April-June 2016

Shana Moulton: Journeys Out of the Body

1 Welcome from the Director

Dear MFA Members and Friends,

This spring, the MFA’s offerings include a wide array of exhibitions and programs, from old master drawings to finely crafted guitars, from contemporary interpretations of the body to an exploration of time and communication, from illuminating lectures to family yoga and drumming. Please read more in this Mosaic for details about all these opportunities to encounter, explore, and learn about art.

As you perhaps already know, I have decided to retire as Director of the Museum. I continue to recover from complications of cardiac surgery and am focusing my attention on health and family. I am delighted that Jerry N. Smith, Hazel and William Hough Chief Curator, is serving as Interim Director, and Toni and I will remain active in the life of the Museum.

I am proud of the progress the MFA has made since I came to the Museum in 2010. We have presented important, critically acclaimed international, black national, and local exhibitions. We have expanded co-sponsored event and built on our connections with partners in the Sponsored by white region. Our robust public programs and services

Pantone: 320 for families and schools are exciting benchmarks of CMYK: 100/0/31/6 excellence for the community. Our extraordinary collection has grown, thanks to the generosity of so many impassioned art lovers and collectors and also thanks to the support and foresight of the Collectors Circle. I’m very pleased that in Board of Trustees 2016 2013 we accomplished what often takes years Executive Committee Mr. Robert L. Hilton — reinstallation of our collection in beautifully Mr. Mark T. Mahaffey, Mrs. Hazel C. Hough renovated galleries. Chairman The Hon. Richard Kriseman, Mrs. Cathy Collins, Vice Mayor of the City of Our staff and trustees, along with The Margaret Chairman St. Petersburg, ex officio, Acheson Stuart Society and our other affiliate Mr. Wayne (Skipp) Fraser, nonvoting groups, have worked together to reach these CPA, Treasurer Mr. Darryl A. LeClair major milestones. It has been my honor to lead the Mr. R. Clark Mason, Ms. Fay Mackey Museum of Fine Arts at this special moment in our Secretary Mrs. Mary Alice McClendon history, and I look forward to the continued success Mrs. Glenn Mosby Mrs. Patti Novack Mr. Fred S. Razook Jr. of this great art institution. Ms. Ellen Stavros Dr. Jerry N. Smith, Hazel Mrs. Carol Russell, and William Hough Chief Sincerely, President, The Margaret Curator and Interim Executive Director, ex Acheson Stuart Society officio, nonvoting Honorary Trustees, Trustees nonvoting Mrs. Erin Smith Aebel Mrs. Isabel Bishop, Honorary Mr. Roy Binger Memorial Trustee On the cover: Ms. Laura Militzer Bryant Mr. Seymour A. Gordon, Esq. Dr. Gordon J. Gilbert Mr. Charles Henderson Shana Moulton (American, born 1976) Still from Whispering Pines (detail) Mr. James R. Gillespie, JD, Mr. Peter Sherman Video LLM Mrs. Carol A. Upham ©Shana Moulton

2 Ms. Moulton (born in 1976) did not take an art course until her junior year at the University of California, Berkeley, concentrating instead on anthropology. Her videos reveal this study, as she, more than many artists, mines the common objects and mass culture around us to fuel her art. She was once included in a group exhibition, Erratic Anthropologies. Noted art critic Brian Droitcour has written that “Moulton gets inspiration from her finds, rather than ‘casting’ them in predetermined storylines. | | CURRENT UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS Objects drive the plot.” Shana Moulton: Journeys While she definitely has a critical eye, Ms. Moulton has opted for a comic persona, whom she ultimately wants to be sympathetic. Out of the Body She has acknowledged that performance art can be deadly serious and she did not Hazel Hough Wing want to fall into that trap. In fact, her live Saturday, June 18- performances can sometimes poke fun at the genre itself. Sunday, October 9 After graduating from Berkeley, Shana Moulton explores our obsession Ms. Moulton earned her MFA from with self-help fads and wellness Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. therapies, as well as consumer culture She has also been an artist-in-residence as a whole. She primarily uses video, at the Skowhegan School of Painting and with her alter ego Cynthia, who never Sculpture in Minnesota, Harvestworks in speaks, as the protagonist. The MFA New York, De Ateliers in Amsterdam, and will feature all 10 installments of The Sommerakademie in Berne. She has her Whispering Pines series, as well shown her work and performed around as other videos, sculpture, and an the world, including in China. Curator of opera/performance piece. Though Contemporary Art Katherine Pill invited Ms. Moulton has received many solo her to do both at the MFA. exhibitions in galleries and has been selected for a wealth of group shows, On Thursday, October 6, Whispering this is her first solo museum project in Pines 10, a one-act live-performance video the United States. opera, will be presented in the Marly Room. Backed by Nick Hallett’s libretto and score, Whispering Pines takes its name from Shana Moulton (American, born 1976) Ms. Moulton will bring Cynthia to life in Still from Whispering Pines the California mobile home park, chiefly this contemporary take on the “mad scene.” comprised of seniors, where the artist Video ©Shana Moulton Watch for more details in the next Mosaic. grew up. Very few children her own age were around, so Ms. Moulton was left to create her own imaginative world. She visited her elderly neighbors and was fascinated with the knickknacks filling their homes. Her Contemplating Character: videos are full of such objects, carefully arranged for the camera, which she views as part of the cast. She also spent a lot of time Drawings & Oil Sketches alone in the large woods next door, which plays an important role in from Jacques-Louis David Cynthia’s fantasies and dreams. to Lucian Freud Television was another major influence. She loved watching soap operas and was drawn to the cult classic, Twin Peaks, created by Hazel Hough Wing Mark Frost and David Lynch of Blue Velvet fame. Only on the air for Through Sunday, May 29 two seasons, Twin Peaks looked at the darker side of small-town life and had supernatural elements and quirky humor. The artist notes that the serial format of Whispering Pines and its production quality are inspired by soap operas — and home movies.

Cynthia can be funny, as she deals with her hypochondria and tries yet another “cure.” She often wears a housedress reminiscent of Carol Burnett skits, and the costumes embedded with medical devices, especially a dress with a hemorrhoid pillow, are over-the-top.

Some of the best comic actors have an edge, and Shana Moulton as Cynthia reveals deep anxiety in her facial expressions and adventures, which can even have a psychedelic dimension. Like many of us, Cynthia is often overwhelmed by modern life. “It’s me in the bathroom,” she once said. “It’s me worried about aging. It’s me looking at a beauty magazine … We share a brain. I don’t even think of her as a character. It’s just me. Getting into character is just getting into me.” Photo by Bridget Bryson 3 Portraits have divided into themes, which mix eras and styles: self-portraits, captivated portraits of artists, family and friends, fame, drama and humanity imagination, sitter as subject, and repose and endings. throughout time. We love Dr. Jerry N. Smith, Hazel and William Hough Chief Curator to people- and Interim Executive Director, and Dimitri Lykoudis, Senior watch on Preparator, designed the striking installation. The wall colors the street, at encourage reflection. Contemplating Character was organized by concerts, in Mr. Johnson with Landau Traveling Exhibitions, Los Angeles, restaurants California, in association with Denenberg Fine Arts, West — and in Hollywood, California. museums and galleries. We look to faces Christian Marclay: and portraits to reveal Telephones and the deeper personality Sound Holes of the people around us, Helen and Dick Minck Gallery of New Media as well as Through Sunday, May 1 historical figures, Christian Marclay has taken the art world by storm. He represented artists, the United States in the 54th Venice Biennale and won the Golden celebrities, Lion for his 24-hour montage, The Clock (2011). Newsweek has and others named him one of the 10 most important artists working today. captured in paintings, Mr. Marclay likes to deconstruct or take apart images and sound drawings, and and put them back together in surprising, inventive ways. They photographs. become something akin to collages. In Telephones (1995), he Just think combines scenes from 130 Hollywood movies. There are close-ups Lucian Freud (British, born Germany, 1922-2011) of the of phones and phone booths (remember them?) and a host of stars Peter Watson (about 1945) contemporary answering “Hello,” “Who is this?” “What happened?” and the Black crayon on paper obsession like. Telephones moves back and forth between black-and-white, Collection of Robert Flynn Johnson with selfies. Technicolor gloss, and the color film of our time.

Contemplating Character: Drawings & Oil Sketches from Jacques-Louis Editing is critical. The scenes are brief, and even though pulled from David to Lucian Freud is the most expansive exhibition of portraits different eras, they flow into each other seamlessly. It is impossible to ever presented at the MFA. It spotlights 152 rare portrait drawings resist the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck, Clark Gable, and oil sketches from the late eighteenth into the twenty-first Jimmy Stewart, Meg Ryan, Whoopi Goldberg, Sean Connery as century, with most from the nineteenth. The works of 127 artists James Bond, and many more, answering a wide array of phones. They from 15 countries are represented, with a large number from France range from old rotary to push-button to the classic pink princess. and England. Some of the scenes and juxtapositions are really funny, and as Robert Flynn Johnson, Curator Emeritus, Achenbach Foundation the video proceeds, it for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, curated this appears that these actors/ exhibition from his private collection, which he developed over four characters are talking to decades. He has written: “I am fervently drawn to the vast variety of each other across time. depictions of human beings in their grandeur, helplessness, pride, Mr. Marclay is clearly and vulnerability. Every drawing in this exhibition has moved me interested in the process deeply in some way, and it is both my conviction and hope that of communication. We individuals who view this exhibition will make a similar connection do not hear what is being and feel the presence of the personalities represented who have said on the other end, been drawn and painted over the last two centuries.” and facial expressions can play a huge role in In addition to David and Freud, Mr. Johnson selected such noted influencing our reaction. artists as Théodore Rousseau, Edgar Degas, Édouard Vuillard, These snippets remind Pierre Bonnard, Elie Nadelman, Frank Stella, and George Bellows us that some of our most (a lovely portrait of his daughter Anne), to name a few. There is telling communication even Alfred Hitchcock’s unmistakable Self-Portrait Profile (around is nonverbal, and silence 1960), which introduced his popular TV series Alfred Hitchcock can be compelling. Presents to millions of Americans, as well as two wild drawings by the American cartoonist Robert Crumb. Some of the works, Mr. Marclay first gained like expressive drawings of hands and modernistic experiments, attention as a DJ/ Photo by Will Lytch challenge our very conception of the portrait. composer. He pioneered Christian Marclay (American, born 1955) “scratching” in the late Sound Holes (2007) In forming his collection, Mr. Johnson did not aim for a 1970s in New York Clubs, Suite of 21 photogravures Published by Graphicstudio/ chronological, art historical survey. As a result, the exhibition is as did hip hop artists, University of South Florida, Tampa

4 who have taken the approach to a larger audience. Scratching The photogravures lead us to imagine the exchanges, secrets, trysts, involves using the turntable and records to produce different, often all engineered by these entry devices, though we do not hear a percussive sounds, largely built on chance. Mr. Marclay has noted single sound. Mr. Marclay once said, “We give machines — or see that he wanted “to create a sound that was something else than just in them — anthropomorphic qualities. The machine is an extension the sound that was in the grooves.” of the human body.” This connects to the artist actually carrying the turntable in some of his performance pieces.

Mr. Marclay was born in California in 1955 and raised in Switzerland. He now divides his time between New York and London. He studied at the École Supérieure d’Art Visuel in Geneva; the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, where he earned his BFA; and Cooper Union in New York. He has received solo exhibitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Kunsthaus in Zurich; and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, among many others. Curator of Contemporary Art Katherine Pill selected the works for this spotlight exhibition. Measured Life: Works by Vicky Colombet, Babs Christian Marclay (American, born 1955) Still from Telephones (1995) Reingold, and Tip Toland Video ©Christian Marclay Lee Malone Gallery Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Through Sunday, June 26

In Telephones, the “hellos,” other verbal responses, and varied “This exhibition brings together works from the collection that rings begin to have a cumulative musical effect. Some are more address the passing of time in nature and in human life,” according staccato and percussive. Others have a more lilting or dramatic to Curator of Contemporary Art Katherine Pill. quality. The overall sound is something other than what the individual scenes provide. She added: “Vicky Colombet creates meditative landscapes, representing the movement and erosion of natural formations. In Communication is also at the forefront of Sound Holes (2007), a suite her Fallout series, Babs Reingold addresses ‘the loss of beauty and its of 21 photogravures published by Graphicstudio, the renowned resurrection’ by drawing the results of her daily hair loss. Tip Toland print atelier at the University of South Florida, Tampa. Mr. Marclay is an extremely accomplished ceramicist, adept at creating large- depicts entry phones or call boxes that look out of date and worn, scale, extremely lifelike works. Often representing humanity at its replete with marks and scratches. He focuses on the central speaker/receiver, which resembles the human face.

