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NORTH STAR VITAMINS & HEALTH CENTER PROVIDES A NUTRITIONAL FOUNDATION Writer / Jane VanOsdol
The simple thing is not always the effortless thing. Clinical nutritionist and certified massage therapist Pamela Alboher-Ray, Ph.D., sees this frequently as she works with clients at North Star Vitamins and Health Center in Fishers. “Prevention is not an easy thing to sell,” she said. “But it’s true: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” For Alboher-Ray and her staff of five, education is the driving force behind what they do. They’ve helped countless individuals over the years by emphasizing a good nutritional foundation. This includes vitamin D, vitamin B-complex and a healthy gut biome. Once the basics are in place, Alboher-Ray can troubleshoot and fine-tune the process if more help is needed. SERVICES With 40 years of experience, Alboher-Ray has expertise in many areas: • Whole food recommendations • Purification and rejuvenation • Energy bodywork, including electro-acupuncture (no needles) • Aromatherapy • Thai massage
Professional and experienced guidance in implementing the following: • Diet • Vitamin, mineral, herbal, homeopathic, and neurotransmitter supplementation The store is organized into sections, including Brain Support, Probiotics, Kids, Intestinal, etc. Safety and accuracy are foundational, as misinformation can be perpetuated in the natural health industry. Alboher-Ray is available for office, phone, and email appointments. The staff also offers classes to the general public. “I think we are an amazing community spot and offer a great community service,” Alboher-Ray said. “Local doctors often recommend us to their patients.” North Star has built a trustworthy reputation over the years by offering accurate information with excellent products at reasonable prices. “We don’t oversell our clients,” she stressed. BACKGROUND Alboher-Ray has always been interested in health and thought
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she would pursue medicine. Two years into her college education, she found a summer job working in a hospital cancer ward as a receptionist. “It was really difficult witnessing what I witnessed,” she said. “It didn’t seem like this was helping people.” She took a year off from school and started researching natural healing modalities. Several professionals mentored her in the health food business, and she subsequently opened her first health food store in Castleton at the age of 24. Along the way, she earned her Ph.D. in clinical nutrition with an emphasis on blood sugar. She has never stopped learning and has thousands of hours of training along with certifications in many health modalities.
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KAREN MANGIA
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Karen Mangia, Vice President of Customer and Market Insights for SalesForce, recently discovered an old email exchange with a friend stating how “email was ridiculous and it would never catch on.” This is laughable now, but back then, the most radical idea was a handheld cell phone for talking, not texting. Since her college days, Mangia knew she wanted to work with customer data and took a nontraditional path to a tech career.
Karen enjoyed the constant change with AT&T, but Cisco was growing and she saw opportunity. Through a series of building blocks and choices at Cisco, Karen’s job ultimately transformed into what she had desired since college. She was the Nielsen ratings for Cisco. “I managed the annual survey process to customers,” says Karen, who performs a very similar job at SalesForce. “I assessed what was working and what wasn’t, where is the risk and sought market opportunities.
“I have been fascinated by why people make the choices they make, what are the trends, study the data points and weave together the story,” says Karen, who earned her undergrad and masters degrees at Ball State. “I wanted to work for Nielsen, until I discovered they were located in Iowa.”
“Like with anyone’s career path, every step is additive to the process as a whole. The steps lead someone somewhere. The technical data of customer feedback helps us figure out what to build next, what our customers want.”
Building her wheelhouse, Karen dug into project management and sales with AT&T before being recruited to Cisco.
