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.orgl
A "*" designates a child-friendly event.
 Photo by Michael Melford
*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!
 Lecture
Thursday, October 2
7pm
Paris, Providence, Putnam: Tracking an American Woman Artist
Amanda C. Burdan, Ph.D., Curatorial Fellow
$5 (members FREE)
Non-members, please click here to register online
Members, please e-mail frontdesk@flogris.org
Join Curatorial Fellow, Amanda Burdan, Ph.D., for a lecture based on her scholarship into the life and work of Putnam artist Rosa Peckham Danielson, who traveled to Paris in the 1870s to study painting and went on to be a founding member of the Providence Art Club. As the Fehrer Fellow, Burdan will work for the Museum on a variety of research projects in the curatorial department. A light reception to meet Burdan follows the lecture.
DAY TRIP
Tuesday, October 7th
8:30am-6pm
Divine Providence: What’s New and What’s Old in America’s Renaissance City
$125 (members $115) includes lunch at Pot Au Feu
SOLD OUT
Our day begins at the RISD Museum and their new Chace Center, a five-story building by award-winning architect José Rafael Moneo, that houses the inaugural exhibition Chihuly at RISD.
Lunch is in the second floor Salon at the Pot au Feu, known as “the Best of Paris in the Heart of Providence.”
After lunch, tour two of Providence’s finest historic homes. The John Brown House Museum was one of America's grandest mansions when completed in 1788. Across the street is the Nightingale-Brown House. Built in 1792 for Captain Joseph Nightingale, the house was constructed on Providence's College Hill shortly after the Revolutionary War.
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 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
October 8, 11am
Walker Evan’s Early Dawn Farm, Route 156 (ca. 1955)
November 5, 11am
Samuel F.B. Morse, Louisa W.B. Hughes
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.
 Lecture
Saturday, October 25
2pm
"To Look for Beauty in the Everyday World":
The Sculpture of Bessie Potter Vonnoh
Julie Aronson, Ph.D., Curator of American Painting and Sculpture, Cincinnati Art Museum
$9 (members $7)
Exhibition & Lecture $15 (members $12)
Click here to register online
Join exhibition curator Julie Aronson, the leading scholar on Vonnoh, for a
lecture illuminating the artistic career of this remarkable talent. Standing alone as the only American sculptor of her generation to make images of contemporary women and children a specialty, Vonnoh negotiated the male-dominated sculpture field to create a niche in which a woman could be a professional success. Aronson will be available to sign copies of the catalogue after the presentation.
Gallery Talk
 Sunday, October 19
2pm
Bessie Potter Vonnoh: Sculptor of Women
Amy Kurtz Lansing, Curator
Included with Museum Admissio
e-mail frontdesk@flogris.org to sign up or call 860-434-5542 x 111
Join Curator Amy Kurtz Lansing for a gallery talk during which she highlights some of the accomplishments of one of America’s greatest female sculptors.
Sculpting in the gallery
 Sundays
October 19 & 26
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.
 SEASONAL EVENT
Sunday, October 26
2pm
*Pumpkins & Paint: A Pumpkin Decorating Workshop
$9 (members $7)
Click here to register online
Celebrate All Hallow’s Eve by decorating an uncarved pumpkin! Use acrylic paint, feathers, pom-poms, foam bits, and glitter to turn an ordinary miniature pumpkin into an extraordinary (or scary) work of art! Cider and donuts included!
 concert in the gallery
Thursday, October 30
7pm
Your Life is Your Masterpiece:
Music to Stir the Soul
Thomasina Levy, Musician & Former
Connecticut State Troubadour (2005/2006)
$15 (members $12) includes admission to gallery
Click here to register online
Surrounded by the artwork selected for the exhibition Women Artists in Connecticut, Thomasina Levy, an internationally recognized mountain dulcimer player, singer, and songwriter, will offer a one-woman salon-style concert in the gallery. Weaving together the best of traditional and contemporary folk, Thomasina's performance is musical storytelling that touches the heart and stirs the soul.
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