Dial In: The Contemporaries Celebrate Christian Marclay Friday, April 1, 7-10 p.m. Marly Room, Membership Garden Sponsored by:

Free for members of The Contemporaries, $20 for nonmembers DJ Oblivion, hors d’oeuvres, cash bar Exhibition on View in the Helen and Dick Minck Gallery of New Media To reserve your spot, go to www.mfastpete.org/rsvp/.

Save the Date: Saturday, April 30, 7-10 p.m.: See the collection of work by local artists, curated by Chad Mize, at Great Bay Distributors. Some are site-specific. Food is catered by Eat This! and beverages are provided by Great Bay. Vicky Colombet (French, born 1953) Join The Contemporaries today! Urban Landscape (2002) Mixed media on canvas Gift of Elinor Gollay and Rex Brassel 5 most vulnerable, she draws attention to the fragility of life and gives She recently developed a site-specific installation, Considering it a sense of beauty and dignity.” Placemaking, for Project Row Houses, an arts project in Houston’s Third Ward, the city’s oldest African American neighborhood. She Measured Life is part of the Museum’s efforts to show and collect more experimented with the interior of the shotgun house, a narrow, work by contemporary artists. Added to the solo exhibitions of work rectangular dwelling throughout the South, which became a staple of by Shana Moulton and Vanessa Diaz and the recent Marks Made, it African American communities. also spotlights the important contributions of women artists. Based in South Florida, Ms. Diaz was one of 10 artists invited to participate in the premier Florida Prize in Contemporary Art Vanessa Diaz: Beginning exhibition at the Orlando Museum of Art in 2014 and won “best in show” at the 61st All Florida Juried Exhibition at the Boca Raton at the Cornice, Not Museum of Art in 2012. She holds both her BFA in painting and her BA in art history from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton and the Foundation her MFA from the University of South Florida, Tampa. Wednesday, April 20-Sunday, July 10 In addition, she has been selected for numerous residencies and Vanessa Diaz will transform the Museum’s period rooms and workshops in both this country and Europe. She has received a Joan decorative arts galleries into surprising, fantastical spaces. She uses Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant and a fellowship sculpture, furniture, curtains and other textiles, found objects, and from the National Endowment for the Arts. Curator of Contemporary much more to turn domestic, museum, and gallery interiors into Art Katherine Pill invited her to create this first-ever site-specific dream-like environments. She will greet visitors at a reception installation for the MFA galleries. opening day from 5:30-7 p.m.

“Scavenging is at the core of my artistic practice,” Ms. Diaz has Harold Edgerton: explained. “I’m not able to do it on a daily basis, but I am always on the lookout for materials to repurpose. What the Eye Can’t See Works on Paper Gallery “I begin by selecting things that resonate with me and that are typically functional objects with a history of use made evident Saturday, May 7-Sunday, July 31 by wear and tear,” she added. “I like to see the marks made by repetitive behaviors and habits, such as threadbare fabrics and This exhibition spotlights some of the Museum’s most compelling scarred furniture. These indicate both an object’s past value and its photographs by Harold “Doc” Edgerton (American, 1903–1990). Robin connection to the lives of the previous owners.” O’Dell, Manager of Photographic Collections, developed this choice selection from a truly amazing 95 images, many now recognized as his The Museum’s period rooms, with their elegant fireplaces, are an most important. They range from rarely seen gelatin silver prints from ideal choice for Ms. Diaz’s installation, as they hark back to the past. as early as 1932 to his colorful dye transfer photographs. The Jacobean Room was originally part of a Staffordshire manor house built around 1610, and the Georgian Room, a parlor believed Known affectionately as “Papa Flash,” Edgerton used photography to to have come from the Bulls Inn in London, dates to about 1740. extend the capabilities of the human eye and in the process created some of the most memorable photographs ever made. In 1931, he Given by Schenley Industries of New York, they were part of designed a high-speed Museum Founder Margaret Acheson Stuart’s desire to enhance stroboscope and the visitor experience of the MFA. Just as Mrs. Stuart wanted the began experimenting Museum’s interior to resemble a private home, Ms. Diaz reimagines with strobe-flash galleries, but in a much more daring way. Her approach to the technology. That MFA’s traditional period rooms promises to be especially dramatic. device allowed him to overcome the restrictions of a normal camera’s fastest shutter- speed and to capture phenomena previously invisible to the naked eye.

The shape of a falling drop of liquid, a balloon bursting, or a bullet shot from a gun appear to stand still. These photographs not only document the science of the exact instant, but also help us see and understand Vanessa Diaz (American, born 1980) the world around us as Harold Edgerton (American, 1903-1990) Here is Enticement is Not Always Difficult (installation image), 2014 never before. Milk Drop Coronet (1957) Fabric, wood, salt, glass, iron Dye transfer print Orlando Museum of Art Gift of Dr. Robert L. and Chitranee Drapkin 6 Edgerton won many awards throughout his life. He received a Please join the bronze medal from the Royal Photographic Society in 1934 and the National Medal of Science in 1973. He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1956.

His photography is now part of the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the National Gallery of Art and as photographer Matt Larson introduces the collodion process, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.; dating back to the mid-nineteenth century. the Art Institute of Chicago; the Cleveland Museum of Art; Examples of collodion images, as well as historic tintypes and the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and the Los Angeles County ambrotypes will be on view. Many have never before been Museum of Art, among many others. The Museum of Fine Arts, shown at the MFA. St. Petersburg is fortunate to have so many Edgerton photographs due to the generosity of Lee Arnold and Dr. Robert L. and Chitranee Drapkin. Save the Dates: Sunday, May 22: More for the Eye to See on Harold Edgerton’s Photography Matt Larson (American, Saturday, July 30: Flash/Splash Hands-On Photography born 1960) Workshop, inspired by Edgerton’s stop-motion technique and Tyrannosaurus presented by Beth Reynolds, Director of Photography at the Rex_01 (2016) from the Lost Morean Arts Center World series Watch for eblasts with more details. Wet plate collodion

Tuesday, April 5, 6-8 p.m. The Art of the MFA’s Bay view Room $10 for Friends of Photography members Classical Guitar $20 for nonmembers Hazel Hough Wing RSVP: www.mfastpete.org/rsvp/ Through Sunday, May 29 Sponsored by: Edgerton was a beloved professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for most of his life. The Margaret Acheson He earned his master’s and doctorate at that renowned school Stuart Society and even passed away at 86 in the MIT Faculty Club. He could not have selected a more appropriate place than the university where The MFA selected the beloved and popular guitar for its first he conducted his research, made his discoveries, and influenced exhibition of musical instruments. The stunning installation design generations of students. His legacy lives on at the Edgerton Center, by Dr. Jerry N. Smith, Hazel and William Hough Chief Curator “the place where mind and hand come together” and where students and Interim Executive Director, and Dimitri Lykoudis, Senior can “explore madcap ideas.” Preparator, reveals that the finest guitars can easily stand alone as works of art. He was always first and foremost a scientist. He invented the electronic flash still in use today. His Rapatronic camera recorded nuclear tests These instruments are drawn from the impressive collection of Robb and Susan Hough. The earliest is a Vienna School guitar from for the Atomic Energy Commission in the 1950s and 1960s, and he the 1840s, a precursor to the classical guitar, and the most recent are was instrumental in advancing sonar and deep-sea photography. That four from the 1990s. led to a rewarding collaboration and friendship with famous marine explorer Jacques Cousteau, who nicknamed him “Doc.” Two of the most historic are by Spain’s Antonio de Torres (1817-1892), the father of the modern classical guitar, and Germany’s Hermann Though he denied artistic talent and goals, his images began to attract the attention of curators and collectors, as well as the general public. His color prints are not only technically innovative, but also flat-out beautiful. Many appeared in LIFE magazine, and his high- speed stroboscopic short film, Quicker’n a Wink, won an Oscar in 1940. Toward the end of his life, National Geographic paid tribute to his accomplishments in a profile titled “Doc Edgerton: the man who made time stand still.”

British curator Colin Harding has written that “Edgerton’s photographs, with their unusual subject matter, sharp detail, strong use of color, and formal composition, appeal to a very broad audience. They confirm the extraordinary power of photography and create a sense of wonder from ordinary, everyday events such as a falling drop of milk.” (His well-known Milk Drop Coronet, 1957, is part of the MFA exhibition. So, too, are rare gelatin silver prints of Birth of the Milk Drop from as early as 1933.) Photo by Devinn Campbell 7 our country, Canada, Europe, and Latin America. He was one of five The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every American artists to appear in a 2013 concert honoring Andrés Segovia nd string is a different color, a different voice. at the 92 Street Y. -Andrés Segovia A native New Yorker, Mr. Holzman began the guitar at seven as a student of his older brother Bruce and continued private Hauser I (1882-1952). Antonio de Torres brought together alterations study with Albert Valdés Blain and Eliot in size, shape, scale distance, internal construction, and bridge design Fisk. He later worked with his brother at still found in guitars today. Of the approximately 300 guitars he made, Florida State University where he received less than 100 have survived. The Museum’s exhibition features an his music degrees. He has won five major important example (1890) made by Torres from birds-eye maple for the competitions, including first prize at the 1983 sides and back and Spanish pine for the soundboard. Guitar Foundation of America International Competition. He was chosen twice to Hermann Hauser I followed the master’s lead, but added his own perform in the legendary master classes of refinements that earned him and his descendants a devoted following Andrés Segovia. among guitarists. For most of his career, the legendary Andrés Segovia played a 1937 Hauser, a gift from the luthier (a maker of stringed His recordings for the Naxos label have been critically acclaimed. instruments). He called it “the greatest guitar of our epoch.” It is now Gramophone called his discs of Fernando Sor’s music “irresistible.” in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The American Record Guide praised The Venezuelan Waltzes of Antonio Lauro as “masterly” and wrote that his performance of rarely heard “This guitar, as much as Andrés Segovia himself, established selections for HRH Records was “ … so flawless he makes it all classical guitar playing,” said Jayson Dobney, Associate Curator sound easy.” He has been featured on the covers of Classical Guitar and Administrator, Department of Musical Instruments, at the Magazine and GuitArt Magazine. Metropolitan. The MFA is displaying another 1937 Hauser that has been called “the sister guitar” to this famous instrument. Mr. Holzman founded the Guitar Department at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has been named The Parker C. Fielder Visitors can listen in the gallery and on the free “MFA Viewpoint” Regents Fellow in Music and has received the Robert W. Hamilton app to recordings made on the guitars. They can also watch a video, Fine Arts Award. From 1992-1994, he held the title Maestro running continuously, of performances on select instruments in the Extraordinario from the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León exhibition. Actual music creates a special ambience in the gallery. In in Monterrey, Mexico, where he was artist-in-residence. In 2001, addition, several musicians in the MFA Guitar Festival will play some he was awarded the Ernst von Dohnanyi Prize for Outstanding of these instruments in their concerts in the Marly Room. Achievement from Florida State University.

Information, videos, recordings, and photographs by Felix Salazar Jérémy Jouve have been provided by Guitar Salon International in Santa Monica, Sunday, May 1, 2 p.m. California. Additional recordings have been made possible by Big3 Studios in St. Petersburg. The guitar has rarely looked and sounded Jérémy Jouve revealed his exceptional so beautiful. talent as a child. At the age of 10, he performed a Vivaldi concerto with the Orchestre de Chambéry in his native France and had his first European tour at 16. He went on to win first prize in the Tychy International Guitar Competition (2002) and at 24, the Guitar Foundation of America International Competition (2003).

In high demand as a soloist, Mr. Jouve has played around the world, including at the Radio France Festival in Montpellier and the Mexican Saltillo Guitar Festival. He has made two CDs of the Celebrating The Art of the Classical Guitar demanding works of Joaquín Rodrigo for solo guitar and has graced the cover of Classical Guitar Magazine. Some of the brightest stars in the guitar world will shine at the MFA during The Art of the Classical Guitar. The warm, intimate Marly His CD with Viviana Guzmán for Reference Records, Traveling Room is the perfect place to savor the sound of one of our most Sonata: European Music for Flute & Guitar, was nominated for a 2014 popular instruments. Grammy Award. He collaborates with composer Mathias Duplessy in his most recent album, Cavalcade, which combines flamenco and the Tickets per concert are only $10 for students, $15 for Marly Music music of India with Ravelian accents. It was nominated for CD of the Society members, and $20 for non-Marly Music Society members. Month by French radio station FIP in April 2015. He holds degrees They include admission to the entire Museum. Please purchase from the École Normale de Musique de Paris and the Conservatoire tickets online at www.mfastpete.org/rsvp/ or call 727.896.2667, National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse, where he studied with ext. 210. There are no refunds or exchanges. The MFA Guitar Alberto Ponce and Roland Dyens. Festival is sponsored by the Hough Family Foundation, The Margaret Acheson Stuart Society, and Media Sponsors Tampa Andrew York Bay Times and WUSF. Sunday, May 15, 2 p.m.

