worcester art museum magazine access& classes brochure winter 2013 | volume 2 issue 1 From the Director Dear friends of the Worcester Art Museum,

Thank you for all of your positive feedback regarding our first edition of ACCESS: Worcester Art Magazine. Our marketing team had a great time putting it together and our entire staff is proud of the results. ACCESS is destined to reflect what is going on at the Museum, what our thinking is, as the museum goes through a process of transformation and capacity building. We are also thinking about how we can involve you, our visitors and friends, more in the content production of this magazine – stay tuned.

ACCESS is one of our links to the community and should, as our distribution grows beyond the current number of 37,000, become another calling card for Worcester and the region. As we deliberately consider this magazine as much of a work in progress, we might be toying with the format, the design and the content. We therefore would very much welcome your input so that we can connect better with you. A good way of reaching us is via the web www.worcesterart.org, or via mail addressed to

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You may have wondered about the luscious, yet slightly morbid cover of the current issue. It is, in fact, a reference to the new Wall at WAM project by Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison, which will officially open on March 23. Robert and Shana’s interpretation/reaction to the space in the Renaissance Court marks the 10th Wall at WAM created in this distinguished series. Susan L. Stoops, the curator of the project, and other staff members had a great brainstorm with the artists about related programming and collaborations. Here again - stay tuned.

Matthias Waschek Matthias Waschek, Director of the 2WorcesterWWW Art .MuseumWORCESTERART. O R g Welcome Jere Shea Director of Development “Jere has an impressive track record of fundraising for a number of prominent institutions. With his leadership skills, background in the arts and expertise in stewarding relationships, we believe he brings exactly the skills needed to fulfill our ambitious fundraising goals. In a time when fundraising is so crucial to the growth of our institution, we feel confident that Jere is the right person to take this museum to the next level.” –Matthias Waschek, Director

Most recently, Shea served as the Director of Principal gifts at Partners In Health, a Boston nonprofit that delivers healthcare to impoverished people around the world. While there, he managed a team responsible for principle gifts in the six- to eight-figure range, planned giving and development research. Shea’s team successfully garnered a number of transformational gifts, totaling 50 percent of all funds raised from individuals and 25 percent of total annual revenue. Jere Shea, Director of Development

Prior to PIH, Shea worked for two art museums, first serving as Leadership gifts Officer at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and then Senior Development Officer at the Isabella Stewart gardner Museum. In both roles, he was responsible for cultivating donations and played a central role in the MFA’s $504 million capital campaign. He has also served in a number of administrative roles under former Massachusetts governors Paul Cellucci and Jane Swift. Prior to his involvement in government and development, Shea had an impressive career in acting, and earned a Tony nomination for Best Actor in a Musical in 1994.

As Director of Development at WAM, Shea will oversee a development team of seven members and will be responsible for the diversification of funding streams, as well as the planning and oversight of potential high-level capital campaigns. He will also be charged with developing fundraising strategies to sustain the increasing financial needs of the institution.

“There is a palpable feeling of entrepreneurship at the Museum,” says Shea. “This, in combination with WAM’s 115 year history, is an incredible time of opportunity for the Museum, and I am thrilled to be on board.”

A resident of Massachusetts, Shea earned his Bachelor of Arts from Boston College and his Master of Fine Arts from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts. He is an active volunteer for a number of community, charitable, and non-profit organizations. Please join us in welcoming Jere to the WAM team.

Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, American, born 1930, Neil Armstrong on the Moon, WWW. WORCESTERART. O R g 3 (detail) July 20, 1969, Chromogenic print, gift of David Davis, E.33.12.3 Wall at WAM: Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison

The collaborative husband and wife team of Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison has been commissioned to create the 10th mural for the Museum’s Wall at WAM series. Their staged photography involves performance, sculptural props, elaborate backdrops, and digital technology. Sepia-toned images from their critically acclaimed series, The Architect’s Brother (1993-2005), raised questions about Earth’s vulnerability, human responsibility, and destiny. Subsequent work has displayed an overt and expressive use of color, surrealistic imagery, and more open-ended narratives that explore the interconnectedness of nature, humans, and technology.

Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison, These Days of Maiuma (detail from Wall at WAM), 2013, inkjet, 17 x 67 feet. Courtesy of the artists and Jack Shainman gallery, New York The Wall at WAM mural is installed on a second-story, 67-foot expanse situated in the most public of the Museum’s galleries, a faux Renaissance-style court, and overlooking a 6th-century Roman mosaic from Antioch. The ParkeHarrison’s inkjet mural, These Days of Maiuma, with its iconography of the remains of a grand feast and its themes of contemporary wealth, decadence, and disregard for the environment, is intended to be a visual and conceptual counterpoint to the Worcester Hunt mosaic. The floor mosaic was once the site of many a feast by Antiochenes in an ancient city known for its lifestyle of sophistication, affluence, and excess. Both compositions, although separated in time by 15 centuries, are characterized by a complex embrace of the real and the imagined and afford us two compelling visualizations of humans’ relations to their world, then and now.

The ParkeHarrisons have developed their collaboration over the past 16 years and in 2000 publicly acknowledged co-authorship of their images. A traveling exhibition of The Architect’s Brother toured from 2002-2008 to sites in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Recent solo museum exhibitions included the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City and the gallery of Photography, Dublin. Their work is in numerous private and public collections. They are represented in New York by Jack Shainman gallery.

This project is supported by the Don and Mary Melville Contemporary Art Fund. Additional generous support provided by David and Marlene Persky and an anonymous donor.

Exhibition Opening & Artist Reception Saturday, March 23, 5-7pm Renaissance Court / Cash bar FREE admission

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And when masonry is part of her design,. They Lisa met turns years to Jim ago and as Native Landscaping The Transformation of theGardens Lancaster by Lisa, Lobbyhis design Duringteam at Flora in Winter

fellow flower show exhibitors and quickly recognized that they For garden designer Lisa Huntington of shared a similar vision and approach to the art. Capitalizing on (Oakham, MA) form follows function. That guiding principal images from past shows. their complementary talents, the twoFlora work together and achieve inspires much of Lisa’s work, including the garden installationsover the Flora in Winter stunning results as evidenced by the in the Lancaster Lobby that have welcomed thousands of visitors to the Worcester Art Museum’s past 10 years. In partnership with friend and stonemason Jim Baker of Native Landscaping, (Charlton, MA) Lisa transforms the modern, utilitarian lobby into a gateway to a garden respite from the harsh winters of Central Massachusetts. While the lobby design began as a way to generate interest in and “invite” patrons to the Central MA Flower Show, it has Flora become a labor of love for her and an integral part of the Museum’s floral exhibition. , Gardens by Lisa

However, Lisa’s real focus is on

her busy garden design and maintenance

business, which she started 15 years ago. She is passionate about what she does and

believes that creating the right design for each client requires an understanding of

their lifestyle and habits—that it's essential

to ask clients very specific questions about how they live in their home and landscape before ever setting a shovel to the soil. Of course, budget is often a key consideration, but in Lisa’s words, “It’s most important to get a sense of what the true goals of the project are—and then figure a way to get there within a comfortable Flora in Winter budget. Sometimes it happens all

at once, however most often the is generously sponsored by

project is phased.”

