Please join us for the third Neighborhood Speaker Series on Thursday, May 25th, featuring local abstract artist, Cat Balco. The program is free and open to the public. It begins at 7 pm and the Best Video Coffee Bar will be open.

Cat Balco is an Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, in West Hartford, CT. Recent group exhibitions include: Color Cure: Women in Abstraction, Alexey Von Schlippe Gallery, University of Connecticut, Avery Point, Groton, CT. Love, Devotion, Surrender, Dedication, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY. Group Exhibition, Green Box Arts Festival, Green Mountain Falls, CO. If 6: RWFA Artists and Guests, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY. Abstract is Not a Style: 5 Women Painters, Hollis Taggart Gallery Southport, Southport, CT. Vision Acuity, The DSQ Project with Clandestina, Knoxon & online at www.dsqproject.com, Miami, FL. Cat Balco, Tom McGlynn, Alyse Rosner, Rick Wester Fine Art, Volta Art Fair New York, NY.

Cat will be talking about her life and work as well as “how to look at abstract art”.