Spring/Summer 2013 Newsletter

MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM of ART NEWS

IN THIS ISSUE Spring-Summer 2013 Old Masters to Monet:Three Centuries of French Painting from the Wadsworth Atheneum A Message from the Director Mississippi’s Creative Vision: Gerald DeLoach Spotlight on the Collection: The Old Church Building

by William R. Hollingsworth, Jr. In the Galleries: Symbols of Faith, Home, and Beyond:The Art of Theora Hamblett, 50th Anniversary of Medgar Evers’ Death Education and The Museum School: Art in Mind, Artful Afternoons, The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards of 2013, In The Art Garden: C3: Creativity. Conversation.

Community.; Town Creek Arts Festival/Art Remix; Live at Lunch; High Note Jam; Screen on the Green; Volunteer Opportunities in The Art Garden Calendar: Exhibitions and Events In Memoriam: Isabel McCarty, Esther Dawson, Myrt Glatzer Museum Staff News: MMA Welcomes Four New Staff Members Highlight: Museum and Art Garden named “Best of” by readers of the Jackson Free Press The Art Scene: Music in the City; Hilda Stuart’s Book Celebration and Signing; The Bethlehem Tree; Unburied Treasures: Greatest Hits; opening receptions for To Paint and Pray, Artists by Artists, Art by Choice, Old Masters to Monet; The 2012 Rembrandt Society Dinner; The Young Rembrandt Society; April in Paris Gala and Inaugural Juried Art Competition New Collectors Club Statewide Affiliate Network: MMA Welcomes New Affiliate Membership/Development: Annual Fund Museum Information

Claude Gellée, called Claude Lorrain (1600–1682), Landscape with St. George and the Dragon, ca. 1643. oil on canvas. 44.75 x 59 in. The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund, 1937.2.

Old Masters to Monet: Three Centuries of French Painting from the Wadsworth Atheneum The Annie Laurie Swaim Hearin Memorial Exhibition Series The Mississippi Museum of Art proudly presents the thirteenth exhibition in The Annie Laurie Swaim Hearin Memorial Exhibition Series, Old Masters to Monet: Three Centuries of French Painting from the Wadsworth Atheneum. Begun nearly twenty-one years ago, the Hearin series of exhibitions continues to bring world-renowned artwork to the people of Mississippi and beyond. The Robert M. Hearin Support Foundation generously funds the successful series, but ultimately the exhibitions are a way for the children of Annie Laure Swaim Hearin to pay tribute to their mother, who was a member of the Museum’s board, was instrumental in developing the Mississippi Museum of Art Foundation, and who graciously served as a volunteer in the original Palette Café, among her many other contributions to the Jackson art world.

In 1992, the inaugural exhibition of The Annie Laurie Swaim Hearin Memorial Exhibition series featured the Harold Samuel Collection of eighty-four Dutch and Flemish paintings from the seventeenth century, which traveled the See Old Masters, Page 2

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The current Hearin exhibition, Old Masters to Monet, is a survey of French paintings from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries by familiar and important artists.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), Claude Monet Painting in His Garden at Argenteuil, 1873. oil on canvas.

18.38 x 23.5 in. Bequest of Anne Parrish Titzell, 1957.614.

William Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905), Idyll: Family from Antiquity/ Arcadia (Idylle: Famille antique), 1860. oil on canvas. 24.13 x 20.13 in.

Gift of Charles E. Gross in memory of his brother W. H. Gross, 1913.1.

United States while his mansion home was being renovated.

Later, a collection of Italian paintings from the Burghley House in Great Britain came to the Mississippi Museum of Art (1996), and the premiere exhibition in the Museum’s brand new space highlighted depictions of angels curated from multiple public and private collections across Italy (2007). American artwork has been the subject of exhibitions over the years and has included themes like the American West (2000) and Georgia O’Keefe’s interest in conserving her own artwork (2006). Most recently, a collection of original Curious George drawings from the University of Southern Mississippi told the story of the authors’ escape from Nazi-occupied Paris (2012), and the exhibition that showcased artwork from closest to home was Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty among Artists of the Thirties (2002). French artwork has been a popular topic of exploration, with exhibitions of Degas sculptures (1994), Art Deco artwork and furniture from Paris (2004), and the great painter and fabric designer Raoul Dufy (2009). The current Hearin exhibition, Old Masters to Monet, is a survey of French paintings from the seventeenth, eighteenth, 2

and nineteenth centuries by familiar and important artists.

While Rome was the capital of the art world in the seventeenth century, Paris achieved that honor during the late eighteenth century. Therefore, the artworks in Old Masters to Monet not only represent what was happening artistically in France at that time, they truly show the progression of artistic styles that ultimately led to what we now know as modern art.

The exhibition begins with seventeenth-century Baroque masters like the landscape painter Claude Lorrain, the history painters Nicolas Poussin and Jacques Stella, and the portrait painter Eustache Le Sueuer, all of whom worked within the traditions and structure of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, which was founded in 1648. The Academy provided training for artists, exhibitions at official “salons,” and admission to the Academy was the ultimate stamp of approval for an artist. Eighteenth-century artists continued this tradition, pursuing work that fell within the hierarchy of genres set forth by the Academy, which had deemed history painting as the pinnacle of pursuits, followed by portraiture, landscapes, genre scenes, and still lifes. Visitors to Old Masters to Monet will encounter paintings from the Rococo era by Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié, Louis Leopold Boilly, and Claude-Joseph Vernet that depict the self-indulgence of the royal lifestyle, moralizing scenes that came about during the Enlightenment, and the grandeur of nature.

The beginning of the nineteenth century marked the early years of the Restoration (following the French Revolution), and though France experienced trying times politically, the arts flourished during this era. Impassioned, Romantic paintings are represented in the exhibition with works by Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix; and landscapes that celebrate “la belle France” include paintings by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, Theodore Rousseau, and Gustave Courbet. In the early nineteenth century, artists like these See Old Masters, page 4

A Message from the Director

The Museum is privileged to participate in the Blue Star Museums program.

We gladly offer free admission yearround to our country’s armed service members and their families, including our local law and fire enforcement communities.

Book it with the Attractions Passport Purchase tickets to Mississippi Museum of Art exhibitions online through www.visitjackson.com.

Additional area attraction tickets are also available. This service is made possible through a partnership with the Jackson Convention & Visitors Bureau.

www.msmuseumart.org New website design The Museum’s website has been updated and will be available to the public July1, 2013. You will see an all new www.msmuseumart.org. The virtural experience is designed to enhance your actual museum experience with real time information, blogs, facebook galleries etc.

Dear friends, Since our colleague, the beloved Dan Piersol, retired last summer, we have been searching for a new chief curator to provide the artistic leadership for your Museum. That process has led me to think a lot lately about the act of curating. The word “curate” comes from the Latin word meaning “ to care,” and brings to mind the acts of caring for the objects collected by a museum. It has also come to mean the act of selecting objects for exhi bitions, of arranging items of meaning to combine and create a sum that equals more than its parts.

In the museum world, we are thinking and talking a lot about the people (not just the objects) that make the museum’s community. And we are learning that those people (all of them, not just official curators) are individuals who curate their own identities of themselves as they collect and arrange images of their lives, or the items they most care about. The most obvious example of this act is the creation of a facebook page, or a pinterest site; but it is also a shadow-box with favorite mementos, or a collection of salt-and –pepper shakers. Through these vehicles, people select things or images that help create a picture of who they are, what matters to them. They engage in this act with care to communicate who they are to a world of people connected to them by virtual signals, or to the people who visit their homes. This act of curating, then, has increasingly become one embraced by a huge majority of our population, and removed from its previously sequestered world of academia and museum storage vaults.

