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	Indoor Exhibits   Eagle Cam   Dandy Lion's Blog   Membership special   Green Roof   Share Your Memories   Bike Nights		Special Summer Exhibit Mutambo An Outdoor Stone Sculpture Exhibition June 15 – October 12   Celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the Garden’s creation by 220 local African Americans, by visiting MUTAMBO.  This outdoor art exhibition features 50 large stone sculptures created by Zimbabwe artists.  “Mutambo” depicts art, beauty and the people of the African continent. Through their work, the artists believe “spirits are being freed from the stone.”  The sculptures will be shipped from the famous Shona Sculpture Park in Zimbabwe and will be placed throughout the Garden in carefully selected landscaped areas. Some may be viewed from the tram; others will be discovered as you walk through the Garden. It is a rare opportunity to view such a significant international art collection in an outdoor setting that encompasses 155 acres with 30 themed gardens. Sunday, June 15, 2008 GRAND OPENING Family Day Activities 12 Noon – 5:00 PM There will be an exciting Grand Opening Celebration of MUTAMBO with a Family Activities Day planned for Sunday, June, 15 from Noon to 5:00 pm. In addition to the amazing spectacle of these works of art, there will various programs that highlight aspects of the African culture. Kicking off the opening ceremony, Solomon Isekeije, Professor of Fine Arts at Hampton University, will weave together the importance of the Shona Art, dancing, drumming, storytelling, textiles and other cultural arts originating in Africa. At least one of the sculptors from Zimbabwe will be on hand to carve a sculpture that day, showing his craft and interpreting his inspiration. In World of Wonders; A Children’s Adventure Garden, there will be children’s activities all day. Besides playing in the water fountains, children will have the opportunity to participate in hands on activities and make their own ‘sculptures’. There will be storytelling in WOW’s Serengeti Savannah area of the Garden and special characters and the Spectrum Puppets will be there all afternoon to entertain the children. A Rhythm and Strings performance will take place mid-afternoon and there will be a Garden-wide scavenger hunt correlated to the MUTAMBO sculptures.  More about the Shona Sculptures Called "perhaps the most important art form to emerge from Africa in this century" by Newsweek, noted collectors of Shona art include Whoopi Goldberg, Queen Sofia of Spain, Lou Rawls, Jimmy Stewart, Cecily Tyson, Harry Belafonte, the Prince of Wales, the Rockefeller Family, and Danny Glover.  Many of the world’s leading museums, such as the Rodin Museum in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Museum of Mankind in London showcase Shona sculpture in their permanent collections. Pablo Picasso, founder of the modernist movement, was an early admirer of Shona artwork. The striking simplicity and powerful lines characteristic of the Shona style are at once recognizable throughout much of Picasso’s, and other contemporary artists’ work.  The name of this summer exhibit at the Garden is Mutambo, which in the Shona language means “celebration”.
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