FALL 2017
HEALTH
NEW EXHIBITS
THIS FALL
AND BEYOND
Museum Renewal
The Maier Performance Hall will be abuzz with Broadway! Elf the Musical will be taking the stage in November and the classic show, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music, brings the timeless story to life in December. Also happening in December, the memorable Charlie Brown Christmas Live will offer an entertaining tale beloved to generations set to the sounds of a live string trio.
A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
The fall and winter months bring some of our favorite programs and performances to the Clay Center! The Avampato Discovery Museum will be alive with holiday excitement as our staff and discovery leaders bring educational and fun programming like Spooktacular and the Pumpkin Drop in October and the popular Gingerbread Workshop and Noon Year’s Eve in December.
As the Juliet Art Museum prepares for renovations in 2018, programs are still going strong. The Center’s first Steamroll Print Day takes place on Saturday, October 7th with community partners like West Virginia State University, West Virginia Wesleyan University, WTSQ FM, Kin Ship Goods, and Base Camp Printing. Guests will see the print process first hand and will learn more about the amazing craftsmanship and talent that went in to the pieces on exhibit in the Images of Social Justice from the Segura Arts Studio on display now. Enjoy learning more about all of the exciting activities and exhibits that are coming to the Clay Center this fall in this publication. Make it YOUR Clay Center, what will you explore this season? Al Najjar President & CEO
September of 2015 launched the Museum Renewal Campaign to transform the Avampato Discovery
Local visits (guests from the Charleston Metro Area
Museum and create an endowment dedicated to exhibit
and Kanawha County) increased by 54%, regional visits
maintenance and renewal. Under the leadership of
(which includes Putnam County, Cabell County, Hatfield-
Campaign Chair Marty Becker, and Vice-Chair, Michael
McCoy Mountains, the New River-Greenbrier Valley, and
Graney, the Campaign has generated nearly $16.5 million
the Mid-Ohio Valley) increased by 137%, and tourism
for the Museum Renewal project from corporations,
visits (which accounts for visitors from substantially more
individuals, foundations and competitive grants.
distant locations in West Virginia, eastern Kentucky,
As a result of the Museum Renewal Project, the
southern Ohio, and beyond) increased by 22%.
Avampato Discovery Museum attendance increased
The Clay Center gratefully recognizes the following
rapidly during FY17, totaling 89,132 visitors, compared
Museum Renewal Campaign donors, whose gifts will
to 57,925 in FY16 — a 54% increase.
have a lasting impact in West Virginia and beyond:
AC&S Incorporated
Hornor & Freddy Davis
Mrs. Kristin Margolin Anderson
The Daywood Foundation
Ann C. & Robert O. Orders, Jr. Family Foundation
Anonymous
Stephen & Tricia Dexter
Orders Construction Company
Appalachian Power Company
John & Fonda Elliot
Raymond Park & Family
James & Phyllis Arnold
Horace & Sally Emery
Steven & Beth Robey
Frank & Camilla Baer
The Esbenshade Family
Bradley Rowe
Mrs. Marion H. Baer
Mike & Bonnie Fidler
Pete & Melissa Ruddle
Claire Barth
Mike & Margaret Graney
Reed & Darlene Spangler
W. Marston & Katharine B. Becker
Pat & Jessica Graney
Summit Community Bank
Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation
The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. L. Newton Thomas, Jr.
