Price Tower Calendar
Most activities and classes require advanced reservations to provide enough supplies for all. Scholarships may be available to those who are unable to afford class fees. Please call 918.336.4949 or email info@pricetower.org for your reservation and inquiries.
Inn at Price Tower or Copper Restaurant + Bar may be contacted at 877.424.2424 or gm@innatpricetower.com.
JULY
July 15 - Tower Tots “Teddy Bear Tea Party”
Morning story and activity hour for children ages 3 to 6 (with accompanying adult). Registration required. Time: 10am to 11am. Cost: Free.
July 20 – Free Family Sunday “Bring your 1950s dinnerware”
Join us for family free museum admission, kid-friendly activities and a special antique mid-century dinnerware appraisal hour with antiques dealer John West from 1-4pm. Free Museum Admission. Time: 12-5pm Cost: Museum Admission Free, Appraisals $10 per item.
ARKIDTECTURE SUMMER CAMP
July 7 – 31, 2008 - ArKIDtecture Camp
This brand new day camp program offers summer fun for children ages 9 to 12. Under the guidance of local art instructor Erinn Rakes, campers will have a new way to experience Frank Lloyd Wright’s historic Price Tower by participating in hands-on creative activities. . This tract will meet for a half-day session once a week over a four week period. Choose one or more tracts to match your interest. Advance registration is required. All supplies will be provided. Scholarships available by application. To apply for tuition assistance or to register your child, contact our education department at 918.336.4949 ext. 113 or register online. For updated information visit http://www.pricetower.org/education/arkidtecture/.“What is a…Graphic Designer?”: Creating a Landmark Calendar Monday, 9am-Noon (ages 9-12)
Class size: 20 campers
Learn about graphic design while creating a “Landmark Calendar” of significant buildings and structures in downtown Bartlesville. Techniques taught include photography in collage, photo-montage, and computer graphics. Campers will participate in a walking tour of downtown Bartlesville, use learning resources at the Bartlesville Public Library, and visit the Arts Center’s Architecture Study Center. Cost: $90.
AUGUST
August 2 - Mid-Century Centerpieces Class with Eva Riter of Eva's Flowers and Gifts Eva will teach a class on centerpiece flower design. All supplies provided. To register call 918.336.4949 or register online. Time: 1:00-3:00pm. Cost: $30.00 for the public, $25.00 for members.
August 22 - 3-logy Triennial 2008: Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things exhibition opens
August 26 - Teachers' Open House Please joing the Arts Center curatorial department and area educators for an evening of information and discussion about the exciting exhibitions, events and resources Price Tower Arts Center has to offer to youth in grades K-12. Tour of the current exhibition and historic interiors recently returned to their 1956 appearance. Refreshments provided. Please RSVP with Libby Leonard at 918.336.4949 ext 113 by August 17. Time: 5:00-7:00pm. Cost: Free.
August 17 – Free Family Sunday “Art Outdoors…Pop Can Sculpture”
Exhibition galleries closed but permanent collection and activity open. Join us eating popsicles and creating recycled sculpture outdoors. Sculptures will be displayed around Bartlesville during Imaginative Qualities exhibition.
August 21 – Members Preview Reception
Light hors d’oeuvres, cash bar. All members welcome from 7 to 8pm. Private reception for Chairman’s Council and Director’s Circle from 6pm to 7pm. Call to RSVP.
August 28 – Volunteer and Docent Recruitment Open House
Have you ever wanted to see Price Tower behind the scenes? Join us for an open house and tour of volunteer opportunities. Refreshments provided. Time: 5:30 – 6:30pm Cost: Free to public.
SEPTEMBER
September 2 – Tower Tots “Autumn Leaves Creations”
September 16 - Tower Tots “Recycled Bird Feeders”
Morning story and activity hour for children ages 3 to 6 (with accompanying adult). Registration required. Time: 10am to 11am. Cost: Free.
September 9 – Price Tower Reading Group Discussion
Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton (Vintage, 2008). Attendees expected to complete the selection prior to attending, and bring questions. Books available in The Wright Place museum store. To join this group, contact Scott Perkins at 918.336.4949 x112. Time: 6:30pm. Cost: Free.