Adam Holzman In Andrew York’s concerts, the theater Sunday, April 17, 2 p.m. becomes a living room, and the musical conversation begins with the first note. For more than 20 years, Adam Holzman — performer, recording artist, He has a worldwide following and and educator — has been at the forefront of a generation of guitarists. has toured Japan 12 times. He won a The New York Times has praised his playing as “polished and quite Grammy Award as a member of the Los dazzling,” and the Toronto Star has called him “masterful.” He has nd Angeles Guitar Quartet during his 16 performed at Carnegie Recital Hall, Merkin Hall, and the 92 Street years with that cutting-edge ensemble. Y in New York, at countless music festivals, and in concert centers in 8 His most recent solo recording Yamour was released on vinyl as a Georgia O’Keeffe Painting double-LP and topped Acoustic Guitar editor Teja Gerken’s list of “Essential Recordings of 2012.” Travels to London Georgia O’Keeffe’s White Abstraction (Madison Avenue), 1926, has Mr. York is also one of the most respected composers for the classical been selected for the largest solo exhibition of the artist’s work in guitar. His compositions have been recorded by guitar luminaries London. Georgia O’Keeffe will open at the Tate Modern Wednesday, Jason Vieaux, Sharon Isbin, John Williams, and Christopher July 6, and continue through Sunday, October 30, and will feature Parkening and Japanese pianist Mitsuko Kado. His works are more than 100 works from 1915 to the 1960s. This is the first featured in Mr. Vieaux’s CD Play, which earned a Grammy in 2015, monographic exhibition of O’Keeffe’s work in the United Kingdom and in Ms. Isbin’s CD Journey to the New World, which garnered a since 1993 and has already received extensive coverage in the Grammy in 2010. Mr. York performed and recorded with the Atlanta international press. Symphony for Osvaldo Golijov’s opera Ainadamar, which secured two Grammys in 2006. Georgia O’Keeffe will be accompanied by a scholarly catalogue and will travel to the Bank Austria Kuntsforum in Vienna (November An enthusiastic collaborator, Mr. York performs in the documentary 30, 2016-March 12, 2017) and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto Primal Twang, and the Los Angeles-based Vaughn Dance Company (April 1, 2017-June 25, 2017). Tanya Barson is the curator with presented an entire evening of modern works choreographed to Hannah Johnston, both with the Tate. his compositions. On his 2010 CD Centerpeace, he plays individual In addition to her flowers and landscapes, the retrospective “will pieces with guitarist Andy Summers and pianists Mitsuko Kado and examine her early adoption of abstraction and her continuing Allaudin Mathieu. He also has an extensive background as a jazz engagement with aspects of abstraction throughout her career,” guitarist, having studied with Joe Diorio and Lenny Breau. according to Dr. Chris Dercon, Director of the Tate Modern. “Within this context, Mr. York received his Master of Music from the University of White Abstraction, Southern California. He is the only USC graduate in the school’s one of O’Keeffe’s history to receive the Outstanding Alumni of the Year Award most economic twice — in 1997 as a member of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet and pared-down and in 2003 as the sole recipient. early abstractions, is a particularly key Contemplating Character: Drawings & Oil work. Uniquely, it Sketches from Jacques-Louis David to Lucian Freud is related to both a small number of and cubist-influenced The Art of the Classical Guitar compositions that Members’ Opening Reception, Friday, February 12 the artist produced Photos by Rich Montalbano/RiMO PHOTO … and to her contemporaneous cityscapes of New York, painted (Left to right) Dr. Jerry N. Smith, downwards on the Hazel and William Hough Chief Curator and Interim Executive streets below from Director, Vickie Hamilton- the rooms in the Smith, and Chairman of the Shelton Hotel that Board Mark T. Mahaffey. she shared with photographer Alfred Stieglitz.” White Abstraction was obviously very (Left to right) Kirsten Bengston- special to O’Keeffe. Lykoudis, Senior Preparator Upon completion, Dimitri Lykoudis, and Bridget she dipped her right Bryson, Manager of Curatorial hand in gray paint Affairs and Digital Projects. and placed her handprint on the back of the canvas — an unusual gesture for the artist. (Left to right) Dr. Jerry N. Smith, Hazel and William Hough Chief Dr. Dercon added: Curator and Interim Executive “This is a once- Director, William Knight in-a-generation Zewadski, Mary B. Perry, and opportunity for Patricia Rossignol Tate’s British and international audiences to view her work in depth.” It is destined to be one of the high points of the Tate season and those of the other museums. Georgia O’Keeffe (American, 1887-1986) Mark Anderson and Director of White Abstraction (Madison Avenue), 1926 Development Daryl DeBerry. Oil on canvas Gift of Charles C. and Margaret Stevenson Henderson in memory of Hunt Henderson 9 A member of the famous guitar quartet, the Romeros, Celin not only focused on repertoire and technique in his classes, but also on the craft of creating the finest guitars themselves. He introduced him to guitars in his collection by the likes of Miguel Rodríguez, Hermann Hauser I, and Santos Hernández. This ultimately led to his career in dealing with the best guitars. After several years studying and working in Europe, he joined Guitar Salon LECTURES | TALKS | SPECIAL EVENTS International (GSI) in 2000. Follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook, and visit www.mfastpete. org for updates on public programs. They are sponsored in part GSI in Santa Monica, California is one of the world’s most respected by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural dealers in classical and flamenco guitars and is the premier online Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture; The Margaret community and educational resource on these instruments. The Acheson Stuart Society; Duke Energy; City of St. Petersburg Office company generously contributed expertise and information as the of Cultural Affairs; Westminster Communities of St. Petersburg; and MFA developed The Art of the Classical Guitar. Media Sponsors Tampa Bay Times and WUSF. Programs are subject to change without notice. Gallery Talk on Harold Edgerton: What the Eye Can’t See by Robin O’Dell, Manager of LECTURES & GALLERY TALKS Photographic Collections Sunday, May 8, 3 p.m. Free with MFA admission Gallery Talk on Vanessa Diaz: Beginning at Robin O’Dell returned to the MFA in 2014 after the Cornice, Not the Foundation by Curator earning her MA in photographic preservation of Contemporary Art Katherine Pill and collections management in the joint program Sunday, April 24, 3 p.m. offered by Ryerson University in Toronto and the George Eastman House International Museum of This is yet one more example of Katherine Pill’s Photography and Film in Rochester. During her imaginative exhibitions and programs. She is graduate study, she served as library assistant at the George Eastman the first Curator of Contemporary Art in the House and assistant to the archivist at the Keith Haring Foundation Museum’s history and has taken risks to bring in New York. new work to our audience and community. She invited Vanessa Diaz to create this site-specific installation Ms. O’Dell is overseeing and cataloguing the MFA’s growing for the period rooms and galleries of decorative arts. It brings a photography collection and making recommendations for contemporary spark to some of the MFA’s most traditional spaces. conservation and storage. As Curatorial Administrator, she assists with the collection as a whole and all exhibitions. Most recently, Ms. Pill curated Marks Made: Prints by American Women Artists from the 1960s to the Present, a major exhibition of more than 90 During her previous seven-year tenure at the MFA, Ms. O’Dell works, and wrote an essay for the handsome catalogue. She selected was a go-to person in the curatorial department. She was involved Carrie Schneider: Reading Women to complement that show and the with more than 50 exhibitions and curated four, including Changing current Christian Marclay: Telephones and Sound Holes. She is also Identities: The Len Prince Photographs of Jessie Mann and On the Road: organizing Shana Moulton: Journeys Out of the Body, the artist’s first Photographs Across America. She now adds the Harold Edgerton solo museum exhibition in the United States. Color Acting: Abstraction show to her list of credits. Since 1950 was her first project at the MFA. Lecture on “The Artist as Neuroscientist” Ms. Pill holds her BA with a double-major in art history (with by Dr. Patrick Cavanagh honors) and English literature from McGill University in Montreal. Presented in conjunction with the Vision Sciences Society She then completed a three-year dual MA in art history, theory, and Saturday, May 14, 11 a.m. criticism and arts administration and policy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Artists often break the rules of physics, using impossible shadows, shapes, or Lecture on The Art of the Classical Guitar by David Collett, reflections. These undetected transgressions President of Guitar Salon International offer a wealth of information about visual Saturday, May 7, 1 p.m. perception. Dr. Patrick Cavanagh will survey cave paintings to modern and contemporary Mr. Collett will offer a survey of the art to enhance understanding of “science development, cultural personality, musical by looking.” In fact, the history of art qualities, and audience appeal of the guitar. provides the longest documented record of He will include stories about guitar-builders, neuroscience research. world-class performers, and their interaction and will also highlight the design properties of Dr. Cavanagh is Head of the Centre of Attention and Vision and exceptional guitars. Professor at the Université Paris Descartes and also Research Professor at Harvard University and Dartmouth College. Previously, Music has been a huge part of Mr. Collett’s life he was on the faculty of the Université de Montreal from 1972-1989 from childhood. He began with the violin at and full-time at Harvard from 1989-2007. He holds his bachelor's six and turned to the guitar in his teens. He in electrical engineering from McGill University in Montreal. studied privately with 10-string virtuoso Vince Macaluso and then An interest in artificial intelligence led to his PhD in cognitive with the great Celin Romero at the University of California, San psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Diego, where he double-majored in music and economics.

10 He has studied the properties and strategies of visual attention Coffee Talks with Nan Colton and is a pioneering scholar in examining art as a source of data for neuroscience. Dr. Cavanagh is widely published and has lectured at Sponsored by: some of the world’s finest universities.

Gallery Talk on Contemplating Character by Dr. Jerry N. Smith, Hazel and William Second Wednesday of the Month Free with Museum admission. Hough Chief Curator and Interim Executive Director Connect with the arts through monthly Saturday, May 21, 1 p.m. performances that give voice and embodiment to the two-dimensional. Since joining the MFA in October, Dr. Jerry N. The MFA’s extremely popular artist-in- Smith has already made major contributions. residence Nan Colton creates scripts inspired He and Senior Preparator Dimitri Lykoudis by special exhibitions and the Museum devised the stunning installations of collection. These 30-minute presentations Contemplating Character: Drawings & Oil Sketches from Jacques-Louis introduce great artists and other historical Nan Colton as David to Lucian Freud and The Art of the Classical Guitar. He has also figures, as well as the times in which Berthe Morisot been engaged in all aspects of the institution as Interim Executive they lived. Enjoy refreshments at 10 a.m., Director. Ms. Colton’s performance at 10:30, and a general docent tour at 11:15.

Dr. Smith was formerly Curator of American and European Art to April 13: A Painted Woolf 1950 and Art of the American West at the Phoenix Art Museum. The gifted writer Virginia Woolf sits for French artist Jacques-Émile During his tenure, he curated and supervised nearly 40 exhibitions Blanche, whose Contemplation (1883) is an audience favorite. that spanned the art of the Renaissance to American modernism May 11: A Woman Ahead of Her Time through contemporary art of the American West. His exhibitions Ms. Colton portrays Berthe Morisot who gained recognition were some of the most popular in the museum’s history. against the odds and exhibited her paintings with the French Impressionists. In addition, he was instrumental in selecting and recommending June 8: In Focus art for the collection, which numbers more than 18,000 works. He Julia Margaret Cameron, the pioneering nineteenth-century British has written a number of catalogues, and for Cézanne and American photographer, comes to life in this memorable performance. Modernism, he wrote an essay on the artist and the American West, which was published by Yale University Press. Dr. Smith holds his BA and MA from Arizona State University and his PhD from the University of Kansas, all in art history.

