SPRING 2019 fiamagazine Board of Trustees 1 Thomas J. Mitchell From the Executive Director CONTENTS President Elizabeth S. Murphy First Vice-President FIA Volunteers Make a Difference executive director 1 education 27–31 Mark Lippincott Second Vice-President exhibitions 2–8 art school 32–33 Kathryn C. Boles As the FIA has grown, so has the need for our auxiliary groups (Friends of Modern Art Secretary extra help to plan and deliver the wide and Founders Society); our docents; and the art on loan 9–10 founders travel 34 Martha Sanford Treasurer variety of high-quality events and programs. many volunteers who serve on committees acquisitions 11 contributions 35–37 Dean Yeotis Volunteers are an invaluable asset, lending and work on special projects for their Immediate Past President assistance to the planning and execution invaluable service. Eleanor Brownell films 12–14 membership 38–40 Ann K. Chan of FIA programs and services, including If you are not already volunteering at the James Draper exhibitions, films, studio experiences, FIA but would like to, you can choose to assist calendars 15, 17, 21 museum shop 41 Founders Society President Mona Hardas lectures, special events, book discussions, with one or more of the many projects that news & programs 16–26 Carol Hurand family activities, and diversity initiatives. FIA serve our audiences. As an FIA volunteer, Raymond J. Kelly III Jimmy King volunteers work with the public, staff, and you will be rewarded in many ways: the Alan Klein each other to provide the help necessary camaraderie of other volunteers, appreciation Jamile Lawand Office Hours Admission Eureka McCormick William H. Moeller Docent on a gallery tour. Mon–Fri, 9a–5p Adults $10.00* Jay Nelson 12 & under FREE Karl Olmsted Gallery Hours Students w/ ID $8.00* Dr. Brenda Rogers-Grays Mon–Fri, 12p–5p; Sat, 10a–5p; Senior citizens 62+, $8.00* Michael Rucks Sun, 1p–5p Ira A. Rutherford Closed on major holidays active military, & veteran Mary Coe Ryan Patricia Spangler FIA Theater Hours Theresa Stephens-Lock Tiffany Stolzenfeld Fri & Sat, 7:30p; Sun, 2p Lynne A. Taft-Draper FOMA President Museum Shop & Jan Werschky Art School Gallery * Free to FIA members and Shannon Easter White 810.234.1695 Genesee County residents FCCC Board Representative Mon–Sat, 10a–5p; Sun, 1p–5p Steve Heddy The Palette Café Honorary Trustee Website Beer Tasting Event volunteer. 810.249.0593 Elizabeth Neithercut flintarts.org Mon–Fri, 9a–5p; Sat, 10a–5p; Sun, 1p–5p Address Administration to deliver the Institute’s essential services. from our expanding audi- The Museum Shop, Art School 1120 E. Kearsley St. Flint, MI 48503 John B. Henry Through their efforts, the FIA has become ences, and fundraising Gallery, and The Palette Café are Executive Director a space where visitors can connect art with successes. open late for select special events. Michael A. Melenbrink Telephone Director of Finance & social interaction—offering something for For more information on becoming an FIA 810.234.1695 Administration everyone. volunteer, please come by the Visitor Services Kathryn K. Sharbaugh Fax Director of Development Over the past 12 months, 444 volunteers desk, visit the FIA’s website, flintarts.org, 810.234.1692 Tracee J. Glab contributed 6,780 hours valued at $167,400. or call the main number, 810.234.1695, to Curator of Collections & Exhibitions Some worked with the FIA for the first time, indicate your availability and areas of interest. Monique M. Desormeau while others added to their many years of We will get back with you right away. Curator of Education service. Their dedication, enthusiasm, and fia Donovan Entrekin This magazine, made possible through a generous donation by Lynne Hurand, Director of the Art School skills add so much to the performance and is published four times per year for mailing to FIA members, museums, and Sarah Mullane personality of the museum and Art School. libraries around the country. Director of Member & Guest Relations These talents also help the FIA meet the community’s expectations and fulfill our The FIA is a non-profit, equal FIA Exhibitions and Programs are mission “to advance the understanding and opportunity employer, and made possible in part with the provides programs and appreciation of art for all.” support of the Michigan cover image services without regard to Council for Arts and To recognize the many ways volunteers race, color, religion, national origin, age, Cultural Affairs, a partner Luba people improve their communities, the week of April sex or handicap. Democratic Republic of Congo agency of the National Kifwebe Mask, n.d. 7–13, 2019 has been designated National Operating support for the FIA is Endowment for the Arts. Wood Volunteer Week. The celebration was created 13 inches provided in part by the Charles in 1974 by President Richard Nixon and has Stewart Mott Collection of Dr. Robert Horn Foundation and honored volunteers every year since. During the Genessee this special time, I would like to acknowledge John B. Henry, County Millage. and thank our 30-member Board of Trustees; Executive Director 2 CLOSING SOON ON VIEW 3
