Press Release/for immediate release

From:  Barbara J. Beitel

Telephone: (609) 465-3963

Washington D.C. Bus Trip Scheduled by Access to Art, Inc.

for March 5^th  Visiting the Library of Congress, the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, The House & Senate, and the National Archives

Cape May Court House.  Put March 5^th on your social calendar and join Access to Art as they visit Washington D.C. for a day in the city including a tour of the Library of Congress, with a special exhibit with curator, Beverly Brannon, on 30’s artists and photographers, whom Access had shows for in its early days,  a tour of the House & Senate, and a visit to the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden or the Air and Space Museum.  Lunch will be in Georgetown on your own (although the bus will take you there.)  We are considering visiting the National Archives where they have all the original documents of war treaties, letters written by Presidents in their own handwriting,

the original Declaration of Independence and the Constitution documents, etc., the end of World War II, etc.

“Washington is a fascinating city, with so much of our nation’s history stored in both the Library of Congress, and National Archives, and wonderful modern art at the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden which features a huge mobile by Calder among its many jewels.”  Barbara Beitel, director of Access to Art, said.

We are looking for restaurants in Georgetown to have lunch at some of their marvelous ethnic restaurants. Lunch will be on your own, although we will take you to the area with the restaurants.” She said.

 Beverly Brannan, the Curator of the Library of Congress Photo/Print Division is putting together a small exhibit of the artists that we had down here from the 30’s and 40’s, Louise Rosskam, Bernarda Bryson Shahn, Esther Bubbley, Sol Libsohn.  They were part of the Standard Oil, N.J. photo project done in the l940’s as a public relations effort for Standard Oil, which chronicled the use of oil in America.  Bernarda worked in the graphics department of the WPA.  Louise Rosskam, photographer, whose husband Edwin, was the file editor for the Farm Security Administration has works there from Puerto Rico and from the U.S.  Ed Rosskam hired the eight photographers who took the black and white photos of the Great Depression, now icons of American photography.  John Ford did his movie, “Grapes of Wrath,” from their files of photographs.

The bus will leave at 7 a.m. from the Acme parking lot in Cape May Court House on Dennisville & Magnolia Rd.

Access to Art is raising money to present Philadanco! on May l7th at the Middle Township Performing Arts Center at 7:30 p.m.  Tickets are on sale for that event at the Middle Township PAC currently. The bus trip supports Philadanco’s coming to our region, an event that costs about $35,000 to bring to the area.”  said Barbara Beitel,

Access to Art, Director. 

The trip costs $75. per person and includes a continental breakfast on the bus,”  Beitel said.  Call (609) 465-3963 to reserve your seats on the bus.  Access to Art, Inc. is a N.J. not for profit that presents the visual and performing arts in Cape May County.  They will return home from Washington about 5 p.m. and probably be in Cape May Court House about 9-9:30 p.m. depending upon traffic.  Send checks to Access to Art, Inc., 4l7 E. Pacific Ave., Cape May Court House, N.J. 08210.  Reserve early.

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