Guild Spring Luncheon

April 12 & 13, 2012

The Museum Guild

Annual Dues: $20

The Guild generously gives their time and talent throughout the year.  Most of all, we have fun planning activities that benefit the Museum and the community!  If you aren't already a Member, won't you consider joining? We need YOU to make our events fun and successful.

History of the Evansville Museum Guild

On January 9, 1962, the Evansville Museum Guild, then known as the Evansville Museum Women's Association, held its first meeting, electing Ona Dieckman as president. Association membership for that first year was sixty women. The founding officers of the Guild Board included: Ona Dieckman, Lula Welborn, Marjorie Donovan, Martha Combs deJong , Martha Ingle and Buelah Schoonmaker.

The Museum Guild By-Laws state that the organization "strives to stimulate interest and participation in the activities of the museum; to provide volunteer workers to aid the museum in its activities; and to provide formal, organized activities and planned projects for the benefit of the museum."

Over the past four decades, the Museum Guild's many successful projects - including the Angel Tea, Mistletoe Mart, the annual River Dance, the Antiques Show, and Spring Luncheons - have generated over $750,000 for the Evansville Museum's operating budget. Annual projects of the Museum Guild include the  High School Art Show and the Spring Luncheon. The High School Art Show has benefited literally thousands of young artists enrolled in eighteen public, private, and parochial high schools in a five county area.

Annually, the Guild supports not only the Museum's general operating fund, but also donates the top award in the "Mid-States Exhibition," a six state regional fine arts and crafts competition. The Guild has underwritten continuing education for the Evansville Museum Docent Association by sponsoring a trip to the annual national Docent Symposium for one of the docents and the Museum's Curator of Education. In the past forty-three years, changing art, history, and science exhibitions too numerous to mention have been made possible by Guild support.