Cathy Richardson The Drama of Vanessa American, born 1949 Homage to Margaret Mee, 2018 Glass 7 7 1 Japanese Prints German 2 /8 × 2 /8 × 1 /4 inches Gift of the artist, 2018.205 through 4.14.19 Miracles and Glory Graphics Gallery Abound This exhibition features colorful, early 20th-century through woodblock prints from Japanese artist Tsukioka 4.20.19 Kōgyo. Although he depicted many subjects, Henry Gallery Kōgyo is most well-known for his numerous scenes from Noh theater, one of the oldest existing Miracles and Glory Abound forms of theater still practiced today. His artworks explores the power of stories provide a glimpse into the rich stories, elegant through Vanessa German’s actors, and subdued ambiance of Noh plays. assembled sculptures. The exhibition Artwork from two of Kōgyo’s most important draws from both the visual and series, Pictures of Noh Plays (Nōgaku zue) and One emotional concepts of the iconic Hundred Noh Plays (Nōgaku hyakuban) are on view painting, Washington Crossing the in The Drama of Japanese Prints. Delaware (currently on view in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art) Small Worlds by Emanuel Leutze. German uses through 10.27.19 what she terms “power figures” to imitate Leutze’s composition Ann K. Walch-Chan Gallery and create a conversation about On May 17, 2019, the Paperweight Collectors
EXHIBITIONS public memory and the rewriting EXHIBITIONS of history through the lens of Association (PCA) will visit the FIA as part of their privilege. After closing at the biannual conference, happening this year in Dearborn, FIA, Miracles and Glory Abound Michigan. The PCA is a non-profit organization dedicated travels to Figge Art Museum to appreciating and collecting glass paperweights. in Davenport, Iowa, and Bates Their mission is to promote education by increasing College Museum of Art in knowledge about paperweights, their creators, and the Lewiston, Maine. astounding glass medium from which they are created. A fully illustrated catalogue FIA Curator of Collections and Exhibitions Tracee Glab accompanies the exhibition will be the keynote speaker during the conference. Small with essays from performance During their time at the FIA, they will tour the Worlds artist Holly Bass, art theorist exhibition and view demonstrations in the FIA Hilary Robinson, and Hot Shop and Flameworking Studio. abstract expressionist During the planning stages of the conference, painter Danny contemporary paperweight artist Cathy Richardson Simmons. The visited the FIA to see its facilities. This trip inspired her catalogue is available to donate one of her paperweights to the museum. Her Homage to Margaret Mee in the FIA Museum paperweight, , was inspired by Shop for $19.95. the botanical artist of the same name. Mee was a British environmentalist artist whose work is now part of the London’s Royal Botanical Gardens collection. Graphics Gallery Exhibition is sponsored by Richardson created this paperweight by lampworking Tsukioka Kōgyo is sponsored by Vanessa German the botanical creatures on the inside, and using intaglio Japanese, 1869–1927 American, born 1976 for the accents. Intaglio is a form of design/decoration Rashomon, 1922 We Go This Way; Let Us Dance, 2018 Woodblock print y gala Mixed-media assemblage where the picture is below the surface of the glass. This 7 1 14 /8 × 10 /8 inches 97 x 39 x 42 inches effect may be achieved by cutting away the glass to form Collection of Sheldon communit Courtesy of the artist and Pavel and Heather Siegel Zoubok, Fine Art, NY the shape of the design, or by pressing the molten glass Photo: Heather Mull into a mold. 4 ON VIEW BRAY LECTURE 5 Engaging African Art African Art Making and Use and Highlights from the Horn Collection Western Collectors: The Complicated Life and History of African Art through 5.26.19 3.2.19 • 2:00p–3:00p Hodge Gallery FIA Theater Engaging African Art is an exhibition of works collected by New York psychiatrist Robert Horn over Nii O. Quarcoopome, Ph.D. Bray Lectures are made possible by the Viola E. Bray five decades. According to Horn, he was first exposed Co-Chief Curator and Curator of African Charitable Trust. to African art in the mid-1950s, after stumbling upon Art, Detroit Institute of Arts the Museum of Primitive Art in New York City. This Media Sponsor Within the last