Disruption is a concept Mangia has welcomed into her life time and again. Not all of the disruptions have been welcome, but all provided learning experiences. INDY METRO / JANUARY 2017 / TownePost.com
From a personal perspective, one pivotal moment in Karen’s life was backing out of a wedding after the invitations had been sealed and stamped. The longest car ride of Karen’s life was sitting in silence with her mother after her bridal shower on the way back to Karen’s home. Her mom pulled into a parking space and Karen started crying and told her mom not to unload the gifts. They would need to be returned. “The voice inside my head was screaming, DO NOT MARRY THIS GUY,” shares Karen. “By listening to the inner voice inside my head, I disrupted my entire life course and took a detour, which was my intended path all along.” The next major disruption occurred while Karen was working at Cisco. She was noticing signs something was not quite right. In her early 30s and experiencing success on many levels, she was displaying signs of fatigue. She justified her lowerthan-normal energy level as a result of
recently moved to a new house. Yet more symptoms were appearing. She told herself stories to explain the unwelcome signs her body was exhibiting. Karen’s health was in decline and she was doing her best to deny it. She became unrecognizable to herself in the mirror. Her hair was falling out, she had gained weight, her skin was yellow, and her once-vibrant blue eyes had turned grey. But she kept pushing herself as if nothing was wrong. She also started to forget where she placed things. “It was not until I couldn't remember my brother's name that I thought, ‘Oh my gosh. I can't ignore this any more,’” she shares. It was three and a half years before she was diagnosed with pesticide poisoning. Even in the midst of her health crisis, she did not slow down until she was forced to. She had to heal. Karen had to pay attention to what her inner voice — and her body — was telling her. “The first step is discovering what pushed the snowball down the mountain,” states Dr. Kevin Logan, Mangia’s physician. “Then a personalized prescription for diet and lifestyle changes are essential to the process of bringing the body back into balance.” It takes many lines of code to have a program perform as designed, and it takes time for your actions to propagate. The same applies to your health, especially when a body is in crisis. In her book Success With Less, Karen details her journey back to health. It’s not the physical healing that is dominant in the book, but more the emotional element that was her trigger. This healing opportunity impacted Karen’s approach to life. She was forced to audit her circumstances and figure out for herself what her idea of success looks like and how it needed to change.
“It's so easy to look at everyone else's life and find that success is easy for other people. ‘If I only had the right education, the right boss, the right job.’ But success is available to everyone,” she says. “The key piece is determining what success means to you and calibrating to that. Because when it is that definition, it is available to everyone. There is no key to a secret club. You create it.”
For more information, please visit: successwithless.net Follow Success With Less on Twitter and Facebook. Kara Kavensky, a freelance writer and storyteller. Follow her: Karakavensky.com; Facebook, Instagram and Twitter: @karakavensky.
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A more circuitous and unpredictable path could not have been had by Sun King President Bob Whitt with regards to his career, nor a more enjoyable one.
Bob’s previous work experience included Senator Lugar’s presidential campaign in 1995 and1996, where he worked with his wife, Ellen, a lawyer who spent 25 years in politics and public service at the state and federal level. She is now Executive Director for The Exchange at Marian University. During the campaign, Bob planned many rallies, fundraisers and additional events in the key primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire.
“The job I am in and the job I just left are both dream jobs,” says Bob. “I am fortunate enough to experience two in one lifespan.” Prior to Sun King, Bob served 11 years as the Executive Director of White River State Park, having been appointed by thenGovernor Mitch Daniels and reappointed by Mike Pence. The 250-acre downtown Indianapolis park includes the Indianapolis Zoo, White River Gardens, Eiteljorg Museum, Indiana State Museum, IMAX Theater, NCAA National Headquarters, The Lawn music venue, Victory Field (home of the Indianapolis Indians), Military Park and many other green spaces. “I was essentially the landlord, and was well prepared without knowing it in advance, as I understand event and property management,” shares Bob, who had worked for years as a commercial real estate
He started his career in business with some of the best sales and management training available at Xerox Corporation. He earned his MBA at University of Maryland while working for Xerox in Washington, D.C. The combination of his later commercial real estate development and brokerage experience, his personal obsession with food, wine, craft beer and the “locally grown and made” movement, his significant event experience and community/political involvement made him the ideal candidate for what the Sun King team needed, regardless of his lack of actual craft brewery experience. INDY METRO / JANUARY 2017 / TownePost.com
As part of the company’s initial push to help the community and create brand awareness, Sun King began popping up at local events in 2009. Bob noticed they seemed to be appearing all over the place. Sun King was located in downtown Indianapolis, so Bob dropped by and introduced himself. Walking into Sun King Brewery today looks dramatically different than it did at that time. The growth of Sun King has been exponential. The company exceeded its fiveyear production and sales goals within its first 18 months in business, creating a push for the state to raise the limit for allowable craft brewery production. “Originally, there were only a few tanks in that section,” says Bob, waving his hand towards the corner of the building. “I would occasionally come in, hang out, drink a beer, and get to know founders and brewers Clay Robinson and Dave Colt, plus partners Andy Fagg, Steve Koers, and Clay’s father, Omar.” As the relationship grew, Bob discovered they shared similar business philosophies regarding how a business should run responsibly, commitment to the community, and respect and treatment of employees. When Sun King first approached Bob
about replacing Omar, who was retiring as president, it came as a shock.
ties to the community. My vote was to go for it.”
