Art festival spreads out on Maryhill lawn
Published 8:15 pm Tuesday, August 21, 2012
- <p>The grounds of Maryhill Museum of Art are filled with people and activities during a past Maryhill Arts Festival, located near Goldendale, Wash. The free event offers family activities, entertainment and vendor booths.</p>
Artists displaying and selling art, live music, hands-on family art activities and food vendors will be featured during the Maryhill Arts Festival. The free event, which is a summertime tradition in the Gorge, is Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Maryhill Museum of Art. The museum is located off Highway 97 at 35 Maryhill Museum Drive, Goldendale, Wash. To get there, drive west on Interstate 84 and take Exit No. 104.
More than 30 artists will display and sell their works, which includes everything from painting and printmaking to textile art, glass and woodworking.
Participants can enjoy live music, featuring the energetic jazz sounds of Mike Stillman and Friends Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Moody Music Notes Sunday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., followed by Laddie Ray Melvin from 1-3 p.m.
People can explore their creativity during Art Under the Tent, which offers drop-in art activities from 1-4 p.m. both days of the festival.
The festival offers an opportunity to enjoy Maryhills grounds as a whole, including the new 25,500-square-foot Mary and Bruce Stevenson Wing, which opened this spring. Visitors also can peruse the museums growing permanent collection of outdoor sculpture. Maryhills Stonehenge Memorial, located four miles east of the museum, is also free. Its open daily from 7 a.m. to dusk.
Inside the museum, visitors will find the special exhibition The Subject is Light: The Henry and Sharon Martin Collection of Contemporary Realist Paintings, which features 27 seascapes, still lifes and landscapes by artists from Cape Cod.
The museum proper will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. during the Arts Festival. Permanent exhibits include a large collection of works by Rodin, European and American paintings, objects dart from the palaces of the Queen Marie of Romania, unique chess sets and an extensive Native American collection.
Regular admission to the museum is $9 for adults, $8 for seniors, $3 for youth age 7-18 and free for children 6 and under. Family admission for two adults and two children is $25. Also, family passes can be checked out at many area libraries.
For more information about the museum, go to www.maryhillmuseum.org or contact 509-773-3733 or maryhill@maryhillmuseum.org.
