The Garden Conservancy Tour Opens Gates to Six Local Gardens
Open Days Program Comes to Erie County
Erie, PA, May 16, 2009 --(PR.com)-- The Erie Art Museum will benefit from the Garden Conservancy’s 2009 Open Days Program, which will open the gates to six private gardens in Erie County on May 29, 2009 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and the cost is $5 per garden/per person.
Garden tours in Erie County will include the Frenzel Gardens, 7700 Admiral Drive, Fairview; Brier Hill Garden, 6721 Brier Hill Road, Fairview; Bonnie & Mark Bestoso, 4828 Wolf Road, Erie; Raku Place, 4570 Old State, McKean; Grimshaw Glen, 11274 Curtis Road, NorthEast, and Brett & Kitty Maloney, 11501 Cole Road, NorthEast. All proceeds from the tour of Raku Place, the private gardens of Steven and Susan Kemenyffy, will benefit the Erie Art Museum.
The Garden Conservancy is a national, nonprofit organization that was founded in 1989 to preserve the exceptional American gardens for public education and enjoyment. The 2009 Open Days Program includes over 300 gardens that show first-hand the outstanding design and horticultural practice that are growing in America’s private gardens. This program allows the public access into private gardens around the country and is the only national garden-visiting program of its kind in America.
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 6,000 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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Garden tours in Erie County will include the Frenzel Gardens, 7700 Admiral Drive, Fairview; Brier Hill Garden, 6721 Brier Hill Road, Fairview; Bonnie & Mark Bestoso, 4828 Wolf Road, Erie; Raku Place, 4570 Old State, McKean; Grimshaw Glen, 11274 Curtis Road, NorthEast, and Brett & Kitty Maloney, 11501 Cole Road, NorthEast. All proceeds from the tour of Raku Place, the private gardens of Steven and Susan Kemenyffy, will benefit the Erie Art Museum.
The Garden Conservancy is a national, nonprofit organization that was founded in 1989 to preserve the exceptional American gardens for public education and enjoyment. The 2009 Open Days Program includes over 300 gardens that show first-hand the outstanding design and horticultural practice that are growing in America’s private gardens. This program allows the public access into private gardens around the country and is the only national garden-visiting program of its kind in America.
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 6,000 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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