Members Magazine Fall 2017

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!