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ART BALL: HISTORY IN THE MAKING

The 2018 Art Ball: History in the Making made a triumphant return to the Albany Museum of Art on February 10. This special evening would not have been possible without the support of Gold Sponsors Watson Spence, Fred Taylor Company Inc. and WALB News 10; Silver Sponsors Baudino Law Group, Albany Area Primary Health Care and Kay Fuller Interiors, and Corporate Sponsors LRA Constructors Inc., Phoebe, Renasant Financial Services, Wells Fargo Advisors, Sunnyland Farms, Thirteenth Colony Distilleries and Georgia Crown Distributing.

Thank you for making the event a great success.

ON THE COVER: Glenn Dasher | Dada Vinci | bronze, steel and wood | 80 in. x 36 in. x 36 in.

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES Ripley Bell , Jr., President Jack Davis, Vice President Scott Marcus, Treasurer Alfreda Sheppard, Secretary KK Snyder, Past President Staci Willson Honorable Leslie J. Abrams Angie Barber Mallory Black Bruce Campbell Shari M. Carroll Jessica Castle Cathy Darby Michael Deariso Rosemary Hamburger Sherrer Hester Jeanette Hoopes David Lanier Becca Lynn Michael Mallard Milan Patel Herbert Phipps Jr. Kirk Rouse Cynthia Sudderth Marsha Taylor Chazz Williams Selena Wingfield Jim Womack LIFE TRUSTEES Sylvia Berry Stephen Hinton Bee McCormack MUSEUM STAFF Paula Williams Executive Director Chloe Hinton Education and Programming Jim Hendricks Marketing Randi Hooks Facilities Manager

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A L B A N Y M U S E U M O F A R T | S P R I N G 2 0 1 8 | A P R I L / M AY

F R O M T H E D I R E C TO R The 2018 AMA Art Ball truly lived up to its promise of being History in the Making. An elegant evening accentuated with world-class cuisine prepared by six marvelous chefs, it was one that will long be remembered. The success of the event co-chaired by Marsha Taylor and Staci Willson will have a positive impact on the Albany Museum of Art for years to come. It was the perfect return for our signature fundraising event after the January storms forced the cancellation of our 2017 gala. The six returning chefs from our culinary series – Jennifer Booker, Lara Lyn Carter, Holly Chute, Reid Harrison, David Scarborough and Kelli Taranto – created a masterpiece dinner. Our thanks to everyone who worked so hard behind the scenes to make the Art Ball the event of the year, and our thanks to all who attended the ball, helping move the AMA forward in its mission. We’d also like to recognize our good friend Chef Todd White and his culinary crew from Albany Technical College, and Chef Kirk Rouse, AMA trustee and former board president. They have been instrumental in the success of our Fine Art of Dining series, which was certainly reflected in the Art Ball.

Paula Bacon Williams Executive Director

I noted in our winter issue that we hoped to close in April on our project to move downtown to the former Belk building at Washington Street and Broad Avenue, but the due diligence phase of the project is taking a little longer than we had expected. As with any project of this magnitude, it’s critical that we proceed in a deliberate and responsible fashion. There will be more updates as we move forward with this exciting project that will open so many tremendous opportunities for us to connect Southwest Georgia residents with the fine arts.

As we head into the end of the school year, we’ll continue to offer the community a wide range of quality exhibitions and programming. Glenn Dasher: In Retrospection; Monuments to Human Imperfection and the Inspired Albany photography exhibit will continue into June. After the Inspired Georgia photography exhibit ends in April, Justin Hodges’ Time Time and a Half opens. Hodges’ re-imagination of 19th century realist painter Gustauve Courbet’s 1849 work “The Stonebreakers” is sure to generate plenty of discussion, which will start April 17 with panelists addressing the question, “What Is Art?” We’ll have the final two Fine Art of Dining Supper Series events – April 14 with Chefs Kirk Rouse and Hudson Rouse with Kathryn Fitzgerald Rouse, and May 5 with Chef Johnny Gargano. Also coming up are Spring Family Day on April 21, the Congressional Art Competition Awards Ceremony for the Second Congressional District of Georgia on April 27, and our regular Toddler Takeovers and Home School Days.

Finally, don’t let that fast-approaching summer break from school slip up on you. Our week-long Summer Art Camps start June 4 and continue into July, and the classes fill up quickly. They’re the perfect way for your young artist to explore their creativity, have fun and escape the hot weather.

