Celebrating Coney Island

Robin Jaffee Frank of Westport celebrates tonight with Westport artist Leonard Everett Fisher at a special Westport Arts Center ArtsSpeaks event. She talked about the exhibit she curated at Hartford’s Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art “Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008.” Jaffee Frank is chief curator and Krieble Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture at the Wadsworth. Everett Fisher is one of the artists featured in the Hartford exhibit. (See WestportNow Feb. 11, 2015) The exhibit complements the current Westport Arts Center exhibit “Coney Island: Side Show.” (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Helen Klisser during for WestportNow.com