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Title:	Dana Sherwood: Animal Appetites & Other Encounters in Wildness
Date:	5/21/2022 - 9/18/2022
Address:	Florence Griswold Museum, 96 Lyme St.
Location:	Old Lyme, CT
Hours:	Tue.-Sun. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Cost/Cover:	Adults $10, seniors $9, students $8, children (12 and under) free.
Web Page:	https://florencegriswoldmuseum.org/sherwood-animal-appetites ...
Contact Info:	(860) 434-5542

Details:

In her first solo museum exhibition, artist Dana Sherwood (b. 1977) brings together films, sculpture installations, and oil and watercolor painting to interrogate the relationship between wild nature and domestic culture. Drawing on her research into cross-species communication, this exhibition is a whimsical, thought-provoking rumination on connections between humankind and our animal neighbors.

Last year Sherwood served as the Florence Griswold Museum’s Artist-in-Residence, creating two new commissions that responded to Lyme Art Colony history. On an outdoor reimagination of one of the Griswold House period rooms, the artist staged an inviting banquet, where she filmed nocturnal animals feasting. Come see the film and set in the exhibition, and find out which creatures visited! Inspired by fantasies like Alice in Wonderland, Sherwood fills the dining room of the boardinghouse with gleaming, candy-like sculptures and terrariums filled with flowers, cake, and hungry snails.