EVENTS.
FALL 2025.
ART + DESIGN EXHIBIT.
through Saturday, October 25, 2025
Local interior design professionals team up with Metro Art Studios artists to create a showcase of fine art and interior design in the Crown Gallery at Metro Art Studios to benefit a local organization making a difference in Bridgeport. Each designer features one artist in our version of a “white room challenge”, showing off their design aesthetic and style while highlighting how well fine art works as a focal point.
This year's exhibit supports Woofgang & Co which provides job-skills and vocational training for disabled adults who have aged out of public school system support with a dog cookie production facility in Bridgeport and a retail location in Fairfield. We are delighted to support this transformative organization.
OPEN STUDIOS DURING BRIDGEPORT ART TRAIL.
Saturday, November 8; 11 AM to 6 PM
Sunday, November 9; 11 AM to 5 PM
Come visit the artists of Metro Art Studios during the Bridgeport Art Trail. There are over 40 artists working in a wide variety of disciplines, from drawing to painting, sculpture to jewelry, printmaking to photography, video, and music, as well as fiber, decor, and much more. See the art where it's made, talk to the artists about their processes, inspiration, and techniques. Find large and small art to buy. Tour the historic three-story renovated corset factory turned artist studios for a peek into Bridgeport's industrial past and its artistic present and future. There are many interactive events taking place at Metro that weekend including a progressive art project, a scavenger hunt with art prizes, a new documentary film, a body painting demonstration, a gallery reception, and more!
Free event, ADA accessible, ample on and off street parking available.
COMING SOON: MARGINS OF MEMORY.
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 8, 1 to 4 PM
Exhibit runs from November 8, 2025 to January 10, 2026
The Crown Gallery at Metro Arts Studios is proud to present Margins of Memory, an exhibit which brings together five international artists who currently reside in New York but span five different countries of origin, offering a global yet deeply personal meditation on memory and healing through the expanded mediums of print, papermaking, collage, and installation.
In a world increasingly marked by displacement, fragmentation, and collective grief, these artists turn to the tactile intimacy of works on paper—etchings, monoprints, handmade pulp, and experimental processes—as a way to trace the fragile imprints of memory: personal, ancestral, and imagined.
Paper, as both surface and substance, holds and reveals. Its fibers retain touch, absorb pigment, and fray with time. In this exhibition, it becomes a vessel for healing: a space where trauma can be transmuted, and stories—once silenced—can find form.
Despite vast cultural and geographical distances, each artist finds a shared language in the medium itself. Printmaking, with its cycles of layering, pressing, and repetition, echoes the rituals of remembering and forgetting. The handmade sheet becomes an archive; the printed image, a gesture of reclaiming.
Together, these works invite viewers not only to look but to feel—to engage with memory not as static record, but as a living, breathing process of making and mending.
Participating artists include:
Emilie Houssart, Holland/UK
Hayoon Jay Lee, South Korea
Malgorzata Oakes, Poland
Sariah Park, USA
Xuewu Zheng, China
