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Snow piles up in front of Early Dawn Farm

Blizzard Winterscapes: Scenes from Lyme and Old Lyme

James Meehan presents a collection of quiet winterscapes captured on Tuesday as the rest of Lyme and Old Lyme busily dug out from snowfall not seen in years.

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Nine paintings are shown on a wall at the 2025 Future Choices show.
Calling All Student Artists: Shoreline Arts Alliance Invites Entries for Annual Competition

High school students in Lyme, Old Lyme and across the Shoreline region are invited to enter the 42nd Annual Future Choices visual arts competition.

In this painting, students with clipboards look ahead while one girl points with a pencil.
One Gallery, Five Acts at Lyme Art Association, Feb. 27 – April 10

The upcoming exhibition features five juried shows on themes ranging from abstract art to faces and figures. An opening reception will be held March 1.

Florence Griswold Museum Names Interim Director Peter Steere to Permanent Post

Peter Steere, former chief operating officer of Yale Health and acting Florence Griswold Museum director, has been chosen to lead the museum into the future.

Lymes’ Senior Center Artists Present ‘Golden Age’ Exhibit at Old Lyme Library, Reception Feb. 14

Senior center artists are exhibiting mixed-media work at the Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library through March, with a portion of sales supporting programs for seniors.

Lyme Academy Brings Metropolitan Museum of Art Curators to Old Lyme

The curators will explore Finnish modernism and 19th-century French painting through the work of Helene Schjerfbeck and Jean-Léon Gérôme.

Collage of headshots of violinist Ani Kavafian, cellist Peter Wiley, flutist Tara Helen O'Connor and pianist Shai Wosner
UPDATED: This Weekend in Lyme and Old Lyme, Jan. 23-25

We've compiled this wintry mix of events coming up (or not) this weekend.

Connecticut College Students Bring Fresh Perspective to Historic Photography in Lyman Allyn Show

'Photography and the Painted Image,' an exhibition curated as part of a Connecticut College course last fall, will be on view at Lyman Allyn Art Museum from Jan. 17 through April 12.

Cellist Mike Block and Pianist Jeffrey Kahane Join Violinist Tessa Lark in Old Lyme, Feb. 7 & 8

Musical Masterworks said the trio of acclaimed artists brings “expressive depth” to the intimate chamber setting inside the First Congregational Church of Old Lyme.

New Development Director Named as I-Park Prepares to Celebrate 25 Years

The internationally recognized artists’ colony has announced the appointment of Sarah Weatherley as its new development director.