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SUMMARY:Design @ Dolley PRESENTS: MaryAnn Chung
DESCRIPTION:Design @ Dolley is launching a new partner program\, PRESENTS\, 
 which highlights a local artist who will share insights into their craft\, 
 followed by a hands-on workshop.\n\n \n\n \n\nThe Wonderful World of 
 Buttons\n\nJoin us as MaryAnn Chung educates us on the history of buttons 
 during National Button Week!\nFollowing the lecture\, Maryann will lead us 
 in 3 different crafts that involve those buttons that you have stashed away 
 for a rainy day. If you do not have buttons\, do not worry\, we will have 
 some spare just for you.\n\nParticipants are encouraged to bring their own 
 buttons/ storage containers if owned and blank picture frames.\n\n\nMaryAnn 
 Chung is a native of Wisconsin\, land of beautiful country\, cheese\, paper 
 and the Green Bay Packers!  Her first art lessons were from a professor 
 teaching art through a radio perched high on a shelf on the back wall of 
 Valley Brook School.   This one-room country schoolhouse was the setting 
 for more or less 30 students each year\, grades 1-8.  It closed its doors 
 for the last time in 1958.\n\nWisconsin to Virginia offered a path of rich 
 experiences in Arizona\, California\, Washington DC\, Maryland and 
 Tennessee.  MaryAnn earned education degrees in Arizona\, Washington DC and 
 Tennessee. She used all years of her education to serve the Fairfax County 
 Public Schools\, in a variety of capacities\, for 32  years.  Currently she 
 is a juried member of the Northern Virginia Handcrafter’s Guild and of 
 the National Button Society.  She participates in many of the local arts 
 and crafts shows and she also does commissioned assignments.\n\nIn 
 retirement while visiting in Wisconsin MaryAnn claimed her mother’s old 
 French Coffee tin which held the family buttons.  Her sister gave her 2 old 
 salters residing in the recesses of an old dish drawer.  She took them to 
 her brother’s kitchen table and it is there that miniature boxes were 
 born!  A few years later while passing through a small area in Canada\, she 
 saw a town sign for the area named Buttonville.  Instantly she knew she had 
 found the name for her studio.\n\nThe Buttonville Studio now includes a 
 greatly expanded button collection including several collector’s 
 collections of buttons from the 1800’s to vintage celluloids\, pearls\, 
 metals\, glass\, wood \, bone\, chinas\, stencils and much more.  The 
 salters include pressed and cut glass and crystal and some are signed.  
 There are a few Depression glass era salters but the majority date from the 
 late 1800’s – early 1900’s.  Each represents a bit of preserved 
 history once again serving in a functional form.\n\nTo learn more about the 
 vast nature of buttons\, please visit National Button Society | National 
 Button Society.\n\n \n\n\n\n
LOCATION:Dolley Madison Meeting Room 1\, Dolley Madison Meeting Room 2\, Dolley Madison Library
ORGANIZER;CN="Irene Girgente":MAILTO:irene.girgente@fairfaxcounty.gov
CATEGORIES:Make/Create > Arts & Crafts
CONTACT;CN="Irene Girgente":MAILTO:irene.girgente@fairfaxcounty.gov
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URL:https://librarycalendar.fairfaxcounty.gov/event/15714135
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