Springfield Regional Arts Council

About Arts Adventures

The Springfield Regional Arts Council has put together a slate of exciting destinations for its 2008 Arts Adventures and invites all members of the community to hop on board for these fun "road trips".  As an “art roadie”, you’ll be travelling along with other art lovers and part way through the journey, the Arts Council’s resident “art expert”, Bucky Bowman, will give a lecture on fascinating details of what you will be seeing at the various locations.   Here is the schedule of planned trips:

Saturday, August 16 – Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa
Former mansion of Waite and Genevieve Phillips (of Phillips 66) from 1927 to 1938, the museum is Tulsa’s “crown jewel” and Oklahoma’s leading privately-supported art museum featuring European art of the 18th and 19th centuries, early Tuscan paintings and Venetian paintings of the 15th and 16th centuries and High Renaissance and Baroque paintings of the 16th through 18th centuries. Asian ceramics and paintings as well as American landscape paintings, African and Native American collections, contemporary craft, sculpture and decorative arts are all included in the three-story museum. Additionally, there are 23 acres of formal gardens as well as a wonderful gift shop.
A mid-way return dutch-treat dinner stop will be made. Cost is $60/person including entry fee and Champagne.

Saturday, Sept. 27 – Sprint Center (Kansas City) and Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland Park, KS)
The Sprint Center which opened in Oct. 2007 with a concert by Sir Elton John, features an 18,500 seat arena and is home to the College Basketball Experience and the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame which was designed by Edwin Schlossberg (husband of Caroline Kennedy). A dutch-treat lunch will be taken at the popular Webster House. The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art was designed by Kyu Sung Woo, Architects and is well-known for its collection of emerging contemporary artists and those who have come into the limelight over the last fifteen years, including Jonathan Borosky, Louise Bourgeois and Barry Flanagan. It also houses the Oppenheimer Collection of contemporary works by Do-ho Suh, Karin Davie, Amy Sillman, and others. We will have a docent-led tour at 1:30 p.m.
After a 6:30a.m. coffee reception in the Arts Council offices, the tour will depart at 7:00a.m.and return by 7:00p.m. Cost is $60/person including entry fees and Champagne on the return.

Saturday, Oct. 25 – Gilcrease Museum of Art, Tulsa
The Gilcrease houses the world’s largest collection of art and artifacts of the American West and is one of the country’s best facilities for the preservation and study of American art and history. Set among 460 acres of rolling hills, the museum features paintings by Malvina Hoffman, Will James, Frederic Remington, Charles Russell and N.C. Wyeth, among others. A dutch-treat lunch will be taken at the museum’s Osage Restaurant. Coffee will be served in the Arts Council office at 7:30a.m. and the tour will depart the Creamery at 8:00a.m. and return by 9:00p.m.  Cost is $60/person including entrance fee and Champagne on the return.

To book a space for any or all of these exciting Arts Adventures, contact the Springfield Regional Arts Council, 417-862-ARTS(2787).