events, or you can volunteer to help the day of the event. There are so many dayof tasks, and it takes many hands to stage this event. Everyone who has worked the event has had a great time, and they often sign on again to help the next year. After the golfing, there will be a luncheon and silent auction. All are welcome to join the event for the luncheon for $30 per person. For reservations, contact Mike Armstrong at 203-414-2379. Don’t forget! We have our premier project in November: the Halifax Art Festival. In case you weren’t aware, that phenomenal committee has been working since the close of the 2017 festival to lay the groundwork for our 2018 Festival. Calling all help! We must all remember why the Guild exists: we work to advance the Museum of Arts and Sciences by raising friends and funds to help sustain the Museum and expand its member base. I hope you New Board Members of the MOAS Guild at the 2018 Fashion Show and Luncheon. From left to right: Karrie Houlton, Mary Alice Wnuk, Ruth Snyder, know what a special treasure this Museum Sue Fream, Sandy Buckley, Dr. Beverly Grissom, Andrea Pair, George Fortuna, Brenda Rivers, Hilary Reilly, Carolyn Keene, Pat Masotti-Abernathy is to our community and our state. We, of course, appreciate your being a member and coming to our meetings; we also need your talents to keep our Guild vibrant and on mission! Perhaps we should adopt the ell, it looks like spring painted flower pots, and savory herbs. motto: JUST SAY YES! has sprung! 2018 is off to All are available for purchase. Marilynn a really successful start, Sternberg and her committee are currently A million sincere thanks to those of you thanks to our superb team of working to ensure the success and quality who work so hard on our Guild activities. dedicated volunteers. Our annual Fashion of this lovely newer tradition. It is essential Let’s hope many more members will step Show Luncheon on February 13 was a that you make your reservation as early up and help. I just say, “YES”. Will you? huge success. Judy Krombholz and her as possible. The seating is limited, and the committee did a wonderful job---from the event is always a sellout. Dr. Beverly McMurtry Grissom reservation and check-in processes to the MOAS Guild President table decorations, to the venue, the meal, We are currently preparing for our Eighth the fashions, the prizes and raffles, and, of Annual Children’s Museum Golf Classic, course, the models. It all went so smoothly. which is scheduled for Monday, April If you see one of the members of that 23 at the exclusive Club de Bonmont at committee, I hope you will let them know Plantation Bay Golf and Country Club. This how much their work is appreciated. They beautiful course is not open to the public, Tuesday, April 10 | 11:00 a.m. deserve your praise. so if you or someone you know are golfers ANNUAL GARDEN PARTY and would like the opportunity to play For the rest of the Spring, we have some this course, we urge you to sign up! Mike AND LUNCHEON special events in the planning stages. Our Armstrong is our experienced chair of this next signature event is the popular Annual event. This is a major project and takes a lot Monday, April 23 | 9: 00 a.m. Garden Party, which will be held at the of volunteers to help in a variety of ways. CHILDREN’S MUSEUM Brown Museum Courtyard on April 10. We First and foremost, we need EVERYONE GOLF CLASSIC will enjoy a pleasant social time, a delectable to recruit foursomes to play! You can be a catered lunch, and beautiful potted plants, “caddie” by purchasing a commemorative vibrant blooming flowers, lovely hand- caddie ribbon, or you can be sponsor of the
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2018 Guild Event Calendar Updated information about programs will be published in the Musings along with the specific details for the events listed below. Consult the Arts & Sciences Magazine for Museum events, activities and receptions. You will thoroughly enjoy the group and are guaranteed to leave still chuckling.
Looking Forward to Fall 2018
September 11th WELCOME BACK AND A SPECIAL MEMBER RECOGNITION MEETING Take a look at what is happening for the fall and volunteer for the Halifax Art Festival, our premier fundraising event held on Nov 3rd and 4th
January Artful Interlude - From left to right, Karrie Houlton, Hilary Reilly, Pam Fieldus, Diane Lessard, Sue Fream
Tuesday, April 10 ANNUAL GARDEN PARTY AND LUNCHEON Spring is in the air and the Brown Museum Courtyard will be bursting with color for our annual Garden Party. Selections that you can purchase and take home include potted plants, herbs, and beautiful blooming flowers. Cost $35.00 Limit 100 Reservations contact: Marilynn Sternberg 386-585- 4047
Golf Classic. Enjoy the day and play 18 or 9 holes on a spectacular private golf course at Plantation Bay Golf and Country Club. Registration will be at 7:30 am with a 9:00 am Tee Time followed by a luncheon and silent auction. Volunteers are needed. All Guild members and friends are invited to the luncheon and festivities. Cost of the luncheon only is $30.00 Reservation contact: Mike Armstrong 203-414-2379
Monday, April 23 CHILDREN’S MUSEUM GOLF CLASSIC Come and “Play for the Kids” at our 8th annual Children’s Museum
Tuesday, May 8 GUILD MEETING Spring Thing/Fling featuring the Shenanigans, This group will surely entertain us with music and humor.
