Florence Griswold Museum
calendar of Events
Join us for our exciting offerings. Reservations required unless otherwise noted. Register on-line, call (860) 434-5542, ext. 111 or email frontdesk@flogris.org
A "*" designates a child-friendly event.
 *Impromptu Encounters
with Art
Every Sunday
1-5pm
Free with Museum admission
No reservations required
Every Sunday visitors are encouraged to try their hand painting plein air, in the open air, just like the Lyme Art Colony artists. Painters are given brushes, palette, paint, canvas, and a smock and are sent to paint down by the river or in Miss Florence's garden. All ages and skill levels welcome. There are also hands-on art projects, books, games and puzzles to enjoy. A great way to spend the day!
FROM CLAY TO CAST: SCULptURE DAY IN OLD LYME
Saturday, November 1
10am-5pm
FREE
Both the Florence Griswold Museum and Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts
(open 12-4) offer a joint Open House Day on the first Saturday in November
in celebration of sculpture, both the process and the product. Sponsored in
part by the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism.
At the Florence Griswold Museum, 96 Lyme Street:
Explore the world premiere exhibition Bessie Potter Vonnoh: Sculptor of Women
Discuss the work on view with members of the Museum’s professional staff.
Watch Sculptor-in-Residence Sue Chism working from a model in the Women
Artists in Connecticut exhibition, 11am-2pm
Tour the historic Griswold House, a boardinghouse for artists where Bessie
Potter Vonnoh stayed before moving to Lyme.
Participate in the Hands-On Sculpture Workshop, working with colored clays
in the Hartman Education Center, 11am-2pm.
At the Lyme Academy College of Fine Art, 84 Lyme Street:
Face to Face with Sculpture - Explore the sculpture studios and see a demonstration and examples of the various stages of the sculpture process in the Chandler Studio with instructor, Jeremy Davis, 12-4 pm
Tour the special exhibition, “A Slice of America: Selections from the New Britain Museum of American Art” in the Chauncey Stillman Gallery in the Administrative Center and “Excellence in Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, Samantha Webber & David Krevolin, Award Recipients from the Class of 2006 of Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts” in the Sill House Gallery.
Also in Old Lyme:
Visit the Cooley Gallery, 25 Lyme Street, to see works by a variety of artists including a sound sculpture by Harry Bertoia and new work by Michael McLaughin and other.
Open House at Studio 80 (studio and sculpture garden), 80 Lyme Street (located next to the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts), with Sculptor Gil Boro.
Open House at Lyme Art Association, 90 Lyme Street (located next to the Florence Griswold Museum) to see sculpture by their members and current students.
Sculpture on the Grounds of the Bee & Thistle Inn, 100 Lyme Street (located next to the Florence Griswold Museum), featuring the bronze sculpture of Andrew DeVries.
*HANDS-ON LEARNING
 Sunday, November 2
2pm
Hands-On Sculpture Workshop
Mollie Clarke, Museum Educator
$9 (members $7)
Click here to register online
During this 90-minute workshop, participants view bronze sculptures in
the gallery and then sculpt their own works of art using two different types of clay. Geared for children ages 8-12.
*Sculpting in the gallery
 Sundays
November 2, 9, 16
1:30-4:30pm
Sculptor-in-Residence: Sue Chism
Included with Museum Admission
No registration necessary
In conjunction with the Bessie Potter Vonnoh exhibition, the Museum has
invited sculptor Sue Chism to demonstrate the sculpting process with a model in the gallery on five consecutive Sunday afternoons. A graduate of the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts and an instructor at Lyme Art Association, Chism is the recipient of several prestigeous sculpture prizes. She has won the National Sculpture Society's annual figure sculpting competition (The Walter and Michael Lantz Prize) and been selected twice for their annual awards exhibition. She has received numerous commissions and her work appears in private collections throughout New England.
Monitor Chism’s progress on-line.
 A NEW SERIES
Treasures from the Vault and Elsewhere:
Art & History Investigations
Amanda C. Burdan, Ph.D., Curatorial Fellow
Included with Museum Admission
e-mail frontdesk@flogris.org to sign up or call 860-434-5542 x 111
November 5, 11am
Samuel F.B. Morse, Louisa W.B. Hughes
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Join Amanda C. Burdan, Ph.D., the Museum’s scholar-in-residence and first recipient of the Catherine Fehrer Fellowship, for a series of lecture-style investigations of objects retrieved from the Museum’s vault. Each month Burdan presents the historical framework of these objects and uses them as springboards to the cultural, social, or political contexts that informed and inspired the artist.
 MUSEUM BOOK CLUB
Wednesday, November 5
7pm
The Judgement of Paris by Ross King
Lisa Kenyon, M.L.I.S., Director of Information Resources and Curriculum
Support, Mitchell College
$7 (members $5) or FREE when you purchase the book through Museum Shop
Click here to register online
Join former Museum employee Lisa Kenyon for a book discussion about The
Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World
Impressionism by Ross King (King is the featured speaker at this year’s Samuel Thorne Memorial Lecture on Saturday, November 15th). Come prepared to discuss this book that explains the political and artistic climate in Paris before the Impressionist revolution. Copies of the book are available at the Museum Shop.
 Hot Air CLUB
Friday, November 7th,
6:30pm
O'Neill in Old Lyme: An Evening of Theater at the Museum
Tickets: $25 members; $30 non-members
Click here to register online
FullStop Collective – a group of community theater artists, and alumni from The Eugene O'Neill National Theater Institute – bring you a theatrical performance entitled Negative Space, written and directed by Alexandra Bassett. A collage-barrage-homage of poetry, dance, and multi-media, this play is destined to be full of intrigue. Light fare and drinks included.
Want to save on your Hot Air Club tickets? Become a Museum member!
Named for the free-spirited artists who challenged artistic and social traditions, the Hot Air Club presents a series of cultural events in the spirit of the original bohemian art colony.
The Hot Air Club is generously sponsored by Albemarle Equities; All-Pro Automotive, the Graybill Family; Centerbrook Architects and Planners; and Hoffman Audi.
 THORNE LECTURE
Saturday, November 15
5pm
American Art “Racy of the Soil”:
Connecticut Impressionism and the National Spirit
Ross King, Scholar and Noted Author
Fellowship Hall, First Congregational
Church of Old Lyme
2 Ferry Road
FREE, but please e-mail or call
(860-434-5542 x 111) to reserve your space
The Samuel Thorne Memorial Lecture is an annual series endowed by the late Mrs. Samuel Thorne and Samuel Thorne, Jr. in honor of their husband and
father, Samuel Thorne, a former Museum president.
 Friday, November 21
8:30am-8pm
VAN GOGH AT NIGHT at MOMA and Joseph Cornell and More
at Hollis Taggart Gallery
$100 (members $90)
Click here to register online
The day begins at the Museum of Modern Art with a guided highlight tour of of MoMA’s remarkable collection followed by time for self-guided explorations of the exhibition Van Gogh at Night. After lunch head uptown to the esteemed Hollis Taggart Gallery for a curator-led tour in the the special exhibition Image in the Box: From Cornell to Contemporary featuring the work of Joseph Cornell, Maureen McCabe (Museum Director Jeff Andersen’s wife), Elspeth Halvorsen, and Ted Victoria.
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