The Lyman Allyn Art Museum is pleased to announce that two large-scale portraits by Barkley L. Hendricks, recently on view in the Museum’s exhibition Barkley L. Hendricks in New London, have been reinstalled in the Museum’s American Perspectives gallery where they will remain on exhibition until May 2024.
Brenda P., 1974, and North Philly Niggah (William Corbett), 1975, both oil on canvas, were featured in the Museum’s exhibition Barkley L. Hendricks in New London, which celebrated Hendricks’ artistic Within every object, tool or device are dozens of components that work together to represent the highest levels of creativity, passion and achievement of their time. When it comes to the objects we use every day, the sum really is greater than the parts.
Things Come Apart, a traveling exhibition circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), features the works of creative photographer and tinkerer Todd McLellan, who explores the evolution of the smartphone and dozens of
Wednesday, December 2 at 6pm
Registration is free and open to the public. Space is limited. Visit our website to sign up. A link for the talk will be sent to registrants approximately two hours before the start of the event, and then again approximately 15 minutes before the start.
In conjunction with our current exhibit, Stories of Resilience: Encountering Racism, La Grua Center and the Jewish Federation of Eastern CT are pleased to present the third in a three-part series of panel discussions focusing The Lyman Allyn Art Museum is pleased to announce the appointment of Ellen Anderson of Stonington as its new Director of Development. Ellen comes to the Lyman Allyn with a wealth of experience, having spent over 30 years working in advancement, development, and fundraising. She assumed her new position with the Lyman Allyn on Oct. 20.
“We are thrilled to welcome Ellen as the new Director of Development,” said the Museum Director Sam Quigley. “We’re confident her experiences will help the Lyman Allyn grow
Panel Discussion & Exhibit Opening: Stories of Resilience: Encountering Racism
Wednesday, October 7 at 6pmFree
Register at lagruacenter.org
For questions contact: La Grua Center at 860.535.2300
The Stories of Resilience: Encountering Racism exhibition will kick off at La Grua Center with a free hour-long panel discussion featuring exhibit contributors on Wednesday, October 7 at 6pm on Zoom; ticket reservations are necessary and available free of charge at lagruacenter.org.
The exhibit highlights The Lyman Allyn Art Museum announces the opening of Stains Remain: Works by Michael Harvey, on view Aug. 29 through Nov. 1, 2020.
Harvey, an artist and writer who lives in Lyme, moved to New York in 1969, drawn by the art scene and the offer of a teaching position at The School of Visual Arts. The Lyman Allyn’s exhibition showcases recent paintings that contain personal elements – from conceptual and literary interests to contemplative values and the whimsical and humorous.
“It is, after all, who I am. NEW LONDON – The Lyman Allyn Art Museum is pleased to announce the opening of a tasty new exhibition on July 18 highlighting the works of iconic sculptor and installation artist Peter Anton. The exhibition entitled Sweet Dreams: Confectionery Sculpture, which will be on view through October 18, showcases oversized sculptures of sweets using scale and intensity to lure, charm, ease, disarm and surprise viewers during a time of global distress.
The exhibition, spread through three gallery rooms, will include The Lyman Allyn Art Museum kicks off its Season of Wonderment on Saturday, Nov. 23 with the opening of its newest family-friendly exhibit, Grand Menagerie: Animals in Art! Throughout November and December, an array of activities and programs will provide holiday fun for the whole family. Please reserve your spots for programs that require RSVPs early. Check out the list below for more details.
Grand Menagerie: Animals in Art! Opening 10 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019 From the earliest cave drawings, to the Walter Iooss Jr., photographer and longtime contributor to Sports Illustrated, has been called the “poet laureate of sports.” He has captured the thrill, triumph, and complexity of athletic achievement for over 50 years. Iooss began his career in 1961 at the age of 17, and he has produced a remarkable body of work in the decades since, documenting pivotal moments and shooting iconic athletes in introspective portraits.
The exhibition LEGENDS: the Sports Photography of Walter Iooss will open with an evening Brought to Light: European Paintings from the Collection showcases the Lyman Allyn’s collection of European paintings with a selection of portraits, history paintings, still lifes, genre scenes, and landscapes from the early Renaissance through the 1800s. European paintings have been part of the collection since the Lyman Allyn opened in 1932, but the museum’s more recent emphasis on American art has kept its European paintings hidden away in storage. Brought to Light reexamines the museum’s European The Lyman Allyn Art Museum will present its annual Summer Fest on June 22, 2019 from 11am – 4pm. Admission is FREE all day to the family-friendly community event featuring food trucks, live entertainment, and activities on Museum grounds and inside the Museum. In the event of rain, everything but the food trucks will move indoors to the Museum’s galleries, auditorium, and art/dance studio.
