MISSION STATEMENT

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Lindsay Aromin

During my travels, I feel drawn to flowers for their vibrant colors, tones and fantastic textures. Going through my photos I realized I took more pictures of flowers than people. Only my museum shots outnumbered them. I have even stopped the car so I could go out and take pictures of some vivid colors that caught my eye along the roadside.

I wanted to tell a story about artists and how we worked and thought and planned before we picked up a brush. My paintings start with one of my photos and devolve into a small painting and then into an abstraction of that painting. They are happy paintings that come out of a difficult time in my life and also in our country's life. I believe that you have to look at the brighter side of things and art will take you there

My background in art is strange. I was told as a third-grader that I could not draw and I took music lessons and I never had an art class. After taking a drawing-one class in a local college at the ripe old age of 52 and then transferring to U Conn where I graduated with a BFA Summa Cum Laude at age 58 and then on to my MFA at Vermont College at 60 years. After school, I reached out to Norwich Arts Gallery and have been a member since then.

The Norwich Arts Center was formed in 1987 to cultivate the region's appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts by providing affordable cultural enrichment through diverse visual, literary and performing arts programs and events.

GOALS

To provide cultural enrichment to its service region through a diverse selection of artistic programming.
To increase the number and diversity of cultural activities in our communities and to broadly publicize them.
To foster an appreciation for the work of local and regional artists and provide opportunities for them to present their work.
To involve the youth of the community in the arts and stimulate and encourage development of their creativity.
To cultivate the development of the Chelsea Arts District.
To be a regional resource for the arts.

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