Ray Hardman
Arts Reporter / Host, Where Art Thou?Ray Hardman is Connecticut Public’s Arts and Culture Reporter. He is the host of CPTV’s Emmy-nominated original series Where Art Thou? Listeners to Connecticut Public Radio may know Ray as the local voice of Morning Edition, and later of All Things Considered.
Ray started his career at WFSU in Tallahassee, Florida while pursuing a Master’s Degree in Opera Performance. He now lives in West Hartford with his wife Kathleen, his two teenage boys, and Charlie, the naughty Black Lab. He also fronts a garage rock band called The Radiation.
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The public burning will take place on the campus at the University of Hartford and features a number of Minoo Emami's works stitched together as a quilt. -
Americans for the Arts’ report concludes that investment in the arts stimulates local economies in Connecticut and nationwide. -
This "classic woodie" was built in 1926 and has since become infamous amoung coaster-lovers for its notoriously bumpy ride. -
An agricultural museum in North Franklin, Connecticut, has been hosting barn dances for decades. Recently, the barn has been so packed some participants dance outside. -
A ‘Solitary Garden,’ illuminates the harsh realities of solitary confinement and humanity’s resilience through a partnership between a contemporary artist and an incarcerated gardener. -
From Kabul’s music scene to the silence enforced by the Taliban, “Metal Sam” shares messages of hope and peace through death metal as he starts anew in Connecticut. -
This hour, we explore the production industry in Connecticut, and the local impact of the writers and actors strike in Hollywood. Plus, we profile one of the state’s drive-in movie theaters that’s still going strong. -
One-person play “(Un)Documents” runs Friday and Saturday in Hartford. -
The New Haven chapter of Urban Sketchers is hosting a drawing session this Sunday at the Pardee-Morris house. -
The Ridgefield Historical Society will use a roughly $120,000 federal grant to map the Revolutionary War battlefield.
