Upcoming Event: Learning to Look- Family Art Program on Landscape Painting

Learning to Look: Family Art Program on Landscape Painting

Saturday, April 1st, 2017 at 2 PM 

Perrot's Children's Wing

Perrot Library is pleased to welcome back Alice Scovell Coleman, a lecturer with the Learning to Look program, for an afternoon of art. This program will help us welcome spring by focusing on landscape painting and the Bruce Museum's current exhibit Alfred Sisley (1839-1899): Impressionist Master. Ms. Coleman will bring the Sisley exhibit to life in the context of landscape art. Children will be invited to create their own Sisley-inspired pastel painting after the program.

More info on the Bruce Museum's Sisley exhibit: https://brucemuseum.org/site/exhibitions_detail/alfred-sisley-1839-1899-impressionist-master

Learning to Look, an art history and appreciation program for students from kindergarten through high school, was created by Greenwich residents Diane Darst and Sue Ann Williamson. It has been taught by Learning to Look-trained teachers to over 75,000 students at nearly 100 schools in the tri-state area alone.

Upcoming Event: Overview, with author Benjamin Grant

Upcoming Event: 

Overview, with author Benjamin Grant

Wednesday, March 29th, 2017, at 7:30 PM

Benjamin Grant started his Daily Overview account on Instagram in December 2013 with the lofty goal to change the way we see our planet. Three years later, the project was turned into a best-selling book, and today his satellite images of Earth are shared with more than half a million people. Join us to get the behind-the-scenes story of how Daily Overview grew from a viral Instagram account into a best-selling book and a multi-faceted business.

Upcoming Event: Masterpiece Dialogues, with art historian Kathryn Calley Galitz

Upcoming Event:

Masterpiece Dialogues, with art historian Kathryn Calley Galitz

Wednesday, April 5th, 2017, at 7:30 PM

Perrot Library invites you on a grand tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection with art historian Kathryn Calley Galitz. As a scholar, curator, and lecturer with the Met, Galitz is the perfect guide as she discusses her latest book, The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Masterpiece Paintings, which explores 500 works of art spanning 5,000 years. This is the first large, general survey to celebrate the greatest and most iconic paintings of one of the largest museums in the world.

Upcoming Event: Gothic Romance Tales by Candlelight

Upcoming Event at Perrot:

GOTHIC ROMANCE TALES BY CANDLELIGHT

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2017, at 7:30 PM

Mysterious stories of love, revenge, death, and betrayal by Emily Bronte, Kate Chopin, and Louisa May Alcott-- performed by Rita Parisi from Waterfall Productions