ADAM LENZ
producer . curator . educator . artist
2026
Adult Art Class
Baroque Painting Technique | The Wadsworth
with Allen Kosanovich
Hartford, Connecticut
March 22, 9am-3pm
Public Lecture
Honoring the Yoruba Great Mother! The Gẹ̀lẹ̀dé Spectacle in Africa and its Carryovers in the Americas | The Wadsworth
with Babatunde Lawal
presented with The Amistad Center for Art & Culture
Hartford, Connecticut
March 19, 6pm
Concert
Music in the Galleries | The Wadsworth
with the Hierax Quartet
Hartford, Connecticut
March 8, 1:30pm
Artist Conversation
Mariel Capanna / MATRIX 198 | The Wadsworth
with Mariel Capanna and Jared Quinton
Hartford, Connecticut
March 5, 6pm
Artist Conversation
Pennington Lecture | The Wadsworth
with Peter Albano and Ned Lazaro
Hartford, Connecticut
March 1, 1pm
Performance / Dance
Tell Me Where It Comes From | The Wadsworth
a new project by Emily Coates
Presented with the Austin Arts Center at Trinity College
Hartford, Connecticut
February 26, 7:30pm
Sunday Serenades
Modern Melodies | The Wadsworth
with members of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra
Hartford, Connecticut
February 22, 2pm
Public Lecture
Pennington Lecture | The Wadsworth
with Anthony Jack
presented with CT State Community College, Capital and The Amistad Center for Art & Culture
Hartford, Connecticut
February 19, 6pm
Artist Conversation
Oggetti di Vetro, Fuoco | The Wadsworth
with Robert Calafiore and Jared Quinton
Hartford, Connecticut
January 31, 1pm
Concert
Music in the Galleries | The Wadsworth
with Chadwick Thomas (clarinet) and Yujin Lee (piano)
Hartford, Connecticut
January 25, 1:30pm
Public Lecture
Conserving Artemisia Gentileschi’s Hercules and Omphale | The Wadsworth
with Ulrich Birkmaier and Oliver Tostmann
Hartford, Connecticut
January 24, 2pm
Adult Art Class
Figure Drawing | The Wadsworth
with Peter Cusack
Hartford, Connecticut
January 11, 9am-1pm
2025
Concert (Postponed)
Music in the Galleries | The Wadsworth
with Kemp Jernigan
Hartford, Connecticut
December 20, 1:30pm
Film
World AIDS Day Film Screening
Derek Jarman's Blue (1993) | The Wadsworth
Hartford, Connecticut
November 30, 2pm
Concert
Music in the Galleries | The Wadsworth
with Xenia Rubinos featuring Zaccai Curtis and Marco Buccelli
Hartford, Connecticut
November 15, 3pm
Artist Conversation
Noooo | The Wadsworth
with Deborah Brown and Jared Quinton
Hartford, Connecticut
November 9, 1pm
Concert
Sunday Serenades: A Violin Portrait | The Wadsworth
with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra
Hartford, Connecticut
November 2, 2pm
Conversation
The Trail of Early Balanchine Archives | New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
with Emily Coates, Adam Lenz, Charles Burnham, and Derek Lucci
New York City, New York
October 23, 6pm
Public Lecture
The Emily Hall Tremaine Lecture in Contemporary Art | The Wadsworth
with Marie Watt
Hartford, Connecticut
October 9, 6pm
Symposium
Daguerreian Society Symposium | The Wadsworth
Hartford, Connecticut
September 26, 9am-5pm
Public Lecture
The Scenic Daguerreotype | The Wadsworth
with Grand B. Romer
Hartford, Connecticut
September 25, 6pm
Concert
Music in the Galleries | The Wadsworth
with Samuel DeCaprio (cello)
Hartford, Connecticut
September 13, 3pm
Artist Conversation
Sofía Gallisá Muriente / MATRIX 197 | The Wadsworth
with Sofía Gallisá Muriente and Jared Quinton
Hartford, Connecticut
September 4, 6pm
Conversation
Guanaroca and Stone Field | The Wadsworth
with Sherry Buckberrough and Jared Quinton
Hartford, Connecticut
August 23, 1pm
Adult Art Class
Landscape Drawing at the Austin House | The Wadsworth
with Stephano Espinoza Galarza, house tour with Philippe Halbert
Hartford, Connecticut
July 20, 9am-1pm
Concert
Arazzo Music Festival | The Wadsworth
with Samuel DeCaprio (cello), Bridget Kibbey (harp), and Sooyun Kim (flute)
Hartford, Connecticut
June 21, 7pm
Concert
Sunday Serenades | The Wadsworth
with members of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra
Hartford, Connecticut
May 4, 2pm
Concert
Music in the Galleries | The Wadsworth
with Brandon Lopez (bass)
Hartford, Connecticut
April 5, 1:30pm
Public Lecture
Martin W. Clement Lecture | The Wadsworth
with Joachim Homann (Harvard Art Museums)
sponsored by Trinity College
Hartford, Connecticut
April 2, 6pm
Adult Art Class
Ink Drawing | The Wadsworth
with Luis Colan
Hartford, Connecticut
March 23, 9am-3pm
Public Lecture
Docent Memorial Lecture | The Wadsworth
with Walter B. Denny (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Hartford, Connecticut
March 20, 6pm
Concert
Sunday Serenades | The Wadsworth
with members of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra
Hartford, Connecticut
March 2, 2pm
Adult Art Class
Still Life Drawing | The Wadsworth
with Stephano Espinoza Galarza
Hartford, Connecticut
February 23, 9am-1pm
