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The Walters Announces Art Blooms: All Mapped Out With Flowers April 3-6
3/3/2008
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The Walters Announces Art Blooms: All Mapped Out With Flowers April 3–6
Art Blooms complements the extraordinary upcoming exhibition Maps: Finding Our Place in the World
Baltimore—The Women’s Committee of the Walters Art Museum hosts an international celebration with the special event Art Blooms: All Mapped Out With Flowers, Thursday, April 3–Sunday, April 6, 2008. During this free, annual event, approximately 30 regional garden clubs will present their flower arrangements, which will represent a host of countries while interpreting artworks in the galleries surrounding the Walters’ Sculpture Court.
This springtime event will complement the Walters’ special exhibition Maps: Finding Our Place in the World, on view March 16–June 8, 2008. Art Blooms will also include accompanying programs, such as a preview party, flower design demonstrations and tours.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
PREVIEW PARTY
Thursday, April 3, 6–9 p.m.
Price: $150
In a celebration of flowers, food and fine art, guests can marvel at the floral arrangements, which interpret masterpieces from around the world. Visitors also can sample international cuisines from restaurants, such as Brothers Taharka Ice Cream, the Helmand, Ikaros, Indigma, Minato, My Thai, Patisserie Poupon, Red Maple, Sascha’s 527, Sotto Sopra Cucina Italiana, Stone Mill Bakery, The Dogwood, Tio Pepe and Vin by Chef Paternotte. Three winners of the map competition sponsored by Towson University’s Geographic Information Sciences 2008 Conference will be on display during this opening party.
FLOWER DEMONSTRATION & LECTURE
Friday, April 4
10–11:30 a.m. demonstration
Noon–12:45 p.m. lecture
Price: $65
Andrew Pascoe, a British floral designer featured in Town & Country and Architectural Digest, will share his “deeply English” style through a hands-on demonstration.
In the afternoon lecture, Amy Stewart, the New York Times bestselling author of Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers, will provide an insider’s view of the cut flower trade.
For tickets, call 410-547-9000, ext. 305 or e-mail geometer@verizon.net.
DOCENT–LED TOURS
Friday, April 4, Noon–3 p.m.
Saturday, April 5, Noon–4 p.m.
Sunday, April 6, Noon–2 p.m.
Price: Free
During a docent-led tour, visitors can learn about the masterpieces interpreted by the Art Blooms flower arrangements.
SUNDAY AT ART BLOOMS
Sunday, April 6, 1–3 p.m.
Price: Free
Demonstrations and workshops on international gardening and flower arranging will be offered during the afternoon.
For information about Art Blooms: All Mapped Out With Flowers, call 410-547-9000, ext. 305 or visit the Web site at www.thewalters.org.
The Walters’ Women’s Committee was formed in 1963 to support the museum and its mission. Since 1990, the committee has raised over $1 million through events like Art Blooms and the Jewelry Fair for exhibitions, special projects and the Education Endowment for the Walters Art Museum. Proceeds from Art Blooms 2007 made it possible for the Walters to bring the exhibition Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt to Baltimore in June 2007.
The Walters Art Museum is located in Baltimore’s historic Mount Vernon Cultural District at North Charles and Centre streets. Its permanent collection includes ancient art, medieval art and manuscripts, decorative objects, Asian art and Old Master and 19th-century paintings. Peabody Court is the official hotel of the Walters Art Museum. For hotel reservations, call 1-800-292-5500.
Media Contacts:
Jessica Weglein, 410-547-9000, ext. 394, jweglein@thewalters.org
Amy Mannarino, 410-547-9000, ext. 277, amannarino@thewalters.org
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