Lecture on Shana Moulton: Journeys Out of the Body by the artist Sunday, April 10, 3 p.m.: Benjamin Cobb and Martin Rosol Sunday, June 19, 3 p.m. Benjamin Cobb is the Lead Gaffer and Anyone who has watched Shana Hot Shop Manager at the Museum of Moulton describe her work online Glass in Tacoma and has conducted knows that she is accessible, relatable, classes and workshops at the Pilchuck Glass School and the Pittsburgh Glass and refreshingly honest. She will Shana Moulton in discuss her Whispering Pines video Whispering Pines Center, among many others. His work series, her performance pieces and has been shown across the country and operas, and her sculpture and installations. In our age of multimedia, in Europe and has been reproduced in Ms. Moulton has staked out her own territory in the art world and The New Glass Review and American Craft. is gaining ever more critical attention. This is her first solo museum He notes that his “objects … are abstract, exhibition in the United States. modern interpretations of natural forms.” Mr. Cobb holds his BFA in glass from the Ms. Moulton has shown her work or performed at the Museum of Reticulated Maple by Rochester Institute of Technology, School Modern Art, The New Museum, and The Kitchen in New York; The Benjamin Cobb for American Crafts. Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh; the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the San Francisco Museum Like many Czech glassworkers, Martin of Modern Art; the Tate Modern in London; and major universities Rosol learned his craft in a company across the country. school and soon created glass art in his spare time. His works began to Her videos have been selected for many experimental film festivals sell outside of Czechoslovakia and in the U.S. and abroad, and she was one of five young New York were exhibited in both Europe and artists invited to participate in a 15-day residency at the Guangdong the United States. In 1981 he received Times Museum in Guangzhou, China. She used materials from the Bavarian State Prize for Glass the markets to create new works. Ms. Moulton holds her BA Sculpture in Munich. He later lived for from the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied two years in Austria, before settling both anthropology and art, and her MFA from Carnegie Mellon in the U.S. His glass sculptures are University in Pittsburgh. known for their architectural forms, which receive and contain light. Glass art by Martin Rosol

11 Saturday, April 9, 11 a.m.-noon Lunchtime Lectures, Mondays, noon Slow Art Day is a global all-volunteer event to help people Artist Talks, Panel Discussions, Lively Lectures discover the joy of looking at and loving art. Portrait artist discover the joy of looking at and loving art. Portrait artist $5 (lecture only), plus MFA admission Douglas Land will sketch in the galleries and answer $10 (lecture and lunch) for Contemporaries members questions. For more information and to view a list of $15 (lecture and lunch) for nonmembers of The Contemporaries Slowparticipating Art venues, Day please visit www.slowartday.com. Lunch reservations must be made by 3 p.m. the Friday before the lecture.

The decorative arts — fine furniture, April 11: The talented Babs Reingold, who lives in St. Petersburg, jewelry, ceramics, and glass — are all will introduce her work and explore her influences. She has produced around us and in the Museum. FODA paintings, drawings, sculpture, and room-sized installations. expands understanding of their variety They are marked by both introspection and a social conscience and beauty. Plus, you will make new and examine stereotypes friends at the meetings. Annual dues are of female beauty, aging, $20 in addition to Museum membership. poverty, and more. She was represented in the recent FODA programs are held on the second Tuesday of the month exhibition Marks Made: Prints at 2 p.m. during season. Non-FODA members can attend for $5, by American Women Artists plus MFA admission. Carolyn Nygren is the volunteer coordinator. from the 1960s to the Present. Upcoming events follow: Ms. Reingold is also April 12: Eric Hilton has been a consulting artist/designer with the special guest for Steuben for more than 40 years. He will share stories from this “Conversations with the association and focus specifically on some of the most important Designers” on Sunday, April pieces he has designed. Innerland (1980), now in the collection of 10, from noon-2 p.m., as part the Corning Museum of Glass in New York, has been called “one of of Art in Bloom 2016. She Steuben’s greatest achievements.” Creation (1990), commissioned will be on hand to discuss Babs Reingold with her Hair by the Suntory Corporation in Japan, is one of the largest glass two “Hair Doodles” from Doodle: 01.05 from the series sculptures ever produced by Steuben. His abstract Seeds of her series Fallout: Beauty Lost Fallout: Beauty Lost and Found Enlightenment (2000) commemorates the life of Dr. Martin Luther and Found. She will be joined King Jr. and was commissioned by the State of New York for the by floral designerGretchen capitol in Albany. Ward Warren, who will answer questions about her Ikebana arrangement in response to Ms. Reingold’s drawings. He has created glass sculptures for Cornell University, Queens College, and the The artist’s work is part of the collections of the Newark Museum World Golf Hall of Fame in St. Augustine, in New Jersey and the Savannah College of Art and Design in Florida, among many other venues. His Georgia, as well as the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg. It has works have been included in exhibitions at been shown across the country, in Europe, and Japan. She holds her The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and her MFA from the State York; the Corning Museum of Glass; the University of New York at Buffalo. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in May 2: Dean Hurst, Director of Spirits at the Haven in Tampa, will Richmond; the Musée des Arts decoratifs explore the world of contemporary Tiki culture in advance of the in Paris, and the Osaka World Exposition Seeds of Enlightenment annual Hukilau in Fort Lauderdale. in Japan. (American, Steuben, 2000) June 6: Multidisciplinary Mr. Hilton has taught at the NYS College Honoring the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. artist Ya La’ford, who of Ceramics at Alfred University in New Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Capitol of New York divides her time between York, the University of Victoria in British Glass sculpture the Tampa Bay area and Columbia, the Birmingham College of Designed by Eric Hilton the Bronx, will discuss Art and the Stourbridge College of Art in her socially engaged England, and the Edinburgh College of Art in his native Scotland. work. During the SHINE He holds both his BFA and MFA from the Edinburgh College of Art St. Petersburg Mural and has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and Festival, she created her Blue an NEA Grant for Architectural Research. Sunnel in the tunnel next to Ferg’s Sports Bar. May 10: Dr. Teresa Wilkins, the MFA’s Members Services Manager, will examine the various forms, functions, and traditions Her work has been shown at the Studio Museum in Harlem, the of Hawaii’s stunning feathered art forms. She will survey their Lawndale Art Center in Houston, and the Leepa-Rattner Museum construction, meaning, and use. Dr. Wilkins holds her PhD in of Art, St. Petersburg College. She has also been a featured artist at non-Western art history from Indiana University, Bloomington, and Tampa International Airport. is one of the world’s foremost scholars on this subject. She earned her BA magna cum laude from the University of South Florida, Ms. La’ford has a fascinating academic background, holding a BFA Tampa, where she was a Presidential Scholar. in painting from Florida State University, an interdisciplinary MFA

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Simone Bennett DeLoach, a longtime friend of the MFA and member of The Contemporaries, has been named its Feast on culinary masterpieces in a one-hour demonstration designed President. She founded the group while a by local chefs of St. Petersburg’s burgeoning food scene. Each Museum intern in 2001 and organized its program features tastings, a signature drink, and concludes with premiere multimedia event, Urban Swank, which combined art and fashion and attracted a musical performance in the Museum’s Marly Room. a large crowd of young professionals. Through her leadership, The Contemporaries WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2016 became an established membership organization. Curator of JEFFREY JEW, Executive Chef overseeing culinary Contemporary Art Katherine Pill and Dr. Teresa Wilkins, Manager development and design for 2BHospitality, which of Membership Services, have revitalized the group to encourage includes Bella Brava and Stillwaters Tavern. greater interest in contemporary art. 6-8:30 p.m. Photo courtesy of Jeremy Scott Photography Immediately following her internship, Mrs. DeLoach was hired as the Museum’s first full-time Development Assistant from 2001-2006. She quickly formed relationships of trust with major donors and assisted with the Annual Fund and the beginnings of WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2016 the capital campaign for the Hazel Hough Wing. She is a lifetime KELLY DEBOR, Managing Partner & Pastry Chef, member of the Museum and current member and past president of Slate Door Brew. the Friends of Photography. 6-8:30 p.m. Since leaving the MFA staff, Mrs. DeLoach has held a number of fundraising positions. She has been Assistant Director of Program Sponsor Cost per demonstration: $35 MFA Members; $45 Non-members. Development at the Tampa Museum of Art, where she worked with To purchase tickets visit www.mfastpete.org/rsvp or call Gold Patrons and was a key part of the success of Pride and Passion. 727.896.2667, ext. 210. Space is limited. For more details and That spectacular event reaches out to the GLBT communities and is event updates, visit us on Facebook. now second only to Pavilion in the amount raised for the museum. In addition, she has been the Development Coordinator for Academy August 24 and September 21, 2016. Chefs and Prep Center of St. Petersburg and Assistant to the Vice President for SAVE THE DATES details to be announced in the next Mosaic. Advancement at Eckerd College. She has increasingly turned her attention to marketing. She is Director of Marketing at the law firm of DeLoach & Hofstra, P.A., and previously served as Social Media Strategist for the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. from the Art Institute of Boston, and a JD from the University of Florida Levin College of Law. She has taught at the University of Many organizations and nonprofits in the community have benefited Tampa and Saint Petersburg College. Her work is in the collection from Mrs. DeLoach’s creativity and commitment. She is a member of The Junior League of St. Petersburg and was Vice President of the of the Boston Public Library, as well as the private collections of Board of The Studio@620 for four years and a steering committee artist Jeff Koons and the late author Maya Angelou. member of the Zodiac Group of the Salvador Dalí Museum for eight. She is an alumna of Leadership St. Pete, Class of 2010. Second Thursday of the Month, 6:30 p.m. Mrs. DeLoach holds her BA with high honors from Eckerd College, where she focused on museum studies and the visual arts, and a Free with Museum admission, recent MBA in marketing and management from USF St. Petersburg. which is only $5 after 5 p.m. on With her development, marketing, and volunteer experience, she is Thursday the ideal person to lead The Contemporaries forward.

Join Keep St. Pete Lit, a local organization that supports the literary community, for a book Annual Membership Meeting club connecting the visual and literary arts. Each month’s All MFA members are encouraged to attend the annual featured book relates to the MFA’s collection or special exhibitions. membership meeting at 4 p.m. Monday, May 2, in the Marly Room. Chairman of the Board Mark T. Mahaffey and Dr. Jerry N. Smith, Hazel and William Hough Chief Curator and Interim April 14: Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend by Executive Director, will report on the past year and on future Michael Dregni will inspire you to learn more about the humble exhibitions and programs. Treasurer Wayne (Skipp) Fraser will beginnings of the classical guitar. Jean “Django” Reinhardt (1910- summarize the audited financial statement, and the officers of 1953) was born in a gypsy caravan and became one of the greatest the Executive Committee will be introduced. A reception will guitarists ever. follow in the Mary Alice McClendon Conservatory. May 12: The novel, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by Article VII, Section 1 (a), of the Museum of Fine Arts Bylaws César Aira, follows German artist Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802- states: “There shall be an annual meeting of the Museum 1858) in his surreal travels through Latin America. As you read, membership as set by the Board of Trustees. The Museum visit the Museum and enjoy the many landscapes in the collection. Director will prepare and give a report on the state of the June 9: The quirky agoraphobic architect Bernadette Fox in Maria Museum at the annual meeting. Meetings of the members Semple’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette: A Novel will prepare you to shall be for advisory and educational purposes to provide an meet Cynthia, artist Shana Moulton’s alter ego. opportunity for the Board of Trustees to report and present information to the membership and to receive comments and input from the membership.”

13 Visual Metaphor New Docent Class Through Sunday, April 24 We are designing a new docent class that will begin in the fall Sponsored in part by The DMG School Project of 2016. We cannot wait to share the details with you in our This audience favorite spotlights work by many of the most talented next Mosaic. students in the Pinellas County Schools. Their teachers select the If you are as excited as we are, please complete a volunteer art, which encompasses a wide array of media. A reception for application online: www.mfastpete.org/join/volunteers/. the students and their parents and teachers will be held on Wednesday, April 6, from 6-8 p.m., with awards presented at 6:30 p.m. Youth & Family Marine Science Yoga and First and third Saturday of the month, Art Camp 10 a.m. Presented by “Kidding Around Yoga” Ages three and older with KT $5 per person (includes admission to Monday, July 25-Friday, July 29 entire Museum). Please bring a towel or 8:30 a.m-3:30 p.m. Drop-off begins at yoga mat. 8 a.m. For rising second- to sixth-graders Kidding Around Yoga uses the yoga poses (Exceptions may be made with the or asanas creatively tucked into partner instructor’s approval.) yoga, games and activities, original music, $170 MFA members, $195 nonmembers until June 1 stories, and more. The class is designed $220 MFA members, $245 nonmembers after June 1 for kids, but entire families are welcome. Prices include a nonrefundable $50 application fee. Sibling discounts Practicing yoga with children creates a special bond. are available. All campers must register by July 8. Second and fourth Friday of the This unique camp is led by certified children’s yoga teacher and month, 11 a.m. marine scientist Katie Toth and features daily yoga classes, marine ASL-accessible program science instruction, and art projects. A different theme of marine For parents/guardians and their ecology, conservation, and community service will highlight each children up to six-years-old day. Please register online at www.mfastpete.org/rsvp/ or call $5 per family 727.896.2667, ext. 210. Members should use code CAMPER2016 when registering online to ensure their discount is applied. Discover art and learn a new language as a family. Gain an introduction to ASL (American Sign Language) vocabulary while touring the galleries. Classes are designed and presented by certified Approximately ASL instructor and interpreter Carol Downing. 800 people filled the Mary Alice MFA: Make and Take Saturday McClendon First and Third Saturday of the month, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Conservatory for Free with Museum admission. No registration is necessary. the dismantling ceremony of the For ages five and older, but entire families are encouraged to sand mandala participate. on Saturday, January 16. The Create your own masterpiece inspired by works in the collection and Venerable Lama special exhibitions. Supplies are included. Losang Samten created the April 2 and 16: Explore the collection and gardens looking for mandala over the artwork where fairies might visit. Use your imagination and the course of two materials provided to create a Fairy Garden. weeks, drawing many new visitors May 7 and 21: Go through the galleries looking for teapots, teacups, to the MFA. saucers, and plates. Then paint your own decorative teapot (not safe for food).

