The Shiloh Museum's sixth annual "Cabin Fever Reliever" open house will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 11, at the museum. The event will feature displays by some two dozen local collectors. Among the collections to be shown are cornhusk dolls, marbles and marble games, crystals, rolling pins, Civil War miscellany, ribbon flowers, driftwood, Native American art, watches, paperweights, Siloam Springs memorabilia, snow globes, pencil sharpeners, northwest Arkansas postal history, GI Joe toys, storybook dolls, Christmas pyramids, rocks, Henk Bost artwork, pigs, magnets, sand from around the world and glass vacuum coffee pots.
Ozark Coverlets
Marty Benson and Laura Redford, members of the Northwest Arkansas Handweavers Guild, will present a program entitled, "Weaving Warmth: Uncovering Ozark Coverlets," at noon, Wednesday, Jan. 15. Benson and Redford are experienced weavers and weaving instructors with an interest in history and historic textiles, and both are volunteers at the Shiloh Museum. They will share findings from their study of some three dozen hand-woven coverlets in the Shiloh Museum collection.
Ozark Folk Art Exhibit
Just Doing My Work, an exhibit of paintings by folk artist Essie Ward, opens Monday, Jan. 27. Born in Searcy County, Ark., in 1902, Ward was a self-taught artist whose oil paintings depicting scenes of traditional Ozark life became popular in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1970, Ward was invited to participate in the Smithsonian's Festival of American Folklife in Washington, D.C. The Shiloh Museum collection includes 59 Essie Ward paintings, believed to be the largest and most complete collection of Ward's work, according to Carolyn Reno, museum collections manager. The exhibit will be on display through Jan. 10, 2015.
MONTHLY MEETINGS
Poetry Group
Poets Northwest, a group for people interested in writing and sharing original poetry, will meet from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 4.
Writing Group
LifeWriters, a group for people interested in writing the stories of their own lives or those of family and friends, will meet at 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 6, and Monday, Jan. 20. For information, call June Jefferson at 790-2588.
Community on 01/01/2014