Public Lecture
Pennington Lecture | The Wadsworth
with Annette Gordon-Reed
presented with CT State Community College, Capital and The Amistad Center for Art & Culture
Hartford, Connecticut
February 20, 6pm
Concert
Music in the Galleries | The Wadsworth
with Aidai Kalmamatova (Kyrgyz musical instruments)
Hartford, Connecticut
February 16, 1:30pm
Artist Conversation
Steffani Jemison / MATRIX 196 | The Wadsworth
with Steffani Jemison and Jared Quinton
Hartford, Connecticut
February 6, 6pm (postponed due to weather)
Public Lecture
Paper, Color, Line | The Wadsworth
with Oliver Tostmann
Hartford, Connecticut
January 30, 6pm
Concert
Music in the Galleries | The Wadsworth
with Héloïse Degrugillier (bagpipe, recorders, pipe and tabor, and flute)
Hartford, Connecticut
January 26, 1:30pm
Performance and Conversation
The Scattering | Works & Process Underground Uptown Dance Festival
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
with Emily Coates, Adam Lenz moderator
New York City, New York
January 12, 7:00pm
2024
Concert
Music in the Galleries | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
with Dovas Lietuvninkas
Hartford, Connecticut
December 22, 1:30pm
Film
World AIDS Day Film Screening | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**ker
Hartford, Connecticut
December 1, 2pm
Public Lecture and Performance
Emily Hall Tremaine Lecture in Contemporary Art | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
with Deborah Hay
Hartford, Connecticut
November 14, 6pm
Arist Conversation
White Triptych | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
with Sir. Christopher Le Brun and Matthew Hargraves
Hartford, Connecticut
October 25, 1pm
Performance
Radio Ambulante | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
with Daniel Alarcón
Hartford, Connecticut
October 24, 6pm
Presented with CT State Community College Capital.
Public Lecture
Pearl Drops and Blackamoors | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
with Adrienne L. Childs
Hartford, Connecticut
October 10, 6pm
Presented with the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale University and The Amistad Center for Art and Culture.
Arist Conversation
Alan Ruiz / MATRIX 195 | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
with Alan Ruiz, Soyoung Yoon, and Jared Quinton
Hartford, Connecticut
October 3, 6pm
Presented with CT State Community College Capital
Concert
Music in the Galleries | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
with Lorena Garay and Eugenio Huanca
Hartford, Connecticut
October 20, 1:30pm
Public Lecture
Off the Dressmaker’s Needle | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
with Dr. Cynthia E. Chin
Hartford, Connecticut
September 15, 2pm
Film
Avery 90 Film Screening | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
The Blood of a Poet (1932) and The Blue Angel (1930)
Hartford, Connecticut
August 24, 2pm
Artist Residency and Public Program
Balanchine Traces | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
with Emily Coates, Ain Gordon, and Derek Lucci
Hartford, Connecticut
Residency: July 20-28
Program: July 27, 2pm
Adult Art Class
Drawing at the Austin House | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
with Peter Cusack, house tour with Philippe Halbert
Hartford, Connecticut
July 14, 9:30am-1pm
Concert
Arazzo Music Festival | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
with Samuel DeCaprio
Hartford, Connecticut
June 22, 7pm
Public Lecture
ART X FASHION | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
with Nancy Hall Duncan
Hartford, Connecticut
June 13, 6pm
Stories in Silver
The Nutmeg Grater and the Pepper Pot | Wadsworth Atheneum
Museum of Art
with Linda Roth and Philippe Halbert
Hartford, Connecticut
May 8, 5:30pm
Public Lecture
Hair to There | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
with Sonya Clark
Hartford, Connecticut
April 11, 6pm
Adult Art Class
Drawing in the Galleries | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
with Stephano Espinoza Galarza
Hartford, Connecticut
March 8 & 22, 3-5pm
Public Lecture
What was the International Style? | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
with Martino Stierli
Hartford, Connecticut
February 3, 2pm
Concert
Music in the Galleries | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
with Hideki Yamaya, lute and cittern
Hartford, Connecticut
January 27, 1:30-2:30pm
Public Lecture
Emily Hall Tremaine Lecture
in Contemporary Art | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
with Janine Antoni
Hartford, Connecticut
January 25, 6pm
2023
Performance
(Hartford) Memory Space | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
with Joan La Barbara, The Daxophone Consort, Tongue Depressor,
Trevor Saint, Ron Kuivila, Emerson Jenisch, and Sam Boston
Hartford, Connecticut
November 18, 1-2pm