century, works of museum, founded by Nelson Rockefeller in 1954, was incredible craftsmanship attributed to closed in 1976, and its collections were transferred to African artists have captivated Western the Metropolitan Museum of Art. That first exposure collectors and museums. While African to African art made an indelible impression, with art has become increasingly desirable Horn writing, “I walked often through its intimate and mainstream, its display in the galleries, usually completely alone, an amazed, eager, museum context remains problematic and curious young man, almost startled to discover because of a lack of understanding the collection’s unique objects, powerful, but each of indigenous Africans’ notions of art and aesthetics, which beautiful and expressive, of meanings not readily challenges Western-style connoisseurship. This illustrated revealed.” lecture reflects on the complexities in African art’s creation and This exhibition is not meant to be a comprehensive use, to its ultimate commodification in the West. history or encyclopedic survey of African art; rather it Nii Quarcoopome received his doctorate in African art explores one collector’s viewpoint and taste. Horn’s
EXHIBITIONS history from the University of California, Los Angeles. He EXHIBITIONS emphasis, for example, has been collecting sculpture, entered the museum profession in 2000, beginning first as mostly masks and small- to medium-sized figures. Of curator of the arts of Africa, Pacific and the Americas at the these categories, he has collected primarily West and Newark Museum before joining the Detroit Institute of Arts Central African works from more than 60 different (DIA) as department head of Africa, Oceania and Indigenous cultures. Engaging African Art presents highlights Americas in 2002. He was promoted to Co-Chief Curator in from Horn’s collection, showing pieces that carry 2012 and is currently a member of the DIA’s leadership group. ritual, social, and ceremonial messages, as well as Quarcoopome boasts an extensive publication record and display a range of techniques and materials. several prestigious national grants, fellowships, and awards, According to Nii O. Quarcoopome, Co-Chief notably from the National Endowment of the Arts and National Curator and Department Head, Africa, Oceania, and Endowment of the Humanities Planning and Implementation Indigenous Americas at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Grants for his 2010 groundbreaking exhibition, Through Horn’s collection is “perhaps best described as an African Eyes: The European in African Art, 1500-Present, which adventure in connoisseurship” because of his eclectic received the American Association of Museums’ highest honor tastes and collecting practices. Says Quarcoopome, for overall excellence and a Detroit City Council Resolution. “In addition to the usual forms we have come to He has wide-ranging experience consulting on African art expect in most museum collections, it also includes collections and gallery reinstallation projects, notably at the some rare or uniquely carved pieces that suggest Minneapolis Museum of Art, Smithsonian’s National Museum Horn’s refined tastes and sophistication as a seasoned of Natural History, Memorial Art Gallery (Rochester, NY) and collector. […] Horn’s collecting approach may have Nelson Atkins Museum (NAMA). He recently reinstalled the inadvertently created opportunities for rich immersive Senufo peoples Nelson Atkins Museum’s African gallery to conclude a four-year cultural experiences, as well.” Côte d’Ivoire long shared curatorship between the DIA and NAMA, the first A fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the Strainer, n.d. Wood in the history of American museums. For close to a decade, Fang peoples exhibition with essays from Nii O. Quarcoopome and 1 Cameroon/Gabon 10 /4 inches he served as board member and then President for the West Henry John Drewal. The catalogue is available in the Collection of Dr. Robert Horn Ngumba Reliquary Guardian African Museums Project. His current academic focus includes Figure (Bieri), n.d. FIA Museum Shop for $24.95. Wood issues affecting African national museums, cultural patrimony, 21 inches and provenance research. Collection of Dr. Robert Horn 6 ON VIEW OPENING IN APRIL 7
