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Animal/Vegetable/Mineral:
An Artist's Guide to the World
Saturday, June 8
The exhibition includes some of the best-known works from the Museum's permanent collection displayed alongside recent works by contemporary artists. The exhibition takes both its name and organizing principle from a children's game that presumes the whole of the world can be neatly divided into three categories. Read more... |
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Anticipator Day
Saturday, June 8
The Debut of Matthew Geller's Sculpture Anticipator
Included with Museum Admission Be one of the first to marvel at the new outdoor sculpture Anticipator. Combining a fallen tree originally planted by Miss Florence, corten steel, lights, and mist, this work of art is sure to provide a memorable experience. Read more about the sculpture... Related hands-on crafts from 11am-4pm.
At 2pm join dancer L'Ana Burton for a self-expressive dance class. Inspired by the alphabet, Burton leads families about the grounds to discover letters and shapes in nature to be used in a final dance. The A is for Anticipator!
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Blooms with a View
 Friday, June 14 through Sunday, June 16 Enjoy stunning flower arrangements interpreting works of art in the exhibition. Playing off colors, lines, shapes, and subject matter, each display reflects its inspiration in masterful ways. Included with Museum admission. |
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 Please join us for our Sixth Annual Garden Luncheon Friday, June 14 at Noon
- Enjoy Blooms with a View in the Krieble Gallery
- An informal tour of Miss Florence's historic gardens by the Garden Gang
- Lunch by Gourmet Galley under a festive tent overlooking the river.
- The unveiling of a specially-commissioned, Guy Wolff garden container
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Tickets for this event are $100. Please contact, Kristin at 860.434.5542 ext. 122 or Kristin.
A Luncheon En Plein Air supports stewardship of the Museum's historic gardens and landscape.
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Fun for Kids
Sunday, June 9
5pm
Decorating Flower Pots with Flair
Included with Museum Admission
 Saturday, June 15
2pm Clay Day: Jewelry Inspired by the Garden
Included with Museum Admission Join artist Melanie Goss for an afternoon of fashioning flower jewelry with clay. Make a necklace blooming with colorful beads and flower pendants.  Sunday, June 16
1-5pm Father's Day Tie-Dye Tee Shirts: $5; program included with Museum Admission
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Connecticut's Historic
Gardens Day 
Sunday, June 23 12-4pm Free access to gardens Enjoy the Museum's grounds on this special state-wide celebration of historic gardens. See cthistoricgardens.org for information on all 14 garden sites. At the Florence Griswold Museum, outdoor activities are free from 1-5pm. Visitors are invited to stroll through "Miss Florence's" historic gardens and watch members of the Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists as they work on paintings featuring models posed in the gardens and along the river. Painting materials will be supplied so that visitors can try their hand at creating their own masterpieces. Families can go on the new garden scavenger hunt. Museum admission applies to House and galleries.
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More June Activities
Photography Workshops, Art*Bar Happy Hour, Cafe Flo Dinner, Afterschool Art Studio, Gallery Talk
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Friday, June 7
9am-3pm
Join the Museum's Garden Gang for a sale of beautiful plants and garden specimens, featuring heirloom perennials, roses, herbs, and succulents. Price range from $5 to $50. Many are similar to those in Miss Florence's garden. Proceeds benefit the Museum's garden projects.
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Bushed: Surveying the Shrubbery with Sheila
Tuesday, June 11
11am and 2pm
Included with Museum Admission
Walk the grounds with Landscape Historian Sheila Wertheimer as she identifies fothergilla, winterberry, azaleas, mountain laurel, etc. and explains their ideal care and conditions.
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A Potted History of Gardening 
Wednesday, June 12
3pm
Susan Tamulevich, Garden Historian and Executive Director of the New London Maritime Society's Custom House Maritime Museum
$7 (members $5)
Register Online
Join Garden Historian Susan Tamulevich as she tells the story of the evolution of the common flower pot based on her collection of North American examples. What began as a collaboration with Guy Wolff and Jim Keeling of the Whichford Pottery has since grown into a remarkable collection of several hundred vernacular flowerpots, from traditional horticulture ware to contemporary biodegradables.
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Ted and Larry's Excellent Arborists' Adventure: The Tree Hugger's Tour
Thursday, June 13
11am and 2pm
Included with Museum Admission
Join Arborist Larry Dvorsky and Facilities Manager Ted Gaffney for a walking tour of the trees at the Museum. This dynamic duo introduces you to several of the Museum's top specimen trees - such as the large Black Walnut, our lovely Pagoda, the unique White Oak (scion of the Charter Oak), our rare American Elm, and the European Cut-Leaf Beech - and explains their ideal care and conditions.
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