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February 2014  
In This Issue
FOB Special
New Designation
New Designation
Woodland Walk
Programs
Museum Shop
Museum Shop
FOB February Special

Friends of Belmont
members may bring up to four guests for free admission to the museum for the entire month of February. There is no limit to the number of member visits, with four guests, during the month. If you wish to bring more than four guests during any one visit, additional guests will be admitted at half price ($5). 

Take this opportunity to share and show off Belmont to your friends and family-and encourage them to become members too!


IN MEMORIAM
  
In Memory of  
Our Friend and Co-Worker 
Gloria D. Chestnut 
1933-2014
   
NEW DESIGNATION

Gari Melchers Home and Studio has been named an Affiliate Site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. This designation is linked to Belmont's inclusion in the Trust's Historic Artists' Homes and Studio program, which seeks to highlight and promote the very best of these important and unique American museums.

 

Also announced is Belmont's participation as a Distinctive Destination of the National Trust. National Trust members now receive a 10% discount on the regular Belmont admission fee. 

  
Woodland Hike

     

Sunday, February 23

2 pm


 
Led by Virginia Master Naturalists, this informative free hike covers a mile o
f trails in both woodlands and fields and touches on the historic ruins of Belmont's past. Please wear sturdy footwear and meet outside the Visitor Center.

PROGRAMS

Sunday, Feb 9, 2 pm
With Needle and Thread...A Beginner's Class in Sewing

This hands-on workshop will teach the basics of personal sewing-threading a needle, sewing a hem, replacing a button, repairing a seam and other small repairs.

  

Workshop fee: $35; members $25. Basic sewing kit included. Registration required at 540/654-1843 or [email protected].   Visit the Museum Shop blog.  

 

Sunday, Feb 16, 2 pm  
WORLD FAIR: Film screening followed by  Director Q&A


WORLD FAIR is a short documentary that explores personal memory and amateur cinematography through a singular, spectacular event: the 1939 New York World's Fair.  WORLD FAIR celebrates the stories contained in photographs and home movies, illustrations, and the ephemera we collect and save.
FREE  View the trailer 

 

  

Sun, March 2, 2 pm  

Growing Your Own Summer Bouquets


Free presentation by Lisa Ziegler of The Gardener's Workshop Farm Includes a Pop-Up Shop.  

 

Learn how having a small designated flower bed (3' x 10') as a cutting garden is the first step to a season full of gorgeous cut flowers! Following Lisa's recommendations for easy soil preparations, variety selections, organic methods, and harvesting practices will have your garden producing a bounty of flowers to fill your home and enough to share with friends. This talk is based on the speaker's book, The Easy Cut-Flower Garden.  


PRESCHOOL PALETTE
As Preschool Palette enters into its fourth year, we would like to thank
the 700 children who have attended class.

To celebrate, the Preschool Palette creator and instructor (Miss Michelle to all her students) would like YOUR help in making a new introductory video.

If your son/daughter/grandson/granddaughter would be interested in being filmed saying a line or two for the new Preschool Palette video, please contact Education and Communication Manager Michelle Crow-Dolby at 540/654-1851.

 
MUSEUM SHOP
    
Education and Communications Manager
Newsletter Editor
Museum main number: 540/654-1015
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Gari Melchers Home and Studio at Belmont was the home and studio of prominent portraitist and American Impressionist painter Gari Melchers (1860-1932) from 1916 until his death. The 18th century Georgian mansion, outbuildings, and formal gardens were modified and expanded to serve as an elegant country retreat for the artist and his wife, who had left their longtime European home at the outbreak of WWI.  Melchers was one of the most respected artists of his generation. Upon Corinne Melchers' death in 1955, the property and all its contents were deeded to the Commonwealth of Virginia, making Belmont one of the most complete and authentic artists' homes in America.  

 

Administered by the University of Mary Washington, the museum is accredited by the  American Alliance of Museums, is a National Historic Landmark, and is included in the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Historic Artists' Homes and Studios consortium.

 

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