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Lecture Series: Coastal Perspectives: A Tale of Two Estuaries: Patrick Lynch
Lecture Series: Coastal Perspectives: A Tale of Two Estuaries: Patrick Lynch
Please join us for our 28th season. This annual lecture series spans the breadth of human interactions with coastal waters, including speakers from the natural and social sciences as well as arts and humanities. A Tale of Two Estuaries Patrick Lynch, artist | author | designer | photographer Connecticut’s two largest riverine estuaries have long […]
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Women in the Arts Lecture Series: Page Knox, Women Surrealists & Their Trans-Atlantic Voyages
Women in the Arts Lecture Series: Page Knox, Women Surrealists & Their Trans-Atlantic Voyages
In collaboration with the New Canaan Library: Please join Dr. Knox for a discussion about the under-appreciated Female Surrealists...painters and photographers, Lee Miller, Kay Sage, Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington who, in their journeys of self-discovery, ventured across the Atlantic to find new personal and universal truths. These international artists both championed Surrealist ideas and pushed against them to […]
Women in the Arts Lecture Series: Get the Picture with Bianca Bosker
Women in the Arts Lecture Series: Get the Picture with Bianca Bosker
In collaboration with the New Canaan Library: In Conversation with Bianca Bosker, author of NYT bestseller Get The Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See In her latest journalistic endeavor, Bosker immerses herself in the nerve center of the art world and the people who live for it: gallerists, collectors, […]
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The Collapse of Nature: Insect Decline in the Anthropocene
The Collapse of Nature: Insect Decline in the Anthropocene
Join the Connecticut State Museum of Natural History and the Connecticut Entomological Society for a free lecture by Entomologist and UConn Professor Dr. David Wagner.Dr. Wagner will lecture on his entomological research surrounding invertebrate conservation, including topics such as pollinator decline, invasive species impacts, and climate-change threats. For more information
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“An Inconvenient Cop” Author Edwin Raymond: Book Signing and Talk
“An Inconvenient Cop” Author Edwin Raymond: Book Signing and Talk
Critically acclaimed author Edwin Raymond, former NYPD lieutenant, will discuss and sign his book, An Inconvenient Cop: My Fight to Change Policing in America. Raymond is depicted prominently in his former role as a police officer in AMP’s mural of workers, on permanent exhibit in Winsted, CT. During the evening’s presentation, he will be joined by […]
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Lambert Environmental Lecture: Restore / Rewild: Collaborating with Non-Human Species: Laura J. Martin
Lambert Environmental Lecture: Restore / Rewild: Collaborating with Non-Human Species: Laura J. Martin
GNCE presents the 2024 Lambert Environmental Lecture: Restore / Rewild: Collaborating with Non-Human Species. Laura J. Martin, author, historian, ecologist and environmental studies professor at Williams College asks if wild nature be designed? Which environmental harms are truly irreversible, and how can ecological restoration be made more socially just? Martin will venture answers to these […]
Exhibition Opening Lecture: Munch and Kirchner: Expressions of Anxiety
Exhibition Opening Lecture: Munch and Kirchner: Expressions of Anxiety
Munch and Kirchner: Expressions of Anxiety: Exhibition Opening Lecture Jay A. Clarke, the Rothman Family Curator of Prints and Drawings, Art Institute of Chicago, explores the imagery Munch and Kirchner chose—including depictions of natural beauty, isolation, murder, and lust—as paths to individual and collective expression. Offered in conjunction with the exhibition Munch and Kirchner: Anxiety […]
Virtual Artist Talk: Yvette Mayorga and Meredith Martin
Virtual Artist Talk: Yvette Mayorga and Meredith Martin
Please join us for a virtual conversation between exhibiting artist Yvette Mayorga and art historian Dr. Meredith Martin. The pair will be discussing Mayorga's maximalist aesthetic and its relationship to a neo-Rococo impulse in contemporary art. They will also delve into Mayorga's uniquely personal, witty use of historical sources and her interest in making the […]
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Lecture: Yale: Taking the Field: Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers: Amy Kohout
Lecture: Yale: Taking the Field: Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers: Amy Kohout
In the late nineteenth century, at a time when Americans were becoming more removed from nature than ever before, U.S. soldiers were uniquely positioned to understand and construct nature’s ongoing significance for their work and for the nation as a whole. American ideas and debates about nature evolved alongside discussions about the meaning of frontiers, […]