A Special Invitation

 One of the perks of the  senior classes that I take at Texas Christian University is that we can also sign up for special interest groups. I joined The Art of Fort Worth and today we were once again invited to  the MorningStar Oil and Gas building downtown to view Joy Webster's 19th Century Nativity Scene. It not only depicts the usual manger scene...but a whole village of figurines dressed as they would have been in the Renaissance era  of an Italian Village.

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Ms. Webster has been collecting these from Naples Italy for the last five years

They filled a very large table in the lobby

It was amazing to me the detail.

These are just a few of the vignettes.

You get the idea

 Everything of course was made by hand,

including the baked goods.

 They even had a town drunk (with the red sash on).

You had to walk around several times as not to miss all of the little details

I especially enjoyed the expressive faces.

The Nativity scenes and the whole lobby full of precious art, restored vintage cars and even full size dinosaur skeletons is not open to the public...which seems to make the invite that much more special.