PRESS RELEASE - For Immediate Release
May 1, 2010
Western Reserve Historical Society to host Educational Programs
Cleveland, Ohio. The Western Reserve Historical Society (WRHS) has been selected as the site of Fashion Week Cleveland's Art & Culture Educational Programming. The Western Reserve Historical Society in University Circle is home to the Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum and the Chisholm Halle Costume Wing. Ursuline College's Fashion Design and Merchandising Program, NASA, United States Air Force,Tuskegee Airmen, International Women's Air & Space Museum, and Western Reserve Historical Society's Chisholm Halle Costume Wing will present at this year's event. This national convention and conference will be held on Saturday, June 5, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm and the program is free to the public. There is a party the evening of June 5th at La Dolce Vita in Little Italy.
"The Western Reserve Historical Society is a natural fit and the Halle Costume Wing is a Cleveland gem. We are looking foward to the collaboration", says Fashion Week Cleveland President Donald C. Shingler. The Halle Cosutme Wing was the site for the First Ladies and Lady Diana Spencer exhibits during their American tours.
The vast selection of learning opportunities include a seminar covering the form and function of space suits by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Glenn Research Center, Ursuline College's historical presentation on the influence of the military on fashion, the International Women's Air & Space Museum discussion on WASPs in WWI, and a special appearance by Cleveland architect and Tuskegee Airman Arthur Saunders.
About WRHS
The Western Reserve Historical Society is a not-for-profit educational institution that preserves and uses its collections, historic sites, and museums to inspire people to explore the history and culture of Northeastern Ohio and place that regional experience within the larger context of state, national, and global history. Collections and exhibitions focus on the Western Reserve. Both permanent, and especially changing, exhibitions place the region in its larger historical context. The Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum collections illustrate the history of the automotive industry in the Western Reserve as well as nationally and internationally.
Student Visitors
Over 60,000 students from pre-Kindergarten through high school visit WRHS properties throughout the school year, with hundreds more learning from WRHS programs through outreach and classroom visits. These workshops and courses are directly tied into the history of NE Ohio, based on the collections and documents that belong to the Western Reserve Historical Society.
All WRHS programs are inquiry-based, hands-on, and correlate to the current Ohio Academic Content Standards in Social Studies, Science, Math and Language Arts. Standards and grade-level indicator match-ups are available by contacting Jennifer Minor at (216) 721-5722, ext. 251.
Contact
Angie Lowrie
Western Reserve Historical Society :: University Circle :: 10825 East Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio 44106 :: www.wrhs.org ::
No charge/complimentary admission to the June 5 Event.
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