The Massillon Museum will present a one-night, ticketed event with special guest, actress Carrie Coon, who plays Bertha Russell in HBO's The Gilded Age. During the evening-guests will enjoy access to the Gilding Northeast Ohio: Fashion & Fortune 1870–1900 exhibition and all Museum galleries. Heavy hors d'oeuvres and one adult beverage will be included in the ticket price.

Limited reservations at $60 per person ($50 per MassMu member) are available at MassMu.org/Tickets or by calling 330-833-4061. Proceeds will benefit the Massillon Museum Building Endowment.  

Coon stars in HBO’s The Gilded Age. The series, created by Julian Fellowes, centers on a period of immense economic change, of fortunes made and lost, and the rise of disparity between old money and new. She portrays “Bertha Russell,” who is determined to use her money and position to rise from her middle class status into a society that resists change. For her role in The Gilded Age, Coon has recently been nominated by the Television Academy's Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. The series has been nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for “Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series,” and additional Emmy nominations this year include Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Period Costumes for a series, and Oustanding Hairstyling, among others.  The series is currently in production on season three.

A sought-after talent with roles across film, television, and theatre, Coon has garnered acclaim throughout her career and continues to cultivate her impressive body of work. She can most recently be seen in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, the sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Upcoming, she will co-star in Azazel Jacobs’s His Three Daughters, an acclaimed film that premiered at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival and will soon be released by Netflix. She will star in the independent film, Lake George, directed and written by Jeffrey Reiner. The film will celebrate its world premiere at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival. Recently, Coon completed production on season three of the Emmy-winning anthology series The White Lotus.                      

Born and raised in Copley, Ohio, she received her B.A. from the University of Mount Union and her M.F.A. in acting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She resides in New York with her husband and creative collaborator, Tracy Letts.

Gilding Northeast Ohio: Fashion and Fortune 1870–1900, guest curated by Brian Centrone, transports visitors to the last decades of the 19th century. The exhibition highlights what made Ohio sparkle so brightly during that era of prosperity and progress.

In addition to garments and accessories from the Massillon Museum’s permanent collection, loans from Kent State University Museum, Western Reserve Historical Society, and William McKinley Presidential Library and Museum are displayed. Three costumes worn in HBO’s The Gilded Age series are featured.

Visitors stroll past vignettes throughout MassMu’s Main Gallery-“Fashion and Fortune;”“Business and Travel;” “Opera and Opulence”-including a gown Coon wore in the finale of The Gilded Age Season Two, based on the opening of New York’s Metropolitan Opera House; “Sport and Leisure;” “Legacy and HBO;” “Marriages and Families;” “Style and Design;” and  “Presidents and Politics.”

The exhibition is funded in large part by a Major Arts Enhancement and Exhibitions Grant facilitated by ArtsinStark and Visit Canton. The Museum receives operating support from the Ohio Arts Council and ArtsinStark, marketing support from Visit Canton, and support from the citizens of Massillon. This exhibition is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.