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June 2019 Complimentary A guide to finer living in publications ® Connecticut & abroad. www.inkct.com Vol 15 Issue 163 2019 1 www.inkct.com ISSUE CONTENTS Features MAY 2019 Columns, Reviews, Events Crusty Old Diver Tarpon Springs, Bowfishing Adventure pg. 26 Little Pub Cardinal Points It’s Food, Fun, & Familiarity Vultures in Love, White-Faced Vulture pg. 52 at the People’s Pub Music, Mirth & Mojo pg. 10 Play Like a Girl! pg. 62 The Cheesemonger Cheese Shop Top Ten pg. 74 On the Vine Austria pg. 76 Make YOUR Point! Food Thoughts from Italy Lombo di Merluzzo con Fagioli Relax, Recharge, Revisit pg. 78 The Saybrook Point Inn June Events Upcoming Events in Connecticut pg. 80 pg. 18 INK is much more than a magazine. It is an illustration of Connecticut life. A drive down winding roads past innocent looking gravel driveways. There are big things happening at the other end of those driveways. Our state is filled with the most amazing people doing incredible things. Sol LeWitt’s Chester How a World-Renowned Ingenuity and purposeful living abounds. You really never know who Artist Enriched Local Life you are talking to. Artisanship is second nature here; art, culture, and pg . 32 commerce intertwine. Whether you call Connecticut home, or you’ve come to “get away from it all” one thing is for certain. You know what you love about being here. Our devotion is and always has been to capture the “Connecticut experience” one story at a time. “Your neighbor just designed a new postage stamp and the gentleman down the street discovered Machu Pichu.” For over a decade, Ink Publications has Jungle Bugs Infesting Old Lyme Art Colony documented Connecticut residents and life here in the Nutmeg state. Today more than ever, we take great pride in telling these stories . pg. 42 from all of us at Ink On the Cover: Insect inspired artwork by Jennifer Angus whose work is on display at the Florence Griswold Museum. 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If you know of a person or place of interest, please submit your ideas to: [email protected] INK PUBLISHING, LLC 71 Maple Avenue, Old Saybrook, CT 06475 We will do our best to put your ideas in INK. email: [email protected] www.inkct.com 42 43 ungle Bu gs Infesting J Old Lyme Art Colony Artist profile by Tom Sobeleski nsects transform. Their very existence comes costumes adorned with bee- Iabout by transformation. Some scientists tle wings will grace Ms. say they're the engineers of our ecosystem, Florence’s bedroom. transforming it in countless ways to benefit our lives. Insects also entertain. In a popular It’s all part of an aware- children's toy line, beetles, grasshoppers, and ness-raising novel exhibit, Fragile Earth: The Naturalist wasps transform into warriors. But can insects - Impulse in Contemporary Art, bugs - be used as art to transform the debate on view from June 1 to on climate change? Artist and professor September 8 at the Florence Jennifer Angus thinks so. Jennifer Angus’s installed insects. Photography by Ron Blunt, Courtesy of the Griswold Museum in Smithsonian American Art Museum Old Lyme. Angus' This summer, Angus is installation is one of four contemporary some feel when viewing her displays. By transforming the his- artists who use art to call attention to design, her work creates a certain tension. toric boarding house of ecological changes in our midst, that While wallpaper is a charming interior decor, the Florence Griswold threaten not only animal and plant sur- insects are detested in most homes. Many peo- Museum into a dramatic vival, but humanity's as well. Griswold’s ple impulsively cringe with revulsion at the and thought-provoking Assistant Curator, Jennifer Parsons, mere sight of them. Some visitors may feel that showcase, using an array who curates Fragile Earth, said, “each the insects are being exploited or abused. It's a of exotic insects from artist was selected for the strength of conversation Angus doesn't shy away from. distant corners of the their work and practices, as well as the “Whether you agree with me or not,” she said, world. Preserved insects profound message their work conveys “we end up talking and thinking about pinned to the hallway Photo James Harnois about the impact of human intervention insects." Those who take offense are a tiny walls in ornamental on the environment.” minority, she said. "Typically their concerns designs will simulate wallpaper, jars of insect are related to the protection of insects, and that preserves and insects arranged under glass With her congenial manner and contagious puts us on the same page. My work is all about domes will fill the period rooms, cabinet smile, Angus is not disposed to making informing people of the importance of insects drawers will be insect playgrounds, and adversaries but understands the discomfort to our environment and world well-being." Photo by James Harnois 44 the patterns highlight the futility of “man wanting to create order to control Mother Nature." Her wish is "for people to enter and just say 'wow,' I've never seen anything like this before and to have that sense of won- der." Putting on an exhibit that transforms a historic art colony into an advocate for environmental activism may Photo by Dan Froese seem out of phase to some. But the idea is just a continuation of the Walking into a gallery in Washington, D.C. inclinations of the original artists who and seeing Angus’ cabinet of insects and summered in Old Lyme a century ago. rarities from around the world “was a major Those artists were steeped in the naturalist wow moment,” Parsons said. Her immediate tradition, scouring the local countryside reaction was to create a show that honors the to trumpet its flora and fauna in paintings legacy of the naturalist instincts of the Old and drawings. Among them, notable Lyme colony’s artists and Willard Metcalf’s American Impressionist Willard Metcalf cabinet with a contemporary cabinet. That collected hundreds of bird eggs, butter- culminated in Angus becoming the first flies, and moths and tidily organized artist-in-residence in the museum’s modern them in a cabinet that resides in the history – a natural extension of Ms. museum’s permanent collection. Angus Florence’s enthusiastic boarding of artists in Photo by James Harnois mimics that with her own curiosity her family home. cabinet full of rarely seen bugs in playful Her disarming sense of humor is an asset to arrangements, including a peanut headed A native of Ontario, Angus has degrees in fiber Angus’ mission. She believes deeply in her lanternfly (Fulgora laternaria), a Goliath beetle arts and textiles and is currently professor of cause and defends her methods with passion. (Golianthus albosignatus), and purple-winged design studies at the University of Wisconsin, Angus presents insects in aesthetically pleasing grasshoppers (Titanacris albipes). Madison. Her fascination with insects began designs as a way to create a buzz to recognize early in childhood when collecting caterpillars their crucial role in our ecosystem, and how Parsons had just the reaction Angus is aiming with her brother. Her art career began in severely their habitats are under threat. To her, for when they first met three years ago. the more traditional mediums of fabrics, Photo by Dan Froese I 45 Angus m Photo by James Harnois Photo by Dan Froese Photo by James Harnois Photo by James Harnois I High in fiber and l Photo by James Harnois Photo by Ron Blunt Photo by Dan Froese 47 obtain fresh specimens just for this exhibition but recycles the 10,000 she has accumulated over 20 years. This gives them "an extended afterlife," she said, "and they become ambassadors for their species," perpetuating their legacy. More than 500 beetles, moths, cicadas, and other bugs, mostly native to places like Madagascar and Malaysia, will be on display. The majority of insects Angus uses are obtained from insect farms that raise them for museums, science institutions, and universities. Some are sourced from indigenous peo- fibers, and textiles. But during a research ple who collect them in their natural trip to Thailand some years ago she had habitats.