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The Notre Dame Office of Risk Management requires that the Museum obtain each participant’s signature on a release form prior to departure. This form will be mailed along with the campus parking map and voucher upon receipt of the completed registration form. Otherwise allmeals are provided forthegroup beingtogether. small community. You willbehomefordinnerthe2ndday. 15th. Citymapandrestaurant guideprovided for useinthis city ofNashville forshoppingandlunchon Wednesday, June Only onemealisnotcovered -whenyou have free timeinthe Call theFriendsofficewithquestions, 574-631-5516. Please give any dietaryrestrictions whenregistering. Monday, May 9. Reservations androommate requests are dueby Double occupancy-$250 perperson Single room occupancy-$300perperson Non-Members Double occupancy-$235 perperson Single room occupancy-$285 perperson Snite Museumor the Art League For Members of theFriendsof the • • • • • Fabulous two-day excursion costcovers: Campus Lot D6 Park in Notre Dame Tour fees Breakfast onJune 15 Overnight accommodationsatTheSeason’s Lodge Breakfast, lunchanddinneronJune 14 Bus fare anddriver gratuity College Holy Cross

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7:45 a.m. Board Cardinal Bus 7:30 a.m. Breakfast at Lodge Notre Dame parking lot D South 8:30 a.m. Check out and load bus 8:00 a.m. Depart Notre Dame campus Breakfast en route, Einstein Bros. Bagels 8:45 a.m. Depart hotel

12:00 p.m. Arrive Bloomington 9:00 a.m. Arrive T. C. Steele Historic Site Lunch at FARMbloomington 45-minute tour of home and studio, (farm to table restaurant) then time for Museum and/or garden of your own choosing 1:30 p.m. IU Art Museum, 75th Anniversary T. C. STEELE HISTORIC SITE Tour Curator’s Choice Show, permanent 10:45 a.m. Board bus and depart The noted Hoosier impressionist painter, Theodore collection and preparatory drawings of Clement Steele (1847-1926), became the first major artist to the Thomas Hart Benton murals from 11:00 a.m. Arrive downtown Nashville make a home in Brown County, Indiana. The picturesque landscape (and Steele’s prominence) attracted other artists, the 1933 World’s Fair Visit galleries, shops, and lunch establishing the Art Colony of the Midwest. on your own 4:30 p.m. Depart IU Over 50 paintings on display in the Large Studio and Drive through Brown County State Park House of the Singing Winds, provide a glimpse of southern en route to hotel 1:30 p.m. Board bus, depart for Columbus Indiana as it appeared more than a century ago.

6:00 p.m. Check in The Season’s Lodge, Nashville 2:00 p.m. Arrive Columbus Visitor’s Center “It has seemed to me that the greatest 560 State Highway 46 East Watch video, tour one church, then city architecture tour with guide on of all arts is the art of living.” 7:00 p.m. Buffet Dinner at Lodge our bus — T. C. Steele

3:30 p.m. Depart for Notre Dame NASHVILLE, IN Evening on your own: pool, lounge and activities Nashville boasts a thriving tourist industry based upon at Lodge to enjoy 6:30 p.m. Arrive back on campus the original works of resident artists and upon the area’s natural beauty. The largest state park, Brown County State INDIANA UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM (cover) Park is nearby. Art, antique, and specialty shops, as well as This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Indiana galleries, restaurants, and entertainment venues, make up University Art Museum. Founded in 1941, through the quaint, downtown Nashville with a population less than vision of esteemed former president of IU, Herman B 1000. Wells, the museum existed in a variety of locations before its current I.M. Pei-designed building was completed in THOMAS HART BENTON MURALS COLUMBUS, IN 1982. The museum is regularly listed as one of the top The year that Thomas Hart Benton produced his monu- National Geographic Traveler describes the city as university art museums in the country, with an encyclope- mental Indiana Murals for ’s “” “authentic, unique, and unspoiled.” As a city known for dic collection that has grown to more than 45,000 objects. World’s Exposition, 1933, was a time of great change and its architecture, there are a high number of notable public The museum will be marking its anniversary with a variety uncertainty. These murals with their progressive theme of buildings and sculptures in the Columbus area, designed of special exhibitions, installations, and events throughout Hoosier (and by proxy American) hard work and persever- by such influential individuals as Eero Saarinen, I.M. Pei, 2016. The museum will also be launch a new online guide ance were meant to entertain, educate and empower. With Robert Venturi, Cesar Pelli, and Richard Meier. This has to the collections featuring over 750 of its most famous great foresight, the murals eventually found a home at IU led to Columbus earning the nickname “Athens of works this spring, and a new, more comprehensive thanks to then President, Herman B. Wells. the Prairie. collections guidebook towards the end of 2016. - Michael McRobbie