Visit us at the Hower House Museum
Tours
Events
Monday May 6, 2024 @ 6:30PM - Free For Members / $8
Museum Musings Book Club featuring Mary Little Quine
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.
Saturday May 11, 2024 during tours
Complimentary Admission for Mothers!
Join us in celebrating Mothers on Saturday May 11th!
As our way of saying thank you for all you do, Hower House Museum will be offering complimentary tours to Mothers. (Accompanying family members pay regular admission.)
All tours are self-guided.
Tours start at 12PM and the last tour starts at 2PM.
Please call 330.972.6909 for questions or if you would like to RSVP.
Sunday May 19, 2024 @ 10:00 AM - Free For Members
Gadabout - Garfield Memorial & Cleveland Asian Festival
- Carpool from HHM at 10:00AM
- Arrive at Lakeview Cemetery at 11:00 to visit the James A. Garfield Memorial
- After visiting the cemetery we will make our way to the Cleveland Asian Festival.
- Admission is free. Food trucks and vendors will be on site, which participants can patronize at their own discretion.
Call 330.972.6909 to RSVP so we can let the sites we are visiting how many people will be with our group and plan ahead for carpooling.
Friday June 7, 2024 @ 3:30 PM - Free For Members
Gadabout - Cuckoo ‘50s in Sugarcreek
- Carpool from HHM at 3:30
- World’s Largest Cuckoo Clock
- Dutch Valley Restaurant $15-25
- The Fabulous 50s Fling Festival & car show
Saturday June 8, 2024- During Tours
Worldwide Knit In Public Day
Sunday June 9, 2024 @ 2:00 PM
Hower House Museum Guild Annual Meeting
Old Fashion Ice Cream Social
Featuring Author Renee Casteel Cook
- ** This event is open to current HHM Guild Members. RSVPs will open on May 1st to volunteers 30+ hours in 2023 and to the rest of the Guild on May 7th.**
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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.