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Collectors Choice XVI Gala Chair: Mary L July-September 2016 ollectors hoice XV 1 C C Magic Carpet: Welcome from the A Magical Adventure Interim Director Prekindergarten Hello Friends, children in the We are in store for an exciting “Magic Carpet” summer at the MFA and look forward program decorated to your joining us in the cool comfort cupcakes on of our galleries. The Museum offers Tuesday, May 24, exciting exhibitions and a host of activities in the coming at the Museum, months. Whether you take part in a special program or celebrating another see the exhibitions, anticipate something for people of all year of enrichment. ages to enjoy. They were joined by parents and While there are many things to see and do at the Museum, teachers. These very what has become evident to me, since moving here last young artists from October, is that our members are the life-blood of the the Happy Workers institution. Support groups offer you opportunities to Children’s Center become even more engaged with the Museum. Collectors in St. Petersburg Circle members join together to help grow the collection enjoy storytelling and recently chose the painting featured on the cover, around works in the Richard Miller’s (circa 1903). Woman Sitting at a Table collection, as well as The Margaret Acheson Stuart Society is also vital to the hands-on art projects Photo by Anna Glenn Museum and the community. The group recently made and field trips, during another substantial gift and contributed a record 12,000 the school year. volunteer hours to the Museum last season. We are fortunate to have such dedicated and active members who The MFA partners with the Morean Arts Center, the Chihuly give so generously of their time and resources to assist the Collection, and the Morean Center for Clay to encourage MFA. creativity, vocabulary development, and an exploration of the community. Ceramic artist Valerie Scott Knaust initiated this We are appreciative of each and every member and are program at the MFA more than 20 years ago and has been the grateful for your interest in advancing the arts. In this lead instructor throughout its history. Mosaic, we recognize two members in particular, Hazel Hough and Ellen Stavros. They recently finished their terms as trustees and for years have given their talent, knowledge, energy, and support to the MFA. Since becoming the Hazel and William Hough Chief Board of Trustees 2016 Curator, I have been fortunate to meet and to get to know Mr. Troy Holland so many people who call the MFA “my museum.” The Executive Committee Mr. Mark T. Mahaffey, Mr. Joseph C. Jimenez heartfelt care people have for the MFA, the flagship arts Chairman The Hon. Richard museum in St. Pete, is evident. Mrs. Cathy Collins, Vice Kriseman, Mayor of the Because of you, our members, I am particularly proud Chairman City of St. Petersburg, to now serve as Interim Director, following the recent Mr. Wayne (Skipp) Fraser, ex officio, nonvoting retirement of Dr. Kent Lydecker. From all involved with CPA, Treasurer Mr. Darryl A. LeClair the MFA, we thank Kent and his wife Toni for all they Mr. R. Clark Mason, Ms. Fay Mackey have done for the Museum and will continue to do as Secretary Mrs. Mary Alice active participants in the vibrant arts culture of our city. Mrs. Glenn Mosby McClendon Mr. Fred S. Razook Jr. Mrs. Patti Novack Dr. Jerry N. Smith, Hazel I look forward to seeing you in your museum. Mr. James Reichert and William Hough Dr. Dimity Carlson, Sincerely, Chief Curator and President, The Margaret Interim Executive Director, ex officio, Acheson Stuart Society nonvoting Honorary Trustees, nonvoting Trustees Mrs. Erin Smith Aebel Mrs. Isabel Bishop, Mr. Roy Binger Honorary Memorial Ms. Laura Militzer Bryant Trustee On the cover: Dr. Gordon J. Gilbert Mr. Seymour A. Gordon, Mr. James R. Gillespie, JD, Esq. Richard Edward (Emil) Miller (American, 1875-1943) Woman Sitting at a Table (detail), circa 1903 LLM Mrs. Hazel C. Hough Oil on canvas Mr. Robert L. Hilton Mrs. Carol A. Upham Museum Purchase with funds donated by the Collectors Circle 2 Hazel Hough Named Honorary Trustee; Ellen Stavros Recognized for Exceptional Service Hazel Hough and Ellen Stavros have completed two consecutive class of 1972, which she credits with changing her life. “The three-year terms (2010-2016) on the Board. Their example will docent class whetted my enthusiasm and has taken me to great inspire others. So will the legacy of their families. places,” she said in a 2007 Mosaic profile. “Previously I was more involved in music.” For many years, she actively conducted tours “We cannot thank these two trustees and their families and is now Docent Emerita. enough,” said Mark T. Mahaffey, Chairman of the Board. “They have been leaders here and throughout the Tampa Bay area. Mrs. Hough was previously a trustee from 