Traveling Exhibits Available FALL 2011
Dinah Houghtaling
The Charles M. Schulz Museum Traveling Exhibition Program presents:
Exhibits Available for Fall 2011
I. Inside Peanuts: The Life and Art of Charles M. Schulz
II. Peanuts at Bat
III. To the Moon: Snoopy Soars with NASA
Inside Peanuts: The Life and Art of Charles M. Schulz
Last chance to book this exhibit! Only two venues remain:
11/1/2011 – 12/18/2011
1/20/2012 – 3/4/2012
The minimum booking is 6 weeks for $2500 +inbound shipping. Additional weeks can be booked at a pro-rated cost.
Overview:
For nearly fifty years, Charles Monroe Schulz entertained audiences from around the world with his Peanuts comic strip. With his endearing Peanuts characters, Schulz explored a broad range of emotions, from friendship and faith to tolerance and disappointment. Inside Peanuts: The Life and Art of Charles M. Schulz celebrates the cartoonist’s extraordinary life and describes his creative process and artistic focus.
This exhibition contains reproduction comic strips and preliminary sketches that follow the development of the characters who make up the unique world of Peanuts, quotes by Schulz explaining his art, and selected Peanuts collectibles from six decades. Tear sheets of comic strips by prominent cartoonists who influenced Schulz as a young artist reveal the contrast of Schulz’s drawing style to the elaborately illustrated cartoons popular during the early twentieth century. These elements create an experience for visitors that will illuminate the story behind the creation of one of the most popular and influential cartoon strips of all time.
The exhibit is sized for a 1500 square foot gallery and includes: 22 framed groups of high-res digital reproductions of original Peanuts strips, 65 three-dimensional objects, 6 digital reproduction prints of Charles M. Schulz’s office, 5 text panels, 12 Peanuts character panels, 4 graphic panels with labels, 3 wall labels, 7 object labels, and media CD
Peanuts at Bat
11/1/2011 – 12/18/2011
2/3/2012 – 3/18/2012
12/1/2012 – 1/13/2013
The minimum booking is 6 weeks for $2500 +inbound shipping. Additional weeks can be booked at a pro-rated cost.
Overview:
Every year for nearly fifty years during baseball season, Peanuts fans could expect a healthy number of strips portraying Charlie Brown and the Gang engaged in America’s favorite pastime. Based heavily on Charles Schulz’s childhood experiences with sandlot baseball, the stories of the Peanuts baseball team are in turn whimsical, thoughtful, hilarious, and full of pathos. The exhibition Peanuts at Bat takes a lighthearted look at Charles M. Schulz's love for the all-American sport and showcases the Peanuts Gang’s hapless pursuit of a winning baseball strategy.
The exhibition is sized for a 1000 square foot gallery and includes: 47 high-resolution reproductions of Peanuts strips, memorabilia, three text panels that include photographs of Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz, 26 object labels, four large-size baseball quotes by Charles Schulz, and one eight-foot-wide Peanuts strip mounted on Plexiglas.
To The Moon: Snoopy Soars with NASA
9/30/2011-1/1/2012
9/28/2012 – 12/23/2012
The booking is 12 weeks for $5,000 +inbound shipping.
Overview:
This exhibition examines the history of Apollo 10 and the Peanuts characters’ role in that flight and in the NASA Manned Flight Awareness safety program. It is difficult to imagine—although some remember it well—the excitement that the race for the moon invoked forty years ago. As the decade of the 1960s was coming to a close, America and the rest of the world waited with great anticipation to see if NASA could achieve President John F. Kennedy’s challenge, put forth in May 1961, of putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade. Consequently, it was a very great honor, indeed, when the crew of Apollo 10 chose to nickname their command and lunar modules Charlie Brown and Snoopy, respectively. The flight of Apollo 10 in May 1969 was the “dress rehearsal” for the lunar landing that was scheduled for July 1969. Astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan piloted “Snoopy” within 50,000 feet of the lunar surface as they scouted the landing area for Apollo 11 while John Young orbited the moon in the command module “Charlie Brown.”
Charles Schulz’s involvement with NASA actually started a year earlier than the 1969 flight of Apollo 10 when he was approached by NASA with a request to use Snoopy as their safety mascot. The Silver Snoopy Award program was instituted to improve the safety record of NASA employees and contractors. It proved to be a huge success with the astronauts and the employees. The Silver Snoopy pin is a much coveted award. Snoopy has been on the job for 40 plus years and continues to this day in his role as NASA’s safety mascot.
The exhibition is sized for a 1500-2000 square foot gallery and includes: 18 framed objects, 23 three-dimensional objects, 8 photographs, children’s interactive props, 15 text panels, 35 object labels, 2 DVD elements, media CD, and educational programming guide
**Please visit our website for a more comprehensive list of traveling exhibitions offered, available dates and specifications: http://www.schulzmuseum.org/exhibits-rentals.html
You may contact me directly at:
Dinah Houghtaling
Traveling Exhibits Manager
Charles M. Schulz Museum
2301 Hardies Lane
Santa Rosa, CA 95403