Hybrid Still Modern Mary Shaffer American, born 1947 4.20.19 – 7.14.19 Glass + Metal Ledge Mamoure Blue, 2001 Graphics Gallery through 6.16.19 Steel, slumped fused glass 7 7 Harris-Burger Gallery 79 × 11 /8 × 12 /16 inches Courtesy of the Isabel Jane E. Goldman Foundation, L2017.113 American, born 1951 Photo: Douglas Schaible Aububon: Passenger Photography Pigeon, 2005 Michael Glancy Screenprint on paper American, born 1950 22 × 30 inches Sterling Convergence, 2002 Museum purchase, Engraved blown glass, 2009.85 engraved industrial plate glass, copper, silver 1 8 /2 × 12 × 12 inches Courtesy of the Isabel Foundation, L2017.53 Photo: Douglas Schaible Nefertiti Goodman Photography American, born 1949 Les Oiseaux au Jardin d’Or II (The Birds in the Golden Garden II), 2004/2016 Linocut with hand- painted watercolor and gouche 44 × 36 inches Museum purchase with funds raised from the Flint Print Club, 2015.62 EXHIBITIONS EXHIBITIONS Glass and metal come together in unexpected ways in this Still life artworks depict inanimate exhibition—one material is known for its strength, the other objects, such as fruit, flowers, and is known for its fragility. Each artist featured in Hybrid: Glass vessels. This genre of art has been + Metal explores the possibilities of these two materials in employed by artists for centuries, but creative ways. the subject gained popularity in the In the early 1970s, Mary Shaffer, an early practitioner of the late 16th century in the Netherlands American studio glass movement, adapted an auto industry through Dutch painters. The subject technique for shaping windshield glass into her own mid- matter continued to fascinate air slumping process. Sheets or chunks of glass are heated artists throughout the 20th century, into a plastic state, then allowed to slump, or sag, around a with modern artists, such as Marc metal element. She used iron wire, rusty tools, sheet metal, Chagall, Serge Charchoune, and Roy anything that could endure the heat of the kiln. The outcome Lichtenstein, adapting new ways and is glass that gracefully drapes in a state akin to fabric while methods of depicting the traditional the metal remains in its strong, rigid state. genre. This exhibition features works Shaffer’s work reveals a fascination with the effects and on paper (prints and watercolors) manipulation of viscosity, leverage, balance, inertia, mass, from the 20th to 21st century that and space. She explains her process as a dichotomy of depicts still lifes. Artists in this feminine and masculine principles: “Because I work with exhibition such as Audrey Flack, Janet gravity… I say I work with nature. I call this the ‘female Fish, and Jane Goldman show the principle’ in the Jungian sense—the idea of joining forces with ways the subject has been continually nature versus the 19th century attitude of ‘man over nature.’ reinvented to portray scenes of This is the fundamental philosophy behind my work.” modern life. Other artists in this exhibition include Bella Feldman, Kyohei Fujita, Michael Glancy, Masami Koda, Albert Paley, Graphics Gallery Richard Ritter, Sally Rogers, Ginny Ruffner, Howard Ben Tré, is sponsored by Janusz Walentynowicz, and Albert Young. 8 MEDIA ARTS GALLERY VISITING ARTWORK 9
March Pablo Picasso The Way Things Go Beginning in April 2019, In a warehouse, artists Peter Fischli and David the FIA will host a painting Weiss build a structure made out of common by one of the most well- household items. Then, with fire, water, gravity, known artists in recent and chemistry, they create a self-destructing history: Pablo Picasso. performance of physical interactions, chemical Executed in the winter reactions, and precisely crafted chaos. of 1926–27 in Paris, this painting, Femme assise (Seated Woman), April Peter Fischli & David Weiss Swiss had great personal The Way Things Go, 1987 significance for Picasso. Thinking Hurts Too Much 30 minutes It depicts Picasso’s wife, Thinking Hurts Too Much Image courtesy of the artists is a slowly scrolling video that Olga Koklova, a Russian incorporates found and manipulated internet footage, creating dancer whom he met a panoramic collage of gyrating, pulsing, and and fell in love with writhing characters to expose America’s—and in 1917. According to the world’s—desire for the sensational. Cameron curator Brydon Smith,this Gray pieces together thousands of pop culture identification, however, is images to offer a provocative and poignant not as straightforward as depiction of excess and the constant urge to it might seem. the work is seek new and more extreme visual stimulation. actually a family portrait, The video is an immersive experience that with Picasso combining is constantly changing, as your eyes move and overlapping the facial from one area to the next, dancing across a
