April 27, 2008 06:23 pm
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By Jo Ellis
Globe columnist
Spring is movin’ on, and activities in Carthage are popping up like tulips and daffodils.
This Friday, artCentral will have an artist’s reception to open a show by Cha’ Tullis, a Western artist from Hominy, Okla. Titled “Sharing the Journey,” the exhibit is a smorgasbord of Tullis’ work including paintings, sculptures, ceramics and jewelry. Wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served beginning at 6 p.m. at artCentral, 1110 E. 13th St. The show runs through May 18.
Saturday is chock-full of events, each in its own way intertwined with the Powers Museum.
The Master Gardeners’ annual plant sale, on the grounds of the museum at 1617 Oak St., begins at 8 a.m. and continues until all plants have been sold. Mary Bethel, chairwoman of the plant sale, said “thousands of plants” — anything from trees, fruit trees, hostas, perennials, annuals and tomato plants — will be available.
The Master Gardeners will conduct a drawing to give away several Fiskars and Cutco tools (with lifetime warranties), bags of fertilizer, and other items. They are to be on display Saturday at the Carthage Wal-Mart, with tickets going for $1 each or six for $5. Nearly 100 Master Gardener volunteers have been working on the plant sale. Bethel said it is always a big draw for residents.
The Powers Museum also is taking part in the citywide garage sale scheduled for Saturday. More than 25 residents have registered for the sale. Permits may be purchased for $2 at City Hall through Friday. Maps showing the locations of the sales will appear in Friday’s Carthage Press. The Press and the Carthage Chamber of Commerce are sponsors of the sale. Details are available from either sponsor.
Michelle Hansford, director/curator of the Powers Museum, said the museum’s offerings during the sale will include odds and ends from former exhibits, leftover supplies, household and holiday items no longer needed by the museum, old-fashioned “white elephants,” and books culled from the gift shop and reference library.
Also on Saturday, the museum will offer its third “Prelude to Chautauqua” program. The event features William S. Worley, of Kansas City, in a first-person presentation of one of Missouri’s most famous artists, Thomas Hart Benton. Because of all the other activities taking place at the museum, this free program will be at 1:30 p.m. at the Webb City Public Library, 101 S. Liberty St.
Benton, who was born and raised in Southwest Missouri, is portrayed in the same interpretative style (as if the actor were the actual person) used by history scholars in chautauqua events.
Benton’s famous murals are on exhibit in the Missouri Capitol, the Truman Presidential Library in Independence and Joplin’s City Hall on Main Street, among other places. The prelude programs lead up to the main chautauqua event, “That’s Entertainment Chautauqua,” slated for June 25-30. Those programs will offer interpretations of four iconic entertainers and authors: Walt Disney, P.T. Barnum, Thomas Edison and Margaret Mitchell.
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