Maryhill
Museum of Art
News Release
July 4, 2008
Media Contact: Leslie Wetherell
35 Maryhill Museum Drive
Goldendale, WA 98620
509-773-3733
leslie@maryhillmuseum.org
Family Fun Day at Maryhill Museum
July 19
--Fun Activities for All that
Culminate in an Evening of
Drama
at Stonehenge Memorial
under the Moonlight--
GOLDENDALE, Washington
- Maryhill Museum
of Art is hosting a great day of family fun from 1 until 7 p.m. that includes
art activities, music and theatrical performances. The exhibit Andy Warhol and Other Famous Faces opens
to the public, and is cause for this exciting Family Fun Day. In the evening
the museum is presenting the work of another famous face, W.B. Yeats. So come
for the day, bring a picnic dinner and join the fun.
From 1 to 4 p.m.
visitors can be a famous
face too! Inspired by the portraits in the exhibit Andy Warhol and Other Famous Faces this program will help you to
make your own self-portrait prints using Andy Warhol's "blotted line
technique." As a commercial artist in New
York in the 1950's, Andy used this technique to
create illustrations of everything from his early advertising work to his
whimsical drawings of animals.
Then to celebrate the
special evening at
Stonehenge, Maryhill
Museum will be open to
the public until 7 p.m. Families are welcome to explore the museum and picnic
on the grounds. Bring your favorite picnic foods and something for the peacocks
too! A free concert by the widely acclaimed Gorge Winds will be entertaining in
the Maryhill picnic grounds from 5:30-6:30pm.
A 7 p.m. the magic
begins at Stonehenge
Memorial, east of the museum just off Highway 14. The day ends with the
unique presentation of two short plays by 19th century Irish poet William Butler
(W.B.) Yeats directed by noted actor and artistic director of the Classic Greek
Theater of Oregon,
Keith Scales. The setting is the iconic Stonehenge Memorial, a replica of England's Stonehenge
built on the bluffs overlooking the Columbia River Gorge.
And if the
performances aren't enough, the
evening will culminate as the full moon rises in the summer sky. The
performance includes music, additional readings and dance. Actors are Jonah
Weston, Stephanie Seaman, Zero Feeney, John Vergin, Mark Grafe, Mark Burdon,
Stephanie Seaman, Charles Tyndall, MaryChris Mass and Lindsay
Matteson.
T.S. Eliot described
W.B. Yeats
(1865-1939) as "...the greatest poet of our time -- certainly the greatest
in this language and, as far as I am able to tell, in any
language..."Yeats was also a remarkable playwright whose strange and
powerful dramas still stand as landmarks in the development of European
theatre. Yeats was largely responsible for a cultural renaissance in Ireland at
the turn of the 20th century and in 1923 was awarded the Nobel Prize for
Literature.
Connecting Yeats to
the Pacific Northwest
is Keith Scales, who was born and raised in London, England, and has been
living and working in the Pacific Northwest since 1970 as an actor, director,
teacher, organizer and writer. A familiar face to Northwest audiences, Keith
has acted in more than 200 plays and directed nearly 100 in various theatres in
Portland, Oregon.
Keith has also received several research fellowships, including one to travel
to the W.B.Yeats Festival in Sligo,
Ireland. The Stonehenge Memorial is located three
miles east of the museum. Parking is available at the memorial and the
performance is free, although donations will be accepted. The evening is
sponsored by Windy Point Partners, LLC.
Related
Events:
See the exhibit
Andy Warhol and Other Famous Faces: During the
1960s American
artist Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987) began to explore the iconic status of everyday
objects such as his images of Campbell's
soup cans and his portraits of such notable personalities as Marilyn Monroe and
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The work he produced established Warhol as the
rising star in what was to become known as the Pop Movement. In the 1970s his
fascination with portraiture grew and he began producing dozens of vibrant
portraits that had a lasting effect on popular culture and art. This exhibit
includes portraits by Warhol of The Beatles, Sitting Bull, General Custer,
Geronimo, Queen Elizabeth II, Jimmy Carter, Marilyn Monroe, Liza Minnelli,
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and the emblematic Campbell's Soup Can (Tomato). Also shown are portraits by artists Jennifer Bartlett,
Chuck Close, Osvaldo Salas Freire, Red Grooms, Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons,
Takashi Murakami, Mel Ramos, Robert Rauschenberg, and Tom Wesselman. They
portray Elvis Presley, Charlie Chaplin, Vincent Van Gogh, Ernest Hemingway,
John and Robert Kennedy, and others. All work in the exhibit is on loan from
the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation. The exhibit
is sponsored by Puget Sound Energy.
Experience
the
Enchantment: About Maryhill Museum of Art.
Perched on a stunning 5,000-acre site overlooking the scenic
Columbia River Gorge, Maryhill Museum of Art contains a world-class
collection of
artwork that ranges from early 20th century European works to Native
American objects. This award-winning museum, founded by Northwest
entrepreneur and visionary Sam Hill, opened to the public in
1940. Outside the museum is an Outdoor Sculpture Garden, Lewis
and Clark
interpretive panels and a life-sized replica of Stonehenge.
The
museum is open daily
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., March 15 to November 15. Admission fees are $7
for adults, $6 for seniors and $2 for children age 6-16. Maryhill is
located off
Highway 97, 12 miles south of Goldendale, Washington. Drive times to
the museum are 2 hours from Portland/Vancouver, 3.5 hours from Bend, 4
hours from
Seattle, and 1.5 hours from Yakima. Visit www.maryhillmuseum.org for more
information.
Photography
A dramatic
performance of two short plays by W.B. Yeats will be presented under a
full moon at Maryhill Museum's Stonehenge Memorial at 7 p.m. on July
19.
Admission is free.
For a 300 dpi
resolution
photo click here.
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