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LymeScapes
Exhibition of Plein Air Artists
Exhibition Dates: October 23 - December 12, 2009
Opening Reception October 23
5 to 7 pm
LymeScapes is an exhibition featuring three artists whose plein air oil paintings will be on view at the Library from October 23 through December 12. The exhibition will open with a public reception for the artists on Friday, October 23rd from 5 to 7 pm.
The artists include Nancy Armstrong of Killingworth, Teddi Curtiss of Old Lyme and Marilyn Dunphy of Niantic. Their images capture such familiar scences as the Connecticut and Lieutenant Rivers, Griswold Point and Ashlawn Farm. This is the fourth exhibtion this year in which artists donate a portion of proceeds from the sale of art to the Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library.
Nancy Armstrong began formal art studies as a teenager in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Her earliest memories, she said, are of making elaborate drawings on the beginning and end pages of her books (allowed and irresistible, she notes). Art has since been her main life focus, she adds. Although she is interested in painting all subjects – figure, still life, she has recently concentrated on plein air landscapes. She has a BS degree in Art Education from Wilkes College and an MALS degree in art and literature from Wesleyan University. She also has studied with a number of local instructors. Her work has been exhibited locally and is in numerous private collections. For many years she has served as a docent at the Yale Center for British Art, a role she finds “stimulating and a continuing inspiration.”
Teddi Curtiss taught art at summer camp as a high school student. She holds a BS from Wheelock College where she minored in art, art history and childhood education. She studied art history at Boston College and the University of Colorado. She has also studied with many local artists and participated in workshops in Maine and Massachusetts. Her work is in private collections throughout New England and has been featured at the Kevin Butler Gallery in Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard. She concentrates on plein air painting, drawing most of her subject matter from Connecticut farmlands and countryside. She and her husband, are avid sailors so she also finds appealing scenes in the New England marine and coastal areas and as well as those in the British Virgin Islands.
Marilyn Dunphy is a graduate of Connecticut College and has studied painting with numerous artists in Connecticut, Florida and Rhode Island. “I enjoy painting outdoors whenever possible because the colors seem more vivid, the scene becomes alive with fragrances and movement and the painting seems to depict that,” she explained. “One must be very stalwart to paint in plein air in some seasons in New England and I find that on those days, I like the warmth and comfort of my studio with some wonderful classical music in the background.” American Impressionists are her favorite artists and inspiration. She feels it a privilege to live in an area where great painters have lived and worked and where “people appreciate and celebrate art.”
All three artists have studied at Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts in the Continuing Education program. They are all Associate Artist members of Lyme Art Association where they have been active for many years, contributing their volunteer efforts as well as exhibiting their work.
For more information, please call the library at 434-1684.
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Main Street Dreams
Book Discussion and Lecture Series
November 16, 2009
at 7:00 pm
Thorton Wilder's
Our Town
(more information)
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 Connecticut River Film Forum
The Film Forum is five years old! They’ve been showing movies at the Library since the fall of 2004 and are now looking forward to a new series for a sixth year. Dates and titles are listed below. You can pick-up a membership application at the library. If you aren’t a member, you can pay $5.00 at the door. Dates and titles of upcoming movies are listed below: Showings are at 7:30 pm in the community room. Call the library to register.
November 12, 2009: My Uncle Antoine (1971) - Claude Jutra's evocative portrait of a boy's coming of age in 1940's rural Quebec. This film has been consistently cited by critics and scholars as the greatest Canadian film of all time. Set during one ominous Christance, Mon Oncle Antoine, is a holiday film unlike any other, and an authentically detailed illustration of childhood's twilight. This film will be shown in French, with subtitles.
January 21, 2010: Up the Yangtze (2007) - Documentary film set in China.
February 18, 2010: Brassed Off (1996) - Big energy threatens to move in and disrupt life in the small English mining town.
March 18, 2010: The Earrings of Madame de... (1954) - French classic.
April 15. 2010: Double Indemnity (1947) - Hitchcock classic.
Phoebe's Book Chat
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
November 12, 2009 at 11:00 am
Written around 1606, Macbeth is perhaps the best know of Shakespeare’s tragedies. “Four hundred years later, students and actors continue to explore and embrace Macbeth for its intriguing portrayal of madness, ambition, and the supernatural” (Shakespeare for Students 2007). Join us on November 12 in the community room for a discussion of Macbeth. Next month the group will compare and contrast Shakespeare’s Macbeth with John Updike’s The Witches of Eastwick.
Copies are available at the circulation desk.
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Write Now: A New Writing Group
Starting in September 2009 the group will meet on the second Thursday of each month from 5:00 to 6:00 pm. The next meeting is scheduled for November 12.
A new writer’s group has formed at the library! Write Now will generally be meeting on the second Thursday of each month from 5:00 to 6:00 pm. The group leader is author/facilitator Laura Fitzpatrick-Nager of Old Lyme. Fitzpatrick-Nager invites both beginning writers as well as seasoned writers to join the group at any time.
The mission of the writing group is to practice writing skills to create poetry, memoirs or stories rather than critique sessions. All you need to participate is a journal and your fastest writing pen! Fitzpatrick-Nager uses the method of “writing down the bones” taught by Natalie Goldberg. Anyone interested in learning more about this technique can check out Goldberg’s book from the library’s collection.
Laura Fitzpatrick-Nager is a writer, teacher, workshop presenter and speech-language pathologist. She and her husband, Paul, live with their two cats in Old Lyme, Connecticut. Her memoir, Swimming on My Wedding Day: My Cancer Journey through the Seasons was released in early January 2008. Call 434-1684 to register. Walk-ins welcome!
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