
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 musical runs May 4-6 at Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts Theater in Middletown.
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Good helped create lasting — and now iconic — logos for corporations, institutions and nonprofits. “You have tradition, you have the need for novelty, the need for marketing, so there’s so many forces that come into play,” Good said in 2013.
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A series of video screen installations at The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts has become a showcase for local talent.
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The letter, written in 1782, thanked Middletown’s William Van Duersen for a book he loaned to the Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
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Artist Angela Manno’s newest series of icons focuses on threatened and endangered species.
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The artist incubator holds its annual Open Studios weekend this Saturday and Sunday.
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Lake Compounce’s new Summer Concert Series debuts Memorial Day Weekend.
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The General Assembly is considering a bill that would create a 30% tax credit to companies that “tech” their Broadway tours in the state.
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$3 million will be used to digitize and preserve museum archives, including Revolutionary War materials, and expand programing, including collecting experiences of COVID-19.
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The survey reveals not only deep arts, culture and humanities engagement across the state, but also a desire to support it.