BB&T
HealthSmart
TransCanada
BrickStreet Foundation
Herscher Foundation
The Honorable Gaston Caperton
Huntington Bank
Tri-State Roofing & Sheet Metal Company
Gat Caperton
United Bank
John Caperton
The Bernard H. & Blanche E. Jacobson Foundation
The Cary Foundation
Mr. & Ms. Sonny Johnstone
Bernie & Cecilia Wehrle
Central Contracting
Judge Tod & Barrie Kaufman
Michael Wehrle
Charleston Area Medical Center
Art & Virginia King
Stephen D. & Laura S. Wehrle
Fred D. Clark & Linda Edwards, in Loving Memory of their Grandson, Ashton
Charlie Loeb & Sandy Murphy
West Virginia American Water
Maier Foundation
Clay Foundation
Mrs. Sallie F. McClaugherty
Mr. & Mrs. Loren Claypool
Mrs. Callen J. McJunkin
The West Virginia Division of Culture and History and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the WV Commission on the Arts
Steve & Lynn Cvechko
The Honorable Eric Nelson Jr. & Family
Barbie Baer Dan
Ed & Susan Maier
Anonymous
The Clay Center extends special thanks to the members of the Clay Legacy Society for their enduring contributions through their estate or planned gifts.
Mr. & Mrs. Edward C. Armbrecht, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd G. Jackson, II
James & Phyllis Arnold
Charles T. & Mary Ellen Jones
Mr. & Mrs. Charles M. Avampato
Laurance Jones III
The Honorable Gaston Caperton
Mr. & Mrs. Melvin Jones
Ellen S. Cappellanti & Mark W. Carbone
Arthur L. & Virginia L. King
Kelly & Melissa Castleberry
Ed H. Maier
Mr. & Mrs. John Chapman
Sallie F. McClaugherty
William Maxwell Davis
Mr. & Mrs. John F. McGee
John & Fonda Elliot
Callen J. McJunkin
Dwight A. Foley
Kyle and Kirsten Mork
Alexander L. Franklin, II
Nancy-Louise Mottesheard
Pat & Jessica Graney
Toyota USA Foundation
H.B. Wehrle Foundation
ZMM Architects & Engineers
Mr. & Mrs. Raymond L. Muehlman, Jr. Roger L. Nicholson Joe & Sue Sergi Mr. & Mrs. Harvey M. Shreve, Jr. Reed & Darlene Spangler James and Keith Straw Ms. Yolanda L. Tam & Mr. Bert L. Fredeking Andrew K. & Margaret H. Teeter Nancy B. Thomas Gene and Bonnie Waggy Judith L. Wellington, Ph.D.
WaterWorks
In late November, the Clay Center will welcome three brand new exhibits to the Avampato Discovery Museum! These exhibits will feature themes revolving around water, music and health and will be targeted to students and guests of all ages! Innovative, educational, challenging and most of all – FUN – these exhibits will provide hours of exploration in the museum! It flows. It moves things: lifting, floating, and pushing. It can shape things: carving mountains into canyons, or cutting through steel. Harnessing its energy can power cities. In WaterWorks visitors play and work with water along sweeping flow routes, dramatic water falls, controlling the water to animate and energize everything in its path in an expression of water’s power. Along the way, they will experience the potential, kinetic and mechanical energy of water.
Healthy Me
Activities include turning a large water wheel to generate “electricity”, opening and closing a dam’s water gates to control the flow of water into the river, guiding boats through a lock system, blocking, releasing and re-routing water, and many other engaging activities, including water play (funnels, scooping and pouring) for toddlers. Join us for all the exciting activities this fall! We look forward to you finding your new favorite activity at the Clay Center!
This exhibit, focusing on the human
fitness, nutrition, and the mind-body
their heart rates, test their balance
body in motion, will provide a
connection. Guests will learn about
or reaction time, and try to up their
safe environment for guests to
the amazing human body in a fun and
skills at various sporting events.
test their physical skills, and help
fact-filled way. Within the exhibit,
Healthy Me will help guests to
them learn why regular physical
guests will investigate body systems
understand that engaging in healthy
activity is essential to their health.
(skeletal, muscular, circulatory,
lifestyle choices now will reduce
It will promote an understanding
nervous, as well as organs) to learn
risk of disease later in life and will
of the science behind nutrition and
about their function and how they
allow guests to challenge themselves
exercise, as well as positive attitudes
work together. They will also measure
physically and receive positive
and healthy behaviors related to
themselves as they stretch, raise
feedback in exchange for effort.