6 WWW. WORCESTERART. O R g The Eye of the Beholder Seated Buddha Many people do ask us, how are the artworks that with Attending will be interpreted in Flora in Winter chosen? The Bodhisattva answer is simple: we want our guests to visit as many Left: Sally Jablonski, 2006 galleries as possible during Flora. In order to accomplish Right: Kathy Michie, 2012 this, our Flora committee selects a variety of artworks approved by our conservation and curatorial teams that This 6th century Chinese stele shows Buddha with two reflect the breadth of the Museum’s collection and are bodhisattvas set against a mandola with apsara figures and dispersed throughout our gallery spaces. Arrangers are then flames. Both artists chose tropical flowers with red as the main presented with a variety of options for the year, and then get to accent color to pay homage to this monumental piece of funeral choose a work that inspires them. To keep art. Sally did a centered design using a sturdy, stone-like container Flora works are seldom chosen twice, but it does happennew on occasion.each year, responding to the position of the cross-legged Buddha and the weight of the whole piece. Her flowers echoed the upright torso and Here are three examples of floral designs interpreting the same downward position of the hands. Kathy did a modern mass design artwork. You can compare how the arrangers saw and responded to using red Leucadendron and pink Protea to refer to the Buddha figure the piece and came up with entirely different and chose a metal frame to reflect the shape of the sculpture itself. The creations. varied foliages and wax flowers picked up on the textures of both sides of the stele. Colossal Female Head Top: Julie Lapham, 2003 Bottom: Elizabeth McLaughlin, 2008 Anders Zorn, Opal The circular crown and oval form in this Top: Susan Detjens, 2012 Colossal Head from ancient greece guided Bottom: Harriet Pattison, 2003 both designers in composing their arrangements. Julie used a warm This Impressionist painting monochromatic palette emphasizing shows nude bathers by a the feminine quality of the portrait river with sunlight playing and the elegance of the figure. across the figures and She connected her upper mass the surface of the water. arrangement with her lower The opalescent pastel work using a wrap of Ruscus palette was central to reflecting the long lost hair both designers. And they of the sculpture. Elizabeth both chose vertical-style played off the circles in arrangements based on the the necklace and the three vertical elements in the texture of the hair and painting: the figures, the grassy crown to make a series bank and the river itself. Harriet of floral rings one picked up the opalescence in her on top of the other choice of the most perfectly colored glass culminating in celebratory container and emphasized the delicate skin white Amaryllis. The serene tones of the bathers using pale peach roses quality in the sculpture shined contrasted against rich dark foliage. Susan through in both. repeated the individual colors in the broken brushstrokes that comprise the surface of the canvas and the dappled light. She used the pale peach roses here again but this time combining with orange, rose and yellow tulips.

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Demonstration: Interpretive Challenge Class in winter from the Male Perspective! Flora Friday, February 1, 3-4:30pm Breathtaking flowers bloomfour dayin the fundraiser. galleries duringSkilled our Renaissance Court annual Flora in Winter Free with Museum admission, no RSVP required arrangers from across the region create captivating Watch and learn as a select group of male arrangers and imaginative interpretations of artworks in virtually craft spontaneous floral designs inspired by a every gallery in the Museum. This weekend is also sculpture in the Renaissance Court. The challenge: your last chance to view our highly acclaimed the arrangers do not know which artwork, floral exhibition, Kennedy to Kent State: Images of a materials or container they will be interpreting or Generation, and we have included some fun using beforehand, and they have to finish their programs for the weekend inspired by the exhibition. arrangement within the allotted time. The finished Flower Power at Flora Euphoria! arrangements will be on view for the duration of Special Opening Celebration Flora and will be raffled off on Sunday, February 3rd. Thursday, January 31, 5:30-8pm (Snow date: Friday, February 1, 5:30-8pm) Renaissance Court/galleries Floral Demonstration, Lunch & Tour: Reservations required From The White House to Your House Saturday, February 2, 12-3pm Reserve by January 25: $25 WAM/THBg Members; (Snow date: Sunday, February 3, 12-3pm) $45 nonmembers Conference Room/galleries After January 25: $30 WAM/THBg Members; $35 WAM Members; $55 nonmembers (includes $50 nonmembers Museum admission) Call 508.793.4323 or reserve online at Reservations required; space is limited. www.worcesterart.org transports you back to the 60s Call 508.793.4325 This year Euphoria Lunch, slide show, demonstration and tour. and 70s for a groovy night of hors d’oeuvres, cash Begin the afternoon with a boxed lunch followed bar, and hip tunes inspired by the exhibition Kennedy by a demonstration by master floral designer, Ruth to Kent State. TEN31 Productions, back by popular Loiseau. Ruth will take you on a personal tour of The demand, will amaze you as these performance artists White House through her flower design work with five morph into fantastical topiaries and rock stars. You administrations: Presidents Ronald Reagan, george will definitely feel the power of the flower! cost: $82 ($120 value) H.W. Bush, William J. Clinton, george W. Bush and WOOcard Flora package Barack Obama. Eight flower arrangements similar to WAM, Tower Hill Botanic garden and the Flying those created for The White House will be made in Rhino Cafe have partnered to offer 2 general front of your eyes and raffled off - this is not to be package at admissions to WAM + THBg during Flora and a $50 missed! You will then join a docent and tour the gift card to Flying Rhino. get your Flora galleries learning inside. Come details early about and the stay art lateand — Flora Kennedy to Kent any of the participating sites. Not valid for Flora arrangements at Flora. Euphoria or Tower Hill’s Concert. take in the expansive collection, the State photography exhibition and the wonders of

