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June 21, 2022
Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Press Contact: Luciana Quagliato McClure
Founding Organizer of Nasty Women Connecticut
nastywomen@gmail.org

LYMAN ALLYN HOSTS 6^th ANNUAL EXHIBITIION OF NASTY WOMEN CONNECTICUT

NEW LONDON – The Lyman Allyn Art Museum is hosting the sixth annual exhibition of Nasty Women Connecticut, The Will to Change: Gathering as Praxis, which opened on Saturday, June 18 as part of its Near :: New series. This year’s show is dedicated to the life and work of American writer and social activist bell hooks (1952–2021).

The volunteer-run and led group, based in New Haven, invited submissions of art, writing and other formats that celebrate hooks’ openness and inclusivity while looking globally to understand the community’s role in feminist movements. The work of the feminist writer focuses on sexist, exploitative and oppressive systems that hold us all captive, and the belief that “healing does not take place in isolation.” [Read more…]

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May 25, 2022
Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Press Contact: Rebecca Dawson, Director of Communications
860.443.2545 ext. 2112 / dawson@lymanallyn.org

LYMAN ALLYN ART MUSEUM DEBUTS POETRY OF THE WILD INSTALLATION

NEW LONDON – The Lyman Allyn Art Museum is pleased to debut three new Poetry of the Wild sculptures by artist Ana Flores. The sculpture series was made in collaboration with area poets Michael Bradford, Jose B. Gonzalez, and Rhonda Ward. The installation will debut on June 10 with a ceremony and reception.

Poetry of the Wild is an environmental art project designed to engage communities with their landscape through poetry, art and activities. At the Lyman Allyn, the sculptural “Poetry boxes” made by Flores feature poems by area poets Michael Bradford, Jose Gonzalez, and Rhonda Ward. Each poet has a deep awareness of place in the City of New London. The poems call attention to the poets’ perception of nature and encourage viewers to reflect on their own relationship with place, memory, and the natural world. The poetry boxes also contain journals that invite the public to respond with commentary and poetry. [Read more…]

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May 11, 2022
Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Press Contact: Rebecca Dawson, Director of Communications
860.443.2545 ext. 2112 / dawson@lymanallyn.org

NEW LYMAN ALLYN EXHIBITION EXPLORES MYSTIC’S ICONIC SEASIDE IDENTITY

NEW LONDON – Opening to the public on Saturday, May 21, the Lyman Allyn Art Museum’s upcoming exhibition Picturing Mystic: Views of the Connecticut Shoreline, 1890-1950, focuses on artistic depictions of the historic waterfronts and landscapes of Mystic, Noank, and Stonington. At the turn of the 20th century, a time when art colonies were also formed at Cos Cob and Lyme, Connecticut, Mystic emerged as a vibrant summer art colony. Artists gathered there to paint, inspired by the beauty of the Mystic River, the area’s rolling hills, historic architecture, and its coastal fishing and shipbuilding history.

This exhibition, which runs through Sept. 4, features the art and of Mystic, Noank, Mason’s Island, and Stonington, with more than 60 landscapes dating from 1890 to 1950. It focuses on the area’s history as an art colony, with Charles H. Davis at the group’s founding center. Davis moved to Mystic in 1891 and was soon followed by other artists, including Reynolds Beal and Henry Ward Ranger. Artists taught summer classes in Mystic and established the Mystic Art Association in 1913, exhibiting as a group the following year. Located halfway between Boston and New York, Mystic attracted artists from both centers. Many were linked by friendship, including a close-knit group of Philadelphia artists who had studied together at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. [Read more…]