What a way to “spring” into the summer!

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J U S T I N H O D G E S: T I M E T I M E A N D A H A L F East Gallery | April 17 through July 14, 2018

Time Time and a Half is an installation of new work by Georgia artist Justin Hodges at the Albany Museum of Art’s East Gallery. The installation makes use of kinetic sculpture, large-scale photography and stone as it playfully reimagines 19th century realist painter Gustauve Courbet’s 1849 work The Stonebreakers.

In Time Time and a Half, the exhibition’s component parts work together to create an immersive whole. On the scale of a small diorama, the installation attempts to reproduce “The Stonebreakers” 169 years into the future. In Courbet’s original painting, two figures are depicted manually breaking stone to be used for roadbeds in the construction of new roadways in the French countryside. The arduous work is captured in the labored gestures of the figures, as well as their tattered clothing.

Aside from Courbet’s acumen as a painter, the widely discussed aspect of this work is its break from acceptable subject matter for academic painting. The Stonebreakers concretely represents the reality of the working class without shying away from its banality or blemish. Courbet also paints this canvas on a scale usually reserved for paintings of myth or heroics, asserting that the concrete representation of reality is as important as any of the allegorical or religious imagery that preceded it.

In Time Time and a Half, a 6x10 ft. reproduction of Courbet’s original work hangs as a backdrop to the installation. In the reproduction, the two stonebreakers have been removed using Adobe PhotoShop. Several artifacts remain, revealing the alterations. Moving from two dimensions into three, pneumatic hammers sit atop a small stage occupying the space in front of the hanging reproduction. The work is noisy, as the machines pound away at the stones, taking the place of the laborers in Courbet’s original.

Sadly, Courbet’s original work exists only through photography. The canvas was destroyed during World War II. Time Time and a Half is an imitation of the original, with exposed compressors and cords revealing the artifice of the work. A close look at the hanging reproduction reveals the CMYK halftone pattern exposed in the enlargement of the photograph.

The exhibition’s title refers to the increased hourly wage awarded to employees working overtime or on holidays. In an increasingly mechanized culture, Time Time and a Half is an investigation into the value of labor, and an attempt to reconsider the bottom line.

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GLENN DASHER: IN RETROSPECTION

MONUMENTS TO HUMAN IMPERFECTION Haley Gallery | March 15 - June 16, 2018

Humankind has long sought immortality. Art, in many ways, gives it to us, interpreting individuals and their impact and motives. Over the years, decades and centuries, however, those stories come under reinterpretation by people with new perspectives and different experiences.

That phenomenon – the fluidity of what at first seems solid – has not escaped the notice of sculptor Glenn Dasher, the former dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Alabama in Huntsville who now is pursuing his art full time.

Dasher describes his work as surreal, playful, or iconoclastic “monuments” which present “pseudohistorical” statuary fragments within an altered/improbable conceptual context.

"They derive from my fascination with our basic human desire to immortalize ourselves; our singular/questionable acts of heroism, brilliance, triumph, or tragedy; to embody our memories in statuary and public structures, of bronze and stone; their origins and meaning inevitably corrupted, lost, or mystified by evolving contexts wrought by the inevitable passage of time, selective memory, or societal change," he says.

Dasher attended the University of Georgia, earning a BFA in printmaking, painting and sculpture in 1979. He earned an MFA in sculpture from Indiana University in 1983 and, since that time, he has earned his living as a sculpture professor.

In 1985, after teaching at Newberry College in South Carolina and at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, he began teaching sculpture and design in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

After a rewarding career of 35 years in academia, where he served eight years as chair of the Department of Art and Art History and seven years as dean of the College of Liberal Arts at UAH, he retired.

