RETIRED MEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GREENWICH, Inc. (RMA)
Invites you to its meeting, April 30, 2025, at 11 am at
Christ Church, Parish Hall, 254 East Putnam Ave., Greenwich, CT.
The program will also be shown on Zoom at https://bit.ly/30IBj21
Christi Moraga
“History and Highlights of the Wadsworth Atheneum
Museum of Art”
Explore the history of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and highlights from its expansive collection in this docent-guided presentation. Founded in 1842, the Wadsworth is located in Hartford and is America’s oldest continuously-operating public art museum. Its collection of nearly 50,000 works of art spans from antiquity to the 21st century. Highlights include the Morgan collection of Greek and Roman antiquities and European decorative arts; world-renowned Baroque and Surrealist paintings; an unsurpassed collection of Hudson River School landscapes; European and American Impressionist paintings; Modernist masterpieces; the Wallace Nutting collection of American colonial furniture and decorative arts; African American art and artifacts; and contemporary art. More information is on the website, thewadsworth.org.
Christi Moraga has a B.A and M.A from Middlebury College in Vermont. She became a full-time docent for the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in 2018 after retiring from 36 years of teaching French, Spanish and ESL in Farmington, Connecticut. She prepares in-person and virtual tours for adults, school groups and families. Christi has been instrumental at bringing more World Languages into the museum through preparing tours in French and Spanish for the community and high school classes.
Christi has served on the Board of the Docent Council in various capacities – secretary, co-leader of the Extended Trip, and is chairperson of the Connecticut Art Docent Network. She likes sharing ideas with other docents and has proudly represented the Wadsworth Docent Council at the National Docent Symposium in 2022 and 2024. Christi does deep dives into specific art objects of the Wadsworth Atheneum by regularly researching and writing for the Docent Dialogue. She loves language, culture, history and of course, art history. Drawing from all of these, she delves into her assignments with passion!
Our next speaker, on May 7, will be Serdar Arat, artist and educator, on “Art Fakes and Forgeries.”
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.
