Save the date for our Annual Samuel Thorne Memorial Lecture: “The American Landscape Tradition from an Indigenous Perspective”

with Scott Manning Stevens, PhD, Associate Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies and Curator of the Native Prospects exhibition

First Congregational Church of Old Lyme, Meeting House, 2 Ferry Road, Old Lyme, CT

FREE but reservations required. Email Beth@FloGris.org with your name and number in your party to reserve.

Join Stevens for a discussion of the artistic tradition of landscape painting in the U.S. as it was established by Thomas Cole and his followers, and then consider why it is that many Native American viewers have found that tradition deeply problematic. For contrast, Stevens explores the varied artistic responses to the landscape in Native American visual arts, both traditional and contemporary.

The Thorne Lecture is an endowed lecture series that allows the Museum to invite distinguished speakers and thinkers to share their work with the FloGris family. It is named in memory of Samuel Thorne, who served as the Museum’s President in the 1950s. Mr. Thorne’s widow and son established this signature program in 1995.

Questions? Call the Front Desk: 860.434.5542 x111 or email FrontDesk@FloGris.org