For Every Season: Folk Art in Daily Life and Celebration
September 24 - December 31, 2010
For Every Season highlights a new interpretation of the Everhart Museum Folk Art collection in which the stages of life are illustrated through a rich assortment of objects. For example, the Pennsylvania German immigrants commemorated births with frakturs (illustrated documents) and created bride boxes as marriage gifts for young women. Craftspeople and business proprietors used tavern signs to advertise their goods and skills in their work life, and often young women showcased their artistic skills to honor their deceased loved ones in painted, embroidered, and woven hair mourning pictures. This exhibit also provides a unique opportunity to interface with all of the diverse immigrant communities in Scranton and NEPA, and interpret contemporary folk art (international) and lifeways from ethnicities around the world, represented locally. Partial underwriting for this exhibit is provided by Gertrude Hawk Chocolates, Inc., Lackawanna Heritage Valley Authority, and PNC Bank.

Everhart SPARCS: Raising Awareness about Water in the Ecosystem
September 24 - December 31, 2010
The Gallery One exhibit Everhart SPARCS: Raising Awareness about Water in the Ecosystem is a community-based project highlighting collaborative science education programs with Audubon Elementary School and Howard Gardner School of Discovery. Over the course of the 2009-2010 school year, students engaged in a hands-on program focused on how all forms of life depend on water for survival. Both in the classroom and at the Museum, they learned about conservation issues and how they can make a difference. In addition to projects at the Everhart, the students explored local water resources including Nay Aug Gorge, learned about recycling and pollution control, and visited Lackawanna State Park. Partial underwriting for this exhibit was provided by a grant from Pennsylvania American Water.

Ancient Bronzes of the Asian Grasslands from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation
May 21 - September 6, 2010
Ancient Bronzes of the Asian Grasslands reveals how the ancient, horse-riding nomadic cultures of Mongolia and Central Asia during the late second and first millennia BCE used the animal world as a source of symbols to indicate tribe, social rank and connection to the spirit world. Ancient Bronzes illuminates their influence both on and by the culture of dynastic China, as well as how the steppe peoples facilitated trade and travel along the Silk Road across Asia. Organized and on loan from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation (NYC), this traveling exhibition features more than 80 masterpieces of Eurasian steppe art, including bronze belt buckles, plaques, pendants, ornaments and weapons. Animal motifs such as antlered stags, wild boars and birds of prey are a primary theme and visitors will be enchanted by the artistic expression found in a functional form. These objects were made to be practical and conform to a nomadic lifestyle yet they were created with an artistic sensibility that transcends centuries of time.

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Migration: A Journey from Bhutan to Scranton
May 21- Sept. 6, 2010
Complementing the Everhart Museum's exhibit, Ancient Bronzes of the Asian Grasslands from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, the Gallery One exhibit Migration illustrates the profound journey of several families from the mountainous Asian nation of Bhutan to a refugee camp in Nepal, and eventually to homes in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Scranton’s newest residents share their moving photographs and stories about their own experience with the upheaval of leaving their homes, resettlement, and immigration.

The Art of the Brick®
Sculptures by Nathan Sawaya
February 5-May 2, 2010
The Art of the Brick focuses on the wonderful creations by New York-based artist Nathan Sawaya using the popular LEGO® building block as an art medium. The exhibit features 29 works created solely from standard LEGO bricks over the period 2002-2007 with several new ones created specifically for this exhibit. Nearly one million colorful LEGO® pieces were used to create his whimsical and awe-inspiring sculptures. Sawaya's ability to transform this common toy into something meaningful to capture action and movement enables him to elevate child's play into fine art. Artist Nathan Sawaya has been featured on "The Today Show," "Late Night with David Letterman," and "The Colbert Report." His works are on display in major museums across the country. Partial underwriting for this exhibit is provided by Gertrude Hawk Chocolates, Inc., Penn Security Bank & Trust Co., and The Oppenheim Family.

Student Art at the Everhart: Brick Creations
February 5-May 2, 2010
Complementing the Everhart Museum's exhibit, The Art of the Brick® sculptures by Nathan Sawaya, area students were invited to create artworks inspired by real or imaginary LEGO creations. Through collaborations such as Student Art at the Everhart: Brick Creations, the Everhart Museum nurtures creativity and showcases artistic excellence in the community.

