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Museum Gift Shop
New shipment of Peace Hats! Great colors and more languages, just $15 each! Our museum store carries three lines of peacecrafts created by groups providing fair wages, training, and marketing assistance to artisans in need at home and abroad. One section is affordable small souvenirs with educational value for children. Popular items are costume dolls, bookmarks for $1, hackey sack keychains for $3.50 made by a Guatemalan cooperative, Jacob's Ladder American folk toy for $6, butterfly or dragon lanterns for $4. We also carry a small selection of special books, handmade journals and wallets, butterfly and drumming jewelry, suitable for Christmas and birthday gifts. This section includes resources teachers may want to supplement curriculum units, including an Appalachian "limberjack", small instruments, etc. We also offer a limited selection of collector's folkcrafts and paintings, one of a kind pieces at suitable prices. Here we include Oaxaca carved and painted collector's animals, porcelain costume days in tribal costumes, folkart painted chairs for child or adult, and so on. Frank Wallace Musician and Composer Frank Wallace of Antrim has been named one of six Art Fellows by NH State Council on the Arts, for his artistic excellence and professional commitment. The six will receive $5,000 grants and were chosen from eighty nominees by a panel of peers. Wallace, an Antrim resident, performs solo or with soprano Nancy Knowles as Duo Live Oak. The pair make frequent appearances at Mariposa Museum & World Culture Center, including an annual recital which Wallace organizes for his guitar students and regular performances by Halcyon, women's a capella choir with international repertoire directed by Knowles. A true Renaissance man, the versatile Wallace both sings and plays medieval, renaissance, modern and his own original compositions on guitar, lute or vihuela da mano. He speaks of America's most popular instruments: "The guitar pervades our culture. It is itself an icon. But that icon can cause prejudices in the classical realm and limit expression and education in the popular realm," explains Wallace. "After two decades of performing works from several different centuries I have now begun to compile a large list of my own compositional contributions, hoping to break the mold of the typical classical guitar and expand the horizons of young students." This is Wallace's second Fellowship from the State Arts Council. Some dozen CD's by Wallace and Knowles are available at the Museum Gift Shop (no admission fee) at Mariposa Museum, open daily 12-5pm, along with demo CD's so that you can listen before you buy! More information is available at www.mariposamuseum.org, while information on booking performances and buying CD's by mail can be found on Wallace and Knowles' own website, DuoLiveOak.com Please congratulate Frank when you see him - and if he is still taking guitar students, sign up fast! other cultures, the world will know more peace and less war. 
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