Maier Foundation Music Studio Generously underwritten by
station futuristic music machine, a
and tactile investigations, collab-
the Maier Foundation, the Maier
circular thumb piano that multiple
orative and social exploration,
Foundation Music Studio is a place
people can play simultaneously; a
emotional expression and
where visitors make and explore
giant slinky suspended overhead
responses, science and technology
music together. Visitors see, listen
that teaches children the basics
are just some of the access points
to, move to, and create their own
of longitudinal waves. At the
to music. The Maier Foundation
music; examine the scientific
Recording Studio, visitors play
Music Studio will offer a multi-
foundations of the music they
sound engineer mixing “tracks”
layered experience for visitors,
hear; and explore the mathematical
of a song to perfection.
combining scientific investigation
concepts of rhythm, pattern, and harmony. Some instruments will, at first glance, be a puzzle—how can this thing make music? Other instruments will appear to play themselves. Group “events” can be seen throughout the space: a multi-
Music is many things to many people. At its core it is a social activity. Communal play we humans do. Music as a broad exhibit subject can present many different points of access. Sensory
with sensory stimulation, creative expression, and an enjoyment of the process of making music. The exhibit is comprised of four basic areas: Experience Music, the Instrument Studio, Composing, and Good Vibrations.
In Memorium Laurance Jones III
Martin Mull A Likely Story, 1999 Watercolor and gouache on paper 2000 purchase funded by the Collectors Club
11/25/1955 – 2/25/2016 The Juliet Art Museum is honored to have works from Laurance Jones’ personal art collection on display in the gallery this fall. Laurance Jones III was a passionate Clay Center supporter and leader, giving generously of his time, talent, and treasure to ensure that all West Virginians had access to the Center’s
OBSERVATIONS:
enjoying world-class performances, interacting with exciting art and science
Through the Eyes of the Collectors Club
exhibits, or taking part in workshops or lectures.
Observations features figurative works that have
Jones served on the Clay Center Board of Directors from 2008 to 2016,
been purchased for the museum collection by
following his appointment to the board by then-Gov. Joe Manchin. He also
the Collectors Club from 1987 to present day.
chaired the Center’s Program Committee where he helped to guide and advise
In 1986, a group of art enthusiasts organized
the Clay Center’s performing arts programming vision. Jones was an early and
to contribute monetarily to the expanding
generous donor to the campaign to construct the Clay Center, and that support
Sunrise Art Museum art collection. Thanks to the
continued at an extraordinary level until his death.
invaluable and generous support of the Collectors
offerings. Jones’ generosity through the years provided thousands of students and families the opportunity to spend quality time at the Clay Center, whether
Jones remains alive in the memories of those at the Clay Center and throughout the community who worked alongside him and witnessed his deep commitment to making his community a better place for families. Thousands of West Virginia children continue to be inspired at the Clay Center as a result of Laurance
Club, the Juliet Art Museum has an incredibly diverse collection to display that spans prominent movements throughout art history. Observations showcases some of the world’s most influential artists, such as Pablo Picasso, Roy Lichtenstein, Chuck Close, Edward Hopper, and William Kentridge. The representation of the figure in art has changed as human needs and artistic
Jones’ generosity.
