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Historic DeerfieldCalendar Listing
Immediate Release
April 4, 2011
Attn: Calendar editor
Contact Marc Belanger 413-775-7127
Digital HI-RES photos available

April 18-24, 30-May 1 * Family Activities 

April School Vacation-The Student Art of Quillwork

12-4:30 p.m., drop in anytime

 

Quillwork FlowerFamilies can explore amazing art objects made by schoolchildren two hundred years ago at the exhibition Educating the Mind's Eye: The Art of Young Adults, 1790-1840. On display in the Flynt Center of Early New England Life, the exhibition features student painting, embroidery, calligraphy, and even decorated boxes and worktables. At the History Workshop learn about the unique art forms that were once a regular part of children's school education in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Try the student art of quillwork, which uses curled strips of paper to make pictures.  All week take a lesson at the one-room Wapping Schoolhouse.  Also learn about trades at the Apprentice's Workshop, and open-hearth cooking in the 1786 Hall Tavern kitchen.  Included with general admission.

 

If you can't make it during vacation week, the quillwork activity will be repeated on the weekend of April 30-May 1.

 

 

About Historic Deerfield

Historic Deerfield (www.historic-deerfield.org) is a nationally recognized museum offering tours of period houses and the Flynt Center of Early New England Life. Now featuring exhibitions:

  • Educating the Mind's Eye: The Art of Young Adults,. 1790-1840 on view through September 4, 2011. 
  • Into the Woods: Crafting Early American Furniture, a long-term furniture exhibition. 
  • Engraved Powder Horns from the French and Indian War and the American Revolution: The William H. Guthman Collection, permanent.
  • Celebrating the Fiber Arts: The Helen Geier Flynt Textile Gallery, a permanent exhibition with changing elements.

Historic Deerfield also offers relaxed fine dining at Champney's Restaurant and Tavern at the Deerfield Inn, lodging in the Deerfield Inn (www.deerfieldinn.com), and shopping at the Museum Store (www.deerfieldstore.com). Please call 413-775-7214 for museum information and program schedule.

M10 logoMuseums10 is a dynamic collaboration that heightens awareness of the distinctive offerings of the individual institutions while highlighting the cultural diversity and outstanding educational resource that they collectively represent. Museums10 is facilitated by Five Colleges, Inc., which provides major administrative support for the partnership.  Museums10 includes: the Beneski Museum of Natural History, Amherst College; Emily Dickinson Museum: The Homestead and The Evergreens; The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art; Hampshire College Art Gallery; Historic Deerfield; Mead Art Museum at Amherst College; Mount Holyoke College Art Museum; Yiddish Book Center; Smith College Museum of Art; and the University Museum of Contemporary Art, UMass Amherst.  For more information, visit www.museums10.org.
MCC LogoA portion of Historic Deerfield's operating funds is provided through a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

Historic Deerfield

www.historic-deerfield.org

80 Old Main Street, P.O. Box 321

Deerfield, Massachusetts 01342

T: 413-775-7127

F: 413-775-7220