This world of an exploding group of images and messages in our universe has another implication for curation. We need, now more than ever perhaps, help editing the many images crossing our lines of vision. We need someone who is trained in seeing and understanding particular areas of knowledge to help distill the possible images into a group that has a particular meaning, a meaning that can be discussed, argued, and dissected to help increase our own level of understanding of ourselves and those around us.

This is all exciting news for museums! It means that the impulse for all of us to create and respond to images is growing, that more of our population than ever feels confident viewing, critiquing, probing images of art, whether they are created by friends or “old master” artists. It also means that the voice of the museum, in commenting on works of art, in caring for them, combining them to create wonderful experiences of looking, wondering, responding, is ever more needed in a world overly crowded with images. It means that we are ripe for a new age of relationships between traditional curators and communities of new curators and authors of meaning, those we have previously called audiences but who may now be our partners in creation. How we craft those relationships, the CARE with which we have these conversations, is fertile, new ground.

We are excited about the person who now joins the Museum to lead these conversations. Roger Ward, a museum professional for more than thirty-five years, brings to us a vast knowledge of particular images and objects from great art collections around the world. More important, however, his career has been defined by the CARE with which he selects these wonderful objects to create a meaningful experience for people encountering his exhibitions. As you get to know him, you will marvel at what he knows. And, as you see exhibitions coming together, you will find magic in the way his knowledge helps us see art in new and wonderful ways. I look forward to sharing these experiences with you all.

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Paul Cézanne (1839–1906), House in the Country, ca. 1877–79. oil on canvas.

23.5 x 28.88 in.

Anonymous Gift, 2000.1.1.

began to break free from the strict confines of the Academic tradition; however a few artists, like William Bouguereau and Henri Motte, who have paintings in this exhibition, continued to create artwork in a traditional manner. Another salon painter, who depicted high society, was James Jacques Joseph Tissot, whose work The Fan is included in Old Masters to Monet. By the latter part of the nineteenth century, significant changes were occurring in an art world that had valued realism for hundreds of years, as artwork by an innovative group of artists, known as the Impressionists, was gaining popularity. Practically all of the major artists of this movement are represented in Old Masters to Monet.

Paul Cézanne, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Camille Pissaro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir all have beautiful artworks in this exhibition. A significant work in the exhibition is by Renoir, in which the artist captures his friend Monet painting in a garden full of dahlias. Further, the public will recognize a painting by Monet from his series of water lilies, a series that has woven its way into the fabric of popular culture through items like calendars, posters, and jigsaw puzzles. This exhibition offers Mississippians the rare opportunity to view masterpieces such as these in person.

The exhibition concludes with paintings by the true harbingers of modern art: the Post-Impressionists—the painters who expanded upon or moved beyond the style of art made famous by the Impressionists. A Vincent Van Gogh self-portrait is a stand-out painting within this group, as well as a work by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec that features one of his favorite subjects, the performer Jane Avril. Both Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec found inspiration in not only French artwork, but also in Japanese art. This influence of Japanese art on culture became known as Japonisme, and interestingly, the subject was explored at the Mississippi Museum of Art in the recent Hearin exhibition The Orient Expressed: Japan’s Influence on Western Art, 1854–1918 (2011).

Old Masters to Monet brings to Mississippi original paintings by artists whose names we all recognize, like Monet, Renoir, and Van Gogh, in an exhibition like none other presented by our Museum. The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, has never before toured such 4

an exhibition from its collection of significant works, and we are the only venue in the South to offer to our visitors this rare opportunity. Visitors to Old Masters to Monet should expect to see and experience the legendary artists, while learning about the progression of art history and French culture over more than three hundred years.

The Museum offers a complimentary visitor guide, with full-color reproductions of about twenty paintings in the exhibition, complete with text by the exhibition’s curator Eric Zafran, Ph.D. The “Curator’s Perspective” audio is available through your personal cell phone (content developed by the Wadsworth Atheneum). Families with young children may choose to borrow a family guide for the exhibition, which teaches users how to look closely, by using prompts related to paintings in the galleries. The Family Corner for the exhibition focuses on the impact of the Royal Academy and its salons, and The Closer Look Gallery explores the Impressionists, allowing visitors to express their creativity, walk through Monet’s “garden,” and read more about artists and techniques in the exhibition. A large catalogue produced by the Wadsworth Atheneum highlights their entire collection of French paintings, and includes beautiful reproductions of forty-nine works from Old Masters to Monet. The catalogue, along with other related merchandise is available for purchase in The Museum Store. Beyond individual visits to the exhibition, tours and other companion programs offer our audience a wide range of educational and entertaining experiences.

The Museum remains most grateful to the Robert M. Hearin Support Foundation for its continued patronage of the Museum and The Annie Laurie Swaim Hearin Memorial Exhibition Series. We are pleased to offer this most current addition to the long history of successful exhibitions, and to share its stellar artwork with our audience.

– Robin C. Dietrick For a full list of programs, visit the events calendar at www.msmuseumart.org.

This exhibition was organized by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, and is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

MISSISSIPPI’S CREATIVE VISION

Gerald DeLoach

Gerald DeLoach (born 1948), Wiley’s Corner, Last Summer Afternoon, 2008. oil on masonite. 17.5 in. x 31.5 in. Collection of Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson. Gift of Doris Allen. 2009.079. Copyright © the artist.

The Mississippi Delta depicted in many of Gerald DeLoach’s impressionistic landscape paintings is home for the artist. He paints the fields, trees, and creeks that surround his home, which is near Clarksdale. As familiar as this terrain is to DeLoach, it remains a source for endless interpretation and exploration in his artwork.

DeLoach’s perception of color and light on nature has been finely honed. He studied with landscape painter Sammy Britt at Delta State University in the 1960s and with Henry Hensche in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in 1969.

Hensche’s teachings strove for the development of visual perception such that an artist had a heightened sensitivity to color and its relation to other colors.

Gerald DeLoach painted Wiley’s Corner, Last Summer Afternoon in 2008. It represents a creek that is a short distance from the back door to the artist’s house. The bend in the creek is called “Wiley’s Corner” because it is on the property of DeLoach’s brother, Wiley. The painting was donated to the Mississippi Museum of Art in 2009 by Doris Allen and is on view through June 2, 2013 in Blue White Red, Red White Blue: French and American Art from the Permanent Collection in 2013. ___________________________ Source consulted: Faulkner, Barbara Naron, “The Disciples of Light: A Way of Seeing and the Educational Transfer of Ideas Linking Spirituality and Art among Southern Painters in the Hensche-Hawthorne Tradition” (dissertation).

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SPOTLIGHT ON THE COLLECTION

William Hollingsworth, The Old Church Building, Jackson, Miss., 1939. watercolor on paper. Gift of Brice Oakley and Jo Oldson. 2012.071.

The Old Church Building

Inscription on verso

1975 photo of Old Church Bldg

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Almost one century after this building was constructed, William R. Hollingsworth, Jr. positioned himself in downtown Jackson, Mississippi’s Smith Park, taped a blank sheet of paper to a board and began outlining in graphite the building’s façade on Yazoo Street. He sketched the forms of two cars and a park bench. With watercolor pigments, the artist then brought color to the scene. The foliage and shadows of the trees, particularly on the right side of the painting, are rich yet nuanced with blues and browns and stand out against the lighter tones of the building.

Hollingsworth chose to include the cars and the telephone pole with its wires that weave through the trees, thus showing us a typical view of a quiet downtown Jackson street. When we glimpse the Greek revival style building framed by the trees on Yazoo Street, it’s as if we’re looking at the past through a filter of 1930s city life.