expression has evolved. Although the figure did not have the dominant presence in 20th Century art that it did in previous times, it has been particularly important to two styles - Social Realism and Expressionism. Social Realists have utilized the figure in their attempt to accurately record everyday life, and Expressionists have put the human figure at the center of a style devoted to celebrating human yearnings and anxieties. Contemporary and Post-Conceptual artists have pulled from these 20th century movements to place equal importance to the concept of human experience and artistic medium. Many works in this exhibit portray traditional representations of the figure, but others encourage the viewer to use their imagination. Through educational trips to visit artist studios, and visits to museum exhibits across the US, the Collectors Club has paid close attention to these movements and the importance of adding these works to the Juliet Art Museum permanent collection. For the past 31 years, the Collectors Club has greatly contributed to programming and exhibits, and they continue to do so today. Portrait of Laurance Jones III Artist unknown
Upcoming Exhibitions: 30 Americans April –July 2018
Do It July – October 2018
Da Vinci Inventions November 2018 – February 2019
30 Americans is a dynamic exploration of contemporary American art. The exhibition includes paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs, video, and more made by African American artists since 1970 that raise questions of what it means to be a contemporary artist and an African American today. This exhibition offers a stylistic conversation among artists of different decades and generations. Minimalism, abstraction, conceptualism, performance, new media, installation art, identity politics, deconstruction, street aesthetics, and the return of figuration — every major development in contemporary art over the past four decades is represented.
Curator Hans Ulrich Obrist’s perpetually regenerating instructions-based exhibition Do It put the creation of art into the hands of the audience. Each Do It exhibition is uniquely site-specific because it engages the local community in a dialogue that responds to and adds a new set of instructions, while it remains global in the scope of its ever-expanding repertoire. Bringing Do It to the Juliet Art Museum gives Charleston residents an opportunity to participate first-hand in the museum exhibition.
The Da Vinci Inventions exhibition brings to life the genius of Leonardo as an inventor, artist, scientist, anatomist, engineer, architect, sculptor and philosopher. Working from Leonardo’s codices, Italian Artisans have faithfully crafted interactive and life-size machine inventions. These works include the first concepts of a car, bicycle, helicopter, glider, parachute, SCUBA, submarine, a forerunner to the modern military tank and an ideal city, to name a few. Suitable for all ages, this amazing exhibition provides a fascinating insight into not only the mind of a genius, but also into the fundamental scientific and artistic principles that he discovered.
Jessica O’Hearn grew up in West Caldwell, NJ. She received her BFA from The Art Institute of Boston, and then attended The Tamarind Institute of Lithography in Albuquerque, NM. She returned to Boston to work as registrar for artist Michael Mazur and pursued her MFA at The Massachusetts College of Art and Design, completing in 2011. She managed the print studio at The Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and worked as collaborative printer at The Segura Arts Studio at The University of Notre Dame in South Bend, IN. Jessica has used this extensive knowledge and background to curate the current traveling exhibit in the Juliet Art Museum, Images of Social Justice, from The Segura Studio.
RENOVATION
She resides in Charleston with her husband, Jack, and daughter, Rose, who is a frequent visitor to the center. When she is not at work, Jessica loves spending time with family; mostly consisting of chasing a strong-willed toddler around her house and watching repeated episodes of Elmo’s World. Jessica and her family have enjoyed their warm welcome to the Clay Center and to the Charleston area and are frequent patrons of community programs like Art Walk, Downtown Streetfest, Live on the Levee and FestivAll!
We may be in the midst of Phase 2 but plans are being made for Phase 3! In January of 2018, the Juliet Art Museum will go through a complete renovation. The art museum renewal will introduce elements of discovery and interactivity, and increase engagement with the local community of visitors and artists. The newly renovated art museum will include two galleries for traveling, temporary, and permanent collection exhibits. A new art studio will allow for classroom programming and a yearly artist-in-residence program, providing opportunities for local and national artists. The creative exploration doesn’t stop there! An Art Lab will function as a self-guided tour into creative expression for visitors to the museum. Visitors will not only learn by seeing, they will learn by doing and interacting within the art museum.
MEET OUR CURATOR
Art After Dark October 19, 7:30-9:30pm
December 21, 7:30-9:30pm
When the museum lights go down, the fun begins! Live music and entertainment provided by Ona! Local entrepreneurs Kin Ship Goods will be joining in the afterhours fun, show casing their brand of apparel, accessories, and home goods designed by Dan Davis & Hillary Harrison. During the event, work with Dan and Hillary to pull your own screen print! All supplies will be provided.
