Amy Kurtz Lansing is Curator at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, CT. A specialist in 19th-21st century American art with an affinity for foregrounding artists’ voices, linking historic art with contemporary concerns, and fostering accessibility and connection with the arts, she is building a more inclusive permanent collection at the FloGris and has organized or co-organized exhibitions on a wide array of paintings, sculpture, and photography topics. Past projects include naqutiwowok / continuance: Connecticut’s Tribal Communities Create, a juried presentation led by representatives from Connecticut’s five recognized Native American communities; Impressionism 150; Leo Jensen: Fun & Games?; Abandon in Place: The Worlds of Anna Audette; Dreams & Memories; Social & Solitary: Reflections on Art, Isolation, and Renewal; Fresh Fields: American Impressionist Landscapes; “Nothing More American:” Immigration, Sanctuary, Community; The Great Americans: Portraits by Jac Lahav; Art and the New England Farm; In Place: Contemporary Photographers Envision a Museum; The Artist in the Connecticut Landscape; Modern Figures: Mary Knollenberg Sculptures; Harry Holtzman and American Abstraction; Call of the Coast: Art Colonies of New England; The Way We Work: David Macaulay’s Human Body; and Historical Fictions: Edward Lamson Henry’s Paintings of Past and Present. Her current collaboration, Nancy Friese: Living Landscapes, with RISD painter and printmaker Nancy Friese, opens June 28, 2025, at the FloGris.
Kurtz Lansing has worked with contemporary artists such as Tina Barney, Marion Belanger, Patrick Dougherty, Matthew Leifheit, Dana Sherwood, Felandus Thames, and James Welling on exhibitions, acquisitions, and site-specific commissions, and led interpretation for the Museum’s Robert F. Schumann Artists’ Trail. She has acted as a juror for numerous arts organizations and served as advisor to the Old Lyme Witness Stones project dedicated to bringing visibility to some of the 300+ African-descended and Native American people once enslaved in the historic town of Lyme, CT. She graduated from Smith College and received an M.Phil in the History of Art from Yale University. Prior to her arrival at the Florence Griswold Museum, Kurtz Lansing worked in the Department of American Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale University Art Gallery and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.