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Five Points Arts is pleased to announce a new series of Masterclass Lectures – presented in tandem with instructed workshops taught by noteworthy guest artists.
Saturday, Apr. 25 , 2026
1 PM
Five Points Arts Center
Free and open to the public
Photo credit: Peter Brown
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(860) 618-2167
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walk-ins always welcome
Following his successful solo exhibition: Social Memory: Paintings 1987 – 2025 at the Wadsworth Antheneum, Peter Waite will discuss his work and career at Five Points Arts Center.
Peter Waite’s paintings invite us, in his own words, “to make the known unknown, and the ordinary extraordinary.” Though devoid of people, his architectural scenes are imbued with an uncanny feeling of presence, offering space for reflection on how memory, identity, and social rituals become embedded in the places we inhabit.
– Matthew Hargraves, Director
Wadsworth Antheneum
Photo credit: Peter Brown
MASTERCLASS WORKSHOP
“Making the Ordinary Extraordinary”
Instructed by Peter Waite
Saturday, Apr. 25, 2026
2:30 – 5:30 PM
Join Peter in a three-hour drawing class to experience first-hand the challenges, techniques, and subtleties of drawing large that can impact your practice in remarkable ways. Work will be done on heavyweight kraft paper directly on a wall with charcoal and white Conte sticks.
About the speaker:
Photo credit: David Graveen
A New England native, long-time resident of central Connecticut, and a 1972 alumnus of the Hartford Art School, Waite has remained an active member of the contemporary art scene in the Hartford region for more than 40 years.
During this time, Peter has made large scale paintings that document his travels — real visits to real places — to sites of the built environment that embody public sentiment or ideological concerns. His interest lies in the intersection of personal and social memory. He has intentionally omitted the figure from the representation to emphasize the viewer’s participation as witness to the moment of perceiving, then remembering, these architectural spaces. In his studio, he works in acrylic on rigid panels and uses an equal combination of photographs, memory, and sketches done on location, to complete the painting. Typically, the scale of his paintings is large and can range from 4 feet x 6 feet to 8 feet x 12 feet. His goal has always been to make the known, unknown and the ordinary, extraordinary.
Artist’s website:
https://www.peterwaite.com/