The building, which was built as the First Baptist Church in 1844, is now owned by Galloway United Methodist Church and houses its Childcare Center, its Sunday School classrooms, and its Fellowship Hall. It holds the distinction of being the oldest non-public building in Jackson and is one of the city’s few structures that predates the Civil War. In addition to being a church, the building temporarily has provided classrooms for Central High School and, after a destructive fire, for Belhaven College. From about 1921 through about 1946, it became Colonial Apartments and then reverted to being a house of worship, this time for the Central Church of Christ. An insurance company purchased the building in 1959. In a photograph in the March 23, 1975, edition of The Clarion-Ledger, “Consolidated American Life Insurance Co.” appears on the frieze. Galloway United Methodist Church purchased the building in 1985, and the congregation knows it as “the Annex.”

IN THE GALLERIES

Theora Hamblett (1855-1977), Angel’s Request #2, 1956. oil on masonite. 19.25 in. x 25.25 in. Collection of University of Mississippi Museum and Historic Houses. Gift of Theora Hamblett. 1977.12.193.

Theora Hamblett (1855-1977), Hubert or Hubert is Gone, 1971. oil on canvas. 39.3 in. x 31.25 in.

Collection of University of Mississippi Museum and Historic Houses. Gift of Theora Hamblett.

1977.12.174

Symbols of Faith, Home, and Beyond: The Art of Theora Hamblett

need image of hubert

THROUGH JUNE 22, 2013 Theora Hamblett was born in Paris, Mississippi, in 1895.

She did not begin painting until the age of fifty-five, and is considered one of Mississippi’s best folk artists. Although Hamblett attended a class in basic oil painting at The University of Mississippi in 1950, she credited that college course for teaching her how to mix colors, but little else. In 1953, Theora enrolled in a home study art course through the Famous Artists School. Returning to Ole Miss in 1955, Hamblett studied art with Charles Mussett.

Hamblett developed her own pointillism technique – a form of painting in which tiny dots of primary-colors are used to generate secondary colors – using dots of bold, vibrant colors to create her compositions. “Now I use oil paints,” she told Bill Ferris who recorded her words in the 1982 book, Local Color: A Sense of Place. “Most of my colors, I mix with white to use. And, its funny, but most of the paintings I do for other people, they like my yellow better than any other color… On my trees, I always put two coats of paint: red over yellow. That yellow underneath makes the red show up better. I just automatically grew into doing that, putting two coats of paint on the leaves.”

Hamblett regarded 1954 as the turning point in her life. She had begun painting a dream she experienced thirty years earlier, but before the painting was finished she broke her hip. On the operating table she “promised my Savior on that occasion that if he wanted me to finish that painting and to paint others, I would try…if he would help me get well.” She finished it while still in a wheelchair and it was immediately bought by Betty Parsons, of Betty Parsons Gallery in New York, who happened to be in Oxford, Mississippi, visiting friends. Betty Parsons not only sold the painting to a donor who gave it to the Museum of Modern

Art, but she also became Hamblett’s New York dealer – selling Theora Hamblett paintings to numerous collectors.

Symbols of Faith, Home, and Beyond, is a collection of Hamblett’s works representing childhood games of fox on the wall and the mulberry bush, and beautiful trees her Papa so loved; however, dreams and visions remained at the front of Hamblett’s mind. She considered the paintings of her dreams and visions to be her most important works, and she chose not to sell them. Among the most intense emotional experiences of Theora Hamblett’s life were her visions of her father and her brother Hubert after their deaths. Hubert Is Gone, was seen at the time of his death; Angel’s Request, some years after her father had died. Visions of her father recurred all her life; she thought of him as her guardian angel, and a face with a long white beard resembling his appears in many of her paintings.¹ Theora Hamblett continued painting until she died in 1977. ___________________________ ¹ Lucy Turnbull, O Look! Heaven is Coming to Earth: Dreams and Visions of Theora Hamblett (exhibition catalogue, University Museums, The University of Mississippi, Oxford), date unknown.

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EDUCATION

Museum to Participate in Marking 50th Anniversary of Medgar Evers’ Death The Mississippi Museum of Art is privileged to present the exhibition Portraits of Medgar and Myrlie Evers by Jason Bouldin and Paintings by Mary Lovelace O’Neal to commemorate the life and legacy of Medgar Wiley Evers and to honor the work that he and his widow Myrlie Evers have done to advance civil rights in America.

Medgar Wiley Evers was the first field secretary in Mississippi for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He was assassinated in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 12, 1963.

Jason Bouldin has been described by American Artist magazine as “a gifted artist who has already established himself as a portrait and landscape painter.” He received the Portrait Society of America’s top prize for one of his portraits in 2002, and has shown nine times at the prestigious Royal Society of Portrait Artists, London, England. Although primarily a portraitist, he is also an accomplished landscape and still life studies painter.

On the day of Evers’ death, artist Mary Lovelace O’Neal came home to Jackson on break from Howard University (Washington, D. C.) and, in the days afterward, met with civil rights activists to respond to the assassination. In her artistic career, instead of assuming the figurative and politically charged aesthetic expected of African American artists of the time, her choice to pursue an artistic production anchored in Abstract Expressionism set her in a direction of her own towards the Civil Rights Movement’s more inclusive aesthetic language.

This exhibition opens to the public on Tuesday, June 11, and is on view through August 18, 2013. Cost: Free to the public.

The law firm of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell, & Berkowitz, P.C. underwrote the portrait of Mr. Evers and raised the funds to pay for Mrs. Evers’ portrait from twenty-seven Mississippi women. Additionally, the firm is the generous sponsor for this exhibition.

Related Events The Medgar & Myrlie Evers Institute is organizing events with museums, universities, foundations, and national organizations across the country in marking one of the most historic events of the Civil Rights Movement.

An International Day of Remembrance is planned for Wednesday, June 12.

Local event planners have been working with the Museum to host a “Community Celebration on the Green” that day in The Art Garden.

The event, scheduled for 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., will feature music, art, a food festival and literacy fair, along with reflections and book signings by historians and authors. For a full lineup of the week’s activities and tickets, visit www.eversinstitute.org.

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Art in Mind The Art in Mind program, a collaboration between the Mississippi Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association and the Mississippi Museum of Art, is specifically designed to meet the needs of persons with early-stage dementia and their caregivers. The program takes place at the Museum on the 4th Wednesday of January, April, July, and October at 10 AM and includes an experience in the Museum’s galleries as well as a hands-on component in the studio classroom. The program is free and open to the public but registration is required through the staff of the Alzheimer’s Association. Forms can be found on the MMA website following the Community Programs tab under the Education heading. Or contact Sara Murphy, Community Outreach Coordinator of the Alzheimer’s Association at 601.987.0020.

Artist Andy Hilton is shown working with Artful Afternoon participants on a mosaic project.

Artful Afternoons Continuing its partnership with Midtown Partners, in 2013 the Museum is once again offering “Artful Afternoons,” a high-quality, after-school program for about fifteen fifth graders at Brown Elementary. Led by Master Teaching Artist Ginger Williams-Cook, program activities include an intensive summer art camp, where students focus on a documentary photography project of their neighborhood; bi-monthly studio art classes, incorporating themes of neighborhood, public spaces, and public art into each class; and a culminating student-created public art installation in the Midtown Neighborhood. Generously funded by the Walker Foundation, this program has helped the Museum strengthen its involvement and commitment to the surrounding community and has become a cornerstone of the Museum’s educational outreach initiatives.

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The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards of 2013 The Mississippi Museum of Art is pleased to recognize Mississippi’s outstanding art students whose work was selected for inclusion in The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards of 2013 Mississippi Regional Competition. The Museum has hosted the regional competition for more than thirty years.

One thousand statewide entries in a wide variety of visual art categories, including painting, drawing, mixed media, photography, sculpture, graphic design, animation, textile fiber design, as well as art and photography portfolios were reviewed by a panel of local, independent judges.

