Lunch and Lecture
3rd Thursday of every month
Botanic Hall / Potter Meeting Room
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
$15 members / $25 non-members (includes lunch)
Call 353-9827 to register and order a boxed lunch
OPTIONS:
Our famous CHICKEN SALAD SANDWICH…on wheat bread with lettuce, tomato & mayo, served with fruit salad and a cookie.
TURKEY AND CHEESE WRAP…smoked turkey, sharp cheddar cheese, lettuce, tomato and honey mustard dressing, rolled in a flour tortilla, and served with fruit and a cookie.
COBB SALAD… A medley of marinated chicken, avocados, diced tomatoes, red onions, eggs, chopped bacon and blue cheese on mixed greens with herbed crostinis and your choice of dressing (sesame, balsamic or ranch).
VEGGIE WRAP … artichoke hearts, red bell peppers, black olives, sunflower seeds, lettuce and tomato wrapped in a tortilla with seasoned cream cheese, served with fruit and cookie.
Drink Options include Fruit Tea or Water
After lunch, stay for an interesting, interactive, and educational program on exhibit-related or seasonal topics. Please call 615.353.9827 to register and order a boxed lunch. What a great way to spend your lunch hour!
Ask the Experts
Thursday, January 19
How would you like to have your own personal gardener or in-house horticulturist? Back by popular demand, this lecture is designed specifically to answer your most mystifying gardening questions! Our horticulturists are experts in their fields, and are eager to share their knowledge. Participants will be asked to submit questions prior to the program, and our panel of experts will answer as many as possible. Join us during this interactive and informal program to get the answers to your most puzzling queries. No question is too big or too small, so please submit them all!
Buffalo Bill and Musical Performances of the Imagined West
Thursday, February 16
Robert Fry, senior lecturer of music history and literature at the Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University, will discuss the music featured in and used to accompany Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show and its role in reinforcing the romanticized and mythologized West, which was presented and authenticated by the life, legend, and performances of William Frederick Cody. From the show’s popularity in the 19th and early 20th centuries to its influence on the establishment and popularity of the Western film, the cowboy as American hero, and the adoption and continuation of the Western image in country music, the sights and sounds of Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show have directly influenced our perception and fascination with both the Wild West and the “real” America.
Matilde Roussel: Anatomia Botanica
Thursday, March 15
Join us as Mathilde Roussel, the 2011 Martin Shallenberger Artist-in-Residence at Cheekwood, discusses her art and the creation of Anatomia Botanica. Her latest exhibition of sculptures and drawings subtly weaves together human, animal, plant and mineral forms represented through ceramic, glass, soil, seeds, paper, graphite, metal and fabric. She will explain how she started integrating plants in her work as a metaphor for our inner landscape. Hearing an artist describe his or her own work provides a deeper and more meaningful experience with the art itself-- don’t miss it!
The Howe Garden Renovation: from Concept to Completion
Thursday, April 19
Landscape architect, Ben Page, principal partner of PAGE|DUKE Landscape Architects, explains the planning and design process in his approach to The Howe Garden's renovation. Ben Page will share his personal, childhood memories of Mrs. Cora Howe's historic garden. From the perspective of a landscape architect, understand the overall design concept as well as specific elements and features incorporated to evoke the aesthetic imagery reminiscent of the original Howe Wildflower Garden.
Andy & Co.: American Pop Art
Thursday, May 17
At the beginning of the 1960s, artists such as Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, and Roy Lichtenstein turned away from the tradition of modernist abstraction and towards sources and techniques associated with contemporary mass culture. Though their efforts were greeted by many critics as a betrayal of the artistic aspirations of modern art and a dehumanizing submission to the norms of the prevailing consumer society, their work has decisively shaped the subsequent course of art history. Taking works in the collection at Cheekwood as starting points, this lecture will address this pivotal moment and its meaning for contemporary art.
