Camelot
Hippodrome Theatre
Date: Saturday, April 5, 2008 2pm matinee
Cost: $95 PTRI93
The Lion King!
Kennedy Center
Winner of 6 Tony Awards (1998), including Best Musical!
Date: Sunday, July 20, 2008 1:30pm matinee
Cost: $120 PTRI91
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN
Identity by Design: A Rare Look at the Beauty of Native Women’s Dresses
Washington, DC
Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Cost: $35 VTRI119
The exhibition presents the museum’s unique collection of historical and contemporary Native dresses, dating from the early 1800s to the present. Featuring 55 exquisitely beaded dresses and more than 200 accessories, including belts, leggings, moccasins and purses.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN
Obata's Yosemite & Color as Field: American Painting, 1950-1975
Washington, DC
Date: Thursday, May 8, 2008 Cost: $35 VTRI120
In 1927, Chiura Obata visited Yosemite National Park and the Sierra Nevada, where he made approximately 100 drawings in pencil, watercolor and sumi ink. Obata’s Yosemite features 27 prints and watercolors and a series of approximately 21 progressive proofs. Color as Field: American Painting, 1950–1975 is the first ever full-scale examination of the Color Field movement. Color Field painting, is characterized by pouring, staining, spraying or painting thinned paint onto raw canvas to create vast chromatic expanses. The exhibition includes approximately 40 paintings by such major figures as Gene Davis, Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons and Frank Stella.
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Presented by Ross Merrill, Chief of Conservation National Gallery of Art
Join us for these two lectures presented by Ross Merrill. The program will include lunch, followed by a slide lecture.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008, Noon. Reservations Required.
Thomas Moran and Yellowstone: The First National Park
Thomas Moran and the photographer, William Henry Jackson, joined forces on the 1873 Hayden expedition into the Yellowstone to become a major force in convincing Congress to make the Yellowstone the first National Park. This lecture will present the works of these two artists from that historic expedition. Cost is $25 and includes lunch.