Isaiah's Corner: Build It!
February 5-May 2, 2010
Try your hand at building your own "art-chitecture" masterpieces in Isaiah's Corner: Build It! Using inspiration from the Everhart Museum's natural history and science collection, as well as The Art of the Brick and Student Art at the Everhart: Brick Creations exhibits, create new and fantastical buildings and creatures in the Museum's hands-on gallery. Children of all ages invited, but please note that adult guidance is required.

DAY OF THE DEAD: Art & Culture in the Americas
Exclusive to the Everhart Museum
September 25-December 31, 2009
Day of the Dead (El Día de los Muertos), has its roots in ancient indigenous cultures of Central and South America, and today is celebrated throughout the America's during the Roman Catholic holidays of All Saints' and All Soul's Days (November 1 & 2). Created by the Everhart Museum with funding assistance from the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, this exclusive exhibit illustrates Day of the Dead as a celebration and remembrance of beloved people in the family and community. Day of the Dead: Art & Culture in the Americas features contemporary art from nationally and internationally recognized artists, traditional folk art, and the Everhart Museum's Pre-Columbian collection. Additional underwriting for this exhibit is provided by The Foley Law Firm and Prudential Retirement.
The artists included in Day Of The Dead are: Sherry Boram, Geraldine Congdon, Mark Cohen, Mike Egan, Eros Hoagland, Deb Lacativa, Janice Paine-Dawes, Michael Robinson-Chavez, Rolfe Ross, Meena Schaldenbrand, Mary Louise Smith, Balam Soto, Les Stone, Hector Tellez, Annette Weintraub, and Theresa A. Ybanez.

Celebrating Ancestors: Student Art at the Everhart
September 25-December 31, 2009
Complementing the Everhart Museum's Fall exhibit, Day of the Dead: Art & Culture in the Americas, area students were invited to create artworks inspired by important people in their lives who have passed away, such as a parent, grandparent, friend or relative; several students also decided to focus on famous and notable public figures. The Day of the Dead is a holiday of remembrance in Latin America, and families all over Central and South America celebrate their ancestors with special displays in the home and at the public cemeteries. Through collaborations such as Celebrating Ancestors: Student Art at the Everhart, the Everhart Museum nurtures creativity and showcases artistic excellence in the community.

Isaiah's Corner: ¡Fiesta Fun with Calaveras!
September 25-December 31, 2009
Step into Latin America culture in Isaiah's Corner: ¡Fiesta Fun with Calaveras! Children of all ages are invited to build ofrendas, make skeleton masks and dolls, creating tissue paper flowers and papel picado (punched paper) designs, and calculating in Mayan math! In the Museum's hands-on gallery, children of all ages can learn about Day of the Dead, a Latino holiday of remembrance when families celebrate their ancestors with special displays in the home and in public places. Please note that adult guidance is required.

ANCIENT MICROWORLDS
On Loan from Ancient Microworlds
June 12 - September 7, 2009
Ancient Microworlds marries paleontology with photography to attain an intriguing exploration of past life. In this exhibit, Giraud Foster and Norman Barker demonstrate that fossils can dazzle the mind and the eye. Together, Foster and Barker have developed innovative high-magnification photographic techniques and painstakingly selected the remarkable specimens that make their stunning images unique. Theirs is an ancient world as artfully beautiful as it is scientifically engaging. The microphotography of fossils is complemented by the Everhart Museum's own fossil collection. The exhibit was created by Ancient Microworlds.

ISAIAH'S CORNER: Dino Nation!
June 12-September 7, 2009
Let your need to explore lead you to Isaiah's Corner: Dino Nation! where you can find fossils, rocks, and dinosaurs! Investigate fossil records, solve puzzles, create fossil art, and more in our hands-on activity center, designed with our youngest visitors in mind. Touch, play, create, and learn about the underground world captured in our Ancient Microworlds exhibit! Please note that adult guidance is required. For more information, contact the Everhart Museum at 570-346-7186 or email: general (dot) information (at) everhart-museum.org