Of the 1,000 entries, twenty-eight works received Gold Key Awards, 103 received Silver Key Awards, and 254 received Woman Ironing by Stephen Barnes Honorable Mention. Five Gold Key works were selected for American Visions Award nominations as best of show in the regional competition: Ade’Doyin Adydun, Mississippi School for the Arts, Cleopatra 2; Stephen Barnes, Power APAC, Self Portrait and Woman Ironing; Jasmine Redmond, Mississippi School for the Arts, East vs. West; and MaryHannah Smith, Jackson Preparatory School, Poise.

In the Writing Competition, five Gold Key students were presented American Voices Award nominations: Jess Bennett, Clinton High School, “Jediah and Jenny”; Merrilee Bufkin, Mississippi School for the Arts, “Tactile”; Lauren Ladner, Ocean Cleopatra 2 by Ade'Doyin Ayedun Springs Middle School, “Between Sand and Sky”; Joseph Messer, Mississippi School of Math and SciEast vs. West by Jasmine Redmond ence, “Golf and Granddad”; and Lee Schmidt, St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, “Rebecca.” Merrilee Bufkin also received a Gold Key for her Writing Portfolio, a collection of work in different genres. A total of thirty students earned Gold Key recognition, twenty-seven students earned Silver Key, and fifty Honorable Mentions were awarded. All American Voices winners and Gold Key winners were sent to New York for national adjudication. This is the fifth year that the Welty House and the Welty Foundation have hosted the writing competition for the state of Mississippi.

Established in 1923 by M. R. Robinson, who also founded Scholastic, Inc., The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are open to students in grades 7 – 12, recoginizing outstanding achievement in the arts. The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, Inc. is the non-profit organization that administers the program. Located in New York City, the Alliance overPoise by Mary-Hannah Smith sees all national judging.

This year’s competition and awards ceremony were sponsored by

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IN THE ART GARDEN C3: Creativity. Conversation. Community.

The Art Garden at the Mississippi Museum of Art serves as the site of a unique and original project as part of the Museum’s ongoing series C3: Creativity. Conversation.

Community. Last year, the inaugural participatory art installation was entitled Cocoon Jackson, and was led by New York artist Kate Browne. This year’s C3 project was presented by the Charleston, South Carolina-based visual artist team of Gwylène Gallimard and Jean-Marie Mauclet (JEMAGWGA). Subtitled “The Future Is on the Table,” The Art Garden was the site of the duo’s fourth art-in-community installation, part of a series which the artists began in 2003. With the input of local artists and civic leaders, five Jackson landmarks or neighborhoods were identified as areas of diversity, activity, and emerging interest: Farish Street/The Arts; Midtown/Urban Renewal; Operation Shoestring/Art Education; Mississippi State Capitol/Public Policies; and Tougaloo College/Civil Rights. During the first three weeks of March, Gallimard and Mauclet led participants in designing and building three-dimensional sculptures of a landmark or neighborhood representing each area. The sculptures (or props) became “containers” for dialogue, workshops, and events; a space for the growth of hopes and dreams with Jackson in mind. In addition to these structures, participants recreated Jackson’s creeks to serve as visual links between the pieces and as carriers of images, thoughts, and dreams for the city.

During the Spring and Fall, Live at Lunch and High Note Jam attract large and diverse audiences to The Art Garden. Live musical performances are presented on the C Spire Stage. Live at Lunch is sponsored by Pepsi and High Note Jam by Budweiser and the Greater Jackson Arts Council.

The Mississippi

Museum of Art

and Crossroads

Film Society

present an

outdoor film series on the BankPlus Green in The Art Garden. Funding for Screen on the Green is generously provided

by The Clarion-Ledger and Gannett Foundation.

To learn more and to become involved in future C3 projects, email cpeaster@msmuseumart.org.

This year’s project was made possible by funding from Alternate ROOTS and the Ford Foundation through the ROOTS Tour & Residency Program. Additional support was provided by a Challenge America Fast-Track Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Garden Partners Ree Ridgway Walden, Sharon McReery, and Erin Orgeron take a break from their gardening duties.

Town Creek Arts Festival/ Town Creek Art Remix

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There are few things Mississippians enjoy more than a sunny October day; to be sure, being outdoors on such a day is one of them. For a second year, The Art Garden provided the perfect setting for just that, serving as the host site of Town Creek Arts Festival and Town Creek Art Remix.

Held on the first Saturday in October, Town Creek Arts Festival began in the morning and featured Mississippi artists, craftsmen, local food vendors, and live performances on the C Spire Stage. The family-friendly event included hands-on activities for children and encounters with art in a variety of forms on the BankPlus Green.

That evening, Town Creek Art Remix kicked off with Jackson’s own Southern Komfort Brass Band, which was followed on the C Spire Stage by headliner group Uncle Lucius, an Austinbased indie rock band. Guests enjoyed dancing from dusk to under the stars. Some simply enjoyed the music while lounging with family and friends on the BankPlus Green.

Events in The Art Garden are supported by

Volunteer Opportunities in The Art Garden Now that Spring is here, The Art Garden is sprouting and blooming in great abundance, which means it’s time for some hands-on care. We currently have a wonderful corps of volunteers working as Garden Partners led by Susan Hill, but we’d love more. Our Garden Partners work on a Tuesday and Friday (or both) schedule, and begin around 9:30 AM. Garden duties include light weeding and creating casual floral arrangements for placement inside the Museum. A master gardening degree is NOT required; just love of the outdoors.

Contact Nan Graves Goodman at the Museum at 601.960.1515 or ngravesgoodman@msmuseumart.org. Annual membership fee in the Garden Partners is $35 per person/$50 per couple, along with Museum membership.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), Jane Avril Leaving the Moulin Rouge, 1892. essence on board. 33.75 x 27.5 in. Bequest of George Gay, 1941.163.

EXHIBITIONS EXHIBITIONS

ONGOING

The Mississippi Story The Gertrude C. Ford Galleries for the Permanent Collection Cost: Free to the public.

Pre-Columbian Ceramics Public Corridor Cost: Free to the public.

William Dunlap’s Panorama of the American Landscape Trustmark Grand Hall Cost: Free to the public.

CURRENT through June 2, 2013

Blue White Red, Red White Blue: French and American Art from the Permanent Collection William B. and Isabel R. McCarty Foundation Gallery In this exhibition, French artworks from the Baroque period (1600s) through the early twentieth century are juxtaposed with American works from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries. Artworks by French masters in the show include works on paper by Pierre Bonnard, Paul Cézanne, Claude Lorraine, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Also featured are figure drawings and landscapes by prominent American artists including Childe Hassam, G. Ruger Donoho, Chauncey Ryder, and Mary Cassatt. Cost: Free to the public through September 8, 2013

Old Masters to Monet: Three Centuries of French Painting from the Wadsworth Atheneum THE ANNIE LAURIE SWAIM HEARIN MEMORIAL EXHIBITION SERIES

The Donna and Jim Barksdale Galleries for Changing Exhibitions

Old Masters to Monet features fifty masterpieces from the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut. The outstanding artworks provide a history of French painting, ranging from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries and into the beginning of the twentieth century and include religious and mythological subjects, portraits, landscapes, still lifes, and genre scenes. Cost: $12 adults, $10 seniors (60+), $6 students age 6 - college, FREE children 5 and under, FREE Museum members (includes admission to Symbols of Faith, Home, and Beyond: The Art of Theora Hamblett). Group tours are available. Call 601.960.1515 to schedule a tour.

through June 23, 2013

Symbols of Faith, Home, and Beyond:The Art of Theora Hamblett The Donna and Jim Barksdale Galleries for Changing Exhibitions The Mississippi Museum of Art is pleased to present Symbols of Faith, Home, and Beyond, a survey of more than forty of Theora Hamblett’s best works from the Collection of the University of Mississippi Museum and Historic Houses. Hamblett, born in Paris, Mississippi, in 1895, has been described as “the most recognized visionary painter in America.” She began painting at the age of fifty-five, creating hundreds of scenes of early-day remembrances like the childhood games “Drop the Handkerchief” and “Ring Around the Rosie,” as well as many of her own dreams and visions. This exhibition explores different memories of faith, home, and beyond through the eyes of this master Mississippi artist. This exhibition is sponsored by BancorpSouth. Cost: $12 adults, $10 seniors (60+), $6 students age 6 – college, FREE children 5 and under, FREE Museum members (includes admission to Old Masters to Monet).

