RETIRED MEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GREENWICH, Inc. (RMA)
Invites you to its meeting, April 9, 2025, at 11 am at
Christ Church, Parish Hall, 254 East Putnam Ave., Greenwich The program will also be shown on Zoom: https://bit.ly/30IBj21
Carolyn Keogh
“Frederic Church’s Olana”
Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) was one of the leading American landscape painters of the 19th century, and a central figure in the Hudson River School of painters. His masterwork was Olana, an sprawling estate near Hudson, NY, boasting an eclectic mansion with spectacular views of the Hudson River and the Catskill Mountains. It has been designated a National Historic Landmark. In this lecture Carolyn Keogh will examine Church and his artist-designed house and surrounding landscaping through the lenses of art, ecology, and place.
Carolyn will discuss how deeply rooted Olana and Church’s practice is in the inspiration of place, discuss Church’s engagements with the emerging field of ecology in the 19th century and explore his four-decade-long development of Olana as a work of three dimensional landscape design.
Carolyn Keogh is the director of education and public programs at The Olana Partnership where she oversees programs for diverse learners of all ages at the renowned landmark historic site. Previously, she managed school, youth, and teen programs at the Guggenheim Museum. She has presented at conferences on intergenerational art and technology programs and on inclusive farm interpretation and is a member of the New York City Museum Educators Roundtable. Her scholarship on empathy-building, art museum education, and public programming was published in “Theory and Practice” in 2019 and “History News” in 2022. Carolyn received her BA from NYU in art history and an MA in art history with a focus on art museum education from City College.
Our next speaker, on April 16, will be Seth Grae, President and CEO, Lightbridge Corp., on “Nuclear Energy’s Place in Power Generation.”
The Greenwich Retired Men’s Association offers a free program every Wednesday that is open to the public, both men and women; no reservations are required. Our social break starts at 10:40 am followed promptly by our presentation at 11:00 am. For additional information see https://greenwichrma.org.