October 9th NATIONAL BREAST CANCER AWARENESS WEEK Our speaker is Valencia Robinson. Valencia is a breast cancer survivor and will speak about her successful fight with the disease. She also won the 2013 People Magazine Teacher of the Year award. November 13th WE GIVE THANKS FOR ALL THAT WE HAVE Our speaker is Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood, who will speak to us about holding on to what we hold dear -- identity, homes, possessions. November 3rd & 4th 56TH ANNUAL HALIFAX ART FESTIVAL December 11th GUILD ANNUAL HOLIDAY PARTY Venue to be determined.
Stay tuned for updates on other 2018-19 events!
Visit moas.org/museumguild for up to date event and membership information!
ARTFUL INTERLUDES & HALIFAX ART FESTIVAL VOLUNTEERS
Artful Interludes 2018
Artful Interludes was begun several years ago as an opportunity for a small group of members (12-25) to become better acquainted with other Guild members in an interesting, enjoyable activity at nominal cost The remaining dates for spring are listed below. Plan to join us in this variety of fun and informative experiences. You may reserve your place by signing up after every general meeting. Numbers are limited so plan ahead.
Tuesday, March 27, 2018 Gamble Place, Port Orange
We are introduced to this unique Museum property with a guided tour of the historic hunting lodge built by Proctor and Gamble millionaire, James N. Gamble. Enjoy a guided nature walk through native Florida woods, a catered picnic lunch, and guided boat tour of adjacent Spruce Creek. Cost: $22
Sunday, April 22, 2018 Athens Theatre, Deland 2:30 p.m. matinee of “Oklahoma”
Experience the popular musical, performed by a talented, professional ensemble. The Guild visited this theater in the past, and all were delighted with the expertise and polished performance. Choose lunch or dinner in DeLand. Cost: $22
COME BE A PART OF THE GUILD’S PREMIERE EVENT!
CALLING ON VOLUNTEERS!
Our HAF planning meetings will be held on May 17th, August 16th, September 6th, October 4th, and October 18th. We meet at 10:30am at the Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum Conference Room. If you are interested in volunteering, contact George Fortuna, HAF Chair at George-fortuna@ cfrr.com or 443-831-5597. WE NEED YOU!
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MOAS SPRING EXHIBITS
SPRING EXHIBITS Looking for something do with your fellow Guild members? Enjoy current and upcoming exhibits at the Museum this spring and summer! For updated exhibit information, visit MOAS.org.
Florida in Black and White: Documentary Photography by Peter Schreyer and the Storytellers
THROUGH APRIL 15, 2018 – ROOT HALL This dual exhibition highlights documentary photographs and oral histories by teen photographers and their instructor, Peter Schreyer, focused on the historic African American community of New Smyrna Beach. Photo Credit: Peter Schreyer, Mail Carrier, Winter Garden, FL
Attention to Detail: Architectural Art and Design from the Collection
THROUGH APRIL 15, 2018 – KARSHAN CENTER OF GRAPHIC ART Throughout history, talented artisans have spent untold hours (and their patron’s untold riches) embellishing architectural interiors around the world. This exhibition brings to light beautiful hand-drawn sketches and watercolors together with prints and design additions such as mirrors and fire mantelpieces from the MOAS collection that were all a part of the design aesthetic that continued from the Renaissance to the early 20th century in Europe and America. Photo Credit: Emilé Auguste Reiber, Design for Jardiniere, 1872
Shotgun Houses: America via Africa a Photo Exhibit by Kenneth Thompson
THROUGH APRIL 29, 2018 – NORTH WING CORRIDOR Originating in West Africa, a shotgun house is an often overlooked staple in American architecture. Learn more about these fascinating structures and their significance in this nation’s development. All images have been captured in Kenneth’s hometown of Bessemer, Alabama. Photo Credit: Kenneth Thompson, Green Leather
Spiritual Quests: Sculpture by Joan Baliker
THROUGH APRIL 29, 2018 – BOUCHELLE CHANGING GALLERY Joan Baliker is an interfaith minister who currently calls Ormond Beach, Florida home. She has written books celebrating and honoring all spiritual paths and also creates paintings and sculptures depicting inspirational figures from around the world. The Dalai Lama and Gandhi along with others are featured in bronze and oil on canvas in this homage to spirituality and leaders of faiths from across the world. Photo Credit: Joan Baliker, Peace
Volusia Creates Art
THROUGH APRIL 29, 2018 – PLANETARIUM LOBBY Student art is amazing because it allows them to tell stories and helps them make sense of their world. From preschool through high school, the 46th Annual Volusia Creates Art program fosters the amazing pool of artistic talent. This judged exhibit features the best student works of art from around the county. This premier exhibit showcases a wide range of subject matter from portraiture to abstract sculpture. Photo Credit: Abigail Marais, Sophia and Her Phone, Seabreeze High School Grade 12
