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Afterschool Art Studio

February – June 2012

Series of five: $50
Single sessions: $12 per participant
Classes limited to 25 students

For Students in Grades K-3
Wednesdays, 3:30-5:30pm
Meeting Dates: 2/22, 3/21, 4/25, 5/23, 6/20

For Students in Grades 4-6
Thursdays, 3:30-5:30pm
Meeting Dates: 2/23, 3/22, 4/26, 5/24, 6/21

Reister Online

Class Descriptions

February 22-23, 2012, 3:30-5:30pm
In Love with Color: A Study of the Impressionists
A guided tour of the upstairs galleries in the Griswold House with an emphasis on the American Impressionist artists followed by a hands-on pastel drawing project.

March 21-22, 2012, 3:30-5:30pm
The Fox Chase: A Race Into History
A guided tour of the Griswold House with an emphasis on the painted panels and “The Fox Chase” followed by a hands-on multi-media collage project.

April 25-26, 2012, 3:30-5:30pm
Saluting the Lieutenant River: All About the Tidal Waterway
A guided tour of the riverbank emphasizing the ecology of the estuary followed by a hands-on creative watercolor project.

May 23-24, 2012, 3:30-5:30pm
Making ArtInside or Out: Plein-Air Painting vs. In the Studio
A guided tour of the Chadwick Studio and discussion of the tools and techniques of the Lyme Art Colony followed by a hands-on outdoors painting activity.

June 20-21, 2012, 3:30-5:30pm
Seeds the Day: The Griswold Gardens
A guided tour of the gardens and grounds of the Museum followed by a hands-on creative flower pot project.

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CONCERT IN THE GALLERY

Sat., Feb. 25, 3pm
Sun., Feb. 26, 3pm
Scott Kluksdahl, Cellist
$30 for both performances; $20 each
(members $25 for both; $15 each)
Includes Admission to Museum
Register Online

Bach-to-Bach, Back-to-Back:
Two Concerts in Two Dayss in Two Days

Back by popular demand! Kluksdahl traverses the entire Bach Cello Suite Cycle in two back-to-back concerts over two days. Bach’s revered and beloved works are a monument to dance form and count among the earliest solo works for cello, exploring mood and affect across the emotional spectrum.

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WINTER STUDIES 2012

Fridays, February 17 – April 20
Morning Class (10am)
Afternoon Class (2pm)

…isms: Unlocking Art’s Mysteries
Instructor: Amanda C. Burdan, Assistant Curator
$250 (members $225)
Note: Save Friday April 27 for make-up snow day

Register Online for AFTERNOON session

Confused about Cubism? Mystified by Minimalism? The language art historians and museums use to describe artistic styles and movements can be perplexing. Join art historian Amanda C. Burdan as she decodes some of art’s mysteries through this 10-week lecture course. Each week will focus on an “ism,” elaborating on the characteristics of the movement as well as its historical context. In addition, each week Burdan will highlight key works in the collection on view in the concurrent exhibition, fueling discussion about the Museum’s objects and their relationship to the broader art world. This primer defines some of the leading styles of art history (as well as a few of the more obscure ones) and is designed to provide you with the keys to unlocking art’s marvelous mysteries. (ps. Do you know which “ism” Breta Longacre's Still Life with Fruit Compote fits into?)

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A Partnership Between the Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library and the Florence Griswold Museum

Free of charge thanks to a generous grant from the Connecticut Humanities Council that helps partnering agencies develop and pilot programming ideas that reach new audiences, encourage cooperation with other nonprofits in the community and engage existing audiences in new ways.

Thursdays, March 1-April 19
7pm
Free
…isms: A Study of Styles in Art, Literature and Film

Join facilitator Marsha Bansavage and staff from both the Library and Museum for an 8-session series investigating the notion of artistic styles in a variety of media. Copies of all literature to be discussed available at the Library.

Please call or email the front desk to register. Please leave your name, date of session, phone number and email. Or register with the Library.