“As Bob was considering making this major change, the thing that seemed to be holding him back was just how much he loved his work at White River State Park,” shares Ellen. “Even so, the opportunity at Sun King was the chance of a lifetime to join another team of extraordinarily talented and committed individuals and to add value to an already amazing organization with strong
Since joining the Sun King team in late April, 2016, Bob has worked every job in the brewery, starting in the tasting room. He’s traveled with the sales staff, worked the canning line, and has witnessed firsthand how all the moving parts work in sync. He described it as “Undercover Boss” without the disguise. Dave walked Bob through the brewing process by brewing a batch
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“A lot of people were curious why Sun King chose to bring on a new president with no experience in the world of brewing. But as a company that is transitioning from scrappy start-up into a mature business there is a whole different set of skills that are necessary for success,” Clay says. “Bob’s background and connections throughout the community, combined with his passion for all things local and his desire to help make Indiana a great place to live, work, and play, made him a great fit for Sun King.” Since inception, the commitment to a quality product is evident in the thoughtful consideration of each product Sun King produces. For example, it took Dave and Clay two years of research and a significant financial investment to make Sunlight Cream Ale and Wee Mac Scottish Ale shelf stable at room temperature for grocery stores. For care in distribution, most beers would just be thrilled to have third-party sales and distribution. While Sun King does have distribution throughout the state of Indiana, they self-distribute within Marion County and regularly clean the lines from
keg to tap, ensuring the highest quality beer reaches their customers. Sun King maintains a strong presence at numerous events. In 2016 they participated onsite or donated to more than 700 events. To date, Sun King has more than 350 community partner organizations and a full team focused exclusively upon community development. Sun King’s goal is to become Indiana’s beer, with plans to extend outreach through festivals and events in the bordering cities of Louisville, Cincinnati and Chicago. The intention is not to sell beer out of state, but to create the demand for those residents in Kentucky, Ohio, and Illinois to cross the state line to buy Sun King. Bob refers to Dave and Clay as the visionary driving forces behind the company, its innovative concoctions, and the expansion into spirits. “One of the ideas presented in their original business plan was to expand into distilling,” INDY METRO / JANUARY 2017 / TownePost.com
shares Bob. “With the rapid growth, other elements took precedence so now we are able to move forward with liquor.” The distillery will be built from the ground up in the Midtown District of Carmel with a prime location on the Monon Trail between Main Street and the Palladium. Construction is set to begin during the first quarter of 2017 with hopes of opening before the end of the year. "I worked closely with Bob as Sun King developed its plans for building something unique along our Monon Trail,” says Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard. “I am consistently impressed with his vision and ideals for how he sees Sun King growing in the future. We're pleased he chose Carmel for this new direction and we are happy to be sharing in his success." Indiana’s beer may also soon be Indiana’s spirits. For more information, please visit sunkingbrewing.com.
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“You really can live as close to local as possible if you know where to look,” says Mel McMahon Stone, which is why she, along with her husband, Lance, created Indiana Originals, a network of Indianaowned and founded businesses looking to serve Indiana residents. They hope to make it easy for Hoosiers to ensure their dollars benefit the local economy by providing a one-stop source for local products and service providers, rooted in their own communities. Mel’s passion for all things local comes from her strong Indiana roots. Born and raised in Irvington, Mel attended college at Indiana University in Bloomington and has never had the desire to leave the state she loves. “I love taking the road less traveled, literally,” Mel says. “I enjoy
getting off the interstate, taking the back roads and seeing the small towns, businesses, and people that make Indiana such a great place to live, work, and raise a family.” With more than 13 years in the Indianapolis radio and television scene, she has a strong history of supporting local businesses. Mel has worked both on air and as an account executive dedicated to helping local businesses. Lance’s love of all things local runs deep, as well. He grew up on a farm in Warren County and has always worked with locally owned businesses. It wasn’t the large chains from whom he and his family shopped, but rather it was from their neighbors and those rooted in the local community. That way of doing business stuck with him, and now he’s more passionate than ever about drawing attention to the locally owned businesses in our own community.