TRANSFORMATIONS 2008: ICONS & IMAGERY
May 7-July 27, 2009
Transformations 2008: Icons & Imagery features studio art quilts by 32 artists from nine countries. Each of the artist members of Studio Art Quilt Associates represented in Transformations 2008: Icons & Imagery used the idea of an icon, with its ability to elicit symbolic meaning beyond the object represented, as a starting point for the quilts in this exhibit. German textile expert Rudolf Smend, who served as the sole juror of this exhibit, selected work he felt "focused primarily on artistic originality, perfect craftsmanship and innovation," while providing a new take on the meaning of iconography through the use of fresh imagery and interpretations. The artists work chosen for the exhibit feature a diverse range of imagery, all of which use what are iconic pieces, including Byzantine icons themselves, symbols from ancient world cultures, the American landscape, feminine pop culture "icons," and cultural motifs taken from oft reproduced media imagery. The quilts included in this exhibit feature diverse styles of textile and fiber arts, reflecting time-honored quilting, sewing, and embroidery techniques as well as less traditional techniques such as printing, photography, collage and inclusion of found objects in and on the quilts. The exhibit which is on loan from Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) has toured internationally and was curated by Jeannette DeNicolis Meyer.

ORNAMENTAL IMPRESSIONS: Howard Gardner School of Discovery
June 12-September 7, 2009
Fascinated by the art of fossils or the beauty of these ancient creatures? Check out the works on paper created by Howard Gardner School students who were inspired by the Everhart Museum exhibition Ancient Microworlds featuring micro-photography of fossils from around the world. HGS students use the natural surroundings of Nay Aug Park, the Everhart Museum's home, as their classroom in the autumn and spring, and these artworks reflect their multidisciplinary aesthetic education. The 5th-12th grade students feature the art of paper marbling and hand-colored monoprints with rubbings and found objects in this exhibit reflecting the diverse and complex patterning often found in a multitude of fossils. Through these collaborative efforts with schools and community groups, the Everhart Museum nurtures creativity and showcases artistic excellence in the region.

FAIRY TALE ART: ILLUSTRATIONS FROM CHILDREN'S BOOKS
On loan from Smith Kramer Fine Arts
February 6 - May 25, 2009
Fairy tales offer a magic carpet ride to a timeless, enchanted, dreamlike world. The origins and history of fairy tales spans thousands of years and many cultures. These magical stories were told and retold by storytellers in early civilizations of China, Egypt, Europe and India. The fairy tales and folk tales featured in this exhibit celebrate stories handed down through the ages that echo the wisdom of past cultures and honor the symbolic and metaphoric language of the stories. The exhibit includes traditional versions of: The Firebird, Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and Little Red Riding Hood along with modern stories such as: Cinderella's Dress, Child of the Faerie: Child of the Earth, and the Hungry Coat. Prize winning contemporary artists whose art is featured include: Kinuko Y. Craft, Trina Schart Hyman, Barry Moser, DEMI, Susan Paradis and Jim LaMarche.

Fairy Tale Art Featured on WNEP 16

HAPPILY EVER AFTER?
Student Art at the Everhart
February 6 - May 25, 2009
Intrigued by fractured fairy tales? The Everhart Museum's latest Gallery One exhibit, Happily Ever After?: Student Art at the Everhart, highlights the work of area students who rewrote unexpected endings to their favorite fairy tales in humorous and thought-provoking artworks. Through these collaborative efforts, the Everhart nurtures creativity and showcases artistic excellence in the community. The schools involved in this exhibition include: Abington Heights High School, Blue Ridge Elementary School, John Marshall Elementary School, Moscow Elementary Center, Mountain View Elementary School, Scranton High School, and South Scranton Intermediate School. Happily Ever After? serves as a complement to the exhibit Fairy Tale Art: Illustrations from Children's Books.

ISAIAH'S CORNER: ENCHANTED EVERHART
February 1 - May 25, 2009
Let your sense of adventure lead you to Isaiah's Corner: Enchanted Everhart, where your imagination can run wild as you explore fairy tales and folk tales. Become a king or queen, solve puzzles, discover magic objects, write your own fairy tale with a moral to the story, and more in our hands-on activity center. Touch, play, create, and learn about the stories, objects, and illustrations from our Fairy Tale Art: Illustrations from Children's Books exhibit! Please note that adult guidance is required at all times. So come to the museum and stop by Isaiah's Corner to learn about fairy tales and folk tales with your children. Then go visit our galleries where you and your children can apply your new knowledge in our temporary exhibits, Fairy Tale Art: Illustrations from Children's Books and Happily Ever After?

