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Next Wednesday, March 11th, the Public Health Committee of the Connecticut General Assembly will hold a public hearing about two key pieces of legislation designed to protect access to life-saving vaccines, and each of us has the opportunity to contribute to their passing by submitting testimony in support of science-based vaccine policy. Testimony can be submitted in person (Room 1D of the Legislative Office Building), via Zoom, or in writing (using a form).
The bills: HB 5044 (An Act Establishing CT Vaccine Standards) and Raised Bill 450 (An Act Concerning The Standard of Care for Immunization) have been developed by the CT Department of Public Health and endorsed by the Governor. The bills, which are very similar, make clear that under U.S. constitutional authority, States retain power to protect public health, and that the CT Commissioner of Public Health will establish vaccine policy in CT. This is critically important because the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), appointed by RFK, Jr, consists of vaccine skeptics and anti-vaxers who have been making vaccine recommendations to the CDC that will harm public health if followed..
The ask: The Public Health Committee will hear public oral testimony about these bills on Wednesday, March 11, 10:30 a.m to midnight. There has been vocal opposition to these bills, and we expect opponents to testify in force. Please defend public health by providing testimony in support of science-based vaccine policy in person (Room 1D of the Legislative Office Building), via Zoom or in writing (using a form). Registration for oral testimony will close on Tuesday, March 10, 2026 at 3:00 P.M. The Committee encourages witnesses to submit a written statement and to condense oral testimony to a summary of that statement. See the announcement about the hearing at the end of this email.
When you sign up to testify (whether written or oral), the form asks for your name, title, and affiliation. Don’t be shy about including all of your credentials (e.g., if you have an MD, PhD, DrPH, or MPH degree, be sure to include it), as doing so will enhance the credibility of your testimony.
The texts of the bills, with deletions from prior language in red and additions in blue, are attached to this email.
Please forward this email to colleagues and organizations interested in supporting science-based vaccine policy in Connecticut.
The following are some excellent resources about vaccines: American Academy of Pediatrics, Association of Immunization Managers, and American Public Health Association.
The following provides general guidance about testifying at a public hearing:
https://cthealthpolicy.org/resources-2/advocacy-tool-box/testify-hearing/ and
https://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/content/yourvoice.asp
The following are key talking points in support of the legislation:
Given that anti-vaxxers are making CDC vaccine recommendations, the CT Commissioner of Public Health must have the authority to provide evidence-based guidelines on State vaccine policy.
The bills seeks to preclude challenges to some mandatory immunization requirements (for daycare, schools, colleges). The challenges are being made on the basis that they violate CT’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Opponents of this legislation want to reinstate religious exemptions, so it is important to note that high vaccination rates are needed to protect those who cannot be vaccinated, including infants and immunocompromised individuals, such as people with cancer, HIV, etc.
Vaccination is not just a personal choice—it is a community responsibility..
Schools and daycare centers should be safe spaces, not sites of preventable disease outbreaks.
Religious freedom does not include the right to expose others to harm.
States that eliminated non-medical (including religious) exemptions saw increased vaccination rates and decreased disease incidence
We may send more supporting information over the weekend or early next week.
P.S. If you are not already on the Defend Public Health-CT mailing list, please sign up here. If you are on the mailing list with your work email, we strongly recommend that you change your contact info to your personal email address. Please sign up with your personal email address here.

PUBLIC HEALTH COMMITTEE
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 2026
The Public Health Committee will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, March 11, 2026 at 10:30 A.M. in Room 1D of the LOB and via Zoom. The public hearing can be viewed via YouTube Live. In addition, the public hearing may be recorded and broadcast live on CT-N.com. Individuals who wish to testify must register using the On-line Testimony Registration Form. The registration form must contain the name of the person who will be testifying. A unique email address must be provided for each person registered to speak. Registration will close on Tuesday, March 10, 2026 at 3:00 P.M. Speaker order of approved registrants will be listed in a randomized order and posted on the Public Health Committee website on Tuesday, March 10, 2026 at 6:00 P.M. under Public Hearing Testimony. If you do not have internet access, you may provide testimony via telephone. To register to testify by phone, call the Phone Registrant Line at 860-240-0560 to leave your contact information. Please submit written testimony using the On-line Testimony Submission Form. The Committee requests that testimony be limited to matters related to the items on the Agenda. The first hour of the hearing is reserved for Legislators, Constitutional Officers, State Agency Heads and Chief Elected Municipal Officials. Speakers will be limited to three minutes of testimony. Oral testimony will conclude at 12:00 AM on 3/12/2026. The Committee encourages witnesses to submit a written statement and to condense oral testimony to a summary of that statement. All public hearing testimony, written and spoken, is public information. As such, it will be made available on the CGA website and indexed by internet search engines.
SUBJECT MATTER: Public Health Related Bills
*S.B. No. 450 (RAISED) AN ACT CONCERNING THE STANDARD OF CARE FOR IMMUNIZATION.
*H.B. No. 5044 (COMM) AN ACT ESTABLISHING CONNECTICUT VACCINE STANDARDS.

