ARTrip to Weir Farm, Wilton, CT
Group limited to 15. No entrance fee. Meet at at 9:00 at the Ridgefield Library parking lot at the Library entrance. Then we will car pool as a group up to Weir Farm. We will arrive at Weir Farm (735 Nod Hill Rd, Wilton, CT 06897) at 9:30 am and put our things in the barn (brown bag lunch, etc.). Half of the group will go on the tour of the house and studios while the other half watches the video about Weir Farm. Then we will switch. After the tours and screening are over we will all gather in the barn for a brown bag lunch and then head back to our cars to return to the Library by 1 p.m. Registration is required at ridgefieldlibrary.org
Weir Farm National Historic Site is a 60-acre national park with a focus on the visual arts, one of only two such sites in the National Park Service. Established by Congress in 1990; the park preserves a significant site associated with the American Impressionist movement, maintains the setting that inspired artists for more than a hundred years, and offers the American public opportunities for inspiration and education..