Summer Fest will feature the music of some of the region's great performers. Bluesman Ramblin' Dan Stevens will 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 2019 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 2019 Robert Rauschenberg, Ace from Ruminations, 1999, photolithograph. Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut; Purchase, Acquisition Fund, 2017.12.1.
“The artist’s job is to be a witness to his time in history.” -Robert Rauschenberg
The Lyman Allyn Art Museum is proud to present Robert Rauschenberg: Ruminations. This exhibition features a series of nine large prints, composed with fragments of multiple images of important figures and events from Rauschenberg’s young life. The show will be on view June 8 New London, CT – The Lyman Allyn Art Museum is pleased to announce the opening of Discovering New Beauty: Watercolor Landscapes of the Northeast. This exhibition features more than 50 works of art examining the varied landscapes of the Northeast over the last century and a half. The show will be on view April 27 through August 3, 2019.Discovering New Beauty considers how artists have utilized watercolor to depict the Northeast beginning in the 1870s, a time when watercolor experienced a surge in popularity. New London, CT – The Lyman Allyn Art Museum is pleased to announce a new addition to its permanent Louis Comfort Tiffany in New London exhibition. Periodically, the exhibit will be refreshed with new and welcomed objects. This week, a stunning Tiffany Studios Apple Blossom Table Lamp (ca. 1900-1906) arrived at the Lyman Allyn, on loan from the New York Historical Society. This lamp resembles a miniature apple tree in bloom with a canopy of leaves and springtime blossoms sitting atop a bronze tree trunk New London, CT – Chinese Landscape Rethought, a new group exhibition opening at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum, presents a rethinking of Chinese landscape or shanshui (“mountain-water”) art through the convergence of traditional Chinese ink painting and contemporary experimental art. The exhibition will be on view March 29 through June 9, 2019. It was organized by guest curator, Dr. Yibing Huang, Associate Professor of Chinese and Curator of the Chu-Griffis Asian Art Collection at Connecticut College.
Eleven New London, CT – The Lyman Allyn Art Museum is proud to announce the opening of James B Murphy Abstracts, on view from January 25 through March 24, 2019. James B Murphy Abstracts, the latest exhibit in Lyman Allyn’s Near :: New contemporary series, presents the pathway Murphy took from the representational to more suggestive but still identifiable images, and then beyond the suggestive to the pure abstract.
“I became aware of his interest in nonrepresentational work almost by conversational accident but 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 U.S. Senator Chris Murphy invites you to a Transportation Summit on Tuesday, April 3, 2018 at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum.
This summit will feature panel discussions moderated by Senator Murphy on southeastern Connecticut’s transportation issues and future.
The event will also serve as an opportunity for Senator Murphy to receive feedback from local businesses, municipal officials, and other transportation stakeholders to bring back to Washington.
*Please register via email to Emily Boushee at U.S. Senator Chris Murphy invites you to a Transportation Summit on Tuesday, April 3, 2018 at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum.
This summit will feature panel discussions moderated by Senator Murphy on southeastern Connecticut’s transportation issues and future. The event will also serve as an opportunity for Senator Murphy to receive feedback from local businesses, municipal officials, and other transportation stakeholders to bring back to Washington.
Please register via email to Emily Boushee at Mystic, CT – Dawn Salerno, Deputy Director for Public Engagement and Operations at Mystic Museum of Art, has been elected as President of the Board of the New England Museum Association (NEMA) at its annual meeting in Falmouth, Massachusetts on October 27, 2017.
