January 27, 2010
Contact:
Amelia Wiggins, Educator, Public Programs
409.886.ARTS (2787)
Stark Museum of Art Hosts Wonderful Weavings Family Day on January 30
ORANGE, Texas, January 22 – The Stark Museum of Art invites families to view a tapestry weaving demonstration and participate in art activities during Wonderful Weavings Family Day on Saturday, January 30, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Admission is free and all ages are welcome.
Wonderful Weavings Family Day will feature a tapestry weaving demonstration by Blaine Davis, member of the Contemporary Handweavers of Houston. Families can make their own weavings to take home, enjoy refreshments, and participate in building a weaving wall. Docents will lead family-friendly tours of the exhibition Entwined Across the Ages: Illuminated Manuscripts and Tapestries, where children can search for clues to a scavenger hunt and win a prize. January 30 is the final day to see the special exhibition.
Amelia Wiggins, Educator for Public Programs, invites the public, "We welcome visitors to learn about the art of tapestry and to make their own woven masterpieces with us at the Museum. We are especially excited to host guest weaver Blaine Davis for this event, who will share his art with us as he weaves on a large loom.” Wiggins reminds visitors that children under 12 years of age must be accompanied by an adult in the museum.
Wonderful Weavings Family Day is planned in conjunction with the museum's special exhibition Entwined Across the Ages: Illuminated Manuscripts and Tapestries, featuring the Stark Museum of Art’s collection of medieval illuminated manuscripts exhibited within a setting of twentieth-century wall tapestries that were inspired by arts from the medieval period. Entwined Across the Ages reveals how the medieval arts influenced artist Lorenz Kleiser whose Edgewater Tapestry Company revived the art of tapestry weaving in the modern era.
Located at 712 Green Avenue in Orange, Texas, the Stark Museum of Art is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Admission is free. Group tours are available by appointment. For more information call 409.886.ARTS (2787) or visit www.starkmuseum.org.
Artist Blaine Davis weaving a tapestry.
Campers weaving at Colors to Dye For, a program of the Stark Museum of Art and Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center.
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, and Charles Marion Russell.
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 private operating foundation, 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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