"Washington, Pride of Place" Gallery Talks

The Gunn Historical Museum hosted a program of gallery talks with the artists and curators of the exhibit, "Washington, Pride of Place." The Thursday evening talks ran from late August through mid October 2000.

Sarah Griswold, former curator of the Museum, along with Ken Cornet and Joe Mustich, guest curators of the exhibit, began the series with an historical overview of the Washington landscape and a discussion of the exhibit as a whole. Subsequent talks by artists represented in the exhibit were as follows:

• August 31,  Margaret Grimes, Painter
• September 7,  Irene Hardwicke Olivieri, Painter
• September 14,  Peter Woytuk, Sculptor
• September 21,  Elizabeth MacDonald, Ceramic Sculptor
• September 28,  Wendell Minor, Illustrator [picture shown above]
• October 5,  Children’s Program with Gunn Memorial Library
• October 12,  Missy Stevens, Thread Painter and Tommy Simpson, Mixed Media Sculptor

Washington, Connecticut is blessed by a combination of natural and social environments that have inspired and supported the work of artists for well over one hundred years. "Washington, Pride of Place" celebrated both of these environments with more than 150 works in various media done by over 60 artists.

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