Share your news! Members can submit news and events in the member portal. Login to start submitting. The Trustees of the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut have announced that Joshua Campbell Torrance of Wethersfield will take the reins of the 75-year-old cultural institution beginning February 6, 2023. After former Director Rebekah Beaulieu left the Museum in August to become the President and CEO of the Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati, Ohio, a nationwide search was launched by the recruitment firm Museum Search & Reference. The perfect candidate was found in our own state. Torrance brings Free Yoga at the Museum at Florence Griswold Museum Sundays, through August 28 from 11am to 12:30pm
Certified Yoga Instructor Laurie Pasteryak leads this month-long outdoor summer series designed for all levels of yoga and focuses on celebrating and exploring art and beauty of mind-body connection.
Please bring mat, towel, water and any yoga equipment you use (block, blanket, strap). Over $200,000 in grant funding has been allocated to market eastern Connecticut tourism
Waterford, Conn. (December 10, 2020) – The Eastern Regional Tourism District (ERTD) today announced the final funding recipients for the 2020 Regional Marketing Partnership Program. 9 additional programs were approved for marketing grants to promote tourism and hospitality opportunities in Eastern Connecticut. The total funding of all projects, including the initial projects announced in September totaled $202,267 in
The Magic of Christmas Celebration
This year’s celebration features new twists on the traditional décor. Imagine a fictional mantel-decorating contest in the Griswold boardinghouse between the historic Lyme Art Colony artists. Inspired by their paintings, they rummage through their studios as well as old trunks in Miss Florence’s attic for festive objets d’art and holiday decorations. Miss Florence (with the help of our visitors) chooses a winner to be announced and awarded ribbon on her
Benefit-in-a-BoxOrder now through September 21 Even though we can’t gather under the tent for our 38th Annual Benefit Auction, you can still support our most important fundraiser of the year by ordering your own portable FloGris party! With our Benefit-in-a-Box idea, we’ll provide all you need – wine, glasses, chocolate, fancy napkins, the works! – to celebrate the Museum and support its mission from a safe distance. And as you toast the Museum at home or with friends, we hope you’ll post pictures with
Gourmet Galley is open for catering. With over 20 years experience, they are ready to take care of you and your guests safely. Contact Gourmet Galley to plan the curated party you've been dreaming about for the past few months.
This week, enjoy the final week of Gourmet Galley at Home meals for pick up or delivery. Place your order by Wednesday at 4pm for Friday. The menu this week includes lobster and corn salad, coriander lime grilled shrimp, miso glazed sea bass, veal sirloin strip steak, buttermilk History in the Impressionist LandscapeWednesday, August 12 from 11am to 12pm Join Curator Amy Kurtz Lansing for a highlights tour that reveals the presence of multiple histories in landscape paintings by the Lyme Impressionists. Learn about ties between Native Americans, European settlers, enslaved peoples, and the lands depicted. The lecture takes place virtually via GoTo Webinar and a link to access the event will be sent when participants register. This event is free but registration is Florence Griswold Museum's annual Garden Luncheon is both a joyful celebration of everything blooming and beautiful at the Museum (including some fabulous hats!)—and a vitally important fundraiser that supports the care and upkeep of this beloved historic landscape.
While circumstances prevent us from gathering for the luncheon this year, you can still help us achieve the mission of this wonderful event in a fun new way.
For the first time ever, please join us in supporting the Garden Raffle!View prizes The Florence Griswold Museum may be closed to visitors for its indoor exhibits--the gardens, ground and Artists' Trail are open to explore--but Education staff is reaching out to families to continue the creative art-based teaching that happens in the Education Center with the FloGris ArtReach with Julie.
Watch for a new FloGris ArtReach project each week. These hands-on/minds-on activities are designed for all skill levels and to inspire your creative individuality. Most projects can be made with
The health of our community is our primary concern. As part of the effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus, we have made the difficult decision to close the Florence Griswold Museum to the public beginning Saturday, March 14 and through at least March 31, and to cancel all programs during this time.
