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June 5, 2019
Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Press Contact: Rebecca Dawson, Director of Communications
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SUMMER FEST AT LYMAN ALLYN OFFERS FUN ACTIVITIES FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY

New London – 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 perform a selection of traditional finger style blues, Americana, and originals. Azalea Drive turns their vocal talents to a wonderful mix of cover music from Stevie Wonder, Bruno Mars, Madonna, Justin Timberlake, Aerosmith and more. Learning to Fly will share their repertoire of soft rock and cover band music. The Rivergods will perform their “heartfelt harmony-rich folky/rootsy/rockish” unique style of music.

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May 30, 2019
Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Press Contact: Rebecca Dawson, Director of Communications
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LYMAN ALLYN ART MUSEUM PRESENTS ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG: RUMINATIONS

“The artist’s job is to be a witness to his time in history.”
-Robert Rauschenberg

New London – 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 through August 11, 2019.

During a career that spanned more than five decades, Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) reshaped art in the 20^th century, ushering in a new era of postwar American art. In 1964, he became the first American and youngest artist to win the prestigious Venice Biennale Grand Prize. He was also the first living American artist to be featured by Time Magazine on its cover. [Read more…]

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April 17, 2019
Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Press Contact: Rebecca Dawson, Director of Communications
860.443.2545 x2112 / dawson@lymanallyn.org

EXHIBITION OF WATERCOLOR LANDSCAPES OPENS AT THE LYMAN ALLYN ART MUSEUM

New London – 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. The formation of the American Society of Painters in Water Color (later, the American Watercolor Society) in 1866 helped to promote the medium and professionalize its use, and watercolor was enthusiastically taken up by a generation of young artists. [Read more…]