1980-1986 and again The Museum of Fine Arts and the community would not be from 1987-1993 and during her first term, persuaded the Board where they are today without them. Their generosity and many to establish the Education Committee. She then became one of volunteer hours have greatly enhanced the quality of life for us the longest serving chairs of that committee and has also been a and for future generations.” respected voice on the Accessions Committee. In recognition of her many contributions, A strong advocate for art education, Mrs. Hough and the Hazel Hough has been named a lifetime docents expanded school tours and established the “Eye to Honorary Trustee. The Hazel Hough Eye” program, making presentations in the classroom. She Wing, which opened in March 2008, is was instrumental in adding the art supervisor of the Pinellas named in her honor. She has always been County Schools to the Education Committee, a tradition which quick to downplay her accomplishments, continues to this day. She was similarly influential in convincing however, and to recognize others first. the Board in 1991 to hire the first full-time Curator of Education, Rebecca Russell, who held an MA in art history and had a Mrs. Hough became involved in the MFA lasting impact on the MFA and the community. through her commitment to education and contemporary art. She was impressed that William Pachner’s View of My Birthplace (1958) was included in the Inaugural Exhibition of 1965. She and husband William R. Hough, who has also been a Museum trustee, became lifelong admirers of the artist’s work and gave Mr. Pachner’s Windows #14 (1981) last year in honor of the Museum’s 50th anniversary. They were Honorary Chairs of that celebration. Through their many gifts, the Houghs have strengthened and diversified the collection, with a focus on contemporary and cutting-edge art. A number are on view, including Hung Liu’s tapestry, Fu (Happiness), 2005, also given in honor of the 50th anniversary; three inventive ceramic objects, Jun Kaneko’s Dango (1999), Kimiyo Mishima’s Bâbekyûyô-Mokutan (2005), and Tony Marsh’s untitled work from the Radiance and Abundance series (2004-2005); and the luminous glass piece Zanfirico Apple (1997) by Joey Kirkpatrick and Flora Mace. Now on display in the Helen and Dick Minck Gallery of New Media are two more significant gifts. On the opening of the Wing, Mrs. Hough gave the MFA its first example of video art in honor of her husband: Peter Sarkisian’s Extruded Video Engine II William Pachner (American, born Czechoslovakia, 1915) (2007). The Houghs later provided the funds to acquire Michael Window #14, 1981 Acrylic on canvas Bell-Smith’s Waves Clock (2012). Gift of Hazel and William R. Hough in honor of the Museum’s 50th Anniversary The couple made another extraordinary donation in 2012. They established the Hazel and William Hough Curatorial Endowment Fund, which endowed the position of Chief Curator Mr. and Mrs. Hough have been two of the area’s leading and made it possible to hire the Museum’s first Curator of philanthropists and civic leaders. The Houghs have been Contemporary Art, Katherine Pill. major supporters of American Stage, St. Thomas Episcopal Church, and the Canterbury School of Florida. At Canterbury, Earlier in the MFA’s history, they stepped forward to help prekindergarten to fourth-grade students study on the Hough the Museum acquire the central works in the Sculpture Campus. The Hough Concert Hall of The Palladium at St. Garden, Antoine-Louis Barye’s War and Peace (both 1854, cast Petersburg College also recognizes their generosity. posthumously around 1876). They gave funds in 1976 to purchase Peace and encouraged others to donate to complete the pair. Mrs. Hough has been President of The Arts Center (now the Morean Arts Center) and has served on the boards of American One of the early docents, Mrs. Hough is a graduate of the Stage, the University of South Florida Foundation, and the 3 Palladium, among many others. She has been a member of the Campus Advisory Board of USF St. Petersburg and the Arts Advisory Council of the City of St. Petersburg. A native Floridian, Mrs. Hough grew up in Fort Myers and entered the Florida State College for Women, which became part of Florida State University. She was introduced to art and the humanities on her way to a BA in journalism. Her travels with CURRENT | UPCOMING | EXHIBITIONS her husband and her independent study have expanded her early interests. The MFA has been one of the chief beneficiaries. Shana Moulton: Like the Houghs, members of the Stavros family seemingly have philanthropy and community service in their DNA. One Journeys Out of the Body of the Museum’s galleries is named in honor of Gus and Frances Stavros, which now displays nineteenth-century European and Hazel Hough Wing American art.
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