OLD LYME — This Saturday, Nov. 7, from 5 to 6 p.m., the Florence Griswold Museum hosts the Annual Samuel Thorne Memorial Lecture. This lecture has been rescheduled from April and is now a virtual event. This free event is limited to 500 spaces.
Randall Griffey, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art discusses Kent Monkman’s Great Hall Commission for The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Griffey discusses Cree artist Kent Monkman’s mistikôsiwak (The Wooden Boat People) 2019. These two monumental canvases on view in The Met’s Great Hall explore themes of colonization, immigration, loss, and resilience through the lens of Indigenous people.
For the commission, the Toronto-based Monkman mined European and American art in The Met’s collection, re-examining conventional representations of Indigenous peoples in the Western art canon. Griffey will describe how The Met’s work with contemporary artists like Monkman can offer challenging and diverse perspectives on the Euro-US shared history.
If you are interested in this program, register at this link. You will then be sent a link to watch the program.
This event is co-sponsored by the Connecticut League of History Organizations.