Washington Art Association’s ‘early days’ highlighted in Feb. 22 program

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From the Gunn Historical Museum: Together with its actual physical elegance, historic houses, well-tended general public structures, rolling, verdant hills, and generations of devoted residents, Washington is known for its energetic and prolonged-standing commitment to the arts. The Washington Art Association (WAA), established in 1952 by Margaret Practice Samsanoff and a tiny group of local artists and patrons, gave worth to and has fostered this legacy for the past 68 yrs.

The lecture will get a close appear at these folks which include the really gifted artists William Talbot, Esther Peck, Alice Snow, and Feodor Rimsky. They were being all committed to enriching the Washington group as a result of building, exhibiting, and studying about artwork. The lecture will also discover the social, political, cultural and historical environment that gave increase to the WAA’s formation. It will seem at early exhibitions and social events that set the tone for decades to abide by. The lecture will then culminate with a transient overview of in which the WAA is currently and a reflection on its ongoing legacy.

Griswold is an Impartial Specialist to Cultural and Non Profit Businesses, like the Connecticut League of Record Corporations/Connecticut Humanities, the Institute for American Indian Research, Lebanon Historical Society, the Litchfield Historical Modern society, and the Mattatuck Museum. Beforehand, she served as Curator of the Gunn Historical Museum and as Govt Director for the Seabury Modern society for the Preservation of the Glebe Residence in Woodbury, CT. She was also a Partner/Consultant at the Ericson Company Team, LLC in Woodbury.

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Photograph Captions: #1 Founders of the Washington Artwork Affiliation in 1952,

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Visitor Lecturer to Present on the Early Days of the Washington Art Affiliation