Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 5, 1995 TAG: 9504060023
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LYNCHBURG - Sarah Cash has been named director of the Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Women's College.
Cash, 36, formerly was assistant curator at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. In addition to her new duties at the college museum, Cash will help teach a course on museum studies.
Former director Ellen Schall Agnew will become the museum's part-time associate director, to enable her to spend more time with her three young children.
Cash holds an M.A. degree in art history from Williams College. A scholar of 19th-century American art, she has organized exhibits of the work of Martin Johnson and Thomas Cole. She currently is co-organizing a national touring exhibit based on Thomas Eakins' painting, The Swimming Hole.
The Maier Museum of Art has works by Winslow Homer, James McNeill Whistler, Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keeffe.
Child-abuse benefit
``Art With Heart,'' the Child Abuse Prevention Council's Celebrity Night fund-raiser, will be held April 13, from 6-9 p.m., at Hotel Roanoke.
The evening will begin with a social hour and silent auction of works by local artists and items from area merchants. Dinner will follow with Carole Jordan as the guest of honor. Jordan, a council board member, is a survivor of child sexual abuse.
A live auction of original works by local artists will follow and include art by P. Buckley Moss, Eric Fitzpatrick, Bill and Linda White, George Shumate, Janet Sachs, Greg Osterhaus, Mark Woody, Steve Stinson, Ann Trinkle and others.
Tickets at $35 per person may be purchased by calling 344-3579.
Arts, crafts fair
An Art and Craft Fair will be held on the lawn of the 1908 Courthouse in Independence on July 4. Artists, craftspersons, food vendors, church and civic groups are invited to participate.
Booth space is available for $25 each. A food court will be established on the courthouse's house lawn.
A parade down Main Street, beach music, fireworks and shops displaying historic photographs and memorabilia will be featured during the event.
Those interested in participating in any of the activities should contact Art Chairperson Deborah Greer, Rt. 3, Box 18, Independence, Va. 24348 (773-2428).
Holocaust tributes
The following events have been scheduled at Virginia Tech's Squires Student Center, in commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day:
Schindler's list survivor Anna Perl will speak April 19 at 7:30 p.m. in the Brush Mountain Room. Mark Schewel, from the Anti-Defamation League, will discuss prejudice, black-Jewish tension and Louis Farrakhan on April 20 at 7:30 p.m. in room 150.
An exhibit created by the Simon Weisenthal Center on the history of the Holocaust will be featured April 24 and 25 in the Old Dominion Ballroom from 9 a.m.-10 p.m.
``Arts To Fight Prejudice,'' will feature guest performances by the Southwest Virginia Ballet and actors from Virginia Tech's Theater Arts Department on April 24 at 7:30 p.m. in the Haymarket Theater.
``An Evening With Madame F,'' a musical/dramatic account of one Holocaust survivor's story, will be performed by Claudia Stevens on April 25 at 7:30 p.m. in Colonial Hall.
All events are free and open to the public. For more information, call 552-6324.
Flower festival
Biltmore Estate's 10th Annual Festival of Flowers, scheduled for April 7-May 7, will mark the 100th spring at George Vanderbilt's 250-room French Renaissance-style chateau.
Themed ``Celebrating a Century of Elegance,'' the festival will feature the opening of the newly restored Tower Rooms in Biltmore House, arts performances and tours of some of the estate's gardens on its 8,000 acres.
The estate, located in Asheville, N.C., is open daily from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission is $24.95 for adults, $18.75 for ages 10-15; children under nine are admitted free when accompanied by an adult.
For more information, call (800) 570-4780.
by CNB