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Indiana Originals was launched in 2014 on a smaller scale, and then, for Mel, became a full-time business in 2015. Since it’s launch, locally owned businesses have been signing up at pace that has surprised both of them. “It’s been great to see how eager businesses are to become an Indiana Originals member,” Mel says. “People are really behind what we are building, and it’s really exciting to see our community of local businesses grow so quickly.” To become an Indiana Originals member, a business must be headquartered in Indiana and locally owned and operated. Direct sales or franchise businesses not headquartered in Indiana are not eligible for membership. For eligible businesses, becoming a member is as easy as visiting indianaoriginals.com, clicking “Add My Business” and selecting the desired membership package. Indiana Originals members enjoy a host of benefits including:
• T V promotion features, including IndyStyle on WISH-TV 8 and FOX 59 • WIBC Features on 93.1 FM • Access to a variety of consulting services including voiceover and commercial work, project management, accounting support, marketing, and much more. Mel and Lance’s goal is to support Indiana Originals members by meeting their needs, whatever those needs might be, which is why they go beyond the website and app to help connect people to local businesses. They also host Indiana Originals expo and marketplace events to let residents meet local business owners and learn more about their services and products face-to-face. Mel and Lance ultimately hope to make Indiana Originals into a lifestyle where consumers seek Indiana Originals members for all desired products and services. They hope to see the Indiana Originals directory and app become the first stop for finding everything local.
With an impressive list of members already in the directory, and • Local Branding more joining every day, they are well on their way to fulfilling • Listing in Indiana Originals’ online directory and the Indianan that goal. Originals App • The use of the Indiana Originals membership logo to use Lisa Mitchell is a Certified Body Language Trainer, nonverbal skills anywhere to promote membership coach, writer, entrepreneur and Founder of Power Body Language. • Invitations to Indiana Originals sponsored events You can learn more on Twitter @powernonverbals or her website, • Discounts to events hosted by Indiana Originals or member powerbodylanguage.com. businesses • Co-op advertising opportunities to help marketing dollars go further www.indianaoriginals.com @IndOriginals
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HEALING POWER: GEIST FITNESS STRIVES TO BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN PHYSICAL FITNESS TRAINING AND HEALTH CARE Writer / Jon Shoulders
Ask a member of the training staff at Geist Fitness and they’ll tell you physical exercise can be much more than a technique to blow off stress or enhance energy levels – it can actually serve as a form of medicine. Each trainer at Geist Fitness, a locally owned, private club on Fall Creek Road, holds an Exercise is Medicine (EIM) certification – a worldwide health initiative launched in 2007 by the American Medical Association and the American College of Sports Medicine to integrate physical activity more closely with the U.S. healthcare system. General manager and full-time trainer Ben Mitchell, a Brownsburg native who has been with Geist Fitness for nearly five years, says local physicians and therapists refer chronic disease and post-rehabilitation patients to his facility, where he and fellow EIMcertified trainer Jake McKinley create fitness programs tailored to individual clients. “The rehab or hospital phase is a temporary fix, and people need to remember that after they’re done with that phase it’s still an ongoing process to keep their bodies healing and functioning, and that’s where we come in to fill that void,” Mitchell says. Clients may find themselves sweating away on cable machines, stability and medicine balls, free weights and step platforms under the close guidance of their trainer at Geist Fitness, which Mitchell says is currently the only facility in the state where all trainers are EIM Level II certified. “The Level II certification means we can work with post-rehab clients and those with orthopedic or chronic disease issues after they’ve been cleared by their doctor and move out of that rehab setting,” Mitchell explains. “We’re trying to make connections with a lot of hospitals in the area, which is something we’ll be hitting hard through 2017 to establish client referrals.” Mitchell says Geist Fitness members don’t have to deal with the sorts of distractions common to many fitness establishments, such as the constant clanging of weights from throngs of exercisers or long waits for equipment use. The facility, founded by owner and
The staff at Geist Fitness (left to right) Ben Mitchell, Teresa Damush, Jake McKinley, and Joe Damush in front with Ricky their Golden Retriever rescue dog.