Flora in Winter is generously sponsored by

8 WWW. WORCESTERART. O R g For Kids of All Ages: Origami and Psychedelic Flowers Sunday, February 3, 11:30am-1:30pm Museum Library Free with Museum admission, Admission no RSVP required Members: Free during exhibition hours; $25 for Flower Power at Flora Euphoria! Brothers Dennis and Dave Brannon will with RSVP or $30 after January 25. teach you and your family how to make cool 60s inspired origami flowers to take home! Nonmembers: $20 during exhibition hours; $45 for Flower Power at Flora Euphoria! Flora in Winter or $50 after January 25. Sunday, FebruaryConcert 3, 2pm Renaissance Court Tower Hill Members receive $2 off generalwith RSVP Free with Museum admission, admission at WAM during Flora. no RSVP required *There will be no free admission at the The Clark Bars Worcester Art Museum Saturday morning, the Shrewsbury fromHigh ClarkSchool University Women’s and Choir February 2, except for Museum Members. under the direction of Michael Lapomardo will fill the Renaissance Court with memorable Membership Members enjoy free admission for all four days musical selections, including those from the except for Flower Power at Flora Euphoria! 60s and 70s to commemorate the final day Call 508.799.4406 x3122 to purchase your of our Kennedy to Kent State Membership. Museum + Shop Hours Thursday, January 31: 11am-5pm;exhibition. The Public Docent-led Tours Free with Museum admission Museum and Shop reopen from 5:30-8pm Friday, February 1: 11:30am, 12:30, 1, 1:30, 2, for Flower Power at Flora Euphoria! 2:30, 3, 5:30, 6:30pm Friday, February 1: 11am-8pm Saturday, February 2: 11am, 11:30, 12:30, 1, *Saturday, February 2: 10am-8pm 1:30, 2, 2:30, 3, 4, 5:30, 6:30pm Sunday, February 3: 11am-5pm Sunday, February 3: 12:30, 1, 1:30, 2:30, 3pm The Museum Café Hours Arrange a private tour for groups of 10 or more Thursday, January 31: 11am-3pm by calling 508.799.4406 x3130. Friday, February 1: 11am-3pm Saturday, February 2: 11am-7pm Parking Valet parking will be available throughout Flora Sunday, February 3: 11am-3pm in Winter For questions, please contact the Café fee of $5 perat the car. Salisbury Street entrance at a Manager at 508.799.4406 x3068 Special thanks to our Flora in Winter Chairs: Kim Cutler, Kathy Michie, Sarah Ribeiro and Robin Whitney

WAM proudly partners with Tower Hill Botanic Garden during Flora in Winter. Tower Hill's website www.towerhillbg.org for a listing of their Flora in Winter: APlease Midwinter's visit Night Dream events.

WWW. WORCESTERART. O R g 9 KENNEDY TO Chamber Music Concert Series Sunday, January 13, 2013 Worcester Chamber Music Society: KENT STATE Beethoven Cello Sonata No. 3 in A major,The Op.White 69 House and Beyond Ben Johnston String Quartet No. 4 “Amazing grace” Copland Threnody I & II Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op.49 5:30pm / Renaissance Court Kennedy Members $25/ Nonmembers $35/Student Rush $10 (available at the door only) The program includes works performed at the Kennedy White House. to Kent State: Enjoy a tour of the Kennedy to Kent State 5pm. Images of a exhibition with curator, David Acton at Generation Reception with the musicians following concert. Cash bar. A gift of David Davis The Chamber Music Series is generously sponsored by a gift from Nydia and Charles Moser.

Through February 3, 2013 Visit www.worcesterart.org for more information.

The Worcester Art Museum presents an exhibition of some of the most powerful American photographs of the 1960, the images through which the country shared that dynamic period and by which it is remembered. All from the museum’s permanent collection, these photographs were collected by David Davis, III to recall and reflect upon his memories of the era that had formed his personality. The images date from 1958 to 1975, and include the presidency and assassination of John F. Kennedy, as well as the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, the American space program and its mission to the moon, the antiwar movement and counterculture.

