Arts & Excursions
ARTS & EXCURSIONS OFFERINGS: 2012-2013
We hope each of our members will find something of interest this year and will join with others in our organization in an excursion that will offer the opportunity for fellowship, enrichment, enjoyment, and education.
Please peruse the list below, add the dates to your calendar, and make a note of the deadlines and details. We hope to see YOU on a future A&E outing. Guests and potential members are always welcome.
Feel free to contact me at any time with questions or suggestions.
Home Phone: 330.598.1660; Cell Phone: 216.390.0315
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First Ladies Quiz Answers: 1. Jackie Kennedy; 2. Lou Hoover; 3. Harriet Land; 4. Helen Taft; 5. Julia Dent Grant; 6. Elizabeth Virginia Wallace Truman (Bess); 7. Jane Pierce; 8. Lucretia Rudolph Garfield; 9. Claudia (Lady Bird) Johnson; 10. Edith Wilson; 11. Lucy Hayes; 12. Louisa Adams. Bonus: Eleanor Roosevelt.
Coming Attractions
A special A&E opportunity, The Mighty Wurlitzer Radio Hour, is being offered for Sunday afternoon, April 14 - but tickets need to be ordered ASAP as seating is limited and the event is popular. Several of our members are already planning to attend and hopefully more will join us. It’s a delightful experience and is right here in Medina County……on Ridge Road in Hinckley. Tickets are $30 each and include valet parking, unlimited complimentary refreshments following the show, the Museum of Radio Broadcasting History, and the one-hour live performance. It is great fun! Bring a spouse or friend to enjoy it with you. The show begins at 3 p.m., but guests need to arrive one hour before that. The theme of this broadcast is the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Order your own tickets from: Razzmatazz Productions, 1939 Ridge Road, P. O. Box 401, Hinckley, OH 44233; PHONE: 330.225.5364 or 877.590.4849
Please e-mail Joellyn or call her at 330.598.1660 (home); 216.390.0315 (cell) to let her know if you are planning on attending.
ORMACO Concert: Saturday, April 6, 8 p.m. at the Broadway Street Hall Auditorium (County Administration Building), Medina. Featured will be the lively music of the Cleveland-based ensemble Noel Quintana and the Latin Crew. Tickets are $18 and are available at www.ormaco.org , at all Buehler’s stores or by calling 330. 722.2541; they also may be purchased at the door.
The visit to Lawnfield has been postponed until summer when more hours will be available for touring the facilities. Lawnfield, in Mentor, Ohio, is the home of President James A. Garfield. Garfield was the subject of the March book discussion selection, Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President.
This National Historic Landmark is currently open only on Saturday from 12:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m.
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New events will be added soon; stay tuned! Try catching some of those movies that were nominated for Academy Awards and are still in the area theaters.
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Past Excursions
- Members and friends toured the Rembrandt in America exhibit on May 16 of last year at the Cleveland Museum of Art as an Arts & Excursions event led by group co-chair Beth Lawton. The exhibit contained over 50 works by Rembrandt as well as others thought to be by the artist when they entered American collections – including the CMA.
Authentic portraits, studies and historical paintings by Rembrandt were juxtaposed with others by the artist’s students, members of his studio and imitators, to show the differences in lighting and shading, brush and knife strokes and attention to details.
“I was amazed to learn of the disputes over the authenticity of paintings that had once been identified as Rembrandts,” said Joellyn Leget. “It was also interesting to see how current techniques can see the layers of paint below the varnished surfaces and how much these paintings had been restored and retouched over the centuries.”
There was also the opportunity to visit the concurrent exhibition of Rembrandt prints from the Morgan Library and Museum.
“In looking at the collection of Rembrandt prints, one could see the different ‘states’ of his engravings. I liken this form of art to writing: with a writer putting down one draft, then revising it and revising it again. We could see this with the artist working and re-working his engravings,” observed Dottie Ulich.
- A&E visited the Kent State Museum of Fashion Design in August for special exhibits “On the Home Front: Civil War Fashions and Domestic Life” and “A Day at the Beach: A Selection of Seaside Costumes from 1865 – 1915”.
- In September the group made an excursion to The Cleveland Museum of Art’s “Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties”.
- Wed. October 3, film screening and discussion of the newly released movie, “Won’t Back Down.”
- On October 5, Beth Lawton led an excursion to the exhibit, “Gravity and Grace” by African sculptor El Anatsui at the Akron Art Museum.
- November 3: 25th Annual Buckeye Book Fair, OARDC in Wooster
- December 16: Mighty Wurlitzer Radio Hour “Best Christmas Ever” broadcast
- February 2: The University of Akron Steel Drum Band gave a rousing concert to a nearly full house.The ensemble’s latest DVD “Hammer on Steel” has been nominated for 8 Emmy awards! Check their web site to watch a video: http://www.uasteelband.com .
- February 21: A half dozen members toured the First Ladies National Historic Site and Ida Saxton McKinley House in Canton. Following the tour, the group had lunch at the historic 110-year-old Bender’s Tavern.
- We were guided through the new Medina Creative Pet Play facility, operated by Medina Creative Housing, by MCH Executive Director Dianne DePasquale-Hagerty in March. In addition to providing a safe environment for pets, the business provides employment for the special needs residents of the county.