UPCOMING June 11, 2013 - August 18, 2013

Portraits of Medgar and Myrlie Evers by Jason Bouldin and Paintings by Mary Lovelace O’Neal William B. and Isabel R. McCarty Foundation Gallery This exhibition is sponsored by Baker, Donelson, Bearman & Berkowitz, P.C. Cost: Free to the public

June 29–September 8, 2013

Mississippi Hill Country Blues: Photographs by George Mitchell The Donna and Jim Barksdale Galleries for Changing Exhibitions This exhibition showcases seventy-five photographs, only a small portion of the images that George Mitchell captured in the hill country of Mississippi. Mississippi Blues artists such as Jessie Mae Hemphill, Ada Mae Anderson, R.L. Burnside, and Joe Callicott are depicted in the environments that influenced the hill country Blues they lived and sang about. Cost: $12 adults, $10 seniors (60+), $6 students age 6 – college, FREE children 5 and under, FREE Museum members (includes admission to Old Masters to Monet).

August 24, 2013 – January 12, 2014

Italian Art from the Collection William B. and Isabel R. McCarty Foundation Gallery This exhibition includes works on paper from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries by Italian artists including Canaletto, Simone Cantarini, Orazio Farinati, and Girolamo Imperiale.

Works on paper by Italian-born artist Luigi Lucioni and by American artists of Italian scenes are also shown. Cost: Free to the public October 12, 2013 – January 12, 2014

An Italian Palette Watercolor Paintings by Wyatt Waters The Donna and Jim Barksdale Galleries for Changing Exhibitions Paintings featured in the recipe book, An Italian Palette by Robert St. John (soon to be released) Cost: $5 adults, $4 seniors (60+), $3 students age 6 – college, FREE children 5 and under, FREE museum members 11

CALENDAR Look and Learn with Hoot

MAY 2013

JUNE 2013

Wednesday, May 22

Tuesday, June 4

Live at Lunch

11:30 AM – 1:30 PM Experience live music during your lunch hour!

Bring your own lunch or purchase lunch at The Palette Café by Viking. This week’s performers are Andrew Dillon and Jonathan Yargates.

Sponsored by Pepsi s e Thursday, May 23

Screen on the Green The Art Garden 6 PM cash bar and concessions movie at dusk The Mississippi Museum of Art and the Crossroads Film Society present an outdoor film series in The Art Garden. This month’s movie is “The Pink Panther Strikes Again.” Funding for Screen on the Green is generously provided by The Clarion-Ledger and Gannett Foundation.

Cost: Free to the public, cash bar ● n s Wednesday, May 29

Live at Lunch

11:30 AM – 1:30 PM Experience live music during your lunch hour!

Bring your own lunch or purchase lunch at The Palette Café by Viking. This week’s performer is Brady Stewart. Sponsored by Pepsi. s e

The Museum School June Sessions Little Masters 5-7 year olds or rising K-2nd grade June 10-14 June 17-21 June 24-28 9AM-noon Monday - Friday Class Size: 15 students Cost: $170 per session ● u

Young Artists 8-10 year olds or rising 3-5th grades June 17-21 June 24-28 9AM-4PM Monday - Friday Class size: 15 students Cost: $240 per session ● u

The Story of Impressionism Trustmark Grand Hall 5:30 PM cash bar 6 – 7 PM program Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, Ph.D., an art historian and the founder and director of the New York Arts Exchange, presents an illustrated lecture about the development of Impressionism in French art.

This program is sponsored by the Alliance Française de Jackson. Free and open to the public s e

Tuesday, June 11

Music in the City Trustmark Grand Hall 5:15 PM hors d’oeuvres and cash bar 5:45 PM program In partnership with St. Andrew’s Cathedral, the Museum hosts James Sclater and Angela Willoughby in a concert of chamber music for clarinet and piano. This event is sponsored by Wise Carter Child & Caraway, P.A. Cost: Free, donations welcome s e Wednesday, June 12

Community Celebration on the Green The Art Garden 10 AM - 2 PM Community celebration marking 50th anniversary of the death of Medgar Evers featuring music, art, food, and literacy fair. For a full lineup of activities and tickets visit www.eversinstitute.org s e Tuesday, June 18

New Collectors Club Guided Tour Robert Rector’s Studio 6 PM Robert Rector, Jackson Mississippi, visual artist, guides the New Collectors Club through his studio. This event is open to members of the New Collectors Club. For more information about joining the New Collectors Club, contact Nan Graves Goodman at 601.960.1515 or at ngravesgoodman@msmuseumart.org. The New Collectors Club is sponsored by Corbin & Associates, PLLC. s Thursday, June 20

Screen on the Green

Sundays in

The Art Garden

Dog Day Afternoon

noon - 5 PM Pet owners are invited to bring their dogs to the Museum on Sundays to enjoy the outdoors and companionship in The Art Garden.

The Art Garden 6 PM cash bar and concessions movie at dusk The Mississippi Museum of Art and the Crossroads Film Society present an outdoor film series in The Art Garden. This month’s movie is “Moonrise Kingdom.” Funding for Screen on the Green is generously provided by The ClarionLedger and Gannett Foundation. Cost: Free to the public, cash bar ● n s Friday, June 21

Please note that these dates and events are subject to change. Visit www.msmuseumart.org for up-tothe-minute schedule.

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Look and Learn with Hoot 10:30 AM This educational opportunity for children up to five years of age and their parents emphasizes creative play and literacy through a hands-on art activity and story time. (Hoot, a friendly owl, is

the Museum’s education mascot.) Please dress for mess! 45-minute program. Sponsored by Jackson Healthcare for Women and Woman’s Hospital. Cost: Free to the public ● n Saturday, June 22

Open Studio

2 – 4 PM Visitors of all ages are invited to explore their inner artist in our Open Studio. Explore the creative process related to an exhibition or a particular artist represented in the Museum’s collection. You’ll leave with an original work of art created by you! Children ten and under must be supervised by an adult. Cost: Free for members/$5 for non-members ● n JULY 2013

The Museum School July Sessions Mini Matisse 3-4 year olds with caregivers July 29-31 10-11:30 AM Monday - Wednesday Class size: 8 students plus caregivers Cost: $75 per session ● u

Young Artists 8-10 year olds or rising 3-5th grades July 8-12 9 AM-4 PM Monday - Friday Class size: 15 students Cost: $240 per session ● u

Studio I 11-13 year olds or rising 6-8th grades July 15-19 July 22-26 9 AM-4 PM Monday - Friday Class Size: 12 students Cost: $250 per session ● u

Studio II 14-17 year olds or rising 9-12th grades July 22-26 July 29-August 2 9 AM-4 PM Monday - Friday Class Size: 12 students Cost: $250 per session ● u

Tuesday, July 16

Music in the City Trustmark Grand Hall 5:15 PM hors d’oeuvres and cash bar 5:45 PM program In partnership with St. Andrew’s Cathedral, the Museum hosts Thomas Lowe and John Paul – Sonata in G Major for piano and violin by Beethoven. This event is sponsored by Wise Carter Child & Caraway, P.A. Cost: Free to the public, donations welcome s e Friday, July 19

Look and Learn with Hoot 10:30 AM This educational opportunity for children up to five years of age and their parents emphasizes creative play and literacy through a hands-on art activity and story time. (Hoot, a friendly owl, is the Museum’s education mascot.) Please dress for mess! 45-minute program. Cost: Free to the public ● n Wednesday, July 24