We’re looking forward to welcoming you to the Museum soon (and often!), but until then, we encourage you to visit the Museum’s Artists’ Trail, a half-mile walk around the Museum’s river-front landscape Florence Griswold Museum is collaborating with Collette Tours to offer Discover Spain’s Classics, an 11-day excursion from Madrid to Barcelona. Travel dates will run from September 7-17, 2020. Together, we’ll experience Spain’s colorful pageant of art, history, and culture. Set against a backdrop that spans sunny Mediterranean shores and grand mountain ranges, this stunning destination is dotted with white pueblos and groves of oranges and olives.
Witness the priceless masterpieces of the Prado Museum, Sunday, November 3 at 3pm
Join us for an intimate concert with Ribchinsky performing JS Bach’s Third Suite in C major as well modern works by Cassado, Elliot Carter and the Beatles. Ribchinsky will discuss the influence of Bach on the technique and musical soul of the cello.
New London, CT – The Lyman Allyn Art Museum is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings and sculpture by Australian born contemporary artist Judy Cotton. In an environment impacted by global warming, Cotton creates artwork with a focus on water, glaciers, melting ice, and insect life, offering a meditation on the natural world and the forces that threaten its balance. Hidden Water: Paintings and Sculpture by Judy Cotton will be on view from July 14 through November 11, 2018.
Judy Cotton was born in Pfizer’s Groton Laboratories and the Clinical Research Unit, New Haven will support more than 60 programs in Southeastern Connecticut, the greater New Haven area, and southern Rhode Island through its 2018 competitive grants program.
Priority was given to programs that bring science and math to students from elementary through high school. Additional awards were made for programs that provide for the underserved or to support local civic and cultural institutions. Groups receiving support in 2018 Old Lyme, CT – The Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut is honored to announce that it has received high marks from the American Alliance of Museums’ (AAM) Accreditation Commission. Accreditation helps to ensure the integrity and accessibility of museum collections, reinforce the educational and public service roles of museums, and promote good governance practices and ethical behavior.
“With its AAM reaccreditation, the Florence Griswold Museum has proven itself to continue to operate at the Old Lyme, CT – The Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut is pleased to announce the appointment of Rebekah (Becky) Beaulieu as Director of the Museum. With a distinguished career that traverses both art museum and historic site administration, Beaulieu has most recently been the Associate Director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine. She begins her new role on February 19, 2018.
Beaulieu was selected from a highly qualified pool of candidates after a rigorous national Third Quarter Grant Recipients Announced For New London And Windham CountiesWaterford, CT – Charter Oak Federal Credit Union donated $23,800 to community organizations throughout New London and Windham counties as part of its third quarter Community Giving Grants disbursement.
Grant recipients included the Florence Griswold Museum, H.H. Ellis Technical Booster Club Parent Faculty Organization, Higher Edge, Hygienic Art, Inc., Light House Voc-Ed Center, Martin House, Inc., New London High School Music Florence Griswold Museum Presents Faerieville USA: In and Around a Wee Faerie Town September 30 – October 29, 2017
It’s the return of the Florence Griswold Museum’s highly anticipated annual outdoor exhibition, Wee Faerie Village. This year the family-friendly walking trail highlights thirty-one faerie-sized places handcrafted by artists, designers, and faerie-aficionados. Last year over 15,000 visitors enjoyed the month-long event.
Old Lyme, CT – The Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, CT Old Lyme, CT – The Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut, was recently awarded a $1 million grant from the Robert F. Schumann Foundation. The grant will allow the Museum to implement a transformative landscape master plan designed to completely re-envision how the historic landscape is interpreted by providing visitors with a more authentic sense of the Lyme Art Colony painters’ interaction with the land and the site’s agrarian past. Robert Schumann was a devoted trustee and patron of the Museum Old Lyme, CT – A “quintessential New England” weekend, this year’s Old Lyme Midsummer Festival kicks off July 28 with a toe-tapping Friday night concert on the lawn of the Florence Griswold Museum, and continues Saturday, July 29 up and down Lyme Street with new offerings and old favorites throughout the day.