June 4 and 18: Check out the stop-motion-like photographs of Photo by Devinn Campbell Harold Edgerton and try freezing and starting movement in your own flipbook.

Second and Fourth Saturday of the month, The New Age of Coloring 10:30-11:30 a.m. Thursday, May 19, 5-8 p.m. Adults and families are welcome. Children Presented by the Museum Store must be accompanied by an adult. MFA admission is only $5 after 5 p.m. on Thursday. $5 per person Artist (or adult) coloring books are having a moment. Presented by Sally and Katherine Robinson of the Drum Connection Combine relaxation with the pleasure of connecting with others. Choose from three designs or bring your own. Colored Explore the many cultures represented in pencils and fine-tip markers will be provided. the MFA collection by experiencing them to For those glued to computer screens and iPhones for hours a rhythmic beat. Feel the momentum grow on end, coloring offers an activity that feels real and concrete, while you drum and use other percussion rather than virtual. It affords benefits that typing and texting instruments to bring art alive. No experience is necessary. Just come and have fun. cannot.

14 ReadingRebecca Solnit Women:in Conversation with Carrie Schneider Sunday, January 13 Sponsored by the Focardi-Great Bay Foundation and the Gobioff Foundation Photos by Rich Montalbano/RiMO PHOTO

A capacity crowd attended the talk between artist Carrie Schneider (left) and award- winning author Rebecca Solnit. The exhibition Carrie Schneider: Reading Women closed that day.

Author Rebecca Solnit (speaking) and artist Carrie PUBLIC HOME BREW TASTING & AWARDS Schneider met with a group of Saturday, June 11, 1 – 4pm students at the reception in the Professional and amateur brewers exhibit liquid works Membership for a limited engagement. Savor the brews of over 20 Garden following the program. brewers and vote for your favorite. Tickets are $25. Includes beer tastings, lite bites, tasting glass and galleries.

Friday, June 10, 2016, 7 – 10pm Inspired liquid art. Taste beers uniquely crafted by local artisans for a night that drinks to creativity and ingenuity. Area brewing companies take on the challenge to create small batch brews Member Jewelry Sale that connect with works in the Museum’s collection. George Inness, Early Moonrise, Florida, 1893, at the MFA Store Gift of Costas Lemonopoulos Featured works: Mother’s Day Weekend George Inness, Early Moonrise, Florida The God of Death, Michtlantecuhtli Thursday, May 5 through Sunday, May 8 Georgia O’Keeffe,Poppy Red Grooms, De Kooning Breaks Through MFA members receive 20% OFF all jewelry Amir I.M. Nour, Horned Gate (including already marked-down pieces). Preserve a masterpiece by tapping into a Non-members receive 10% OFF jewelry. one-of-a-kind evening! Tickets are $55* with proceeds going to the MFA’s art conservation project.

*Includes beer, 11oz pilsner glass, brewers’ collectors cards, wine, food, and galleries. FREE ADMISSION to the MFA for Mom on Mother’s Day A wonderful way for Mom to celebrate Mother’s Day is visiting downtown, exploring our galleries, seeing our new exhibitions and celebrating art.

15 and started designing jewelry for a family venture. He later turned The Margaret Acheson to charcoal drawing and painting, demonstrating the influence of French Impressionism. His work is now in private collections around Stuart Society the world. Mr. Renoir will make comments and greet patrons during “Flowers After Hours.” For the latest information, please visit www.thestuartsociety.org. Like us on Facebook, www.facebook.com/thestuartsociety, or send us a tweet, www.twitter.com/stuartsociety. Carol Russell is the President and Dimity Luncheon Carlson the President-Elect. ArtFriday, in April Bloom 8, 11:30 a.m. Grand Ballroom of the Vinoy Renaissance St. Petersburg Resort & Golf Club Tickets: $90 per person Local floral designers will welcome patrons to the luncheon with demonstrations inspired by the Museum’s popular painting Julie Lebrun as Flora (1799) by her mother Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun. They will respond to the question: How would you welcome Vigée- Thursday, April 7-Monday, April 11 Lebrun back to the Museum? This prized work is currently in the artist’s first retrospective, Vigée-Lebrun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary Presenting Sponsor: France, now on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Art in Bloom 2016 will be stunning. Kimberly Schlegel Whitman, one of the Approximately 50 floral designs by professional country’s top lifestyle and entertaining florists, talented hobbyists, and members of experts, will share tips, including on floral The Stuart Society will fill the Museum. “Guess Who’s Coming design, at the luncheon. Based in Dallas, to Dinner” in The Junior League Great Hall will spotlight four she is the author of seven books, including tablescapes. They will invite an artist represented in the collection to Monograms for the Home: The Art of Making dinner and will include a floral arrangement, place setting, and the Your Mark (her most recent), Wedding title of a recipe from Food + Art, the new Stuart Society cookbook. Inspiration, The Party Planner: An Expert In addition, a striking floral design will welcome visitors to the Organizing Guide for Entertaining, and even Dog Mary Alice McClendon Conservatory, and one will be displayed in Parties: Entertaining Your Party Animal. She is the Museum Store. Inspired by works in the collection, children can Editor-at-Large for Southern Living, one of the create their own arrangements with silk flowers in the Explore More most successful magazines in the country. Gallery. Mrs. Whitman is truly a lifestyle entrepreneur, having developed The MFA Café will offer a floral-themed special each day and will a national following. She has made countless TV appearances and be open on Monday, April 11, an exception, from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. has become a Today show favorite. She is a regular on Dallas TV and Reservations are suggested for Monday by calling 727.822.1032. The radio and on the Style Network’s Whose Wedding is it Anyway? She Museum Store will feature Food + Art, other books, jewelry, cards, has been featured in Vanity Fair, Elle, Vogue, Modern Bride, the New and gifts for children. York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. Extended hours will allow everyone to see the flowers. They A young civic leader and philanthropist, Mrs. Whitman was named are: 1-8 p.m. Thursday, April 7; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday, April 8; Volunteer of the Year by the American Heart Association, one of 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, April 9; 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday, April 10; her many awards. She holds her BA in art history with honors from and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, April 11. Southern Methodist University and completed further study in art connoisseurship at Christie’s, New York. Jan Stoffels is the overall coordinator, and Karen Banfield is chairing the exhibition of floral designs. Deann Coop and Sue Knipe are the chairs of “Flowers After Hours,” and Linda Dow, Marian Yon Maguire, and Rhonda Sanderford are chairing the ConversationsSunday, April 10, noon-2 with p.m.the Designers luncheon. For reservations to “Flowers After Hours” and the Art No reservations required. Valet parking. in Bloom Luncheon, please contact Liz Curry: elizabethcurry@ Come early, as this event always draws large crowds. Floral designers aol.com or 727.823.3798. will be in the galleries to discuss their creations, inspiration, and techniques. Artist Babs Reingold will be a special guest and will talk about two “Hair Doodles” from her series Fallout: Beauty FlowersThursday, AprilAfter 7, 6:30 Hours p.m. Lost and Found. Floral designer Gretchen Ward Warren will Tickets: $85 per person. answer questions about her Ikebana arrangement in response to Ms. Reingold’s work. Benjamin Cobb and Martin Rosol will Be one of the first to view the inventive floral designs and enjoy introduce their glass art in the Marly Room at 3 p.m. as part of “Hot sumptuous hors d’oeuvres; cocktails, including a signature drink; Gatherings, Cool Conversations.” Have brunch in the MFA Café and wine; and jazz in the Marly Room and Membership Garden. Images spend the day at the Museum. of works from the collection, along with recipes from Food + Art and unique floral designs, will decorate each serving station. Alexandre Renoir, the great-grandson of the TheMonday, Contemporaries April 11, noon Lunchtime Lecture legendary French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, $5 (lecture only), plus MFA admission will be the guest of honor. His famous family $10 (lecture and lunch) for Contemporaries members also includes film director Jean Renoir, actor $15 (lecture and lunch) for nonmembers of The Contemporaries Pierre Renoir, and director of photography Lunch reservations must be made by 3 p.m. the Friday before the Claude Renoir Jr. and his daughter actress lecture. Sophie Renoir, to name a few. Babs Reingold, who lives in St. Petersburg, will discuss her work Born in 1974 in the south of France, Mr. Renoir more fully in the Marly Room. She is known for both her talent and moved with his family to Canada at the age of range. She has produced paintings, drawings, sculpture, and room- four. He revealed his talent early, graduating sized installations. Her work is part of the collections of the Newark from the Victoria School of the Arts and Museum in New Jersey and the Savannah College of Art and Design taking classes at the Royal Alberta Museum, in Georgia. She also has two monoprints and one drawing in the both in Edmonton. He studied a variety of MFA collection. media, even ceramics and woodworking,

16 Zinetti International Competition in Italy. Wine, Whiskey & She studied with Jaime Laredo and Yumi Music in Scott at the Curtis Institute of Music. Wonder! the Marly Presented by The Margaret Acheson June 26 Stuart Society Escape the heat with cool summer Clancy Newman, cello Saturday, February 6, and Sunday, concerts. Tickets are first-come, first- Clancy Newman took to the cello at six and February 7 served, cost $20 for adults and $10 for won a gold medal in his first competition at students 22 and younger with current ID, The Stuart Society expresses deep 12. He has added first prizes in the Walter and can be purchased online by going to gratitude to the following sponsors W. Naumburg International Competition, www.mfastpete.org/rsvp. Admission to and underwriters: The Juilliard School Cello Competition, the entire Museum is included in the ticket the National Federation of Music Clubs Imperial Gold Sponsors: Marianne price. Come early and have brunch in the Competition, and Mark T. Mahaffey and Beth and MFA Café. John England. and the Marly Music Society members pay only Astral Artists Silver Spirits Sponsor: Nordstrom. $15 per concert. Please consider joining the National Magnum Sponsors: Beth Rutberg group to support the series. You must be a Auditions. and John-Edward Alley, All American Museum member to join. He has also Mortgage Company, Andrea and The Music Committee, chaired by received an Russell Barlow, Dr. Dimity and Dr. Richard Eliason, plans the series. Avery Fisher Mark Carlson, Cathy and Dr. Steve Vicki Sofranko is the staff coordinator. Career Grant. Collins, Hillary Carlson Cone, Emily Concerts are sponsored in part by the Joshua Kossman wrote in the San Francisco and James Gillespie, Lynda Jollay, Friends of Joe Sprain in his memory; the Chronicle that “Newman’s technical mastery Mercedes and Frank LaValla, Najla Estate of Mrs. Elvira Wolfe de Weil; the proved entirely dazzling,” and David and Dr. Kamal Majeed, Fay Mackey, Tampa Bay Times; WUSF; and the State Patrick Stearns raved in the Philadelphia Joan and Harry McCreary, The of Florida, Department of State, Division Inquirer that “Newman … seems to be in a McDonald Company, and Caroline of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida class of his own.” Meers and Michael Cowan. Council on Arts and Culture. For more Mr. Newman has performed as a soloist information, please call 727.896.2667 or Also Glenn and Dav Mosby; Northern across our country and in Canada, Europe, visit the website. The opening concerts are Trust; J. Crayton Pruitt Foundation; Asia, and Australia. He has been featured at 2 p.m. on these Sundays: Rita and Stephen Peters; Carol and on NPR’s Performance Today and on A&E’s Michael Piper; Fran and Bud Risser; Breakfast with the Arts. He is in high demand Tampa Bay Trust Company; Eve and June 5 as a chamber musician and has toured with Felix Sawicki; Shumaker, Loop & Ayako Yoshida, violin “Musicians from Marlboro.” Kendrick, LLP; Smith & Associates Real Estate; Dr. Susan M. Taylor Ayako Yoshida Composition is another passion. He wrote and Mr. John H. Dimitri; Peggy and picked up the violin his first piece for solo cello at seven and Howard Tuttle; and Cherie and Luis at the age of two has since expanded both the cello and Valez. and has not stopped chamber music repertoire. He premiered since. Critics call his Sonata for Cello and Piano in Carnegie’s Underwriters: Chris and Bob her “unforgettable,” Weill Recital Hall and frequently plays his Hilton, Ambassador and Mrs. Melvin “gripping,” “absolutely own works in concert. His compositions Sembler, Sydni Shollenberger. radiant,” and “a risk- have received star billing in the Chamber taker.” Music Society of Lincoln Center’s “Double Exposure” series and in the Chicago Ms. Yoshida made her Chamber Musicians’ “Freshly Scored” U.S. concerto debut with the Los Angeles series. He holds his MM from The Juilliard Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, School and his BA in English from going on to play with London’s Royal Columbia University. The Plaza of Honor Phiharmonic. Her New York concerto debut was at Alice Tully Hall and her New York Pianist Noreen Cassidy-Polera, his at the Bayshore entrance to the recital debut at Carnegie’s Weill Recital accompanist, is one of the most respected Hazel Hough Wing Hall. She was introduced at the Caramoor collaborative musicians of her generation. Order an Engraved Brick, the International Music Festival by André She has performed at Lincoln Center’s Previn in 1992 and immediately became an Alice Tully Hall, Weill Recital Hall, and Perfect Memorial or Tribute. nd • Commemorate an engagement, audience favorite. the 92 Street Y in New York and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. She wedding, anniversary, Among her many other festival appearances has accompanied Yo-Yo Ma, Leonard Rose, milestone birthday, or are Aspen, Santa Fe, Marlboro, and and Scott Kluksdahl. She won the Eighth Salzburg. She has played with the likes of graduation. International Tchaikovsky Competition Yo-Yo Ma, Elmar Oliveira, Ani Kavafian, • Memorialize relatives or special Accompanying Prize in Moscow and holds and members of the Guarneri and Emerson friends. both her Bachelor and Master of Music from String Quartets. Her solo recital at the • Honor family, teachers, The Juilliard School. volunteers, or donors. National Gallery of Art in Washington, • Show support for the MFA. D.C. was broadcast on NPR’s Performance Future Sunday concerts follow: Today and received a glowing review in July 17: Merling Trio Forms are available at the the Washington Post. Other engagements have taken her to Europe, Japan, and Latin July 31: Christopher Johnson, piano Welcome Desk. For more America. August 21: Rachel Kudo, piano, and information, please contact chair Brandon Ridenour, trumpet Libby Salamone, libbysoldit@aol. Ms. Yoshida received the Nathan Wedeen August 28: The Florida Orchestra Brass com. Management Award from the Concert Quintet Artists Guild and has won the National Competition in Japan and the Gaetano