New Jersey native Joe Damush in 2000 after he relocated from California, has recently transitioned away from offering general memberships and group classes, and all of its clients are personal trainees. “We’re a small, boutique-style gym – we’re not the big-box, intimidating type of place, and I think that’s what people like about our setting,” Mitchell says. “It’s always fairly quiet in here, with Jake and I as the full-time trainers and Joe doing some training as well. People can’t just come in the door to join and work out on their own. We do that because we want room to work with our clients who like the privacy and that personal connection.” In the spirit of advancing the healing power of exercise, McKinley says the workout routines customized for clients at Geist Fitness, centered on pragmatic, functional body strength, can improve day-to-day living for post-rehab individuals and make daily tasks easier for those of advanced years. “Functional exercises are typically full-body movements that use
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multiple joints and planes of movement while emphasizing stability of the core musculature,” says McKinley, who has been with Geist Fitness for nearly two years. “It’s all about teaching all the muscles to work together rather than isolating them to work independently.” McKinley says such training can improve balance and coordination, making daily tasks as simple as getting in and out of a vehicle easier for aging adults. One of McKinley’s clients is local Geist publisher Tom Britt. “For me, it’s not about trying to get huge and kick sand in people’s faces, it’s about quality of life,” said Britt. “I turned 50 this year so staying flexible, active, and keeping as trim as possible is more important to me now. My training sessions with Jake are just part of my weekly schedule.” Mitchell’s credentials also include certification with the Titleist Performance Institute (TPI), an educational organization specializing in fitness and physical rehabilitation geared specifically toward something near and dear to the hearts of many seniors and retirees – the golf swing. Steve Bullerdick, a Fishers resident and avid golfer who began TPI training with Mitchell in February of 2016, says the program has helped him shed a few unwanted pounds, increase his agility and enhance his golfing prowess in the process.
“I was an ironworker for 28 years and I’ve always had some strength, but when I retired in June of 2015 I could tell I wasn’t as nimble as I wanted,” Bullerdick says. “With the TPI you’re working out and using weights, but it’s incorporated in swing motions. I ended up developing muscle and losing several pounds within the first few months of training with Ben. It’s a lot of focusing on the hips, core, upper arms and shoulders.” Mitchell feels the TPI training program, while related specifically to the improvement of his clients’ golf abilities, ties in to the general mission of the Geist Fitness staff – to provide the local community with a means of enhancing their physical well-being. “Basically, people are looking for improved quality of life, and that’s the majority of our clients,” Mitchell adds. “They want to be able to get through a day and play with their kids without pain. It’s like the old saying that you can’t enjoy your wealth if you don’t have your health. It’s important to be able to physically do what you want to do and enjoy your life in that way.” For additional information on Geist Fitness, including personal training programs, call (317) 595-8990 or visit geistfitness.com. For information on the Titleist Performance Institute program offered at Geist Fitness, go to geistfitnesstpi.com.
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After a lengthy application and audition process, which included a full physical and psychological evaluation among many other requirements, Joyner was chosen as one of six cast members for Discovery Channel’s new extreme survival challenge series, “The Wheel.”
and SOS devices that can be used at any time to quit the challenge and call for help. The contestants must procure food, water and shelter. And when the wheel turns again, they will be thrust into a new location and forced to use a completely different set of skills to survive.
The show, according to The Discovery Channel, is the ultimate survival test. Six participants are challenged to survive in six grueling landscapes across South Shon, who was a Marine for six years and America. With every turn of the wheel, served in combat, said a fellow Marine each survivalist is dropped into a new who had lost an arm and leg in combat isolated location, exposed to the world’s heard about the competition challenged deadliest terrains, including freezing him to apply. When the application arrived tundra, rugged mountains and treacherous in his inbox, he decided to step up to rainforest. Participants don’t know when or the task to honor his fellow Marines and why the wheel will turn. Each contestant submitted it. is equipped only with a light survival pack
Once Joyner received the news he’d been selected, he had only two weeks back in Fishers to prepare himself, and then was flown back to Los Angeles briefly before beginning the challenge, where he was flown to an undisclosed location, at which time all six participants met for the first time. They were then split up, and each dropped in their first environment. The hardest part of the experience, he said, was the isolation. Because there was no camera crew, he was taught how to film his
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What motivates a person to voluntarily put himself in the most extreme and dangerous environments on the planet, completely isolated, with nothing but his resilience to keep him alive? That’s the question I had the opportunity to ask Fishers resident Shon Joyner.
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He says it’s hard to put into words what the isolation feels like, including depending only upon yourself for your own survival. He credits his time in the Marines for helping to prepare him, but the isolation made it a vastly different experience.
