A HISTORY OF OIL DRUM ART EXHIBITIONS     1. October 2003: New Haven City-Wide Open Studios Exhibition. The first 15 drum art works were displayed and 75 new artists applied for drums.         2. January 2004: The New London (CT) Union Station Exhibition was part of the Hygienic XXV Art Show. Estimated +5,000 visitors.       3. June 2004: Oil Drum Art displayed in a 30 X 60-foot enclosed exhibition tent during the International Arts & Ideas. Estimated 3,000 visitors.  Presented a panel discussion about oil and energy at Yale's Bowers Auditorium. The panelists were: Bill Curry (CT gubernatorial candidate), Tim Weiskel (Harvard ecologist), Bill Stillinger (Northeast Utilities), Mathew Griffiths (University of New Haven physics professor) and moderator Justin Good (Emerson College, Ph.D., Philosophy). +225 Visitors.     4. October 2004: New Haven City-Wide Open Studios Exhibition in the 10,000 square foot gallery in Erector Square. Thirty new artworks included an installation made of single words by artists using drums.  Also a theater and musical performance incorporated oil drums in their production.  +1,700 Visitors.     5. February 2005: Stamford UCONN Art Gallery. A provocative art exhibition made of oil drums by Connecticut artists.  +900 Visitors.     6. March 2005: Hartford ArtSpace Gallery with 35 new artworks from the Greater Hartford art community.  Ms. Jennifer Aniskovich, Executive Director of the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, was the keynote speaker and Executive Director of the Greater Hartford Arts Council, Ken Kahn, gave the opening remarks. 350 Visitors during the opening reception and 125 at the closing reception.     7.   May 2005: Waterbury Triple Art Exhibition at the Connecticut Store featured local, students drums art works, student artworks, and works by professional artists. +700 Visitors.     8. March 2006: Bristol New England Carousel Museum had two exhibitions: (1) Fine artists were downstairs and (2) children who painted drums in the Arts & Ideas Festival in New Haven were upstairs. +900 visitors attended.     9. May 2006: Nest Arts Factory Exhibition in Bridgeport where food for the Soup Kitchen was collected. +300 visitors attended.     10.  July 19 - August 30, 2007: Barnum Museum Exhibition with 35 statewide and out-of-state artists.  $750 in cash prizes plus certificates of merit. +750 visitors.     11. September 6-30, 2007: Oil Drum Art Aesthetic & Environmental Exhibition at the Hartford ArtSpace Gallery.  Kristina Newman-Scott, curator of Real Art Ways Gallery juried the exhibition.  Ms. Jo Winch, from Mayor Perez’s office, presented ODA with the Mayor’s Award for the Oil Drum Art Day in Hartford. Also speaking were representatives from the Department of Environmental Protection Agency and from Local Energy Company. +650 visitors attended.     12. October 6 - 28, 2007: Oil Drum Art Aesthetic & Environmental Exhibition at the Torrington Artwell Gallery.  +450 Visitors.     13. January 7 - 12, 2008: An Oil Drum Art Environmental Exhibition at the Sikorsky Aircraft Plant in Stratford, CT featured 14 environmental artworks.  +5,000 Visitors.     14. May 24, 2008: Seaside Park Arts Festival in West Beach, CT. +600 Visitors.     15.March 19 - May 2, 2008: Oil Drum Art Environmental Art Exhibition in Gallery 201 at 111 Front Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn. +450 Visitors.     16. April 19, 2008: Oil Drum Art was on the CBS Early Show from 7 to 9AM.  Lonnie Quinn was the moderator and six artists from Connecticut were interviewed with their artworks.  Millions viewed.     17. August 27 - September 27, 2008: Oil Drum Art 9/11 Commemorative Exhibition at the Barnum Museum. Bridgeport, CT.  A special reception and ceremony was held on Thursday, September 11 that included city officials and state dignitaries.     18. September 11, 2008: Fox-5 News interviewed Oil Drum Art artists Jack Lardis, Dennis Bialek, Lorna Cyr, and Fred Osorio in New York City about their experiences with the 9/11 event.  The program was aired nationally.     19. October 10 – 12, 2008:  Oil Drum Art exhibited nine artworks in the “onething conservation EXPO” at the Hartford Convention Center. Four artworks kept on display until November 10.     19.  March 4-30, 2009: ODA Environmental, Energy, and Travel Exhibition at the Hartford ArtSpace Gallery. Noted speaker: Gina McCarthy, Director of the (CT) Department of Environmental Protection Agency Director. +500 visitors.       20.  April 1 to August 31, 2009: Exhibition in Terminal A, Bradley International Airport, Windsor Locks, CT.  +20,000 Visitors.     21.  Pending 2011: Oil Drum Art and the LTMH Gallery at Madison Avenue and East 78th Street, New York City will collaborate on an exhibition including drum artworks by renowned artists, emerging international artists, and selected artists from Connecticut.