Art Talks
Throughout the year, Lyme Art Association offers a variety of lectures presented by an excellent caliber of artists and art historians. Lyme Art Association’s art talks and lectures are a part of our Weekend Matinee Series of programing.
See below for schedule, times, costs and topics.
Upcoming Art Talks
Bob Potter Art Talk: The Art of Christmas From The Renaissance To Norman Rockwell
Sunday, December 14 at 3 pm
Tickets: $10 per person
Come celebrate the holidays at the Lyme Art Association with art historian Bob Potter on Sunday, December 14 at 3 pm, as he shares art inspired by the spirit of Christmas. His art talk will include Renaissance masterworks of the nativity and the birth of Christ, paintings by the French Impressionists and Pre-Raphaelite artists, the Victorian age of Charles Dickens “A Christmas Carol” and beloved works by Norman Rockwell for The Saturday Evening Post where he painted Christmas scenes of an idealized and bygone America.
Half of the proceeds will go to the charity, New London Homeless Hospitality Center.
About Art Lecture Presenter Bob Potter: Bob Potter is a former Executive Director of the Lyme Art Association and a graduate of Syracuse University’s School of Visual and Performing Arts. He began his career as an art director at Scholastic Magazines and later a marketing executive for Time Warner and National Geographic and was a corporate development officer for the National Gallery of Art. He managed an art therapy program for Save The Children, headed marketing for the Mystic Seaport Museum, launched a professional development program for Lyme Academy art students, and is currently a docent at the Yale Center For British Art. He and his wife Jeanne, who is a master watercolorist and art teacher, live in Old Lyme, Connecticut.
Judy Perry Art Talk: The Art of Healing/Healing Through Art
Saturday, January 10 at 3 pm
Tickets: $10 per person
Research shows that art is not just a fundamental aspect of our humanity, its essential to our well being. On Saturday, January 10 at 3 pm, LAA elected artist Judy Perry discusses the healng benefits that creating art offers each of us. Judy will share aspects of her personal healing journey through art. During her talk, attendees will discover how we are all healing from something and how creating art can help on that journey.
About the Artist: Judy Perry
Judy Perry’s formal training began more than 30 years ago studying Fine Art and Special Education at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. Upon moving to Old Saybrook, CT in 1996, she began painting professionally. A near fatal head-on automobile collision with a drunk driver left Judy with an uncertain future in 2009. As part of her rehabilitation program, she began painting ocean and marsh scenes reflecting the beauty of the East Coast Shoreline communities. For her, creating these scenes has demonstrated tremendous healing properties, she call them her “healing waters” paintings. ”Perry has the unique ability to capture the mood, character, or underlying nature of a person or setting developing her painting from there. She moves beyond painting parts and forms, and manages to paint a true snapshot of the essence in that instant.” Leah Lopez Schmalz: Arts Writer, Harbor News. Judy strives to make an emotional connection through her work, to move an individual in such a way that my creation becomes a part of them. Each time a person responds to her work in that way Judy realizes why she paints.
Jeanne Carol Potter Art Talk: “My Life in Watercolor”
Saturday, February 7 at 3 pm
Tickets: $10 per person
On February 7 at 3 pm at the Lyme Art Association, master watercolorist and LAA Elected Artist, Jeanne Carol Potter gives an art talk on “My Life in Watercolor”. “My Life in Watercolor” will tell the story of how Jeanne Carol Potter began her journey to becoming an artist, a teacher, and exhibiting her work in national juried exhibitions. Jeanne will talk about her early art education at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the influence of the Pittsburgh steel mills on her urban landscapes, and some of the major artists, like John Singer Sargent, Vermeer, Jean August Ingres and Winslow Homer, who have influenced her art of the portrait and landscape. Jeanne will also share examples of her travel sketchbooks in France and Italy, highlights of her professional career as a gallery director and art educator and will present works from her portfolio of watercolors while sharing tips on painting portraits, landscapes and still lifes.
About The Artist: Jeanne Carol Potter
Jeanne Carol Potter has more than fifty years as an artist, teacher, and fine art professional. She was the longtime Director of the Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport and Resident Curator and Director of Art Education at The Ocean House in Watch Hill, RI. Previously, she was an assistant Dean of Continuing Education and Adjunct Professor of painting and drawing at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C., an editorial designer for Time-Life Books, and corporate art buyer for Union Carbide in New York. She holds her BFA and MFA degrees from Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts. Her post graduate studies include the Art Students League in New York and master portrait classes with Burton Silverman, Everett Raymond Kinstler, Philip Pearlstein and Hananiah Harari. She is an Elected artist member of the Lyme Art Association, the Hudson Valley Art Association and Connecticut Women Artists. Her watercolors have been featured in Splash: The Best of Watercolor and Artist’s Magazine. Jeanne currently teaches watercolor and drawing classes at the Lyme Art Association in Old Lyme, CT and is actively exhibiting in national juried exhibitions while creating new works in her studio Atelier Jeanne.
Visit our Past Art Talks at the LAA to see a listing of previous lecture topics and speakers. The talks cover a range of topics including the Artist Process, American Art, Russian Art, Nocturns, the Plein Air art method and more.
Included is a selection of videotaped art talks presented by our member artists. Our presenters in the videotaped series include Polly Seip, Jim Laurino, Rick Daskam and Zufar Bikbov.