UW Art Museum to Celebrate Summer Solstice June 20

The University of Wyoming Art Museum will host its annual summer solstice celebration Thursday, June 20, from 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

The free family-friendly event will celebrate the longest day of the year and the official beginning of summer.

The summer solstice celebration will feature several “sun-focused” community art-making opportunities, including a walk-in camera obscura, kaleidoscope making and solar telescope viewing. The UW Wellness Center will provide a smoothie bike that visitors can pedal to blend their own smoothies. Dairy and nondairy options will be available.

At noon, visitors can witness a unique architectural feature in which a beam of sunlight will shine through a solar tube in the ceiling of the museum’s Rotunda Gallery and will illuminate a silver dollar that is set into the center of the floor.

For more information about the event, call Will Bowling, education and public programs coordinator at the UW Art Museum, at (307) 766-3496 or email wbowling@uwyo.edu.

About the University of Wyoming Art Museum

The UW Art Museum exhibits, preserves and interprets visual culture from around the world to engage academic, local, state, national and global communities. The museum is located in the Centennial Complex at 2111 E. Willett Drive in Laramie. Hours are Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission is free.

For more information, call (307) 766-6622; visit the website at www.uwyo.edu/artmuseum; or follow the museum on Facebook and Instagram.