Lyman Allyn Art Museum

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March 5, 2014
CONTACT: James Eckerle, Interim Director
860.443.2545 x113 / Eckerle@lymanallyn.org

The Lyman Allyn Art Museum Receives Grant to Support Free Public Forum in conjunction with its current exhibition Sub Urbanisms: Casino Company Town/ China Town.

NEW LONDON – The Lyman Allyn Art Museum received a grant for $1500 from Connecticut Humanities to help support the Sub Urbanisms Public Forum.

On March 29th, Lyman Allyn Art Museum and Connecticut College will host a free, daylong public forum (10AM-4:30PM) offered in conjunction with the museum’s newest exhibition, SubUrbanisms: Casino Company Town/ China Town (February 8 – May 12, 2014). The forum will feature speakers with backgrounds in architecture, urban design, land use, anthropology, journalism and American Studies and will explore issues of casino urbanization, suburban Chinatowns and the contested domestic landscape. Community residents and architecture and planning insiders alike will benefit from this open conversation on a local topic with a global reach. Thanks to a grant from Connecticut Humanities, Lyman Allyn is able to offer a program that invites visitors to reflect on the values, practices and public policies that determine how we live, and to consider how cultural expectations for building design might further change in response to growing ecological, financial and societal pressures.

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March 19, 2014
Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Press Contact:  James Eckerle, Interim Director
860-443-2545 x113

Lyman Allyn Art Museum to Salute Admiral and Mrs. Robert J. Papp, Jr.

The Lyman Allyn Art Museum is pleased to announce the honorees for their 2014 Spring Gala will be Admiral Robert J. Papp, Jr. and his wife, Linda.  Admiral Papp, Commandant of the United States Coast Guard and his wife, are both natives of Connecticut.  In recent years, Admiral Papp has been working to bring the vision of a national Coast Guard museum to reality and the current plan is to build the museum in New London, home of the Coast Guard Academy.

Admiral Papp is retiring from active duty on May 30 of this year.  “The Lyman Allyn is pleased to honor Admiral Papp and his wife Linda in recognition of their life of service to their country – and to their local community” said Polly Merrill, Lyman Allyn Art Museum Board President.  She added, “The Coast Guard Museum will have a significant impact on New London and area cultural attractions, and we look forward to working together in the future.”

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February 25, 2014
Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Press Contact:  James Eckerle, Interim Director
860.443.2545 x113

LYMAN ALLYN ART MUSEUM APPOINTS D. SAMUEL QUIGLEY AS DIRECTOR

Lyman Allyn enters new era of ‘value to the community’ with naming of experienced Director.

NEW LONDON – Polly Merrill, President of the Board of Trustees of the Lyman Allyn Art Museum, announced today that D. Samuel Quigley has been named director of the Lyman Allyn Art Museum. Quigley comes to the Lyman Allyn after serving as vice president for collections management and chief information officer at the Art Institute of Chicago. He will assume his new position with the Lyman Allyn on May 5, 2014.

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Lyman Allyn Art Museum presents SubUrbanisms: Casino Company Town/ China Town.

January 24, 2014
Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Press Contact: Jane LeGrow
860.443.2545 x126

Lyman Allyn Art Museum, in collaboration with Connecticut College, announces a new exhibition with a local focus and a global reach. SUB URBANISMS (February 8 – May 12, 2014) explores the controversial conversion of single family homes into multifamily communities by immigrant Chinese casino workers in southeastern Connecticut. By transplanting cultural values to their new country, these recent emigrants unconsciously challenge the norms underlying the most ubiquitous American housing type: the suburban single-family detached house. The exhibition invites visitors to reflect on the values, practices and public policies that determine how we live, and to consider how cultural expectations for building design might further change in response to growing ecological, financial and societal pressures.

Combining photography, interviews and architectural representations, this exhibit probes the limits of inclusivity in a multicultural democracy when cultural practices conflict. With creative implications for the future of housing design and habitation, SUB URBANISMS offers a powerful inquiry into the ways in which culture shapes our lives and our homes.

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