Deadline for making reservations for the 2009 Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art Volunteers’ Holiday Gala is 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20.
Gala tickets may be reserved by calling the museum at 878-5300. The annual event will be at 6 p.m., Friday, Dec. 4 at the museum on the St. Gregory’s University campus. It will include dinner, entertainment, live and silent auctions.
A unique auction item will be a five to six-minute video of the winning bidder’s family history, or family members at special occasions, weddings, get-togethers, graduations or other highlight happenings.
The family video will be produced by Daniel Lay, who recently joined the museum staff as preparator. Lay holds a bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma Baptist University in electronic media production, formerly called telecommunications.
“This is a way that a lot of people are starting to preserve their family history,” Lay said.
Among other auction items will be a YMCA family membership, a ceramic teapot created by Julie Marks Blackstone, Shawnee, an OBU faculty member, and a number of pieces of art work done by area artists.
A variety of Christmas candies, cakes, cookies and other goodies made by the volunteers will be among the silent auction items.
Museum volunteers will also prepare the hors d’oeuvres to be served as those attending bid on the silent auction offerings.
Dinner by Chicago Street Catering, Shawnee, will feature salmon and prime rib.
The live auction, entertainment and a dessert buffet that will include six to eight types of desserts, also by Chicago Street Catering, will follow the dinner.
“The whole focus this year is “Going Green,” and we’re trying to recycle and re-use and re-purpose materials,” said Delayna Trim, curator of collections.
“We’re trying to be creative,” she said.
Tables will be centered with dark green recycled glass vases from Egypt that Trim found from the supplier of museum gift shop items.
“They melt down the glass and recycle it,” Trim explained. The vases, with decorative designs on their sides, will contain “flowers” handcrafted from bottoms of plastic bottles, and attached to colorful pipe cleaners.
Wall art has been created from various sizes of cardboard rollers that once served such utilitarian uses as paper towel, foil or gift wrap holders.
Perhaps showiest creations will be a large chandelier made from bottoms of clear plastic soda bottles of different sizes, and 18 smaller chandeliers each made from 50 clear plastic cups- all lighted from within- that will hang over tables in the dining area.
Museum volunteers have been working for weeks on the recycling projects to be used as Gala decorations.
Linda Malley, volunteers president, is Gala chairwoman and Kathy Stuart is co-chairwoman.
Proceeds from dinner tickets, live and silent auctions and some 35 sponsorships will fund the museum’s education programs that last year benefitted more than 7,000 students and teachers from throughout Oklahoma.
They come to the museum by school bus loads.
“If you’re thinking about going to the Gala, hurry up and get your reservation in,” Trim said. Checks, cash and credit cards are accepted, she added.
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Deadline for making reservations for the 2009 Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art Volunteers’ Holiday Gala is 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20.
Gala tickets may be reserved by calling the museum at 878-5300. The annual event will be at 6 p.m., Friday, Dec. 4 at the museum on the St. Gregory’s University campus. It will include dinner, entertainment, live and silent auctions.
A unique auction item will be a five to six-minute video of the winning bidder’s family history, or family members at special occasions, weddings, get-togethers, graduations or other highlight happenings.
The family video will be produced by Daniel Lay, who recently joined the museum staff as preparator. Lay holds a bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma Baptist University in electronic media production, formerly called telecommunications.
“This is a way that a lot of people are starting to preserve their family history,” Lay said.
Among other auction items will be a YMCA family membership, a ceramic teapot created by Julie Marks Blackstone, Shawnee, an OBU faculty member, and a number of pieces of art work done by area artists.
A variety of Christmas candies, cakes, cookies and other goodies made by the volunteers will be among the silent auction items.
Museum volunteers will also prepare the hors d’oeuvres to be served as those attending bid on the silent auction offerings.
Dinner by Chicago Street Catering, Shawnee, will feature salmon and prime rib.
The live auction, entertainment and a dessert buffet that will include six to eight types of desserts, also by Chicago Street Catering, will follow the dinner.
“The whole focus this year is “Going Green,” and we’re trying to recycle and re-use and re-purpose materials,” said Delayna Trim, curator of collections.
“We’re trying to be creative,” she said.
Tables will be centered with dark green recycled glass vases from Egypt that Trim found from the supplier of museum gift shop items.
“They melt down the glass and recycle it,” Trim explained. The vases, with decorative designs on their sides, will contain “flowers” handcrafted from bottoms of plastic bottles, and attached to colorful pipe cleaners.
Wall art has been created from various sizes of cardboard rollers that once served such utilitarian uses as paper towel, foil or gift wrap holders.
Perhaps showiest creations will be a large chandelier made from bottoms of clear plastic soda bottles of different sizes, and 18 smaller chandeliers each made from 50 clear plastic cups- all lighted from within- that will hang over tables in the dining area.
Museum volunteers have been working for weeks on the recycling projects to be used as Gala decorations.
Linda Malley, volunteers president, is Gala chairwoman and Kathy Stuart is co-chairwoman.
Proceeds from dinner tickets, live and silent auctions and some 35 sponsorships will fund the museum’s education programs that last year benefitted more than 7,000 students and teachers from throughout Oklahoma.
They come to the museum by school bus loads.
“If you’re thinking about going to the Gala, hurry up and get your reservation in,” Trim said. Checks, cash and credit cards are accepted, she added.