The exhibition is largely comprised of file photographs, vintage prints used in news media production and design. These were printed by the publishers, and used in editing meetings, for layout, and even as ‘camera art’ in newspaper and magazine production. In the 1990s, when news publishing corporations began to digitize imaging and reproduction functions and build electronic libraries, these objects were discarded or released onto the market. Some of the photographs are pristine, while others carry photo lab spotting and touch-ups, editor’s notes in grease pencil, or the scars of newsroom haste. Other prints are second generation enlargements or wire photos printed along with publication captions. Many of the prints were stamped or inscribed on the back with a record of each use, and in this way they reveal their own history, and carry powerful qualities as artifacts.

Fully-illustrated exhibition catalog available in The Museum Shop.

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Worcester Art Museum Oral History Films project, the f a Generation As a part of the Kennedy to Kent State: Images o orcester Historical Museum and Worcester Art Museum partnered with the W ce a series of interviews with the Worcester Women’s History Project to produ 960s and 1970s. A collaborative people whose lives were impacted by the 1 ntified individuals within the

team of curators, historians and educators ide both the time Worcester community (and beyond) whose stories related to photographs. he Kennedy to Kent State period and the culture displayed in t Each week during the exhibition, WAM has posted a new interview on the

museum’s website. All of the interviews will be archived here for the run of the exhibition. Visit http://www.worcesterart.org/Exhibitions/kennedy-to-kent- state/videos/ to see them. Produced by Pagano Media.

Interior Design in the 1960s Viewer Sunday, January 6, 2013, 2pm, Conference Room Response Exhibition: Free Post on Our Wall Dr. Kristina Wilson (Clark University) will examine the rise and Through January 18, 2013 popularity of modern design in American suburban homes On view in the Higgins Education Wing from the 1950s through the 1960s. The landscape of What do you think about the 60s? How has the world suburbia, popularly known in these decades as the ultimate changed since this turbulent time? Inspired by the landscape of conformity, was a surprising epicenter of the exhibition Kennedy to Kent State: Images of a Generation, the Worcester Art Museum is proud to blossoming acceptance of modern design: iconic chairs, introduce Post on Our Wall— an exhibition about you. We tables, and bookcases by Charles & Ray Eames, Eero invite you to share your thoughts, memories, opinions and Saarinen, and george Nelson filled the shelter magazines best photos from the 60s/70s in this participatory, of the period and (to a slightly lesser extent) the homes of intergenerational exhibit. Your responses can be submitted by mailing postcards to the museum that you have received the American suburbs. This lecture will discuss some of the at Outreach events, typing your response on postcards in major iconic objects of the period, and analyze the stylistic the HEW gallery space, or by submitting a response changes from the early 1950s to the mid-1960s. It will also digitally. See guidelines and read more at www.worcesterart.org/postcards evaluate the lifestyles and behaviors that such objects promoted, and consider them as agents in understanding the fabric of American popular life in these decades. Sponsored by MassHumanities and the Amelia Hutchinson Haley lecture fund.

Baron Wolman, 300,000 Strong: Woodstock Music and Art Fair, (detail) August 15, 1969, gelatin silver print, gift of David Davis, 2011.181

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12 WWW. WORCESTERART. O R g SEE MORE WAM EVENT PHOTOS ONLINE & All images courtesy Norm Eggert Photography WWW. WORCES - TERART. O R g keyword: worcesterartmuseum 13 “One th Jill Slosburg-Ackerman – In Rome: The Pine Grove. And. Natura naturans; natura naturata. Through March 31, 2013 Contemporary gallery

Jill Slosburg-Ackerman’s drawing project, In Rome, was initiated while she was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome in 2009. Roman pine cones, with all their natural patterning, detail, and curved perfection, inspired her initial observational drawings. They led her to draw other forms, in particular, the polychrome stone floors called Cosmatesque in medieval Roman churches. Also detailed but organized in geometric units, they are tangible evidence of human devotion and our desire for manual perfection.

