East Windsor Arts and Culture

Home
East Windsor Arts and Culture

The EW Arts & Culture Committee plans to serve the East Windsor Community by enhancing the knowledge, enjoyment, and appreciation of arts and culture.

09/10/2026

Community collaborations, community pride! ❤️

03/10/2026

Congratulations to Heather Herindeen of Lights and Darks for recently completing this stunning mural “Threads of Community” in Rockville! Check it out if you can!

01/10/2026

The Connecticut Office of the Arts is
ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS for the Art in Public Spaces project at the 165 Capitol Avenue State Office Building in Hartford.

The project will focus on purchasing existing art by artists for interior spaces throughout the building.

Submission Deadline: January 15, 2027.

Submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis. No further submissions will be accepted after the deadline. Artists are encouraged to submit early during the submission period of September 29, 2026 - January 15, 2027.

Learn more about the 165 Capitol Avenue project at this link

https://portal.ct.gov/decdartsportal/knowledge-base/articles/programs-and-services/art-in-public-spaces/call-for-art---165-capitol-avenue?language=en_US

25/09/2026

BBES bottle cap mural, Part 6: The price tag

The Arts and Culture Committee has a yearly budget of $5,000. We try to do as many projects as we can. Some engage community members, some support local artists, and all of them are meant to foster community pride.

For this project, the school provided the boards. The primer was left over from the Trolley Museum mural. The blue and green paints were left over from the soccer kickboard mural. The bottle caps were collected. We used a committee member's sander, sandpaper, and nail gun. We used paintbrushes and other supplies from previous projects. The glue cost $21.22, and the brads cost $38.20 for a total cost of $59.42. The end result: priceless!

24/09/2026

BBES bottle cap mural, Part 5: The collaboration within the collaboration. It has always been part of the Arts and Culture Committee's mission to collaborate with as many town entities as possible. It's a bonus when there is a further collaboration resulting from one of our projects. Here is an email from Kyle MacDonald, Director of Facilities for East Windsor Public Schools.
We appreciate everyone who contributes to our projects. Thank you to EWPS and BBES for allowing us to install this mural, the students that glued the caps, the staff that oversaw their work, and to the facilities crew for hanging the mural!

23/09/2026

BBES bottle cap mural, Part 4: Once everything was painted, the boards, the corresponding caps, and a whole lot of Elmer's glue was delivered to BBES, where all of the students had the opportunity to glue the caps on!
To secure the caps, I used a nail gun to nail them into place, then delivered them to the facilities crew for installation.

22/09/2026

BBES bottle cap mural, Part 3: After the boards were painted, the next step was to figure out the size of the letters and the flowers. Next, all of the bottle caps needed to be laid out in the pattern, and the design needed to be traced and painted, in order for the BBES students to know where to glue the caps, and which colors to use.

21/09/2026

BBES Bottle cap mural process, Part 2: In March, I laid out 32 2'x2' boards in my garage. Step 1 was sanding both sides and all of the edges. Next, every board was primed on both sides, then painted blue for the sky and green (not shown) for the grass. This phase of the process took me roughly a month, finding time where I could, mostly on weekends.

20/09/2026

Because people often see the finished product and not the "behind the scenes" work that goes into it, I've decided to document the BBES bottle cap mural process from start to finish.

BBES bottle cap mural process, Part 1: We started collecting bottle caps in October of 2023 in all three schools. The finished product was always going to be a mural, but it was also a great opportunity to teach the students about keeping the caps out of our oceans and landfills, and protecting the environment. Initially we collected 6,981 caps that needed to be cleaned and dried and sorted. Many of these caps were used to create at bottle cap mural during Arts and Culture Day 2024, which eventually found a home on the front of Town Hall. By the time we were ready to start the BBES bottle cap mural, we had collected well over 10,000 caps.

19/09/2026

Today, the bottle cap mural was installed at BBES! A huge shout out to the facilities staff: David, Joe, Shane, and Kyle!

(More about the mural and its process over the next few days!)

Address

51 Reservoir Ave

06016

Website

facebook.com

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when East Windsor Arts and Culture posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Organization

Send a message to East Windsor Arts and Culture:

Want your organization to be the top-listed non profit organization?

Country:

City: