Mead Art Museum at Amherst College

Mead Art Mead Museum Amherst College Amherst, MA 01002-5000 USA 413/542-2335 www.amherst.edu/museums/mead Annual Report for the Year 2010–2011 Mead Art Museum TABLE OF CONTENTS at Amherst College Annual Report for the Year 2010–2011 Report from the Director 2 Acquisitions 3 Research 10 Loans 12 Grants 13 Curricular Collaborations 15 Volunteer Student Docents 20 Exhibitions and Publications 23 Programs 25 Attendance 31 Security and Facility 32 Staff, Interns, Docents, Friends, Advisors 32 Strategic Plan, Status Report 38

ABOVE: Berlin-based dancer and choreographer Friederike Plafki performing SOLO, Kühlkuhgenese / Coolcowgeneses in Bassett gallery. Photo by Alec Jacobson ’12 Cover: Michiko Theurer ’11 playing a musical interlude during Moments of Grace: Ballet Meets Art at the Mead in the Rotherwas Room. Photo by Alec Jacobson ’12

Detail of Manuscript Page (Chant), 14th century, watercolor on parchment (AC 1961.16), used for the student performance of Songs at Sunset: Medieval Chant at the Mead. Photo by Jessica Mestre ’10 REPORT FROM THE DIRECTOR ACQUISITIONS

GIFTS (alphabetical by artist) Six temporary exhibitions. Two scholarly Angelique Harrell, Assistant to the Director; Samuel Vanessa Bell (British, 1879-1961), In the Garden. Watercolor on catalogues. Eighty-six college class visits. One Rowlett, Coordinator of Community Programs; Triin white wove paper. Given in memory of William and Mary Heath hundred fourteen public events. One hundred Vallaste, Collections Handbook Coordinator; and (AC 2011.07) thirteen art acquisitions. The discovery of a rare Dr. Miloslava Waldman, Researcher for Russian Art. Edwin Burrage Child (American, 1868-1937), Untitled Landscape, As this publication goes to press in the autumn of 1917. Oil on canvas. Gift of Gordon Baldwin (Class of 1960) antiquity in the collection. Seventeen thousand (AC 2010.109) visitors. 2010-11 proved to be characteristically 2011, the Mead is preparing to welcome several Marco Dente, (Italian, ca. 1486-1527) after Francesco Salviati, energetic and rewarding for the Mead. new colleagues: David Dashiell as Digitization (Italian, 1510-1563), An Assembly of Scholars, ca. 1515-1527. Project Photographer, Ashley Hogan as Digitization Engraving. Given in memory of William and Mary Heath (AC 2011.06) Project Data Specialist, Rachel Rogol as Assistant to Detail, 3/4 view of west room, the Director, Dr. Miloslava Waldman as Study Room Jim Dow (American, born 1942), Morgan Library, New York, 1999. Chromogenic color print. Gift Supervisor, and Betsey Wolfson as Publication in honor of Frederick Borden Shipley (Class 2013) (AC 2010.133)

Coordinator. Seven of the nine positions listed Duncan Grant (Scottish, 1883-1978), Still Life, 1963. Watercolor above are new to the museum; their establishment and gouache (maybe black chalk) on buff paper. Given in memory of William and Mary Heath (AC 2011.08) would not have been possible without generous Still Life support from foundations and private donations. Attributed to Duncan Grant (Scottish, 1883-1978), , 1972. Pastel on brown paper. Given in memory of William and We are grateful to all of our supporters, including Mary Heath (AC 2011.09)

the Friends of the Mead Art Museum, whose Ernest Haskell (American, 1876-1925), Amelia, ca. 1913. Stipple membership increased in 2010-11 by 15.3%. engraving on off-white wove paper. Gift of Christine Huber in memory of Dorothy L. Hoehn of Pala Alto, California (AC 2011.11)

The year ahead promises to be equally dynamic. Edward Hopper (American, 1882-1967), Cat Boat, 1922. Etching. Dr. Sanford B. Sternlieb (Class of 1946) and Esther Sternlieb The consortium of Five College-affiliated muse- Collection of American Art (AC 2010.110) The Haunted Museum: A Pioneer Lizzie with her dog Lottie at ums to which the Mead belongs will launch a new Valley Community Celebration at the Mead Art Museum. Edward Hopper (American, 1882-1967), Nude Facing Front, Photo by Jessica Mestre ’10 design of its collection database, offering a stream- 1919-1923. Drypoint. Dr. Sanford B. Sternlieb (Class of 1946) and Esther Sternlieb Collection of American Art (AC 2010.111) lined appearance and enabling broader and more Attendance continued to rise, increasing by 7.7% precise searches. The museum will publish its first Edward Hopper (American, 1882-1967), East Side, Interior, 1922. Etching. Dr. Sanford B. Sternlieb (Class of 1946) and Esther overall and by 7.9% for special events, and climbing collection guide, co-authored by more than seventy Sternlieb Collection of American Art (AC 2010.112) by 17.3% for school and community groups and by faculty, alumni, and curatorial contributors. The Edward Hopper (American, 1882-1967), Night Shadows (from 22.9% for college class visits – substantial growth, Mead will present a year-long, two-part exhibi- the Six American Etchings, (Series I), 1921 (published 1924). Etching. Dr. Sanford B. Sternlieb (Class of 1946) and Esther made more impressive by the challenges of a one- tion of its recently conserved collection of Tibetan Sternlieb Collection of American Art (AC 2010.113) month period when most of the museum’s galleries thangka, accompanied by a rich roster of related Ellsworth Kelly (American, born 1923), Concorde I (State), 1982. were closed for renovation and an unusually severe events. We hope that you will be able to experi- Color aquatint. Gift of Ronald F. Daitz (Class of 1961) and Linda F. Daitz (AC 2010.131) winter marked by emergency snow closures. ence those and other programs at the museum in the months ahead. All of us at the Mead would be Jack Levine (American, 1915-2010), Die Dreigroschenoper (portfolio inspired by the 1931 film “Die 3-Groschenoper” The museum’s professional staff, likewise, has honored and delighted to welcome you back to by G.W. Pabst, based on the musical play by Kurt Weill and advanced, pursuing the numerous projects outlined Amherst’s extraordinary art museum in 2011-12. Bertolt Brecht), 1967. Soft ground etchings on white laid BFK Rives paper. Dr. Sanford B. Sternlieb (Class of 1946) and Esther in the following pages, and increasing in size. As the Sternlieb Collection of American Art (AC 2010.114.1-25)

2010-11 academic year began, the Mead welcomed Jack Levine (American, 1915-2010), Plate 1, Artist’s statement. four new colleagues: Maggie Dethloff, Andrew Elizabeth E. Barker, Ph.D. (AC 2010.114.1)

W. Mellon Post-Baccalaureate Curatorial Fellow; Director and Chief Curator TOP: Vanessa Bell (British 1879-1961), In the Garden. Jack Levine (American, 1915-2010), Plate 2, Artist’s statement. Watercolor on white wove paper. Given in memory of William (AC 2010.114.2) and Mary Heath (AC 2011.07) BOTTOM: Ghanaian, Senufo people, 20th Century, Male and Jack Levine (American, 1915-2010), Moritur. (AC 2010.114.3) Female figures. Wood. Gift of Drs. James and Gladys Strain (AC 2010.180.1,2)

2 3 Jack Levine (American, 1915-2010), Look! There Goes Mack the Jack Levine (American, 1915-2010), Jenny Visits McHeath. (AC Knife!. (AC 2010.114.4) 2010.114.21)

Jack Levine (American, 1915-2010), Mack Sees Polly Peachum. Jack Levine (American, 1915-2010), Tiger Brown. (AC (AC 2010.114.5) 2010.114.22)

Jack Levine (American, 1915-2010), Quadrille. (AC 2010.114.6) Jack Levine (American, 1915-2010), Peachum Tries to Stop the March to St. Paul’s. (AC 2010.114.23) Jack Levine (American, 1915-2010), Thieves. (AC 2010.114.7) Jack Levine (American, 1915-2010), Polly Founds a Bank. (AC Jack Levine (American, 1915-2010), A Wedding Gift. (AC 2010.114.24) 2010.114.8) Jack Levine (American, 1915-2010), Victoria’s Jubilee. (AC 2010.114.25)

Benjamin Lord (American, born 1974), ‘Humaliwo Chambers’ with stereoscope from the Norton Christmas Project, 2010. Four-color offset lithographs. Gift of Suzannah Fabing (AC 2011.01.1.a-d, 2)

John Marin (American, 1870-1953), Woolworth Building, No.2, 1913. Etching. Dr. Sanford B. Sternlieb (Class of 1946) and Esther Sternlieb Collection of American Art (AC 2010.115)

Jill Mathis (American, born 1964) Caleb Cain Marcus (American, born 1978), Words and Images, 2005. Portfolio of Digital chromogenic prints. Gift of Mark and Elaine Connelly (AC 2010.181.1-10)

Jill Mathis (American, born 1964), Delirium (Alessandria, Italy), 2004. (AC 2010.181.1) Edward Hopper (American 1882-1967), Cat Boat, 1922. Etching. Dr. Sanford B. Sternlieb (Class of 1946) and Esther Sternlieb Jill Mathis (American, born 1964), Morse Code (Gattinara, Italy), Collection of American Art (AC 2010.110) 2000. (AC 2010.181.2)

Jack Levine (American, 1915-2010), The Wedding. (AC Jill Mathis (American, born 1964), Stay Alert (Matauri Bay, New Alfred Sisley (French 1839-1899), Le Château de la Croix-Blanche Caleb Cain Marcus (American, born 1978), Smoke and Fog 2010.114.9) Zealand), 1995-2005. (AC 2010.181.3) à Saint Mammes (après-midi de Septembre), 1884. Oil on (Udaipur, India), 2005. (AC 2010.181.7) canvas. Gift of John C. Haas (Class of 1940) and Chara C. Haas Jack Levine (American, 1915-2010), Der Kanonen Song. (AC Jill Mathis (American, born 1964), Windfall (Czech Republic), (AC 2011.22) 2010.114.10) 1996. (AC 2010.181.4) Caleb Cain Marcus (American, born 1978), Waiting to Carry the Dead (The Ganga, India), 2005. (AC 2010.181.8) John Sloan (American, 1871-1951), Copyist at the Met, 1908. Jack Levine (American, 1915-2010), Jonathan Jeremiah Etching. Dr. Sanford B. Sternlieb (Class of 1946) and Esther Peachum. (AC 2010.114.11) Caleb Cain Marcus (American, born 1978), A Painting for a King (Humayun’s Tomb, India), 2005. (AC 2010.181.9) Sternlieb Collection of American Art (AC 2010.116)

Jack Levine (American, 1915-2010), Mack at Work. (AC John Sloan (American, 1871-1951), Easter Eve, Washington 2010.114.12) Caleb Cain Marcus (American, born 1978), Window of Kumbhalgarh (Kumbhalgarh, India), 2005. (AC 2010.181.10) Square, 1926. Etching. Dr. Sanford B. Sternlieb (Class of 1946) and Esther Sternlieb Collection of American Art (AC 2010.117) Jack Levine (American, 1915-2010), Girls of Tunbridge Alley #1. (AC 2010.114.13) Monogramist Z.B.M. (Italian, 16th century) formerly attributed to Battista dell’Angelo del Moro (Italian, ca. 1515 - ca.1573), John Sloan (American, 1871-1951), Saturday Afternoon on Pandora’s Box or An Allegory of Les Sciences qui Eclairent l’esprit the Roof (Tenement Roofs), 1919. Lithograph. Dr. Sanford B. Jack Levine (American, 1915-2010), Girls of Tunbridge Alley #2. Sternlieb (Class of 1946) and Esther Sternlieb Collection of (AC 2010.114.14) de l’homme, 1557. Etching. Given in memory of William and Mary Heath (AC 2011.02) American Art (AC 2010.118)

Jack Levine (American, 1915-2010), Girls of Tunbridge Alley #3. John Sloan (American, 1871-1951), Nude on Hearth, 1933. (AC 2010.114.15) Elizabeth Murray (American, 1940-2007), Down Dog, 1988. Lithograph on 12 sheets of cut-and-pasted paper. Gift of Ronald Etching. Dr. Sanford B. Sternlieb (Class of 1946) and Esther Sternlieb Collection of American Art (AC 2010.119) Jack Levine (American, 1915-2010), McHeath at Tunbridge Alley. Daitz (Class of 1961) and Linda Daitz (AC 2011.12) (AC 2010.114.16) Adriaen van Ostade (Dutch, 1610-1685), The Singers (state 7 of John Sloan (American, 1871-1951), Night Windows, 1910. Etching. Dr. Sanford B. Sternlieb (Class of 1946) and Esther Jack Levine (American, 1915-2010), McHeath at the Brothel in 7), ca. 1667. Etching and engraving. Given in memory of William Night Shadows (from Sternlieb Collection of American Art (AC 2010.120) Tunbridge Alley. (AC 2010.114.17) Edward Hopper (American 1882-1967), and Mary Heath (AC 2011.04) the Six American Etchings, (Series I), 1921 (published 1924). Etching. Dr. Sanford B. Sternlieb (Class of 1946) and Esther Giuseppe Nicola Rossigliani (Italian, active early 16th century) John Sloan (American, 1871-1951), Memory, 1906. Etching. Jack Levine (American, 1915-2010), Tunbridge Girls with Dr. Sanford B. Sternlieb (Class of 1946) and Esther Sternlieb McHeath in Flight. (AC 2010.114.18) Sternlieb Collection of American Art (AC 2010.113) after Raphael (Italian, 1483-1520), Hercules Strangling the Nemean Lion, ca. 1515-1540. Etching and engraving. Given in Collection of American Art (AC 2010.121) memory of William and Mary Heath (AC 2011.03) Jack Levine (American, 1915-2010), Lotte Lenya. (AC Jill Mathis (American, born 1964), Shore/Coast (Varigotti, Italy), John Sloan (American, 1871-1951), Washington Arch, 1923. 2010.114.19) 2004. (AC 2010.181.5) Andres Serrano (American, born 1953), Klansman, Knighthawk Etching. Dr. Sanford B. Sternlieb (Class of 1946) and Esther Sternlieb Collection of American Art (AC 2010.122) Jack Levine (American, 1915-2010), McHeath Betrayed. (AC Caleb Cain Marcus (American, born 1978), The Weight of a of Georgia V, 1990. Dye destruction print. Gift of Ronald Daitz 2010.114.20) Pigeon (Ajanta, Italy), 2005. (AC 2010.181.6) (Class of 1961) and Linda Daitz (AC 2011.13)

4 5 John Sloan (American, 1871-1951), Shine, Washington Square, Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Untitled Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Untitled 1923. Etching. Dr. Sanford B. Sternlieb (Class of 1946) and Esther (No.1) from “House with the Mezzanine” series, 1991. Lithograph (No.23) from “House with the Mezzanine” series, 1991. Sternlieb Collection of American Art (AC 2010.123) on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Professor Lithograph on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Emerita of History, Smith College (AC 2010.139) Professor Emerita of History, Smith College (AC 2010.161) John Sloan (American, 1871-1951), Snowstorm in the Village, 1925. Etching. Dr. Sanford B. Sternlieb (Class of 1946) and Esther Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), House Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Untitled Sternlieb Collection of American Art (AC 2010.124) with the Mezzanine series (30 + 9 related prints), 1991. (No.24) from “House with the Mezzanine” series, 1991. Lithograph on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Lithograph on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye John Sloan (American, 1871-1951), Dolly (Portrait of the artist’s Professor Emerita of History, Smith College (AC 2010.139-177) Professor Emerita of History, Smith College (AC 2010.162) wife), 1929. Etching. Dr. Sanford B. Sternlieb (Class of 1946) and Esther Sternlieb Collection of American Art (AC 2010.125) Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Untitled Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Untitled (No.2) from “House with the Mezzanine” series, 1991. Lithograph (No.25) from “House with the Mezzanine” series, 1991. on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Professor Lithograph on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Emerita of History, Smith College (AC 2010.140) Professor Emerita of History, Smith College (AC 2010.163)

Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Untitled Untitled (No.3) from “House with the Mezzanine” series, 1991. (No.26) from “House with the Mezzanine” series, 1991. Lithograph on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Lithograph on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Professor Emerita of History, Smith College (AC 2010.141) Professor Emerita of History, Smith College (AC 2010.164)

Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Untitled Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Untitled (No.4) from “House with the Mezzanine” series, 1991. Lithograph (No.27) from “House with the Mezzanine” series, 1991. on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Professor Kikai Hiroh (Japanese, born 1945), A performer of butoh dance Lithograph on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Emerita of History, Smith College (AC 2010.142) from ‘Persona’ (Asakusa Portraits), 2001. Gelatin silver print. Professor Emerita of History, Smith College (AC 2010.165) Purchase with Richard Templeton (Class of 1931) Photography Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Untitled Fund (AC 2011.20) (No.5) from “House with the Mezzanine” series, 1991. Lithograph Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Untitled on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Professor (No.14) from “House with the Mezzanine” series, 1991. Emerita of History, Smith College (AC 2010.143) Lithograph on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Professor Emerita of History, Smith College (AC 2010.152) Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Untitled (No.6) from “House with the Mezzanine” series, 1991. Lithograph Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Untitled Jim Dow (American, born 1942), Detail, 3/4 view of west room, on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Professor (No.15) from “House with the Mezzanine” series, 1991. Morgan Library, New York, 1999. Chromogenic color print. Gift Emerita of History, Smith College (AC 2010.144) in honor of Frederick Borden Shipley (Class 2013) (AC 2010.133) Lithograph on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Professor Emerita of History, Smith College (AC 2010.153) Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Untitled John Sloan (American, 1871-1951), Turning Out the Light, 1905. (No.7) from “House with the Mezzanine” series, 1991. Lithograph Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Untitled Etching. Dr. Sanford B. Sternlieb (Class of 1946) and Esther on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Professor (No.16) from “House with the Mezzanine” series, 1991. Sternlieb Collection of American Art (AC 2010.126) Emerita of History, Smith College (AC 2010.145) Lithograph on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Professor Emerita of History, Smith College (AC 2010.154) John Sloan (American, 1871-1951), Wake on the Ferry, 1949. Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Etching. Dr. Sanford B. Sternlieb (Class of 1946) and Esther Untitled (No.8) from “House with the Mezzanine” series, 1991. Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Untitled Sternlieb Collection of American Art (AC 2010.127) Lithograph on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye (No.17) from “House with the Mezzanine” series, 1991. Professor Emerita of History, Smith College (AC 2010.146) Lithograph on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye John Sloan (American, 1871-1951), Bob Cat Wins, 1924. Etching. Professor Emerita of History, Smith College (AC 2010.155) Dr. Sanford B. Sternlieb (Class of 1946) and Esther Sternlieb Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Collection of American Art (AC 2010.128) Untitled (No.9) from “House with the Mezzanine” series, 1991. Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Untitled Lithograph on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye (No.18) from “House with the Mezzanine” series, 1991. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696-1770), Capricci: The Professor Emerita of History, Smith College (AC 2010.147) Lithograph on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Astrologer and the Young Soldier, ca. 1740. Etching. Gift of Jack Professor Emerita of History, Smith College (AC 2010.156) W.C. Hagstrom (Class of 1955) (AC 2010.179) Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Untitled (No.10) from “House with the Mezzanine” series, 1991. Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Untitled Unknown (Tibetan, 20th century), Prayer Rug, 20th century. Lithograph on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye (No.19) from “House with the Mezzanine” series, 1991. Wool. Gift Jonathan A. Wright in honor of Arthur F. and Mary C. Professor Emerita of History, Smith College (AC 2010.148) Lithograph on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Wright (AC 2010.129) Untitled Professor Emerita of History, Smith College (AC 2010.157) Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Ambreen Butt (Pakistani, born 1969, active in Unites States), Unknown (Japanese, 20th century), Buddhist Kesu, 20th century. (No.11) from “House with the Mezzanine” series, 1991. Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Untitled Untitled from ‘Daughters of the East’ series, 2008. Six plate Silk. Gift Jonathan A. Wright in honor of Arthur F. and Mary C. Lithograph on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye (No.20) from “House with the Mezzanine” series, 1991. color etching, aquatint, and spit-bite aquatint with chine collé. Wright (AC 2010.130) Professor Emerita of History, Smith College (AC 2010.149) Lithograph on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Purchase, Trinkett Clark Memorial Student Acquisition Fund Professor Emerita of History, Smith College (AC 2010.158) (AC 2011.14) Unknown (Ghanaian, Senufo people, 20th century), Male and Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Untitled Female Figures, . Wood. Gift of Drs. James and Gladys Strain (AC (No.12) from “House with the Mezzanine” series, 1991. Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Untitled Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Untitled 2010.180.1,2) Lithograph on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye (No.21) from “House with the Mezzanine” series, 1991. (No.28) from “House with the Mezzanine” series, 1991. Professor Emerita of History, Smith College (AC 2010.150) Lithograph on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Lithograph on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Unknown (French, 18th century), Vue d’Optique of St. James Professor Emerita of History, Smith College (AC 2010.159) Professor Emerita of History, Smith College (AC 2010.166) Park in London, ca. 1780. Engraving with hand color. Given in Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Untitled memory of William and Mary Heath (AC 2011.05) (No.13) from “House with the Mezzanine” series, 1991. Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Untitled Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Untitled Lithograph on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye (No.22) from “House with the Mezzanine” series, 1991. (No.29) from “House with the Mezzanine” series, 1991. Professor Emerita of History, Smith College (AC 2010.151) Lithograph on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Lithograph on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Professor Emerita of History, Smith College (AC 2010.160) Professor Emerita of History, Smith College (AC 2010.167)

6 7 Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Untitled PURCHASES (alphabetical by artist) (No.?) from related “House with the Mezzanine” series with poem in center “Nothing Nothing/ Nothing and Nothing/ Bannai Kokan (Japanese, born 1900), Nihonbashi Bridge in Nothing/ Nothing/ Everything”, 1991. Lithograph on cream Snow, ca. 1930-1940 (posthumous printing). Woodblock print. paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Professor Emerita of Purchase with William W. Collins (Class of 1953) Print Fund (AC History, Smith College (AC 2010.175) 2010.132)

Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Ambreen Butt (Pakistani, born 1969, active in Unites States), Untitled (No.8) from “House with the Mezzanine” series, 1991. Untitled from ‘Daughters of the East’ series, 2008. Six plate Lithograph on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye color etching, aquatint, and spit-bite aquatint with chine collé. Professor Emerita of History, Smith College (AC 2010.176) Purchase, Trinkett Clark Memorial Student Acquisition Fund (AC 2011.14) Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528), The Virgin and Child with Untitled (No.9) from “House with the Mezzanine” series, 1991. the Monkey, 1498. Engraving. Museum Purchase (AC 2011.10) Lithograph on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Professor Emerita of History, Smith College (AC 2010.177) Michael Greenberg (Class of 2010) (American, 1988), Breathe Daniel Heyman (American, born 1963), They Took Me to a Dark With Me, 2010. Video on polycarbonate plastic disc. Purchase, Toby Ziegler (British, born 1972) Joel Peers (British, born 20th Room, 2008. Gouache and pencil on Japanese nishinouchi washi Wise Prize (AC 2010.178) century), Jesus Sandals, 2010. Cardboard, machine made fleece. paper. Purchase with Wise Fund for Fine Arts, William W. Collins Gift of Momart Ltd. (AC 2010.182.1,2) (Class of 1953) Print Fund, and Samuel B. Cummings (Class of Daniel Heyman (American, born 1963), Blackwater Accordion Alexandre Lunois (French, 1863-1916), La Corrida (Bullfighting), 1926) Art Fund (AC 2010.108) Book: Even the Stones Cried Blood, 2007-2008. Gouache, ink, Number 4 from “La Corrida”, 1897. Lithograph on laid Japanese watercolor and pencil on Chinese calligraphy paper with silk paper. Purchase with William K. Allison (Class of 1920) Memorial bound covers. Purchase with Wise Fund for Fine Arts (AC Fund (AC 2010.135) Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Untitled 2010.107) (No.30) from “House with the Mezzanine” series, 1991. Lithograph on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Daniel Heyman (American, born 1963), They Took Me to a Dark Gillian Pederson-Krag (American, born 1938), Landscape (with Professor Emerita of History, Smith College (AC 2010.168) Room, 2008. Gouache and pencil on Japanese nishinouchi washi statue), 2001. Etching and aquatint. Purchase, Trinkett Clark paper. Purchase with Wise Fund for Fine Arts, William W. Collins Memorial Student Acquisition Fund (AC 2011.16) Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Untitled (Class of 1953) Print Fund, and Samuel B. Cummings (Class of (No.1) from related “House with the Mezzanine” series with 1926) Art Fund (AC 2010.108) Gillian Pederson-Krag (American, born 1938), Landscape (with poem in center “Nothing Nothing/ Nothing and Nothing/ statue), 1996. Etching and aquatint. Purchase, Trinkett Clark Nothing/ Nothing/ Everything”, 1991. Lithograph on cream Jessica Joy (Class of 2011) (American, born 1988), Memorial Student Acquisition Fund (AC 2011.17) paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Professor Emerita of Archaeopteryx, 2010. Etching, rosin aquatint, sandpaper History, Smith College (AC 2010.169) aquatint, spit bite aquatint, and cut paper. Purchase, Wise Prize Gillian Pederson-Krag (American, born 1938), Statue of (AC 2011.21) Persephone, 2002. Etching and aquatint. Purchase, Trinkett Clark Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Untitled Memorial Student Acquisition Fund (AC 2011.18) (No.2) from related “House with the Mezzanine” series with Gertrude Käsebier (American, 1852-1934), Silhouette Portrait poem in center “At Night/ Nothing at All/ At Night Nothing at of a Boy in Profile, 1905. Gum print. Purchase with Richard Gillian Pederson-Krag (American, born 1938), Landscape All/ Black Drizzle/ Black Drizzle/ White Snow/ Probably/ White Templeton (Class of 1931) Photography Fund (AC 2010.138) (man walking in front of mountain), 1979. Etching and aquatint. Snow”, 1991. Lithograph on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, Purchase, Trinkett Clark Memorial Student Acquisition Fund L. Clark Seelye Professor Emerita of History, Smith College (AC Kikai Hiroh (Japanese, born 1945), A performer of butoh dance (AC 2011.19) 2010.170) from ‘Persona’ (Asakusa Portraits), 2001. Gelatin silver print. Purchase with Richard Templeton (Class of 1931) Photography BEQUESTS (none) Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Untitled Fund (AC 2011.20) (No.3) from related “House with the Mezzanine” series with TRANSFERS (alphabetical) poem in center “They’re All Like That/ No Use/ Everything Is Like/ Alexandre Lunois (French, 1863-1916), Le picadore aidant la th It Needs to Be/ Like That I/ Didn’t Live Here”, 1991. Lithograph lutte (The Picador Aiding the Fight), Number 3 from “La Corrida”, Unknown (early 20 century?) after Albrecht Dürer (German, on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Professor 1897. Lithograph on laid Japanese paper. Purchase with William 1471-1528), The Prodigal Son. Heliogravure printed in black ink. Emerita of History, Smith College (AC 2010.171) K. Allison (Class of 1920) Memorial Fund (AC 2010.134) Gift of Alfred and Magda Barr to the Smith College Museum of Art, transferred to the Mead Art Museum in 2010 (STUDY Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Untitled Alexandre Lunois (French, 1863-1916), La Corrida (Bullfighting), 2010.03) (No.4) from related “House with the Mezzanine” series with Number 4 from “La Corrida”, 1897. Lithograph on laid Japanese th poem in center “Life/ Is Beautiful/ So Simple/ Life/ Is Beautiful/ paper. Purchase with William K. Allison (Class of 1920) Memorial Unknown (early 20 century?) after Albrecht Dürer (German, Everything/ Is Not So Terrible”, 1991. Lithograph on cream Fund (AC 2010.135) 1471-1528), The Knight, Death and the Devil. Heliogravure paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Professor Emerita of printed in black ink. Gift of Alfred and Magda Barr to the Smith History, Smith College (AC 2010.172) Alexandre Lunois (French, 1863-1916), Un taureau bouleversant College Museum of Art, transferred to the Mead Art Museum in un cheval (A bull upsetting a horse), Number 6 from “La Corrida”, 2010 (STUDY 2010.04) Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Untitled 1897. Lithograph on laid Japanese paper. Purchase with William th (No.5) from “House with the Mezzanine” series, 1991. Lithograph K. Allison (Class of 1920) Memorial Fund (AC 2010.136) Unknown (early 20 century?) after Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Professor 1599-1641). Heliogravure printed in black ink. Gift of Alfred and Emerita of History, Smith College (AC 2010.173) Alexandre Lunois (French, 1863-1916), Une corrida a la Magda Barr to the Smith College Museum of Art, transferred to Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528), The Virgin and Child with campagne (A country bullfight), Number 8 from “La Corrida”, the Mead Art Museum in 2010 (STUDY 2010.05) the Monkey Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, born 1931, active in America), Untitled , 1498. Engraving. Museum Purchase (AC 2011.10) 1897. Lithograph on laid Japanese paper. Purchase with William (No.6) from “House with the Mezzanine” (Artist in dialogue with K. Allison (Class of 1920) Memorial Fund (AC 2010.137) DEACCESSIONS (none) Anton Chekhov), 1991. Lithograph on cream paper. Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Professor Emerita of History, Smith Gillian Pederson-Krag (American, born 1938), Landscape (with College (AC 2010.174) two statues), 1979. Etching and aquatint. Purchase, Trinkett Clark Memorial Student Acquisition Fund (AC 2011.15)