As she explored connections between these two representative forms of nature and civilization, Slosburg-Ackerman’s project evolved in ways that expose the fluidity of boundaries between two- and three-dimensional experience, organic and geometric structure, intimate and architectural scale, sculptural object and furniture. Occupying wall and floor and framed by the architecture of the gallery, the installation is composed of hundreds of elements – drawings, photographs, paintings, sculptures, video, furniture, hand-carved frames – grouped into visual “episodes” (each of which is alluded to in the exhibition’s extended title).

Slosburg-Ackerman’s art does not imitate the phenomena of nature (natura naturata) but engages nature as a creative force (natura naturans); always undergoing change, it is nature deeply interconnected with history and cultural processes. Drawings of pine cones are overlaid with Cosmatesque patterns; a naturally shaped wooden burl is additionally carved by hand; a pair of laminate end-tables is deconstructed into sculpture and reappears as a mirror image; a pine cone with fungi is translated as drawing and as table ornament; wood scraps are collaged into a three-dimensional abstract drawing; a carved element simultaneously obscures and extends a drawing underneath.

The prominent roles of the pine frames (whether unembellished, elaborately carved, hinged, or stacked) are dual: emphasizing the exquisitely drawn details within their borders and acting as intermediaries between adjacent elements. Complementing the relatively standard 8x10-inch rectangular units of drawing paper, In Rome reveals a world of diversity in which interval, density, scale, and volume serve as visual points of reference.

With basic materials, Slosburg-Ackerman has created an unusually immersive and participatory perceptual experience, one which invites both detailed and leisurely exploration. In its translation from studio to museum, In Rome has become a public reflection on the creative process as one involving scrutiny, faithfulness, recognition, intuition, correction, imperfection, and certainty.

This exhibition is supported by the Don and Mary Melville Contemporary Art Fund. Jill Slosburg-Ackerman, In Rome: The Pine grove. And. Natura naturans; natura naturata.(detail), 2009-2012, mixed media installation, dimensions variable. Photo credit: Steve Briggs. ing lets another thing make sense.” —Jill Slosburg-Ackerman (journal entry, 2012)

WWW. WORCESTERART. O R g 15 Silent Gardens: The “White-line” Print Series by Yoshida Tōshi (1911-1995) Late January – July 2013

Yoshida Tōshi survived polio and years of demanding training, to become the innovative head of the famous Yoshida Family Studio after his father, the artist and woodblock print maker Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950), died in 1950. Loyal to the family tradition, Tōshi continued to produce landscape prints of scenic places, in Japan as well as in other Asian and Western countries (including the U.S.), but he also designed abstract works and scenes of African wildlife.

In 1963-64 Tōshi composed and carved the blocks for a special series of seven views, most of Zen-temple gardens. Instead of using traditional black outlines, Tōshi relied on white lines (some embossed using un-inked keyblocks), and sensitively balanced and textured colors to enhance the impression of pristine serenity. These intimate scenes reflect the Yoshida family’s deep love of nature as well as bonsai and bonseki, miniature landscapes on trays. This print shows the kare-sansui (lit. “dry mountain and water”) garden of ginkaku-ji (“Temple of the Silver Pavilion”) in Kyoto with white gravel, raked in patterns of waves (ginshanada; lit. “silver sand and open sea”). Its white gravel is raked in patterns of waves (ginshanada; lit. “silver sand and open sea”) and shaped into a replica of Mount Fuji, a feature called kogetsudai (“platform facing the moon”).

16 WWW. WORCESTERART. O R g Yoshida Tōshi (Japanese, 1911–1995), Ginkaku-ji Garden, 1963, woodblock print, ink and color on paper; gift from the Judith and Paul A. Falcigno Collection, 2010.94

WWW. WORCESTERART. O R g The Allure of Blanc de Chine March 6 – August 2013

18 WWW. WORCESTERART. O R g Blanc de Chine (lit. “white of China”) refers to a white ware that was produced for centuries in the town of Dehua in the coastal province of Fujian. The sugary white clay of the Dehua area is made from a porcelain stone that is unusually low in iron impurities and fuses with the applied transparent glaze during the firing, producing works of a glossy, smooth quality that resembles ivory or white jade. Extremely resistant to the distortion that can be caused by high- temperature firing, the clay is ideally suited for the production of thickly potted, press-molded and/or sculpted vessels and figurines for the scholar’s table or family altar. Many such functional and decorative works are finely detailed or embellished with applied relief decoration, such as blossoms or dragons.

