Florence Griswold Museum

05/29/2026

Yankee Magazine awarded Cafe Flo 🏆 "Best Restaurant with a View – Connecticut"! 🏆 How exciting! Congratulations to our friends and partners at Gourmet Galley! 🥂Chef Terri is the best! Watch for news of exciting new offerings at Café Flo soon! Want to discover for yourself how delicious lunch along the Lieutenant River can be? Make your reservations soon! https://flogris.org/cafe-flo/

Pictured: Chef Terri Conderino and Museum Executive Director Peter Steere

05/28/2026

Sunday, June 7 at 2pm "Back to The Future: The Avant-Garde is an Address" Join Ellen Carey, an acclaimed lens-based artist, photographer, educator, whose work "Caesura" (2016), is featured in the current exhibition "Revelations" at the Florence Griswold Museum.

Carey explores photography as a visual art form at the forefront of the avant-garde, highlighting its capacity for disruption, experimentation, and transformation. With a career spanning over four decades, Carey is known for her pioneering work in abstract, minimal and experimental photo-objects, all unique, highlighted in her photograms and Polaroid 20 X 24 work.
Register here: http://flogris.org/.../artist-talk-back-to-the-future.../

For more about Carey’s work, visit: Ellencareyphotography.com

Check out video by Curator Amy Kurtz Lansing https://youtu.be/-c9ae3gSzBI?si=_fc4OMGNbde0eVBw

"Revelations: A Decade of Collecting, 2016–2026" is on view at the Florence Griswold Museum through June 14.

05/27/2026

This week marks ten years since Jennifer Stettler Parsons, Ph.D., joined the team at the Florence Griswold Museum!

In 2016, Jenny started as Assistant Curator, with appointments to Associate Curator (2019), Curator of Exhibitions (2024), and Senior Curator in 2026. She specializes in American, modern, and contemporary art, and established the Museum's Artist-in-Residence program in 2019. Holding degrees in art history from the University of Virginia, George Washington University, and the University of Delaware, Jenny previously held positions and fellowships at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

At the Florence Griswold Museum, Jenny has curated significant exhibitions such as "Fragile Earth: The Naturalist Impulse in Contemporary Art", "Dana Sherwood: Animal Appetites and Other Encounters in Wildness", and "Their Kindred Earth: Photographs by William Earle Williams". Her scholarship has added several publications to the Museum's imprint, including catalogues for those three exhibitions, among others.

She has represented the Museum at national conferences and statewide engagements, as well as an internationally screened film "The Artist's Garden: American Impressionism produced by Exhibitions on Screen". She is currently working on several traveling exhibitions for the Museum including a partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Historic Artists' Homes and Studios.

Please join us in thanking Jenny for her outstanding contributions and congratulating her on this major achievement.

05/27/2026

Did you know that the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme is a proud member of Museums for All? The program encourages ☀️ people who receive food assistance (SNAP) benefits to visit the Museum for free. ☀️ There is no limit to how many times a person can visit, and each free admission is good for up to four people with the presentation of a SNAP EBT card. The Museum also offers Free Admission for:
☀️ Library Passes — good for two adult & two children Admissions. Check with your local library.
☀️ Active Duty Military and Veterans and their families as part of the Blue Star Families Program
☀️ Employees & Docents of other museums with ID or business card
☀️ North American Reciprocal Museum (NARM) Membership holders. https://narmassociation.org
See you soon!

05/26/2026

Many thanks to Joshua Lamb Photography for highlighting the Museum. What a great review of all our offerings. Joshua does a great job of sharing Connecticut treasures–and all with the flick of a dart! 🎯

05/26/2026

Making summer plans? Visit Florence Griswold Museum, the home of American Impressionism, in historic Old Lyme. Art, history, and stunning grounds and gardens on the beautiful shoreline of Connecticut. See you soon!

https://flogris.org

05/25/2026

We’re excited to share that 95 works by artists from across the state have been selected for our summer exhibition, "Patchwork: Connecticut Artists Consider 250" on view June 27 through November 8.

"The jurors were delighted and deeply impressed by the breadth of talent and creativity that Connecticut’s artistic community demonstrated through their submissions,” notes Jenny Parsons, curator of the exhibition, “The selected artworks offer a range of unique, important, and poignant reflections on the United States' Semiquincentennial. We can't wait to see the work in our galleries and meet the artists!"

Thank you to all those who participated. Connecticut is filled with talented artists!

https://www.lisakereszi.com/
Lisa Kereszi, 4th of July at Lime Rock Park, Salisbury, Conn. 1999. Archival inkjet print, 38 x 29 in. Courtesy of the artist

05/24/2026

Visit "Revelations: A Decade of Collecting, 2016–2026" before it closes June 14. Curator Amy Kurtz Lansing takes a deep dive into
"Ultramarine," an oil and charcoal on canvas created by Richard Lytle (born 1935) in 1973.

Welcoming something new can unlock revelations. This exhibition highlights selected additions to the Florence Griswold Museum’s collections over the past decade, a number of which will be displayed for the first time. Art that joins our existing collection introduces its own excitement and fresh perspectives. Pairing old and new works sparks novel ideas and connections, which are illuminated in this exhibition through thematic conversations between the artworks now making their home at the Museum.

Samuel Stark

Revelations: A Decade of Collecting, 2016–2026On view at the Flore...

05/21/2026

Sunday, June 7 at 2pm "Back to The Future: The Avant-Garde is an Address" Join Ellen Carey, an acclaimed lens-based artist, photographer, educator, whose work "Caesura" (2016), is featured in the current exhibition "Revelations" at the Florence Griswold Museum.

Carey explores photography as a visual art form at the forefront of the avant-garde, highlighting its capacity for disruption, experimentation, and transformation. With a career spanning over four decades, Carey is known for her pioneering work in abstract, minimal and experimental photo-objects, all unique, highlighted in her photograms and Polaroid 20 X 24 work.

Register here: http://flogris.org/calendar/artist-talk-back-to-the-future-the-avant-garde-is-an-address/

For more about Carey’s work, visit: Ellencareyphotography.com

"Revelations: A Decade of Collecting, 2016–2026" is on view at the Florence Griswold Museum through June 14.

05/16/2026

Register for Art Camps (for Adults, too!) 🖼️ Wee Faerie Village Camp for grades K through 3 🎨 A three-day mini-camp perfect for the little faerie lovers in your life. Campers explore a variety of skill-building faerie-based activities. Each camper will complete their own faerie house and magical faerie book. Camp includes wings, a t-shirt, materials, and snacks.

Art Colony Camps For students entering grades 1 through 3 or 
students entering grades 4 through 6 🎨 For five days campers investigate the Museum’s exhibitions, paint, play games, and more. Camps include a t-shirt, all art-making materials, and daily snacks. Each week culminates in a fun art show displaying the week of student projects for family and friends.

🎨 Creative Adults can release their inner artists during a one-day camp designed just for them. Adult campers engage in several multimedia creative projects designed both to foster creativity and nurture key artistic skills.

Camp tote bags, snacks, and an end-of-day glass of wine included, as well as all creative materials. Bring a lunch to enjoy midday.

https://flogris.org/calendar/category/camp/list/

05/15/2026

Thursday, June 18 FREE movie! What else but the family favorite "Night at the Museum!"