10/30/97
ATHENS, Ohio -- The Kennedy Museum of American Art will offer tours and live bluegrass music during extended hours the weekend of Nov. 7 through 9.
The museum will be open from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7, with tours offered at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. On Saturday, Nov. 8, hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., with refreshments provided in the morning and tours available at 9:30 and 11 a.m. A bluegrass music show featuring local groups the Heart Brothers and the Deadbeats and refreshments are among the plans on Sunday, Nov. 9, when the museum will be open from noon to 4 p.m. WOUB-FM will broadcast live from the museum beginning at 1 p.m.
Although a museum dedication originally scheduled for that weekend has been postponed until spring because of scheduling conflicts, the staff decided to continue with its plans for the other special events.
Three exhibits are on display at the museum:
* A Century of Weaving: The Navajo Chief Blanket, a selection of pieces from the Southwest Native American collection of Edwin L. and Ruth E. Kennedy.
* Hands on to Weaving, a "please touch" exhibit for all ages that focuses on the tools and art of weaving.
* Expedition: American Rivers -- Along the Banks of the Ohio, a traveling exhibit of nine American realist landscape painters who incorporate the Ohio River in their work.
The museum's regular hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. Admission is free.