17 MFA Thanks Trustees for Stellar Service

Three dedicated trustees — Gary L. Revenues had reached an impressive He is an alumnus of Leadership Tampa, Damkoehler, Howard Mills, and Harold $320 million. Class of 2007, and a member of the E. Wells Jr. — have completed their National Association of Credit Managers. terms on the Board. They have all played Mr. Damkoehler has also been a longtime He is a U.S. Army veteran, reaching the enormous roles in the Museum’s history trustee of Admiral Farragut Academy rank of First Lieutenant. Mr. Mills holds and development. in St. Petersburg. He holds a BA and his BS in business from Medgar Evers MA in economics from the University of College in Brooklyn and his JD from the “Gary Damkoehler, Howard Mills, and Alabama. Rutgers University School of Law, where Hal Wells have led by example,” said he was awarded a Distinguished Grade in Mark T. Mahaffey, Chairman of the Before Administrative Law. Board. “They generously shared their Mr. Mahaffey’s invaluable professional expertise with me, election, Howard Banking and their fellow trustees, and the Museum L. Mills was business executive staff. We are deeply grateful for their President of the Harold (Hal) many contributions.” Board, having Wells Jr. and his previously served wife Becky have Gary Damkoehler is President of as President-Elect been stalwarts of Damkoehler and Secretary. He the MFA for many Enterprises, LLC, a was also a member years. Mr. Wells private investment of the Executive has been Treasurer firm, and an art Committee. He donated the first works of the Board and collector. He is in the MFA collection by Ellen Gallagher, a member of the also Chairman and Hughie Lee-Smith, and Charles White, all Executive Committee, and Becky has CEO of BioDerm, gifted African American artists. been extremely active in The Margaret a medical device Acheson Stuart Society. company in Mr. Mills brought strong financial Clearwater. and administrative experience to the Mr. Wells was Pinellas County Executive Museum. He was Director of Financial for Bay Cities Bank and Vice President, He and his wife Gail donated substantial Administration for the Columbia Commercial Lending/Private Banking, at funds to construct the Hazel Hough Wing University Medical School’s affiliation Synovus Bank, both in St. Petersburg. His and later to restore and renovate the at Harlem Hospital from 1997-2004. In department became the second fastest galleries in the original building. In 2008 that capacity, he coordinated $70 million growing private banking team in Synovus they gave nearly their entire collection annual audits and monitored a $70 Financial Corporation, at one point of Asian art to the Museum. Many of the million contract with New York City. He garnering $180 million in assets over a objects are displayed in the Asian gallery, also balanced a $70 million operations 14-month period. named in the Damkoehlers’ honor, in the budget and saved more than $4 million in original building. one year. For 12 years, Mr. Wells was the President/ Owner of Precision Metal Parts, also in That significant gift greatly enhanced Previously, he was Budget Director St. Petersburg. Precision manufactures the MFA’s Asian collection. It included of Harlem Hospital for 15 years and small-metal machine parts for the 20 exquisite Tibetan bronzes, many Deputy Budget Director for four. He automotive, hydraulic, aircraft, and of them painted, eight thankas (seven oversaw a $250 million operating budget, military industries. Under his leadership, Tibetan Buddhist religious paintings and reviewed all cost reports for Medicaid Precision Metal received awards for an extremely rare eighteenth-century and Medicare compliance, and chaired quality and delivery from General Motors, Chinese silk kesi), two large Indian the Patient Focused Care Initiative of the Dana Corporation, and Sun Hydraulics. paintings (one each of the Hindu gods Departments of Surgery and Medicine. Krishna and Shiva), and four ritual He has also worked for the New York City He has also been Senior Vice President objects. The works range from the Finance Department, the New York State of Commercial Lending for United Bank eleventh to the early twentieth century. Labor Department, and the U.S. Census and Trust and for 10 years was President/ The vast majority of the bronzes are from Bureau as the Assistant Director of the Owner of Star Distribution Systems the eighteenth century. Brooklyn Region. in Tampa and Lakeland. Mr. Wells established that start-up company, which Mr. Damkoehler was formerly Chairman From 2005-2014, Mr. Mills was Corporate at the time became the largest public of the Board, CEO, and President of Credit Manager of Tampa Armature warehousing operation in the Southeast. JSA Healthcare Corporation. After Works, Inc., a company that provides success at USAID and the Westinghouse innovative solutions for the supply, Mr. Wells holds his degree from the Health System Division, he joined JSA’s control, and use of energy. With locations University of North Carolina at Chapel predecessor in 1984. He founded JSA’s in five states and the Dominican Hill. Becky has been an event and Government Services Division, which Republic, TAW is the largest distributor reservations chair for various Stuart grew in sales from $120,000 in 1984 to of Kohler commercial generators in the Society fundraisers, as well as chair of $21.4 million in 1989. United States. In 2015, Mr. Mills was the provisionals. Their daughter Whitney appointed Corporate Contract Manager Wells Shouppe is continuing the family He became President of JSA in 1985 with the responsibility of reviewing and tradition in The Stuart Society, having and Chairman of the Board in 1988. In negotiating all corporate contracts, and, already co-chaired several events. 1993 the company entered the managed where required, with resolving contract care arena and had expanded from one disputes. to 70 facilities when he retired in 2006.

18 Annual Fund Thank You The MFA is grateful to the following donors who contributed to the Annual Fund between November 24, 2015 and February 19, 2016:

Erin and Bruce Aebel Michael Graham Louise and Charles Maggie Allesee Robyn Gunn Reeves What is the MFA Annual Fund? AmazonSmile Frances Hamilton Jeanne Reichert Donations support 36 percent of the annual Foundation Betty Hammond Jim Reichert operating budget. The Museum depends upon these Anonymous (two) Jan and Bill Haueisen Linnea Sennott funds to carry out the complex steps of protecting Lois and Dr. Marvin Joanne Phiel-Hawkins Donna Sherf and displaying art and bringing more than 300 Atkins and Dwayne Peg and Dr. Arthur Maureen Ballinger Hawkins Silvergleid public events to people of all ages. They also help Andrea and Russell Carol and W. Langston Carol and David maintain the galleries, library, classrooms, gardens, Barlow Holland Sjolund and other spaces. Gerald Becker Judy and Troy Holland Barbara Godfrey Smith Have you Marilyn Benjamin Hazel and William R. Ellen Stavros • attended an exhibition opening? Enita Berkheiser Hough Michelle Stencel • seen a film screening or heard a concert in the Linda and Mark Berset Sarah and Don Howe Carol and Robert Marly Room? Margaret Bowman Mary and Thomas Stewart • enjoyed spending time in the Sculpture Garden? Patricia and Alan Brant James Kathleen and Bill Stover • created art at MFA: Make & Take Saturday or Ruth and Donald Johann Kohler Doris Chapel and Painting in the Park? Campagna Alice and Dr. Robert Charles Strub • learned from a docent on a free tour? Dimity and Mark Landstra Strum Allesee Family • watched buses of children unload with their school Carlson Melissa and Darryl Foundation Ursula and Edward LeClair Drs. Dorothy and groups? Carroll Harold Leigh Edwin Sved • read this issue and other copies of the Mosaic? Marion Class Helen Leslie Sheila Tempelmann If any answer is “yes,” then you have benefited from Cathy and Dr. Steve Toni and Kent Lydecker Morrison Torrey and the MFA Annual Fund, which supports all these Collins Nancy Lyons David Hirschman efforts and more. A tax-deductible contribution is Stefan Cushman Julie and Donald Josephine Tucker vital to day-to-day efforts and helps the Museum Gail and Gary MacNary Carol Vance remain accessible to all our visitors. Damkoehler Marianne and Mark T. Penny and Jeff Vinik Karen and Douglas Mahaffey Mary Lou and Burrage Please make your gift today, and make a difference Davies Kathleen and Charles Warner for your Museum! Richard Davis Markham Carolyn Warren For assistance with your gift, please call the Development Daryl DeBerry Shirlie Matthews Mary Wheeler Office at 727.896.2667. Gifts of $1500 and over are Muriel Desloovere Claudia McCorkle Carole and Clement Tina and Bob Douglass Nathalie McCulloch White recognized in the Mary Alice McClendon Conservatory. Ann and William Sonya Miller Pamela Wilson *** Edwards Joyce Millman Sharon Withers Director’s Dialogue 2016 Joanne and Bill Edwards Sarah Nisenson Marvin Wolf On Wednesday, January 27, Dr. Jerry N. Smith, Deborah Factor Patti and Irwin Novack Ruth Clarson Wood Hazel and William Hough Chief Curator and Sue Froid Carolyn Nygren William Knight Interim Executive Director, presented “An Eye on Cynthia Garrels Eric Lang Peterson Zewadski Emily and Jim Gillespie Margaret and Eugene Marylee and Donald Exhibitions” at this annual appreciation luncheon Susan and Seymour Ponessa Zink honoring Director’s and Founder’s Circle and Legacy Gordon Donna Powell Society members. Director of Development Daryl DeBerry welcomed the 80 guests and introduced Dr. Smith, who shared information about the MFA’s planned exhibitions throughout 2016 and into 2017. Special guests Memorials & Tributes included Chairman of the Board Mark Mahaffey and trustees Glenn Mosby, Laura Militzer Bryant, Skipp In memory of Tom DeVoe In memory of Aline Imler In memory of Sam and Fraser, Seymour Gordon, Hazel Hough, Fay Mackey, Barbara and Doug Linnea Sennott Mary Joan Mann Betty and Ed Shamas Clark Mason, Mary Alice McClendon, and Carol DeMaire In memory of Dorothy Russell. Barbara and Col. Lang In memory of Madge Frederic McCoy Betty Jean Miller McFall Corporate partners Tim Mann and Amanda Gilroy Iris and Stan Salzer from The Bank of Tampa and Debbie Kraujalis from Geraldine and Donald Iris and Stan Salzer Northern Trust, as well as City of St. Petersburg In honor of Tom Gessler Sweet In memory of Joane H. Cultural Affairs Director Wayne Atherholt and his Ellen Esteva In memory of Mary Joan Miller assistant India Williams, were also in attendance. Sue Froid Mann Ellen Esteva Helen N. Hameroff Fay Mackey Director’s Dialogue will be held again on Wednesday, Fay Mackey In honor of Tracy Ann January 25, 2017. For details about this event or to Iris and Stan Salzer and John Muir Stewart become a Circle or Legacy Society member, please call the In honor of Royce Haiman Janice and Mickey Development Office at 727.896.2667. Ann Shelton Kupperman

