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SPRING 2017 a New Volunteer Perk That Offers Wednesdays Thru June 7: Lifelong Arts; Also in This Issue It’s almost Volunteer Recognition THE ARTS time. Please join us on OF ASIA: Tuesday, June 6, 2017, 3-5 pm. Come celebrate the NMVO’s JAPAN achievements, fete the outstanding ...Page 2 volunteers of 2016-2017, recognize retiring volunteers and welcome new members. We recently e-mailed you an important survey especially MUSICAL ARTS OF ASIA Prudence Bradley, designed to help the NMVO NMVO President improve your volunteer experience. ...Page 3 Your input is critical, so please ike a butterfly unfurling fill it out and e-mail it to nmvo@ from its cocoon, the Newark newarkmuseum.org Please let us L Museum is primed to know if you didn't receive it. re-emerge as a better version of itself. Construction to reopen the 2017 SPRING & SUMMER EVENTS: VOLUNTEER Washington Street entrance has Second Sundays, May 14 and June 11: SPOTLIGHT begun. Wonderful new programs Family activities include performances, artist-led tours, art/maker demos, are scheduled and the registration workshops, lectures and music. ...Page 5 for the summer camp program is Late Thursdays, 5 PM, well underway. There are so many May 18 and June 15: These relaxed, reasons to be thrilled about all the creatively inspired social evenings offer a good things to come. fresh take on our captivating collections, with a dynamic mix of music, food, drinks, art, and entertainment. Plus, there's Plum Benefits™, June 4: Fire Muster SPRING 2017 a new volunteer perk that offers Wednesdays thru June 7: Lifelong Arts; Also in this issue... exclusive discounts of up to 50% Collage Making with Mansa Mussa off tickets and up to 60% off hotels, Thursdays, July 6 to August 3: Jazz in the Garden WHEN OBJECTS with access to preferred seating For more info: go to BECOME ART .................08 and special offers for top shows, http://www.newarkmuseum.org attractions, theme parks, sporting DOCENT'S CHOICE.......09 events, movie tickets, and much more. These unique benefits are Please volunteer at or attend as CHROMATIC now offered to you, just for being many events as you can. You have an active Museum volunteer. an open invitation! EXHIBIT............................11 —Prudence newarkmuseum.org THE ARTS OF ASIA: JAPAN NEWARK MUSEUM STAFF Four permanent galleries, North Wing, 3rd Floor Steven Kern Director & Chief Executive Officer Deborah Kasindorf Deputy Director of Institutional Advancement Shunzyu Haigler Director of Membership Services Leland Byrd Membership Associate VOLUNTEER OFFICERS Prudence Bradley President Gwynne McConkey Secretary Arlene Gerencser Treasurer he Museum continually displays its Japanese collection in four Brenda Jackson permanent galleries. It began as over 2,000 objects, purchased at the Past President T Museum’s inception in 1909. Now, numbering around 7,000 objects, the collection includes lacquer, netsuke, ukiyo-e prints, textiles, ceramics, decorative arts, paintings and sculptures—dating from the Heian to Heisei Periods (794 to present day)—with especial concentration on art from the Edo, Hugh Michael Brown Volunteer Vistas Editor Meiji and Showa Periods (1615-1989). It is distinguished as one of the major collections of Japanese art in the eastern United States. Above Left: Incense Box with Rooster and Chrysanthemums, ca. 1893, Japan, Shoami Katsuyoshi, Silver, Gold, 2.5 x DIAM: 2.25 in., Gift of Alice Roff Estey, 1920 NMVO MISSION 20.599A,B Above Right: Sake Container, 19th Century, Japan, Silver, 6.75 x DIAM: The primary purpose of the Newark 3.75 in., Gift of Herman A. E. Jaehne and Paul C. Jaehne, 1941 41.1380 Below: Museum Volunteer Organization is Dragon and Crystal Ball, late 19th century. Japan, Koreyoshi Ishiguro, Silver and rock to serve, to support and to interpret crystal, Bequest of Joseph S. Isidor, 1941 41.236A,B the Newark Museum and its goals through volunteer participation. In the words of founding director John Cotton Dana, “A good mu- seum attracts, entertains, arouses curiosity, leads to questioning— and thus promotes learning.” DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS TO THE AUTUMN 2017 VOLUNTEER VISTAS IS FRIDAY, JULY 7, 2017. SEND SUBMISSIONS TO: Hugh Michael Brown, Volunteer Vistas Editor, at: [email protected] 2 | VOLUNTEER VISTAS Spring 2017 MUSICAL ARTS OF ASIA March 8, 2017 to February 25, 2018 Asian Galleries, North Wing, 3rd Floor Album Folio of Women Playing Qin China, Qing Dynasty (1644–1911) Ink, gold, colors, silk Gift of Henry H. Wehrhane, 1928 28.1649 usic evokes, enhances and stirs diverse mental and ◄Gisan, Kim Jun’geun (active ca. 1880s–90s) emotional states. Thus, it has Two Buddhist Monks M Playing Cymbals and become an intrinsic part of every human Drum interaction—whether building political Korea, late 19th century power through warfare (battle drums); Colors on paper accompanying honored rituals (regal or Purchase, 1918 18.50 wedding marches); or celebrating the physical pleasure of carnal pursuits. No wonder an extraordinary range of music resonates throughout Asia. Many