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Leepa-Rattner participating in Museum Day

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By Mark  Schantz | The Suncoast News

Published: September 19, 2009

TARPON SPRINGS - A day of free admission to Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art and a plethora of events will highlight the local observance of Smithsonian magazine's fifth annual Museum Day.

Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, on the Tarpon Springs Campus of St. Petersburg College, will be one of about 1,000 museums around the country participating in the day of culture, learning and knowledge Saturday, Sept. 26.

A guided tour of the museum's many galleries is scheduled at 2 p.m. It will include a glimpse at special exhibitions such as "Arnold Newman's One World-One People" and "Angelo Mantas Epitaphs-Roadside Memorials in America."

At 1 and 3 p.m. docents will present spotlight tours centering on the late-career works of expressionist painter Abraham Rattner. The museum is named for Rattner and his step-son, painter and art professor Allen Leepa, who died in June.

The event will also include screenings of two documentaries: "Riches, Rivals and Radicals: 100 Years of Museums in America" along with the Smithsonian Channel's "Soul of a People, Legacy of the Federal Writers Project."

Leepa-Rattner Museum is on the SPC Tarpon Springs Campus, 600 Klosterman Road.

Mark Schantz can be reached at 727-815-1075 or mschantz@suncoastnews.com.

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