MassMu offers print-making workshop

Instructor Angelina Verginis will work with guests of all ages who want to make prints using real fruits and vegetables at the Massillon Museum’s “Do the Mu!” workshop on Saturday, Aug. 3.

Participants will receive free fresh watermelon as they work. The project will highlight the summer exhibition, "A Heritage of Harvest: The Industry of Agriculture in Western Stark County."

Anyone can join the workshop any time between noon and 2 p.m. All materials, tools and instruction are included at no charge.

Verginis is an art teacher with 14 years experience in public education, nine years working with Artful Living and Learning, and 14 years teaching classes at MassMu for children and adults. She was featured as an artist in the "Stark Arthology" book in 2010 and most recently displayed her artwork in the "Looking at Massillon" photography exhibition in the museum’s Fred F. Silk Community Room Gallery this spring.

Guests on Aug. 3 can see "A Heritage of Harvest" in the Aultman Health Foundation Gallery, "Accessible Expressions Ohio" in the Fred F. Silk Community Room Gallery, "Evolution of the Football Jersey" and "125 Years of the Greatest High School Rivalry" in the Paul Brown Museum, the "States of Waiting" sculpture by Treacy Ziegler in Studio M, and "The Immel Circus."

Anderson’s in the City, the lobby café, will offer lunch, specialty beverages and sweets for purchase, and OHregionalities, the museum shop, will be open.

The Massillon Museum receives operating support from ArtsinStark and the Ohio Arts Council. Funding for "A Heritage of Harvest" and its complementary programming is provided by the Fernandez Hillibish History Fund, The William J. Lemmon Charitable Fund, The Dan M. and Julia B. Belden Charitable Fund, The Edward J. and Helen L. Harhager Donor Advised Fund, The John S. and Jodine S. Duerr Charitable Fund, and The William E. Shanafelt Philanthropic Fund at Stark Community Foundation.

During construction in downtown Massillon, it will be convenient to find free parking spaces in municipal lots accessed on Second Street Southeast and First Street Northeast and in the city parking deck accessed on Erie Street South. Visit www.massillonmuseum.org/hours-and-directions for a parking map and updates.