8 9 RESEARCH Antiquities: Andrew W. Mellon Coordinator of Asian Art: Director and Chief Curator Elizabeth College Programs Pamela Russell initiated research Barker continued to coordinate a three-year African Art: Andrew W. Mellon Post-Baccalaureate on a Greek silver perfume vessel, or amphoriskos, project to conserve, research, exhibit, and publish Curatorial Fellow Katrina Greene identified the bird which entered the Mead’s collection in 1958 as Amherst’s previously little-known collection of motifs depicted in a group of twelve Akan gold- a gift of Susan D. Bliss (AC 1958.125). The small historic Tibetan scroll paintings of Buddhist figures, weights (weights for measuring gold dust) from vessel, which dates to around 400 B.C.E., is or thangka. the Barry D. Maurer collection of African art (AC decorated with elegant, chased depictions of two 1999.201-12). Ms. Greene linked each of the small sea nymphs (Nereids), one riding on the back of a European Art: Andrew W. Mellon Post-Baccalaure- brass castings to a related proverb from the Ghana- dolphin and the other on a horse-fish composite ate Curatorial Fellow Maggie Dethloff researched ian society, and published her discoveries in the creature, or hippocamp. The nymphs are shown the Kress Foundation’s gift of fifteen Italian paint- Mead’s online collection database. carrying a helmet, spears, and a sword – gifts for ings to the Mead in the early 1960s, and published the Trojan War hero Achilles. The beautiful Amherst her findings in the gallery guide Treasures from amphoriskos, an important addition to surviving Nickels and Dimes. art from classical antiquity, is without close parallel and may be unique. In December 2010, Boston fine arts conservator Nina Vinogradskaya examined the vessel and determined it was constructed from

William Rimmer (American 1816-1879), Massacre of the seven separate pieces of silver. Innocents, ca. 1858. Oil on canvas. Gift of Herbert W. Plimpton: The Hollis W. Plimpton (Class of 1915) Memorial Collection (AC 1973.92)

Ghanaian, Akan people, Goldweight: two birds on a bench, ca. 1700-1900; late period. Brass. From the Collection of Barry D. Maurer (AC 1999.201.3)

American Art: Ms. Greene rediscovered the previ- ously unpublished commercial drawing product “liquid graphite,” and identified that ink-like metal- lic mixture as the medium used by Ernest Haskell to make three drawings in the Mead’s collection (AC 1996.176-178). Ms. Greene published her discov- ery in the exhibition catalogue How He Was to His Talents: The Work of Ernest Haskell (2011).

Curator of American Art Randall Griffey linked an Russian Art: Thomas P. Whitney, Class of 1937, antebellum American painting of a biblical subject, Curator of Russian Art Bettina Jungen oversaw the William Rimmer’s Massacre of the Innocents, ca. completion of the conservation assessment of the 1858 (AC 1973.92), to the spread of slavery and the Ernest Haskell (American 1876-1925), Woman with white bow, ABOVE: Greek, Amphoriskos, n.r. Silver. Gift of Miss Susan D. Russian art collection, and its limited treatment rise of the Republican Party in the United States. ca 1897-1898. Graphite and (Winsor & Newton) liquid graphite Bliss (AC 1958.125.a) (as needed) at the Williamstown Art Conservation medium on heavy off-white wove paper. Gift of Josephine Dr. Griffey’s research comprises the subject of a RIGHT: Yury Bobrov, Head of the Painting and Icon Conservation Haskell Aldridge in memory of Richard Aldridge (Class of 1952) Depart­ment at the Repin Art Institute in St. Petersburg, Center and at Amherst – the latter, by Yury Bobrov, (AC 1996.177) forthcoming article in the Smithsonian Institution’s performing a conservation treatment of the Russian icon Head of the Painting and Icon Conservation Depart- collection. Photo by Angelique Harrell American Art journal. ment at the Repin Art Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia, during a three-week residency at the Mead.

10 11 LOANS Unknown (Peruvian, Coastal), Tapestry fragment with geometric Martin Lewis (American, 1881-1962), Night in New York, 1932, animal designs, ca. 600-1000 CE, wool, Gift of George D. Pratt etching, Gift of Edward C. Crossett (Class of 1905) (1951.1623), (Class of 1893), (T.1933.11), to Collecting the Past: Art and to Cocktail Culture, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of LENDERS TO THE MEAD Artifacts of the Ancient Americas, Mount Holyoke College, South Design, Providence, Rhode Island (4/15/2011-7/31/2011) American Antiquarian Society Hadley, Massachusetts (2/11/2011-6/12/2011) Amherst College, Frost Library, Archives and Special Collections Isamu Noguchi (American, 1904-1988), Coffee Table, ca. 1945- Amherst Museum of Natural History 1950, ash wood and glass, Bequest of Samuel B. Cummings Anonymous (Class of 1926) (1999.97.a,b) to Cocktail Culture, Museum of The Children of Josephine Haskell Aldridge Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island Deerfield Academy, Deerfield Academy Archives, (4/15/2011-7/31/2011) Frank L. and Helen Childs Boyden Library Historic Deerfield Memorial Libraries, Henry N. Flynt Library Solomon Telingater (Russian, 1903-1969), Jazz, 1928, collage, Historic Deerfield, Memorial Hall Museum Gift of Thomas P. Whitney (Class of 1937) (2001.28) loaned to Historic Deerfield, Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Cocktail Culture, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Association Library Providence, Rhode Island (4/15/2011-7/31/2011) Jones Library Special Collections Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections grants Mount Holyoke College Art Museums and Joseph Allen Skinner Museum Smith College Archives GRANTS RECEIVED Smith College Museum of Art In April 2011, the Mead received a grant of $16,000 from OBJECTS LENT BY THE MEAD the Henry Luce Foundation to support the cleaning and (chronological by exhibition) conservation of the two important picture frames surrounding The Past and The Present (1838) by Thomas Cole, the so-called Attributed to the Medea Group (Greek, late Archaic period), “Father of the Hudson River School.” The paintings, which Black Figure Amphora, 550-525 BCE, clay, black-figure glaze on depict the rise and fall of a medieval society, stand with Cole’s red ground, Museum Purchase (1950.59), to Wine and Spirit: most significant compositions of the late 1830s, when his Rituals, Remedies, and Revelry, Mount Holyoke College Museum artistic star reached its peak. Works of art in their own right, of Art, South Hadley, Massachusetts (9/2/2010-12/12/2010) Solomon Telingater (Russian, 1903-1969), Jazz, 1928. Collage. the frames exemplify Cole’s preferences for his major paintings. Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, New Gift of Thomas P. Whitney (Class of 1937) (AC 2001.28) loaned Conservation of the frames will be completed during the York (1/29/2011-4/10/2011) to Cocktail Culture, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of summer of 2011 by Gill and Lagodich Fine Period Frames and Design, Providence, Rhode Island (4/15/2011–7/31/2011) Gilding Restoration of New York. Unknown (French 17th century), Herakles Epitrapezius, 17th Unknown (Peruvian, Moche culture), Stirrup spout vessel century, gilt bronze, Museum Purchase (1958.50), to Wine and Jerome Myers (American, 1867-1940), Evening, 1919, oil on In June 2011, the Mead received a grant of $35,473 from the with phallus, ca. 500-700 CE. Buff ceramic with pigments. Spirit: Rituals, Remedies, and Revelry, Mount Holyoke College canvas, Gift of George D. Pratt (Class of 1893) (P.1932.17), to E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation to support the Anonymous Gift (1977.13) loaned to Collecting the Past: Art Museum of Art, South Hadley, Massachusetts (9/2/2010- Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont costs of producing a catalogue of the museum’s important and Artifacts of the Ancient Americas, Mount Holyoke College, 12/12/2010) Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, (12/16/2010-5/5/2011) collection of primarily 18th-century Tibetan thangka, scroll Rochester, New York (1/29/2011-4/10/2011) South Hadley, Massachusetts (2/11/2011-6/12/2011) paintings of Buddhist figures. Rockwell Kent (American, 1882-1971), Self Portrait, 1910, pencil Unknown (Peruvian, North Coast), Painted cloth, after 1000 CE, Paul Manship (American, 1885-1966), Medal depicting Dionysus: In July 2011, the Mead received a Museums for America on paper, Gift of Charles H. Morgan (1976.98), to The Rockwell cotton and pigments, Gift of Mrs. George D. Pratt (T.1940.1), to 2nd Issue of the Society of Medalists, 1930, bronze, Bequest of Program Grant of $148,256 from The Institute of Museum and Kent Project, Denison Museum, Denison University, Granville, Collecting the Past: Art and Artifacts of the Ancient Americas, Albert S. Bard (Class of 1888) (1964.34), to Wine and Spirit: Library Services (IMLS) to digitize more than 10,000 objects Ohio (1/22/2011-4/18/2011) Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts Rituals, Remedies, and Revelry, Mount Holyoke College Museum in its collection, including prints, drawings, photographs, (2/11/2011-6/12/2011) of Art, South Hadley, Massachusetts (9/2/2010-12/12/2010) John La Farge (American, 1835-1910), The Bathers, 1891, sculpture, furniture, ceramics, and silver. The IMLS grant Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, New will allow the Mead to meet the first goal articulated in the watercolor and graphite, Museum Purchase (1947.33), to Unknown (Peruvian, Lambayeque or Sicán culture), Kero, ca. York (1/29/2011-4/10/2011) museum’s strategic plan, to digitize its entire 16,000-object art John La Farge’s Second Paradise: Voyages in the South Seas 1100-1500 CE, hammered gold, Museum Purchase (1964.145), collection, and in this way, to aid in the fulfillment of its mission, 1890-91, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut to Collecting the Past: Art and Artifacts of the Ancient Americas, Larry Fink (American, born 1941), Glass Over Face – France – which seeks to make the collection available to the students, (10/19/2010-1/2/2011) Addison Gallery of American Art, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts 1988 from Social Context portfolio, 1988, gelatin silver print, faculty, staff and alumni of Amherst College, and to visitors from Andover, Massachusetts (1/22/2011-3/27/2011) (2/11/2011-6/12/2011) Gift of Stanley and Diane Person (1992.44.12), to Wine and around the world. Spirit: Rituals, Remedies, and Revelry, Mount Holyoke College Unknown (Peruvian, Paracas culture), Clothing fragment with Unknown (Peruvian, Chancay culture), Sewing Basket, ca. Museum of Art, South Hadley, Massachusetts (9/2/2010- AWARDS GIVEN feline motif, ca. 100 BCE, cotton with wool embroidery, Gift 1100-1500, rushes and various threads, Gift of Mrs. George 12/12/2010) Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, of George D. Pratt (Class of 1893) (T.1933.7), to Collecting the D. Pratt (M.1940.3), to Collecting the Past: Art and Artifacts of Rochester, New York (1/29/2011-4/10/2011) The 2011 Wise Fine Arts Award was presented to Jessica Past: Art and Artifacts of the Ancient Americas, Mount Holyoke the Ancient Americas, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Joy, Class of 2011, in the amount of $1,500 for her print College, South Hadley, Massachusetts (2/11/2011-6/12/2011) Massachusetts (2/11/2011-6/12/2011) Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926), Matinée sur la Siene, Archaeopteryx. As a requirement of the prize, the work entered Giverny (Morning on the Siene, Giverny), 1897, oil on canvas, the special Wise Prize collection overseen by the Mead. The Unknown (Peruvian, Nasca culture), Vessel with Unknown (Peruvian, Chimú-Inka culture), Stirrup-spouted vessel Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss (1966.48), to Claude Monet, Mead/Fine Arts Summer Fellowship in the Practice of Art was anthropomorphic being, ca. 325-440 CE, ceramic with with coital man and woman, ca. 1470-1530 CE, buff ceramic, Grand Palais (Galeries nationales) Paris (9/20/2010-1/24/2011) awarded to Crystal Yan, Class of 2014, to work as an intern with polychrome pigments, Gift of Mrs. George D. Pratt (C.1940.2), Anonymous Gift (1977.12), to Collecting the Past: Art and International Bridges to Justice (IBJ) through the organization’s to Collecting the Past: Art and Artifacts of the Ancient Americas, Artifacts of the Ancient Americas, Mount Holyoke College, South John La Farge (American, 1835-1910), The Bathers, 1891, documentary photojournalism intern program in Rwanda or Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts Hadley, Massachusetts (2/11/2011-6/12/2011) watercolor and graphite, Museum Purchase (1947.33), to (2/11/2011-6/12/2011) India. Three Mead/Fine Arts Summer Fellowships in the History John La Farge’s Second Paradise: Voyages in the South Seas of Art were awarded. Thea Goldring, Class of 2014, will work Unknown (Mexican, Aztec culture), Standing male figure, ca. 1890-91, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut as a conservation intern at the Morgan Library and Museum in Unknown (Peruvian, Moche culture), Stirrup spout vessel 1500 CE, volcanic stone, Gift of the children of Dwight W. (10/19/2010-1/2/2011) Addison Gallery of American Art, New York, New York. Sylvia Hickman, Class of 2014, will work as with phallus, ca. 500-700 CE, buff ceramic with pigments, Morrow (Class of 1895) and Elizabeth C. Morrow (1955.663), to Andover, Massachusetts (1/22/2011-3/27/2011) museum furniture exhibition assistant at Colonial Williamsburg Anonymous Gift (1977.13), to Collecting the Past: Art and Collecting the Past: Art and Artifacts of the Ancient Americas, in Williamsburg, Virginia. Todd Lavine, Class of 2012, will work Artifacts of the Ancient Americas, Mount Holyoke College, South Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts as a photography intern at Aim High in San Francisco, California. Hadley, Massachusetts (2/11/2011-6/12/2011) (2/11/2011-6/12/2011)