One unexpected result of the experience was a change to his senses, and how he experiences his environment.
Joyner said, “Combat with the enemy versus combat with yourself in complete isolation are two totally different battles. In combat, you have other Marines to go through the experience with. With this you’re completely on your own. The isolation is horrible. “Every day felt like 5 days,” he continued. “Your entire concept of time changes. You only see the 30 minutes of edited footage. You don’t see the other 23.5 hours of the struggle that I go through. But it happened and I lived it.” Joyner says that the experience challenged him in ways he never thought possible, even with his service in the Marines. The most surprising thing to him was how emotionally broken he became as days stretched on and his sense of isolation grew. Even during transports from one hellish location to the next, the production crew could offer no comfort, assistance, or even interact with him on any level not critical to moving him to the next location. Joyner was unable to share the final result of his experience, but he said that upon returning home he had a hard time re-acclimating to his “normal” environment. In fact, he said he isolated himself for a week before leaving his home and reengaging with the outside world. He said he had a hard time remembering how to use his phone, and the first time he got in his car he sat there for 10 minutes because he had a hard
“I felt like my body transformed, became animal like in some way, because it had to,” he said. “My survival depended on it.”
When asked by the producers of the show if he would consider doing it again, he said he absolutely would. “It’s a rare, life-changing opportunity.” You can watch Shon Joyner on The Wheel when it premieres Friday, January 13, at 10 p.m. ET/PT on The Discovery Channel.
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KEEPING A RIVALRY ALIVE: GAUGUIN V. SEURAT Writer / Kara Kavensky
The Indianapolis Museum of Art, founded in 1883, is one of the oldest art museums in the United States. That same year, 35year old Paul Gauguin left his successful position as a Parisian stockbroker to dedicate his life to art (to the distress of his wife, with whom he had five children). Three years later, Gauguin would paint a pivotal and influential work, Still Life with Profile of Laval. Still Life with Profile of Laval, which is currently on display in the European Galleiesr, is the cornerstone of the Pont-Aven Collection acquired by the IMA from international art collector Samuel Josefowitz in 1998. This famous painting is going on tour later this year, first to The Art Institute of Chicago, and then on to the world famous Musee d’Orsay in Paris. The acquisition of works by Gauguin and his followers, included in the Pont-Aven Collection, elevated the prestige of the IMA in international art circles. Of the 17 paintings in the collection,
three are by Gauguin. The Pont-Aven Collection also includes 84 prints by Gauguin and his cronies. “In addition to the Pont-Aven Collection, we have the best collection of Neo-Impressionist paintings in the world outside of the Musee d’Orsay and the Kroller-Muller Museum in Europe,” says Ellen Lee, Wood-Pulliam Senior Curator and a friend of Josefowitz. The IMA already possessed one masterpiece by the founder of the movement, Georges Seurat, The Channel of Gravelines, and Petit Fort Philippe, through a generous donation in 1945 from Mrs. James W. Fesler, in memory of her parents. Indianapolis businessman W. J. Holliday gave the IMA’s core collection of works by Seurat’s followers to the IMA in 1979. Other strategic additions were made more recently through the family and friends of Robert S. Ashby. Inside the European Art Galleiesr, the juxtaposition of the PontAven Collection gallery adjacent to the Neo-Impressionist
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collection gallery continues a rivalry, which now stretches across an ocean. The history of the contentious relationship between Gauguin and Seurat is something of legend. Gauguin is 11 years older than Seurat and yet their artistic journeys are parallel. Each began drawing and painting in 1873. The eighth (and final) Exhibition of Impressionists opened May 15, 1886, in Paris. The lead up was filled with controversy as Monet, Renoir, Sisley and Caillebotte withdrew from participation due to the acceptance of newcomer Georges Seurat. Camille Pissarro had pushed for Seurat’s inclusion. Just before the opening, Degas insisted the word “impressionists” be removed from the announcements. Gauguin displayed a huge collection, whereas Seurat showed only a few works, including La Grande Jatte, (owned by The Art Institute of Chicago). La Grande Jatte and the other paintings of Seurat garnered the most attention from the Exhibition. Gauguin’s keen disappointment that Seurat had garnered most of the Exhibition’s acclaim was heightened by the realization that his former mentor, Pissarro, was now a follower of the young Seurat. If social media existed in 1886, the throwdown tweets after the eighth and final Impressionist Exhibition would've been something like this: @gauguin my exhibit is bigger and better than Seurat’s dots #gohomelittleboy @seurat The old man brought the goods yet I #dominated Still Life with Profile of Laval was painted the winter following the famous final Exhibition. Arguably much of the best and most
