio overlooks the historic Town Green in Guilford, Connecticut.
The exhibit will run January 8 - January 31
Next month in the Hoxie Gallery
Westerly Elementary Schools Art Show
February 4 - February 28
Opening Receptions February 4th, 5th and 6th at 5 PM
For information on exhibiting in the Hoxie Gallery, please contact Bethany Kearsch at 401-596-2877 ext 342
