Events
TUESDAY NIGHT EVENTS AT THE MUSEUM
A series of free lectures, activities, and gallery openings nearly every Tuesday night this Fall
SEPTEMBER
September 7, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Panoramic Gallery Opening: Theresa Markiw
Theresa Markiw of Erwin, Tennessee, was born Canada of Ukrainian émigrés and grew up in southern New Jersey. Her Ukrainian upbringing and travels abroad have strongly influenced her vividly painted still-lifes. [Exhibition on view through October 3, 2010]
September 14, 7:00 pm
All-College Night at the Museum
William King Museum welcomes its college community back to school with a new spin on College Night. Join us for food, music, tours of the exhibitions with the curators, and more!
September 21, 7:00 pm
On the Collection
Dr. Steve Arbury and Dr. Richard Bay of Radford University will offer a lively insider’s point of view on collecting work from the innovative and groundbreaking time explored in Thinking Postmodern.
September 28, 7:00 pm
Meditation with Minimalism I
Bring your yoga mat and join Jordan Mullins for some quality reflection time in the United-Legard galleries. Mullins recently travelled to the Sivananda Yoga Ashram on Paradise Island, Bahamas, and went through an intensive teacher's training course. Each session Mullins has prepared will focus on different meditative practices. You are invited to attend just one or all three.
OCTOBER
October 5, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Panoramic Gallery Opening: Carole Blevins
A native of Washington County, Virginia, now living in Holston Valley, Tennessee, Carole paints the hills and valleys she grew up among. She recently returned from Morocco where she made sketches of the cities, mountains and desert. [Exhibition on view through October 31, 2010]
October 12, 7:00 pm
Artist’s Talk: Daniel Essig
The book Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder and sixteenth and seventeenth-century wunderkammers were starting points for the current exhibition A Cabinet of Curiosities, and they also serve as sources of inspiration for Asheville, NC book sculptor Daniel Essig. Essig will discuss his craft and how these early museums’ natural history foundations have influenced his work.
October 19, 7:00 pm
A Happening
Local artist Pat Jessee organizes a surprise participation-based artwork for WKM!
October 26, 7:00 pm
Meditation with Minimalism II
NOVEMBER
November 2, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Panoramic Gallery Opening: Marlana Williams: Fragment by Fragment
“These new works remind me of female members of my family. These thoughts come forward while painting and creating, or searching for old cabinet doors, windows, or pieces of cloth: the markers of time, place and culture.”
Marlana Williams received her BA with a Concentration in Painting from University of Virginia’s College at Wise in 2002. [Exhibition on view through December 5, 2010]
November 9, 7:00 pm
Artist’s Talk: Betty Clark
Betty Clark joins us in the United Company Contemporary Regional Art Gallery for an in-depth discussion of her work, on view in To Transgress: Abstract Paintings by Betty Clark.
November 30, 7:00 pm
Meditation with Minimalism III
DECEMBER
December 7, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Panoramic Gallery Opening: Duane Cregger
It is a play instinct that leads me to the use of a variety of oil paints and thinners, working on canvas or wood. I’ll use seemingly finished works as under-paintings to achieve a deep layering of color, texture and emotion.
A native of Appalachia, Duane Cregger lives and works in the mountains of Virginia. [Exhibition on view through January 2, 2011]
September
7 Family Activity at Farmer’s Market, 3 pm
7 Panoramic Gallery exhibition opening, 7 pm
9 Thinking Postmodern reception, 6 pm
10 Thinking Postmodern opens
11 Family Fun Day, 10 am
14 College Night, 7 pm
21 Radford Collection talk, 7 pm
25 FPH Birthday Celebration, 10 am
28 Meditation with Minimalism, 7 pm
October
1 Submissions for Panoramic Gallery due
3 The Subject of Being closes
5 Panoramic Gallery exhibition opening, 7 pm
12 Daniel Essig talk, 7 pm
19 Happening w/ Pat Jessee, 7 pm
21 To Transgress reception, 6 pm
22 To Transgress opens
26 Meditation with Minimalism, 7 pm
November
2 Panoramic Gallery exhibition opening, 7 pm
4 Mistletoe Market gala
5-7 Mistletoe Market
9 Betty Clark talk, 7 pm
13 Elves Workshop, 10:30 am
30 Meditation with Minimalism, 7 pm
The Art in Dining Series
EVENTS
Over the River and Through the Woods: A Picnic at the Tree House
Rachel Fowlkes
September 12
Afternoon Tea @ Scotland
Sandra Darden
October 14
FAMILY ACTIVITIES
ART SPOT: Spend some time at our new art spot on the Education Level!
MISTLETOE MARKET
November 5-7, 2010
A holiday shopping extravaganza!
Click here to go to the Mistletoe Market page.
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