Winter Lights Lantern Festival History
Winter Lights Lantern Festival History
The Winter Lights Lantern Festival features artist lantern displays inside the museum and the Environment of Lights installation on Wade Oval. The museum joins its University Circle neighbors for Holiday CircleFest, an annual free community open house, presented by University Circle Inc. The museum offers an array of activities including lantern-making workshops and a lantern procession.
2012: 19th Annual Winter Lights Festival and Holiday CircleFest
Winter Lights Lantern Displays
IN THE MUSEUM
- Han Dynasty Reflections, Artist: Robin VanLear
- Stars, Artist: Robin VanLear
- Guest Lantern Display: Department of Visual Art at Lake Erie College
Professor Nancy Prudic, MFA
Student Artists: Cheryl Andrews, Alexander DelaMotte, Dina Derby, Christina Greenslade, Steven Gutierrez, Jodi Jindra, Stefan Stojanovich, Valerie Urbanik
ON WADE OVAL
- Environment of Lights Installation, Artists: Mark Jenks, Jesse Rhinehart, Robin VanLear
- Music: The Progeny (Shaw High and Heritage Middle School)
- Puppets: Kelvin Cadiz, Marlon Hatcher, Robin Heinrich, Meagan Krapf, Emmet O'melia
- Dancers: Amy Compton, Marissa Glorioso, Meghan Haas, Story Rhinehart, Lizzie Roche, Lalindi, Stockton, Kenya Woods
Holiday CircleFest Activities
- Wanna Be in Pictures? Distance Learning Technology
- Wari Art Cart
- Highlights Tours of East Wing and 1916 Galleries
- Lecture: Peruvian Feather Arts, Heidi King
- Dance and Music in the Ames Family Atrium:
—Do the Jitterbug with Instructor Valerie Salstrom of Get Hep Dance
—The Upper School Choirs of Hathaway Brown, Choir director Laura Webster, Accompanist Matthew Skitzki
—The Progeny, Band director Randy Woods - Winter Lights Lantern-making Workshops
- Winter Lights Lantern Procession
- Food and Shopping including handmade lanterns
2011: 18th Annual Winter Lights Festival and Holiday CircleFest
Winter Lights Lantern Displays
IN THE MUSEUM
- Han Dynasty Reflections, Artist: Robin VanLear
- Stars, Artist: Robin VanLear
- Suburban Hawk Angel, Artist: Story Lee Rhinehart
- The Lighting of Hill House, Artist: Robin VanLear
- The Recycling of Hill House, Artists: Debbie Apple-Presser, Wendy Mahon, Jesse Rhinehart, Robin VanLear
Abington Arms Residents: Sheila Bellamy, Eugene Brooks, Karen Caldwell, Christine Coleman, Cynesta Doyle, Mary Duhigg, Naila Hamid, Fannie Levkovitz, Eva Maesta, Loretta Pitts, Connie Roberto, Emma Ross, Rosalyn Todd
Art Therapist: Nancy Roy
ON WADE OVAL
- House on Stilts (Environment of Lights Installation), Artists: Debbie Apple-Presser, Wendy Mahon, Ian Petroni, Robin VanLear
- Metal Fabrication: Marlon Hatcher, Mike Moritz
- Music: Shaw High School Rhythm Teens
- Puppets and Dancers: Kelvin Cadiz, Amy Compton, Marisa Glorioso, Robin Heinrich, Ian Petroni, Story Rhinehart, Francine Saunders, Kalindi Stockton, Kenya Woods-Cooper
Holiday CircleFest Activities
- Wanna Be in Pictures? Distance Learning Technology
- Chinese Ink Painting Demonstration, Mitzi Lai
- Art Cart, China: Art and Technology
- Children’s Art Activity, Target
- Highlights Tours of East Wing and 1916 Galleries
- Exhibition Tour: Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi
- Music: Shaw High School Rhythm Teens
- Winter Lights Lantern-Making Workshops
- Winter Lights Lantern Procession
- Food and Shopping (including handmade lanterns for sale)
2010: 17th Annual Winter Lights Festival and Holiday CircleFest
Winter Lights Lantern Displays
IN THE MUSEUM
- Han Dynasty Reflections, Artist: Robin VanLear
- Spirit Trees, Artist: Robin VanLear
- Suburban Hawk Angel, Artist: Story Lee Rhinehart