Public Lecture
A Walk Through Dresden: Eighteenth-Century
Meissen Porcelain | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
with Vanessa Sigalas
Hartford, Connecticut
November 1, 6pm
Artist Conversation
Talia Chetrit / MATRIX 193| Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
with Talia Chetrit and Nuar Alsadir
Hartford, Connecticut
October 5, 6pm
Public Lecture
The Life and Times of
Anna Murray Douglass | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
with Dr. Daina Ramey Berry
Hartford, Connecticut
September 23, 2pm
Adult Art Class
Tintype Workshop | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
with Maureen Feeley and Dave Caramello of Evoke Tintypes
Hartford, Connecticut
September 10, 10am-2pm
Gallery Talk
Sound Walk | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
with Adam Lenz
Hartford, Connecticut
August 26, 1pm
Adult Art Class
After Hours Figure Drawing | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
with Peter Cusack and Hale Rose Hagen
Hartford, Connecticut
August 8 and 15, 6pm
Concert
Natural Information Society | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
with Joshua Abrams, Lisa Alvarado, Mikel Avery, and Jason Stein
Hartford, Connecticut
June 3, 3pm
Artist Conversation
Lisa Alvarado / MATRIX 192 | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
with Lisa Alvarado and Jared Quinton
Hartford, Connecticut
June 1, 6pm
Public Conversation
I Am Seen... | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
with Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Dr. Sarah Lewis, Sir Isaac Julien,
and Dr. Matthew Hargraves
Hartford, Connecticut
April 20, 6pm
Artist Conversation
Remembering a Dance | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
with Yvonne Rainer and Emily Coates in Conversation
Hartford, Connecticut
April 20, 6pm
Public Lecture
Small Wonders: Netherlandish Boxwood Carving
of the Early Sixteenth Century | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
with Barbara Drake Boehm
Hartford, Connecticut
April 12, 6pm
Public Lecture
The Jazz Age:
American Style in the 1920s | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
with Stephen Harrison
Hartford, Connecticut
March 22, 6pm
Artist Conversation
Matt Paweski / MATRIX 191 | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
with Matt Paweski and Jared Quinton
Hartford, Connecticut
February 2, 6pm
2022
Gallery Talk: Sound Walk | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
with Adam Lenz
Hartford, Connecticut
August 27, 1pm
Performance: Bell Child | In Process | The Watermill Center
with Adam Lenz (music), Miki Orihara (dance), and Stephen Pier (dance)
Water Mill, New York
May 26, 5:30pm
Artist Residency | The Watermill Center
with Adam Lenz, Miki Orihara, and Stephen Pier
Water Mill, New York
May 16-27
Performance: Ma | Festival Mueca | Casa de la Juventud
with Sara Maurin Kane (dance) and Adam Lenz (music)
Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Canary Islands
May 6, 21h
ADD(+)POWER organized by Anthony R. Green | ChamberQUEER | The Flea Thater
Tribeca, New York City, New York
April 23, 1pm and 6pm
Performance: Swelter | SEAMUS 2022 | Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States
with Adam Lenz (music and video)
Western Michigan University | Kalamazoo, Michigan
March 30 - April 2
Exhibition: Art from across the Tracks | Windsor Art Center
including charcoal drawings by Adam Lenz
Windsor, Connecticut
January 15 - March 5
2021
Sara Maurin Kane: Ma | Danza en Breve La Laguna | Teatro Leal
San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands
November 25, 20:00h
Sloth | What’s New, Baroque? | Baroque on Beaver | Beaver Island Community Center
Beaver Island, Michigan
August 1, 7:30pm
Performing Valeria Jonard's El Arpa Rota | Electronic Public Works | HarttStudioD Twitch
University of Hartford
West Hartford, Connecticut
May 8, 1pm
Hartt Composers' Seminar /
Institute of Contemporary American Music (ICAM 2021)
Adam Lenz, curator
The Hartt School | University of Hartford
West Hartford, Connecticut
February 17: Anthony R. Green
March 3: Javier Colon
March 10: Hartt MPT Alumni Forum:
Nancy Conforti, Bobbi Giel, DJ Mikey C, and Vic Cuccia
March 17: Sarah Hennies
March 24: Juhi Bansal
March 31: Matmos
April 7: Guillermo Galindo
April 14: Tania León
April 21: John King
April 28: Nathalie Joachim
A Collapsing Field | Hartt Studio D Winter Concert | HarttStudioD Twitch
University of Hartford
West Hartford, Connecticut
March 5, 7pm
Swelter from A Way of Providing Ventilation | Luz y Sombra | La Bola Encuentro de Música y Arte
Mexico/Online
March 2, 20:00h
A Way of Providing Ventilation | Viewpoints Series | The Watermill Center
Water Mill, New York
January 20, 5:30pm
Artist Residency | Windsor Art Center
Windsor, Connecticut
September 2020 - February 2021