Just in time for June’s graduation season, we’re taking a look back at some of our illustrious alumni artists… and architects, puppeteers, set designers, and so much more! Over our 90+ years we’ve shown artists at the Top of Their Class in all the traditional art mediums, but we’ve also shown some very special maestros of some very special disciplines.
Tony Award winning set designer Tony Walton was featured in 1991’s Tony Walton: Designing for Stage and Screen, 1995 saw a solo show of internationally acclaimed Cesar Pelli (Cesar Pelli: Architecture of Response) after he was chosen to design an addition to the Greenwich Library, and we exhibited legendary photographer George Tice in 2016’s American Lens: B&W Photography.
In 1994 we had the pleasure of bringing puppetry visionary Jim Henson home in Jim Henson: The Greenwich Years/1964-1971. Working with Jane Henson and the Jim Henson Legacy, our committee created a special exhibition uniquely focused on the years that the Hensons, along with their growing family, lived in Greenwich. This fertile period saw the birth of Sesame Street and the 1965 Academy Award nominated experimental short film, Time Piece, which we showed in a screening room.