• February 5, 2012 at 2 pm

GADO: World Famous Political Cartoonist
Meet & Greet
Free and open to the public
Erie Art Museum, Mulitpurpose Room
Whether you’re an artist, art-lover, have an affinity for politics or just like cartoons, meet the artist and hear his take on how the creative process flows
from original idea to finished work of art.

• February 12, 2012
Second Sundays
Erie Art Museum, (enter at East 5th Street)
Join us every second Sunday of the month for Free Family Day! This month, explore one of our favorite pieces in the museum’s collection: h2o vortex. Also enjoy a guided tour as well as a peek into our new Kids As Curators exhibit before making your own interactive optical art to take home! The Museum is FREE from 1– 5 pm and our hands-on art making activity will be from 2– 4 pm For groups of 10 or more, please call ahead, 814.4595477.

• February 13, 2012

Spring Art Class Registration Begins
Spring class registration begins (early bird discount ends March 19, classes start March 26). Tuitions vary, scholarships available.

• February 17, 2012 from 7 – 9pm
Fran Schanz: Book Signing & Reception
Explore the artist’s works on view at Glass Growers Gallery, with a reception at the Erie Art Museum and a book signing for his newly released book entitled Francis T. Schanz: Heart of Art.  Live music by It Is What It Is. Cash bar & cash appetizers at the Museum’s Wave Café. Free & open to the public.

• February 19, 2012 at 4 pm
Ethnic Heritage Ensemble
Free, suggested donation $10
Members of the Chicago-based Ethnic Heritage Ensemble will again deliver some of the most prolific, jazz on the Museum's stage. Sponsored by Commoisseur Media, LLC

• February 23, 2012 at 7pm
Guest Speaker
Donald Brown, Ethics Professor at Penn State University, the Behrend College, will give a talk on the moral dimension of climate change and how to address this issue.  Audience Q&A will follow.

• March 2, 2012 at 7 pm
Exhibit-Related Programming
Erie Art Museum
Free, suggested donation $5
The Museum will host a screening of three critically acclaimed films related to artist Roger Shimomura's exhibit, Minidoka on My Mind. The films elaborate on the artist's experiences of the internment camps where more than 127,000 Japanese-Americans were confined during the Second World War.

Out of Infamy (17 minutes, 2010)
Directed by Nacy Kapitanoff and Shanon Yamato
Cronicles the life of author and civil rights activist Michi Nishiura Weglyn, who gave up a successful career as a costume designer to write one of the most important books on Japanese American internment. www.michiweglyn.com

Days of Waiting (28 minutes, 1988)
Directed by Steven Okazaki
This film tells the story of artist Estelle Ishigo, one of the few Caucasians to be interned in the camps, who refused to be separated from her Japanese American husband and lived with him at Heart Mountain camp in Wyoming. Her sketches and watercolors create a moving portrait in the lives of the internees.

Topaz (58 minutes, 1988)
Directed by Ken Verdoia
Filmmaker Ken Verdoia steps into the past to explore TOPAZ, a war relocation camp in Utah which overnight became the fifth largest city in the state. The film brings the years of wartime imprisonment vividly to life through archive film and photographs as well as interviews with surviving internees.



• March 2, 2012 through May 27, 2012
Backyard: Small Sculptures by Steve Dana
In the Ronald E. Holstein Gallery
Dana employs a minimalist approach to materials, converting wood into birds and other creatures with maximum effect.

• March 8, 2012 from 4 - 7 pm
Cabin Fever: Teacher Getaway
Erie Art Museum, (enter at East 5th Street)
Pay in advance $10 Museum members, $15 non-member
Pay at door $12 Museum members, $17 non-member
Special Guest: Bridgman Packer Dance
Learn about great art with fun activities and intriguing workshops, and earn act 48 credit at the same time! Sponsored by Erie Federal Credit Union, and ArtsErie.

• March 9, 2012 at 8pm
Bridgman/Packer Dance Performance
Erie Art Museum, (enter at East 5th Street)
Free, suggested donation $20 per person
Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer have collaborated as performers and choreographers since 1978. Their innovative work developing “video partnering”—the total integration of live performance and video technology—has been acclaimed for exploding the duet form into a magically populated stage where image and reality collide.

• Saturday, March 10, 2012 from11am-1pm
Dance Workshop with Bridgman/Packer Dance
Open to all levels of dancers (participants do not need a partner). The popular partnering workshop transmits Bridgman/Packer's unique approach to partnering for beginners through advanced performers. The class is non-gender specific, emphasizes the release and ease as well as the strength of partnering, and builds to develop exhilarating and risk-taking partnering in duet, trio and group forms.

• March 10 - June 10, 2012
The Best of Hank O’Neal
In the Bacon Gallery
This exhibit celebrates a wide-ranging body of professional work, portraits of friends and associates, iconic images from across the world, and books illustrations by Hank O’Neal (b. 1940), a well-known photographer and music producer.

• March 11, 2012
Second Sundays
Join us every second Sunday of the month for FREE Family Day!  Come work with local folk artist Willie Jordan, and enjoy a guided tour with his piece, The North Passage in the Ground Floor Gallery of the Museum. Then create your own life-sized installation with found objects and cardboard. The Museum is FREE from 1– 5pm and our hands-on art making activity will be from 2– 4pm. Groups of 10 or more please call ahead, 814.459.5477.