Luster: Realism and Hyperrealism in Contemporary Automobile and Motorcycle Painting
THROUGH JUNE 21, 2018 – FORD GALLERY This exhibition features over 50 works by 15 leading artists who create dazzling photorealist and hyperrealist paintings to celebrate the essence of car and motorcycle culture from an artist’s point of view: chrome, curves, speed, and power. Produced by David J. Wagner, L.L.C. | David J. Wagner, Ph.D., Curator/Tour Director. Photo Credit: A.D. Cook, Indian Summer
Brett Weston: Significant Details
APRIL 28 THROUGH JULY 29, 2018 – KARSHAN CENTER OF GRAPHIC ART An exhibit that focuses on Weston’s close-up photography, featuring 42 photographs spanning nearly 60 years. The works – more than half of which are on view for the first time – share the high-contrast and graphic qualities of Weston’s panoramic photographs while emphasizing the “significant details,” the tendency toward abstraction and extremes in tonality that Weston explored throughout his career. Exhibit courtesy of Brett Weston Archives and the Pasadena Museum of California Art with the exhibition tour organized by Photographic Traveling Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA. Photo Credit: Brett Weston, Cracked Glass, 1954
Modern Aspirations: Art Deco from the Collection
MAY 5 THROUGH AUGUST 26, 2018 – BOUCHELLE CHANGING GALLERY The style of visual arts, architecture, and design known as Art Deco first appeared in France just before World War I and flourished through the “Roaring Twenties” and up until the beginning of WWII. It emphasized streamlined form in keeping with a “modern” age of speed and rapid advancements in the design of buildings, furniture, jewelry, fashion, cars, movie theatres, trains, ocean liners, and everyday objects. It was also the style of the Jazz Age, Flappers, and Prohibition as a new freewheeling culture emerged and women were allowed more comfortable clothing such as menswear and danced in short dresses and cut their hair short. This exhibition brings paintings, sculpture, graphic, and decorative arts together from the collection to look at the many ways this style manifested itself in Western culture nearly 100 years ago. Photo Credit: Harrington Mann, The Blue Coat
Shutters on the Battlefield: An Intimate Look at Photography in WWII
MAY 5 THROUGH AUGUST 5, 2018 – NORTH WING CORRIDOR The Second World War was at its time, the most documented war in human history. The entire war was photographed from start to finish by professional photographers and regular civilians caught up in one of the most turbulent times of the 20th century. Nearly every event around the world was documented with photographs to create a record of what happened. From the beaches of Normandy to the Holocaust, and even in the snowy mountains of Attu located in the North Pacific, cameras went everywhere. The rolls of film shot during those epic years that were saved on cameras brought home by servicemen or were captured on battlefields by their former owners. These snapshots from a private local collection provide unique views of the war, often by those who fought it. Photo Credit: Photographer Unknown, Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
Art and Science: The Paintings of James Vredevoogd
APRIL 21 THROUGH JULY 22, 2018 – ROOT HALL James Vredevoogd, a native of Michigan, taught painting, sculpture, and performance art at Edinboro College in Pennsylvania for 32 years. His painting style is self-described as “Surreal Realism” in that he paints images that appear dreamlike or surreal in a realistic manner. Relying on scientific theory, literature, and philosophy, his paintings are as beautiful as they are enigmatic and invite the viewer to “read” his narratives on canvas. A neighbor to the west, Jim Vredevoogd and his wife Jeanette (also an artist) have called Dunnellon, FL home for several years now. Photo Credit: James Vredevoogd, Cat’s Cradle, 2017
2018-19 GUILD BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND COMMITTEE CHAIRS
2018-19 Board of the Guild of the Museum of Arts and Sciences President 1st V. President 2nd V. President Recording Secretary Corresponding Secretary Treasurer
Dr. Bev Grissom Andrea Pair Hilary Reilly Sandy Buckley Brenda Rivers George Fortuna
Committee Chairs HAF Chair HAF Treasurer
George Fortuna Karrie Houlton
FOT Chair FOT Treasurer Children’s Golf Classic
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Artful Interludes
Sue Fream Ruth Snyder
Membership Chair
Carolyn Keene Marget Toth
New Member Orientation
Connie Oortman
Parliamentarian
Ruth Snyder
Volunteer Hours
Maureen McAvoy
Board Advisory
Pat Masotti- Abernathy
Jane Funk Mary Alice Wnuk
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