Deck the halls and get holiday ready at Art After Dark! Local calligrapher Marissa Jackson of MarissaMade will be customizing gift tags for the holiday season just in time for you to send your well wishes to family and friends for the New Year! Bring your creativity and your holiday spirit for a festive sing along and plenty of merriment! Art After Dark activities and entertainment are completely FREE! A cash bar is available onsite for refreshments.
Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie November 2 | 7:30 pm Fleetwood Mac rockers Lindsey Buckingham and
took place at The Village Studios in Los Angeles,
who supplied much of the dynamic rhythmic
Christine McVie are coming to the Clay Center!
which is where Fleetwood Mac recorded several
engine. While in the Mountain State, Buckingham/
The duo came together to record for the first
of their classic albums, including Tusk. Buckingham
McVie will perform hits from their album such
time in years and produced one of Rolling Stone’s
and McVie were joined in the studio by fellow
as “My World” and “Feel About You,” as well as
Top 50 Albums of 2017. Sessions for the album
bandmates Mick Fleetwood and John McVie,
Fleetwood Mac classics.
Lee Brice & Randy Houser
November 12 | 7 pm Celebrate Veteran’s Day weekend with some down home country music. Lee Brice, known for songs like “Love Like Crazy” and “I Drive Your Truck,” and Randy Houser – “Parking Lot Party” and “How Country Feels” – come together for a night of hits like you’ve never heard them before. This acoustic evening will also include a special pre-party honoring our service men and women with 97.5 WQBE in the Grand Lobby an hour prior to the show.
CHARLESTON LIGHT OPERA GUILD
Thank you to the magnificent cast: Gomez - Chris Terpening Morticia - Sara Golden Wednesday - Heather Allen Fester - Ashley B. Cowder, Jr. Lucas Beineke - Clayton Strohmenger Alice Beineke - Elizabeth Cary Brown Mal Beineke - Mark Felton Grandma - Stevie Brigode Pugsley - Tayan Cooper Lurch - Kert Markus Valdek Ancestors - Ted Brightwell, Emma
October 13
Dooley, Devin Elliott, Jake Guthrie,
Hannah Wicklund & The Steppin Stones With Sean Richardson & Broccoli Samurai
Ashley Harmon, Emily Houchens, Sarah King, Hannah O’Brien, Kim Patterson, Toni Pilato, Caroline
November 22
Stuff YourseLF with Sound Checks, a Thanksgiving Eve Celebration with Porch 40 and Christian Lopez December 15
Christmas with The Company Stores and The Steel Wheels
Chamness Rainey, Danae Samms, Caroline Shriver, Austin A. Thomas, Rhiannon Turley, Tristan Valleau, Cameron Vance co-presented with the Charleston Light Opera Guild October 27, 28 & November 3, 4 I 7:30 pm October 29 & November 5 I 2 pm They’re creepy and they’re kooky! The Charleston Light Opera Guild will bring “The Addams Family” to life in six unforgettable performances. Join all of your favorites - Gomez, Morticia, Lurch, Wednesday and Pugsley – as they navigate the twists and turns of growing up.
Legendary benefit gala for Clay Center & Charleston Ballet’s education programs
January 27 7:30 pm Single Ticket - $125 until Dec 18 304-561-3570 theclaycenter.org/Carnaval #CarnavalWV2018
BROADWAY
In Charleston
ELF the Musical is the hilarious tale of Buddy, a young orphan child who mistakenly crawls into Santa’s bag of gifts and is transported back to the North Pole. Unaware that he is actually human, Buddy’s enormous size and poor toy-making abilities cause him to face the truth. With Santa’s permission, Buddy embarks on a journey to New York City to find his birth father, discover his true identity, and help New York remember the true meaning of Christmas. THE HILLS ARE ALIVE! A brand new production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC is coming to the Clay Center. The spirited, romantic and beloved musical story of Maria and the von Trapp Family will once again thrill audiences with its Tony®, Grammy® and
Elf
Academy Award® winning Best Score, including “My Favorite Things,” “Do-Re-Mi,” “Climb Ev’ry Mountain,” “Edelweiss” and the title song.