varieties of string, wind and percussion instruments and unusual ways of expressing the human voice (like throat singing) remain mostly unknown in the West, even though they have serenaded Yashima Gakutei,► ca. 1786–1868 audiences across Asia for more than 12,000 Woman Representing years. This exhibition features actual musical Benzaiten, Goddess of instruments, as well as images of singers, Wisdom from the series dancers, puppeteers, drummers, strummers, Allusions to the Seven Lucky Gods (Mitate shichifukujin) ringers of bells, blowers of horns and other Japan, ca. 1820 Edo Period musical modes. All of them represent music (1603–1868)Surimono; color made during both the sacred and secular woodblock print Purchase 1909 George T. Rockwell traditions of East, South and Southeast Asia. Collection 9.1895 newarkmuseum.org | 3 MUSEUM STAFF PROFILES Patricia Faison, Michele Saliola, Marketing Associate & Newark Black Director of Individual Giving Film Festival Coordinator ichele Saliola, who became the Museum’s atricia Faison, Marketing Associate Director of Individual Giving in July 2016, and Newark Black Film Festival (NBFF) majored in studio art and art education at Coordinator, joined the Museum in M P New York University and holds a Masters in Art History 1971—which means she holds the staff record from New York’s Institute of Fine Arts. for longevity. In the early years, she worked in the Programs & Publications Department, Previously, she worked at an artist foundation for creating lectures, films, and other public events Donald Judd, a minimalist sculpture designer. There, for adults and children. she started as an administrator and grant writer, and over 11 years, became a right hand to the director and These days, she stays busy working on the board presidents. Her duties involved everything from Museum’s bi-monthly programs publication, archives assessments and documentary film projects, while also assisting on numerous marketing to building a docent and volunteer program from projects and community outreach efforts—all scratch, to project managing the $23M renovation that designed to raise the Museum’s visibility in turned Judd’s home and studio into a public museum. Newark and beyond. Says Michele, “As Director of Individual Giving, I Pat plays a major role in planning the hugely support our great members of Founder’s Society— popular NBFF, which opens this summer. Now a unique program that interweaves philanthropy, in its 43rd year, it is the longest running film connoisseurship and community. I am happy to put festival of its kind in the country. Along with manpower behind our critical Annual Fundraiser, the NBFF Committee, she selects speakers the Luncheon; to request support for core programs and films, and has critically viewed 30 to 40 throughout the year; and to raise awareness about films each year. Says Pat,“My film work has planned giving: how people can make a gift later allowed me to rub elbows with some pretty to a museum they enjoy today.” famous folks. And seeing the constantly changing exhibits and having met so many Michele concludes, “Fundraising isn’t about different types of people at the Museum, convincing people to give money. At best, it’s about has taught me so much about the world of reminding people how this Museum enriches their art. Having been part of the Museum family lives. If we can do that, we will raise the money for so long has been truly rewarding.” needed and people will feel great doing it.” 4 | VOLUNTEER VISTAS Spring 2017 VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT arbara Kaplan grew up in Republic, nita Walls resides in Maplewood, Ohio, a rural village in the NJ, today. However, she was born in B northwestern corner of the state. A Newark, NJ, where her grandfather She graduated from New Jersey’s Ramapo and his three sons ran a Barber and Beauty College, with a BA in Human Environment. Supply store for over 50 years. After retiring As a young child, Barbara never forgot from a fulfilling career as a preschool the experience of being entranced by the teacher four years ago, Anita knew that intensity of an El Greco painting. So, upon accomplishing something positive and retiring from Prudential in 2006, she chose creative everyday would be important. Her to volunteer in the Newark Museum’s initial volunteer assignment: assisting Carol library. Blunda in the Special Events department, fit the bill. Says Anita, “Carol is a true Museum Says Barbara, “I find working in the midst of treasure. No matter what project we tackle, both books and art very appealing! The library she makes me feel appreciated and useful. holds more than 50,000 volumes. It includes The one or two days I work with her are a rare books; a special Tibetan collection; and blessing." the Dana collection: comprised of books authored by curators, reference materials and Anita continues, “I enjoy cooking, so helping the folio editions of art books. Its archives is a Tea Committee decide on a caterer and menu repository of the Museum’s historical records, is a great fit for me.
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