Discipline Equals Freedom, But Not the Way I Used to Think

Years ago, I recorded a podcast episode called Discipline Equals Freedom. And I meant it.

Back then, I was talking about structure. Food plans. Dating plans. Financial reserves. Time management. Putting systems in place so you didn’t have to make the same decisions over and over again. I still stand behind that.

Structure does create freedom. Planning ahead does reduce chaos. Clear rules of engagement do reduce anxiety.

That episode was true for where I was at the time. But my understanding of discipline has evolved. Today, when I say discipline equals freedom, I’m not talking primarily about external structure. I’m talking about internal boundaries. I’m talking about the discipline of not abandoning yourself in the presence of emotion. And that kind of discipline creates a deeper kind of freedom.

At first, I thought discipline meant grit, hustle, white knuckling your way through discomfort. Doing things you don’t want to do when you don’t want to do them. And while there’s some truth in that, that’s not what discipline means to me anymore.

Now, I see discipline through the lens of internal boundaries.  And from that perspective, discipline doesn’t feel harsh. It feels like safety, like staying with yourself until things make sense from the inside. It feels like not abandoning yourself in the presence of emotion. That’s the discipline that creates freedom.

The Discipline of Not Leaving Yourself

When most people hear the word discipline, they might think like I did about external things like food plans, workout routines, budgets, time management systems. Those are external structures. Internal discipline is different.

Internal discipline is what happens in the invisible moments. It’s the moment when someone is upset with you and your nervous system wants to rush in and “fix it.” It’s the moment when your mind starts living into the wreckage of the future. It’s the moment when guilt floods your body after you say no.

Internal discipline sounds like this:

Pause.
Stay.
Breathe.
Do not collapse.
Do not rescue.
Do not spin.
Do not self-abandon.

Those are internal boundaries. And they require discipline.

Read the rest at your own pace here.

Discover how photographer William Frucht captures a world that is simultaneously a “slow evolution” and “an infinite mad dance,” in his exhibit Shooting Fast & Slow. The show will be on view from March 6 to March 29, with Opening Reception on Saturday, March 7, 2–4 p.m. The event and exhibit are free and open to the public.

Frucht’s photography follows two distinct paths. One path — the slow path — is photographing abandoned or distressed places with a big medium-format film camera and a tripod. “The images that emerge are meditations on the slow evolution of the world,” he explains. “I am in a dialogue with the past, photographing events that unfold not over seconds and minutes but over years and decades.”

The second path — the fast path — is street photography using a small digital camera. “I immerse myself in the moment,” he says, “trying not to think but simply flow, reacting to fleeting gestures, expressions, and chance arrangements of light and shadow that flicker into existence like virtual particles and then as quickly vanish. Yet even when the world is an infinite mad dance I try to work slowly, as if slowing time itself, to wait for the moment when forms, colors, expressions fall into place.”

“Recently,” he reports, “a third path has emerged, in which I try to capture fast moments with slow processes, like an excursion into an imaginary universe that crosses reality at an angle.” Curious? Come to the City Gallery exhibit in March to how these creative paths diverge and converge.

The following bio appears on his web site.  City Gallery does not guarantee its accuracy: 

William Frucht is only the second person in U.S. history to win the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction, the Nobel Peace Prize, and the National League Most Valuable Player Award all in the same year. Just a few years older than the city of Danbury, Connecticut, where he currently resides, he still works as an acquiring editor at Yale University Press, although his colleagues increasingly think of him as semiretired at best. In his spare time he devotes himself to remaining inconspicuous, failing upward, and using his powers for good and not evil. He is also a photographer whose work has been exhibited in multiple states as well as in private collections here and abroad. He has been a member of City Gallery since 2015.

