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December 2, 2021
Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Press Contact: Rebecca Dawson, Director of Communications
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LYMAN ALLYN ART MUSEUM ANNOUNCES ITS MULTICULTURAL ACTION PLAN

NEW LONDON – The Lyman Allyn Art Museum announces its Multicultural Action Plan, reports Museum Director Sam Quigley. Created to address the Museum’s historic lack of racial inclusiveness, the plan, referred to as the MAP, outlines a comprehensive series of action steps to strengthen to Museum’s commitment to all audiences.

“The Lyman Allyn will celebrate its 90^th birthday in 2022,” said Sam Quigley, “and this initiative, which is integral to achieving our mission, represents the strongly held belief of all the members of our Board and Staff. We must take intentional and measurable steps to advance inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility on every level of the Museum.”

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November 18, 2021
Lyman Allyn Art Museum
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LYMAN ALLYN ART MUSEUM SHOWCASES WORK BY FLUXUS ARTIST KEN FRIEDMAN

New London – The Lyman Allyn Art Museum announces the opening of Ken Friedman: 92 Events, on view Nov. 13, 2021 through Jan. 16, 2022.

92 Events presents works spanning six decades by New London-born American-Swedish artist Ken Friedman. Friedman produces conceptual, action-oriented, language-based works that challenge the idea of an artwork as a unique object. Throughout the exhibition, instructional texts navigate a fine line between sculptural proposition, absurdist action, and concrete poetry. From his earliest “events” as a young boy in New London, through his connections with Fluxus, the international movement that developed its anarchic approach to art making from the 1950s through to the present, Friedman’s work has questioned what art can be and who can make it.

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October 28, 2021
Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Press Contact: Rebecca Dawson, Director of Communications
860.443.2545 ext. 2112 / dawson@lymanallyn.org

MAJOR EXHIBITION EXPLORES THE LIVES AND ART OF PIONEERING SISTERS FROM NEW LONDON AT LYMAN ALLYN ART MUSEUM

NEW LONDON – The Lyman Allyn Art Museum is pleased to announce the opening of a major new exhibition on Saturday, Oct. 30, which presents the story and art of May Way (1769–1833) and Elizabeth (Way) Champlain (1771–1825), two sisters and artists from New London, Connecticut. The sisters were among the earliest professional women artists working in the United States. The Way Sisters: Miniaturists of the Early Republic will be on view through Jan. 23, 2022.

“This is the first museum exhibition to focus on the Way sisters, and it includes objects that have never been publicly exhibited,” said Dr. Tanya Pohrt, the exhibition’s curator. “These two women made important and lasting contributions to the art and history of Connecticut and a young nation. Their work deepens our understanding of early American art with objects and stories from the past that still resonate today.” [Read more…]