 

March 1
intro to Series and Tour of …isms: Unlocking Art’s Mysteries
Amanda C. Burdan, Assistant Curator
Florence Griswold Museum

Join Burdan for a guided tour of the Museum’s newest exhibition, …isms: Unlocking Art’s Mysteries. The exhibition showcases a variety of art from the collection that represents key artistic styles or “isms” including Tonalism, Impressionism, Modernism, and more, that will lay the groundwork for looking at these styles as expressed in other media such as film, literature, and plays.

March 8
Film Screening and Discussion: Pollock
Marsha Bansavage, Facilitator
Old Lyme PGN Library

Bansavage will lead a screening and discussion of the film, Pollock, exploring the artistic and personal influences on the abstract style and action painting of Jackson Pollock in which he moved away from figurative representation and challenged the Western tradition of using easel and brush. The viewer will be introduced to action painting and all its personalities.

March 15
Book Discussion in the Gallery:
National Book Award Winner (2010) Just Kids by Patti Smith
Marsha Bansavage, Facilitator
Florence Griswold Museum

A philosophical and poetic journey introduces the reader to the 1960s and 1970s art movements. Smith's beautiful book about her youth with Robert Mapplethorpe, who she calls "the artist of my life," is a celebration, an elegy, and a memoir. A study of two very different artists, with very different sensibilities that straddles the music, art, theater and poetry of the times.

March 22
Book Discussion:
Play Picasso at the Lapin Agile by Steve Martin
Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library
Marsha Bansavage, Facilitator

Taking a comedic approach to art, Martin’s play is set in a café where Picasso and Einstein along with an intriguing cast meet and explore the value of art, science and commercialism. The play attempts to explain, in a light-hearted way, the similarity of the creative process involved in great leaps of imagination in art and science leading to the birth of the modern century.

March 29
Writing Inspired by Art
Florence Griswold Museum
Director of Education David D.J. Rau

Join Rau for a creative writing session in the Museum’s newest exhibition, …isms: Unlocking Art’s Mysteries. Through a series of interactive exercises and gallery games, participants will look a little deeper at several works of art before creating a written response, in a specific style, to share with the group.

April 5
Book Discussion:
Poems from Spoon River Anthology edited by Edgar Lee Masters
Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library
Marsha Bansavage, Facilitator

A selection of poems by famous writers known as Imagists who broke with the conventions of their time and redefined poetic techniques. Dickinson, Frost, Cummings and others will be read and explored.

April 12
Painting and Sculpting in the Hartman Education Center
Florence Griswold Museum
Julie Riggs and Matthew Ferrer

Join Museum Educators Julie Riggs and Matthew Ferrer for a hands-on art-making session in the Museum’s Education Center. Project will offer participants the chance to create in a variety of artistic styles from the quick and thick brushstrokes of Impressionism to the splattered pigment of Abstract Expressionism. Wear clothing appropriate for painting (smocks available).

April 19
Book Discussion: Short Stories by various authors
Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library
Marsha Bansavage, Facilitator

Reading and discussion of three short stories by authors John Updike, Alice Walker and James Thurber. The reader will deal directly and indirectly with the literary world’s involvement with art movements, exploring realism, escapism and fantasy.

 

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SUMMER ART CAMP

Monday thru Friday
10am-3pm
$200 (members $190)
Register Online

Kids explore the art and history of the Lyme Art Colony in their own colony of young artists at the Museum’s five-day camps. Geared for students entering grades 1-6, art colony campers investigate art exhibitions, paint, play games, and more. Camps include a camp t-shirt, art-making materials, and daily snacks. Each week culminates in an exhibition of student projects.

Session 1 (grades 1-3): July 9-13

Session 2 (grades 4-6): July 16-20

Session 3 (grades 1-3): July 23-27

Session 4 (grades 4-6): July 30- August 3

Session 5 (grades 1-3) August 6-10