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: Wondrous Strange – The Wyeths
N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth and Jamie Wyeth
Saturday, January 25th at 3 pm
Tickets: $10 per person
From the swashbuckling illustrations of N.C. Wyeth for Treasure Island, Kidnapped and other classics, followed by Andrew Wyeth’s elegiac paintings of the landscapes and people of rural Pennsylvania and seacoast Maine, and continuing with Jamie Wyeth in his portraits of both the famous as well as the people and places in his personal life, this art talk will explore their iconic paintings with biographical details of their lives and revealing videos in which Andrew and Jamie Wyeth discuss what has inspires their artistic visions as they continued the legacy of this singular family of American artists.
Lecture Presenter Bob Potter, a former Executive Director of the
Lyme Art Association, graduated from of Syracuse University’s School
of Visual and Performing Arts and spent his early career as a creative
director and marketing executive for Scholastic Magazines, Time
Warner, and National Geographic. During his professional career, he
also created an arts therapy program for Save The Children, was a
corporate development officer for the National Gallery of Art in
Washington, DC, headed marketing and communications for Mystic
Seaport and is currently a docent at the Yale Center For British Art. He
and his wife Jeanne, who is master watercolor artist and educator, live
in Old Lyme, Connecticut.
Mike Laiuppa and Brian McClear Art Talk: Photography Talk for Artists
Saturday, February 1st at 2 pm
Free Event, Registration Required
David Oat Art Talk: Colonial Gravestones & The Stories They Tell
Saturday, March 1 at 3 pm
Tickets: $10 per person
Join us at the Lyme Art Association for an art talk with David Oat and learn about colonial gravestones and the stories they tell.
A native of Southeastern Connecticut, David Oat is the cemetery and
burial grounds historian for the Norwich Historical Society and board
member for the Connecticut Gravestones Network. Researching New
England’s Colonial burial grounds has been his passion for many
years. “I’m fascinated by the art, spirituality and human history of these
sacred places. Colonial burial grounds are actually outdoor museums
reflecting New England’s early Colonial history. Each headstone
represents the handiwork of an individual craftsman. Explore these
places and you will find art, genealogy, our countries first sculpture and
a chronology of Puritan religious beliefs.” David has consulted with
many local organizations interested in the preservation of local
Colonial burial grounds or restoration of their hand cut monuments.
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.