The Register Citizen (Torrington, CT)
Exhibit presents story of Hotchkiss environs
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LAKEVILLE — The Tremaine Art Gallery at The Hotchkiss School presents “Forest, Field and Water: A History of the Hotchkiss Landscape” Saturday through Oct. 21. Curators Joan Baldwin and Rosemary Davis tell the story of a landscape inhabited for thousands of years, a place with much to teach us.
The exhibit examines the Hotchkiss property from glaciation to Native American hunting grounds, from proposed town center to farm fields, to today’s campus. An opening reception will be held Saturday, Sept. 15, from 4 to 6 p.m.
Hotchkiss is located on an 827-acre campus in Salisbury. The campus’s southern boundary borders the Sharon town line before running through Beeslick Brook Woods to the western slope of Town Hill. It is a landscape that clocks time not in minutes, hours or even decades, but in millions of years. Using artifacts, maps, historic photographs, aerial photographs, and stunning new images by awardwinning photographer Tom Blagden Jr. ’69, this exhibit paints a portrait of a land in time.
To accompany the exhibit, The Tremaine Art Gallery will present a bird walk with Rene Wendell, Land Steward for the Nature Conservancy, Sunday, Sept. 23 at 9 a.m., a poetry reading by students in Poet in Residence Susan Kinsolving’s creative writing class, Tuesday, Oct. 2 at 6:30 p.m. Curator Joan Baldwin will give a brief talk about the exhibit at a date to be announced. All events are free and open to the public. Please visit our website for confirmation, www.hotchkiss.org/arts.
The Tremaine Gallery is located in the main building of The Hotchkiss School, 11 Interlaken Road, Lakeville. With education at the heart of its mission, the gallery hosts approximately five to six exhibitions a year. For more information about this and other events at The Hotchkiss School, phone 860.435.4423 or visit www.hotchkiss.org/arts. The Tremaine Gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday, noon to 4 p.m.