Greetings everyone, from your University Museum! Summer 2023 is filled with Museum happenings and I thought I’d take this opportunity to highlight four Program dates upcoming which you will also see referenced elsewhere in this newsletter issue.
Last Summer, 2022 we undertook a return to the popular tradition of Brown Bag Lunches, 12:00 – 1:00 hour special-topic talks by distinguished speakers in their areas of expertise. We adopted the approach of using Museum professional staff expertise and also that of Oxford-based Fine Arts Appraiser Laurie Triplette, and we were excited and gratified by community and stakeholder response and attendance.
This year’s Brown Bag Lunch Series commences June 13 and with following dates of July 11 and August 8, at 12 Noon in the Museum’s front gallery known as the Speakers Gallery. Lunch options will be available in the lobby or brown bag your own lunch. June’s speaker is architect Tom Howorth, Principal of Howorth & Associates Architects of Oxford. July’s speaker will be Andy Reynolds Landscape Architect of A2H, Engineers, Architects, and Planners based in Memphis and Oxford. And in August we’ll hear from University colleague Denny Buchannon, Project Manager of the university’s Facilities Planning office, speaking on the subject of hardscapes such as concrete, and how they contribute to landscaping.
We greatly hope that you will feel welcome for these monthly Tuesday noon walk-in programs this summer, to appreciate their theme of celebrating and learning from local experts sharing their range of experience in architecture, landscape architecture, and hardscapes. Our goal is to be a resource to our community to advance learning across a wide spectrum of subjects beyond our exhibitions and collections. Questions for our speakers are very welcome and will make the sessions a true dialog, so feel free to join in the conversation!
Additionally this Summer is the outdoor concert series known as the Summer Sunset Series, held on the Grove at 6PM on each of the four Sundays of June (6/4, 6/11, 6/18, and 6/25). Chairs and picnics are welcome at this family-friendly annual music series, which is free and open to the public. The Museum is proud to have been an original founding underwriter of the Series, and since its first year we have sponsored one of the presenting bands – this year on Sunday June 18 we present the Perry Family, featuring Bill and Shy Perry.
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With sincere regards,
Robert Saarnio
Museum Director
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