US Coast Guard Art Exhibition at AvS Gallery plus two other events at Avery Point
To celebrate this milestone UConn, Avery Point (in Groton, CT.) has three events that are taking place on our campus and are free and open to the public. We hope you will join us!
Beginning July 1st
Fifteen works by 13 artists of the U.S. Coast Guard Art Program will be on view at the University of Connecticut’s Alexey von Schlippe Gallery of Art on the Avery Point Campus, from July 1 to Sept. 30, 2015. Paintings of particular interest to the Groton community will be works depicting Coast Guard Academy cadets aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Eagle, which is home ported in nearby New London. Several other works will depict Coast Guard stations in New England.
This will mark the first ever exhibit of Coast Guard art at the Alexey von Schlippe Gallery. The exhibition is part of Connecticut’s summer-long celebration of the rich history of the Coast Guard. This year marks the service’s 225th birthday. In tandem with this show will be an exhibition of 14 reproductions at Groton’s Municipal Building. These will feature Coast Guard activities in District One, the district in which Connecticut is a part.
The Coast Guard Art Program (COGAP), which began in 1981, utilizes fine art as an outreach tool for educating diverse audiences about the United States Coast Guard. Today, more than ever, the service addresses an abundance of challenges as it works to maintain the nation’s security at home and abroad and executes its other statutory missions such as search and rescue and environmental protection. COGAP art provides visual testimony to the unique contribution the Coast Guard makes to the nation in its multifaceted role as a military, humanitarian and law enforcement organization.
COGAP members—most of whom are professional artists—donate their works of art to the program. Today the collection contains nearly 2,000 pieces celebrating the work of the Coast Guard’s approximately 40,400 active duty members.
The Alexey von Schlippe Gallery is located at 1084 Shennecossett Rd. in Groton. To learn more about COGAP and the Alexey von Schlippe Gallery visit www.uscg.mil/art and www.averypointarts.uconn.edu/home.html.
This exhibition will be on view through September. Gallery hours are wed.- sun., noon-4pm
July 16th at 7pm the coast guard band will perform on the lawn in back of the Branford House. Please come with a picnic and chairs or blankets and enjoy the evening!
July 30th at 7pm come join us for a presentation by Town Historian Jim Streeter providing a historical overview regarding the former United States Coast Guard Training Station which was once located in Groton. The presentation will include photographs when the station was in operation as well as some “little known” facts and stories about the Station and the men who were stationed there.
For more information, contact: Julia Pavone at julia.pavone@uconn.edu