Porcelain production began in Dehua as early as the Song dynasty (960- 1279) and flourished from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. At first widely exported to Southeast Asia and Japan, blanc de Chine soon also found a market among European royalty and aristocrats when it was imported by various European trading companies. Western interest in blanc de Chine gradually waned as Europeans discovered the secrets of porcelain manufacture. Dehua kilns have continued to produce white ware figures into the modern age; these late versions are usually slip-cast.

Incense Holder in the Shape of a Deer, mid 17th century, South China, Fujian Province, Dehua ware, porcelain with translucent alkali- lime glaze; gift of Birgit Faber-Morse, 2011.454

Vase with Applied Plum Spray Decoration, 18th century, South China, Fujian Province, Dehua ware, porcelain with applied biscuit relief decoration and translucent alkali-lime glaze; gift of Birgit Faber-Morse, 2011.434

WWW. WORCESTERART. O R g 19 Bostonians in Miniature explores the lives of Boston residents whose portraits were painted “in little” during the opening decades of the nineteenth century. Situating this popular form of art within the broader context of domestic life, inequality, and material culture, the exhibition Bostonians in Miniature: focuses on six Boston couples, documenting Portraits and Lives, 1810-1835 how family, social class, and religion shaped the lives of those who sat for portraits. By linking December 2012 – May 2013 lives and portraits, this rotation helps illuminate Miniature gallery both the broader significance and personal meanings of this intimate form of portraiture.

Artist unknown, Otis Norcross, Jr., about 1848, watercolor on ivory, Bequest of grenville H. Norcross, 1937.44 20 WWW. WORCESTERART. O R g Photo: Norm Eggert Photography; Performer: Living art by our friends at TEN31productions.com Photo: Norm Eggert Photography; Performer: Living art by our friends at

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4 Friday 0am-noon, sponsored by TJX Companies 5 Saturday First Free Saturdays, 1 Zip Tour: Chinese Jades, noon re fund. s and the Amelia Hutchinson Haley lectu , 2pm, free, Sponsored by MassHumanitie Interior Design in the 1960s 6 Sunday Lecture: Public Tour, 1pm

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11 Friday noon 12 Saturday Zip Tour: Color + Light, (1856) John Singer Sargent’s birthday

13 Sunday Chamber Music Series: Worcester Chamber Music Society, The White House and Beyond, 5:30pm RSVP $ Public Tour, 1pm

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15 Tuesday Friends of the Library Meeting + Program/Brown Bag Lunch: Tortured Excellence: The Life of Scofield Thayer Dempsey, Instructor of English at WPI, noon

16 Wednesday January Tour of the Month: Dionysus: More than Just the Party God, 2pm Youth classes winter session begins by R.A. Scotti

17 Thursday Friends of the Library Book Club Discussion: Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal—Building St. Peter’s Museum open until 8pm closes, Higgins Education Wing 18 Friday Post on Our Wall

19 Saturday January Tour of the Month: Dionysus: More than Just the Party god, 2pm Zip Tour: Rembrandt’s Saint Bartholomew, noon

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1 Friday Flora in Winter 2 Saturday Flora in Winter: No Free Admission today except for 3 Sunday Last day of Flora in Winter Museum Members due to our Annual special e Last day of Kennedy to Kent State 4 Monday Adult classes winter session begin vent weekend.

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9 Saturday Zip Tour: The Influence of Greek Art on Roman Art,

10 Sunday Artist Talk: Jill Slosburg-Ackerman, 2pm, Free with Museum admission noon Public Tour, 1pm 11 Monday

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ARH Class: Onsite/Offsite: LandThe ArtColor +the Red, Museum, 6pm $ RR 2pm 14 Thursday

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16 Saturday February Tour of the Month: The Color Red, 2pm Zip Tour: John Singer Sargent’s Lady Warwick and Son, 17 Sunday Drawing Marathon kick-off with Jill Slosburg-Ackerman, 2-4pm, free with Museum Admission, Museum library noon Public Tour, 1pm 18 Monday

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20 Wednesday March Tour of the Month: In the Beginning: Highlights from the Early Years of WAM, 2pm by Edmund deWaal

21 Thursday Friends of the Library Book Club Discussion: The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance Teen Thursdays/Youth classes begin Museum open until 8pm