THE BEATLES; PHOTOGRAPHS BY HARRY BENSON
November 9, 2008 - December 29, 2008
The Beatles: Photographs by Harry Benson takes us back to a time when four cheeky lads from Liverpool forever changed popular music. Nearly 45 years after the Beatles began the British invasion with their historic Feb. 9, 1964 appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show," the music world still stands in awe of their impact, and more importantly, their sound. This special exhibition celebrates what many consider to be the most influential event not only in rock 'n' roll history, but for American society as well.

TOOLS IN MOTION: WORK FROM THE HECHINGER COLLECTION
On loan from International Arts & Artists
September 26 - December 22, 2008
Featuring 65 highlights from the collection of Washington, DC hardware-industry pioneer John Hechinger, this popular, family-friendly exhibition displays the amazing variety of 20th-century art that represents or incorporates tools and hardware. TOOLS IN MOTION includes sculptures, photographs, and paintings by such artists as Berenice Abbott, Arman, Jim Dine, Richard Estes, Walker Evans, Claes Oldenburg, and Wayne Thiebaud and celebrates the ubiquity of tools in our lives with art that transforms utilitarian objects into fanciful works of beauty, surprise and wit. This exhibit is touring throughout the country.

STUDENT ART AT THE EVERHART: FANTASY TOOLS
26 September-29 December, 2008
Complementing the Everhart Museum's fall exhibit, Tools in Motion, the Gallery One exhibition, Student Art at the Everhart: Fantasy Tools, highlights the work of area students who created artworks inspired by their perfect fantasy tool. Through these collaborative efforts, the Everhart nurtures creativity and showcases artistic excellence in the community. The schools involved in this exhibition include: Abington Heights Middle School and High School, Scranton High School, Audubon Elementary School, Prescott Elementary School, and Mountain View Elementary School.

FLOCKS & FEATHERS: BIRDS IN SCIENCE, CULTURE, AND ART
Exclusive to the Everhart Museum
February 1 - June 1, 2008
Birds take flight in the human imagination and play an important role in the global ecosystem. They travel millions of miles every year migrating around the world, and their life cycles, bird song and evolutionary characteristics have inspired scientists, cultures and artists for millennia. The Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science & Art begins its 2008 centennial celebration with an interpretive exhibit based on the foundation of the Everhart Museum collection of birds; the Museum's founder, Isaiah Fawkes Everhart, was a physician who expressed a lifelong interest in ornithology (the study of birds). In fact, when founding the Museum in 1908, Everhart donated over 2,000 bird specimens to begin the Museum's collection, and ever since the Everhart Museum has continued to collect bird-oriented cultural and scientific materials. The exhibit Flocks & Feathers highlights the Museum's collections of specimens from around the world, cultural objects that use feathers or depict birds, as well as contemporary art inspired by avian creatures. This exhibit is partially sponsored by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

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IN THE FIELD: BIRDING & RESEARCH IN LACKAWANNA COUNTY
Exclusive to the Everhart Museum
February 1 - June 1, 2008
In the Field illustrates the efforts of Lackawanna County (PA) birders who observe and count the resident and migratory birds found in Northeastern Pennsylvania, as well as the data and studies of scientific researchers in tracking the habitats and health of these birds and their local ecological niches. Local birding enthusiasts, including members of the Lackawanna Audubon Society, lend their photos and data sheets for counting birds as part of the exhibit. Local biology professors present their years-long research and data from bird-banding and studying various species of resident and migratory birds stopping over in Lackawanna County for the exhibition.

INTERACTIVE: ISAIAH'S CORNER: BIRDS OF A FEATHER
February 1 - June 1, 2008
Explore birds, their environment, habitats, feathers, and more in our hands-on activity center, designed with our youngest visitors in mind. Touch, play, create, and learn about birds and cultures from our Flocks & Feathers exhibit! Please note that adult guidance is required.

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