EXHIBITIONS features of three people EXHIBITIONS screen that never stops shifting. In doing so, into one figure. On the left Gray makes us aware of the passage of time as we witness the Cameron Gray in profile is a self-portrait reactions of other viewers standing next to us—reminding us of Swiss, born 1980 Thinking Hurts Too Much, of the artist; the childlike the separation that results from unshared memory. 2013 profile on the right is their Video, monitor and media player son Paulo, who was about May Museum purchase with six years old at the time; funds from the Collection and the head in the center Endowment, 2013.63 Snow White Clapping (also in profile), with the Elliott Jamal Robbins casts his protagonist as the embodiment dark hair falling down on of a boy, circumscribed by the trappings of representation, one side, is Olga. queerness, and race. In the film, Robbins fuses Picasso had previously combined multiple views of a single head in his portraits, but Pablo Picasso a series of frames from Disney’s Snow White Spanish, 1881–1973 with hand-drawn, virtual armature of a black the triple portrait is rare, with only two other examples known. Femme Assise, 1927 Additionally, there is evidence that he worked on it for a length of Oil on canvas body. The figure claps in silence; perhaps at an 1 1 51 /2 x 38 /2 inches audience or perhaps an individual spectator. time and changed it repeatedly before deciding it was finished. This Collection Art Gallery of Robbins creates an ambiguity between subject may reflect the state of his feelings at the time of creation. Following Ontario, Toronto. Purchase, 1920, Picasso and Olga’s relationship was in turmoil, eventually with assistance from the and identity, and also between viewer and Women’s Committee and gaze. He writes of his work, “Through the use of ending in their separation in 1935. anonymous contributions, 1964. Acc. 63/44 appropriated and self-generated imagery and This loan is part of a reciprocal agreement with the Art Gallery Angel © 2019 Estate of Pablo Picasso text, as well as the inclusion of the black male of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, which is borrowing the FIA’s by / Artists Rights Society (ARS), cartooned figure, the viewer is presented with a Peter Paul Rubens for its exhibition Early Rubens. This exhibition New York opens at the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco in April, and disjointed narrative. The narrative in question is an exploration Elliott Jamal Robbins of the intersection of societal reading of a black body, as American, born 1988 then travels to Toronto in September. Snow White Clapping, 2018 well as subject experience, and the dichotomies to be found 2:00 minutes between.” Robbins is a graduate of the University of Arizona Courtesy of the Artist and Made possible by (MFA 2017). He lives and works in Tucson. Kai Matsumiya Gallery 10 ART ON LOAN ACQUISITIONS 11
The artworks listed here are on loan from the FIA to the following exhibitions: Louis Marak American, born 1942 Featured Acquisition Covered Table with Open Box, n.d. Glazed earthenware Once Upon a Time in The Early Celebrity of 25 × 19 × 5 inches Kris Kuksi Museum purchase with funds from the America: Three Centuries Peter Paul Rubens Estate of Grayce M. Scholt, 2018.46 Born in Springfield, Missouri in 1973 and growing up in of US-American Art Legion of Honor Fine Arts neighboring Kansas, Kris Kuksi spent his youth in rural Erich Heckel Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Museums of San Francisco German, 1883–1970 isolation. Open country and sparse trees perhaps paved Fondation Corboud San Francisco, California Der Spaziergang, 1920 the way for an individual saturated in imagination and Woodcut on paper Cologne, Germany 4.6.19 – 9.2.19 3 18 × 12 /4 inches introversion. His fascination with the unusual lent to his 11.23.18 – 3.24.19 Art Gallery of Ontario Museum purchase with funds from the macabre art later in life. The grotesque, as it seemed to Erastus Salisbury Field Toronto, Canada Collection Endowment, 2018.47 him, was beauty. He discovered his distaste for popular American, 1805–1900 10.5.19 – 1.5.20 Jack Levine American culture and felt that he had always belonged to The Taj Mahal, ca. 1850 American, 1915–2010 Oil on canvas , 1965 the “Old World.” He hopes 1 1 Gangster’s Funeral 24 /4 x 34 /8 inches Peter Paul Rubens Etching on paper that, through his art, he Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Flemish, 1577–1640 19 × 25 inches Garbisch, 1968.20 Angel, 1610–11 Museum purchase with funds from the exposes his audience to the Oil on modern support transferred from Collection Endowment, 2018.48 awareness of the fallacies of wood panel man. His work has received The Expressionist Figure 801/2 x 57 inches Lynne Avadenka Gift of Viola E. Bray, 2005.158 American several awards, been featured Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Plum Colored Lament, 2010 Color lithography, letterpress in more than 100 exhibitions Kalamazoo, Michigan printing from photopolymer worldwide, and highlighted 