19 Circle Level Members Carricato, Linda and Daniel Hostomsky, Ales and Dana Nash, Sharon Cash, Ann Marie and Marc Levasseur Hershkowitz Nataraj-Allen, Shiva and Randy Director’s Circle Cashen-Lee, Nicole and Haemin Lee Hunt, Julie and Jonathan Tindall Neary, Louis and Robin Filipiak Edwards, Bill and Joanne Caston, Max Huyck, Max and Doris Nelson, Cory and Carolina Hough, William R. and Hazel Cavallucci, Christopher and Jennifer Izzo, Gerard Niblett, John and Cimmeron Frazier James, Tom and Mary Price Jaeger, Russ Nixon, Kim and Matt Sciullo Mahaffey, Mark T. and Marianne Cendrowski, Rosalind Johnson, Gilbert Oliver, Matthew and Jan Vinik, Jeff and Penny Chandler, Robert and Paula Bellino Johnson, Jeffrey Ondrick, Ashley Chilton, Sheryl and James Johnson, Shelley Osgood, Jennifer Founder’s Circle Combs, Phil and Michelle Jones, Tarah Ouellette, Eugene and Cecilia Collins, Cathy and Steve Connery, David and Janet Boucher Joseph, Jim and Mary Owens, Connie Dillon, Roderick Conroy, Melodie Kaplan, Annette Palas, Bryan and Julie Cessna Edwards, William P. and Ann Cotto, Nancy Kern, Joseph and Celine Petersen Palmer, Michael Mosby, Glenn and Dav Cottrell, Elizabeth and Bill Kessler, Richard and Karen Panella, Ronald and Susan Novack, Patti and Irwin Cowley, Matthew and Sheila Kincade, Elizabeth and Garry Bailey Pape, Chris Wittner, Jean Giles Coyne, Barbara and Ronald King, Milton Parker, Jennifer Critchlow, Victoria Kinney, Barry and Judith Bolinski Patanow, Amanda New/Upgraded Crofoot, Valera and Charles Kiriazis, Chrisoula and Winchester Pavlick, Joe Sustainer/Benefactor Csizinszky, Alex and Jessica Dermody Perea, Richard and Diana Moody, William and Laura Ashby Curran, James and Alma Kirtland, Sandy Pinkas, Marcella and Haim Schantz, F. William and Rachael Dailey, Sheri Kleter, Rebecca Pittas, Stephen and Bhavna Storer, Stanton Daloteo, Carlos and Ashley Abreu Kosow, Lisa and Paul Boudreaux, Jr. Powell, Shelly and Stephen Thrun, Roger and Sue DeFrancesco, Louis and Anne Laible, Jim and Jean Prieto, Luis and Christina Silvas Dean, Ryan Lally, Kenneth and Jeanne Pyrczak, Richard New General Members Degrood, Phil and Pat Lange, Jessica and Alex Card Quattromani, Alice and Anthony November 17-February 25 Delemeester, Susan and Shawn Lauber, Raissa Quinn, Douglass and Glenda DeMarco, Cynthia and Marion Hannan LeCain, Whitney and Geoff Radwan, Mohamed and Nora Zaki Friend Deming, Richard and Colleen Lee, Frederick Randall, Wyndham and Ryan Ranney, Janna McDaniel Leyva, Frank and Karoline Regan, Tracy and Andrew Albertson Denhardt, Grace Lieb, Robert and Donna Reid, Kendall Family Donahue, Renee and James Reilly Lindau, Chris and Diane Remington, Anthony and Denise Akers, Lisa and Marcellus Drach, Laura Linnane, James and Sharon Richmond, Thomas Akser, Mustafa and Alev Saday Dunk, Bill and Linda Lipka, Diana Richter, Jay and Marion Angelle, Shawne and Bryan Dziokan, Rafal Lloyd, Jim and Sally Risner, Steve and Gwen Arch, Brenna Ellis, Susan and David Lorber, Robert Roen, William and Mary Arsht, Steven Emerson, Amber and John Ludwig, Kathryn and George Rolfe, Lauren Banfield, Lucille and Archie Entreken, Eddie and Debbie Lunderville, Jade and Cody Romano, Mauro and Linda Colandrea Batchelder, David and Paula Entsminger, Debbie MacFarlane, Donna Rottgers, Elizabeth Beiter, David and Mary Fagan, Van and Rhonda Shear Magda, James Rouson, Angela and Darryl Benson, Beth and Keith Fanciullacci, David and Lauren Majstorovic, Ceda Salinas, Liliana and Girleno Rocha Benson, Tiffany Waterman Makatsaria, Vladimir and Patricia Sanjurjo, Alicia and Thomas Berger, Charles and Sandy Farner, Thomas and Shondra Malagon, Alex Saunders, Donna and Clive Bergeron, Chris Flora, Thomas and Cindy Maphis, Dacota and Joseph Melendez Savkovic, Dawn and David Berman, Albert and Patricia Fox, Leah Marla, Sutton Scanlan, Carol and Gerald Berns, Sheila and Lauren Freda, Michael Maskell, Joshua and Melissa Malone Scanlin, Andrew and Allison Bettley, Marianne Fricker, Michael Massi, Michael and Beth Shaker Schockley, Lisa and Adam Anders Bird, Frank J. and Carol Frierson, Brett and Ann Marie Ryder Mastry, Patricia Preston Schoeppler, Brandon and Annabell Bishop, Heather and Darren Gallo, Steve Mazard, Merline Quesada Blum, Anne and Queli Ornelas Gantz, Austin and Lauren Ellinghausen McCarthy, Constance Schrader, Elizabeth and Daryl Brockman-Pedersen, Ian and Alayna Gerardo, Stacy and David McCown, Sarah and Bill Ewell Seward, Rebelee Tornabene Giles, Keri McDonald, Joan and Timothy Staley Short, Jean Boisclaire, Anita Greco, Joseph and Dorothy McGuire, Kay and Kevin Sinnens, Marlene Bonfin, Monica Greco, R. John and Aziza Meagher, Carolyn Skinner, Stephen and Ruth Bowers, Colleen Greene, Michele Miller, Barbara Smith, Jeremy and Katie Boyce, Cynthia Groover, Steve and Linda Mills, Edwin Smith, Narlin Brennan, Chris and Kasey Coryn Grzesikowski, Courtney and Enrique Milne, James Sommariva, Silvia and Alexios Brierley, Eric Cedrez Mindek, Donna and Rick Michaelson Mantzarlis Brown, Kerry H. and Nancy Terry Gucken, Sean Moorman, Greg and Jillian Poole Stahl, Craig and Heather Kenyon Brown, Stu and Nancy Han, Sang and Ben Moralic, Maura Stanek, Gregory Brown, Susan and Robert Peters Hanrahan, Michael Moran, Pattie Starr, Marlene Broxterman, Dave and Ruth Haskins, Jane Mossberg, Tara and Anthony Barello Stewart, Colleen and Avram Saunders Bryan, Alicia and Summer Hawkins, Paul Murphy, Richard Storey, Zoe and Patrick Buckner, Barbara Heim, Anne and Louis Musabegovic, Hana Stout, Jacob Bystrycki, Richard and Carolyn Heitman, Robert and Marilyn Myers, Gayle and Doug Sunquist, Winnie Cabble, Kathleen Hoang, Le Myxter-Iino, Erick and Jennifer Szarvas, Tommy Carlson, Aquilla and Jonathan Holdstein, Thomas and Lauren Smith Nakhiengchanh, Vina and Phuong Van Tamayo, Rickie Carmichael, Karen and William Hooley, Morgan and Joanna Binh Le Teresa, Oliva and Martha Shearburn Peritore Hopkins, Richard and Kellie Namaste, Bishop Tomik, Amy

20 Traxler, Michelle Denhardt, Grace Riffe, Lin Triplett, Cody and Jade DeSimine, Richard Rigo, Shirley Ursin, Stephanie DeSimine, Uma Roggelin, Ernest Van Bebber, Jamie Dewey, Diane Romero, Mona Van Leuvan, Patricia Dredge, Christine Sedacca, Beth Veilleux, Michelle Duncan, Sandra Sharum, George Villarreal, Rachel Dutton, Tim Siniff, Loretta Vitola, Lindsay and Elkins, Lori M. Snider, Kandy Lecture Series Alex Eyerman, Teresa Snyder, Cynthia Free with MFA admission, open to the public Vosburgh, Carol Farrell, Mary Ann Snyder, Sarah Vovan, Brittany Fellows, Mary Spalding, Heather Sponsored by: Waddell, Lynn Ficara, Kako Springer, Marlene Wasserman, Susan Finegold, Anya Stamati, Glykeria This outstanding series features some of the world’s foremost art Weidner, Charles and Finkle, Joetta Stearns, Joan historians, curators, artists, and collectors. The public is invited to Barbara Foltz, Sara Steele, Ann these free lectures. An always elegant reception for Collectors Circle Weiss, Tyler and Forkois, Adrienne Steinfeld, Debra members, also sponsored by Northern Trust, is held one hour before Ashley Sweet Foust, Christy Stephens, Janet the lecture. Seymour Gordon, Honorary Trustee and past President of Welling, Marcellus and Franeta, Sonja Stevens, Cathy Sue the MFA Board, is President of the Collectors Circle. Lisa Garvey, Cathy Strong, Susan Thursday, April 21, 6:30 p.m.: Contemplating Whitver, Dianna Geiger, Susan Sweeney, Elizabeth Character: Drawings & Oil Sketches from Jacques- Wiley, Ralph and Goode, Willard Tallon, Telli Louis David to Lucian Freud spotlights the private Yuchuan Gregg, Susan Tonnies, William collection of Robert Flynn Johnson. Mr. Johnson Williams, Jacklyn Hallock, Suzanne K. Trofimov, Ekaterina was Curator in Charge of the Achenbach Winters, Sharon Hanna, Mina Unterberger, Michelle Foundation for Graphic Arts at the Fine Arts Wohlgemuth, Barbara Harbison, Susan Varley, Kristine Museums of San Francisco for 32 years until his Wood, Noel Hardy, Janet Villet, Jeffrey Wood, Norma and Harrichand, Leah Vollrath, Gail retirement in 2007. At that time, he was named Charles Hays, Mary Rose Welch, Mary Curator Emeritus. Woodruff, Jan and Bill Heidi, Joswig Williams, Yvonne His lecture is titled “A Journey, not a Destination: Adventures over Four Rice Heinrich, Brandy Wilson, Bill Decades in the Pursuit of Portraiture.” He will explore the origins of his Wright, Elizabeth Herz, Leah Wohn, Sherry interest in portraiture, his love of drawings, and his interaction with art Yates, Mary Hibbard, Justy Yanco, Leslie historians, dealers, collectors, and even some of the artists themselves Yoon, Hong and Jae Horn, Denise Zanella, Cynthia in forming his highly personal collection. He also has a noted collection Young, Joseph and Ismoilov, Jessica Zdrojewski, Mark of photography; selections have comprised another traveling exhibition. Bernadette Johnson, Brittany Zebono, Sonya Johnson, Lari Scholar His passion for art was sparked at McGill University in Montreal, Zeoli, Teresa Karnyski, Margaret Barancik, Rebecca followed by his first curatorial position at the Worcester Art Museum Zimmerman, Laurel Kasner, Lee Borree, Diane in Massachusetts. He then became Assistant Curator of Prints and and Jacob Kingsbury, Chelsea Bundrick, Sheramy Drawings at the Baltimore Museum of Art and was recruited by Zoller, Jean and Kent Knauf, Lynne Burk, Renee the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts. He transformed those Kushner, Pamela Carpenter, Scott holdings into one of the premier such collections in the country, now Individual LaBelle, Cheri Casey, Laurel numbering approximately 90,000 works. Allison, Mary Jo Leavitt, Cassie Chrosniak, Jessica Anderson, Stella Ley, Patricia Cornett, Melissa Mr. Johnson has curated a wealth of exhibitions and is the author of Arnold, Gayla Lindquist, Erica Dolson, Sam many books and exhibition catalogues. His publications include: Lucian Baden, Virginia Liquidano, Geraldine Donahoe, Lillian Freud: Works on Paper; Plant Kingdoms: The Photographs of Charles Jones; Balasis, Maria Little, Sheridan Durnin-Moore, Leonard Baskin: Monumental Woodcuts, 1952-1963; and The Face in the Beaber, Sharon Longo, Melissa Stephen Lens — Anonymous Photographs, among others. Beckman, Lisa Lopez, Deborah Eichenbaum, Eleanor Bei, Carol Lowther, Sarah Fiordimondo, Benson, Renee Magee, Anna Kimberly Collectors Circle Bertoch, Jan Magee, Karsten Girello, Amanda Bond, Kim Matthews, Theresa Griffin, Evelyn Corporate and Foundation Sponsors Boohar, Suzanne McClintock, Susan Haker, Roberta Astral Extracts Helen Torres Foundation Booher, Sally McNamara, Jim Hays, Michael The Bank of Tampa Matthew Lytell & Associates, Bouwamn, Leslie McNicholas, JoAnn Hern, Paula Christie’s affiliated with Northwestern Breen, Linda Meadows, Frances Irwin, Mary Fifth Third Private Bank Mutual Brewster, Iain Meers, Caroline Kerben, Ann Green, Henwood and Hough Northern Trust Broughton, Matthew Meuse, Ann Kulla, Kathleen Investment Group, RBC Wealth Brueckner, Joan Montgomery, Barbara Kulla, Raymond Management Bryer, Richard Moses, Patricia Marin, Luis Burke, Jennifer Musmon, Dr. Margaret Marquer, Lorraine Calbert, Patricia Nardi, Debra Marshall, Clarice Candelora, Elizabeth Nelson, Judith Meyer-McAleese, Study Trips Caramello, Janet Oates, Susan Mary K. Sponsored by: Castelo, Julie Orkney, Linda Pinto, Allison Cathcart, Jason Osgood, Dianne Regula, Steven Colantrello, Olga Perez, Linda Risco, Rita Colin, Carol Petersen, Joan Rowell, Peter The Collectors Circle visits other museums, galleries, and private Colon, Marta Petkunas, Linda Sealey, Susan collections and homes throughout the year. Members receive private tours Crowell, Catherine Piacenti, Lisa Sheaffer, Gale and also enjoy lunch or dinner at some of the finest restaurants. Culver, Sandra Platt, Alan Von Obenauer, Dalton, Monica Ragain, Gemma Christine Tuesday, May 10-Friday, May 13, 2016: Study trip to Boston. Tours of the Daum, Brenda Reiley, Monica Wagner, Martine Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Davis, Daniel Rex, Nancy Weiss, Nancy Institute of Contemporary Art, the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, Davis, Gloria Riddell, Debra Zengotita, David the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, and private galleries. Final payment Davis, Janese Ridge, Margaret Zengotita, Shelly is due Friday, April 8. For more information, please contact Carlson Delemeester, Mary Maritime Travel at 727.945.1930 or [email protected]. 21 Collectors CircleThursday, Member January A 14ppreciation Party Home of Rhonda Shear and Van Fagan Underwritten by: Collectors Choice XV Gala

