Museum of American Finance Hosts "The Soirée: An Artists and Authors Reception"

Special guests will discuss their projects and sign copies of their works

• Press Release
• Source: Museum of American Finance
• On 1:22 pm EDT, Tuesday October 27, 2009

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On Tuesday, November 10, the Museum of American Finance will host “The Soirée,” a public reception to celebrate the completion of its Museum Shop. Many of the artists and authors whose works are featured in the Shop will be on hand to discuss their projects with guests individually and autograph copies of their works. The event will be held from 5:00 – 7:00 pm in the Museum’s exhibition hall at 48 Wall Street.

Participating artists include Johnny Swing (interior designer/sculptor), Mike Rollins (oil painter), Lori Savastano (oil painter), Ellen Fisch (photographer), Scott LaPerruque (still life photographer), Naima Rauam (watercolorist), Albert Crudo (multi-mediums) and Hedy Pegranmanski (painter/multi-mediums). Participating authors include Robert Gambee (Wall Street Financial Capital), Matthew Fink (The Rise of Mutual Funds), Dorothy Laager Miller (New York City in the Great Depression: Sheltering the Homeless), Ken Winans (Investment Atlas), and Joanne Medvecky and Barbara Rizek (The Financial District’s Lost Neighborhood).

This event is free and open to the public. Guests will receive a 20% discount on all items purchased during this event, as well as a 20% Shop purchase discount on their next visit with receipt. For additional information contact Museum Shop Manager Alan Hurley at 212-908-4613 or shop@moaf.org.

About the Museum of American Finance

The Museum of American Finance, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, is the nation’s only public museum dedicated to finance, entrepreneurship and the open market system. With its extensive collection of financial documents and objects, its seminars and educational programming, its publication and oral history program, the Museum portrays the breadth and richness of American financial and economic history. For more information, visit www.moaf.org. To contribute to the Museum’s Recessipedia wiki on the current financial crisis, please visit www.recessipedia.org.

Museum of American Finance
Kristin Aguilera, 212-908-4695
Communications Director
kaguilera@moaf.org
www.moaf.org