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PRESENTATION CALENDAR > 2026
Wendell Jamieson
Painter, Poet and Author of the book "Connecting Dots"
Exploring the Creative Process
Sunday, February 14, 2026, 2:00 pm.
Leroy Anderson House
Sharon Curran, sculptor
The Horse, My Muse in Many Mediums
Saturday, October 17, 2026, 2:00 p.m.
Leroy Anderson House
Sharon Curran will discuss her career as a sculptor, creating equine-themed art using ceramic, wire, wood, and glass. "Sharon is a horse person which shows in her art; her ceramics have so much personality," said friend and fellow artist Melody Asbury.
Note: Admission is free but reservations are required. Send an email to: leroyandersonfoundation@gmail.com to reserve a seat.
Michael Audette, photographer
January 26, 2025, 2:00 pm
Leroy Anderson House
"For the Love of Birds" - Photography by Michael Audette
LoriAnn Witte, weaver
Feb. 18, 2024, 2:00 pm
Leroy Anderson House
Weaver LoriAnn Witte will share her experiences of becoming a weaver and how she finds ideas and develops them. Witte is the executive director of the Glebe House and Gertrude Jekyll Garden in the Hollow in Woodbury. A resident of Woodbury, Witte says of her art, "It is a journey that started with necessity and changed throughout the many phases of life. It is filled with ideas that have grown with and around me."
Witte will present samples of her work and lead guests in a demonstration. Guests will have the opportunity to try their hand at weaving with small looms and supplies Witte will provide.
Matt Wood, multimedia artist
March 3, 2024, 2:00 pm
Leroy Anderson House
Matt Wood, whose works range from photography to oils to interior design, will reflect on how his projects find him and how he realizes the best medium for a project. Wood says his art reflects his life: "Art is how I interact with the world. My thoughts, my experiences, my reactions, and my hopes are all mediated through my canvas or my lens, and I find that for me it can't be any other way."
Some of Wood's work, including four 48" x 48" iceberg paintings, is currently on display in the group exhibit at the Mattatuck museum titled "Sea Change, See Change," running from January 21 to May 19, 2024.
Cynthia Gillette, painter
March 17, 2024, 2:00 pm
Leroy Anderson House
Woodbury artist Cynthia Gillette will present on her odyssey as a painter in a variety of media. Well-known in Woodbury for her support of local arts and her presence at summer Arts Walk events, Gillette is renowned for her sensitive renderings of animals and highly detailed, lifelike natural and architectural details in her work.
She says, "I am really enjoying the process in my painting at this time. My portraits of people and animals have led me to meet new wonderful people, and my travels have enriched the landscapes I see. I do observe all with a more critical, collective eye and due to this I plan my ideas with future compositions and new techniques in mind. Painting and designing are an evolving organic learning experience, albeit sometimes challenging, but they can also be so exciting. That is all inspiring to me."
Melody Asbury, painter
April 7, 2024, 2:00 p.m.
Leroy Anderson House
Woodbury artist Melody Asbury will share how she has come to explore the spirit of wild animals through painting.
A signature member of the Society of Animal Artists, Asbury is an accomplished painter admired for her intimate portrayal of animals. Her love of painting animals came after a lengthy career as a portrait and courtroom sketch artist for TV.
She says, "Growing up with an artist mother, I had a paintbrush in my hand at a very early age. Art has always been a means of expression, of focusing attention on what I feel is important. It is a lifelong journey with many different paths I have taken."
Michael Gallagher, Photographer
Sunday, September 29, 2024, 2:00 p.m.
Leroy Anderson House
Note: Admission is free but reservations are required. Send an email to: leroyandersonfoundation@gmail.com to reserve a seat.
Sarah Marze, soprano, Emma Bocciarelli, pianist, Ann Aldrich, flautist, and VoiceBox Choir
Sunday, August 27, 2023, 2:00 p.m.
Performing and explaining the process of setting poetry to music;
Leroy Anderson House
DETAILS + photos (pdf)
Steve Parlato, artist, poet and novelist
Sunday, Oct 1, 2023 at 2:00 p.m.
Leroy Anderson House
Presenting his series of sixteen collage portraits titled They Are Not Disposable
DETAILS + photos (pdf)
Julie Cook, pianist and poet + Thomasina Levy, musician, poet, singer, songwriter
Sunday, Oct 15, 2023 at 2:00 p.m.
Leroy Anderson House
DETAILS + Biographies (pdf)
Marc Russell, commercial + fine-art photograper
Sunday, Oct 22, 2023 at 2:00 p.m.
Leroy Anderson House
DETAILS + Bio (pdf)
Exploring the Creative Process at the Leroy Anderson House
The idea for the series of presentations by Woodbury, Connecticut area artists titled Exploring the Creative Process came to Rolf Anderson in response to questions from visitors to the Leroy Anderson House who asked about composer Leroy Anderson's creative process. Many people know Leroy Anderson as the composer of "Sleigh Ride" and numerous other popular, light concert pieces. As Rolf explained his father's approach to composing music, he compared and contrasted the stereotypical depictions of a composer writing music at the piano with his father's entirely cerebral method of composing while pacing through the house in the evening, seemingly lost in thought.
In conversations with his brother Kurt Anderson, General Manager of WMNR Fine Arts Radio, Rolf and Kurt agreed that the Leroy Anderson Foundation could expand the audience which the concerts at the house attracted by developing new programs at the Leroy Anderson House centered on visual artists, - painters, sculptors, photographers and textile artists. Their parents had embraced modern art by commissioning and collecting art by local artists. This series of presentations, they felt, would carry their parents' interest in visual art forward and broaden the impact of the Leroy Anderson Foundation.
Rolf had noticed the good work being done by Sandy Carlson, poet laureate of Woodbury, in presenting poetry at the Woodbury Public Library. Rolf and Sandy met at the Leroy Anderson House in March 2023 and discussed Rolf's ideas. Sandy contacted the members of the Arts Alliance of Woodbury and scheduled artists to speak at the Leroy Anderson House. The response to Exploring the Creative Process at the Leroy Anderson House has been overwhelmingly positive.
The Leroy Anderson House, a historic house museum and cultural center, is located at 33 Grassy Hill Road in Woodbury, Connecticut. Admission is free but reservations are required. Send an email to: leroyandersonfoundation@gmail.com to reserve a seat.
For complete information about the Leroy Anderson House visit the website:
www.leroyandersonfoundation.org