URSA Coffee Roasters & Gallery, #20

247 Fairfield Ave, Bridgeport, CT

IG: @ursa.gallery

Contact: Lauren Callahan
lauren.ursa@gmail.com
(203) 644-4839

Artist/entrepreneur - Cris Dam and Master Coffee Roaster - Mark Munday have transformed a downtown storefront into an artists’ Shangri La café. Their hard work, vision and commitment to the arts and community have created a destination for an excellent cup of coffee and casual interaction with the current arts scene. The space is emblazoned with local art, from ceiling to floor, complemented by Cris’ signature interior design. It’s truly full of eye-candy. When you visit you will see for yourself... 'eyes' are a fun motif throughout the cafe. There is a backroom gallery too, regularly open on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 12:00pm to 6:00pm. Below are the BAT weekend hours. Ursa Coffee Roasters is Bridgeport’s newest arts venue, local roaster and coffee shop.

Bridgeport Art Trail 2025 Schedule

BAT Weekend Hours

Thursday, November 6, 12pm - 6pm
Friday, November 7, 12pm - 8pm
Saturday, November 8, 12pm - 6pm
Sunday, November 9, 12pm - 5pm

On display: Parallel Cosmologies

Parallel Cosmologies is an exhibit curated by Helen Kauder, an expansive survey of collages by Connecticut’s growing community of collage-makers. Featuring over 60 works, Parallel Cosmologies proposes collage as a cosmological practice—an act of mapping realities, simultaneous yet divergent, intimate yet infinite. On view from November 7 - December 31, 2025.

Friday, November 7

5:00 PM - 8:00 PM | Opening Reception for Parallel Cosmologies

Meet the artists, enjoy samples from the Ursa café menu with DJ sets by Steve Brock. If you can’t make the opening, stop in during the BAT weekend, view the art, grab a bite and get supercharged for the Art Trail with a perfect brew to go!


Spring Bridgeport Art Hop 2025 Events

Saturday, April 19

3:00 PM - 6:00 PM | La Belle Epoque: Artist Reception at Colorblends House

This spring, URSA Gallery transports visitors to an era of opulence and artistic flourishing with La Belle Époque, an exhibition set against the vibrant bloom of Colorblends House & Spring Garden (893 Clinton Ave, Bridgeport). Steeped in the grandeur of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, La Belle Époque reimagines the era’s aesthetic splendor in a modern context, drawing a line between the golden age of cultural prosperity and today’s ever-evolving creative landscape.