Above: Trinity students from Praxis, a residentially based community-service program at Trinity, who volunteered to help with EnvisionFest activities at the Wadsworth Atheneum. Pictured l-r: Lupita Barajas ’17, Lizzy Foley ’17, Bo Etropolski ’17, Natalie Sooksatan ’17, Soham Modnani, Jessie Stowell ’17, and Shanice Hinckson ’15.

Below: Scott Gac, associate professor of history and American studies at Trinity, talks about violence, manliness, and race in early American art at the Wadsworth Atheneum. Among the paintings he discussed were George Catlin’s Catlin the Artist Shooting Buffalos in Texas with Colt’s Revolving Pistol (1855) and John Frederick Peto’s Reminiscences of 1865 (1897).

(photos by John Atashian)