Known originally as The Greenwich Society of Artists, our founders and pioneer members included many distinguished artists and art patrons. Our first president was Edward Clark Potter, sculptor of the lions at the New York Public Library. Early members were Leonard Ochtman, Elmer MacRae, George Wharton Edwards, J. Alden Twachtman (son of John Henry Twachtman) and others associated with the famous Cos Cob School, several of them leaders in the American Impressionist movement.

Exhibitions of the Society were held in the hilltop house donated to the town by Robert M. Bruce, when it became the Bruce Museum. In 1928 the prestigious Annual Members' Exhibition moved to the art gallery of the Greenwich Library.

Studio School

The Greenwich Art Society assumed its present name in 1958 when it incorporated as a non-profit, tax-exempt organization and initiated year-round art classes with professional teachers for both children and adults. Today our Studio School offers students at all skill levels – beginner, intermediate and advanced – classes in drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking. Adult student enrollment tops 300 per year. All classes (save those en plein air) take place in our fully equipped teaching studio on the third floor of the Senior/Arts Center on Greenwich Avenue. We hold classes mornings, afternoons and evenings every day except Sundays and holidays. Our weekly classes are organized into fall, winter, spring and summer terms. Classes last from 1 hour for children

to 2- to 3 hours for adults.

Gallery and Exhibitions

We have on the second floor of the Senior/Arts Center a gallery for changing exhibitions of works by members, faculty, students and other selected artists. We present annual exhibitions in the Bendheim Gallery of the Greenwich Arts Council, the Flinn Gallery of the Greenwich Library, the Gertrude White Gallery of the Greenwich YWCA and at the Garden Education Center of Greenwich. We also have individual artist exhibitions at local banks and the Nathaniel Witherell Home. Cash prizes are awarded at all major shows.

Workshops

Occasionally the Studio School organizes special workshops and demonstrations concerning specific media or subject matter, as for example water based ink and silk aquatint printmaking.

Gallery Trips

Periodically our students and faculty organize informal trips to New York to visit art galleries and

special museum exhibitions.

Greenwich Art Society Officers
Photographs by Lucia Ravens
Shauna Holiman President	Arnold Braff Treasurer
Richelle Hodza Ivarsson Secretary	Karen Heffner V.P. Major Juried Exhibitions
Penny Putnam V.P. Graphics	Carol Nipomnich Dixon V.P. Classes Photograph by John Dixon
Rosemary Webber Community Exhibitions	Lucia Ravens V.P. Photography
Douglas More and Liana Moonie,former co-presidents of GAS
Barbara Simonson V.P. Publicity Photograph Unavailable	Bill Grant V.P. Exhibitions

 

Presidents’ Advisory Board
Peg Benison
Mary Branch
Barbara Kurtz	Historian
Liana Moonie
Douglas More
Joan Ogden
Creighton Reed	GCA Liaison
Kurt Schaffir
Staff
Anita Carlin	Office Manager
Pamela More	Office Manager