Join us for our first ever Art Chat: Gallery Show and Artist Talk featuring Hamden photographer, Chelsea Silbereis. The Art Chat series is a mini gallery show held here in the Thornton Wilder Lobby and is an opportunity to honor and highlight Hamden artists as well as a chance to invite community members to see their work, learn more about the artist's style, means of production and/or make valuable networking connections.
This event is free and open to the public. We ask that you rsvp using this invite so we have an idea of how many people to expect. This event is hosted by the Hamden Department of Arts and Culture - 203-287-2546 - 2901 Dixwell Ave. Hamden 06518. Light refreshments will be served.
Chelsea Silbereis is a photographer living in Hamden Connecticut. She seeks to explore and document family life as an attempt to define and understand the truth in family dynamics and the experience of being a child. Her work is built around her own struggle to belong and feel comfortable as a member of a family. Her family of origin was often overwhelmingly emotional, an experience that left her feeling disconnected. By photographing her own family, she gives herself the distance to see her family, and the connections within more clearly, appreciate it more thoroughly, and understand it better so that she can more easily fill the role of mother. She lives with her husband two children, a dog and a cat. She likes to imagine the ghosts of pets past are also members of the household.
