Jim Rouse Visionary Center
Three Enchanting Floors
Space description
1st floor Visionary Village
2nd floor conference room
2nd floor conference room

jrvc + SCULPTURE BARN
Have your ceremony or cocktail hour in the Sculpture Barn and Wildflower Garden, followed by your reception in the JRVC Banquet Room.

1st floor
Host cocktails here for an additional fee, and have your ceremony on the 3rd floor Banquent Room or Sculpture Barn.
add-on/package
RATES
Space | Mon-Wed | Thu | Fri & Sun* | Sat |
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* The Sundays before Memorial Day and Labor Day are at the Saturday rate.

(1948– )
Paul Spooner
Paul Spooner was born in Lancashire, England, in 1948. He exhibited mechanical aptitude early on and by the age of 16 had constructed a clock and a steam engine from wood. He studied mechanical sculpture from 1966 to 1969 and in 1974 moved to Cornwall, where he made weaving looms for his wife and worked as a van driver. He made his first automaton—a whimsical wooden sculpture with moving parts—in 1981, a piece featuring the Egyptian jackal-headed god Anubis. He made small machines at first, which became increasingly larger during his years with Cabaret Mechanical Theater. In 1989, he was one of the main artists on "The Ride of Life," a million-pound automaton designed for a shopping center but never installed. His television program, Mechanisms, was broadcast by the BBC's Channel 4 in 1995. Paul has also produced two card cutout books, Spooner's Moving Animals and The Museum of the Mind, as well as the children's book Red Roger.
"My work as an artist/mechanic amounts to a constant pursuit of elegance and simplicity. I haven't caught up with either yet because I don't know how to finish things. Except sometimes. And even then I'm not sure." –Paul Spooner
To learn more about Paul Spooner & London's Cabaret Mechanical Theater, visit: http://www.cabaret.co.uk/artists/paul-spooner/