Sub Urbanisms

December 11, 2013 By

SUB URBANISMS: Casino Company-town, China-town

On view February 8th – May 12, 2014

SUB URBANISMS is an exhibition exploring 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 home. The exhibition invites visitors to reflect on the norms and cultural values that determine how we live, and to consider how cultural expectations for building design might further change in response to ecological, financial and societal pressures. A daylong forum event will be held on March 29th.

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Curated by designer Stephen Fan with Shane Keaney.

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Faery Tea Party & Children’s Fashion Show

March 5, 2014 By

Please join us for an afternoon of Fashion and Faeries! thread faery

Sunday March 16th
1:00 – 3:30 PM

  • We will begin the afternoon with tea and desserts in the Hendel Library.
  • Next, participants will view a Faery Fashion Show in the Auditorium.
  • We will conclude the festive afternoon by making treasure boxes and tissue paper flowers in the art studio!

Paula C. Scott and Amy Crockett will also be available for a book signing of “The Thread Faery.”

$15 per adult child pair / $5 per additional person

Reservations are required: Please contact 860.443.2545 x129 or info@lymanallyn.org.

Filed Under: Special Events

Derby Hat Party

February 27, 2014 By

PLEASE JOIN US FOR A DERBY HAT PARTY TO CELEBRATE

Gallivant: Derby Day in New London 

 Enjoy a demonstration on how extravagant hats are made by Dr. L.A. Teal, renowned hat designer, maker, milliner and author of “A Passion for a Quickie.”

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Derby Hat designed & made by L.A. Teal

Thursday, April 3rd
5:30 – 7:30 PM
$35 / $25 Members
Serving hors d’oeuvres and cocktails
RSVP: 860.443.2545 x 129
info@lymanallyn.org

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Public Forum

February 26, 2014 By

Casino Urbanization, Suburban Chinatowns and the Contested Domestic Landscape

Connecticut Humanities recently awarded Lyman Allyn a grant to help support the Sub Urbanisms Public Forum!

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Saturday, March 29, 2014
Free to the public
Please RSVP by 3/15
860.443.2545 x129
info@lymanallyn.org

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.

Morning Session: 10 AM – 12 PM                                                  
Lyman Allyn Art Museum

 Keynote Lecture and Gallery Talk: Guest Curator, Stephen Fan

LUNCH (available for pre-purchase $15.00)

Afternoon Session: 1:30 – 4:30 PM
Connecticut College, Silfen Auditorium
Four speakers will present 20-30 minute talks

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Filed Under: Lectures and Presentations, Upcoming Events

Lyman Allyn Announces the Appointment of D. Samuel Quigley as Director

February 26, 2014 By

For Immediate Release

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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Inside the Natural World of Jan Beekman

February 19, 2014 By

 June 14 – December 31, 2014

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Jan Beekman
Intimate 2, 2007-8
Acrylic on canvas, 27 x 19.5
Collection of artist

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Jan Beekman
Intimate 1, 2007-8
Acrylic on canvas, 27 x 19.5
Collection of artist

 

“The central subject of my work is the natural world and its relationship to the human condition. Why are we here? What are we doing?”

--Jan Beekman

 

 

Perhaps best known for his monumental Portrait of Nelson Mandela (1996), which hangs in the United Nations headquarters in New York, Jan Beekman also creates stunning nature paintings. Born in Belgium, Beekman has lived and worked in the United States for many years and in rural Connecticut since 1997, the year he became an American citizen. The works in this exhibition reveal the artist’s deep immersion in the natural phenomena of his immediate environment, the woodlands of Southeastern Connecticut.  His paintings evoke a sense of wonder as viewers, too, become absorbed in the subtle textures, graceful shapes, and vibrant colors of the natural world. Yet they also make us aware of the bio-diversity and delicate balance of our natural ecology, raising questions about the consequences of our manipulation and pollution of our precious natural resources.

Programming for the show will include talks on contemporary nature painting and the ecology of woodlands Connecticut, as well as sketching trips to the Connecticut College arboretum and summer camp sessions on ecological themes.  Stay tuned for more information!

Filed Under: Exhibitions, Upcoming Exhibitions
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