Day Trips Sponsored by McLean Project for the Arts

“Private Pleasures: Collecting Contemporary Textile Art”
The Textile Museum
Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2008

“Private Pleasures” highlights the role collecting plays in shaping art history as a discipline. Featuring contemporary textile art drawn from private collections in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, the exhibition explores both the individual preferences of the collectors and presents the textiles as outstanding examples of the art form. Tour is limited to 30 participants.

6003.380 • $70 per person/$60 McLean district residents, which includes transportation, entrance fee, tour and lunch. Arrive at 9:15 a.m. Tour returns at 3 p.m. Please make checks payable to McLean Community Center.

“In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet”
National Gallery of Art
Thursday, March 13, 2008

Nearly 120 paintings, pastels and photographs reveal the pivotal role of the forest of Fontainebleau in the development of 19th century naturalistic landscape painting and photography. Tracing the evolution of landscape painting, the exhibition spotlights the work of artists Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Theodore Rousseau and Claude Monet, whose experience in Fontainebleau inspired Impressionism.

You will have time to view the exhibition, and afterwards you are on your own to visit the museum shops and dine in one of the museum’s cafés. Tour is limited to 30 participants.

6001.380 • $35 per person/$25 McLean district residents, which includes transportation. Arrive at 9:30 a.m. Tour returns at 2:30 p.m. Please make checks payable to McLean Community Center.