Shooting Fast & Slow is free and open to the public. City Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Gallery hours are Friday - Sunday, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m., or by appointment. For further information please contact City Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, www.city-gallery.org.

Emotions, Emotional Boundaries, and the Stories Your Mind Tells

I want to start by sharing something that happened a while ago. It showed me that the tendency toward rescuing and fixing doesn’t necessarily disappear just because we’ve done a lot of work.

But what does change is this:

We’re no longer compelled to act on it.

Here’s what happened. I live in a condo complex. My doors were open, and I heard a child outside on the phone. It sounded like he was telling someone his mom wasn’t home and he was going to be late.

And my first thought was: “I could drive him.”

Now. I have no idea who this child is. I’ve never heard this voice before. I don’t know the situation. And I needed to leave for a meeting in ten minutes.

But my nervous system moved toward rescuing immediately. That’s my first thought. And here’s a saying I learned early in recovery that came in really handy in that moment:

“I’m not responsible for my first thought, but I am responsible for my second thought and for what I do next.”

What changed in recovery wasn’t that the rescuing impulse disappeared entirely. What changed is that I can notice it without acting on it. And I can notice it without attacking myself for having it.

That right there is emotional boundary work. Because emotional boundaries aren’t just about other people’s feelings. They’re about how you relate to your own emotions.

Here’s what’s important about that story. My first thought was to move toward someone else’s discomfort. That’s what I used to do with emotion too. If I felt anxious, I didn’t stay with the anxiety. I moved away from it. Sometimes by rescuing. Sometimes by replaying the past. Sometimes by inventing worst case scenarios.

And this is the part that took me years to understand: All of those behaviors are attempts to manage discomfort.

When I heard that child, my system was trying to reduce anxiety by taking control. That’s what rescuing is. It’s control disguised as helpfulness.

And when I don’t act that impulse out externally, that same anxiety energy can turn inward. It can become rumination. It can become catastrophizing. Rescuing, ruminating, and catastrophizing are all attempts to manage emotion when we don’t feel steady inside.

They’re different behaviors. Same root.

Read the rest at your own pace here.

One of the most difficult parts of setting boundaries isn’t deciding what to say.

It’s dealing with what you feel. Sometimes even before you say it. And definitely after you say it.

In my experience, the number one thing that stops people from setting boundaries isn’t a lack of skill. It’s guilt and shame. It’s that tight, nauseous feeling in your stomach that says, “You’re being selfish.”

Let’s start by normalizing something.

If you feel guilt and shame when you set boundaries, that doesn’t mean you’re doing it wrong. It means you’re changing.

If you grew up in enmeshment, where everyone was in everyone else’s business, boundaries can feel like betrayal. If you grew up in emotional abandonment, boundaries can feel like you’re leaving someone alone the way you were left alone. If you grew up with both like I did, setting boundaries can feel even more overwhelming.

Healthy boundaries live in the middle. They’re not enmeshment. They’re not abandonment. They’re healthy separation with connection.

But if you’ve never experienced that middle, it doesn’t feel like healthy separation. It feels like abandonment.

So of course guilt shows up and shame flares.

The question isn’t how to eliminate those feelings overnight. The question is how to build the capacity to handle them. And eventually, how to reduce them at the root.

Here’s how.

Read the rest at your own pace here.

One of my clients recently asked me for concrete examples of emotional availability and vulnerability.

She said something like this: “I show empathy. I validate people. I listen. I’m curious. I really try to be there. So why do I keep ending up with emotionally unavailable people?”

It’s such an honest question. And it’s one I was perplexed by for years before recovery.

Back then, I believed emotionally unavailable men were attracted to me. That part was true. What I didn’t see at the time was the other half of the equation.

That I was not just attracting them, I was also attracted TO them.

What I eventually figured out was that the reason all that was happening was the *I* was emotionally unavailable. And that makes total sense, because what emotionally available person would be attracted to and stay in relationship with someone who’s emotionally unavailable?

This was completely subconscious, of course.

If this is stirring something, you can read the rest at your own pace here.

A quick note in case this connects for you — my live workshop Boundaries for Real Love is coming up later this month.

We’ll be looking at the quiet ways people override themselves in relationships and what supports staying present without force.

Details are here if you’d like to take a look.

When Other People’s Feelings Feel Like Yours

One of the most common themes I see with my clients and one I lived inside for decades is this experience of feeling other people’s feelings.

It’s hard to explain unless you’ve lived it.