12 13 Jessica Joy (Class of 2011) (American, born 1988), Archaeopteryx, 2010. Etching, rosin aquatint, sandpaper aquatint, spit bite aquatint, and cut paper. Purchase, Wise Prize (AC 2011.21)

DONATIONS RECEIVED

Generous support from individuals and academic departments allowed the Mead to complete its successful past year. The Amherst Association of Students continued its support for the Docent-organized Evenings at the Mead series. The Friends of the Mead Art Museum underwrote the Mead’s Haunted Pioneer Participants in the Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Seminar on Tibetan thangka in the museum’s collection led by Katherine Anne Paul, Curator Valley Community Celebration. H. Nichols B. Clark renewed his of the Arts of Asia, The Newark Museum, making a ritual Buddhist gesture. Photo by Any Tew ’07 gift to the Trinkett Clark Memorial Student Acquisition Fund, thereby ensuring the continuation of the docents’ remarkable Tibetan, Guru Nyima Ozer, Sixth Manifestation of Guru art collecting project. Faye DeWitt offered generous support Architecture of Europe from 1400 to 1800 held Padmasambhava, 18th century. Colors on cloth, cloth for the ongoing research into and care for the Thomas P. CURRICULAR COLLABORATIONS mountings, wooden dowels. Gift of Mrs. George L. Hamilton Whitney, Class of 1937, Collection of Russian Art. The Amherst weekly sessions at the museum. Professor Swee- (AC 1952.31) College Department of Religion and the Louis and Nettie Horch Foundation provided crucial support for the conservation of the In 2010–11, under the leadership of Dr. Pamela J. ney’s students viewed several pieces of eighteenth- Tibetan thangka collection. A multi-year pledge from Younghee Russell, Andrew W. Mellon Coordinator of College century furniture and decorative arts as part of DONATIONS MADE Kim-Wait, Class of 1982, will allow the museum to strengthen its community programs. The Terra Foundation for American Programs, curricular engagement with Amherst’s their study of the material culture of American In the fall 2010 semester, the Mead co-sponsored several Art, acting on behalf of Charles Eldridge, Class of 1966, homes. Students in Professor Morse’s From Edo to events: Frederike Plafki’s SOLO and TRIO dance performances, made a meaningful gift in support of research of the Mead’s art collection continued to deepen. Fifty-two sepa- with the European Studies Program and the Departments of collection of American art. Anonymous donations, deposited rate courses held at least one class session at the Tokyo: Japanese Art from 1600 to the Present stud- German, Music, and Theater and Dance; the Renaissance Art in the museum’s lobby piggy bank by many generous visitors, History Graduate Students Conference, with the Massachusetts enhanced numerous student activities and events. Mead, and eleven courses met at the museum on ied traditional ukiyo-e woodblock prints and their Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies; the Copeland Fellows Salon, with the Amherst College Copeland Colloquium; a multiple occasions. The academic year saw eighty- contemporary variants. Professor Harris’s advanced poetry slam featuring Jared Paul and Sole, organized by Maxwell six individual class visits, an increase of almost seminars, Contemporary Art Since 1945 and Art Suechting, Class of 2011, with Amherst DIY; and a lecture and reception with Francesca Zambello, Artistic and General Direc- 23 per cent over the previous year. The museum and Its Display in the Twentieth Century, used the tor of the Glimmerglass Festival, with the Department of Music welcomed an average of three classes to the Study museum collections on multiple visits. and the Center for Community Engagement. The Mead co-host- ed, with the Beneski Museum of Natural History and the Emily Room each week, including eleven classes led by Dickinson Museum, a reception for the New England Museum Association (NEMA) annual conference. The Mead presented professors who had not previously used the facility FIRST YEAR SEMINARS What’s Cooking at the Mead, a series of gallery talks pairing for teaching. The text below features a selection of Eleven of the small, writing intensive seminars curators with regional chefs, in conjunction with Museums10’s Table for Ten: The Art, History and Science of Food. the year’s curricular collaborations. A complete list required of all first-year Amherst College students of courses that met at the Mead in 2010-11 follows. In the Spring 2011 semester, the museum co-sponsored other met at the Mead for intensive study sessions, events: a poetry performance featuring B. Dolan and Jamie almost twice the number that visited during the DeWolfe, organized by Maxwell Suechting, Class of 2011, with Amherst DIY; a pre-lecture reception with Robert O’Meally, with ART HISTORY AND STUDIO ART COURSES previous academic year. Among the First Year the Departments of Music, English, and Art and the History of Seminars that visited the Study Room in 2010–11 Art; a lecture by Elizabeth Prettejohn, with the Departments of Students of art benefitted from close examination Classics and Art and the History of Art; and a Reunion Weekend Andrew W. Mellon Coordinator of College Programs Pamela of original objects in a variety of media. Drawing were Professor Townsend’s Friendship, in which reception marking a major gift from Dr. Sanford Sternlieb, Class Russell addressing a group of new and returning faculty in of 1946, with the Classes of 1946 and 1966. The Fairchild Gallery. Photo by Jessica Mestre ’10 and printmaking classes visited in both semesters. students discussed the personal significance of Two sections of Professor Courtright’s Art and miniature portraits as well as depictions of friends

14 15 by Winslow Homer and George Bellows, and on two occasions to study objects related to the Professor Umphrey’s Privacy, in which students Noh and Kabuki Theater. Students in Professor examined private devotional objects and images of Griffiths’s Greek Civilization also came twice to hear nude figures. presentations by Dr. Russell on Greek art in relation to ancient Greek society. Creative writing students HISTORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCE COURSES in novelist Amity Gaige’s Unreliabilities explored Several classes viewed works of art that provided honesty and subjective expression in the work of a visual context for historical periods or social five photographers. Advanced Spanish language topics. Working in groups, students in Professor students of Professor Maillo expanded their work- Shawcross’s Medieval Europe: From Charlemagne ing vocabularies by discussing in Spanish a selec- to Columbus compared pairs of objects to discover tion of prints from Goya’s Caprichos. how artifacts can reveal aspects of economy and religion. Students in Professor Redding’s Colonial FALL 2010 and Post-Colonial Africa considered issues of repre- AMHERST COLLEGE CLASSES HELD AT THE MEAD sentation and artistic intention in relation to twelve Art and the History of Art 4: Drawing I, Professor Culhane photographs. Students in Professor Engelhardt’s Art and the History of Art 13: Printmaking I, Professor Garand Anthropology of Music: Listening, Hearing, Audition Student performance of Songs at Sunset: Medieval Chant at the Mead. Photo by Jessica Mestre ’10 examined nine images of musicians and their audi- Art and the History of Art 85: Witches, Vampires, and Other Monsters, Professor Staller German 63: Traumatic Events, Professor Gilpin Art and the History of Art 35/European Studies 38: Art and ences as indicators of musical experience. Architecture of Europe from 1400 to 1800, Professor Courtright Asian Languages and Civilizations 14/Religion 23: History 4: Early Modern Europe, Professor Hunt Introduction to Buddhist Traditions, Professor Heim Art and the History of Art 62/Asian Languages and Civilizations History 13: Medieval Europe: From Charlemagne to Columbus, 38: From Edo to Tokyo: Japanese Art from 1600 to the Present, Asian Languages and Civilizations 20: Reinventing Tokyo, Professor Shawcross Professor Morse Professors Maxey and Morse Music 21: Music and Culture I, Professor Moricz Art and the History of Art 92: “Art and Its Display” in the Asian Languages and Civilizations 21: Traditional Japanese Twentieth Century, Professor Harris Literature, Professor Van Compernolle Russian 1: First-Year Russian I, Professor Dengub Art and the History of Art 92: Survey of Contemporary Art Since English 1: American Wilderness, Professor Hayashi OTHER CLASSES HELD AT THE MEAD 1945, Professor Harris