Art in Mind

10 – 11:45 AM This free, public program, presented in partnership with the Mississippi Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association, is an art program for persons with dementia and their caregivers developed from a growing body of research that recognizes the positive effects of art on the mind. The program lasts for approximately one hour and includes art viewing activities in the galleries as well as a hands-on experience in the studio. A complete registration form must be submitted by the 15th of the month in which you are seeking to attend and processed by the staff of the Alzheimer’s Association. Cost: Free, pre-registration required u AUGUST 2013

The Museum School August sessions: Mini Matisse 3-4 year olds and thier caregivers August 5-7 10-11:30 AM Monday - Wednesday Class size: 8 students plus caregivers Cost: $75 per session ● u Tuesday, August 6

Music in the City Trustmark Grand Hall 5:15 PM hors d’oeuvres and cash bar 5:45 PM program In partnership with St. Andrew’s Cathedral, the Museum hosts John Paul, pianist – preludes

and fugues from the Well Tempered Clavier of Bach with lessons. This event is sponsored by Wise Carter Child & Caraway, P.A. Cost: Free to the public, donations welcome s e

Friday, August 16

Look and Learn with Hoot 10:30 AM This educational opportunity for children up to five years of age and their parents emphasizes creative play and literacy through a hands-on art activity and story time. (Hoot, a friendly owl, is the Museum’s education mascot.) Please dress for mess! 45-minute program. Cost: Free to the public ● n

Thanks to the generous sponsors that support these continuing programs at the Mississippi Museum of Art.

Art in Mind

High Note Jam

SEPTEMBER 2013 Friday, September 6, through Sunday, September 8

Old Masters to Monet Final Weekend Mississippi Museum of Art Don’t miss your final opportunity to see the outstanding artworks in Old Masters to Monet: Three Centuries of French Painting from the Wadsworth Atheneum. Cost: $12 adults $10 seniors (60+), $6 students (6 – college) , FREE children 5 and under, FREE Museum members s

Live at Lunch

Look and Learn with Hoot

Tuesday, September 10

Music in the City

Trustmark Grand Hall 5:15 PM hors d’oeuvres and cash bar 5:45 PM program In partnership with St. Andrew’s Cathedral, the Museum hosts Hristo Hristov and Shawn Leopard – sonatas for viola and piano by J.S. Bach. This event is sponsored by Wise Carter Child & Caraway, P.A. Cost: Free to the public, donations welcome s e

Screen on the Green

Music in the City

OCTOBER 2013 Saturday, October 5 Town Creek Arts Festival ● n sut e Wednesday, October 23

Art in Mind

10 – 11:45 AM This free, public program, presented in partnership with the Mississippi Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association, is an art program for persons with dementia and their caregivers developed from a growing body of research that recognizes the positive effects of art on the mind. The program lasts for approximately one hour and includes art viewing activities in the galleries as well as a hands-on experience in the studio. A complete registration form must be submitted by the 15th of the month in which you are seeking to attend and processed by the staff of the Alzheimer’s Association. Cost: Free, pre-registration required u

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Children Family General Interest The Museum School Volunteers Music

Unburied Treasures:

Admission Free Tuesdays and Thursdays:

Support for The Art Garden

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IN MEMORIAM

Isabel began her association with the Museum in its

Isabel McCarty

Betsy Bradley presents flowers to Esther Dawson, Volunteer of the Year in 2003.

very early days as a fledgling arts organization when it was housed in the Municipal Art Gallery (the Museum’s first home). She was ardent patron until her death. Over the years, she remained closely involved with the Museum in numerous capacities, serving as a trustee and as a long-time member of the Museum’s Acquisitions and Collections Committee, in which role her art history expertise had its greatest impact. Her keen eye and thoughtful participation as a committee member led to the Museum’s acquisition of some of its most important holdings. Her legacy, however, lies in the many beautiful pieces of artwork that Isabel personally gave to the Museum. It is an understatement to say that Isabel and husband Bill were two of the Museum’s most generous and benevolent supporters, who would genuinely consider these few words unwarranted. We are pleased, however, that their names will remain a visible part of the Museum’s future, as they appear over the entrance to the William B. and Isabel R. McCarty Foundation Gallery.

Within the span of one month, the Museum lost three of its most beloved members Esther, too, was a long-time Museum patron and voland volunteers: Isabel McCarty, unteer. For more than thirty years, Esther kept a regular Esther Dawson, and Myrt Glatzer. schedule of promptly reporting for duty every Wednesday at 10 AM. You could set your watch (and calendar) by her.

While every Museum member is She willingly helped the Museum staff in all manner of work, important, these three rose to the top including general office assistant, research and documentation assistant, front-desk greeter, and audio guide assistant. through their extraordinary concern Over the years, Esther donated artwork and books to the for and dedication to the Museum, Museum from her personal collection. She was a true lover and supporter of the arts, and a treasured part of the its staff, and their fellow members. Museum family.

Myrt Glatzer

Myrt was Esther’s “bookend” volunteer, faithfully serving as front-desk greeter each Wednesday afternoon. Another long-time patron, Myrt gave hundreds of hours of her time to the Museum, working in various capacities to assist the staff and public. As with Isabel and Esther, the staff also considered Mryt family. She cheerfully greeted us with her “howdy” and entertained us with her wry wit.

There are simply not enough “thank yous” to adequately express our appreciation to these three individuals. Though we mourn their loss, the Museum’s staff and visitors will enjoy the fruits of their labor for many years to come.

Thomas Sully (American, born England, 1783 – 1872), Contemplation – The Poetess, 1846. oil on canvas. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William B. McCarty, Jr. 1988.016.

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MUSEUM STAFF NEWS

MMA Welcomes New Chief Curator The Museum is honored to welcome Roger Ward as Chief Curator. In this role, Roger provides staff oversight of the Museum’s artistic agenda including acquisitions and collection development, display of the permanent collection, the development and implementation of special exhibitions, publications, and conservation.

Roger brings more than thirty years of curatorial, management, and teaching experience to his new post.

A native of Wichita, Kansas, he graduated from the University of Kansas with a double major in the History of Art and the History of Europe in the Renaissance. He then studied as a Marshall Scholar, Chester Dale Fellow, and Kress Foundation Fellow at the prestigious Courtauld Institute of Art of the University of London (UK) from which he received both his MA and PhD degrees in sixteenth-century European art with a specialization in Florentine and Roman art of the sixteenth century. Widely known for his expertise as a connoisseur of Italian drawings and paintings, Roger has lectured at museums around the world from New York to London to Sydney and at many venues in the United States.

From 1982 to 2001, Roger held the position of Curator of European Art at Kansas City’s renowned Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and from 2001 to 2011 he was the Chief Curator and Deputy Director of the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida. Since mid 2011, he has been employed as a consultant by the Historical Society of Palm Beach County; as Adjunct Curator of Collections by the Bass Museum of Art (Miami Beach); as an expert advisor by the Department of Homeland Security for the restitution of artworks confiscated in Europe during the Nazi era; and as a consultant by numerous private collectors in south Florida. He is currently engaged as a guest curator by the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence (Italy), of an exhibition which opens there in April, 2014.

Museum Director Betsy Director said, “After a long and thoughtful search, it was ultimately Roger’s combined experience, knowledge, and vision which led us to offer him this position. We are confident in his abilities to reinforce the Museum’s mission of engaging Mississippians in the visual arts as he leads an incredibly gifted curatorial staff.”

Museum and Art Garden Named Best of Readers of the Jackson Free Press have voted the Mississippi Museum of Art as Best Arts Organization and The Art Garden as Best Community Garden/Nature Attraction of 2013.

