FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 31, 2006
Contact: Anika Mitchell Perkins
(662) 329-7124

MUW to host Art Saturday at The W on April 8

COLUMBUS, Miss. – Mississippi University for Women’s Visual Arts Outreach Program will host Art Saturday at The W on April 8. Events will be held in Shattuck Hall and outside the Education and Human Sciences Building.

Activities beginning at 9 a.m. outside the education building will include an origami workshop and a photography scavenger hunt in Shattuck Hall. The gallery talk will begin at 11 a.m. followed by a children’s drop-in workshop from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., both in Shattuck Hall. A quilter also will demonstrate and talk about quilting at 3 p.m. in the gallery.

Art Saturday at The W will be held in conjunction with the art exhibition, “Journey of the Spirit: The Art of Gwendolyn A. Magee.” This will be the last day to view this exhibit.
The Creativity Extravaganza, hosted by the Roger F. Wicker Center for Creative Learning, will also be held on Saturday, April 8.

All events are free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Dr. Beverly Joyce in the Department of Art and Design at (662) 241-7812.

Art Saturday at The W events are funded by the Department of Art and Design and a Congressionally-directed grant through the Roger F. Wicker Center for Creative Learning.