Summer Youth Classes Art Exhibition (Wed, Oct 15)
Worcester Art Museum, Higgins Education Wing, 55 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA
Featuring creations from he students who participated in WAMs summer classes, this exhibition shows creativity and spontaneity. Discover our young students' talents in drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and more in this colorful and varied showing of student work. Cost: Free. Through Friday, Oct 17.

Sepia Memories: Nineteenth-Century Photographs (Wed, Oct 15)
Worcester Art Museum, 55 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA
Since we are all surrounded constantly by photographic images, early photographs are facinating. The subjects’ relationships to the camera are so well known to us. Glimpses of a schooner’s deck, a busy street in Canton, and the deserted commons of New England towns reveal worlds long vanished. Some of the earliest photographic landscapes of the Egyptian desert and the jungles of India hang near views of Boston, New York, and Paris. On view are images from the American Civil War, the first conflict to be extensively documented in photographs. Authors were among the celebrities of the era, and the show will include portraits of Walt Whitman and Dorthea Dix. This installation from the Worcester Art Museum collection, created from about 1840 to 1900, transports visitors to times gone by and exotic places. The exhibition includes many of the earliest photographic media, from daguerreotypes and paper prints from calotype negatives, to albumen prints from wet collodion negatives, the photographs that give these images their distinctive sepia hue. Cost: Free with Museum admission. Sundays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, through Nov 30.

Dinner Madness (Wed, Oct 15)
5:30 PM-10:00 PM, 7 Hills Gourmet Bistro at the Crowne Plaza, 10 Lincoln Sq, Worcester, MA
Your Choice of Prime Rib, Baked Stuffed Shrimp, Baked Scrod, Surf & Turf, or Chicken Oscar. All dishes include our extensive salad, vegetable, and potato. Cost: $9.95 Wednesdays, Thursdays, through Dec 31.

The Driving Dilemma: Guidance for Older Drivers and Their Families (Wed, Oct 15)
6:00 PM-7:30 PM, Assumption College: La Maison Francaise, 500 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA
Join us for a discussion with Elizabeth Dugan, Ph.D., about her book, Driving Dilemma: The Complete Resource Guide for Older Drivers and Their Families. Dr. Dugan is a gerontologist and noted researcher. She is on faculty at the Gerontology Institute and Gerontology Department of UMass Boston. She holds an M.A. in gerontology and Ph.D. in human development and family studies. Sponsored by: Colleges of Worcester Consortium, Gerontology Studies Program, Assumption College, Worcester Institute for Senior Education, Continuing Education, the AC Gerontology Club, . Cost: Free

004 Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh
Actor Sam Waterston narrates the story of the famous Egyptian queen Hatshepsut.

Joseph Farbrook: Nostalgia for Neverwas (Wed, Oct 15)
1:00 PM-4:00 PM, Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, Salon, 2 Southbridge St., Worcester, MA
Nostalgia For Neverwas is a mixture of old and new technologies and styles; it is a joining and a recombinant hybrid of a fictionalized past and an idealized future. Antiques spliced with modern technology, video portraits, moving image loops, projections, and virtual-space art installations are the latest works of digital artist, Joseph Farbrook. Joseph Farbrook is currently an assistant professor of Interactive Media and Game Development at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Cost: free Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, through Dec 3.

Steve Hanks
Bookends - to review a larger depiction of this image plus delved into enhanced advice in reference to this Steve Hanks artwork, click the artist label on top of the thumbnail. Also get purchasing, conservation framing methods and dimension hints for this museum print. Steve Hanks has many more outstanding images in addition to "Bookends", examine this artists framed and unframed wall art prints.

Quilt Stories: The Ella King Torrey Collection of African American Quilts and Other Recent Quilt Acquisitions
August 16, 2008 - February 2009: This exhibition includes thirteen examples by leading Southern quilt makers. The collection was formed between 1981 and 1983 while Ms. Torrey was conducting fieldwork on African American quilt-making with Maud Southwell Wahlman.

016 Poiret: King of Fashion
Curator Harold Koda explains Paul Poiret's significant contributions to the world of fashion. The video version includes a special animation feature.