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Artwords Spring 2020 SPRING 2020 ARTWORDS Vol. 25 | No. 2 a newsletter for the Friends of the David Owsley Museum of Art IN THIS ISSUE: MEXICAN MODERNITY, PROGRAM CALENDAR, NEW TO THE COLLECTION ARTWORDS David Owsley Museum of Art SERVING EAST CENTRAL INDIANA SINCE 1936 FRIENDS ADVISORY COUNCIL MUSEUM STAFF Mary Foster, Vice Chair Robert G. La France, Director Jim Gooden, Chair Rachel Buckmaster, Assistant Director Ann Johnson Tania Said, Director of Education Sigrid Koehler-Wilkins Denise Mahoney, Registrar and Collection Manager Sandra McCallister, Secretary Noelle Giuffrida, Assistant Curator of Asian Art Karen Moorman Randy Salway, Exhibition Designer & Preparator Joe Trimmer Cathy Bretz, Education Program Coordinator Sue Whitaker Jordan Huffer, Staff Photographer Jeanne Zeigler Ex officio WRITERS Seth Beckman, Dean, College of Fine Arts Rachel Buckmaster (RB) Rachel Buckmaster, Assistant Director, DOMA Noelle Giuffrida (NG) Robert G. La France, Director, DOMA Robert G. La France (RGL) Jan McCune, President, DOMA Alliance Denise Mahoney (DM) Karen Vincent, President, Muncie Art Students’ League Tania Said (TS) DESIGN Aubrey Smith Creative COVER ART Diego Rivera, Mexican (1866 – 1957) Girl with Flowers (Niña con flores), 1954, watercolor on rice paper, Collection of Dr. Zapanta. © 2019 Banco de Mexico Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artist Rights Society (ARS), NY. ARTwords is published biannually by the David Owsley Museum of Art at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana ©2020. All rights reserved 2 ARTWORDS | BSU.EDU/DOMA LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR This Spring semester, the David Owsley interest faculty and students in a Existence explores Mexican artist Frida Museum of Art focuses on Mexican art variety of fields of study at Ball State. Kahlo’s work through interpretations by and culture. The main exhibition, Mexican The associated programming is also contemporary theater artists Veronica Modernity: 20th-Century Paintings from designed to appeal to schoolteachers Santoyo and David Little. the Zapanta Collection, celebrates and schoolchildren in the region, with Regular programs at DOMA continue this the flowering of the arts in Mexico. It an educator overview and Spanish semester with Final Friday PechaKucha underlines the contributions of major language tours for high school students. talks on the themes of bridges and players and movements including the In addition, DOMA is offering a public borders on March 27 and April 24 from early masters, the Three Great Mexican presentation about Mexican Modernity 6 – 9 pm; Meditation in the Museum muralists, the second generation of by Gregorio Luke, the former director on most Friday afternoons at 3pm; and muralists, women artists, the Rupture of the Museum of Latin American Art in Docent’s Choice Tours on most Saturdays generation, and the artists of Oaxaca. In Long Beach, Consul of Cultural Affairs at 2:30pm. Kindly consult the calendar in addition, DOMA has curated an adjunct of Mexico in Los Angeles, California, this issue for details. We also encourage exhibition that reveals the impact of and First Secretary of the Embassy of you to join the Alliance in order to attend Mexican modernism in the United States Mexico in Washington, DC, at the annual our monthly lunch presentations, special and Muncie’s connection to artists in the Edmund F. Petty Lecture on March tours, and trips. colonial town of Taxco, Mexico. 12 at 6pm. What is more, on Friday, Experience all that there is to see and do The exhibition provides an opportunity April 17 at 6pm, DOMA is hosting an at East Central Indiana’s gateway to the to underline Mexico’s contribution to interactive performance in partnership world of art! modern art with a display and bilingual with Ball State University’s Department Spanish-English catalogue that will of Theater and Dance. Frida: A Fertile –RGL Ball State University | David Owsley Museum of Art 3 Raúl Anguiano, Mexican (1915 – 2006), Rufino Tamayo, Mexican (1899 – 1991), The Thorn (La espina), 2002, oil on canvas, Venus (Venus negra), 1968, lithograph, Collection of Dr. Zapanta. Courtesy of Collection of Dr. Zapanta. © 2019 Tamayo Brigita Anguiano. Heirs / Mexico / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Federico Cantú, Mexican (1907 – 1989), Leonora Carrington, British (1917 – 2011), Rafael Coronel, Mexican (1931 – 2019), Farewell (La despedida), n. d., Gouache on paper, Tuesday, state II (Martes, estado II), lithograph, Street Performers II (Carperos II), Collection of Dr. Zapanta. Collection of Dr. Zapanta. © 2019 Leonora 1980, oil on canvas, Carrington / Collection of Dr. Zapanta. Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. 