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Swimming through plastic

“Aquatic Larvae” (welded steel and collected single-use plastics), by Christy Rupp (born 1949), in her show “Streaming: Sculpture by Christy Rupp’’, opening Jan. 19 at the Fairfield University Art Museum, Fairfield, Conn.

The museum says the show is “a robust survey of eco-artist and activist Rupp’s wall installations and free-standing sculptures of animals, created from detritus from the waste stream.’’

Historic Pequot Library, founded in 1887, in the Southport section of Fairfield. It was built in the Romanesque style very popular in the late 19th Century.

— Francis Dzikowski OTTO - The Pequot Library