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Plein Air Check Exchange

Pomfret artist Barbara Lussier donated a check to the Day Kimball Hospital Woman’s Board. Left to right: Cheryl Bozorgmanesh, president, Day Kimball Woman’s Board; Deirdre Childs, Weiss & Hale Financial; Pomfret Center Plein Air Artist, Barbara Lussier. Courtesy photo.

 

 

 

POMFRET CENTER — Nationally acclaimed plein air artist, Barbara Lussier, partnered with Weiss & Hale Financial to bring her Sense of Place gallery show to over 200 attendees, sharing her locally-inspired landscapes and her commitment to donate a portion of artwork sales to the Day Kimball Hospital Woman’s Board, which provides support for our community hospital.   

The Woman’s Board recently completed a pledge of more than $107,000 to Day Kimball Hospital to fund equipment for the Birthing Center and to help purchase two new mammography machines.  They are currently planning gifts totaling $70,000 toward emergency room and urinalysis equipment.   

Woman’s Board President Cheryl Bozorgmanesh and Weiss & Hale Financial’s director of Marketing & Woman’s Board member, Deirdre Childs, recently received Lussier’s generous donation check.  

Barbara Lussier is a signature member of New England Plein Air Painters group, elected to the Hudson Valley Art Association & the Rockport Art Association and is an elected-by-jury member of the Academic Artists Association & the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts.   Her work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and was also selected for the movie set of, I Dream Too Much. Barbara is a philosophically direct descendant of the Old Lyme & the American Hudson River School painters. 

Weiss & Hale Financial supports cultural alliances such as this and has partnered with artists and local organizations to promote arts, wellness and tourism over the years .