July				Instant Celebrity - The Party July 8, 2008 6 pm to 9 pm The Amistad Center for Art & Culture invites you to be an INSTANT CELEBRITY! Click here for more information. Click here to download the ticket order form.
					Bare Walls, No Boundaries A Video Exhibition June 14, 2008 to August 17, 2008 Bare Walls will examine the concept and development of individual identity and the roles that society places on individuals based on class, gender, race, sexuality, popular stereotypes, and mass media influence. Various works presented in this exhibition will be contemporary observations about how those identities have been historically defined within American society. Other works will use popular culture, music,  and satire to examine how individual identity is constructed and defined by traditional social mores. In concert, the works will act as comparative analyses about the ways in which individual persona develops, or in some cases, becomes distorted in relation to the societal norm. With support from Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism.
	September				Young Americans September 19th to December 14th Through portraiture, artist Sheila Pree Bright explores Millennials’ thoughts and feelings about America-giving them a platform for their voices to be heard. This body of work, called Young Americans, engages the Millennial, better known as Generation Y, with conversations on America, while they pose with the American Flag. Born in or after 1982, Millennial are considered the most influential generation since the Baby Boomers. Some market research suggests that they are very civic-minded and socially conscious as both individual consumers and employees. Unlike past youth generations, they are more affluent, better educated, technologically savvy, blunt and expressive, image driven, the most ethnically diverse, and more tolerant. They have been pressed for their vote, sought for their purchasing power, and watched closely by sociologists and historians for insight into how they will shape the future. Participants from Generation Y are asked to sthink about how they see themselves with the American Flag and let Bright photograph them as they illustrate their perceptions of America. Afterwards, each subject writes a statement about America. The series, Young Americans, will also include a film that documents the studio experience of each sitter, along with his/her interaction with the American Flag and Sheila Pree Bright. Sponsored by Aetna