English 1: Visuality and Literature, Professor Cayer University of Massachusetts Amherst, History 315: Tsarist Classics 23/Women’s and Gender Studies 23: Greek Civilization, Russia, Professor Glebov Professor Griffiths English 21: Writing Poetry I, Professor Hall Hampshire College, Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies 121T: Greek 1: Introduction to the Greek Language, Professor Sinos First Year Seminar 8: Figures of Ill Repute, Professors Katsaros The Body in Modern and Contemporary Art, Professor Levine and Van Compernolle English 17: Unreliabilities, Professor Gaige Smith College, Religion 231: The Making of Christianity, First Year Seminar 9: Slavery and the American Imagination, Professor Shevzov History 22/Black Studies 47: Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa, Professor Moss Professor Redding Smith College, Religion 238: Mary: Image and Cults, First Year Seminar 11: Eros and Insight, Professor Shevzov History 54: Environmental History of Latin America, Professors Upton and Zajonc Professor Lopez

First Year Seminar 12: Friendship, Professor Townsend SPRING 2011 Music 49: Anthropology of Music: Listening, Hearing, Audition, Professor Engelhardt First Year Seminar 18: Arts of Spain, Professor Staller AMHERST COLLEGE CLASSES HELD AT THE MEAD Political Science 98: Gender and Alpinism, Professor Picq American Studies 24: The Neo-Western, Professor Hayashi First Year Seminar 19: Growing Up in America, Professor Aries Religion 26/ Asian Languages and Civilizations 69: American Studies 68/English 95: Research Methods in American First Year Seminar 21: Giving, Professor Heim Theravada Buddhism, Professor Heim Student in Professor Moss’s First Year Seminar Slavery and Culture, Professor Hayashi the American Imagination in the William Green Study Room. First Year Seminar 22: Genocide, Professors Epstein and Redding Russian 18: Russian Lives, Professor Ciepiela Photo by Jessica Mestre ’10 Art and the History of Art 13: Printmaking I, Professor Garand First Year Seminar 23: Happiness, Professor Barbezat Russian 20/History 6: Introduction to Peoples and Cultures of Art and the History of Art 27: Printmaking II, Professor Garand LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE COURSES Eurasia, Professor Glebov First Year Seminar 25: Privacy, Professor Umphrey Art and the History of Art 33/History 37: Material Culture: Spanish 5: Advanced Spanish, Professor Maillo Students in Professor Van Compernolle’s Tradi- American Homes, Professor Sweeney First Year Seminar 28: Reading Nature, tional Japanese Literature visited the museum Professors Courtright and Lopez

16 17 OTHER CLASSES HELD AT THE MEAD nouncements, in his Research Methods in American related cataloguing data, before leading a two-day

University of Massachusetts Amherst, Russian 251: Culture, which focused both on the history of Am- seminar for selected Five College faculty. During Modern Russian Culture, Professor Dienes herst College and Niagara Falls’ early development the seminar, the expert shares insights into original

Hampshire College, Interdisciplinary Arts 284-1: as a tourist destination. objects from the Mead’s collection, and explores Special Projects in Drawing: Division II, Professor Brayton with the participants effective pedagogical strate- Mount Holyoke College, Russian 202: Intermediate Russian, gies for presenting such artworks (or artifacts) to Professor Scotto college students.

January 20–21, 2011

Teaching with Photographs in the Collection of the Mead Art Museum: Art, Science, and History

VISITING SCHOLAR: Keith Davis, Senior Curator of Photography, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

PARTICIPANTS: Sandra Burkett, Amherst Col- lege, Department of Chemistry; Christopher Dole,

Docent Perry De La Vega ’13 leading an Exposing the Mead Amherst College, Department of Anthropology; series discussion of photographs from the collection. Photo by Catherine Epstein, Amherst College, Department Jessica Mestre ’10 of History; Deborah Gewertz, Amherst College, ABOVE: Docent Thea Goldring ’14 at an Exposing the Mead sories for the fourth Sunday in Advent. The project Department of Anthropology; Heidi Gilpin, Amherst series event. Photo by Rose Lenehan ’11 culminated in the students’ public performance College, Department of German and European Docent Alice Wang ‘13 leading an Exposing the Mead series BELOW: Andrew W. Mellon Post-Baccalaureate Curatorial discussion of photographs from the collection. Photo by Curatorial Fellow Katrina Greene demonstrating the drawing of the liturgical works in the museum’s Rotherwas Studies; Laure Katsaros, Amherst College, Depart- Jessica Mestre ’10 methods of Ernest Haskell during an interterm course. Photo by Rose Lenehan ’11 Room on December 1, 2010. The performance was ment of French; Ronald Lembo, Amherst College, broadcast on WFCR, New England Public Radio, and Department of Sociology and Anthropology; Victo- COURSE PROJECTS published on the Mead’s website. ria Maillo, Amherst College, Department of Span- Partnership with the American Antiquarian ish; Edward Melillo, Amherst College, Department Society: Thanks to the kind cooperation of Lauren Interterm Class: In January 2011, Katrina Greene, of History & Environmental Studies; Saaid Men- Hewes, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Graphic Arts, Andrew W. Mellon Post-Baccalaureate Curato- doza, Amherst College, Department of Psychology; and Georgia Barnhill, Director of the Center for His- rial Fellow, taught an intensive full-day, not-for- Samuel Morse, Amherst College, Department of Art toric American Visual Culture, both of the American credit workshop, “The Drawing Methods of Ernest and the History of Art; Asian Languages and Civi- Antiquarian Society (AAS) in Worcester, Massa- Haskell,” in which eleven students learned met- lizations; Manuela Picq, Amherst College, Depart- chusetts, the Mead collaborated with this historic alpoint and graphite wash techniques inspired by ment of Political Science; Sean Redding, Amherst institution to borrow twenty-one original docu- original objects from Amherst’s sizeable collection College, Department of History. Auditors: Claudia F. ments for use by students in two classes. In the of artworks by the self-taught American artist. Medieval Musical Manuscripts: Two fourteenth- Brühwiler, Amherst College, Department of Political fall, students in Professor Moss’s Slavery and the century, north Italian illuminated manuscript pages Science; Lindsay Harris, Amherst College, Depart- American Imagination carried out original research FACULTY ENGAGEMENT with musical notation formed the subject of inten- ment of Art and the History of Art; Art History; Lisa on twelve original documents, including cartoons, sive study by students in Professor Moricz’s Music Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Seminars: Designed to Stoffer, Amherst College, Director of Foundation prints, and broadsides. One student commented and Culture I. Working in small groups, the students promote faculty use of some particular segment of and Corporate Relations. that close examination required him to “think transcribed the Latin texts, searched computer da- the Mead’s collection in teaching, while enhancing outside the box” and that now he could bring that SESSION TOPICS: A Revolution in Seeing: The Da- tabases to identify the chants, and determined the curatorial understanding of that collection area, approach to other projects, concluding this type of guerreotype in America; Looking at Photographs: A ritual context for each page. They discovered that each semi-annual Mellon Faculty Seminar brings research is “the real deal.” In the spring, Professor Technical History; The Chosen Few: What makes a one page (AC 1952.9) contains antiphons for Lauds a leading expert to the museum for several days. Hayashi incorporated nine AAS items, including a Photographic Masterpiece; Photographic Style: Cul- on the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel (Septem- The visiting expert first studies the Mead’s hold- college yearbook, an almanac, and exhibition an- tural and Individual Visions; A History of Was Pho- ber 29) and the other (AC 1961.16) contains respon- ings, and works with curatorial staff to refine the

18 19 tography; Photographs as Documents: Nineteenth- Textiles Services; Donald J. La Rocca, Curator of Century Topographics; Photographs as Documents: Arms and Armor, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Representing the “Other”; Integrating the Mead’s Samuel Morse, Amherst College, Department of Art Photography Collection into Course Curricula and the History of Art.

August 30–31, 2011 EVENTS FOR FACULTY AND STUDENTS Teaching with Thangka at the Mead Art Museum: Materials, Methods, and Meanings In September 2010, museum staff introduced new VISITING SCHOLAR: Katherine Paul, Curator of Amherst College faculty members to the Mead’s the Arts of Asia, the Newark Museum teaching resources during an afternoon reception highlighted by an animated group discussion of Thomas Coles’s The Past and The Present (1838) (AC 1950.189 and AC 1950.190).

In September 2010, the Mead offered two mini- courses during Orientation Week that provided new Amherst College students with information about opportunities for learning, participating, working, and relaxing at the museum.