NEMA is the largest, most active regional organization representing museums and museum professionals in the United States, providing tools for leadership innovation, and empowering museums to continue their growth as organizations essential to 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 Board of Trustee members and an excited audience gathered for the first film in the new arts collaboration between Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts and the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, entitled Bridging the Arts. Bridging the Arts is a curated film series featuring a selection of art films owned by the College and produced by the highly-regarded Checkerboard Film Foundation in New York City, which document iconic artists whose unique and important contributions informed American culture. Prior New London, CT – The Lyman Allyn Art Museum is pleased to announce the largest donation it has ever received, $250,000 given anonymously by a private foundation, which will enable a complete reinstallation of its primary exhibition of American Art. This historic grant has been received just as the museum is about to modernize its HVAC facilities (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) with funding from a $1,500,000 bond issue approved in last year’s Connecticut State budget and administered by the 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 Lyman Allyn Art Museum Offers Art History for AllNew London, CT – The Lyman Allyn Art Museum is proud to announce the continuation of its lifelong learning program, Art History For All. This fall’s course, beginning September 17th, is entitled “Inventing America: How Art & Literature Shaped American History.”
Richard J. Friswell, cultural historian and award-winning writer, will lead a five-week art history series, presented with a novel twist, at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum. This survey course will explore The Lyman Allyn Art Museum Showcases International ArtistsNew London, CT – The Lyman Allyn Art Museum is proud to present a three part international art exhibition, titled The Artist’s Journey, organized by the Griffis Art Center. In celebrating 25 years their remarkable program of hosting international artists in New London, the Griffis Art Center invites you to share in the intimate world of these artists who worked, taught, lived and socialized in the New London community during their nine month Summer Fest at the Lyman Allyn Art MuseumNew London, CT – The Lyman Allyn Art Museum invites you and your family to celebrate the start of summer at Summer Fest, the Lyman Allyn’s community picnic, on Saturday, June 27 from 11am-5pm. Summer Fest is FREE for everyone and will feature food trucks, live entertainment (amplified, unplugged, performance and participatory), and family friendly activities on our grounds and inside the Museum. In the event of rain, everything but the food trucks will move indoors
Pfizer Awards Grants to 51 of Region's Nonprofits
Pfizer Inc. has announced that 51 nonprofits in Connecticut and Rhode Island, including the Garde Arts Center and Project Oceanology, will receive funding support this year.
Other recipients were Aluminum Falcon Robotics, Bethsaida Community Inc., Center for Hospice Care Southeast Connecticut, Children's Museum of Southeastern Connecticut, Chorus of Westerly, Connecticut College, Eastern Connecticut Ballet, Eastern Connecticut Community Gardens
Lyman Allyn Art Museum Installs Temporary Additions to American Perspectives Gallery
Touring Smithsonian Exhibit Opens at the Lyman Allyn
Virtual Panel Discussion Dec 2: Race Relations & Religion: The Faith Community Responds
Lyman Allen Art Museum Announces the Appointment of Ellen Anderson as Director of Development
La Grua Center Presents Stories of Resilience: Encountering Racism October 7
Lyman Allyn Art Museum Showcases Works by Michael Harvey
Lyman Allyn Art Museum Displays Oversized, Hyperrealistic Sculptures of Sweet Treats by Peter Anton
The Season of Wonderment at Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Lyman Allyn Art Museum Features Major Exhibition of Sports Photography by Walter Iooss
Lyman Allyn Art Museum Presents Exhibition of Rarely Seen European Paintings from its Collection
Summer Fest at Lyman Allyn Offers Fun Activities for the Whole Family
Pfizer Awards Community Grants in Connecticut and Rhode Island
Lyman Allyn Art Museum Presents Robert Rauschenberg: Ruminations
Exhibition of Watercolor Landscapes Opens at Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Stunning New Tiffany Lamp Arrives at Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Landscapes Opens March 29 at Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Lyman Allyn Art Museum Showcases Abstract Art by James B Murphy
''Hidden Water: Paintings and Sculpture by Judy Cotton'' Opens at Lyman Allyn July 14
Pfizer Announces Community Grants for 2018
U.S. Senator Chris Murphy Invites You to Transportation Summit April 3 in New London
Participate in a Transportation Summit with Senator Chris Murphy April 3 in New London
MMoA’s Dawn Salerno elected as President of the Board of the New England Museum Association
Pfizer Awards Community Grants
Trustees of Lyme Academy, The Kate Celebrate Launch of New Curated Art Film Series
Modernization at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum Striding Forward with Major Funding
Lyman Allyn Art Museum Opens New Fall Exhibition
Lyman Allyn Art Museum Offers Art History for All
Lyman Allyn Art Museum Showcases International Artists
Summer Fest at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Pfizer Awards Grants to 51 of Region's Nonprofits
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