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New online exhibition at Shelburne Museum binds twenty works of art spanning two centuries Caroline Carpenter Smith Persons (Northfield, Vermont, 1835-1902), Appliqué and Pieced Sunflower Quilt, 1860-80. Cotton, 77 3/4 x 85 1/2 in. Gift of Ethel Smith Washburn. 1987-19. SHELBURNE, VT .-Shelburne Museum presents 20 textile masterpieces dating from the first decades of the 1800s to the turn of the 21st century in the newest online exhibition, Pattern & Purpose: American Quilts from Shelburne Museum. The online exhibition opened Thursday, January 28. Pattern & Purpose explores objects that expand our sense of what art can be, and recognize how invention and discovery can be found in the most familiar of places, said Associate Curator Katie Wood Kirchhoff who organized the exhibition. Today, quilt-making is recognized as an art form in its own right, revealing makers skills and personal visions from complex geometric designs that would feel at home in a gall ....
“Natural Shocks” on stage and livestreamed Feb. 5-7 at Toledo Rep Published by twalro@presspub. on Sun, 01/31/2021 - 10:44am By: Press Staff Writer Cindy Bilby stars in Lauren Gunderson’s “Natural Shocks,” presented by Actors Collaborative Toledo at the Toledo Rep Theatre Feb. 5-7. (Submitted photo) Actors Collaborative Toledo will present “Natural Shocks,” by Lauren Gunderson, at the Toledo Rep Theatre Feb. 5-7. Inspired by the words of Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy, Gunderson’s “Natural Shocks” is 60-minute, one-woman tour-de-force play that features Angela, who’s waiting out an approaching tornado in her basement. She brims over with quirks, stories, and confessions. As the real danger grows imminent, she reveals a final secret that brings the reality of guns in America into sharp focus. ....
The museum will be open Monday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and parking will be free. Credit: Toledo Museum of Art Author: WTOL Newsroom Updated: 10:54 AM EST January 13, 2021 TOLEDO, Ohio The Toledo Museum of Art is opening its doors to the community with special hours on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to provide visitors a place for respite and reflection on the civil rights leader s legacy. The museum will be open Monday, Jan. 18, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. General admissions to the museum are always free, but thanks to generous support from the Greater Toledo Community Foundation, parking will be free as well as admission to two special exhibitions: Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change and PICTURE ID: Contemporary African American Works on Paper. ....
Image courtesy of the Harvard Theatre Collection Few realize that the sale of Binney & Smith Crayola crayons, those staples of so many childhoods, helped fund one of the largest physical donations of art in the history of Houghton Library’s Harvard Theatre Collection (HTC). The 1986 bequest of 10,000 dance prints from Edwin Binney, 3rd, ’46, Ph.D. ’61, who became the HTC’s honorary curator of ballet, contributed significantly to its becoming one of the largest and most prominent performing-arts collections in the world. The Binney family fortunes began with an English immigrant, Joseph Walker Binney, founder of a chemical plant that specialized in the red oxide pigment used to paint barns. His son Edwin Binney Sr. and a cousin, C. Harold Smith, co-founded Binney & Smith, creating the first dustless white blackboard chalk in 1902 and producing the first box of Crayola crayons in 1903. That portmanteau name combines ....