Art ‘n’ Facts April 2014

Volume 30, Issue 10

THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ ARRIVES AT THE CUSTOMS HOUSE MUSEUM On April 2nd, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz graces the halls of the Customs House Museum. We are very excited to present this travelling exhibit to our community. Every so often, there is an exhibit subject that incorporates art, history, and science-based content all wrapped in one package. This is one such exhibit. Based on the classic series written by L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz takes the visitor through the pages of the book, to explore all the elements of the story, from tornadoes and farm-ing, to the matters of the heart, to what makes us courageous, and what makes us intelligent. Visitors will be challenged through opportunities to role play and discover and instill a love of reading. To bring this exhibit to Clarksville, we have a wonderful title sponsor in Planters Bank. Planters Bank has a long-standing commitment to our Clarksville-Montgomery County community which is embodied in their motto, “Expect Great Things.” Planters Bank is a major supporter of Aspire Clarksville, a marketing and economic development foundation. The goal of the foundation is to develop and diversify the Clarksville Montgomery County economic base. In addition to these major undertakings, Planters supports local schools, robotics groups, and scholarships for higher education. Planters Bank demonstrates that community investment pays large dividends in the form of increased business activity which supports public projects and an improved quality of life. We at the Customs House Museum strive to produce exceptional exhib-its and programs. We certainly expect great things in the months ahead. Please check out our website for all the events planned. See you in Oz! Alan Robison, Executive Director

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Sunday: 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.

Closed Mondays and Major Holidays

Model Trains run every Sunday from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Phone: 931-648-5780

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is on exhibit April 2nd through June 27th!

Presents

STAFF DIRECTORY

Alan Robison

Director

Linda Maki

Assistant Director/CFO

Jimmy Buckner

Facilities Manager

Naomi Conner

Marketing & Sales

Representative

Courtney Elliott

Store Associate

Laura Hoffman

Visitor Services/Membership

Terri Jordan

Curator of Exhibits

Stacy Keel

Store Associate

Amy Lewellen

Curator of Collections

Sue Lewis

Curator of Education

Melina Ludwig

Marketing/Media

Associate

Colin McAlexander

Retail Manager

Henry Rives

Maintenance/Rental Tech

Randy Spurgeon

Exhibit Preparator

The Ladies Home Journal was first published in 1883, and soon became one of the leading wom-en’s magazines. By the turn of the century, the magazine’s cir-culation numbered over one mil-lion. Although its readership was surpassed by other women’s magazines during the late 20th century, the Ladies Home Jour-nal still continues to enjoy pop-ularity to this day.

This April 1898 edition contains such articles as Buying a House Without Cash, Spring Frocks for Young Girls, Anecdotes of Thomas Edison, The Inner Ex-periences of a Cabinet Member’s Wife, and Violet Growing as a Women’s Trade. Other articles showcase birdhouse designs, new summer bodices, natural and manmade wonders of the world, photographs of Inside of a Hundred Homes, the musical score for the winner of the most suitable lullaby contest, and an excerpt from the novel A Heav-en-Kissing Hill.

The margins of each page are filled with advertisements for clothing, cleaning products, fur-niture, bicycles, seeds, and spe-cialty foods. Brand names in-clude Packer’s Tar Soap, Kodak cameras, the Ostermoor patent elastic felt mattress (compared to the best hair mattresses), Lowney’s chocolate bonbons, Old English floor wax, ACME hygienic couches, Rubifoam tooth powder, Kenwood sewing machine, and Van Camp’s maca-roni and cheese (prepared in a can with tomato sauce).

FROM THE COLLECTION

Exhibit catalogues for Andy Warhol and

Women’s History Month available at

Seasons: The Museum Store!

The Museum will be CLOSED Sunday,

April 20th for the Easter Sunday holiday.

NOW ON EXHIBIT

Sessions with Andy: Warhol Photography from the University of South Carolina Upstate through May 4 A rare exhibition of Andy Warhol’s photographic portraits. Sponsored in part by the Austin Peay State University Cen-ter of Excellence for the Creative Arts .

