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Museum of Art sets Holiday Open House for Sunday, Dec. 6

November 29, 2009 @ 01:33 PM

HUNTINGTON — The Huntington Museum of Art offers its annual gift to the community with Holiday Open House from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6. Admission is free, but visitors are encouraged to bring cans of food to benefit the Huntington Area Food Bank.

Holiday Open House features Art on a Limb exhibit of trees with ornaments designed by local artists, a visit from Santa, children’s art activities, entertainment, and refreshments.

Here is the entertainment schedule: Tri-State Youth Orchestra performs at 1 p.m.; Sixteenth Street Baptist Choir performs at 1:30 p.m.; Cabell Midland Collegium Musicum performs at 2 p.m.; Santa Claus arrives at 2 p.m.; Excerpts from “The Nutcracker” by Huntington Dance Theatre will be presented at 2:30 p.m.; B’Nai Sholom Choir performs at 3 p.m.; and Cabell Midland Choir: Rhythm in Red performs at 3:30 p.m.

Children’s art activities will be presented in the Education Gallery.

 The Huntington Council of Garden Clubs decorated the holiday tree in HMA’s Virginia Van Zandt Hallway. Several local artists created ornaments to decorate other trees throughout HMA as part of the exhibit Art on a Limb. HMA’s volunteers are in charge of refreshments.

For more information, visit www.hmoa.org or call 304- 529-2701. HMA is fully accessible.