B.L.A.K.E. 2003
Best Literature
and Art Kids’ Exhibition
Friday, October 3, through
Sunday, October 26, 2003
Toledo Museum of Art, Community
Gallery
OBJECTIVES
The objectives
of B.L.A.K.E. 2003 are to encourage children to experiment with art and writing
and to provide an opportunity for them to showcase their best artistic and
literary work and to learn from what other artists and writers have done.
The acronym for the art and literary
fair (B.L.A.K.E.) refers to William Blake (1757-1827), the English Romantic
poet, painter, engraver, and printer. The fair’s tiger logo, which incorporates the poet’s
name, is suggested by his poem “The Tyger,” which begins:
Tyger Tyger.
burning bright,
In the forests
of the night:
What immortal
hand or eye,
Could frame
thy fearful symmetry?
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3
6:00 p.m., Community Gallery
B.L.A.K.E. 2003 opening ceremony
(Bill Werner, Art and Literary Fair Director, will present certificates of
recognition to all students. Greg
Jones, Managing Director of the Museum’s School of Art and Design, will welcome
the students and their families on behalf of the Museum.)
6:30 - 9:30 p.m., Peristyle Lobby
Club Friday Music
Calvin Hughes Trio (jazz)
6:45 - 7:30 p.m. Meet in Libbey Court.
Public Tour
Hunting for Horses
7:00 – 9:00 p.m., Libbey Court
Celebrating National Spinning and
Weaving Week
Toledo Area Weavers' Guild
Samples to examine and demonstrations
to watch
7:00 p.m., Great Gallery
Recital: Alberta Jean Reed, soprano
Alberta Jean Reed, soprano, originally
from Toledo, and a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Music,
has recently returned to the area to complete a Master's degree at Bowling
Green State University’s College of Musical Arts. Ms. Reed's recital will
include classical presentations of art songs in French and English, a German
work featuring clarinet, Negro spirituals, and Jazz and Musical Theatre selections.
8:00 p.m., Little Theater
Infinite Number of Sounds
This group,
which hails from Cleveland, is a critically acclaimed media-art collective
that composes chimerical, sense, post-rational elecro-rock collages, experimenting
with musical forms from breakbeat to barbershop. Their multimedia, installation-style,
live performances have landed them on stage with internationally renowned
recording artists at such prestigious venues as The Sculpture Center in New
York City and the Warhol Museum.