representative work of Gauguin will be in close quarters with Seurat in Chicago this June since La Grande Jatte, the talk of the eighth Exhibition, is in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. At the IMA, the Gauguin paintings in the Pont-Aven Collection include: Flageolet Player on the Cliff, Christmas Night and Still Life with Profile of Laval. Flageolet Player on the Cliff, was painted by Gauguin the summer before Seurat created The Channel of Gravelines, both currently on display in the IMA’s European Galleries. Pont-Aven is located in the Brittany region of France. It is here that Paul Gauguin attracted a group of artists, creating the PontAven post-impressionist movement. Georges Seurat moved in a different direction, to various ports in northern France, when he wanted a break from the Paris studio. Still Life with Portrait of Laval almost didn’t make the flight to Indianapolis when the collection was acquired in 1998, as it was flagged during the legal due diligence because a prior owner bore the name Herzog. The wealthy Herzog family, led by patriarch Baron Mor Lipot Herzog, amassed the largest collection of art in Budapest, Hungary in the early 20th century. The baron died in 1934, leaving his estate divided amongst his three children. Still Life with Portrait of Laval was given to his middle son, Andras Herzog. Andras married and divorced Maria Izabella Farravicini, with whom he had two daughters. Andras later died in a forced labor camp in 1943. Allied postwar protocol required works of art to be returned to their countries of origin. There is existing litigation today by other Herzog heirs, regarding other works of art still in Hungary. After the war Still Life with Portrait of Laval was
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safeguarded and inventoried in Germany by Indiana native Thomas Carr Howe, Jr., one of the original Monuments Men. It was then shown to have been legally released by Hungary to a Countess Istvan Bethlen in 1948. This countess was Andras’ ex-wife, who had remarried. The painting bears the stamped seal of the Hungarian government on the back of the canvas, which enabled its legal departure from Hungary. The Countess promptly sold the Gauguin masterpiece, and it was eventually purchased by Josefowitz. “It was my dream, made possible by the IMA’s expansion in 2006, to juxtapose our Seurat collection with our Gauguin material, creating a permanent space in the European Galleries for these two major movements of the late 1800s,” adds Lee. Gauguin’s Still Life with Portrait of Laval is small in stature, yet rich in meaning. Art historians may continue their discourse in perpetuity over the symbolism of each element of this painting. “The Pont-Aven period for Gauguin is when he became a mature artist,” shares Lee. “He painted incredible works while in Tahiti, but it was Pont-Aven, years earlier, where he had his breakthrough.” Still Life with Portrait of Laval abounds in personal symbolism of the artist. The ceramic vessel in the center of the table was created by Gauguin. In an 1887 letter to his wife, Gauguin drew a sketch of the sculpture and wrote: “Did you also bring a pot I made; keep it carefully for me. I like it, unless you are able to sell it (for a good price, 100 francs).” There is no evidence today that the piece still exists, as its whereabouts are unknown. The still life and white tablecloth are an homage to Cezanne, whom Gauguin admired greatly. Charles Laval is a Gauguin groupie and friend. They met in Pont-Aven the summer of 1886. The cropped image of Laval in the painting is indicative of the style of Degas, who was a mentor to Gauguin. The choppy nature of the addition of Laval’s profile is a modern approach to a portrait, referencing Degas’ style. A highly speculative element of the painting is the middle section. Scholars think it to be a window or a mirror, or possibly something entirely different. Through scientific examination, the mystery of this upper center region of the painting may be close to be being solved. “Under infrared light, the middle area appears to be that of a mirror, as the imaging shows a clear reflection of Laval’s profile,” states Senior Conservator of Paintings Linda Witkowski.
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Old Oakland Golf Club has seen its share of changes. After a fire burned much of the clubhouse, the golf club rebuilt the structure, highlighting the beautiful views and modernizing its bar and restaurant services. Now with a new owner, Old Oakland has set its sights on an even bigger project: renovating each of its 9-hole courses. Old Oakland General Manager Doc O’Neal has always worked in the golf industry. “It’s my passion,” says O’Neal, who started his golf course management company in
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