ART EDUCATION CLASSES Additional Class Offerings Drawing Studio Junior! Monika Wertman WASHINGTON COUNTY *For our complete Fall 2014 Calendar visit the Museum’s Saturday, November 8/12:30–2:30 p.m. 2014 TREASURE SALE website, www.wcmfa.org, and review the September/October MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS Calendar! Members $27.00/Non-members $30.00 Hosted by The Singer Society Learn the elements of art while sketching in our galleries. Festive Catered Reception Little Illustrators Melissa Gibson Wine & Hors d’oeuvres Friday, October 31, 5:00–7:00 p.m. Your Guide to Saturdays November 8, 15, 22/9:00–9:45 a.m. [3 weeks] Sponsored by Mr. & Mrs. L. David Black, Members $27.00/Non-members $30.00 Asad and Velda Ghattas, John G. Newby, MD, PC, Your pre-schooler will love this mix of reading and art! & Mrs. Theron Rinehart, and an Anonymous Donor the Arts (Ages 3–6) *$20.00 per person including $5.00 coupon that can be used the day of the sale with a purchase of $35.00 or more Homemade Holiday Cards Bob Wantz Thursday, November 20/10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Treasure Sale Members $18.00/Non-members $20.00 Saturday, November 1, 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. Create a watercolor landscape that can be turned into a one of a Cash & Carry kind holiday card. Sunday, November 2, 1:00–3:00 p.m. (Ages 13 and older, watercolor experience preferred) Purchase items you can place in a small shopping bas- ket for $20.00 cash (baskets will be provided) Pastel Pictures Monika Wertman November 22/12:30–2:30 p.m./Free Learn to draw in the medium of pastel, the class will have a finished product, perfect for a holiday gift!

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Drive, Closed Monday and for the Holidays on payment in advance and prior to the start of class. https://www.hagerstowncc.edu/240-500-2000 MD You may register and make payment either by phoning OF November 27 & 28, December 24, 25, 31 423 the Museum (301-739-5727), visiting the website Box (www.wcmfa.org), or in-person. Museum Free Admission & Parking WASHINGTON MUSEUM 401 P.O. Hagerstown, www.wcmfa.org 301-739-5727 For more information: www.wcmfa.org