It’s like being permeable. Like there’s no membrane between you and the emotional world around you. Other people’s emotions don’t just register. They enter. They move through you. They take up residence.

And when that’s your experience, there’s an unspoken rule running the show.

If they’re not okay, I can’t be okay. And if they’re not okay with me, I really can’t be okay.

Even if you don’t literally feel other people’s emotions in your body, many of us still act as if we’re responsible for them.

Someone’s upset and we rush to fix it. Someone’s disappointed and we scramble to soothe. Someone’s uncomfortable and we contort ourselves to make it better.

That impulse can look kind. And sometimes it is.

But not when they haven’t asked for support. Not when someone needs space to grieve. Not when discomfort is actually part of their process.

If you recognize yourself here, one simple and powerful pause is this question:

“Do you want to be cheered up right now?”

And another, even more important one:

“Am I responding to their pain… or am I reacting to my own discomfort that stems from their discomfort?”

Read the rest at your own pace here.

One of the most painful patterns I see, both in my own life and in my work with clients, is this
we often end up sabotaging the very thing we want most.

Nowhere is this more true than in romantic relationships.

We long for connection, security, belonging, intimacy.
And yet, without realizing it, we behave in ways that quietly undermine those very desires.

Let me show you what I mean.

First example.

I once worked with a client who was reflecting on his friendships with other young men when he was younger. What he wanted from those relationships was completely understandable
security, belonging, identity, validation. He was looking for models of healthy masculinity and hoping to feel anchored in a group.

What actually happened was the opposite.

Those friendships didn’t just fade. They ended painfully. He was bullied. Pushed out. Shamed. Everything he had hoped to gain was taken from him.

As he looked more honestly at his part, something important became clear. He wasn’t truly present in those relationships. He had an unspoken end goal. He was there to get something rather than to be something.

That wasn’t a moral failing. It was all he knew how to do at the time.

This is one of my favorite phrases from recovery
info, not ammo.

This awareness wasn’t something to beat himself up with. It was information. And it changed everything.

Second example.

A friend of mine in recovery often explains this pattern through the lens of our instinctual drives. We’re wired for things like security, reputation, and belonging. Those drives are not the problem.

But when they get out of balance, or when we act from fear around them, we often sabotage ourselves.

Take reputation, for example. If we’re desperate to be seen a certain way, we might exaggerate, embellish, or outright lie. And eventually, when the truth comes out, the very reputation we were trying to protect is damaged.

The thing we wanted most becomes the thing we destroy.

Third example.

This one shows up constantly in romantic relationships.

Many of us carry a deep fear of abandonment. We don’t want to be left. We don’t want to be discarded. We want to matter.

And yet, without realizing it, we abandon ourselves.

We ignore our needs. We silence our truth. We shape shift to keep the connection. And when we do that, abandonment is baked right into the relationship.

Because we aren’t really there.

The real us never arrives. And so we often find ourselves drawn to people who abandon us in familiar ways.

The very thing we fear becomes the thing we recreate.

Read the rest at your own pace here.

Featuring work by Beatriz Olson, MD

In Unmuted — The Return of Color, Beatriz Olson presents a body of work that traces her journey back to voice, embodiment, and the full spectrum of color that once lay quiet beneath the demands of culture, profession, and expectation. As a Cuban immigrant, physician, and woman shaped by systems that reward discipline and invisibility, Olson learned early to mute aspects of herself in order to navigate the world. These paintings reveal the moment of reversal—when inner wisdom rises, when color becomes medicine, and when the feminine body and spirit reclaim their place as sources of knowing. The exhibit will be on view from February 6 - March 1, with Opening Reception and Artist Talk on Saturday, February 7, 2–5 p.m. A Closing Reception and Artist Talk will be held on Sunday, March 1, 2–5 p.m.

Across three interwoven series, Olson explores the architecture of womanhood, the atmospheric spaces of interiority, and the luminous power of abstraction. Anatomical echoes, meditative figures, and fluid portals of color invite viewers into a space where the body is sacred, intuition is intelligence, and spirituality emerges as a form of healing. Her palette—at times bold, at times tender—maps the emotional terrain of a life spent caring for thousands of women, listening to their stories, and witnessing the resilience held in their bodies. 

In these works, color becomes a conduit for transformation. Through abstraction and symbolic form, Olson creates pathways for reflection, stillness, and generative discomfort—the kind that expands rather than contracts, that illuminates rather than obscures. Unmuted is both personal and universal: a declaration that the feminine, in all its complexity, radiance, and depth, deserves to be seen, honored, and held in the light.

