Visit us at the Hower House Museum
Tours
Events
Monday September 9, 2024 @ 6:30PM
Free For Members / $8
Museum Musings Book Club featuring Alan Costa – Shadows of Akron History
Call us to make your reservations: 330.972.6909 (Reservations are encouraged but not required.)
Free for HHM Guild members with current membership; $8 special price for our HHM friends! $2 for Students with proper ID
(If you decide to join the HHM Guild this evening, you will not have to pay the door charge)
Limited seating, light refreshments served; free onsite parking for guests.
Special Museum Musings Book Club Event
This is a ticketed event and RSVPs must be made.
Sunday October 13th, 2024 @ 2:30PM
Free For Current Members / $8
Mark Dawidziak – A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
Call us to make your reservations: 330.972.6909 (Reservations are required for this event.) Seating is limited to 40 guests.
Free for HHM Guild members with current membership; $8 for non members.
Limited seating, light refreshments served - coffee, tea, and deserts; free onsite parking for guests.
Exhibits
March 1, 2024 - September 19, 2024
Essential Luxuries of the Upper Class: Tea with the Howers
Tea was considered a luxury item yet necessary to entertain and maintain important social connections among the wealthy classes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
We will explore its implications through interpretation of documents, the Hower House Museum collection and its spaces, along with items on loan from the family.
The dates for our exhibit are March 1 through September 19.
May 3, 2024 - August 25, 2024
Ashley Hetherington’s Senior Portfolio Exhibition
“Earl Grey & Colored Clay:
A Collection of Whimsical Tea Sets”
Exhibit description
“Earl Grey & Colored Clay: A Collection of Whimsical Tea Sets” is Ashley’s senior portfolio exhibition. She chose tea sets as the vessel to showcase the skills she’s learned throughout her time at the Myers School of Art. In this body of work Ashley is exploring form, functionality, and decoration through utilizing color, flowing lines, and flowers. This exhibition displays porcelain tea sets that have pigment added into the dry clay body. While some sets do use glazing and underglazing instead of body stains, several of the sets are glazed a simple clear to show off the color embedded in the clay. Ashley primarily used the potter’s wheel to create her sets, as well as adding clay onto the surface to create her designs and to alter the form.
Ashley Hetherington is a senior Ceramics major at the Mary Schiller Myers School of Art at The University of Akron. She currently works as a ceramics instructor at Quirk Cultural Center in Cuyahoga Falls, OH, and intends to continue working there after graduation while selling her art.