Mark your calendar for May 7 when the Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) will recognize Mother’s Day with a special Farm-to-Table Tea from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Paid guests will have an opportunity to preview the seasonal exhibition “Artist as Subject” and dine on a special multi-course meal catered from a menu featuring fresh produce from local farms. There will be a champagne reception and, of course, tea which has been locally sourced. Guests will also have the opportunity to craft individual floral place settings which will serve as a parting gift.
Rebecca Campbell, MOAH’s headline artist, will be there to showcase and discuss her “art as subject” as well as her series of paintings and current installation, “The Potato Eaters” which she said were inspired by historic photographs of her family. Some of Campbell’s images share “…aspects of family and cultural history, memory, documentation and nostalgia,” she said. Specifically, the exhibit addresses the relationship between the past and present, and the way cultural artifacts sometimes shuttle between the two time dynamics. The title of Campbell’s series was reportedly drawn from Vincent van Gogh’s 1885 masterpiece portraying Dutch peasants gathered at a meager meal. The series also explores how the rural past of her potato-farming family speaks to her contemporary city life.
Proceeds from the event will benefit future arts and cultural programming at the city’s museums and public art spaces.
Tickets are $45 each and are available at www.lmpaf.org, by phone at (661) 723-6250, or by visiting MOAH at 665 W. Lancaster Blvd.
