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For Immediate Release
Price Tower Arts Center Hosts Free Sunday Social
BARTLESVILLE, OK—The public is invited to a Free Sunday Social at Price Tower Arts Center for its current exhibition, William Schickel: Spirit Made Manifest. The social, on December 19th, will include free admission to the gallery and refreshments for guests.
 William Schickel: Spirit Made Manifest includes photographs and architectural drawings of several of his major architectural projects, including the transformation of an 1813 dairy barn into an inspiring worship space and oratory at Grailville, a Catholic community of laywomen in Loveland, Ohio. He also renovated Abbey of Gethsemani, Bardstown, Kentucky, working with the famed writer and monk Thomas Merton on the design. Schickel was also prolific in creating independent works, and the exhibition features paintings and stained glass from each period of his career.
The Free Sunday event will include a special hands-on craft project for children. Families can work together on creating Paper Plate Snow People. The exhibition traces the work and life of the artist from his student days at Notre Dame through his death in 2009.
“We are very pleased to share this exhibition with our community. It highlights a lifetime of work from a Midwestern artist,” said Debra Woodall, marketing manager for Price Tower Arts Center. “We really believe people will be impressed by the beauty and diversity of William Schickel’s work.”
William Schickel: Spirit Made Manifest is made possible through the support of ConocoPhillips, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Oklahoma Arts Council. The exhibition was organized through Katharine T. Carter and Associates, in conjunction with the William Schickel Gallery.
Price Tower Arts Center will be open from noon to 5 p.m. for the event. The craft activity will begin at 1 p.m. For more information about PTAC or the exhibition, call 918.336.4949 or visit pricetower.org.
Photo Credit: William Schickel, Radiation, ca 1970 Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy William Schickel Gallery.
About Price Tower
The landmark destination for art, architecture and design, Price Tower Arts Center, a 501(c) 3 nonprofit, provides local, regional and global audiences with the experience of great art, architecture and design in an arts complex whose centerpiece is Frank Lloyd Wright's only skyscraper, the Price Tower.
This National Historic Landmark building, completed in 1956, contains a museum with permanent and changing exhibition galleries; original and restored historic Wright interiors (available by tour); and The Wright Place museum store.
Visitors may also experience Wright's masterpiece as guests of Inn at Price Tower, a high-design hotel that the Arts Center has created within Wright's skyscraper, along with the Inn's eclectic Copper Bar.
Historic tours are available with advanced reservations. Admission is $10 adults, $8 seniors (65+), $5 students and children 16 and under and includes admission to the museum exhibitions (tax not included as may be applicable). For more information, the public may call 918.336.4949 or visit the web site at www.pricetower.org.
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