Housatonic Community College
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Housatonic Community College Also @ HCC ... Home | Current Students | Prospective Students | Academics | Directories | Museum | HCC Foundation | Alumni | Weather Closing Info Housatonic is also home to the Housatonic Museum of Art and the Early Childhood Laboratory School Housatonic Museum of Art The Housatonic Museum of Art, founded in 1967, has one of the largest permanent collections of any two-year college in the country.
The Museum collection represents the realization of a philosophy that makes art a daily part of the life of every student and staff member at Housatonic. The Museum collection is primarily composed of outstanding examples of 20th century paintings and sculpture, art and ethnographic objects from the Far and Near East, Africa, and Oceania. Drawings, prints and photographs are well represented.
The collection is periodically augmented and enhanced by new acquisitions.
From the moment one enters the College campus, one continuously encounters paintings, sculpture, prints, and art objects in lounges, hallways, and offices. In addition, The Burt Chernow Galleries are open to the public and schedule changing exhibitions each year that may initiate from the permanent collection, show the work of established or emerging artists, or feature traveling exhibitions.
Among those artists represented are: Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Joan Miro, Auguste Rodin, Giorgio DeChirico, Mary Cassatt, Milton Avery, Everett Shinn, Richard Lindner, Larry Rivers, Ben Shahn, Victor Vasarely, Andy Warhol, Andre Derain, Marisol, Robert Rauschenberg, Leonard Baskin, Roy Lichtenstein, Alex Katz, Tom Wesselmann, Paul Jenkins, Saul Steinberg, Isamu Noguchi, Alfonso Ossorio, Jim Dine, Christo, Jean Dubuffet, Gustav Klimt, and Alberto Giacometti.
Visit the Museum web site at http://www.HousatonicMuseum.org.
The Museum's Mission: To establish a collection of artworks that will serve as a repository of important artistic achievement.
To introduce the Greater Bridgeport area to the pleasures and challenges that result from exposure to original art. To continue and expand The Housatonic Museum of Art as an expression of the serious commitment the College has made to cultural enrichment.
To grow and maintain the collection which is made up almost exclusively of donations of original art. It has, and will, continue to develop, with a focus on providing the College with a teaching museum and an exciting total environment of the visual arts.
The Museum and The Burt Chernow Galleries are expressions of a serious commitment to cultural enrichment. The College considers it essential for students, faculty members, administrators and visitors to experience art as an integral part of the educational environment, as important as libraries, textbooks and teachers.
Early Childhood Laboratory School The Early Childhood Laboratory School is a nationally accredited early childhood readiness program where each child is recognized and respected as a unique individual and nurtured to develop to his/her full potential through active exploration of the environment and where home/school partnerships are valued.
Our students are children of students, faculty, staff and the community. The Laboratory School serves children with disabilities and from diverse racial, ethnic, economic and ability backgrounds. Our children are a reflection of our community.
The school serves as a laboratory setting and resource for the Early Childhood Education Program and other disciplines of the college. It is a model for early childhood programs in the community.
