A new event is planned next month at the Chisholm Trail Museum in Kingfisher.

It will host the first Community Art Day on Saturday, May 4.

The event will be from 10 a.m. to noon.

Curators from the Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art will provide hands-on art fun by bringing a little bit of their museum to Kingfisher.

Participants will create a metal cartouche (an ancient Egyptian nameplate) and learn how to write their names in Egyptian hieroglyphics.  

The Mabee-Gerrer staff also will bring Egyptian artifacts for visitors to touch. All materials will be provided and the activity is free while supplies last.

 Founded in 1919, the Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art is one of the oldest museums in Oklahoma.

Father Gregory Gerrer, for whom the museum is named, was a Benedictine monk of considerable artistic talent. During Father Gerrer’s travels to Europe, Africa and South America, he collected objects of artistic and ethnological value.

The Chisholm Trail Museum is located at 605 Zellers Ave. in Kingfisher.

The museum’s regular hours of operation are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.