Erie Art Museum Introduces Green Membership Level
Erie, PA, October 30, 2008 --(PR.com)-- The Erie Art Museum has introduced a new “green” membership level for new and renewing Museum members.
“As part of the Museum’s efforts to be a good environmental steward, we’ve introduced a new ‘green’ membership for the Museum’s new and renewing members,” said Tammy Roche director of marketing and development for the Erie Art Museum. “Green members will receive drastically reduced printed materials. Instead, green members will receive exhibition announcements, event invitations, and our membership newsletter via email beginning Jan. 1, 2009.”
The cost of a “green” membership is an additional $10 to the basic levels of membership (basic membership levels: senior & student $20, individual $35 and family $65).
According to Roche the extra $10 is to provide seed money for the Museum to move forward with other green efforts in programming, education and building operations. “Many green initiatives, while eco-friendly, have up front costs. We are being thoughtful with our resources and reducing, reusing and recycling whenever possible while being good stewards with our donors’ and members’ financial gifts.”
Other green standards instituted at the Erie Art Museum include the introduction of certain printed materials on recycled paper, building-wide recycling, reduction in energy, the use of recycled materials in art making, and a redesign of the Museum’s website for online joining, giving and shopping. The Erie Art Museum Blues & Jazz Festival recycled 1 ton of trash and eliminated the use of Styrofoam, plasticware and condiment packaging at vendor booths.
“The Erie Art Museum’s $9 million facility expansion already dictates an essentially green building with a high level of operating efficiency and will become the first LEED certified building within the City of Erie,” said Roche.
The Erie Art Museum will break ground on its facility expansion in December 2008.
For more information about the Erie Art Museum or to become one of its first “green” members, visit online at www.erieartmusuem.org.
About the Erie Art Museum
The Erie Art Museum anchors downtown Erie’s cultural and economic revitalization, occupying a group of restored mid-19th century commercial buildings, including an outstanding 1839 Greek Revival Bank. It maintains an ambitious program of 15 to 18 changing exhibitions annually, embracing a wide range of subjects, both historical and contemporary and including folk art, contemporary craft, multi-disciplinary installations, community-based work, as well at traditional media.
The Erie Art Museum also holds a collection of over 5,500 objects, which includes significant works in American ceramics, Tibetan painting, Indian bronzes, contemporary baskets, and a variety of other categories.
The Museum offers a wide range of education programs and artists’ services including interdisciplinary and interactive school tours and a wide variety of classes for the community. Performing arts are showcased in the 24-year-old Contemporary Music Series, which represents national and international performers of serious music with an emphasis on composer/performers, and a popular annual two-day Blues & Jazz festival.
The Erie Art Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. Admission is free for members, free on Wednesdays, $4 for adults, $3 for senior citizens and students and $2 for children under 12.
For additional information on the Erie Art Museum, visit online at http://www.erieartmuseum.org/ or call (814) 459-5477.
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“As part of the Museum’s efforts to be a good environmental steward, we’ve introduced a new ‘green’ membership for the Museum’s new and renewing members,” said Tammy Roche director of marketing and development for the Erie Art Museum. “Green members will receive drastically reduced printed materials. Instead, green members will receive exhibition announcements, event invitations, and our membership newsletter via email beginning Jan. 1, 2009.”
The cost of a “green” membership is an additional $10 to the basic levels of membership (basic membership levels: senior & student $20, individual $35 and family $65).
According to Roche the extra $10 is to provide seed money for the Museum to move forward with other green efforts in programming, education and building operations. “Many green initiatives, while eco-friendly, have up front costs. We are being thoughtful with our resources and reducing, reusing and recycling whenever possible while being good stewards with our donors’ and members’ financial gifts.”
Other green standards instituted at the Erie Art Museum include the introduction of certain printed materials on recycled paper, building-wide recycling, reduction in energy, the use of recycled materials in art making, and a redesign of the Museum’s website for online joining, giving and shopping. The Erie Art Museum Blues & Jazz Festival recycled 1 ton of trash and eliminated the use of Styrofoam, plasticware and condiment packaging at vendor booths.
“The Erie Art Museum’s $9 million facility expansion already dictates an essentially green building with a high level of operating efficiency and will become the first LEED certified building within the City of Erie,” said Roche.
The Erie Art Museum will break ground on its facility expansion in December 2008.
For more information about the Erie Art Museum or to become one of its first “green” members, visit online at www.erieartmusuem.org.
About the Erie Art Museum
The Erie Art Museum anchors downtown Erie’s cultural and economic revitalization, occupying a group of restored mid-19th century commercial buildings, including an outstanding 1839 Greek Revival Bank. It maintains an ambitious program of 15 to 18 changing exhibitions annually, embracing a wide range of subjects, both historical and contemporary and including folk art, contemporary craft, multi-disciplinary installations, community-based work, as well at traditional media.
The Erie Art Museum also holds a collection of over 5,500 objects, which includes significant works in American ceramics, Tibetan painting, Indian bronzes, contemporary baskets, and a variety of other categories.
The Museum offers a wide range of education programs and artists’ services including interdisciplinary and interactive school tours and a wide variety of classes for the community. Performing arts are showcased in the 24-year-old Contemporary Music Series, which represents national and international performers of serious music with an emphasis on composer/performers, and a popular annual two-day Blues & Jazz festival.
The Erie Art Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. Admission is free for members, free on Wednesdays, $4 for adults, $3 for senior citizens and students and $2 for children under 12.
For additional information on the Erie Art Museum, visit online at http://www.erieartmuseum.org/ or call (814) 459-5477.
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