• March 16, 2012 from 7–10 pm
Gallery Night
All gallery events are FREE and open to the public. Galleries offer complimentary appetizers, drinks, and entertainment. The eBayliner will provide FREE shuttle transportation through-out the gallery-hopping tour. Hosted by the Erie Art Museum and participating local galleries.

• March 23 & 24 from 7 – 10pm
Dafmark Dance Event
Free and open to the public
Performance held in Erie Art Museum mulitpurpose Room, silent auction of baskets, and will serve food afterward. Call Dafmark for details 814-454-3993.

• March 29, 2012 at 7 pm
Artist Talk
Edinboro University in Doucette Hall Room 119
Filmmaker, artist, and this year’s Spring Show juror Emily Hubley will deliver her keynote presentation.

• March 30, 2012, 7pm
Exhibit-Related Programming
Erie Art Museum, Mulitpurpose Room
Precious Vida Yamaguchi, professor of communication at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, PA, will give a talk about World War II Internment Camp Survivors” from her dissertation and the experiences from her grandparents’ time in internment camps.

• April 8, 2012
Second Sundays
Erie Art Museum, (enter at East 5th Street)
Every second Sunday of the month offers opportunities for families to explore art, play, and learn together--all at no charge! From 1-5 pm, come play a wide variety of creative board games in the Multipurpose room. From 2-4 pm, all are invited to try a hands-on art activity that helps you see through artists' eyes and relates to pieces on display in the exhibitions. Admission is free for everyone every second Sunday, and donations are always accepted.

• April 21, 2012 – July 8, 2012
89th Annual Spring Show
Erie Art Museum, Main Gallery
An annual juried exhibition, the show features works from artists residing within 250-miles of Erie with pieces that have not previously exhibited in the area.

• April 30, 2012
Summer Art Classes Registration Begins
Summer class registration begins (early bird discount ends June 4, classes start June 11) Tuitions very, scholarships available.

• May 12, 2012, midnight
Deadline for InnovationErie: Design Competition submissions. Innovationerie.org for more info.

• May 13, 2012
Second Sundays
Erie Art Museum, (enter at East 5th Street)
Every second Sunday of the month offers opportunities for families to explore art, play, and learn together--all at no charge! From 1-5 pm, come play a wide variety of creative board games in the Multipurpose room. From 2-4 pm, all are invited to try a hands-on art activity that helps you see through artists' eyes and relates to pieces on display in the exhibitions. Admission is free for everyone every second Sunday, and donations are always accepted.

• June 10, 2012
Second Sundays
Erie Art Museum, (enter at East 5th Street)
Every second Sunday of the month offers opportunities for families to explore art, play, and learn together--all at no charge! From 1-5 pm, come play a wide variety of creative board games in the Multipurpose room. From 2-4 pm, all are invited to try a hands-on art activity that helps you see through artists' eyes and relates to pieces on display in the exhibitions. Admission is free for everyone every second Sunday, and donations are always accepted.

• June 15, 2012 from 7–10 pm
Gallery Night
All gallery events are FREE and open to the public. Galleries offer complimentary appetizers, drinks, and entertainment. The eBayliner will provide FREE shuttle transportation through-out the gallery-hopping tour. Hosted by the Erie Art Museum and participating local galleries.

• June 15, 2012 – October 13, 2012
Michael Thompson Exhibition
Erie Art Museum, Bacon Gallery
Michael Thompson, a Chicago-based artist, pursues a subversive art-making that utilizes the form of the postage stamp, adorned with highly unlikely imagery and content that has proven offensive to censors around the world, from China to Turkey, to the U.S.

• July 14, 2012 – October 2012
Richard Anuszkiewicz: Recent Paintings and Sculpture
In the Main Gallery
This show surveys the recent work of Erie’s most famous artistic son, the pre-eminent Op Artist in America.

• August 4 & 5, 2012
20th Annual Erie Art Museum Blues & Jazz Festival
Frontier Park, Rain or Shine
The Erie Art Museum’s Annual Blues & Jazz Festival is the largest jazz and blues event in the Erie, Pa. region. The two-day Festival presents national, regional and local musicians in a beautiful outdoor, family-friendly setting.

• August 12, 2012
Second Sundays
Erie Art Museum, (enter at East 5th Street)
Every second Sunday of the month offers opportunities for families to explore art, play, and learn together--all at no charge! From 1-5 pm, come play a wide variety of creative board games in the Multipurpose room. From 2-4 pm, all are invited to try a hands-on art activity that helps you see through artists' eyes and relates to pieces on display in the exhibitions. Admission is free for everyone every second Sunday, and donations are always accepted.

• August 24, 2012 from 7–10 pm
Gallery Night
All gallery events are FREE and open to the public. Galleries offer complimentary appetizers, drinks, and entertainment. The eBayliner will provide FREE shuttle transportation through-out the gallery-hopping tour. Hosted by the Erie Art Museum and participating local galleries.