LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR

It is my great pleasure to assume the leadership of the Lyman Allyn Art Museum. I have worked at the museum since 2003 in the role of Deputy Director and Curator and I look forward to continuing to work with the wonderful Lyman Allyn staff in my new role as Interim Director.

I am particularly enthusiastic about this year’s calendar of exhibitions and all of the activity they will generate throughout the museum and across the community. Community involvement in the museum, in fact, is an especially important component to the life and future of the Lyman Allyn.

Visitors can view the current exhibition of French art from the Lyman Allyn’s permanent collection, including our sculpture by Rodin and Renoir, and paintings from the Baroque to Post-Impressionist periods. Featured this spring is an exciting new exhibition:A Work in Progress: Fifty Years of Collecting Contemporary Art at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum, which includes some wonderful recent additions to the collection. Later this year, Walter Wick: Games, Gizmos, and Toys from the Attic, based on Wick's very popular I Spy series, will be on view and is sure to be a hit with children and adults alike.

Plenty of events and programs are slated for this spring, so be sure to check our website and mark your calendars. For our members, the newsletter Columns will be in your hands shortly. For others in the community, please join us! Membership is affordable, fun, and supports the museum.

I am looking forward to seeing you here at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum.

Nancy Stula
Interim Director and Curator