For Immediate Release
Contact: Amelia Wiggins
Educator, Public Programs, Stark Museum of Art
409.886.ARTS (2787)
Stark Museum of Art Hosts Fall Family Day on Saturday, October 17
ORANGE, Texas, October 2, 2009--The Stark Museum of Art offers visitors a last chance to see Pistols: Dazzling Firearms and the opportunity to learn about engraving and create art during Fall Family Day on Saturday, October 17, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Admission is free and all ages are welcome.
Fall Family Day is one of the last weekends to view the special exhibition of engraved firearms that is currently on display at the Museum. Docents will teach families about engraving, read a story about printmaking, and help children make their own prints to take home. Visitors will have a chance to see John James Audubon's engraved copper plate, now on view. Fall Family Day will also include a scavenger hunt with prizes and refreshments.
Amelia Wiggins, Educator, Public Programs, invites the public to visit the Stark Museum during Fall Family Day, saying, "We welcome visitors to take a fresh look at the beautiful pistols on view and learn about how they relate to the other works of art in the Museum. Kids will have a chance to hunt for clues in a brand new scavenger hunt, see the tools that engraving artists use, and make their own art inspired by the exhibition." Wiggins reminds visitors that children under 12 years of age must be accompanied by an adult in the museum.
Fall Family Day is planned in conjunction with the museum's special exhibition Pistols: Dazzling Firearms, a display of 50 exceptional American firearms. Pistols: Dazzling Firearms was organized by the Museum of the American West, Autry National Center, Los Angeles, California, and is on view at the Stark Museum of Art through October 24, 2009.
Located at 712 Green Avenue in Orange, Texas, the Stark Museum of Art is open to the public at no charge Tuesday through Saturday. Hours are from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Group tours are available by appointment. For more information call 409.886.ARTS (2787) or visit www.starkmuseum.org.
Visitors enjoy the scavenger hunt at summer Family Day.
About the Stark Museum of Art
The Stark Museum of Art focuses on the stunning land, the dramatic people and the diverse wildlife of the American West. Paintings, sculpture and prints interpret the West from nineteenth century frontier artists to the twentieth century artistic colonies in New Mexico. Artists include John James Audubon, Frederic Remington, Charles Marion Russell and Georgia O'Keeffe.
The Museum also features a significant collection of American Indian objects, including baskets, pottery, clothing and weavings. Other permanent collections in the Museum include the complete porcelain American Bird Series by Dorothy Doughty and the only complete series of The United States in Crystal, a collection of crystal urns produced by Steuben Glass to depict the 50 states and the Union.
The Stark Museum of Art is a program of the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, a non-profit organization whose other programs include the Frances Ann Lutcher Theater for the Performing Arts, Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center, and The W.H. Stark House.
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