{"id":3285,"date":"2013-04-26T10:53:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T15:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/?p=3285"},"modified":"2014-12-02T14:09:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T20:09:00","slug":"free-museum-admission-on-may-2-celebrate-barbara-brown-lee-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/2013\/04\/free-museum-admission-on-may-2-celebrate-barbara-brown-lee-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Museum Admission on May 2; Celebrate Barbara Brown Lee Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Target Free First Thursday is May 2<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Celebrate 50 years of Barbara Brown Lee<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Milwaukee, Wis.<\/strong> \u2013 The Milwaukee Art Museum\u2019s next monthly Target Free First Thursday is set for Thursday, May 2, 2013. Admission is free for all individuals, and it is officially \u201c<a title=\"Barbara Brown Lee homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/mam.org\/celebrating-125-years-of-art\/barbara-brown-lee.php\" target=\"_blank\">Barbara Brown Lee Day<\/a>\u201d at the Museum, to celebrate an extraordinary career of an extraordinary lady.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to be able to offer this opportunity to our visitors,\u201d said Museum director Daniel Keegan. \u201cOn Target Free First Thursdays, the Museum is buzzing with excitement and activity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On May 2, the Museum also celebrates Chief Educator Barbara Brown Lee, who retired in 2013 after a fifty year career at the Museum. <a title=\"Milwaukee Art Museum calendar\" href=\"http:\/\/mam.org\/calendar\/events\/index.php?eID=4448\" target=\"_blank\">Activities <\/a>for \u201cBarbara Brown Lee Day\u201d begin at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Museum Members are also encouraged to stay for the Annual Meeting, which begins at 6:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Target Free First Thursdays provides all Museum visitors with free admission on the first Thursday of each month. The Museum is open Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Future Target Free First Thursday dates include June 6, July 4, and August 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Target, our local grants are making a difference in the communities we serve,\u201d said Laysha Ward, president, community relations, Target. \u201cWe\u2019re proud to partner with the Milwaukee Art Museum as part of our ongoing commitment to give back to the communities where our guests and team members live and work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE MUSEUM<\/strong><br \/>\nCelebrating its 125th anniversary in 2013, the Milwaukee Art Museum houses a rich collection of over 30,000 works, with strengths in 19th- and 20th-century American and European art, contemporary art, American decorative arts, and folk and self-taught art. The Museum campus is located on the shores of Lake Michigan and spans three buildings, including the Santiago Calatrava-designed Quadracci Pavilion and the Eero Saarinen-designed Milwaukee County War Memorial Center. For more information, please visit www.mam.org.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT TARGET<\/strong><br \/>\nMinneapolis-based Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT) serves guests at 1,740 stores in 49 states nationwide and at Target.com. Target is committed to providing a fun and convenient shopping experience with access to unique and highly differentiated products at affordable prices. Since 1946, the corporation has given 5 percent of its income through community grants and programs like Take Charge of Education. Today, that giving equals more than $3 million a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Target Free First Thursday is May 2 Celebrate 50 years of Barbara Brown Lee Milwaukee, Wis. \u2013 The Milwaukee Art Museum\u2019s next monthly Target Free First Thursday is set for Thursday, May 2, 2013. Admission is free for all individuals, and it is officially \u201cBarbara Brown Lee Day\u201d at the Museum, to celebrate an extraordinary <a href=\"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/2013\/04\/free-museum-admission-on-may-2-celebrate-barbara-brown-lee-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Free Museum Admission on May 2; Celebrate Barbara Brown Lee Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3285"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3684,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285\/revisions\/3684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}