Mazza Museum announces a new exhibit titled Renegades, which celebrates the courageous individuals whose stories shook history and shaped the future. The display features four illustrations that are making their public debut, including a larger-than-life oil painting of Ruby Bridges, by Frank Morrison, who recently won the Coretta Scott King Illustration Award for his book,...
University of Findlay’s Mazza Museum continues with its “Funday Sunday” and “Tales for Tots” events. These programs are free and open to the public. Funday Sunday is scheduled once a month from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. The family-friendly learning extravaganza is designed to encourage artistic expression, enhance literacy knowledge, develop critical thinking skills, and...
University of Findlay’s Mazza Museum continues with December’s “Funday Sunday” and “Tales for Tots” events. These programs are free and open to the public. Funday Sunday is scheduled for December 4th from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. and features a “Christmas Hoe Down” theme. The family-friendly learning extravaganza is designed to encourage artistic expression, enhance...
The University of Findlay’s Mazza Museum is hosting its 2022 Weekend Conference on November 11th and 12th. Each year Mazza’s two-day educational conference welcomes some of the top authors and illustrators to meet and present to local teachers, librarians, and children’s book enthusiasts. Those individuals looking to attend the event can register online. For those...
Today, on Juneteenth, we’re honored to have Dayton Cooper, son of the late author and illustrator Floyd Cooper, reading from his father’s book, “Juneteenth for Mazie.”
University of Findlay Mazza Museum’s annual Young Artist Workshop will be held in-person July 18-22, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. This annual event gives children an inside look at the fascinating world of picture book art in a fun, exciting way. Instruction is provided by Mazza staff as well as local area teachers and artists. “Get ready to explore...
The University of Findlay Mazza Museum’s Gallery at The Toledo Zoo will be opening to the public over Memorial Day Weekend. Located on the second floor of the ProMedica Museum of Natural History at The Toledo Zoo, the Mazza Gallery is currently featuring Judith Caseley’s “Z is for Zebra: A Mosaic Menagerie.” “After two years...
In honor of Juneteenth, the University of Findlay’s Mazza Museum will display “A Tribute to Floyd Cooper and Jerry Pinkney” in the Freed Galleria beginning June 1, 2022. Juneteenth, a term short for “June Nineteenth,” commemorates the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, in 1865, to ensure that all enslaved people be freed....
The University of Findlay’s Mazza Museum will host a new hands-on STEAM Camp, themed “DNA Forensics,” June 6-10. Open to children from fifth through eighth grade, the camp will take place on the University’s campus. Cost of registration is $275 per child or $250 per child for University of Findlay faculty and staff, and includes...
University of Findlay’s Mazza Museum will hold the 2022 annual Summer Conference July 11-13. The three-day conference, which will be available in-person and virtually, features educational and engaging presentations from numerous internationally-known children’s book authors and illustrators. “It seems like it has been forever since we were last together for a Mazza Museum Summer Conference,” said Benjamin Sapp,...
