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Friends of Forsyth Weekend 2005
MSC Forsyth Center Galleries museum supportors
gathered for the annual Friends of Forsyth Weekend on
October 21-22, 2005
The keynote speaker was Stefano Carboni, Curator of Islamic Art, Metropolitan Musuem of Art, speaking on
"Abgineh to Zujaj: A Brief Hisotry of Islamic Glass."
Gallery Lecture
Glass and the Noblemen of Belgium
Archaeological finds from castle sites in Flanders and the former Duchy of Brabant
Belgian Scholar Danielle Caluwe
Free University of Brussels
MSC Forsyth Center Galleries
October 11, 2004
Reception Following
Brought to you by the MSC Forsyth Center Galleries & Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities |
Friends of Forsyth 2004
October 29-30, 2004
Join the MSC Forsyth Center Galleries as we highlight English cut, engraved and rock crystal glass, and English watercolors.
Featured Speakers:
Roger Dodsworth - Keeper of Glass and Fine Art, Broadfield House Glass Museum, Stourbridge, England
Robert White - lender, "A Bit of Quiet", MSC Forsyth Center Galleries Docent
Cory Arcak - Assistant Director and Registrar, MSC Forsyth Center Galleries
<>Weekend Events:
Friday, October 29, 2004
6:30pm- Dinner, Madden’s Cafe & Bakery
(no host)
202 S. Bryan Ave., Bryan, TX, in the Old Bryan Marketplace,
979/779-2558
Saturday, October 30th, 2004
9:00am- Continental Breakfast, tour of "Clearly English: English Cut, Engraved and Rock Crystal Glass" and "A Bit of
Quiet: English Watercolors and
Paintings"
9:45am- Welcome
10:00am- Robert White - English Watercolors and "A Bit of Quiet"
11:00am- Cory Arcak - The "Red River Wreck" excavation
11:45am- Lunch in the MSC Forsyth Center Galleries
12:30pm- Tour of Stark Galleries and Visual Arts Gallery
2:00pm- Speaker Roger Dodsworth - English cut and engraved glass
6:45pm- Evening Reception, MSC Forsyth Center Galleries
7:30pm- Formal Dinner, MSC Forsyth Center Galleries
All speakers are FREE and held in MSC 292B
Please contact Erin Ray, at (979) 845-9251 for more information
or email her at ray@msc.tamu.edu
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Boston Art, Glass & History Tour
Join
the MSC Forsyth Center Galleries for an
Art, Glass & History Tour
of Boston, Cambridge, Sandwich & Plymouth, Massachusetts
December 8-12, 2004
Galleries director Timothy Novak is leading an Art, Glass & History Tour to Boston and the surrounding areas. The group will stay at an historic bed and breakfast on Boston’s famous Back Bay. Highlights
of the trip include visiting the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the glass flowers the Museum of Natural History at Harvard. The tour also includes some free time for holiday shopping.
Cost is $1,000 per person, double-occupancy, and includes round-trip airfare to and from Houston, Texas, airport and baggage transfers, charter transportation to Sandwich and Plymouth, lodging, all breakfasts, opening and closing banquets, most admission fees, and Mr. Novak as your tour guide and coordinator. Contact him at 979.845.9251 or email at tim@msc.tamu.edu for more information.
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