4 ARTWORDS | BSU.EDU/DOMA jan 30 - may 03 EXHIBITION Regular museum hours: Monday-Friday, 9 am – 4:30 pm; Saturday–Sunday, 1:30 – 4:30 pm MEXICAN MODERNITY: Mexican Modernity: 20th-Century Paintings from the Zapanta The exhibition at Ball State University is complemented by a pre- Collection provides an overview of artistic styles and a consider- sentation of works from the David Owsley Museum of Art’s col- ation of significant themes, political events, and social narratives lection as well as significant loans that highlight Mexican artists’ that informed the creative output of several generations of mod- impact on the United States and East Central Indiana, including a ern Mexican artists. The paintings, draw- rare set of vintage photographs of Frida ings, and prints on display represent Kahlo in New York, Mexico, and at the not only Los Tres Grandes (The Three U.S. border by Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Greats) of Mexican mural painting, José Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston, Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and and others. This companion exhibition David Alfaro Siqueiros, but also Rufino incorporates works on paper by Rive- Tamayo, Francisco Zúñiga, and several ra and Siqueiros collected by the Ball artists from subsequent generations, family and spotlights the Indiana paint- including Frida Kahlo and Leonora Car- ers Carolyn Bradley and Howard Leigh, rington. An illustrated catalog, written in who were inspired by the imagery, histo- both English and Spanish, accompanies ry, culture, and people of Mexico. the exhibition. In addition, Gregorio Luke, a re- Dr. Richard Zapanta was a fourth-gener- nowned specialist on Mexican art ation Mexican-American who amassed and former director of the Muse- an art collection over more than 25 years um of Latin American Art in Long as a way to reconnect with his cultural roots. Dr. Zapanta and his Beach, California, will present the Edmund F. Petty Memorial widow Rebecca established close friendships with many of the art- Lecture about the exhibition on Thursday, March 12. Luke has ists they collected, such as Rodolfo Morales and Raúl Anguiano, researched the Zapanta Collection extensively and written often inviting them to their home in California and spending time Mexican Modernity’s illustrated catalogue, which will be available Rafael Coronel, Mexican (1931 – 2019), with them in Mexico. The exhibition was organized by the Cornell for purchase at the museum throughout the semester. Street Performers II (Carperos II), Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, and 1980, oil on canvas, Collection of Dr. Zapanta. will subsequently travel to the McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. –RGL Ball State University | David Owsley Museum of Art 5 PROGRAM CALENDAR EDUCATOR AND EXPRESS TALK: FINAL FRIDAY: BRIDGES FRIENDS OVERVIEW AFRICAN AMERICAN Friday, 6 – 9 pm FEB Monday, 4 pm FEB ARTISTS MAR Wednesday, 12 noon Ball State faculty, area Enjoy museum late hours schoolteachers, and Join Denise Mahoney, for viewing the collection 03 DOMA Friends members 19 collection manager and 27 and special exhibition, are invited to enjoy registrar, for a short PechaKucha talks with a private tour of the exhibition conversation about current works on local emcees, an artist Mexican Modernity with Dr. Robert view in honor of Black History Month demonstration, music with DJ Jannell, La France, DOMA’s director. in the Contemporary Craft Gallery. refreshments, cash bar, and more. One CEU available for K-12 teachers. Space is limited; register and pay MEXICAN MODERNITY ALLIANCE LUNCHEON online at bsu.edu/doma/exhibitions: FOR HIGH SCHOOLERS APR AND PROGRAM Free for Friends members, Ball State FEB Wednesday, 10 am – 2 pm Wednesday, 12 noon faculty, and MCS teachers and In collaboration with teens “Using the Lens of administrators; $5 for other educators and teachers, high school Japanese Ceramics to 26 students will explore the 08 Appreciate Native Clays” Judy Wojcik, associate 20TH-CENTURY special exhibition Mexican MEXICAN ART IN Modernity in Spanish and/or English. professor of art at Earlham College in FEB REVIEW High school art and Spanish teachers Richmond will compare ceramics from Sunday, 2:30 pm contact Cathy Bretz, education various regions of Japan in DOMA’s coordinator, [email protected] to collection to the work of potters in the Join Dr. Michelle Duran, reserve space for your class. Open to United States who seek an aesthetic 09 assistant professor of homeschoolers, too. Space is limited. honesty to materials, processes, and art, Ball State University the environment. School of Art, who will lead a tour of Register at bsu.edu/doma/alliance by April 3. FEBRUARY 29 – MARCH 8 the exhibition based on her research First-time guests free; $20 for Alliance members. on modern Mexican painting and DOMA will be closed to the public for Spring Break. popular
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