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Stars Over Springfield
Join members of the Springfield Stars Club for skygazing in the Science Museum’s observatory. If overcast, a planetarium show will be presented. Stars Club website
$3
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LIFE in the Art World: LIFE Magazine and Modern American Art
LIFE magazine was a champion of American modernism, actively promoting the work of 20th-century artists and architects, including Thomas Hart Benton, Rockwell Kent, Charles Sheeler, Frank Lloyd Wright, Georgia O’Keeffe, Stuart Davis, Jackson Pollock, and Andrew Wyeth. This lecture will explore the magazine’s various collaborations with artists, architects, and curators, showing how LIFE shaped the public and the…
$4
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9/11 Remembrance Ceremony
Join Springfield Fire and Police Commissioners to honor the first responders who lost their lives at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. 11 am Ceremony; Welcome Center Lot 1 pm Artist Talk with Dawn Siebel, creator of the Better Angels exhibit; Wood Museum of Springfield History Don’t miss Galaxy Dog sculpture, a tribute to…
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The Art of Illustrated Maps
While literally hundreds of books exist on the subject of maps and cartography, The Art of Illustrated Maps is the first book ever to fully explore the world of “imaginative” mapmaking. Author and map illustrator John Roman explains conceptual mapping’s evolution in history, how and why the human brain so readily accepts to this form…
$4