This year’s 31st annual festival again takes place in the heart of Old Lyme's historic district. The mission of the festival partners is to celebrate the cultural heritage of Old Lyme, with art, Pfizer’s Groton Laboratories will support 67 programs in Southeastern Connecticut, the greater New Haven area, and southern Rhode Island through its 2017 competitive grants program.
Priority was given to programs that bring science and math to students from elementary through high school. Additional awards were made for programs that provide for the underserved or to support local civic and cultural institutions.
Groups receiving support in 2017 are:
Aluminum Falcon Robotics Inc. - 2018 FIRST Robotics The Lyme Art Association presents the annual showcase of the best new works of art by Elected Artists Members. These artists are professionals of note and significance whose works are known, collected, and exhibited throughout the country, as well as along the Shoreline.
Gallery Manager Jocelyn Zallinger says, "Each year this exhibition fills the gallery with some of the finest representational artwork from living artists that our visitors are likely to see. Our Elected Artists are so accomplished and it
World Premiere Screening of Exhibition on Screen’s The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism. A March 16th Benefit for the Florence Griswold Museum and the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts CenterOld Saybrook, CT – The world premiere of Exhibition on Screen’s production of The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism, featuring the Florence Griswold Museum is taking place at the Kate! The 6:00pm March 16th event is a fundraising benefit for the Florence Griswold Museum and the Katherine Hepburn Cultural October 1, 2016 – January 29, 2017
Old Lyme, CT – The exhibition In Place: Contemporary Photographers Envision a Museum, on view at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut, October 1, 2016, through January 29, 2017, brings together artists Tina Barney, Marion Belanger, Adrien Broom, Kate Cordsen, Peter Daitch, Alida Fish, Ted Hendrickson, Sophie Lvoff, James Welling, and Tom Zetterstrom. The site of the Florence Griswold Museum has been a place of creative inspiration to artists for over a Florence Griswold Museum Presents A Flutter in Time: Faerie Houses Around the World & Across the Ages
October 1 - 30, 2016
It’s the return of the Florence Griswold Museum’s highly anticipated annual outdoor exhibition, Wee Faerie Village. This year the walking trail highlights thirty-two faerie-sized places that traverse time and place. Last year nearly 16,000 visitors enjoyed the month-ling event.
The Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, CT presents A Flutter in Time: Faerie Houses Around the Old Lyme, CT – Thanks to a grant from The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut, all residents of New London County receive free admission to the Florence Griswold Museum on second Sundays this summer - June 12, July 10, August 14, and September 11.
The Museum’s riverfront landscape is situated on a 13-acre site in the historic village of Old Lyme. In addition to the restored Florence Griswold House, where a generation of Impressionist artists lived, the Museum features an exhibition gallery, The seventh annual GardenFest at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme is a ten day celebration of the site’s historic gardens, featuring special events, displays, demonstrations, and family activities. From June 3 through 12, visitors can enjoy a wide variety of activities for all ages and interests. Most events are included with Museum admission. Children 12 and under are always free.
This year’s exhibition provides the perfect accompaniment to the Museum’s historic landscape, gardens, and the The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887–1920 culminates its national tour at the Florence Griswold Museum, where it is complemented by the Museum’s Historic Garden and Landscape, June 3–September 18, 2016.
The Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut, is the only New England venue for the exhibition, The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887–1920. The exhibition is on view June 3 through September 18, 2016 and its presentation at Annual Community Free Day Showcases Museum Offerings
Old Lyme – The Florence Griswold Museum presents its annual Community Free Day on Saturday, May 7 from 10am to 5pm in Old Lyme. The event offers free admission to the Museum’s 11-acre campus, and includes family activities as well as two performances by Master Storyteller Tom Lee.
A performer for all ages, Tom Lee presents Mysteries at the Museum: Stories That'll Make You Think at 11:30am and 2:30pm.