The Museum also received Good Showing as Best Tourist Attraction and Best Museum, while The Art Garden was awarded a Good Showing as Best Place to Get Married. The Museum is grateful to everyone who voted for us, and we’ll do all we can to honor your votes while we strive to earn new ones!

The Museum is pleased to announce the addition of the following new staff members.

Each brings extraordinary knowledge, experience, and skills that reinforce the Museum’s mission of engaging Mississippians in the visual arts.

Jillien Fry joined the Museum staff March 1 as Director of Member Services. In this capacity, Jillien maintains all Museum membership and donor files, and assists in the development and of materials relative to corporate and individual solicitations as well as general membership drives.

Kathryn Kelso joined the staff as Events Coordinator in October of last year. As Events Coordinator, Kathryn’s responsibilities include working with the Director of Events and Facility Rental to ensure that special events are planned and executed to the customer’s satisfaction.

Kathleen Funches Varnell joined the staff as Curatorial Associate at the beginning of this year. In her position, Kathleen visualizes, designs, and installs gallery spaces for changing exhibitions. She is also responsible for designing and producing text panels, labels, graphics, and signage for the galleries.

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THE ART SCENE Music in the City

Jackie McGinnis is accompanied by John Paul during a presentation of Music in the City.

The monthly programs are sponsored by Wise Carter Child & Caraway, P. A.

The Bethlehem Tree

During a special presentation of Music in the City, St. Andrew’s choirmaster John Paul leads caroling during the Lighting of the Bethlehem Tree.

The 2012 Bethlehem Tree installation was sponsored

by St. Dominic’s.

Hilda Stuart (third from left) is pictured with her daughter Jennifer, discussion moderator Tom Rankin, her husband John, and son Marty Stuart and his wife Connie Smith.

Book Celebration and Signing In partnership with Lemuria Books and The Nautilus Publishing Company, the Museum hosted a book celebration and signing of Hilda Stuart’s book Choctaw Gardens, a collection of black and white and color photographs taken in and around her home in Neshoba County.

A selection of Stuart’s photographs was on view during the evening, which concluded with a special performance

by Grand Ole Opry stars Marty Stuart and Connie Smith.

Connie Smith and Marty Stuart

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The life and art of William Hollingsworth was the feature of an Unburied Treasures presentation.

Unburied Treasures: Greatest Hits

In 2012, this popular lecture series featured some of the Museum’s most significant works of art. In conjunction with To Paint and Pray: The Art and Life of William R. Hollingsworth, Jr., one of the monthly installments featured an illustrated lecture about the artist’s art and life. The series is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Jumanities and Mississippi Humanities.

To Paint and Pray . . . . . . The Art and Life of William R. Hollingsworth, Jr. premiered with a reception for Museum members and members of the Hollingsworth family. Guests were especially pleased to be in the company of Mr. Hollingsworth’s son William R. Hollingsworth, III (Brother Anselm Hollingsworth). A variety of special programs attended the exhibition, attracting a wide audience during its four-month run.

Robin Dietrick, Betsy Bradley, and William R. Hollingsworth, III (Brother Anselm Hollingsworth) The exhibition was generously sponsored by Adams and Reese LLP and Regions.

A packed trolley toured Hollingsworth’s Jackson – “Then and Now.”

Artists by Artists

Guest curator and artist David Lambert and other Mississippi artists featured in Artists by Artists discuss capturing the likenesses of fellow artists. Pictured are Andrew Cary Young, P. Sanders McNeal, Lambert, Jerrod Partridge, and Jere Allen. Artists by Artisits was sponsored by Horne CPAs and Business Advisors with additional support from the Greater Jackson Arts Council.

Art by Choice

Ellen and Curt Gabardi. Curt is president and CEO of Metropolitan Bank.

Bebe Wolfe is pictured with her and her father’s portraits painted by her mother Mildred Wolfe. All three were represented in the exhibition Artists by Artists.

The New Collectors Club hosted Art

by Choice, an exhibition, sale, and auction of artworks to benefit the Museum’s acquisition of new art and general operations. The event featured works from the Winston Wilkinson Collection, a selection of works by artists associated with Mississippi, and works from galleries in New York, Boston, Memphis, and New Orleans. Art by Choice was sponsored by Metropolitan Bank and Butler Snow. right above, Museum Chief Preparator L. C. Tucker presents artwork during the Art by Choice live auction. right, Liz and Art Spratlin, Michael Wilkinson, Jay Underwood. Art is associated with the law firm of Butler Snow.

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THE ART SCENE

CONTINUED

At the opening

Photo courtesy of VIP Jackson Magazine

The 2012 Rembrandt Society Dinner The Museum hosted the 25th annual Rembrandt Society dinner as a “thank you” to its top tier levels of membership. The elegant evening was generously sponsored for a second year by Stephens Inc. Additional support was provided

by BeauMad & Associates, Davaine Lighting, Great Southern Events, Kats Wine & Spirits, and Petal Pushers/David Spurk.

It runs in the family . . .

Young Rembrandt Society During the Fall, a group of young Museum supporters began meeting every few weeks to discuss ways The Rembrandt Society, the highest level of Museum membership, could better reach a new and younger generation of patrons. The group unanimously agreed to make some changes, both in name and in membership requirements. The former “Junior Rembrandt Society” is now the “The Young Rembrandt Society,” and the age cap has been increased from thirty-five to forty years of age. In addition, Young Rembrandts will receive an invitation to The Rembrandt Society annual dinner, complimentary exhibition catalogues produced by the Museum, and six MMA Comp Cards, which can be used for members’ guests or to gain free

Cynthia and Wayne Thames of Stephens, Inc.

Charter Rembrandt Society members Gayle and Holmes Adams are long-time active members of the Museum, with Holmes having served as Chairman of the Board in 1988.

Their daughter Gene and her husband Patrick Wright are continuing the family’s tradition of Museum patronage as charter members of The Young Rembrandt Society.

admission to a charged event other than fundraisers. Additionally, complimentary membership in the New Collectors Club is extended to ALL Rembrandt Society members. Annual membership in the The Young Rembrandt Society is $600, whereas the membership in The Rembrandt Society is $1000. The 2012 elegant black tie Rembrandt Society dinner was well attended by many new Young Rembrandt members. The Museum Gayle and Holmes Adams looks forward to increasing its numbers

in the The Young Rembrandt Society and wishes to thank the following volunteers who served on the planning committee for the dinner: Gene Wright, Kate Long, Kitty Bryant, Camille Allen Snyder, Katie McRae, Laurie Smith, and Laurie McRee. Gene and Patrick Wright

If you are interested in learning more about The Rembrandt Sociaety or Young Rembrandt Society please contact the museum at 601.960.1515.

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Robin Smith and Robin Dietrick Jason and Alicia Bouldin

Robert Langford and Walker Watters

One of the largest crowds in Museum history attended opening night festivities for Old Masters to Monet: Three Centuries of French Painting from the Wadsworth Atheneum.

The exhibition is on view through September 8.

Lynn Wilkins and Betsy Bradley

Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890), Self-Portrait, c. 1887. oil on canvas. 15 5/8 x 13 1/4 in. Collection of Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT. Gift of Philip L. Goodwin in memory of his mother, Josephine S. Goodwin, 1954.18

Old Masters to Monet Opening

Laurie Hearin McRee and Lanier McRee

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THE ART SCENE April in Paris Gala Features First Dinner in The Art Garden The Art Garden at the Mississippi Museum of Art was the perfect setting for this year’s major fundraising gala April in Paris, held in celebration of the exhibition Old Masters to Monet: Three Centuries of French Painting from the Wadsworth Atheneum. Gala sponsors enjoyed an inaugural seated dinner in The Art Garden under a starlit April sky and amid the shadows of a resplendently replicated Eiffel Tower.