ContemplatingFriday, April 29, C6:30haracter p.m. Photos by Rich Montalbano/RiMO PHOTO MFA Members and the Public Welcome

(Left to right) Frank Bonsack and Melanie Chakor of Fifth Third Private Bank; Demi Rahall, who assisted the chair; event chair Cynthia Astrack; Collectors Circle President Seymour Gordon; Brian Lamb of Fifth Third; and Dr. Jerry N. Smith, Hazel and William Hough Chief Curator and Interim Executive Director.

(Left to right) Kevin Fantauzzo and Dr. Susan Beaven, Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (British, 1872-1898) George and Debbie Baxter, and Mary B. Perry. Caricature Portrait Presumed to be Oscar Wilde (1892) Pen and ink on paper Collection of Robert Flynn Johnson

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Dr. Jerry N. Smith, Hazel and William Hough Chief Curator and Interim Executive Director, and Curator of Contemporary Art Katherine Pill will present three artworks for possible Museum acquisition. Collectors Rhonda Shear (left) with event Circle members in attendance will select their favorite. chair Cynthia Astrack. Black-and-White Attire, Black-Tie Optional $250 per person

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Please send check, made payable to the Museum of Fine Arts with Collectors Choice in the memo line, or credit card information, including security code, to Daryl Nancy Harris Thomas and Stephen Thomas (standing) DeBerry, Director of Development, Museum of Fine Arts, with Mary Shuh. Mrs. Thomas 255 Beach Drive N.E., St. Petersburg, FL 33701. and Mrs. Shuh are past presidents of The Margaret All proceeds support the Collectors Circle Acquisitions Acheson Stuart Society. (Left to right) Susan Hicks, Sunny Endicott, Fund to purchase works for the collection. and trustee Glenn Mosby. Mrs. Hicks and Mrs. Mosby are past presidents of The Margaret Acheson Stuart Society. 22 DATES to Remember Visual Metaphor (Pinellas County High The Contemporaries Lunchtime Thursday/5 Sunday/29 School Art Exhibition) Lecture: Artist Babs Reingold, noon- Member Jewelry Sale, Mother’s Day Contemplating Character and The Art of Through Sunday, April 24 1 p.m. Weekend, begins today and continues the Classical Guitar close. through Sunday, May 8. Christian Marclay: Telephones and Sound Holes Tuesday/12 JUNE Through Sunday, May 1 Friends of Decorative Arts: Eric Hilton, Saturday/7 consulting glass artist/designer with Kidding Around Yoga, 10-11 a.m. Saturday/4 Contemplating Character: Drawings & Steuben, 2 p.m. Kidding Around Yoga, 10-11 a.m. Oil Sketches from Jacques-Louis David to MFA: Make and Take Saturday — Decorative Teapots, 11 a.m.–2 p.m. MFA: Make and Take Saturday — Lucian Freud Flipbooks, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and Wednesday/13 Lecture on The Art of the Classical Guitar The Art of the Classical Guitar Coffee Talk with Nan Colton’s A Painted by David Collett, President of Guitar Through Sunday, May 29 Woolf, tour, and refreshments, 10-11 a.m. Salon International, 1 p.m. Sunday/5 Harold Edgerton: What the Eye Can’t See Music in the Marly: Ayako Yoshida, Measured Life: Works by Vicky Colombet, violin, 2 p.m. Babs Reingold, and Tip Toland Thursday/14 opens. Through Sunday, June 26 Book Club @ the MFA: Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend by Michael Sunday/8 Monday/6 Vanessa Diaz: Beginning at the Cornice, Not Dregni, 6:30 p.m. The Contemporaries Lunchtime the Foundation Gallery Talk on Harold Edgerton by Robin O’Dell, Manager of Photographic Lecture: Multidisciplinary artist Ya Wednesday, April 20-Sunday, July 10 La’ford, noon-1 p.m. Saturday/16 Collections, 3 p.m. Harold Edgerton: What the Eye Can’t See Kidding Around Yoga, 10-11 a.m. Moms admitted free on Mother’s Day. Saturday, May 7-Sunday, July 31 MFA: Make and Take Saturday — Wednesday/8 Shana Moulton: Journeys Out of the Body Fairy Gardens, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Coffee Talk with Nan Colton’s In Focus, Tuesday/10 tour, and refreshments, 10-11 a.m. Saturday, June 18 – Sunday, October 9 Friends of Decorative Arts: Dr. Teresa General Tours, Monday-Saturday, Sunday/17 Wilkins on Hawaii’s feathered art forms, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., Sunday, 2 p.m. MFA Guitar Festival: Adam Holzman, 2 p.m. Thursday/9 Family Tours, Saturdays, 11 a.m. 2 p.m. Book Club @ the MFA: Where’d You Go, Bernadette: A Novel by Maria Semple, Wednesday/11 6:30 p.m. APRIL Monday/18 Coffee Talk with Nan Colton’s A ILLUMINATE, Session B, 10-11:30 a.m. Woman Ahead of Her Time, tour, and Friday/1 refreshments, 10-11 a.m. Friday/10 Dial In: The Contemporaries Art and Sign Language, 11 a.m. Celebrate Christian Marclay, 7-10 p.m. Wednesday/20 Thursday/12 The Beer Project: BEER + ART Vanessa Diaz: Beginning at the Cornice, Not LOUNGE, 7-10 p.m. the Foundation opens. Meet the artist at Book Club @ the MFA: An Episode in the Saturday/2 the reception, 5:30-7 p.m. Life of a Landscape Painter by César Aira, Kidding Around Yoga, 10-11 a.m. 6:30 p.m. Saturday/11 MFA: Make and Take Saturday — Drumming @ the MFA, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Fairy Gardens, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursday/21 Porch Party, 5:30-7 p.m. Friday/13 The Beer Project: Public Homebrew Art and Sign Language, 11 a.m. Tasting, 1-4 p.m. Collectors Circle Lecture: Robert Tuesday/5 Flynn Johnson, curator of Contemplating Friends of Photography: Photographer Character, 6:30 p.m. Saturday/14 Wednesday/15 Matt Larsen on the collodion process, Drumming @ the MFA, 10:30- Members’ Opening for Shana Moulton: 6-8 p.m. 11:30 a.m. Journeys Out of the Body, 7-9 p.m. Friday/22 Art and Sign Language, 11 a.m. Lecture on “The Artist as Thursday/7 Neuroscientist” by Dr. Patrick Cavanagh, Thursday/16 Art in Bloom 2016 opens from 1-8 p.m. 11 a.m. Porch Party, 5:30-7 p.m. and continues through Monday, April 11. Saturday/23 The Margaret Acheson Stuart Society Drumming @ the MFA, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Sunday/15 Saturday/18 and Art in Bloom 2016: “Flowers After MFA Guitar Festival: Andrew York, Kidding Around Yoga, 10-11 a.m. Hours,” with special guest Alexandre Sunday/24 2 p.m. Renoir, MFA, 6:30 p.m. Painting in the Park, noon-4 p.m. MFA: Make and Take Saturday — Flipbooks, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Gallery Talk on Vanessa Diaz: Beginning Monday/16 Shana Moulton: Journeys Out of the Body Friday/8 at the Cornice, Not the Foundation by ILLUMINATE, Session B, 10-11:30 a.m. opens. Art in Bloom 2016 continues from Curator of Contemporary Art Katherine 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Pill, 3 p.m. The Stuart Society: Art in Bloom 2016 Visual Metaphor closes. Thursday/19 Sunday/19 Luncheon, with presentation by popular Porch Party, 5:30-7 p.m. Lecture on Shana Moulton: Journeys Out The New Age of Coloring, presented by of the Body by the artist, 3 p.m. entertaining expert Kimberly Schlegel Friday/29 the Museum Store, 5-8 p.m. Whitman, Grand Ballroom, the Vinoy Collectors Choice XV Gala, 6:30 p.m. Renaissance, 11:30 a.m. Monday/20 Art and Sign Language, 11 a.m. Saturday/21 ILLUMINATE, Session B, 10-11:30 a.m. Saturday/30 Kidding Around Yoga, 10-11 a.m. The Contemporaries: Trip to see the Saturday/9 collection at Great Bay Distributors with MFA: Make and Take Saturday — Friday/24 Art in Bloom 2016 continues from food by Eat This! and beverages from Decorative Teapots, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Art and Sign Language, 11 a.m. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Great Bay, 7-10 p.m. Gallery Talk on Contemplating Character Drumming @ the MFA, 10:30-11:30 a.m. by Dr. Jerry N. Smith, Hazel and William Saturday/25 Slow Art Day: Portrait artist Doug Land MAY Hough Chief Curator and Interim Drumming @ the MFA, 10:30-11:30 a.m. sketching in the galleries, 11 a.m. - noon Executive Director, 1 p.m. Sunday/1 Sunday/26 MFA Guitar Festival: Jérémy Jouve, Sunday/22 Sunday/10 2 p.m. Music in the Marly: Clancy Newman, Art in Bloom 2016 continues from Friends of Photography: More for cello, accompanied by Noreen Cassidy- Christian Marclay: Telephones and Sound 11 a.m.-8 p.m. the Eye to See on Harold Edgerton’s Polera, piano, 2 p.m. Holes closes. Photography (Watch for details.) Conversations with the Designers, Art Measured Life: Works by Vicky Colombet, in Bloom 2016, with special guest, artist Babs Reingold, and Tip Toland closes. Babs Reingold, noon-2 p.m. Monday/2 Friday/27 The Contemporaries Lunchtime Art and Sign Language, 11 a.m. Hot Gatherings, Cool Conversations: Wednesday/29 Glass artists Benjamin Cobb and Martin Lecture: Dean Hurst on Tiki culture, noon-1 p.m. Simmer & Sift with Executive Chef Rosol, 3 p.m. Saturday/28 Jeffrey Jew, 6-8:30 p.m. Annual Membership Meeting, 4 p.m. Drumming @ the MFA, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Monday/11 Last Day for Art in Bloom 2016, 10 a.m.- 5 p.m.

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Harold Edgerton: What the Eye Can’t See

Harold Edgerton (American, 1903–1990), Bullet through Apple (1964), dye transfer print, Gift of Lee Arnold and Dr. Robert L. Drapkin

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