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Santa with teddy bear and christmas tree nutcracker. View the profiles of professionals named arlene wagner on linkedin. Together, they amassed a large collection that in 1995 they turned into the museum, establishing it as a nonprofit. Nutcrackers getting modern makeover to fit any holiday. The museum was featured on the nbc program today in 2000. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. If we were going to make bets, id say that the sultan is. Collecting nutcrackers explore the nutcracker tradition. Arlene wagner says these openmouthed nutcrackers always make people laugh. The historic houses of odessa are celebrating the 200th anniversary of the nutcracker and the mouse king. Her name is arlene wagner and shes known globally as the nutcracker lady. Exhibits of photos from ballets russes, nutcrackers and st.

The oldest metal nutcracker known dates to the 3rd4th century b. Dressed in a traditional bavarian dirndl, arlene wagner greets visitors with a smile. Her facility will be profiled in an upcoming segment of cbs news sunday morning program. Getty imagestoday, rumors are swirling that arlene wagner, who opened the leavenworth nutcracker museum. Leavenworth nutcracker museum leavenworth, washington. The bestknown nutcrackers bring to life, through wood and paint, the colorful, fiercelooking, bearded soldiers from e.

Steinbach ladybug with flowers ornament daisy ornaments. Nutcrackers have been collected, handed down for decades. Arlene wagner, founder and curator of the leavenworth nutcracker museum, stands in one of her aisles in 2001. The leavenworth nutcracker museum was founded in 1995 by george and arlene wagner who donated their huge nutcracker collection and the building in which it is housed. Hoffmans 1816 story, the nutcracker and the mouse king, which. The war also played an important role in introducing americans to the german way of cracking nuts, according to arlene wagner, who curates the leavenworth nutcracker. Her name is arlene wagner, and for many years she was known as miss arlene, a nationally recognized dance teacher who instilled the love of dance in thousands of students. The nutcracker, by the numbers by cory matteson lincoln journal star. Sources connected to the production tell us wagner who opened the leavenworth nutcracker museum in washington back in 1995 with her husband. Probably the nutcracker ballet is the primary reason the nutcracker has continued to be popular, said arlene wagner, curator of the leavenworth nutcracker museum in leavenworth. What began as an innocent purchase during a production of the nutcracker ballet has blossomed into a worldrenowned collection almost 40 years in the making. Art and character of nutcrackers wagner, arlene, leavenworth nutcracker museum on.

The 22nd annual convention of the international nutcracker collectors club is coming to virginia. The museum became a nonprofit 501c3 foundation and others have donated nutcrackers, and now it contains over 7000 specimens, probably the worlds largest collection of nut. Arlene, 94, first started collecting nutcrackers with her late husband, george. The art and character of nutcrackers by arlene wagner. Arlene wagner also known as the nutcracker lady and her husband have amassed more than 5,000 pieces. It was while teaching the nutcracker ballet that she, like clara, became fascinated with these toothy characters. Beyond visions of sugarplum fairies and wooden men wi. Arlene wagner, the nutcracker lady from the nutcracker museum in leavenworth, washington, says that the bronze hands, as it was dubbed, was discovered in 1930 in a grave near taranto, italy. The art and character of nutcrackers book by arlene wagner.

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