SPRING 2013 @Cantonmuseum News & Events from YOUR Canton Museum of Art
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Premiere Issue SPRING 2013 @CantonMuseum News & Events from YOUR Canton Museum of Art An Exhibition Seven Decades in the Making Joseph O’Sickey: Unifying Art, Life and Love Lux Botanica: In Living Color Explore & Enjoy More! The Photography of Doug McLarty Visual Rhythm from Excitement Coming to Scanography Brings Nature The Permanent Collection Your Canton Museum to Glowing Life 2 SPRING 2013 CONTENTS Spring 2013 DEPARTMENTS 4 From the Executive Director 5 From the Board of Trustees 6 Heard in the Galleries 8 News @CantonMuseum 10 Education in Action 18 Explore & Enjoy More! Coming to Your Canton Museum 19 News from the Permanent Collection 20 Museum Membership FEATURED IN THE GALLERIES 22 Get Involved! 12 CMA Volunteer & Associate Opportunities Joseph O’Sickey: 23 About Your Canton Museum of Art Unifying Art, Life and Love May 2 – July 21, 2013 16 (Cover) Self-Portrait Among Paints and Brushes, Joseph O’Sickey, Lux Botanica: 1989, watercolor and ink on paper, 13 ½" x 17" The Photography of Doug McLarty Collection of the Artist May 2 – July 21, 2013 (This Page) Maine Porch, Joseph O’Sickey, 1978, oil on canvas, 69 ¾" x 84 ½" 17 Canton Museum of Art Collection Gift of the Artist From the Permanent Collection: In Living Color May 2 – July 21, 2013 3 @CantonMuseum FROM THE DESK OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR M.J. Albacete 1001 Market Avenue North Welcome to the Canton Museum of Art’s new Canton, Ohio 44702 magazine, @CantonMuseum! “Explore & www.cantonart.org Enjoy More!” is the Museum’s new call for “@CantonMuseum magazine all of Northeast Ohio to be entertained and is enriched with stories and Canton Museum of Art Staff engaged by the wonderful programming at the visuals that take you on a EXecUTIVE DIRectoR Canton Museum of Art (CMA), and we start M.J. Albacete with this first edition of @CantonMuseum. The journey to inspire your senses.” MARKETING DIRectoR new magazine will appear three times a year, Max Barton II providing our members and audience with John’s Bible is a work more than 10-years in FINANCE ManageR detailed descriptions of current exhibitions, the making — a creation on the scale of the Sonja Herwick news around the Museum, tantalizing previews Sistine Chapel as the pages of the Bible come DEVELOPMENT DIRectoR of coming attractions — and much more. This to life through medieval techniques and Christine Fowler Shearer is YOUR magazine for YOUR Museum! beautiful illuminated artwork. Much We have so much to tell you. For instance, community collaboration will flow from this RegistRAR/CURatoR OF COLLections Lynnda Arrasmith our current exhibition Joseph O’Sickey: exhibit, as this unique work was created with Unifying Art, Life and Love is an original a very ecumenical approach covering the EDUcation & TechnoLOGY ManageR Lauren Kuntzman CMA concept, meaning that the idea to honor world religions. this remarkable Northeast Ohio artist (see Alongside all of these are new touring AdministRative SecRetaRY Lynn Daverio “Features” page 12) with a major exhibit exhibits from prominent artists and CMA- and an accompanying full-color publication produced exhibits from our unrivaled CURatoRIAL assistant & MUSEUM SHOP MANAGER started right here, organized by our own Permanent Collection of watercolors, works Kathy Fleeher Christine Shearer, development director at on paper and ceramics. EDUcation Assistant the Museum. In conjunction with this project, Coming in 2014 … well, you’ll just Erica Emerson Western Reserve PBS has prepared a one-hour have to watch for each and every new issue television documentary (available on DVD) on of @CantonMuseum. And check in on our Canton FINE ARts Assistant Carol Paris the life and work of O’Sickey, which will air website, which is about to get a major new through May and June. O’Sickey will also be redesign, as well as our very active Facebook, GALLERY InstaLLation & MAINTENANCE George Samay the recipient of the 2013 Governor’s Award at Twitter and YouTube platforms. Thanks to the annual meeting of the Ohio Arts Council our new Marketing Director, Max Barton, SecURITY GUARds in Columbus on May 15. In addition, the we are changing, sharing more stories and Doug Kleinschmidt, Scott Kunkel, Steve Scarpitti, Stan Wood O’Sickey exhibition has a major educational more imagery … so you can Explore & component tied to it (see the story on page 10), Enjoy More! MagaZINE Staff Editor: Max Barton which as of this printing has touched more Welcome to YOUR Canton Museum Design: Public Design Co. than 700 students from 30 different classrooms of Art! through the Museum’s Visiting Artist Program. Spring 2013, Vol. 1/No. 1 Later this fall, art comes to the service @CantonMuseum is the official magazine of the Canton Museum of Art. It is published for of the world in which we live with and distributed