"Our Community Free Day is a great way for February 12 through May 29, 2016Old Lyme, CT – The Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut, presents Ten/Forty: Collecting American Art at the Florence Griswold Museum, on view February 12 through May 29, 2016. This exhibition commemorates the fortieth anniversary of Jeffrey Andersen’s tenure as Director of the Museum, and the tenth anniversary of Curator Amy Kurtz Lansing. Ten/Forty reflects on the evolving nature of how the Museum has approached building and stewarding a collection of American New London, CT – Come In! Elizabeth Enders Recent Work will open at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum on September 12, 2015 and run through January 3, 2016. This exhibition will provide a lyrical and meditative look at a broad range of works by contemporary American artist and New London native, Elizabeth Enders.
On display will be about seventy abstract bold and colorful works, featuring a selection of sea and landscape paintings, botanical drawings and various renderings of script and alphabet, through which
Mystic Arts Center, Florence Griswold Museum,
and Nathan Hale Elementary School Outreach Project
Mystic, CT – Mystic Arts Center (MAC) has teamed up with the third graders at Nathan Hale Elementary School in New London, Connecticut to build houses for the Wee Faerie Village at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut. The Wee Faerie Village will open October 1st.
The Faerie Village is one of the Florence Griswold’s most popular annual exhibits. This year, the design of these miniature
Land Trusts Photo Contest Winners Announced
Lyme, CT – The 9th Annual Land Trusts Photo Contest winners were announced at a March 6, 2015 reception highlighting the winning photos and displaying all entered photos.
Land trusts in Lyme, Old Lyme, Salem, Essex and East Haddam jointly sponsor the annual amateur photo contest to celebrate the scenic countryside and diverse wildlife and plants in these towns. The ages of the photographers ranged from children to senior citizens.
Youth photographer
Florence Griswold Museum Announces Executive Director Joshua Campbell Torrance
Free Yoga at the Museum at Florence Griswold Museum Sundays, through August 28 from 11am to 12:30pm
Eastern Regional Tourism District Announces Final Awardees for 2020 Regional Marketing Partnership Program
Florence Griswold Museum: The Magic of Christmas Celebration & Christmas Time Teas
Florence Griswold: Raise a Glass to our Benefit Auction- Reimagined
Gourmet Galley at Home Final Week, Catering Services Resume
Florence Griswold Museum Hosts Events In August
Florence Griswold Hosts First Ever Garden Raffle
Florence Griswold Offers Art Projects Online
Closure Update- Florence Griswold Museum
Florence Griswold Museum 11-Day Trip to Spain
Concert in the Gallery: Bach and the Modern World
''Hidden Water: Paintings and Sculpture by Judy Cotton'' Opens at Lyman Allyn July 14
Pfizer Announces Community Grants for 2018
Florence Griswold Museum Receives Reaccreditation by American Alliance of Museums
Rebekah Beaulieu Appointed Director of the Florence Griswold Mmuseum
Charter Oak Donates $23,800 to Local Community Organizations
Florence Griswold Museum Presents 'Faerieville USA' Sept 30-Oct 29
Florence Griswold Museum Receives $1M Grant
Old Lyme Midsummer Festival 2017 Highlights Arts and Culture
Pfizer Awards Community Grants
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Lyme Art Association Presents the ''96th Annual Elected Artist Exhibition'' and ''In the Red''
World Premiere Screening of 'The Artist's Garden' at The Kate March 16
Select Photographers Focus Lenses and Imagination on Historic Site's Landscape, Collections, Story
A Globe-Crossing, Time-Bending Adventure Awaits at Annual Wee Faerie Village Event
Florence Griswold Museum Presents First New London County Free Day
Florence Griswold Museum Celebrates Summer with Gardenfest, June 3-12, 2016
Florence Griswold Museum to Host 'Artist's Garden' American Impressionism Exhibit
FloGris Offers Free Admission to All Saturday May 7
Ten/Forty: Collecting American Art at the Florence Griswold Museum
Lyman Allyn Art Museum Opens New Fall Exhibition
Mystic Arts Center, Florence Griswold Museum, Nathan Hale School Team Up for Outreach Project
9th Annual Land Trusts Photo Contest Winners Announced
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