The Fascinating Mr. Warhol: Photographs by Raeanne Rubenstein through May 4

Women’s History Month: Family and Family Ties: An Installation by Sher Fick through May 4

The Art of Peach McComb Through April 27 There’s No Place Like Oz April 2 through June 29 Memorabilia from the collection of Dr. John Olson, including Madame Alexander dolls, original scripts, books, autographs,

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Opens April 2nd!

Follow the Yellow Brick Road to an award-winning interactive experience! Step into the pages of the literary classic written in 1900 by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W.W. Denslow. Designed to engage and challenge guests to step into reading, it invites visitors into large pop-up book pages that frame each section. Visitors learn through play with brain teaser games, role playing, dress-up, and other educational activities incorporated throughout. Each sec-tion, or “chapter,” addresses a different element of the story, such as Dorothy’s House, Tornado, Emerald City, and Glinda’s Castle.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is produced and toured by Great Explorations Children’s Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida © 2010. This project was support-ed in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Thank You to Our

Exhibit Sponsors:

Chapter Sponsors:

Title Sponsor:

THE FACSCINATING MR. WARHOL Photographs by Raeanne Rubenstein

On Exhibit Through May 4th

Raeanne Rubenstein has worked with some of the biggest names in movies, music and pop culture. Beginning in the 1970's, Rubenstein made her name in New York City shooting such celebrities as Machinegun Thompson, John Len-non, Muhammad Ali, Dustin Hoffman, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Mick Jag-ger, The Beatles, Andy Warhol, Francois Truffaut, Jim Morrison, KISS, Pink Floyd, John Belushi and Rod Stewart, to name a few. The New York native went on to work for Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, People, Time, Life, CBS and HBO.

She has published several books of her work including a luxury cocktail table book titled Country Music: The People Places & Events That Shaped the Country Sound that included over 250 of her pictures. She has contributed her photographs to numerous record covers, and film and television documen-taries. She has had numerous exhibits of her work in galleries and museums, including the Nikon House Gallery, Time-Life Portrait Gallery in NYC and the Emerson Gallery in Dublin, Ireland.

Join Us Tuesday,

April 8th

7:00 - 8:30 p.m.

For a Gallery Talk with

Raeanne Rubenstein

Free Admission to Program

ART & LUNCH FILM:

The Impressionists:

Renoir

Thursday, April 17th

12:05 pm

Pierre Auguste Renoir was one of the central figures of the impressionist move-ment. His work is characterized by a richness of feeling and a warmth of re-sponse to the world and to the people in it. His early works were typically im-pressionist snapshots of real life, full of sparkling color and light. By the mid-1880s, however, he had broken with the movement to apply a more disciplined, formal technique to portraits and figure paintings, particularly of women. Free admission to film. Bagged lunches welcome! Film is approx. 50 minutes. Shown in conjunction with the exhibit The Art of Peach McComb.

LADIES NIGHT EVENT Friday, April 11th, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

Free Admission

Celebrate Women’s History Month with a gallery talk with artist Sher Fick, a discussion on vintage clothing and jewelry with Karen Parr-Moody, and wom-en’s health information. Light refreshments will be served. Vintage hat and glove attire is encouraged!

Seasons: The Museum Store will be offering a special discount during the Ladies Night Event!

15% off ALL Jewelry at Seasons: The Museum Store during event!

APRIL PROGRAMS

Family Program Series Let’s Find: Green (“It’s not Easy Being Green”) April 2 & 3 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. Preschool age children visit the Emerald City with three green friends: the Grinch, Shrek, and Kermit the Frog. We will also read a sto-ry and make a craft. Program is free with Museum Membership or paid admission.

Contact Sue Lewis, Curator of Education, for more information at 931.648.5780 or slewis@customshousemuseum.org. Family Fun Day Activity: Animals in Art & Literature Saturday, April 12 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Learn about illustrator W.W. Denslow’s Winged Monkeys, Cowardly Lion, and Toto in Frank L. Baum’s book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, as well as other animals that are found in children’s books with a family arts and crafts activity.

PICTURE BOOKS: A CHILD’S FIRST INTRODUCTION TO ART AND LITERATURE

For the past several years I have been collecting children’s picture books, not for their mone-tary value but for my own pleasure and “history keeping.”

During this time I began to realize that I was recognizing the works of the illustrators I had studied in Dr. Buckley’s Children’s Literature class at Newberry College in 1967, and I wished so much that I could have told her.

