5:15pm - 5:30pm: Check in at Cranbrook House
5:30pm - 6:15pm: Cranbrook House Tour (optional*)
6:15pm - 6:40pm: Break/Guests drive to Cranbrook Art Museum
6:40pm - 8:00pm: Workshop in the Art Lab
Celebrate the centennial of the Cranbrook House Oak Room on a tour of Cranbrook House followed by a workshop in the Cranbrook Art Museum Art Lab. Learn about cartouches, see examples in the Oak Room, and explore the basics of painting with Natalie Wadlington, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Painting 2020. You will leave the workshop with a painted wooden cartouche of your own creation!
What is a Cartouche?
Dating back to ancient Egypt, cartouches are oval or oblong shapes with symbols or pictures representing a person or event. The Oak Room walls are surrounded with cartouches that are painted with designs commemorating important Booth or Cranbrook-related events.
Admission
General Admission: $45
Cranbrook Art Museum ArtMembers/Cranbrook House & Gardens Auxiliary Members: $40
Advance registration is required as space is limited. To make a reservation, please call 248.645.3149 or register online through the link below. Admission includes an abbreviated tour of Cranbrook House and all supplies and instruction necessary to make your cartouche. All registrations are final - no refunds.
Location and Parking
The event begins with a tour of Cranbrook House, located at 380 Lone Pine Road, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304. Parking is available onsite at Cranbrook House & Gardens and in the Art Museum Parking lot. Click here for a map.
Guests can drive their own vehicles to Cranbrook Art Museum (about five minutes/one mile). From Cranbrook House, take Lone Pine Road west to Academy Way (first stop sign), turn right to head north on Academy Way, turn right at the next stop sign onto Institute Way, turn right towards Cranbrook Art Museum and left into their parking lot.
Additional Information
Contact us at 248.645.3149 or houseandgardens@cranbrook.edu with any questions or concerns.
*Please let us know if you would like to attend the workshop but can't make the tour. A Cranbrook House tour voucher will be provided when you check in at Cranbrook Art Museum with advance notice.