Throughout the year, the museum collaborated Student Docents 2010-2011: Back Row: Jake Walters ’14, Tim Clark ’12, Keith Wine ’12, Kendra Stern ’11, Samuel Rowlett, Erikka James ’11, Elizabeth Barker, Perry De La Vega ’13, Dylan Vasey ’14, Diana Madden ’13, Lindsay Oxx ’14. Upper Middle Row: Angela Pratt ’11, Hampshire College Professor of Architectural and Art History with student groups on special events. On five Sam Schnell ’11, Katrina Manis ’11, Cassandra Farnow ’13, Molly Scott ’13, Katherine Abbey ’11, Alice Wang ’13, Danielle Amodeo ’13, Karen Koehler at the Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Seminar on Erin Downey ’11. Lower Middle Row: Alejandro Chaviano ’12, Miranda Marraccini ’12, Libby Blanco ’13, Emily Pawlowski ’12, Alice Li ’13, Tibetan thangka in the museum’s collection Tuesday evenings in February, March and April, Madeleine Chan ’14. Front Row: Thea Goldring ’14, Angie Epifano ’14, Nancy Tang ’14, Leslie Quiroz ’13, Andre Wang ’14, Julian Wang 2011, four students – Alice Wang, Class of 2013, ’13. Not Pictured: David Baird ’14, Jill Bierly, M.A./Ph.D. Candidate at UMass, Asgeir Nielsen ’14, Brooke Bennett ’11, Rebecca Kelley PARTICIPANTS: Lisa Battaglia, Mount Holyoke Thea Goldring, Class of 2014, Perry De La Vega, ’12, Annika Lawrence ’11, Sophia Meyerson ’13, Vanessa Prill ’13, Suzi Stein ’14, Caroline Stern ’11, Daneen Wilkerson ’13 at Hampshire College, Helen Zhu ’14. College, Department of Religion; Sue Darlington, Class of 2013, and Alex Strecker, Class of 2013 Hampshire College, Department of Anthropology – held an informal discussion series, Exposing During weekly meetings, the docents’ polished their featuring performances by the Zumbyes, the DQ, and Asian Studies; Ranjanaa Devi, University of the Mead, about photographs in the Mead’s public speaking skills by giving on-the-spot “lighting Route 9, the Sabrinas, the Madrigal Singers, and Massachusetts Amherst, Asian Arts and Culture, collection. A weekly blog accompanied the series: tours,” conducted research on the collection for the Bluestockings. Highlights of the 2010-11 docent Five College Dance Program; Jay Garfield, Smith http://exposemeadphotos.blogspot.com/ In a growing docent tour database, hosted curators year included the Haunted Museum, a Halloween- College, Department of Philosophy; Heidi Gilpin, April 2011, the Mead’s docents partnered with and visiting artists, and honed the close-looking themed community event replete with pumpkin Amherst College, Department of European Stud- the International Student Association to host an skills with drawing and description exercises in the carving and spooky museum tours; field trips to ies and German; Maria Heim, Amherst College, evening highlighting Asian art, held in the galleries galleries. Acting as the Mead’s “art ambassadors,” MassMoCA, the Francine and Sterling Clark Art Department of Religion; Jamie Hubbard, Smith and in the Study Room. the docents organized a variety of public events and Institute, the Williams College Museum of Art, College, Department of Religion; Karen Koehler, educational programs. In addition to leading tours and the Amherst Biennial; the first Stearns Steeple Hampshire College, Department of Architectural VOLUNTEER STUDENT DOCENTS of the museum for community and school groups, Student Art Installation Competition, awarded to and Art History; Marylin Rhie, Smith College, the docents forged new collaborations with two Christopher Cole, Hampshire College Class of 2011, Department of Art and East Asian Studies; Martha The 2010-11 academic year proved to be regional not-for-profit organizations: the Center for for “Untitled (bathtub)”; and the annual Trinkett Saxton, Amherst College, Department of History characteristically active for the museum’s volunteer New Americans, a community-based education and Clark Memorial Student Acquisition Project. Thanks and Women’s and Gender Studies; Reiko Sono, Uni- student docents, a diverse and energetic group of resource center for immigrants and refugees, and to generous support from H. Nichols B. Clark and versity of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of forty-two Amherst and Five College students. Led Soldier On, an organization dedicated to helping Jeannot Barr, the last-named project brought six Asian Languages and Literatures; Paola Zamperini, by Coordinator of Community Programs Samuel homeless veterans. contemporary prints, by Ambreen Butt and Gillian Amherst College, Department of Asian Civilizations Rowlett, the docents learned the craft of leading Art and a cappella pairings continued with the Pederson-Krag, into the collection of Mead. and Language. Auditors: Camille Breeze, Museum tours and the ins-and-outs of a college art museum. docent’s popular Evenings at the Mead series,

20 21 EXHIBITIONS

Permanent Collection Reinstallation Opened incrementally beginning July 3, 2010 This major reinstallation, undertaken during the summer of 2010, refurbished, refreshed and reorganized the museum’s displays. As a result, regularly changing highlights of the museum’s collection are presented in rough chronological order from 1400 to the present, with antiquities incorporated throughout, independent displays of portraits and Japanese prints, and a gallery of artifacts from around the world.

Goya: Prints of Darkness September 10 – December 19, 2012 Selected by Professor Natasha Staller, the twenty-two aquatints presented in this installation came from Los Caprichos, an eighty-print series satirizing human follies first published in 1799 by the Spanish Romantic painter and printmaker Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes. Goya’s compelling scenes of grotesque, vacuous, and monstrous figures rapidly proved controversial – and successful on an international scale. The Mead’s set, donated by Edward C. Crossett (Class of 1905), dates to 1803.

Cover of the exhibtion catalogue Orra White Hitchcock (1796-1863): An Amherst Woman of Art and Science by Robert L. Herbert and Daria D’Arienzo (ISBN: 0-978091-43-37232)

Treasures from Nickels and Dimes: Gifts of Italian Painting from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation Opened September 15, 2010 This installation featured four Italian Renaissance paintings by Sano di Pietro, Guidoccio Cozzarelli, Mariotto di Nardo, and Girolamo da Santacroce, donated to Amherst by the Kress Foundation in 1961.

Beyond Ideology: Russian Art of the 1960’s and 1970’s from the Collection of Thomas P. Whitney, Class of 1937 September 28–December 19, 2010 In honor of the 70th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Brodsky, this exhibition featured drawings, prints, and paintings by twelve contemporaries of Brodsky including Erik Bulatov, Ernst Neizvestnyi, and Mikhail Shemiakin, whose art was dismissed by state institutions.

Orra White Hitchcock (1797–1863): An Amherst Woman of Art and Science January 28–May 29, 2011 Co-curated by Robert Herbert and Daria D’Arienzo, this exhibition brought to light striking watercolors of native plants, picturesque lithographs of the Connecticut and Deerfield rivers, symbolic compositions and drawings of prehistoric fossils as well as large, colorful geological designs by one of the Connecticut River Valley’s earliest female artists.

ABOVE: Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish 1746-1828), How He Was to His Talents: The Work of Ernest Haskell El sueño de la razon produce monstrous, 1803. Etching. Gift of March 24–August 7, 2011 Edward C. Crossett (Class of 1905) (AC 1951.1115.x.43); featured Drawn entirely from the Mead’s collection, this exhibition in Goya: Prints of Darkness. featured thirty-five drawings and prints by self-taught American LEFT TOP: Docent Alice Wang ‘13 leading an Evenings at the artist Ernest Haskell and his colleagues Arthur B. Davies, Childe Mead series discussion of artwork from the collection. Photo Hassam, Bertha Jaques, Charles Prendergast, Sir Frank Short, by Rose Lenehan ’11 and James McNeill Whistler. LEFT BOTTOM: The Bluestockings performing at an Evenings at the Mead event. Photo by Rose Lenehan ’11

23 Enduring Impressions: Prints from the Dr. Sanford B. Sternlieb PROGRAMS Gallery Talk and Esther Sternlieb Collection of American Art Not Busted but Medallioned: Robert Louis Stevenson July 2–August 16, 2011 and the St. Gaudens Medallion, 1887: This exhibition marked a recent gift of American prints from the All programs took place at the Mead Art Museum unless Timothy Clark, Class of 2012, and Robert-Louis Abrahamson, collection of Dr. Sanford Sternlieb (Class of 1946) and Esther otherwise noted. Class of 1971 Sternlieb (1925–2003). The installation featured forty etchings Thursday, September 23, 2010, 4:30 p.m. by Edward Hopper, Jack Levine, John Marin, and John Sloan. What’s Cooking at the Mead Event Contemporary Tastes: Local Food, Global Art: Maggie Dethloff, PUBLICATIONS Andrew Mellon Post-Baccalaureate Curatorial Fellow, and Adrian d’Errico, Chef at Tabellas Sunday, September 26, 2010, 4:00 p.m. In December 2010, the Mead published the exhibition catalogue Orra White Hitchcock (1797–1863): An Amherst Woman of Art and Science, distributed by the University Press of New England, Reception and featuring essays by Robert L. Herbert, Professor emeritus of Museum Reinstallation Celebration and Collection Guide Humanities at Mount Holyoke College, Daria D’Arienzo, Head of Project Launch Amherst’s Archives and Special Collections from 1984 to 2007, Thursday, September 30, 2010, 4:30 p.m. Elizabeth Farnsworth, Senior Research Ecologist with the New England Wild Flower Society, and Tekla Harms, Professor of Dance Performance Geology at Amherst College. SOLO and TRIO: Friederike Plafki, choreographer and dancer, Catherine Jodoin and Maria Francesca Scaroni, dancers, and In March 2011, the Mead published the exhibition catalogue Claude Chassevent, sound installation designer How He Was to His Talents: The Work of Ernest Haskell by Tuesday, October, 5, 2010, 4:00 and 7:00 p.m. Katrina Greene, Andrew W. Mellon Post-Baccalaureate Cover of the exhibtion catalogue How He Was to His Talents: Curatorial Fellow. Like Orra White Hitchcock, Ernest Haskell was The Work of Ernest Haskell by Katrina E. Greene (ISBN: 978-0- What’s Cooking at the Mead Event designed by Su Auerbach, Amherst College Design Director for 914337-30-0) Not Only Vodka: Russia’s Artistic and Culinary Spirit: Bettina Print and Web Communications. Jungen, Thomas P. Whitney, Class of 1937, Curator of Russian Art In January 2011, the Mead launched an audio tour for the Sunday, October 10, 2010, 4:00 p.m. exhibitionOrra White Hitchcock (1976–1863): An Amherst PODCASTS Woman of Art and Science , featuring commentary by Robert Gallery Talk Herbert, Daria D’Arienzo, Elizabeth Farnsworth, and Tekla Harms. Beyond Ideology: Russian Art of the 1960s and 1970s from the In October 2010, the Mead posted a video podcast of a public Collection of Thomas P. Whitney, Class of 1937: Bettina Jungen, conversation between the artist Daniel Heyman and Lawrence Thomas P. Whitney, Class of 1937, Curator of Russian Art Douglas, James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and BLOG Thursday, October 14, 2010, 4:30 p.m. Social Thought at Amherst College. In the spring 2011 semester, students involved with the evening Musical Celebration and Museum Tour In December 2010, the Mead posted audio recordings of a discussion series of museum photographs, Exposing the Mead, Evening at the Mead: museum docents student musical performance of the chants inscribed on two developed a weekly blog: http://exposemeadphotos.blogspot. with special guests The Zumbyes illuminated manuscript pages in the museum’s collection. com/ Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 8:00 p.m.

