BRIDGEPORT – New York artist Arle Sklar-Weinstein will discuss her year-long “wall of artists” project in an Artist Talk at the Housatonic Museum of Art from 5 to 7 p.m. Jan. 8.
An “exhibit within an exhibit,” the wall project, which features a wall with a grid of artist portraits Sklar-Weinstein created, will be on display at the museum Dec. 18-30 as part of Art Place’s 25th anniversary exhibit, college officials said.

Inspired by studio visits to 24 Art Place members, the individual portraits are mixed media compositions that capture the spirit of the artist as well as his or her image in photo montages, the officials said.
The seeds of the project sprouted over a year ago when Sklar-Weinstein, whose studio is in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., was participating in an Artist Residency at the Fundacion Valparaiso in Mojacar, Almeria, Spain.

Her first Artists Portraits series of the eight international artists and writers there were shown in an Art Place exhibition in 2007 and her colleagues proposed a similar project for their 25th Anniversary Exhibition, the officials said.
The talk will take place in the Burt Chernow Galleries in Lafayette Hall at Housatonic Community College, 900 Lafayette Blvd. The college, in downtown Bridgeport, is less than 150 yards off Interstate-95's Exit 27, a block from the Arena at Harbor Yard.