Sep Exhibitions • • • • •
Member Challenge: Origins (through September 16) River Nest (through January 20) New! Opening Sep 9, Listening to the Land: Reimagining the Bartram Trail (through January 6) New! Opening Sep 30, In.Visible (through December 30) Annual Outdoor Sculpture Program - Horst Winkler Sculpture Trail (through April 2024)
Events • • •
Thursday, September 7, 5 - 6:30 pm | Free | Dazzling Dahlia Festival Poster Party Saturday, September 9, 1 - 5 pm | Free | Dazzling Dahlia Festival Single Bloom Competition Sunday, September 17, 1 - 6 pm | Free | Porchfest
The Three Potters Symposium • • •
Friday, September 29, 4 - 6 pm | Atrium | Three Potters pottery show and sale Friday, September 29, 4:30 - 5:15 pm | Free | Bascom Terrace Three Potters Keynote Lecture with guest speaker Michael Sherrill Saturday, September 30, 10 am - 4 pm | Free | Bascom Terrace Three Potters Symposium: Elements: Form and Fire, featuring: Eric Knoche, Joey Sheehan, and Will Dickert
Bascom Shop •
The Bascom welcomes its new Atrium Series, which highlights artists who were selected by visiting curator, Kimberly English. Over four iterations, The Bascom will bring the work of more than twenty artists to The Bascom's Greehey Atrium. Works will be on exhibit and for sale throughout the season. Series 4 features the work of: Anne Bessac, Morgan Gilbreath, Elizabeth Walton, Brad Armstrong, Isys Hennigar, and Erika Diamond. On display beginning Sep 8th.
Special Holiday Hours Labor Day Weekend The Bascom will be open Monday, Sep 4 10 am - 3 pm
Classes & Workshops • • • • • •
Encaustic Excitement with Sue Fazio, September 5 - 8, 10 am - 4 pm Resident Artist Series: Small Japanese Teapots with Keiko Coghlin, September 5 - 8, 9 am - 12 pm Farmed and Foraged: The basics of sustainable floral arranging featuring local dahlias with Christy Cucuru, September 7, 10 am - 1 pm Resident Artist Series: September Glaze Testing, Formulation, and Application, September 12, 13, 14, 19, and 21, 9 am - 12 pm Abstraction in Acrylics with Leslie Newman, September 13 - 15, 10 am - 4 pm Intermediate Woodturning with John Tagliarini, September 27 - 29, 9 am - 4 pm
For Youth •
September Youth Pottery: Bowls, Bowls, Bowls, class meets: September 13, 20, and 27th, 3:30 - 5 pm
Art by Appointment •
The Bascom offers private, personalized art experiences in clay, drawing, painting or other arts and craft mediums. These personalized art experiences for individuals and groups can be tailored specifically to your schedule and interests.
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