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS 1 Treasure Sale 12 Weavers Roundtable: Weaving a Life. DECEMBER 11 Singer Society Membership Meeting: 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m./Hosted by The Singer Society Where will your weaving take you? Mark Cook & The Shepherdstown November University Jazz Ensemble **Don’t Miss the 10:00 a.m.–12 noon/Museum Atrium/Christa Lemons 5 Annual City Park Holiday Tree Lighting 1 82nd Annual Cumberland Valley Festive Catered 6:00–8:30 p.m. (Inclement Weather Date: Saturday, December 6) 10:00 a.m./Bowman Gallery Treasure Sale 13 Singer Society Membership Meeting: Artists Exhibition Visit the Museum and enjoy a Scavenger Hunt, refreshments, and Preview Reception Learn about The Hub City Opera Ensemble 21 Museum Consort Through January 11, 2015/Groh Gallery the sights and sounds of the season. The event is in partnership on October 31!** 10:00 a.m./Presented by Joe Marschner/Bowman Gallery with the City of Hagerstown. 2:30 p.m./Bowman Gallery/In honor of December celebra- A juried exhibition celebrating the artists of the region and tions, the music for the concert will include Ma’oz Tsur, a beyond who are showcased in this annual juried exhibition. This 13 Lecture: The Visionary Experience & Children’s Holiday Reception featuring Jewish Folk Song, arranged by Brenda Slick; Ecco l’Aurora year’s juror is Dow Benedict, Dean of the School of Arts and 6 The Power of Intuition Reptile World with Michael Shwedick by Andrea Gabrieli (c. 1533–1586); The Huron Carol (T’was Humanities and Professor of Sculpture at Shepherd University, in the Moon of Wintertime) tradi- Presented by Rebecca Shepherdstown, West Virginia. 10:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m./$5.00 per person tional, arranged by Michael J. Oezko Treasure Sale “Cash and Carry” Hoffberger, Founder 2 in advance. (1995); and Coventry Carol traditional, and Director, 1 Recent Acquisitions Exhibition 1:00–3:00 p.m./Purchase items you can place in a small shopping Following the presentation children arranged by Daniel Kelley (1998). American Visionary Kerstein Gallery basket for $20.00 cash (baskets will be provided). may enjoy a visit with Santa Claus and Performers will include Jeffrey Clise, Art Museum refreshments. Russell Johnson, David Styer, Naomi This exhibition highlights some of the recent works of art acquired Dinner 6:00 p.m. 7 Preview Reception/The Mirror of Nature: Styer, and Guest Musician Guitarist by the Museum, including decorative arts, paintings, and Lecture 7:00 p.m. Sponsored by the Mary K. Bowman Fund The Art of Philip Koch Candice Mowbray. sculptures. Many of the works on view were bequeathed to the Dinner & Lecture: Michael Shwedick for Historical & Fine Arts. Museum by Betty and Hal Demuth of Winchester, Virginia, whose 5:00–7:00 p.m./Members $15.00 /Non-members $20.00/ Be among Members $20.00; Candice Mowbray generous bequest has helped grow the Museum’s collection of the first to see this vibrant exhibition, meet the artist, and enjoy a Non-members $30.00 7 Gallery Talk: Recent Acquisitions Guest Musician Guitarist 19th and 20th century American and European art. Notable pieces beautiful Wine and Cheese Reception hosted by The Singer Society. Lecture Only: 1:30 p.m./Presented by Guest Curator Dr. Elizabeth Johns and on view include oil paintings by Francisco Luis Mora, Chauncey RSVP by November 4, 301-739-5727. Members Free; Museum Director Rebecca Massie Lane/New Member Event Foster Ryder, and sculptor Antoine-Louis Barye (French, 1796– SAVE THE DATE Non-members $5.00 Museum Director Rebecca Massie Lane will discuss the importance 1875), Running Elephant. An interesting group of paintings from 8 The Mirror of Nature: The Art of of the Museum’s intentional collecting while Dr. Johns will speak January 2015 the regional “Snallygaster” group are part of the exhibition as are Philip Koch Through February 22, 2015 from her perspective as an American Art Historian, Guest Curator, examples of Tiffany glass. Painter Philip Koch is a member of the faculty at and former Co-chair of the Museum’s Collections and Exhibitions 24 The Quickening Image: Wax-resist Institute College of Art (MICA), has exhibited his paintings widely, Committee. Drawings of David Dodge Lewis and and is represented in many private and public collections. He is Ephraim Rubenstein–A Twenty-year an avid student of American landscape painting, most notably of 7 Maryland Symphony Orchestra (MSO) Collaboration Edward Hopper. Recital: The Kuznik´ Trio Through April 12 Rebecca Hoffberger 2:30 p.m./Bowman Gallery/Members Free/ David Dodge Lewis and Ephraim Rubenstein are both noted Non-members $5.00/Children 12 and under artists as well as active teachers. Rubenstein is currently on 16 Illustrated & Lecture Gallery Talk: The Free/Reception to follow/Hosted by The the faculty at Columbia University, the National Academy Mirror of Nature: The Art of Philip Koch Singer Society/New Member Event/Selections include C major of Design, and the Art Students League; and Lewis is the KV 548 by Wolfgang Mozart (1756–1791), Trio in D minor by Felix 2:30 p.m./Presented by Philip Koch/Bowman and Baer Galleries William W. Elliot Professor of Fine Arts at Hampden-Sydney Mendelssohn (1809–1847), Revolucionario Tango by Astor Piazzola College in Virginia. They have been artistic colleagues for a 30 Concert: Gallery Quartet (1921–1992), and Café Music by Paul Schoenfield (b. 1947). The trio period of twenty years and this exhibition explores their is comprised of Aneta Otreba-Kuźnik, cello, Swiatoslaw Kuźnik, collaborations in experimental technique, as well as image 2:30 p.m./Now in its 38th season at the Museum, the Quartet will violin, and Ernest Barretta, piano. The and meaning in drawing. perform the String Quartet in E flat major, Op. 64 No. 6 by Franz concert is supported by the Maryland State Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) and the String Quartet in F. major, Op. 96 Arts Council through its Maryland Touring Left: Ephraim Rubenstein, by the Bohemian composer Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904). Quartet Grant and also sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Gargoyles II, graphite, Robert Patierno, Swamp Trees, Reduction Woodblock Print, members include Celeste Blasé and Carl Tretter, violins, Fay John Barr and Dr. and Mrs. Robert Hobbs. wax, charcoal, ink, 12” x 16” Rosinsky, cello, Jere Stern, viola. The concert is sponsored in part by The Kuźnik Trio Conte, pastel, and Mr. Pierre Berry in memory of his mother, Mrs. Georgette Berry. Nu-pastel on paper, 10 Weavers Roundtable & Holiday Brunch: 50” x 38” Buttons: Past, Present and Future Right: David Dodge Lewis, *Show and Tell about gifts you plan to give away. Bring a covered Splitting Maul #8, graphite, dish, place setting, serving utensils, and woven placemat. wax, charcoal, ink, and Conte on paper, 40” x 26” Philip Koch, Deep Forest Pool, 2011, oil on panel, 30” x 40” 10:00 a.m.–12 noon/Nancy Moyer Cover: Philip Koch, Deer Isle, 2009, oil on panel, 36” x 72”

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