Event Name:
Join the Fun During ?Happy Trees, Happy Hour? at Vesterheim Museum
Description
Raise a glass to everyone’s favorite TV painter Bob Ross at “Happy Trees, Happy Hour” from 5:00-8:00 p.m. on April 5 at Vesterheim, the National Norwegian-American Museum and Heritage Center. There will be inspiring artwork, beer, wine, and snacks. Everyone is welcome to this free event.
 
Event Date:
04-05-19
Event Time:
5:00 - 8:00 PM
Location:
Vesterheim Museum
502 W Water Street
Decorah, IA 52101
Contact Person:

Details:
Come dressed as a favorite artist (doesn’t have to be Bob) and enter a costume contest to win a Bob Ross Chia Pet. The winner will be announced at 7:00 p.m.
           
“While you’re there, enjoy some coloring with friends or try your hand at making some happy little trees and gentle streams on refrigerator magnets,” Zach Row-Heyveld, Vesterheim Exhibitions Manager, said.
           
This event is in connection with the exhibit, “Christian Midjo: Choose Your Own Artventure,” open at Vesterheim through April 21, 2019, and sponsored by Greg and Karen Bruening.
           
Bob Ross was the creator and host of “The Joy of Painting,” an instructional television program that aired from 1983 to 1994 on PBS. A fun fact is that one of Bob Ross’s instructors is represented in Vesterheim’s collection. Thorn Nordheim emigrated from Norway to the U.S. in 1925. He spent most of his life teaching methods of painting and setting up schools for amateur artists. He taught in New York City, California, and then in Missouri where Bob Ross was a student.