1.19.19 – 5.5.19 Lee Krasner plates and wood type 1 12 × 6 /2 inches in international art magazines Milton Avery Barbican Art Gallery American, 1893–1965 Museum Purchase with funds donated and fictional book covers. Bicycle Rider by the Loire, 1954 London, England by The Sheppy Dog Fund, Dr. Alan Oil on canvas 5.30.19 – 9.1.19 Klein, Advisor, 2018.49 38 x 55 inches The Color of the Moon Schirn Kunsthalle Alacie Sakiagaq Bequest of Mary Mallery Davis, 1990.19 Canadian, 1928–1990 Hudson River Museum Frankfurt, Germany Bob Thompson Yonkers, New York Man and Seal, ca. 1970 American, 1937 – 1966 10.10.19 – 1.12.20 Soapstone 1 1 , 1961 2.9.19 – 5.12.19 6 × 9 /4 × 6 /4 inches COLLECTIONS Study for St. George and the Dragon Zentrum Paul Klee COLLECTIONS Crayon on paper James A. Michener Art Museum Gift of Samantha and Kerstin in memory 21 x 14 inches Bern, Switzerland of their beloved uncle, Thomas Museum purchase with funds from the Doylestown, Pennsylvania 2.7.20 – 5.10.20 Calhoun, 2018.50 Collection Endowment, 2015.61 6.1.19 –9.8.19 Guggenheim George Arluk Thomas Chambers Canadian, born 1949 American, born England, 1808–1869 Bilbao, Spain Mother and Child, ca. 1980 Nature’s Nation: American Old Sleepy Hollow Church, ca. 1850 5.29.20 – 9.6.20 Soapstone 3 3 Oil on canvas 4 /4 × 5 × 1 /4 inches 3 3 Lee Krasner 18 /4 x 24 /8 inches Art and Environment American, 1908–1984 Gift of Samantha and Kerstin in memory Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Peabody Essex Museum Happy Lady, 1963 of their beloved uncle, Thomas Chrysler Garbisch, 1968.18 Calhoun, 2018.51 Salem, Massachusetts Oil on cotton duck 58 x 75¾ inches 2.2.19 – 5.5.19 George Arluk Purchased with funds from the National Canadian, born 1949 Crystal Bridges Museum of Charles White: A Endowment for the Arts Museum Abstract Figure, ca. 1980 According to the artist, in A Neo- Purchase Grant and the Samuel and Soapstone Minoan Landscape Kris Kuksi American Art Retrospective Alma Catsman Foundation, 1978.59 3 3 : “I celebrate my 4 4 American, born 1973 Bentonville, Arkansas 4 / × 5 × 1 / inches Los Angeles County Museum Gift of Samantha and Kerstin in memory love for all things majestically archaic A Neo-Minoan Landscape, 5.25.19 – 9.19.19 of Art of their beloved uncle, Thomas in nature, by re-creating age-old 2017 Calhoun, 2018.52 Mixed-media assemblage, Hughie Lee-Smith Los Angeles, California mythologies and adapting them American, 1915–1999 19 x 38 x 8 inches 3.3.19 – 6.9.19 Joanasie Pauloosie into contemporary atmospheric Museum purchase with Slum Lad, ca. 1960 Canadian, born 1962 Oil on canvas Charles White instillations with macabre funds from the Collection Dancing Bear, ca. 1995 Endowment, 2018.26 26 x 32 inches American, 1918–1979 Serpentine undertones. Idealized and imperious, Courtesy of the Isabel Foundation, Inlander Wanted Poster Series #17, 1971 8 × 5 × 4 inches Collection, L2003.80 Oil and pencil on poster board Gift of Samantha and Kerstin in memory a later-day Athena [Greek goddess 60 x 30 inches of their beloved uncle, Thomas of wisdom] stands as the central character, carrying through Gift of Mr. and Mrs. B. Morris Pelavin, Calhoun, 2018.53 1971.43 the heroism of Greco-Roman legends whilst standing in © 1963 The Charles White Archives Artist Unknown sovereignty for the ever-rising power of the feminine in Untitled (Abstract), n.d. Soapstone modern times. On the procedural levels, my technique is 1 1 7 /2 × 7 × 3 /2 inches best described as ‘assemblage,’ however, in describing the Gift of Samantha and Kerstin in memory of their beloved uncle, Thomas narrative it is redolent of a ‘remix genre,’ crossed over from Calhoun, 2018.54 contemporary music composition methods.” 12 FOMA FILMS 13 Admission Film titles are Films are Preview Additional $5 members subject to change. supported by sponsor sponsors $6 non-members $4 FOMA members
MAR 1 & 2 @ 7:30p, MAR 29 & 30 @ 7:30p, MAR 31 @ 2:00p APR 26 & 27 @ 7:30p, APR 28 @ 2:00p MAR 3 @ 2:00p The Wild Pear Tree Stan & Ollie Colette (Turkey, 2018) Directed by Nuri Blige Ceylan, 188 min., (United Kingdom/Canada/U.S., 2018) Directed by Jon S. (United Kingdom/U.S., 2018) subtitled, no MPAA rating Baird, 97 min., rated PG Directed by Wash Westmoreland, A young Turkish man returns to his hometown In an affectionate look at the great comedy 111 min., rated R after his college graduation, and seeks duo, Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly co-star Keira Knightley stars as sponsors to publish his book while dealing as the aging Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, the young woman who with his father’s growing gambling habit. who are shown in 1953 embarking on their challenges gender norms The Village Voice called this “a philosophical final tour, in which they hope to reconnect to write under her own journey through the mind of an aspiring artist with their once-adoring fans. name amid the intellectual trying to figure out… where he belongs.” and artistic influences of MAY 3 & 4 @ 7:30p, MAY 5 @ 2:00p early 1900s Paris. Dominic APR 5 & 6 @ 7:30p, APR 7 @ 2:00p Can You Ever Forgive Me? West and Fiona Shaw Back to Burgundy (U.S., 2018) Directed by Marielle Heller, 107 min., rated R co-star in a fact-based (France, 2017) Directed by Cedric Klapisch, 113 min., Melissa McCarthy earned a Best Actress biographical drama. subtitled, no MPAA rating Academy Award nomination for her funny/
