With the spring semester winding down at the University of Findlay, the Mazza Museum is getting ready to host its final Funday Sunday event of the season on April 2 from 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. The theme, Rockin’ Robots, will allow children and guests to the Museum to get up close and personal with these...
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Mazza Funday Sunday to Celebrate Lakeside Leisure Activities
The Mazza Museum at the University of Findlay will soon help guests escape into a lakeside paradise. The theme for Funday Sunday on March 5, from 1:30-3:30 p.m. is “Lounging at the Lake.” The Museum will welcome special guests, author Amy Heritage and illustrator Eleanor Hutton, of the book, “The Lakeside Symphony Comes to Town.”...
National Academy of Sciences Exhibit Explores Mazza Art With Scientific Themes
Art from the Mazza Museum at the University of Findlay that illustrates and instructs through picture books will stimulate audiences in “Igniting the Imagination,” an exhibit with themes in science, medicine and engineering that the Museum will send to the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. from March 6 through Aug. 7. “Any time...
There’s Music in the Air: Funday Sunday Welcomes Local Musical Talent
Families and guests of the Mazza Museum at the University of Findlay will be treated to a musical presentation by students from the Findlay High School Symphony Orchestra as well as students from Glenwood and Donnell middle schools during February’s Funday Sunday: “Magical Music.” The event will take place from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. on...
Mazza Museum Exhibit Featured at Toledo Zoo & Aquarium
As they visit with aquatic animals and reef dwellers, guests of the Toledo Zoo and Aquarium will have the opportunity to see scenes from underwater adventures in “Mazza Under the Sea” hosted in the aquarium’s Reflections Gallery. The Mazza Museum at the University of Findlay will provide 24 works for display throughout the busy holiday...
Wordless Picture Book Author Awarded Mazza Medallion
How can I tell this story? In what interesting way can I present it to the reader? These are the questions author/illustrator David Wiesner, who accepted the Mazza Medallion at the Mazza Winter Conference this November, asks himself as he begins a new project. The 11th recipient of the award presented by the Mazza Museum...
Storytellers Offer Inside Look
Mazza Weekend Conference welcomed more than 300 participants to hear from award winning artists from around the world. Artists featured this year included Mazza Medallion Recipient David Wiesner (read more about Wiesner’s acceptance of the award here) as well as Tony Abbott, Sergio Ruzzier, Brian Biggs, Nikki McClure and Dan Santat. Each speaker gave participates...
Mazza Funday Sunday to Walk on the Wild Side
Animals take the spotlight as the Mazza Museum welcomes special guests from Toledo Zoo and Aquarium and illustrator Jenny Hanf for “Animal Alphabet” from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. on Nov. 6. The Museum, located in the University of Findlay’s Virginia B. Gardner Fine Arts Pavilion, takes reading books about animals to a new level with...
Popular Genki Kids Club Returns
Genki Kids Club, a Japanese language and culture club offered by the University of Findlay’s Mazza Museum for students in grades 3-6, will be offered this fall, beginning Monday, Oct. 17. Activities will be held in the children’s art studio in Malcolm Dining Hall, located in the Virginia B. Gardner Fine Arts Pavilion. They will...
Illustrator from Japan to Speak at Mazza Funday Sunday
The Mazza Museum will welcome Japanese picture book author and illustrator Momomi Sako for the “Ohayo to Ohio” Funday Sunday event at the University of Findlay on Oct. 2 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. to speak about her books and illustrations. Sako first learned of the Museum through Ayane Hida, who is working with the...