Gallery Hours
Monday - Saturday
10:00 am - 4:00 pm

2008 Graduating Seniors:

CARMEN ROSE ABBOTT, BFA Painting
CHARLES CUNNINGHAM, BFA Painting
ADAM GORDON, BFA Painting
ALLAN HARWOOD, BFA Sculpture
ERNESTO LEAL, BFA Sculpture
JASON S. LITTON, BFA Sculpture
YELIZAVETA MASALIMOVA, BFA Sculpture
JERRY MONTOYA, BFA Painting
COREY EISNER NEMKOV, BFA Painting
SUSAN NICHOLS, BFA Painting
HANNAH ROSSI, BFA Sculpture
CLAES PHILIP SCHAMBERG, BFA    Painting
TARA SMITH, BFA Painting
DAVID VALENTINE WHELAN JR. BFA Painting

Join us for a special showing of the
award winning film

"Dear Beautiful"

produced by faculty member Roland Becerra. Learn the story of Roland's narrative paintings that were
turned into film and shown at
the Cannes Film Festival in May 2007.

RSVP 860-434-3571 x 117 

LECTURE, BOOK SIGNING & EXHIBITION

Featuring Christian Peltenburg-Brechneff
Friday, February 15, 2008
Lecture, 6:00PM, Lecture Hall

Peltenburg-Brechneff will lecture on his travels in the east and art work from his book, Homage, Encounters with the East.

Book-signing, refreshments and exhibition of works from the book will follow at 6:45 pm, Sill House Gallery.

Exhibition of works will continue on Saturday, February 16, 2008, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, and Sunday, February 17, 2008, 2:00 to 4:00 pm. EXHIBITION HAS BEEN EXTENDED THROUGH FEBRUARY 21, 2008!  Sill House Gallery hours are 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.

A substantial portion of proceeds from the sale of books and art work will be donated by the artist to Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts.

The Persistent Echo of Earlier Assumptions, acrylic on canvas, by Brad Guarino

FULBRIGHT FELLOW BRAD GUARINO

Lyme Academy College ALUMNUS

TO LECTURE AT THE COLLEGE ON his experience in bulgaria

Brad Guarino, the first graduate of Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts to win a Fulbright Fellowship, will speak about his experience pursuing post-graduate studies at the Bulgarian National Academy of Art in Sofia last year. The lecture will take place in the Lecture Hall of the College’s Administrative Center, 84 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT on Friday, March 7, 2008 at 6:00 pm.

Guarino will speak about his path to the Fulbright, his experience in Bulgaria, and the body of work he produced while there.  Fee is $10 and will be accepted at the door. Due to limited seating, pre-registration is required by calling 860-434-3571, ext. 117 or by email at adeselding@lymeacademy.edu.

Guarino and his wife traveled throughout the small Balkan country and experienced a culture far removed from their own. Bulgaria’s long history includes five hundred years of Ottoman domination, centuries of disputes with its Balkan neighbors, and forty-five years of Communist rule. Last year, Bulgaria joined the European Union — a short seventeen years after Bulgaria’s change from a Communist government. The dizzying changes occurring in Bulgaria are creating conditions and behaviors that are at once bizarre and poetic. Abandoned Communist-era building projects stand unfinished alongside active modern construction sites; cell phones and satellite dishes are often found in the same households as horse carts and scythes; people who send email and surf the Internet still insist on driving across town to pay their bills in person. Many Bulgarians are still unclear of their place in this new society.

In 1976 the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts was founded with the goal of reinventing the art college and the education of artists. Elisabeth Gordon Chandler established the school with accomplished artists as faculty. They shared her vision of advancing traditional techniques and skills based on fundamentals of representational drawing, sculpture and painting. Today, as a BFA-granting institution, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts has become a preeminent destination for emerging artists, and is exclusively devoted to teaching representational fine arts.