Beatriz Olson is Cuban immigrant who evolved to be an artist, physician and author. Her work involves holistic approaches to healing the body mind and soul distress by using color, form and lack thereof to process emotions. Art has a way of soothing us and giving language to that which we cannot name consciously or unconsciously but affects us deeply. She has been a performance artist at Pechkucha Events in New Haven, and been part of CWOS for more than a decade.

The Unmuted exhibit is free and open to the public. City Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Gallery hours are Friday - Sunday, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m., or by appointment. For further information please contact City Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, www.city-gallery.org.

I once had a conversation with a sponsee who was sitting with a knot in her stomach. That conversation has stuck with me for years, and I’ve used it in coaching sessions with my clients.

She’d gifted a significant amount of money to one of her adult children. Her older child had always been financially independent. Paid their own way through college. Came up with their own down payment. Never needed rescuing.

Her younger child had a very different history, including mental health issues. Over the years, my sponsee spent a lot of money getting the younger child out of trouble. Bailing them out. Saving them. Trying to help.

What she was worried about wasn’t the money itself.

It was this question: What happens if my younger child finds out I gifted the money to their sibling?

That question opened the door to a conversation that feels especially important when we’re talking about romantic relationships too. The difference between privacy and secrecy.

At first glance, they can look the same. Both involve not telling someone everything. But emotionally, they come from very different places.

Read the rest at your own pace here.

In January, City Gallery present FRAGMENTS, a group show featuring Meg Bloom, Joy Bush, and Phyllis Crowley. The fragments — echoed in the constructed poem above — include the visual perspectives seen in each of the artist’s individual works but also as they relate to each other and to the visual experience of the whole, of being and creating in this world. FRAGMENTS will be on view from January 9 - February 1, with an Opening Reception on Saturday, January 17 from 2-4 p.m. (Snow date: January 18, 2-4 p.m.)

Meg Bloom, Joy Bush, Phyllis Crowley are long-time members of City Gallery. Meg Bloom’s artwork, past and present, consists of handmade paper sculptures from kozo and abaca fibers. Some have added pigment, many have embedded plant matter, or anything else she can get her hands on. Additionally, she also creates mixed media collages and installations. Finding beauty in the imperfect, acknowledging moments of change, and engaging with the process of transformation form the basis of her work. Her art references nature, whether human or otherwise, and attempts, metaphorically through layering process and form, to address the broader social and environmental issues.

Joy Bush is a photographer based in Connecticut. She grew up near New York City and as a child she loved family excursions to NYC museums and theater productions. After graduating from college she discovered the magic of photography, and bought herself a Pentax Spotmatic camera. Eventually employed as a university photographer, she documented life on college campuses while developing personal bodies of work. Her photography practice involves gathering evidence: weaving autobiography with fiction. Through her personal wandering, many series have emerged, yet the one overall thread of her trajectory is paying attention to easily overlooked, obscure circumstances that have occurred prior to her arrival. In her exploration throughout the day, she captures circumstances that curiously suggest something happened or is going to happen and while humans are not physically present, traces of their actions are intriguingly omnipresent. For decades she has witnessed, embraced, and communicated joy, solitude, peace, disruption, abstraction, and irony through the photographic image.

Phyllis Crowley grew up in New York City and started photographing when she was eleven years old. She learned by taking pictures, looking at pictures, experimenting, attending workshops and reading everything she could get her hands on. She began her career working with film in a traditional black and white darkroom. The new digital technology made it much faster and easier to work with multiple images, a major interest, and move between color and black and white. She has taught at Norwalk Community College, the University of Bridgeport, and now at Creative Arts workshop. She is a member of City Gallery in New Haven and Silvermine Guild in New Canaan. She exhibits nationally and has twice received an Artist Fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. Her work is in public, corporate, and private collections.

The FRAGMENTS exhibit is free and open to the public. City Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Gallery hours are Friday - Sunday, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m., or by appointment. For further information please contact City Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, www.city-gallery.org.

I had a conversation recently that reminded me of something I learned the hard way. A man in recovery told me he finally understood that his expectations were the very thing upsetting him. But he didn’t know how to stop having them. He couldn’t imagine moving through the world without them.

I remember feeling the same way. People in recovery would say, "expectations are premeditated resentments." I agreed with them (in theory) and had absolutely no idea how to live that way in practice.

