Events

Museum Events are Free & Open to the Public

• SPARK! @ the Reece

  SPARK! Cultural Programming for People with Memory Loss
  1st Tuesday of Every Month

• SABR (Student Advisory Board-Reece) Student Club

  SABR (Student Advisory Board - Reece)

  1st Friday of Every Month 

  Are you and ETSU student and looking for a way to be more involved on campus? Join Student Advisory Board - Reece (SABR) today!

  SABR is the only museum-based student organization on campus. As a member, students will gain hands-on experience with museum artifacts and deepen their understanding of museum culture. Our mission is to foster connections between the ETSU student body and the Reece Museum by incorporating museum-related events across campus. SABR currently represents 6 majors, ranging from History to Early Childhood Education.

  Whether you're in a museum-related major or just passionate about museum culture, SABR welcomes you.

  For more information on how to get involved, contact SABR Chair: Margaret Johnson at johnsonmr6@etsu.edu

   Upcoming SABR Activities:

  Friday, September 4, 3:30-4:30 p.m. - B. Carroll Classroom, Reece Museum > Intro to Marketing Workshop 

  Friday, October 2, 3:30-4:30 p.m. - B. Carroll Classroom, Reece Museum > Acquisitions 101 Workshop 

  Friday, November 6, 3:30-4:30 p.m. - B. Carroll Classroom, Reece Museum > Intermediate Accessioning & Interpretation Workshop 

  Friday, December 4, 3:30-4:30 p.m. - B. Carroll Classroom, Reece Museum > Intro to Curatorial Studies Workshop 

• Spiritual Conversation Reception (Thursday, October 8)

  Spiritual Conversation Reception

  Thursday, October 8, 5 - 7 p.m.

  Please join us at the Reece Museum for the reception of Spiritual Conversation: Storytelling Through Art Quilts. Featuring the work of fiber artist Kristy Ottinger, this exhibition of narrative art quilts marries the practices of quilting and storytelling. Intricately designed textile wall hangings narrate themes in spirituality and illustrate how stories are handed down from one generation to the next. Ottinger’s visionary fiber works showcase meticulous sewing skill and an imaginative incorporation of found objects. This event is free and open to the public. Come meet the artist and enjoy provided refreshments. 

  About the artist:

  Ottinger dabbled in other art forms throughout her formal art education, and earned a Master of Fine Arts in painting from East Tennessee State University. In 1994, Ottinger received a scholarship to Burren College of Art in Ireland, where she developed an appreciation for quilting that led to a fiber art practice. Today, she is best known for her narrative art quilts, notable for their embellishments of found objects, embroidery, paint, and sometimes writing.

• Frontiers of Song: Amzi Chapin’s Journey to the Ohio River Valley (Thursday, October 15)

  Frontiers of Song

  Amzi Chapin’s Journey to the Ohio River Valley

  Thursday, October 15, 5 - 7 p.m.

  Please join us at the Reece Museum on Thursday, October 15 from 5 to 7 p.m. for an evening of history and performance presented by Dr. Loren Ludwig. Frontiers of Song: Amzi Chapin’s Journey to the Ohio River Valley explores the travel chronicles of Amzi Chapin (1768-1835), a composer, instrument maker, and singing schoolteacher whose diary documented his Frontier Era travels between his family home in Massachusetts and the Ohio Valley. Frontiers of Song explores how Chapin's New England music and instruments took root among the other European, African, and Indigenous musical traditions that would flow south from the Ohio River Valley to shape later styles like dance music for string bands and Shape Note singing in East Tennessee. The presentation will be enlivened by performances of music by Chapin and those he met on his travels, and will feature New England musical selections for viols, melodeon, and other instruments that traveled to the Frontier alongside a people in flux.

  About the presenter:
  Loren Ludwig is a musician and scholar specializing in the history and performance of early American music, with a particular focus on historical stringed instruments and their surprising life in colonial and early republic New England. He holds a PhD in Critical and Comparative Studies in Music from the University of Virginia and trained as a string player at Oberlin Conservatory and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. Ludwig is the founder and director of LeStrange Viols and Science Ficta, and a founding member of the Baroque ensemble ACRONYM, with whom he has recorded and performed widely. His research on New England viols and vernacular instrument-making has appeared in the Journal of the Viola da Gamba Society of America and EMAg, and he is currently completing a monograph on the subject. Loren currently teaches historical performance and musicology at Johns Hopkins University and the Peabody Institute, and coordinates programming for the Smithsonian's Music250 initiative, marking the nation's semiquincentennial.