FILMS After 10 years abroad, a Frenchman comes sad portrayal of a show business journalist FILMS MAR 8 & 9 @ 7:30p, MAR 10 @ 2:00p back home and must join in an effort to save who hits hard times and turns to deception Becoming Astrid the clan’s beloved vineyard. This comedy- to make ends meet. As the writer’s partner in (Sweden/Denmark, 2018) Directed by Pernille Fischer drama will be “particularly intoxicating crime, Richard E. Grant was an Oscar finalist Christensen, 123 min., subtitled, no MPAA rating viewing” (RottenTomatoes.com) on the for supporting actor. Astrid Lindgren, the creator of Pippi weekend of the FIA’s annual wine tasting. Longstocking, is profiled in a biopic in which MAY 10 & 11 @ 7:30p, MAY 12 @ 2:00p the story behind the scenes—a yearning to APR 11 & 12 @ 7:30p, APR 13 @ 5:00p & At Eternity’s Gate break from a conservative upbringing—is as 7:30p, APR 14 @ 2:00p (U.S./United Kingdom/France 2018) Directed by Julian engaging as its subject’s public image. Academy Award Nominated Schnabel, 111 min., rated PG The final years of Vincent van Gogh (Oscar MAR 15 & 16 @ 7:30p, MAR 17 @ 2:00p Shorts Short films from around the globe will be nominee Willem Dafoe) play out as the artist- Madeline’s Madeline part of our annual presentation of the slate of in-exile develops his unmatched style. Rupert (U.S., 2018) Directed by Josephine Decker, 93 min., Friend, Mads Mikkelsen, Mathieu Amalric, no MPAA rating Oscar nominees. Watch for a schedule to be announced at flintarts.org and elsewhere. Emmanuelle Seigner, and Oscar Isaac are The latest project by a director in an also in the cast of a film lauded by the Detroit experimental theater troupe goes awry when APR 25 @ 7:30p, APR 27 & 28 @ 4:00p News as “masterful.” the young star takes her performance a bit too seriously. This “draining and electrifying” Laurel and Hardy Shorts MAY 16 @ 7:30p, MAY 18 @ 2:00p & 4:00p indie drama, describes the Detroit News, In connection with our showing of the new “traffics in delusion, hope, mental illness, and movie Stan & Ollie, we’re offering three Hale County This Morning, the perils/wonders of creativity.” MAR 22 & 23 @ 7:30p, screenings of a program of four newly This Evening MAR 24 @ 2:00p restored 1932 films starring legendary comics (U.S., 2018) Directed by RaMell Ross, 76 min., no MPAA MAR 21 @ 7:30p, MAR 23 & 24 @ 4:00p Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Included rating Far From the Tree This inspired, intimate view into a place Maria by Callas (U.S., 2018) Directed by Rachel Dretzin and Jamila are Helpmates, Their First Mistake, County (France, 2018) Directed by Tom Volf, 119 min., subtitled, Ephron, 93 min., no MPAA rating Hospital, and the Academy Award-winning and its people follows two young African rated PG Based on the best-selling book by Andrew The Music Box. American men from rural Hale County, The legendary Greek-American opera singer Solomon, this film of “love, empathy, and Alabama. The two men take widely divergent Maria Callas is revealed in an intimate look at understanding” (RottenTomatoes.com) paths but share life’s joys and sorrows in a her life and work—described fully in her own examines the experiences of families in nominee for the latest Best Documentary words via performances, TV interviews, home which parents and children are profoundly Feature Oscar. movies, and more. different from one another. 