They were treated to a delectable gourmet meal prepared by Chef Louis LaRose, while a strolling accordionist serenaded them with French music. Following dinner, The Vamps and the Magic City Sirens entertained guests as they walked the Bourgeois Bohemian Art Path to view and bid on silent auction artwork. In keeping au courant with Parisian style, clothiers Blithe and Vine and Kinkade’s Fine Clothing presented a fashion show of women’s and men’s attire. The evening was topped off with a live auction of three exclusive items: Snow Shower – Stock Tracks, an original artwork

by William Dunlap; self portrait, the Best in Show winner of the Museum’s Inaugural Juried Art Competition by Byron Pratt; and a seven nights’ stay at a Watercolor Resort condo in Seaside, Florida, during Seaside’s annual Seeing Red Wine Festival. Complimentary festival tickets were also included.

La Tour Eiffel Presenting Sponsor

Many thanks to this year’s gala committee: Jennifer and Peder Johnson, Chairs

Amy and David Felder

Mary Clift and Jerry Abdalla

Jennifer Hamm

Megan and Matt Allen

Carley and Cable Hawkins

Andy Barksdale

Brandon and Foster Kennedy

Phyllis Barr

Katherine and David McRae

Lauren and Maury Breazeale

Michelle and David Pharr

Cambi and William Burnham

Sarah Rusche and Scott Williams

Susan and Charles Copeland

Jessica and Josh Swain

Frances and Justin Croft

Jenny Tate and Richard Ladner

Collége de Sorbonne Arc de Triomphe

Musée du Louvre

Maison de Mode

Avenues des Champs-Élysées

K atherine & D av i d

McRae

The Gallery Guild, Inc. The Mapp Family Foundation

Inaugural Juried Art Competition

Gala Co-chair Peder Johnson and MMA Curatorial Associate Kathleen Varnell congratulate artist Byron Pratt on his painting self portrait, which earned the Best of Show Award in the Museum’s Inaugural Juried Art Competition.

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A major component of the April in Paris Gala was the Inaugural Juried Art Competition and Auction. In concert with the Museum, Gala co-chair Jennifer Johnson developed this premiere competition as an innovative way of introducing new and rising artists from the southeastern United States to local art collectors (both individual and corporate), while raising philanthropic dollars to support the Museum. Selected artwork was juried by a panel of professional experts who chose one work of art to receive the Best in Show Award and a monetary gift of $1,000. Byron Pratt’s self portrait

took top honors. In addition to the Best in Show Award, two prizes were awarded to artists whose work the jurors considered exceptional. The winner of The Rembrandt Society Award, Eileen Wallace for Fields of Snowy White, and the winner of the New Collec tors Club Award, Wendy Roussin for Shoreline III, each received $500. The Best in Show Award painting was offered during the gala’s live auction. All other art selected for inclusion in the Competition and Auction was presented in the evening’s silent auction. The three award-winning works will hang in the Museum through June 2, 2013.

NEW COLLECTORS CLUB New Collectors Club Members of the New Collectors Club enjoyed a full lineup of activities during the Fall and Winter months. Before Summer officially ended, Club members travelled in late August to Laurel and Hattiesburg where they toured the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Jennifer Torres’s sculpture studio, and Oddfellows Gallery. Fall activities kicked off with a reception in the home of Stacy and Jay Underwood at which members of the Arkansas Arts Center’s Collectors Group were honored. In October, members viewed the collection of Roy Winston Wilkinson in his Madison, Mississippi, home.

An all-day excursion to the Gulf Coast, which included visits to the Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Ocean Springs as well as to the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art and the Dusti Bongé Art Foundation in Biloxi, filled the November slot. In December, the Club hosted “Collecting 101,” a panel discussion which addressed the fundamentals of buying art. The start of the New Year featured a portrait painting demonstration by Jason Bouldin. Club members and the general public were treated to Jason’s creative process and engaging narrative as he rendered a beautiful likeness of fellow artist and former Museum staff member Dan Piersol. And last up, the New Collectors Club and the Museum hosted Art by Choice, an exhibition, sale, and auction of artworks to benefit the Museum. The event was generously sponsored by Metropolitan Bank and Butler Snow.

On another note, Beth Batton, the Museum’s staff liaison who has worked with the Club since its inception, is turning her responsibilities over to the Museum’s Director of Development Nan Graves Goodman. Nan has already begun working with Club President Steven Chevalier and member Mike Lightsey on new and exciting plans for 2013. One of the first programs of the year took place at the Museum in April. Director Betsy Bradley and Chief Curator Roger Ward led a conversation about art, curating, and museums.

If you are interested in joining the New Collectors Club, please contact Nan by calling 601.960.1515 or by at the Museum emailing her at ngravesgoodman@msmuseumart.org. All Museum members are welcome to join for a nominal fee.

As of November, 2012, members at all levels of the The Rembrandt Society receive complimentary membership in the New Collectors Club.

Mike and Deb Lightsey are pictured with artist Mark Brown.

Jason Bouldin presented a portrait demonstration in conjunction with the Artists by Artists exhibition. He and his subject, Dan Piersol, both had work in the show.

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Corbin and Associates sponsor the New Collectors Club.

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STATEWIDE AFFILIATES

Statewide Affiliate Network Continues to Grow The United States District Court Northern District of Mississippi is the latest addition to the Museum’s ever-expanding Statewide Affiliate Network. The Federal Courthouse, located in Oxford, officially became the Museum’s thirty-first affiliate in November with its presentation of William Ferris’s photographs, Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues. According to Court Clerk David Crews, “Our formerly barren, drab, unadorned Courthouse walls now tell a story with images from MMA’s collection of Blues Musicians. The character etched on these faces is now etched on our walls, capturing the attention of our many visitors.”

Previous to its Oxford engagement, the Greenville Arts Council presented Give My Poor Heart Ease at the Roger D. Malkin Gallery in the E. E. Bass Cultural Arts Center in celebration of the thirty-fifth annual Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival. In Greenville, the exhibition was sponsored by Beard + Riser Architects.

Affiliate exhibitions are organized by the Mississippi Museum of Art and are supported with funds provided by the Museum’s Statewide Traveling Exhibition Endowment, a fund made possible through significant private contributions matched by the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, with additional funding provided by the Mississippi Arts Commission’s Arts Reinvestment Initiative.

Connie Armstrong hangs one of thirty photographs by William Ferris outside a courtroom at the U. S. District Court in Oxford.

Photo courtesy of Bruce Newman/Oxford Eagle

Angela Eustache, Malcolm Eustache, Ken Fisher, and Andrea Fisher at the opening of Give My Poor Heart Ease

Tim Bixler, Betty Lynn Cameron, Sonya Bixler, Adrian Love, Peggy Scruggs, Chuck Jordan, and Jane Jordan at opening of Give My Poor Heart Ease

Upcoming 2013 Affiliate Exhibitions Schedule Please note that these dates are subject to change.

June – July 30 In Full Bloom: Garden Inspired Art from the Mississippi Museum of Art Gumtree Museum of Art, Tupelo August – October Herb & Dorothy: A Glimpse into Their Extraordinary Collection Mississippi State University, Starkville

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September 20 – November 31 Southern Expressions: Artworks from the Mississippi Museum of Art Museum of the Mississippi Delta, Greenwood October – November Mississippi Hill Country Blues: Photographs by George Mitchell Delta Blues Museum, Clarksdale

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Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890), Self-Portrait, c. 1887. oil on canvas. 15 5/8 x 13 1/4 in. Collection of Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT. Gift of Philip L. Goodwin in memory of his mother, Josephine S. Goodwin, 1954.18

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Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842), The Duchesse de Polignac Wearing a Straw Hat, (detail) 1782. oil on canvas.

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Acquired in honor of Kate M. Sellers, Eighth Director of the Wadsworth Atheneum, 2000–2003, 2002.13.1.

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