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WWW. WORCESTERART. O R g 25 Meet WAM’s Exhibition Designer + Chief Preparator Patrick Brown Patrick Brown

What do you do as WAM’s Exhibition How did you start designing exhibitions? structures that act as both architecture Designer + Chief Preparator? After working as an Art Handler, and then and image—spaces and structures that An Exhibition Designer collaborates primarily Preparator for a few of years at CAM, I unfold as you move through the with a curator in creating an environment in began to design casework, and small small exhibition space. The video rooms also which to display artworks for visitors. Space object rotations. In the mid 90s, the create a dissonant ambient sound (and design and content are brought together in a Cincinnati Art Museum underwent a the "tv flicker") throughout the entire space that a designer creates. At WAM, my comprehensive gallery renovation. As the exhibition space which reminds me of job is to provide relevant and engaging reinstallation of the new galleries was my parents suburban home in the

designs for a wide ranging collection underway, george Sexton + Associates, the sixties—three TVs on 24 hours a day.

(ancient to contemporary). As Chief lead architects for the project, also began to Did you recognize every image in

Preparator, I coordinate with other train me to carry their design language/ the exhibition? departments within the Curatorial Division to aesthetic into the special exhibitions that Yes. I was most stuck by how many of facilitate the movement, installation, and would follow CAM's reopening. these events loom so large in our storage of the Museum's collection—and as Tell us about the Kennedy to Kent State memory, but also how so many of them the head of the Collections and Exhibitions exhibition design. happened within such a short span Department, I also budget for exhibitions, of years. schedule installation work, and supervise the As we moved forward with the project, it Department's Preparators. became clear that we needed to explore how Did the design turn out how you photography had been used in the news envisioned? Did you always want to be an Exhibition media—specifically how this group of Yes, I’m extremely happy with how it Designer? images informed us and shaped our all came together. I originally wanted to be a painter and, like understanding of this important era. During most art students, I intended to spend the time period of the exhibition, network What do you enjoy most about my career as a working artist. I received my television, print magazines, and newspapers your job? MFA from Rutgers University and studied were the primary news source for most I enjoy being able to work alongside a with Leon golub. Following school, I kept Americans. For that reason, we wanted to curator/and or artist. I not only design my own studio for 2 or 3 years, but include a video component to complement the exhibitions but have the opportunity eventually a regular income became a the photographs. I created a series of video to participate in the installation and the priority and I took a job as an Art Handler at rooms that are wrapped with large-scale successful completion of each project. the Cincinnati Art Museum. images from the show—the monumental size relates to what is iconic about the events depicted. The result is a set of

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What was your first show at WAM? I came to WAM twelve years ago during the installation of Antioch: The Lost Ancient City. The first exhibition I designed for the Museum was The Stamp of Impulse: Abstract Expressionist Prints.

Do you have a favorite artwork in

the collection?

My longtime favorite is the Philip

guston, but WAM recently acquired a fantastic Alice Neel which is now

edging into my favorite spot.

Alice Neel, Julie and Aristotle, 1967, oil on canvas, Stoddard Acquisition Fund, 2010.316

Philip guston, Painting No. 4, 1952, oil on fabric, Anonymous gift, 1955.1

WWW. WORCESTERART. O R g 27 In Memoriam: Paul S. Morgan The Museum lost a wonderful friend and generous supporter with the recent passing of Paul S. Morgan. Former head of Morgan Construction Company, which for five generations was one of Worcester’s major manufacturers, Paul contributed to the community in numerous ways. As a businessman, philanthropist, civic leader, and volunteer for numerous non-profits, he never stopped working for his hometown. The Worcester Art Museum was always part of Paul’s life as his family was active from the time the Museum first opened. His uncle Paul B. Morgan served as President of the Museum from 1939-45, and his wife, Nancy, was the Museum’s first female President and the first to serve twice, from 1981- 85 and 1989-90. Both Paul and Nancy got involved in the Museum by serving on the Members’ Council, and together, over the years, contributed immensely to the success of the Museum. The Museum’s 18th-century French gallery, which bears the Morgan name, is testimony to the important role that Paul and his family have played in the Museum’s history. From left to right: Flip, Nancy and Paul Morgan

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