From This Day Forward: Looking Back at Greenwich Weddings

Fall 2011

Guest Curator: Kathleen Craughwell Varda
Coordinator: Kathleen Motes Bennewitz

American weddings and wedding traditions from the time of the American Revolution to the present day will be examined in this unique exhibition of artifacts, textiles and art related to weddings. The show will focus on the wedding day and how the ceremony has changed, how society’s perception of weddings has evolved, how men and women perceived this event, what outside forces influenced the manner in which weddings were celebrated and how wedding traditions emerged and evolved. Supported by a grant from the New Alliance Foundation. 

Growing Up Among Artists in “The Old House": Clarissa and Constant MacRae

To be Announced

Curator/Coordinator: Kathleen Motes Bennewitz with Anne H. Young and Karen Frederick

Family life at the Holley boarding house during the late art colony years beginning in 1904, is the focus of this special exhibition. Letters, postcards, photographs, and other manuscripts along with paintings and drawings reveal life at the house from the birth of Constant and Elmer MacRae’s twin daughters through the years surrounding World War I. Clarissa and Constant MacRae grew up in a world of artists, writers, and intellectuals. The show will explore child life in the early 20th and how Elmer MacRae captured fleeting childhood moments using drawing and painting as well as “snapshot” photography.