November 16 | 7:30 pm
season! Check out Fright Light & Fright Light II featuring spooky favorites like “Thriller,” “Monster Mash,” and “Devil Went Down to Georgia.” Laser Holidays and Laser Holidays II will help you ring in the holidays with classics like The Clay Center will be featuring
“White Christmas,” “Rockin’ Around
holiday laser light shows in the
the Christmas Tree,” “Deck the
Caperton Planetarium & Theater to
Halls” and hits like “All I Want For
ring in Halloween and the holiday
Christmas is You.”
The Sound of Music December 13 | 7:30 pm
Noon Year’s Eve December 30 | 11 am-4 pm Ring in the New Year with your children and have no worries about staying out past bedtime! Noon Year’s Eve gives the kids a chance to experience all of the festivities a new year has to offer. The Clay Center will be full of confetti poppers, bubble wrap fireworks and there will be a dance party!
Holly Day November 24 | 11 am-4 pm This Christmas season the Clay Center is bringing the North Pole to you! It’s that time of year that’s full of family and fun, so come to Holly Day to make even more lasting memories with your kids! Not only will you get to create your own make-and-take ornaments, but jolly ole Santa Claus will be there to check your Christmas list!
MEMBER SPOTLIGHT Jesse and Lesli Forbes – children Will, 8, and Addie Forbes, 6 We’ve been married for 13 years and have two children – eight-year-old Will and a six-year-old Addie. Like most families in this stage of life, we are always on the go and enjoy experiences – whether it be traveling or discovering new things in our own neighborhood. Our family’s connection with the Clay Center started in 2004 when we hosted our wedding eve rehearsal dinner in the newly opened facility. The toasts and laughs in the Founders Lounge that night were a highlight of our wedding weekend. As a young married couple, we enjoyed a slew of concerts, from Willie Nelson to Blondie; touring Broadway shows; and the Friends of the Clay Center’s original Fidelio fundraising galas. When our kids were toddlers, many afternoons were spent tinkering and experimenting with the pulley system in the former ball-pit area, splashing around in Milton Gardner’s Earth City and choosing squares such as Hot Lips and Pelvis (“You know Elvis, in the shape of a Pelvis.”) in Health Royale. Will had chubby arms that would often get stuck in the ball pit’s maze of tubes and Addie would always leave red-faced and exhausted spending most of her time running as fast as she could across the moving bridge in Kidspace. We have more than a dozen pictures of the kids through the years with their heads sticking through the “World’s Only Kid-A-Lope” mount. In his two-year-old preschool class, Will was asked to draw a
December 10 | 3 pm Join Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy
Award winning television special.
and the rest of the gang in an
The Peanuts produce their very own
all-new touring stage adaptation
pageant and ultimately learn the true
of the classic Emmy and Peabody
meaning of Christmas.
Gingerbread House Family Workshop December 9 | 11 am-1 pm The Clay Center specializes in memory making especially when it comes time for the holidays! Kids of all ages will take on the world of cookie crumbles and gummy bear trails at the Gingerbread House Family Workshop! Registration for this delicious event will begin on November 11. A pre-assembled gingerbread house, icing, whipped frosting and candy will be ready to go. All you need to bring are the ones you love and a load of creativity for this holiday favorite!