- Winter’s Whimsical World, Guest Lantern Display: Hawken School, Teacher Denise Buckley; Students: Emily Anagnostos, Annie Artz, Pia Beck, Daniel DiSanto, Isabella DiSanto, Nora Eagan, Stuart Farmer, Kevin Goodrich, Erin Holub, Abby Kolk, Jennifer Mazanec, Ian Mullenhour, Colleen Schikowski, Mona Waruingi, Ben Whitehead, Gabe Whitehead, Will Woods
ON WADE OVAL
- Environment of Lights Installation, Artists: Debbie Apple-Presser, Wendy Mahon, Ian Petroni, Robin VanLear
- Metal Fabrication: Marlon Hatcher, Mike Moritz
- Music: Townsmen Orchestra Brass Choir
- Puppets and Dancers: Inlet Dance Theatre, Kelvin Cadiz, Alexis Floyd, Robin Heinrich, Story Rhinehart, Kenya Woods-Cooper
Holiday CircleFest Activities
- Wanna Be in Pictures? Distance Learning Technology
- Metal Working Demonstration: How Did They Make That?, Matthew Hollern
- Art Cart: Materials of the Artist
- Family Workshop: You Can Make That
- Children’s Painting Activity, Target
- Highlights Tours of East Wing and 1916 Galleries
- Exhibition Tour: Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe
- Music: The Townsmen Orchestra
- Winter Lights Lantern-making workshops
- Winter Lights Lantern Procession
- Food and Shopping
2009: 16th Annual Winter Lights Festival and Holiday CircleFest
Winter Lights Lantern Displays
IN THE MUSEUM
- Alluvial Cairns, Artist: Jesse Rhinehart
- Han Dynasty Reflections, Artist: Robin VanLear
- In Memory of You, Artists: Debbie Apple-Presser and Wendy Mahon
- Spirit Tree, Artist: Robin VanLear
- Suburban Hawk Angel, Artist: Story Lee Rhinehart
- Guest Lanterns, Artists: Debbie Apple-Presser, Roaidi Cartaya Carbajal, Tracy Doran, Wendy Mahon, Nancy Prudic, Story Lee Rhinehart. These artists led the lantern procession.
ON WADE OVAL
- Environment of Lights Installation, Artists: Mark Jenks, Patty Jenks, Ian Petroni, Robin VanLear
- Music: Ismail Douglas, Olu Manns, Motivation through Excellence
- Puppets: Robin Heinrich, Scott Heiser, Inlet Dance Theatre
- Dancers: Melanie Fioritto, Inlet Dance Theatre, Lizzie Roche, Story Lee Rhinehart, Matthew Schmid, Kenya Woods-Cooper
Holiday CircleFest Activities
- Wanna Be in Pictures? Distance Learning technology
- Highlights Tours of East Wing and 1916 Galleries
- Gallery Talk: Aaron Douglas and God's Trombones, Caroline Goeser
- Performance: God's Trombones (excerpt), Karamu Theatre
- Performance: A Night at the Museum, Crooked River Ensemble
- Music: The Townsmen Orchestra Music: Motivation trough Excellence
- Winter Lights Lantern-making workshops
- Winter Lights Lantern Procession
- Food and Shopping including handmade lanterns
2008: 15th annual Winter Lights Festival and Holiday CircleFest
Winter Lights Lantern Displays
IN THE MUSEUM
- Alluvial Cairns, Artist: Jesse Rhinehart
- Han Dynasty Reflections, Artist: Robin VanLear
- In Memory of You, Artists: Debbie Apple-Presser and Wendy Mahon
- The Lighting of Hill House, Artist: Robin VanLear
- Suburban Hawk Angel, Artist: Story Lee Rhinehart
- Untitled Lantern Installation Number One, Artists: Ian Petroni and Mark Jenks
- Guest Lanterns, Artists: Sue Berry, Hector Castellanos-Lara, Richard Howell, Mark Jenks, Story Lee Rhinehart, Lizzie Roche, Dante Rodriguez, Ana Luisa Sanchez. These artists led the lantern procession.
ON WADE OVAL
- Environment of Lights Installation, Artists: Jesse Rhinehart, Mark Sugiuichi, Robin VanLear
- Music: Ismail Douglas, Olu Manns, Motivation through Excellence
- Puppets: Robin Heinrich, Scott Heiser, Inlet Dance Theatre
- Dancers: Melanie Fioritto, Inlet Dance Theatre, Story Lee Rhinehart, Lizzie Roche
Holiday CircleFest Activities
- Armor Art Cart
- Art Crew Characters
- Wanna Be in Pictures? Distance Learning Technology
- Gallery Talks in 1916 galleries
- Revisioning Race: The Power of Images
- Winter Lights Lantern-making workshops
- Winter Lights Lantern Procession
- Food and Shopping including handmade lanterns