Lindsay Aromin
Lindsay Aromin
During my travels, I feel drawn to flowers for their vibrant colors, tones and fantastic textures. Going through my photos I realized I took more pictures of flowers than people. Only my museum shots outnumbered them. I have even stopped the car so I could go out and take pictures of some vivid colors that caught my eye along the roadside.
I wanted to tell a story about artists and how we worked and thought and planned before we picked up a brush. My paintings start with one of my photos and devolve into a small painting and then into an abstraction of that painting. They are happy paintings that come out of a difficult time in my life and also in our country's life. I believe that you have to look at the brighter side of things and art will take you there
My background in art is strange. I was told as a third-grader that I could not draw and I took music lessons and I never had an art class. After taking a drawing-one class in a local college at the ripe old age of 52 and then transferring to U Conn where I graduated with a BFA Summa Cum Laude at age 58 and then on to my MFA at Vermont College at 60 years. After school, I reached out to Norwich Arts Gallery and have been a member since then.
Jim Mercik
Friday, June 6, 2025
— 8:00 pm
Doors open at 7:30 pm
​$15 Adults
$13 Seniors/Military/Student
$10 Members
Connecticut multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and arranger Jim Mercik will be bringing his guitars, banjo, and finger-picking style of play to the Norwich Arts Center’s intimate Donald L. Oat Theater for an acoustic evening of jazz, folk, and blues.
He has appeared in concert with a multitude of artists including Dave Van Ronk, Eric Andersen, Eric Von Schmidt, bluesmen Paul Geremia, Ramblin’ Dan Stevens, and Grammy Award winners Bonnie Raitt and Ramblin’ Jack Elliot.
He was a founding member of the popular Connecticut bands The Roadbirds, The Congo Square Ramblers, and most recently as a member of The Smokin’ Mirrors Jazz Quartet. He frequently performs as a duo with Afro-Caribbean percussionist Abu Alvin Carter, Sr. And he is also currently a member of Hugh Blumenfeld’s current band Faithful Sky.
Jim’s composition Is This Enough has been included in the Smithsonian’s Permanent Collection of Folk Music in Washington, DC.
He is former guitar student of the legendary New York musician Dave Van Ronk, “The Mayor of MacDougal Street.”
For many years Jim hosted the weekly radio program Blue Monday,a three hour program of American Blues, Jazz, and R&B music which continues to air on WWUH-FM, broadcasting from
the University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT.
A lifelong student and performer of American jazz and roots music, Jim continues to utilize performance, lessons, lecturing, and radio to spread the news of jazz and blues to everyone in the Northeast USA.
Be prepared for a relaxing, enjoyable evening of an eclectic mix of genres performed by the renowned multi-instrumentalist finger picker that will leave you smiling.