2025 Awards of Merit Ceremony and Reception

Celebrate the achievements of organizations and individuals across Connecticut at the League's annual Awards of Merit ceremony and reception!

• Read the press release and learn more about this year's honorees (coming soon)
• Advertise in the Awards Booklet

This year we'll gather at the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury for the awards presentation, followed by a catered reception. Museum galleries will be open for attendees to tour. Check out several new exhibitions, including:

• Ruminations: Rauschenberg at 100 showcases a rare complete set of the artist’s most introspective series that examines important people who shaped his life and career.
• The Universe of Gerald Saladyga invites viewers into a world of the artist's own making. Influenced by the flattened perspective of Byzantine mosaics, Saladyga—winner of the Matt's 2025 Mixmaster competition—draws on conventions of the past to explore a dystopian future.
• Free to Be is an art exhibition presented in partnership with The Social Chase, Inc., a volunteer non-profit organization, providing an inclusive community of support for young adults on the spectrum.
• Beau McCall: Buttons On! is presented in collaboration with the Fuller Craft Museum and marks the first-ever retrospective for creative artist Beau McCall. The exhibition demonstrates McCall’s creative practice of producing wearable and visual art by hand-sewing clothing buttons onto mostly upcycled fabrics, materials, and objects. 

This promises to be a great night—we hope you'll join us!