Denmark Arts Center celebrates Memorial Day weekend with the Town of Denmark. Join us for a JUNE BUG SHOW. Naturalist Leigh MacMillen Hayes will explain insect body parts with models and then you can create your own with Bug Building. If that doesn’t tickle your fancy we will also be Ladybug Rock Painting throughout the event. The JUNE BUG SHOW family fun event is free to the public and will be from 11:00am to 2:00pm.
The purpose of the art exhibition is to recognize the art and artistry of bugs. It has long been recognized and documented that insects are the most diverse group of organisms, meaning that the numbers of species of insects are more than any other group. In the world, some 900 thousand different kinds of living insects are known.
Butterflies have long inspired humans with their life cycle, color, and ornate patterns. The novelist Vladimir Nabokov was also a renowned butterfly expert. He published and illustrated many butterfly species, stating: “I discovered in nature the nonutilitarian delights that I sought in art. Both were a form of magic, both were games of intricate enchantment and deception.”
Denmark Arts Center celebrates Memorial Day weekend with the Town of Denmark. Join us for a JUNE BUG SHOW. Naturalist Leigh MacMillen Hayes will explain insect body parts with models and then you can create your own with Bug Building. If that doesn’t tickle your fancy we will also be Ladybug Rock Painting throughout the event. The JUNE BUG SHOW family fun event is free to the public and will be from 11:00am to 2:00pm.
The purpose of the art exhibition is to recognize the art and artistry of bugs. It has long been recognized and documented that insects are the most diverse group of organisms, meaning that the numbers of species of insects are more than any other group. In the world, some 900 thousand different kinds of living insects are known.
Butterflies have long inspired humans with their life cycle, color, and ornate patterns. The novelist Vladimir Nabokov was also a renowned butterfly expert. He published and illustrated many butterfly species, stating:
“I discovered in nature the nonutilitarian delights that I sought in art. Both were a form of magic, both were games of intricate enchantment and deception.”
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