Community Outreach
 Outreach Activities at Local Festivals
Scheduled throughout the year
The Museum views participation in local educational fairs and festivals as an integral approach to cultivating new audiences and well as supporting community programs. Each year, the education staff and its volunteer educators travel to festivals distributing information about the Museum while engaging young audiences in a hands-on project that links to the creative spirit of the original art colony. During the annual Old Lyme Midsummer Festival, the Museum presents the Hands-On, Minds-On Educational Area, to which local museums and other cultural organizations are invited to attend.
 The Museum has participated in the following outreach events in recent years:
Mystic Outdoor Art Festival, Mystic
Boats, Books, and Brushes, New London
Connecticut Family Day at Harkness, Waterford
International Festival of Arts and Ideas,
New Haven
SailFest 2001, New London
OpSail 2000, New London
 Partnerships with New Audiences
Scheduled throughout the year
Throughout the year the Museum is looking for opportunities to work collaboratively with new audiences. The annual Old Lyme Midsummer Festival provides a continuing opportunity to work with neighbors in the Old Lyme area. These connections have been extended to a community-wide after school program for middle school students called Our Town/Art Town. For the Museum's annual ArtVenture Camps, the Museum works with representatives of the Kente Club of New London as well as the Centro de la Communidad to reach families who could benefit the scholarship program.
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