September 11 - Michaela Merryday lecture “Recycled Art”
As the guest curator of the Imaginative Qualities exhibition, Dr. Merryday, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Tulsa, will speak on her views of contemporary recycled artworks. Time: 6:30pm Cost: $4 admission, free to current members.
September 21 – Free Admission Sunday Time: 12-5pm.
OCTOBER
October 2 - TU’s School of Art presents a lecture by artist Mel Chin at TU
Mel Chin’s work defies easy classification, it ranges from land reclamation projects, public art installations, film, video games, to gallery objects and appears in unlikely places such as industrial waste land, destroyed homes, even popular television programs. What all these projects share is the artist’s concern with ecology and his desire to provoke greater social and environmental awareness and responsibility. Time: 7:00 pm at the Univ. of Tulsa School of Art. Call Dr. Michaela Merryday at 918.631.2739.
October 7 – Tower Tots “Shoe Lace String Art”
October 21 - Tower Tots “Pumpkin Decorating”
Morning story and art activity hour for children ages 3 to 6 (with accompanying adult). Registration required. Time: 10am to 11am. Cost: Free.
October 11 – 6th Annual Family Arts Festival: Paint the Town Green!
Featuring the foot stomping music of the Red Dirt Rangers, this free family event is going to be bigger and better with outdoor tents of games, food, student and adult art shows, art for sale, a ‘recycled’ fashion show and free admission to the museum galleries to see the Imaginative Qualities exhibition. This show is all about going ‘green’ by using water bottles, grocery bags, cups, boxes and more to make works of art. Time: 11:00am to 3:00pm. Cost: Free.
October 18 – November 22 - Recycled Quilting Class
Recycle your worn and faded jeans every Saturday for 6 weeks! Quilting expert and fiber artist Joan Abbott Phillips will introduce students to the art of quilting with recycled materials for both beginning and expert quilters. Bring your sewing machine (with zigzag stitch capability), blue jeans, and colored thread to the first class. Cost: $ 15 Members / $ 20 Public– or $90 Members, $120 Public for all 6 sessions.
October 19 – Free Family Sunday “Designer Pumpkins”
Come to the museum for free and bring the kids for a family pumpkin designing session. Time: 12-5pm.
NOVEMBER
November 4 – Price Tower Reading Group Discussion
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough and Michael Braungart (North Point Press, 2002). A ninety-minute book discussion. To join this group, contact Scott Perkins at 918.336.4949 x112. Time: 6:30pm. Cost: Free.
November 4 – Tower Tots “Paper Bag Puppets”
November 18 - Tower Tots “Thanksgiving Centerpiece”
Morning story and activity hour for children ages 3 to 6 (with accompanying adult). Registration required. Time: 10am to 11am. Cost: Free.
November 12 – Annual members meeting
Appetizers provided. Time: 5pm Cost: Free to all members.
November 16 – Free Admission Sunday Time: 12-5pm
November 27 – Museum Closed / Thanksgiving at Copper
Join Copper for the annual thanksgiving meal – traditional or contemporary. For reservations 918.336.1000.
DECEMBER
December 2 - Tower Tots “Recycled Holiday Ornaments”
December 16 – Tower Tots “Snowman Magnets”
Morning story and activity hour for children ages 3 to 6 (with accompanying adult). Registration required. Time: 10am to 11am. Cost: Free.
Usonian Gingerbread House Workshop
December 5, 2008
Family event (Children ages 0-17 with accompanying adult). Houses come pre-made by volunteers so kids need only focus on decorating them. Time: 4:30-6:30pm; Cost $10.00 per house.December 6, 2008
Adult event (Age 18+). Learn decorating skills from an expert pastry chef while creating your own gingerbread house. Box lunch from Copper included. Advanced registration preferred; limited to 20 people. Time: 10am-2pm; Cost $25.00.
December 11 – Volunteer/Docent Christmas Party
Time: 5:30pm. Cost: Free to current docents
December 21 – Free Admission Sunday Time: 12-5pm.
December 25 – Museum and Restaurant Closed for Christmas.
December 31 – Olive Drop New Year’s Eve Party at Copper Restaurant
Watch a huge olive lowered at midnight – Special restaurant menus and a Champaign toast. Overnight packages available. Call 918.336.1000 for reservations.