to members, exhibit attendees Environmental Impact, opening September 1. M.J. Albacete and friends of the Canton Museum of Art. All Executive Director materials are ©Canton Museum of Art, unless This touring exhibition brings to light the otherwise noted, and may not be reproduced environmental crisis through painting, without the written permission of the Museum sculpture and more. And then there is and/or copyright owner. Illuminating the Word: The Saint John’s Bible Letters/Comments exhibition, opening December 5. The Saint [email protected] | 330.453.7666 Follow us on … 4 SPRING 2013 FROM THE BoaRD OF TRUstees Donald Jensen The new magazine you have in your hands is but one of the many Legacy of Ferdinand Brader (December 2014), a major show exciting things happening at the Canton Museum of Art (CMA). highlighting Brader’s stunning 19th century illustrations of farms Through this beautiful publication, the Board of Trustees and Staff in Northeast Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. hope to get much closer to our community, our membership, our Alongside all of these shows will be more original CMA region, our state … as we launch into new seasons of superior exhibitions with engaging artists and mediums, as well creative programming on all levels. displays from our own Permanent Collection — a collection The CMA is changing and growing, and we want to entice in which we take special pride in presenting and growing as a you to step out to the Museum for enjoyment, education and standard in American watercolors and contemporary ceramics. entertainment! As our Executive Director M.J. Albacete noted, And we will certainly continue to grow our course of educational “Explore & Enjoy More! is the Museum’s new call for all of programming around the exhibitions, as well as special classes Northeast Ohio to be entertained and engaged by the wonderful at the Museum, which bring the visual arts into our schools and offerings at the Canton Museum of Art.” students into our galleries. What is all this change about? It’s about taking the All of these exhibitions, special events and outreach Canton Museum of Art to the next level, our commitment to programs promise to bring greater regional attention and growing the Museum into one of the finest of its kind. Your prominence to the Canton Museum of Art and to the Canton arts Museum is working hard to fulfill the vision of making the CMA and business community. a regional center for the arts and a stronger player in the local Also changing is how we communicate with our audiences. arts experience. This was evident in our recent CMA-produced I hope our Facebook friends have seen the new focus on using exhibition, The Cleveland School: Watercolor and Clay, which social media to get our message out. We are sharing more garnered not only regional critical acclaim, but also national and more of the Museum experience “as it happens” through recognition as the cover story in the February 2013 issue of Facebook and Twitter, and even exhibit videos on our YouTube American Art Review. channel. If you have not joined us on the social media circuit yet, I encourage you to do so — and to share the excitement. “… you will sense the excitement of the new To our members and partners in the community, thank you spirit of adventure being generated as we for your continued support and confidence in the Museum. And if you haven’t visited the Museum recently, please make an effort invite you to “Explore & Enjoy More!” to do so — and share it with your friends and family! I know that when you do, you will sense the excitement of the new spirit of One key to the change is that we’ve made commitments to adventure being generated as we invite you to Explore & Enjoy bring exciting and informative exhibits to the Museum over the More! Come ... experience the Canton Museum of Art, and I think next two years. This all starts right now with the Joseph O’Sickey you’ll like the changes. exhibit in the galleries. Unifying Art, Life and Love showcases more than 160 of his works, from oil paintings to watercolors to sketches — seven decades of work from this Northeast Ohio artist. This will be followed by magnificent new shows such as The Saint Donald Jensen John’s Bible (December 2013); Waylande Gregory: Art Deco President, Board of Trustees Ceramics and the Atomic Impulse (May 2014); Intent to Deceive: Fakes and Forgeries of the Art World (September 2014); and The Canton Museum of Art Board of Trustees PRESIDENT Mark Belgya Ted Lawson, President Donald Jensen James Bower Canton Artists League Dan Chrzanowski FIRst VICE PRESIDENT Amanda Kendle Susan Bennett, President Adam Luntz Canton Fine Arts Associates Jeff Kishman Second VICE PRESIDENT Tiffany Marsh Joe Feltes J. Kevin Maxwell SecRetaRY Travis Maxwell Cheli Curran Kay Seeberger Jeff Strayer TReasURER Detail from Creation, The Saint John’s Bible, an exhibition coming Walter Wagor in December 2013.