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			<title>TMA baby tours promote development of youngest visitors</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 18:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[The Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) is leading a new trend by offering museum tours to its youngest visitors. These fun and innovative tours for 2–18 month olds—developed by one of the world’s foremost experts on the impact of early art experiences on infants and toddlers—teach parents and caregivers how to engage babies’ with art, [...]]]></description>
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			<title>Museum Day Video Challenge Contest Announced</title>
			<link>http://www.toledomuseum.org/2013/05/20/museum-day-video-challenge-contest-announced/</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[The Toledo Museum of Art invites Museum patrons to help them celebrate International Museum Day with the Museum Day Video Challenge. Held each year on or around May 18, International Museum Day aims to raise awareness of the role museums play in the development of society. Thousands of museums participate worldwide. This year’s theme is [...]]]></description>
					<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Toledo Museum of Art invites Museum patrons to help them celebrate International Museum Day with the Museum Day Video Challenge. Held each year on or around May 18, International Museum Day aims to raise awareness of the role museums play in the development of society. Thousands of museums participate worldwide. This year’s theme is [...]]]></content:encoded>
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			<title>Artwork of the Week: May 17</title>
			<link>http://www.toledomuseum.org/2013/05/16/artwork-of-the-week-may-17/</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 13:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>peggymikkelsen</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[African American artist Art Smith made jewelry that was seemingly simple, but was often inspired by symbols of West African tribal jewelry. The solid half of this necklace actually replicates jewelry worn by the Asante court of Ghana. Smith’s creations are also unusually large due to his belief that the body should act as a [...]]]></description>
					<content:encoded><![CDATA[African American artist Art Smith made jewelry that was seemingly simple, but was often inspired by symbols of West African tribal jewelry. The solid half of this necklace actually replicates jewelry worn by the Asante court of Ghana. Smith’s creations are also unusually large due to his belief that the body should act as a [...]]]></content:encoded>
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			<title>Winners of 2013 Poetry Contest Announced</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 14:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>kellygarrow</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Twenty area writers were honored as winners in the Toledo Museum of Art 2013 Poetry Contest during a 7 p.m. ceremony Friday, May 10, in the Museum’s Great Gallery. Sponsored by The Blade, Kroger and Buckeye CableSystem, the contest attracted more than 300 submissions from adults and students who participated in a Docent-led tour between [...]]]></description>
					<content:encoded><![CDATA[Twenty area writers were honored as winners in the Toledo Museum of Art 2013 Poetry Contest during a 7 p.m. ceremony Friday, May 10, in the Museum’s Great Gallery. Sponsored by The Blade, Kroger and Buckeye CableSystem, the contest attracted more than 300 submissions from adults and students who participated in a Docent-led tour between [...]]]></content:encoded>
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			<title>Artwork of the Week: May 10</title>
			<link>http://www.toledomuseum.org/2013/05/09/artwork-of-the-week-may-10/</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 13:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>peggymikkelsen</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Happy Mother’s Day! A rare double portrait by Gainsborough, Hester, Countess of Sussex, and Her Daughter was painted in the fashionable, western England town of Bath. Here, we see the wife and daughter of Henry Yelverton, who became Earl of Sussex in 1758, placed by a tree. This portrait would have been painted when Barbara, [...]]]></description>
					<content:encoded><![CDATA[Happy Mother’s Day! A rare double portrait by Gainsborough, Hester, Countess of Sussex, and Her Daughter was painted in the fashionable, western England town of Bath. Here, we see the wife and daughter of Henry Yelverton, who became Earl of Sussex in 1758, placed by a tree. This portrait would have been painted when Barbara, [...]]]></content:encoded>
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			<title>Artwork of the Week: May 3</title>
			<link>http://www.toledomuseum.org/2013/05/02/artwork-of-the-week-may-3/</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 17:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>peggymikkelsen</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Henri Marie Joseph Bergé worked as a decorator at the Daum glass factory, where he had great influence on a floral and pastoral style that would emerge there. His interest in nature led him to design scientifically-accurate glass objects of plants and animals. Victor Amalric Walter’s exploration of the glass technique pâte-de-verre (casting objects in [...]]]></description>
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			<title>Artwork of the Week: April 26</title>
			<link>http://www.toledomuseum.org/2013/04/25/artwork-of-the-week-april-26-2/</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>peggymikkelsen</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Spring has sprung and the flowers are beginning to bloom outside, but here’s one tulip in particular that blossoms all year long.  Initially trained as a painter, Louis Comfort Tiffany turned to interior design and decorative arts, becoming a leading designer of fine glass that often expressed the Art Nouveau style, like this delicate pink [...]]]></description>
					<content:encoded><![CDATA[Spring has sprung and the flowers are beginning to bloom outside, but here’s one tulip in particular that blossoms all year long.  Initially trained as a painter, Louis Comfort Tiffany turned to interior design and decorative arts, becoming a leading designer of fine glass that often expressed the Art Nouveau style, like this delicate pink [...]]]></content:encoded>
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			<title>Artwork of the Week: April 19</title>
			<link>http://www.toledomuseum.org/2013/04/25/artwork-of-the-week-april-19/</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>peggymikkelsen</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[With this painting, the audience is confronted with a view of Venice that was not often painted: the great expanse of the lagoon and the cemetery island of San Michele in the right background. San Michele was not thought to accurately represent the city, since its size lacked grandeur or large, monumental buildings like the [...]]]></description>
					<content:encoded><![CDATA[With this painting, the audience is confronted with a view of Venice that was not often painted: the great expanse of the lagoon and the cemetery island of San Michele in the right background. San Michele was not thought to accurately represent the city, since its size lacked grandeur or large, monumental buildings like the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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			<title>Artwork of the Week: April 12</title>
			<link>http://www.toledomuseum.org/2013/04/25/artwork-of-the-week-april-12/</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>peggymikkelsen</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[With this work, we highlight Clement Meadmore as one of only a few Australian artists from the Museum’s permanent collection. Once an aeronautical engineer and industrial design student at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Meadmore briefly designed furniture before ultimately creating large sculptures. Displayed in the Museum’s new sculpture galleries, Maquette for Switchback  apparently [...]]]></description>
					<content:encoded><![CDATA[With this work, we highlight Clement Meadmore as one of only a few Australian artists from the Museum’s permanent collection. Once an aeronautical engineer and industrial design student at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Meadmore briefly designed furniture before ultimately creating large sculptures. Displayed in the Museum’s new sculpture galleries, Maquette for Switchback  apparently [...]]]></content:encoded>
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			<title>Artwork of the Week: April 5</title>
			<link>http://www.toledomuseum.org/2013/04/25/artwork-of-the-week-april-26/</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>peggymikkelsen</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[In honor of Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s birthday (April 5), we highlight his painting Blind-Man’s Buff.  It not only depicts youth in a light-hearted game of matchmaking, but also the playful deception of cheating, as often also seen in tricks played on April Fool’s Day. By peeking from beneath her blindfold, the girl in the painting would [...]]]></description>
					<content:encoded><![CDATA[In honor of Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s birthday (April 5), we highlight his painting Blind-Man’s Buff.  It not only depicts youth in a light-hearted game of matchmaking, but also the playful deception of cheating, as often also seen in tricks played on April Fool’s Day. By peeking from beneath her blindfold, the girl in the painting would [...]]]></content:encoded>
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