How do you walk through life, especially with family, and not expect people to act a certain way? How do you let go of the exact outcomes you’re sure would make things easier?!

What I’ve learned is that peace never comes from controlling other people. It comes from...Read more

by Barb Nangle, Boundaries Coach, Speaker and Podcaster

photo credit: Liana S.

Room 17 Math, Inc. is a growing nonprofit mathematics education organization seeking passionate, community-minded individuals to join our Board of Directors.

As our programs and partnerships continue to expand across Greater New Haven, we are increasing our board membership to strengthen our leadership, support our growth, and deepen our community impact.

Our Mission

Room 17 Math is dedicated to spreading the joy of mathematics, eliminating math fear, and increasing access to high-quality math learning experiences for all children.
We partner with schools, families, and communities to make math playful, accessible, and empowering through tutoring, enrichment programs, family math nights, and teacher support.

We believe every child deserves to see themselves as capable mathematical thinkers — regardless of zip code.

Why We Are Expanding Our Board

Room 17 Math is growing.
Our reach, programming, and partnerships across Greater New Haven continue to increase, and we are seeking additional board members to help guide this next phase of organizational growth with intention, vision, and community voice.

Who We’re Looking For

We are seeking board members who:

• Care deeply about educational equity and access to opportunity
• Believe in fostering confidence and joy through math
• Are excited to support a community-based nonprofit in its growth phase
• Bring diverse perspectives, experiences, and skills
• Want to contribute ideas, insight, and strategic thinking

Educators, community leaders, parents, nonprofit professionals, and engaged community members are all encouraged to apply.

Board Commitment

Board members are expected to:

• Attend and actively participate in four quarterly board meetings per year
• Engage in mission-driven discussion and strategic decision-making
• Serve as ambassadors for Room 17 Math within the community

This is a volunteer position with meaningful impact.

Interested?

If you or someone you know would like to support the growth of Room 17 Math and help bring joyful math to more children across Greater New Haven, we would love to connect.

📧 Contact: team@room17math.com
🌐 Learn more: www.room17math.com
📍 Serving: Milford, West Haven & Greater New Haven

As many know, Youth Continuum is closing. They have furniture and office supplies available to other non-profits in the area. Items will be available until 11/13/25, as they have to vacate both locations before Thanksgiving.

Here is general list of what they have:
• Desks
• Chairs
• Tables
• Bookcases
• Side tables
• Bunk beds
• Dressers
• Desk chairs
• Waiting room chairs and couches
• Conference room tables

• Office Supplies
o Binders
o Folders
o Paper clips, etc

• PPE
o Masks
o Hand sanitizer

• Other donated items
o Clothing
o Shoes
o Bags (bookbags, purses, duffle bags)
o Hygiene supplies
• Home/Office Decor

They have items at two locations:
1. 315-319 Winthrop Avenue, New Haven, CT
For items at this location, please call/text 203-836-4732

2. 943 Grand Avenue, New Haven, CT
For items at this location, please call/text 203-824-4366

Items will be available until 11/13/25, as they have to vacate both locations before Thanksgiving. Items left after this date will need to be discarded.

For more than 60 years, Roberta Friedman and Stanley Friedman have created memories — literally and in their respective artwork. LIFETIME/LIFELINE: A COLLABORATION is an exhibit of their complementary works and will be on view from October 31- November 30. There will be an Opening Reception on Sunday, November 2 from 2-5 p.m., and an Artists’ Talk and demonstration of creating an encaustic monotype on Sunday, November 16 at 2 p.m.

Roberta Friedman, a long-time member of City Gallery, continues her work in encaustic monotype, cold wax and collage. She has recently had her work included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Encaustic Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Stanley Friedman is adept at, and enamored by, technologies and their creative potential. His photographs exemplify his tireless interest in the universe and its secrets.

“This work, exhibited together for the first time, is our way of acknowledging a lifetime of connection and parallel paths,” says Roberta, “All of which has been honed from shared and individual journeys.”

The exhibit poster includes a photo of two wine glasses, taken by Roberta’s father, Harold Schwartz, around 1945 at the end of the war, and brings the idea of memory into full focus.

The exhibit, LIFETIME/LIFELINE: A COLLABORATION, and the Opening Reception are free and open to the public. City Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Gallery hours are Friday - Sunday, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m., or by appointment. For further information please contact City Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, www.city-gallery.org.