HomeMy WebLinkAbout8.3 SpringExh@HeritagePark&Museums AGENDA STATEMENT
DCITY OF HERITAGE AND CULTURAL ARTS COMMISSION
UBLIN MEETING DATE: March 14, 2013
SUBJECT: Spring Exhibit at Heritage Park and Museums
Prepared by Elizabeth Isles, Heritage Park and Museums Director
ATTACHMENTS: None
RECOMMENDATION: Receive report
FINANCIAL STATEMENT: None
DESCRIPTION: Each year the City of Dublin hosts one Spring Exhibit at the Heritage
Park and Museums. The exhibits presented from 2001 until 2008, have addressed a broad range of
historical and cultural subjects. In 2008, the exhibits began to focus on local history so that information
about local families and local issues could be documented and displayed. Prior exhibits have included:
2001 The Rancher's Wife (on loan from the Museum of the San Ramon Valley)
2002 Local Women Artists (Curated by Joe Sibilia)
2003 Day of the Dead (Curated by Elizabeth Isles and Joe Sibilia)
2004 Cultural Fragments; Growing Up Chinese American in Dublin (Curated by Amy Lam)
2005 Gold Fever (rented from the California Exhibition Resource Association)
2006 The Story of Harness Racing (Harness Racing Hall of Fame)
2007 Recovered Views; African America Portraits 1912-1925 (National Endowment for the Humanities)
2008 Farm Life (National Endowment for the Humanities)
2009 John Green; Dublin Pioneer (Curated by Mike Lynch- Green family descendant)
2010 Minnie Martin; Dublin's Darling (Curated by Elizabeth Isles)
2011 From Darryshannoge to Dublin;the story of the Donlon Family (Curated by Elizabeth Isles)
2012 We Can Build, We Can Fight: U.S. Navy Seabees WWII Dublin (Curated by Maggie Stockel)
Core Idea/Curatorial Intent
This spring, the City of Dublin will present "Suburbia: Dublin...Ranch Town to Ranch House,"celebrating
the changes that took place locally, from 1961 — 1966, as the first housing developments introduced
modernism to Dublin.
Fifty years ago Dublin was a ranching community with a population of less than 1,000. Early in 1960,
Volk-McLain Communities, Inc., a residential development company, purchased more than 4,000 acres
of open land for the first segment in phase II of San Ramon Village. Opening in early 1961, Unit 5
contained 234 homes and offered three and four bedroom homes. Unit 5 is the area bordered by 1-680
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on the west, Amador Valley Blvd on the south, Village Parkway on the east, and Tamarack Drive on the
north. Although many of Volk-McClain's subdivisions used recycled home plans, the elevations on the
Suburban and the Palm Springs were unique to the homes east of 1-680.
The "Suburbia"exhibit will feature advertising materials for the subdivisions of San Ramon Village,
Silvergate, Ecco Park and Redwing Valley; and present evocative images by renowned photographer Bill
Owens, depicting Dublin's modern pioneers at home.
The exhibit will open on April 14, 2013, in the "Little Classroom" at the Dublin Heritage Park and
Museums. Concurrently, there will be refreshments in Old St. Raymond Church.
The exhibit will be open during regular museum hours and run through June 30, 2013.
RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends the Heritage and Cultural Arts Commission receive the
report.
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