Mystic is a village and census-designated place (CDP) in Groton and Stonington, Connecticut.
The town of Stonington is located in New London County, Connecticut in the state's southeastern corner. It includes the borough of Stonington, the villages of Pawcatuck, Lords Point, and Wequetequock, and the eastern halves of the villages of Mystic and Old Mystic. The population of the town was 18,545 at the 2010 census.
Mystic Pizza is a 1988 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Donald Petrie in his feature directorial debut, and starring Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts, Lili Taylor and Matt Damon in his film debut.
Joseph Wiltsie Fuller Potter Jr. was an American Abstract expressionist artist. He was born in New York City in 1910, attended St. Bernard's School in New York and Groton School in Groton, Massachusetts, and lived most of his life in his Ledyard, Connecticut estate, near Old Mystic. Potter started painting in the traditional modes of representation, specializing in still life and landscape. His work was shown in New York in the 1930s at the Marie Harriman Gallery.
American Regionalism is an American realist modern art movement that included paintings, murals, lithographs, and illustrations depicting realistic scenes of rural and small-town America primarily in the Midwest. It arose in the 1930s as a response to the Great Depression, and ended in the 1940s due to the end of World War II and a lack of development within the movement. It reached its height of popularity from 1930 to 1935, as it was widely appreciated for its reassuring images of the American heartland during the Great Depression. Despite major stylistic differences between specific artists, Regionalist art in general was in a relatively conservative and traditionalist style that appealed to popular American sensibilities, while strictly opposing the perceived domination of French art.
Mystic Ballet is a modern dance company based in Mystic, Connecticut, founded in 1997 by Goran Subotic.
Michael Zansky is an American artist working in installation art, sculpture, painting and photography.
Allen Tupper True was an American illustrator, easel painter and muralist who specialized in depicting the American West.
Linda Ravenscroft is a self-taught artist and author best known for her paintings and drawings of fantasy subjects. Her work is influenced by William Morris and his contemporaries, as well by more modern illustrators such as Brian Froud. Ravenscroft became a professional artist in 1994 after the birth of her son, Dorian. Her first prints were published in 1998; since then, she has been featured in many Fantasy/Fairy Art books and illustrated and written several tutorial Faerie Art books, such as How to Draw and Paint Fairies (2005). Ravenscroft's work has been widely featured on cards and calendars. In 2013, Linda opened up a gallery, named "The Mystic Garden" after one of her early works, in Glastonbury, Somerset, which she runs with her husband, John.
John Baeder is an American painter closely associated with the Photorealist movement. He is best known for his detailed paintings of American roadside diners and eateries.
Harmony Hammond is an American artist, activist, curator, and writer. She was a prominent figure in the founding of the feminist art movement in 1970's New York.
The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, design, crafts and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual art, and textile arts also involve aspects of visual arts as well as arts of other types. Also included within the visual arts are the applied arts such as industrial design, graphic design, fashion design, interior design and decorative art.
The Norwich and Westerly Railway was an interurban trolley system that operated in Southeastern Connecticut during the early part of the 20th century. It operated a 21-mile line through rural territory in Norwich, Preston, Ledyard, North Stonington, and Pawcatuck, Connecticut to Westerly, Rhode Island between 1906 and 1922. For most of its length, the route paralleled what is now Connecticut Route 2.
Yngve Edward Soderberg was an American artist whose career was centered on Mystic, Connecticut. He is credited with being a painter, etcher, writer, teacher, designer, and lithographer. He is best known for his etchings, America's Cup paintings and maritime watercolors.
The Williams School is a private secondary school in New London, Connecticut, that offers classes from 6th grade to 12th grade. It was founded as The WilliamsMemorial Institute by Harriet Peck Williams in 1891, following the death of her son Thomas W. Williams II, a well-known whaling merchant. It was originally located at 110 Broad Street in New London, but moved when it merged with Connecticut College as a coeducational, preparatory school for the education department.
Arlene Anderson Skutch (1924–2012) was a singer, actress and award-winning fine artist, painter and art teacher for the Pink House Painters Collective in Westport, Connecticut from 1970 to 2012.
The senior rock is a rural and suburban United States tradition in which youth, often a high school senior class, paint a prominent local rock with class colors, graduating year, or names of the members of the class. A rock at Northwestern University is said to have "inches of paint after 80 years of the tradition". The tradition may have started in the 1950s or 1960s at universities and high schools.
Camille Hoffman is a painter and mixed-media installation artist, living and working in New York, NY. Using everyday materials and drawing from Philippine weaving and Jewish folk traditions, Hoffman combines personal narrative and historical critique. Hoffman's work reflects on the embedded meanings of light, nature, the frontier, borders, race, gender and power in American landscape paintings of the 19th century. Hoffman has worked as an arts educator and community organizer in Phoenix, the San Francisco Bay Area, New Haven, Brooklyn, and Queens.
Vivian Springford was an American painter, affiliated with the Abstract Expressionism and Color Field movements of New York City in the 1950s to 1970s.