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An elderlytailor from Buenos Aires returns to Poland to no MPAA rating (Argentina/Spain, 2018)Directed byPablo Solarz, 91min., subtitled, The Last Suit MAY 23@7:00p who faceunfoundedaccusations. man andhisPalestinian employee A comedyaboutanIsraeli family min., subtitled, noMPAA rating (Israel, 2018)Directed by Tzahi Grad, 93 The Cousin MAY 22@7:00p aseemingly obscure youngwoman. killing of In amurder mysterysetin1936, areporter probes the rating (Hungary, 2017)Directed byEva Gardos, 95min., subtitled, noMPAA Budapest Noir MAY 21@7:00p the efforts aChinesediplomat. of sanctuary inShanghai, thanks to Refugees from NaziEurope find rating and NicolaZavaglia, 88min., noMPAA (Canada, 2018)Directed byRene Balcer Above theDrowning Sea MAY 20@7:00p shaping theworld’s largest filmindustry. How the Jewish communityinIndia playedakey role in rating (Australia, 2018)Directed byDannyBen-Moshe, 76min., noMPAA Indian Cinema Shalom Bollywood: The UntoldStory of MAY 19@7:00p Perlman. violinistItzhak religious heritageof A lookat thelife, work, and 82 min., noMPAA rating (Israel, 2018)Directed by Alison Chernick, Itzhak APR 24@7:00p-Free Preview films on Jewishlifeandculture. Federation andtheFIA presents between theFlint Jewish The 15thannualcollaboration Film Festival Flint of KarenSchneider Jewish FILM FESTIVAL available Ticket packages $5 at thedoor Admission Becoming Astrid FOMA Film 7:30p 9 Becoming Astrid FOMA Film 7:30p Creating Textures Preschool Playdates 11:00p 8 Mountain Girl Loretta Lynn: Still a Art àlaCarte 12:15p 6 Colette FOMA Film 2:00p 3 Colette FOMA Film 7:30p Collectors and Use Western African Art Making Bray Lecture 2:00p 2 Colette FOMA Film 7:30p Exploring String Art Explorers 11:00p 1 MARCH
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SUN SAT FRI THU 17 CALENDAR 18 NEWS & PROGRAMS Free and opentothepublic. Wayne State University. philosophy andreligious studiesat tradition. Dr. Sledgecurrently teaches figures inthewesternintellectual politics often focusingon“non-canon” metaphysicsand on theintersectionof Memphis.University of Hehaswritten a MA andPhDinPhilosophyfrom the fromAmsterdam theUniversityof and Mysticism andEsotericPhilosophy Mississippi. Hereceived anMA in spiritualtransmutation.mysteries of people interested intheesoteric/occult science,in thehistoryof aswell Harry Potter fans, tothoseinterested topic willappeal toeveryone from alchemicalart andsymbolism.of The presentation isgrounded inthehistory alchemy asproto-science istoday. His discusses where ourunderstandingof describes alchemicalsymbolism, and presents afewfamousalchemists, schools, dispelscommonmyths, practice andvaryingalchemical Sledge introduces thislong-enduring today?Dr.become thechemistryof What wasalchemyandhowdidit Dr.Sledge Justin Guest Lecturer: Dr. Justin Sledge Alchemy The Art andScienceof Sublime Transmutation: March 13•6:00pFIA Theater THE SHEPPY DOGFUNDLECTURES Justin Sledgewasbornin Jackson, laboratories. in hidden figures laboring and robed symbolic riddles, tomes filledwith strange old chemicals, exotic bubbling the sightof conjures up “Alchemy” Collection of the CollectionVatican of Museum 110 x222inches Fresco Chapel, 1508–1512 the Sistine from the ceilingof The Creation Adam (detail), of Italian, 1475–1564 Michelangelo GiftViola of E. Bray, 2005.124.2 177 x171inches lining) Wool andsilk(moderncotton Chariot), ca. 1633–37 Carried to Armida’s Enchanted Mercury (detailfrom Rinaldo Figure theRoman God of 1629–1661 de laPlanche, French, active Manufactured byRaphael French, 1590–1649 Designed bySimon Vouet , Klein, Advisor. Sheppy DogFund, Dr. Alan is fundedannuallyby The religion, andhistory, and art,to address thetopics of Lecture hasbeenestablished The SheppyDogFund Free andopentothepublic. fresh eyes. illuminate thismasterpieceandhelpyouseeitwith Wallace, aworldauthorityonMichelangelo, will accomplishing.”what maniscapableof Professor Chapel, youcanhavenoadequate conceptionof Johann Goethe, “UntilyouhaveseentheSistine describing. thegreat Inthewords of Germanwriter genius that isneverexhausted through looking or Paradise Lost, theceilingisatranscendent workof Christian theology. Like Verdi’s Requiem orMilton’s Michelangelo’sof art, theRenaissance, of of never failstoastonishus. Wall Chinaamongthem—theSistineChapel of Dr.E. William Wallace Guest Lecturer: Dr. William E. Wallace Chapel…507 Years Michelangelo’s Sistine April 9•6:00pFIA Theater In manyways, theceilingisacompendium: the Taj Mahal, and theGreat pyramids, monuments—the timeless Like ahandfulof this titanicachievement. felt awestandingunder space, fewvisitorshavenot that crowdedthe trialsof familiar thework, nomatter masterpiece. Nomatter how well-known 507-year-old artistic genius, itisthis art exemplifies anyworkof If Media Sponsor of Defense,of andmore than 2,000museums. Endowment forthe Arts, BlueStar Families, theDepartment Blue Star Museumsisacollaboration amongtheNational participating institutions. other com foralistof the U.S. Visit BlueStarMuseums. museums incitiesthroughout it possibleforthemtoenjoy military personnelbymaking sacrifices madebyour to acknowledgethemany program wasestablished Day. The BlueStar Museums from MemorialDaytoLabor military andtheirfamilies free admissiontoactiveduty across thenation offering The FIA joinsmuseums
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