He is happily working as a full-time artist at his studio in Union Hill, Alabama.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS April - May 2018

SUNDAY

TUES DAY

MONDAY

A P1 R IL GLENN DASHER “IN RETROSPECTION” Through June 16

WEDNESDAY

2

INSPIRED ALBANY Through June 2

8

3

THURSDAY

4

SUNDAY

5

SATURDAY

6

7 INSPIRED GEORGIA CLOSES

S P R I N G B R E A K S TAYC AT I O N

9

10

11

12

TODDLER TAKEOVER

HOMESCHOOL DAY

10:30-11 am

11am-12:30pm

17 “WHAT IS ART?” PANEL DISCUSSION 6 pm

DASHER 18 WELDING DEMO Albany Tech 10 am-12 pm DASHER GALLERY TALK 6 pm

24

25

JUSTIN HODGES Opens

POURING ART 10 am-3:30 pm

13

14 SUPPER SERIES Chefs Kirk Rouse, with Hudson Rouse and Kathryn Rouse

19 TODDLER TAKEOVER 2-2:30 pm

26

TODDLER TAKEOVER

10:30-11am

1 MAY

2

3 HOMESCHOOL DAY 11 am-12:30 pm TODDLER TAKEOVER 2-2:30 pm

8

9

HOMESCHOOL DAY 11 am-12:30 pm

TODDLER TAKEOVER 10:30-11am

13

14

15

16

MOTHER’S DAY

20

10

17 TODDLER TAKEOVER 2-2:30pm

21

22

23

24

30

31

TODDLER TAKEOVER 10:30-11am

27

28 MEMORIAL DAY

29

4

5 SUPPER SERIES Johnny Gargano, Executive Chef and owner of Villa Gargano Italian Restaurant

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WHAT IS ART? April 17 | 6 pm | FREE What is art? Join us for a panel discussion in which digital artist Justin Hodges, whose Time Time and a Half exhibition opens April 17 in the East Gallery; sculptor Glenn Dasher, whose Monuments to Human Imperfection is exhibiting in the Haley Gallery; gallery owner Rob Matre; Albany Museum of Art Executive Director Paula Williams, and Renaissance Art Café owner Femi Anderson explore a question that has been debated for centuries.

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GLENN DASHER WELDING DEMO April 18 | 10 am-12 pm | FREE Join us on the campus of Albany Technical College, 1704 S. Slappey Blvd., as sculptor Glenn Dasher demonstrates welding as an art technique.

The event will take place in the Albany Tech welding lab, room 124 of Freedom Hall.

GALLERY TALK April 18 | 6 pm | FREE Join us in the Haley Gallery as sculptor Glenn Dasher provides insights to his work in his exhibition Glenn Dasher: In Retrospection; Monuments to Human Imperfection. Dasher will discuss how the meaning gets lost in time as people attempt to immortalize their stories with monuments.

A M A C A M PS : THE AR T O F S UM ME R FUN June 6 – 8 | June 11-15 | June 18-22 | June 25 – 29 | July 9 – 13 | July 16 – 20 We have a most AMAzing summer coming up! Sign up early to make sure your child gets in on the fun.

Camps are 9 am-4 pm, with 8 am early drop-off and 5 pm late pick-up.

Contact (229) 439-8400 or email chloe.hinton@albanymuseum.com.

Pinterest Party June 4-8 Ages 5-7

Under the Sea June 25-29 K-5th grade

Summer Art Fun June 11-15 Middle schoolers

SPLASH July 9-13 K-5th grade

Scrapbooking June 18-22 Ages 8-12

Kids Culinary Arts Experience July 16-20 Ages 6-10

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FINE ART OF DINING

Culinary Series

Single Ticket: Patron Member - $200 | Single Ticket: Future Member - $250

Dinner in the Pines

Starry Starry Night

April 14 | 6 pm | Chokee

May 5 | 6 pm | Home of Amy Jones

Chef Kirk Rouse

Cooking has always been a family affair for the Rouses. Albany Chef Kirk Rouse will join with son Chef Hudson Rouse and Kathryn Fitzgerlad Rouse, of Rising Son in Atlanta, to prepare a dinner as memorable as its beautiful setting at Chokee.

Chef Hudson Rouse and wife Kathryn

Chef Johnny Gargano

Chef Johnny Gargano, of Albany’s Villa Gargano, will draw upon three generations of his family’s culinary tradition of authentic Italian cuisine in the final dinner this season. He will be assisted

by Jerry Perez in this intimate dinner at the home of Amy Jones.

Seating is limited. Tickets must be purchased in advance for each event. Call the AMA at 229.439.8400 to reserve seats, mail checks to 311 Meadowlark Drive, Albany, GA 31707, or visit us at albanymuseum.com/supper-series to purchase tickets online.

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2017 GIVING

The AMA gratefully acknowledges the following friends for their contributions.

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