One such illustrator is Wallace W. Denslow who first brought the characters in L. Frank Baum’s book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, to life. It is Denslow’s illustrations that you will see in the exhibit by the same name which will be at the Museum April - June.

Many versions of the book have been written since its first publication in 1900. And there have been many other illustrators who have used their own styles and interpretations to bring the familiar characters to life.

We invite you and your family to come “read” the book that has delighted children and adults for almost 115 years. By the way, I recently discovered that one of my one-dollar purchases is worth $74!

Sue Lewis, Curator of Education

NEW MEMBERS SOLO: Mr. Tim Garofalo ACTIVE MILITARY FAMILY: Mr. & Mrs. David Beale Mr. & Mrs. Stefano Busico Mr & Mrs. Dustin Campbell Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Gable Samuel Goughnour & Kelley Harlow Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Halota Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Hancock Mr. & Mrs. Mike Murphy Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Schmidt Mr. & Mrs. Evan Thomas Mr. & Mrs. David Von Hagen Mr. & Mrs. Anthony William-son Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Wright DUO/FAMILY: Mr. & Mrs. David Amlicke Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Criswell Mr. & Mrs. Rico Davis Mr. & Mrs. Ellery Edwards Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Ryan Marvel Lidia & Janet Najera Mr. & Mrs. Barton Ray Mr. & Mrs. Brett Shade Mr. Mark Young SUPPORTER: Mr. Clay Bevins RENEWING MEMBERS

SOLO: Ms. Dianne Albright Mrs. Doris Bumpus Ms. Elizabeth Jones Mrs. Helga Ricci Mrs. Irene White Ms. Victoria B. Wyatt ACTIVE MILITARY FAMILY: Gregory Davis & Jennifer Boyd Mr. & Mrs. Kwenton Kulman Mr. & Mrs. Garry Linn Mr. & Mrs. Chris Wyatt DUO/FAMILY: Ms. Bette Barbre Mr. & Mrs. Dan Black Susan Meenees & Haven Bowles Mr. & Mrs. Mark Briggs Malcolm Glass & Mitzi Cross Mr. & Mrs. Don Der Mr. & Mrs. Michael Dinsmore Mr. & Mrs. John Freed Mr. & Mrs. Danny Grant Mr. Robert L. Lill, Jr. Ms. Susan Marks Mr. & Mrs. Frank McGregor Mr. & Mrs. John Mince Mr. & Mrs. Ed Pennington Mr. & Mrs. Nestor Perez-Ortiz Mr. & Mrs. Charles Persinger Mr. & Mrs. Jimmy Ponder Dr. & Mrs. Donald Richardson The Hon. and Mrs. Wayne Shelton Mr. & Mrs. Rollow Welch Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Wilson

FRIEND: John T. Leddy & Paula Bou-dreau Dr. & Mrs. Joe Filippo Dr. & Mrs. Quentin Humberd Dr. & Mrs. Charles Boehms Dr. Carmen Reagan SUPPORTER: Mr. & Mrs. James G. Holleman Mark Magnuson & Steven Westfield Mr. & Mrs. Richard Tucker Mr. Bill Wyatt BENEFACTOR: Mr. & Mrs. Lawson Mabry EAGLE: Mr. & Mrs. Ben S. Kimbrough, Sr.

MEMBERSHIP UPDATE

As the new visitor/membership coordinator, I’ve enjoyed getting to know our members. I’ve realized that our members are our greatest advocates. So I ask each of you to encourage your family, friends and neighbors to visit us to see all we have to offer. I know that once they get here, they’ll want to come again and will likely take advantage of the value and ben-efits of membership. Thanks, Laura Hoffman We would like to thank our members, both the new and the faithful. Listed are those who have joined or renewed as of March 18, 2014.

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Sunday 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Ray Runyon, Chairman Bill Wyatt, Vice Chair

Carmen Reagan Jill Crow

Jaime Durrett* Jim Durrett

Scott Donnellan Mac Edington, DDS

Dave Farris Solie Fott

Valerie Guzman* Suzanne Langford

Tracy Jackson* Charles Keene* Garnet Ladd III

Ted Purdom Dianne Todd

Eleanor Williams*

*Denotes Ex-officio