picture of his favorite place and above all the creative scribbles his teacher wrote “The Play Center,” which is how he referred to the facility at the time. With the new exhibit My Town we have seen our kid’s imaginations come alive. No two visits are the same – one spent shopping for groceries and playing veterinarian and the next creating a full-blown theatre production with new friends. Just last month we celebrated Will’s eighth birthday at the Clay Center where a highlight of the party was Jesse climbing to the top of Ashton’s Climbing Structure with the kids. We are thankful for the Clay Center and the fun-filled experiences it provides not just us, but the entire community. We always look forward to the Clay Center’s Annual Carnaval – and the over-the-top themes that go along with the event. We have celebrated the marriage of friends at receptions in the Grand Lobby; marked our own children’s birthdays with parties filled with science and interactive play in the Avampato Discovery Museum and movies in the Caperton Planetarium & Theatre; enjoyed date nights discovering new artists at Sound Check Sessions; and listened to our kid’s adventurous tales from the Clay Center’s summer camp program.
We joined the Clay Center in 2009 when we had our first child for the unlimited museum gallery admissions, reciprocal benefits at other museums and to support the Center’s dedication to quality performances and children’s discovery. In addition to enjoying the hands-on-exhibits in downtown Charleston, we have utilized the free admission to other science centers – from Chicago’s Field Museum to Vancouver’s Science World – while traveling through our Clay Center membership. At this age, Will and Addie enjoy the Clay Center’s My Town exhibit and its summer camps the most. Will relishes being a mechanic and changing tires in My Town’s car care center while Addie is more often than not taking short orders in the exhibit’s diner. Adventures in the Clay Center’s interactive summer camp programs give them opportunities to be curious and creative. How would you describe the Clay Center in one word? Community. The Clay Center’s quality programming, performances and exhibits add to quality of life in the Kanawha Valley. We applaud the Clay Center and its staff for its ambitious and robust renewal projects over the past several years and look forward to the new exhibits opening this fall.
One Clay Square, Charleston, WV 25301 African American Philanthropy in Action
HealthSmart
Arnett Carbis Toothman, LLP
Howard & Howard Dental
BB&T Foundation
Huntington Bank
Bob & Nancy Douglas
IBEW
BrickStreet
IVS Hydro, Inc./Fred Clark
Brown, Edwards & Company, LLP
Jackson Kelly
Charleston Area Medical Center
John F. Wiles, OD
Charleston Convention & Vistors Bureau, Inc
Joseph G. Bunn
Charleston Surgical Hospital
Kanawha Stone Company, Inc.
Children’s Dentistry
Mountain State Beverage
Chris Blanchard
NECA
City National Bank
Nitro Electric Company
Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated
Reserve Oil & Gas, Inc.
Doug & Marisa Skaff
Roger L. Nicholson
Dr. Amanda Boustany and Dr. John Kuyk at Capitol Endodontics - Root Canal Specialists
Spriggs Distributing
Ed & Susan Maier Elliot Family Foundation Ernst & Young Forbes Law Offices PLLC
Suttle & Stalnaker, PLLC Terradon Corporation The Bell Law Firm, PLLC TransCanada Corporation West Virginia Lottery
October 21 | 11 am-4 pm Take a journey through the wizarding world of Spooktacular! Enter into wizard’s training by making your own wand and keep on exploring to find all the other goodies Spooktacular has to offer. Travel throughout time
n i k p m u P
Drop
October 28 | 11 am-4 pm
and learn about famous witches and
The fall festivities continue with
wizards in the Caperton Planetarium.
this year’s Pumpkin Drop! Bring the
Then, follow the spooky trail to
whole family and make landing gear
pumpkin decorating where a simple
for your pumpkin in hopes that it will
squash will become a magical piece
survive a fall. All of the participating
of art. Finally, make your way to the
pumpkins will take their drop from
Wizard Walkway in My Town to load
the Clay Center roof down to the
up on sweet treats. Of course, come
patio in the Sculpture Garden. Be
dressed for the occasion in your
sure to write your families name on
favorite Halloween attire!
your pumpkin so that it can have a proper announcement before it takes a tumble on this fun-filled day!