Alternative Activities
The Glazed Bisque-it
Do a fused glass project, by placing colored glass over contrasting color. They can be large or small and you can glue on a pin to make a brooch. You are limited only by your imagination! Complete instruction is available for first timers to the experienced. Some railroad templates will be available but you can choose any subject. The staff fires the glass project overnight and you can pick it up the next day. Use it to enter the “Mighty J” contest at the convention. Or you can try your hand at pottery, from plates to mugs, and from candle holders to ceramic picture frames and much, much more. Paint on the design of your choice with instructors helping at every turn if you so desire. Again, rail theme templates will be available but you can bring your own.
Click here to dowwnload a PDF flyer showing samples of what you can make.
Beeds Indeed
Try your hand at making a string of beads for a necklace or bracelet. Many Many colors and materials, both common and imported, are available and you can place your fused glass piece on it. Prices vary. Instructors are available.
O Winston Link Museum Tour
Escorted tour of the O. Winston Link Museum. Be sure to pick up your ticket from the Sales table in the exhibit room before heading across the street.
Taubman Museum of Art
Tour the new Taubman Museum of Art, an 81,000 square-foot Museum in downtown Roanoke. The new facility, designed by architect Randall Stout, is transforming western Virginia with an architectural achievement like no other. The facility houses state-of-the-art exhibition galleries, a stellar permanent collection. It provides an analog for the city's evolution from industrial and manufacturing town to technology-driven city. The building's forms and materials evoke both the drama of the surrounding mountainous landscape of the Shenandoah Valley and the lyrically gritty industrial-era building culture of the great early 20th century railroad boom, when Roanoke came to prominence as a switchpoint city of the new South.