Each year the Winter Lights Lantern Festival features lantern displays throughout the museum and the Environment of Lights installation on Wade Oval. Displays are created by Northeast Ohio artists under the direction of community arts director Robin VanLear.

Artists Debbie Apple-Presser and Wendy Mahon and Abington Arms residents used recycled materials to create illuminated flowers for the Winter Lights lantern display The Recycling of Hill House.
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Artists Debbie Apple-Presser and Wendy Mahon and Abington Arms residents used recycled materials to create illuminated flowers for the Winter Lights lantern display The Recycling of Hill House.
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The bright flowers of The Recycling of Hill House contrast with the simple, traditional Hill House. The flowers were created to be part of the Holiday CircleFest lantern procession; in the background CircleFest visitors wait their turn to create their own lanterns for the procession.
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The Han Dynasty Reflections lanterns, constructed of Kinwashi paper and split bamboo, are ten times as large as the museum's Han Dynasty Bells, which inspired them.
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Robin VanLear's The Lighting of Hill House, a simple-form house inspired by the iconic board game Monopoly, inaugurated the Laura and Alvin A. Siegal Terrace as a lantern location with AUniversity Hospitals and the Case Western Reserve University campus visible in the background.
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A cluster of Stars by Robin VanLear shines in the tunnel entrance from the museum's parking garage.
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Story Rhinehart's Suburban Hawk Angel spreads her wings outside the level one library office.
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Artists Debbie Apple-Presser and Wendy Mahon, assisted by Abington Arms residents, fashioned their brightly-colored flora from recycled materials.
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Reminiscent of giant songbirds searching for their winter meal in the grass, colorful birds, fabricated from rebar and covered in batik cotton, encircle the central house in the Environment of Lights installation on Wade Oval in front of the museum.
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House on Stilts, a stylized house in the middle of Wade Oval, was designed by community arts artistic director Robin VanLear and fabricated of metal angel iron and wire mesh by Mike Moritz; Ian Petroni designed and created the fanciful flower-like lamp that illuminates the house.
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Mark Jenks’ Only the Birds Live Here Now corn crib was one element of the Environment of Lights artist installation on Wade Oval.
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The Towers and corn cribs of the Environment of Lights installation illuminate the December snow of University Circle opposite the museum’s north entrance.
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Artists Mark Jenks, Jesse Rhinehart, and Robin VanLear created the Environment of Lights installation. At Holiday CircleFest the procession of illuminated puppets, dancers and lanterns winds through the installation.
Lantern Displays

The bright flowers of The Recycling of Hill House contrast with the simple, traditional Hill House. The flowers were created to be part of the Holiday CircleFest lantern procession; in the background CircleFest visitors wait their turn to create their own lanterns for the procession.

The Han Dynasty Reflections lanterns, constructed of Kinwashi paper and split bamboo, are ten times as large as the museum's Han Dynasty Bells, which inspired them.

Robin VanLear's The Lighting of Hill House, a simple-form house inspired by the iconic board game Monopoly, inaugurated the Laura and Alvin A. Siegal Terrace as a lantern location with AUniversity Hospitals and the Case Western Reserve University campus visible in the background.

A cluster of Stars by Robin VanLear shines in the tunnel entrance from the museum's parking garage.

Story Rhinehart's Suburban Hawk Angel spreads her wings outside the level one library office.

Artists Debbie Apple-Presser and Wendy Mahon, assisted by Abington Arms residents, fashioned their brightly-colored flora from recycled materials.

Reminiscent of giant songbirds searching for their winter meal in the grass, colorful birds, fabricated from rebar and covered in batik cotton, encircle the central house in the Environment of Lights installation on Wade Oval in front of the museum.

House on Stilts, a stylized house in the middle of Wade Oval, was designed by community arts artistic director Robin VanLear and fabricated of metal angel iron and wire mesh by Mike Moritz; Ian Petroni designed and created the fanciful flower-like lamp that illuminates the house.

Mark Jenks’ Only the Birds Live Here Now corn crib was one element of the Environment of Lights artist installation on Wade Oval.

The Towers and corn cribs of the Environment of Lights installation illuminate the December snow of University Circle opposite the museum’s north entrance.

Artists Mark Jenks, Jesse Rhinehart, and Robin VanLear created the Environment of Lights installation. At Holiday CircleFest the procession of illuminated puppets, dancers and lanterns winds through the installation.