| Family Friendly: Animals Speak Through Art
Eureka Springs wildlife artist Susan Morrison beams when she talks about children who came to see her Animal Tracks solo exhibit at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.The environmental education program Animal Tracks, supported by Wal-Mart and adopted by the National Wildlife Federation, was used in Washington schools, she explains. So students bused to the exhibit ran to point out "their" animals, familiar to them from posters in their schools."They had ownership of this art," she says. "It moved us to tears."Starting this weekend, a retrospective of Morrison's work titled "America's Wildlife and Wildlands: The Journeys of Susan Morrison" is on show through Feb. 24 at Crystal Bridges at the Massey in Bentonville.The exhibit, featuring Morrison's acclaimed etchings and drawings of wildlife and wildlands from across the United States, will get a family-friendly kickoff Saturday.
Art exhibits: Dec.9, 2007
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ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM, 31 N. Fifth St., Allentown. 610-432-4333. Arts Community of Easton Members Group Juried Art Show: Through Dec. 30. Tiffany by Design: Forty objects including lamps, a stained glass window, metalwork and related materials made by Tiffany Studios and Tiffany Furnaces, under the direcion of Louis Comfort Tiffany, between 1900 and 1925. Saturday guided tours. Through Jan. 6. Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau Extraordinaire: Posters and textile designs on loan and including works from the museum collection, of female and floral forms created by the Moravia-born artist. Accompanies the ''Tiffany by Design'' exhibit (included with special exhibit admission). Saturday guided tours. Through Jan. 6. Picasso and Delaunay: The Book as Inspiration: A rare portfolio of 13 prints by Pablo Picasso, which were the result of a collaboration with Parisian fine art publisher Ambroise Vollard to produce an illustrated edition of Honore de Balzac's novel ''Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu,'' accompanied by an unusual and compelling work, a ''simultaneous book'' created by modernist designer Sonia Delaunay-Terk and poet Blaise Cendrars.
Community News Briefs
Bridgeton High School's Visual and Performing Arts Department will present its Holiday Concert on Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Robert L. Sharp Auditorium. The choir and select choir, under the direction of Charlene Cranmer, will perform a variety of holiday selections. The concert band, directed by Matthew R. Brenner, and the string ensemble, directed by Nick Kline, will perform a variety of holiday favorites. The program is free. A parent must accompany students 16 and younger. Get a cut The Gateway Family Enrichment Center, located in the DeEdwin Hursey Recreation Center, 155 Spruce St., Bridgeton, in conjunction with area barbers and the Omega Psi Phi fraternity, is once again offering free haircuts for male students in grades kindergarten through 12th on Dec.
Local News Catch Aboriginal Fine Crafts and Arts show at Victoriaville
Aboriginal artisans from across the region have descended on the city for their 4th Annual Aboriginal Fine Crafts and Arts Christmas Gift Show. The event began Thursday and runs until Sunday at Victoriaville Mall with about 80 artists and craftsmen from aboriginal communities setting up shop. The offerings include a wide assortment of handmade, original native crafts and art. John Ferris a spokesman for the Aboriginal Artworks Group of Northern Ontario helped organize the event and says it will help bring the native artists in attendance to the attention of a wider audience. The art show will be open from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and on Sunday it runs from noon to 4:00 p.m.
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Her life in the art world
An eclectic look hit Plano this year when Stephanie Ward brought her Deep Ellum Gallery to historic downtown in February.Ward, a Plano resident since 1986, set up shop on 18th Street in a 100-year-old Victorian-style home. She said the downtown Dallas scene started changing and she realized it was time to call it quits.While enjoying her single life, a call came through which within a matter of months led to Ward becoming an adoptive single mother of brother and sister toddlers Casey and Crissah.Although Ward said her freedom meant everything and traveling was a hobby, these children needed a mother and God chose her for the job.The 18th Street spot Ward set up shop is conveniently between her children's daycare and her home.Jim Wear, Plano's creative arts manager, said her gallery is worth a visit.
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