Artist Daniel Heyman discussing the portrait pictured behind Career Information Session They Took Me to a Dark Room. him, Photo by Jessica Mestre ’10 Everything you always wanted to know about working in an art museum, but were afraid to ask: Elizabeth Barker, Director FALL 2010 and Chief Curator, Bettina Jungen, Thomas P. Whitney (Class of 1937) Curator of Russian Art, Pamela Russell, Andrew W. Mellon Coordinator of College Programs, and Stephen Fisher, Orientation Event Collections Manager Highlights Tour: Bettina Jungen, Thomas P. Whitney, Class of Wednesday, October 20, 2010, 7:30 p.m. 1937, Curator of Russian Art Sunday, August 29, 2010, 5:00 p.m. Amherst Today Event Artist’s Talk: Blackwater Accordion Book: Orientation Event Even the Stones Cried Blood: Daniel Heyman Highlights Tour: Randall Griffey, Curator of American Art Thursday, October 21, 2010, 3 p.m. Monday, August 30, 2010, 9:00 a.m. Converse Hall Main Lobby

Orientation Event Gallery Talk Highlights Tour: Elizabeth Barker, Director and Chief Curator They Took Me to a Dark Room: contemporary artist Monday, August 30, 2010, 11:30 a.m. Daniel Heyman with Lawrence Douglas, Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought What’s Cooking at the Mead Event Thursday, October 21, 2010, 4:30 p.m. A Taste of Europe: Elizabeth Barker, Director and Chief Curator, and Emmanuel Proust, Manager of Chez Albert Pioneer Valley Community Celebration Sunday, September 12, 2010, 4:00 p.m. The Haunted Museum: museum docents Girolamo da Santacroce (Italian, circa 1485-1556), Madonna and Child with Saint Ambrose, Saturday, October 23, 2010, 11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. ca. 1549. Tempera on panel. Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation (AC 1961.84); featured in Treasures from Nickels and Dimes: Gifts of Italian Painting from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.

24 25 What’s Cooking at the Mead Event Dance Performance Public Presentation American Traditions: Randall Griffey, Curator of American Art, Moments of Grace: Ballet Meets Art at the Mead: students of A New Partnership with Amherst College: Francesca Zambello, with Pengyew Chin, Chef of Pengyew Catering East Street Dance Center in Hadley with musical interludes Artistic and General Director of the Glimmerglass Opera Sunday, November 7, 2010, 4:00 p.m. performed by Amherst students Sunday, December 12, 2010, 12:00 p.m. Thursday, December 2, 2010, 7:30 p.m. Stirn Auditorium Musical Celebration and Museum Tour Dance Performance Evening at the Mead: museum docents with special guests The SPRING 2011 Bluestockings Moments of Grace: Ballet Meets Art at the Mead: students of Tuesday, November 9, 2010, 8:00 p.m. East Street Dance Center in Hadley with musical interludes performed by Amherst students Interterm Course Drawing Methods of Ernest Haskell Copeland Fellow Salon Thursday, December 4, 2010, 3:00 p.m. : Katrina Greene, Andrew The Development Game: Experiences with International Mellon Post-Baccalaureate Curatorial Fellow Tuesday and Development in Fact and Fiction: Roger King, Amherst College Gallery Talk Wednesday, January 18 and 19, 2011, 1:00–3:00 p.m. Copeland Fellow The World Turned Upside Down: Bob Abramms, Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 4:00 p.m. founder of ODT, Inc. Meditation at the Mead Beginning of a Stormy Day Sunday, December 5, 2010, 4:00 p.m. Charles Harry Eaton’s : Mark Hart, Amherst College Buddhist Adjunct Advisor Meditation at the Mead Wednesday, January 26, 2011, 7:30 p.m. Ary Scheffer’s Paolo and Francesca: Arthur Zajonc, Andrew W. Musical Celebration and Museum Tour Mellon Professor of Physics Evening at the Mead: museum docents with special guests Lecture and Opening Reception Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 7:30 p.m. The Madrigal Singers Orra White Hitchcock (1796–1863): An Amherst Woman of Art Tuesday, December 7, 2010, 8:00 p.m. and Science: Robert Herbert and Daria D’Arienzo, exhibition Museum Tour guest curators Michiko Theurer ’11 playing a musical interlude during Muscles at the Mead: museum docents Thursday, January 27, 2011, 4:30 p.m. Moments of Grace: Ballet Meets Art at the Mead. Friday, November 12, 2010, 2:00 p.m. Stirn Auditorium and the Mead Photo by Alec Jacobson ’12 Museum Tour Gallery Talk What’s Cooking at the Mead Event Highlights at the Mead: museum docents Orra White Hitchcock (1796–1863): An Amherst Woman of Art Food for the Soul: Traditions in African Art: Katrina Greene, Friday, November 12, 2010, 4:00 p.m. and Science: Robert Herbert and Daria D’Arienzo, exhibition Andrew Mellon Post-Baccalaureate Curatorial Fellow, and Pat guest curators Ononibaku, Chef at Baku’s The Friends of the Mead Celebration Sunday, January 30, 2011, 4:00 p.m. Sunday, October 24, 2010, 4:00 p.m. An Evening of Art and Song with the Docents and the Zumbyes Friday, November 12, 2010, 5:30 p.m.–7:00 p.m. Collector’s Talk Poetry Slam The Church of Love & Ruin: Bernard Dolan and Jamie DeWolfe: Great Catches and Ones that Got Away: Adventures in Print Museum Tour organized by Maxwell Suechting, Class of 2011, on behalf of Collecting: Tom Firman, Class of 1966 Muscles at the Mead: museum docents Amherst DIY Friday, October 29, 2010, 1:00 p.m. Saturday, November 13, 2010, 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 8:00 p.m. Museum Tour Museum Tour Lecture Art in the Liberal Arts Education: Elizabeth Barker, Director and Muscles at the Mead: museum docents The Icon as a Concept: Yury Bobrov, Head of the Painting Chief Curator Saturday, November 13, 2010, 10:00 a.m. and Icon Conservation Department, Repin Art Institute, Friday, October 29, 2010, 3:00 p.m. St. Petersburg, Russia Museum Talk and Book Signing Thursday, February 10, 2011, 4:30 p.m. Museum Tour Crafting Mexico: Intellectuals, Artisans, and the State After the Families and Friends at the Mead: museum docents Revolution: Rick Lopez, Associate Professor of History Lecture Friday, October 29, 2010, 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, November 17, 2010, 4:30 p.m. Conserving Icons: Yury Bobrov, Head of the Painting and Icon Conservation Department, Repin Art Institute, Museum Tour Visitor to The Haunted Museum: A Pioneer Valley St. Petersburg, Russia Project Presentations Highlights of the Mead: museum docents Community Celebration at the Mead Art Museum. Thursday, February 10, 2011, 5:45 p.m. 2010 Mead/Fine Art Summer Fellows in History of Art and the Saturday, October 30, 2010, 11:00 a.m. Photo by Jessica Mestre ’10 Practice of Art: Julia Massey, Class of 2012 (in absentia), Laila Milevski, Class of 2011, Zoe Pagonis, Class of 2011, and Angela Discussion Museum Tour Pratt (Class of 2011) Meditation at the Mead Exposing the Mead: Alice Wang, Class of 2013: Organized Families and Friends at the Mead: museum docents Thursday, November 18, 2010, 7:30 p.m. Hung Liu’s Jade Lady: Daniel Barbezat, Professor of Economics by Alex Strecker, Class of 2013, of Amherst College’s Marsh Friday, October 30, 2010, 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, December 8, 2010, 7:30 p.m. Arts House Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 8:00 p.m. What’s Cooking at the Mead Event Museum Tour Art of the Ancient Mediterranean: Pamela Russell, Andrew W. Gallery Talk Families and Friends at the Mead: museum docents Mellon Coordinator of College Programs, with Deborah Snow, The Spanish Monster: Natasha Staller, Meditation at the Mead Friday, October 30, 2010, 3:00 p.m. Chef at the Blue Heron Professor of the History of Art Frank Stella’s Of Whales in Paint, in Teeth, &c.: Pamela Russell, Sunday, November 21, 2010, 4:00 p.m. Thursday, December 9, 2010, 4:30 p.m. Andrew W. Mellon Coordinator of College Programs Graduate Student Conference Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 7:30 p.m. Renaissance Art History Conference: Sponsored by the Musical Performance Poetry Slam Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Songs at Sunset: Medieval Chant at the Mead: students in Music Jared Paul and Sole: organized by Maxwell Suechting, Gallery Talk Saturday, November 6, 2010, 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. 21 (European Studies 37) Class of 2011, on behalf of Amherst DIY Orra White Hitchcock (1796–1863): An Amherst Woman of Art and Science Wednesday, December 1, 2010, 5:15 p.m. Thursday, December 9, 2010, 8:00 p.m. : Elizabeth Farnsworth, Senior Research Ecologist, New England Wild Flower Society, and exhibition catalogue contributor Sunday, February 20, 2011, 4:00 p.m.

26 27 Lecture Exhibition Tour A Cultural Biography of the Rotherwas Room: Cari Powell, Orra White Hitchcock (1796-1863): An Amherst Woman of Art Hereford College of Art, England and Science: Randall Griffey, Curator of American Art Thursday, April 7, 2011, 4:30 p.m. Thursday, May 26, 2011, 11:00 a.m.

Gallery Talk Reunion Presentation On the Edge, A Talk about Frames: Tracy Gill and Re-Inventing Tokyo: Japan’s Largest City in the Artistic Simeon Lagodich Imagination: Samuel C. Morse, Professor of Art and the History Sunday, April 10, 2011, 4:00 p.m. of Art and Asian Languages and Civilizations Thursday, May 26, 2011, 1:00 p.m. Reception Stearns Steeple Art Installation Competition: Christopher Cole, Exhibition Tour Hampshire College, Class of 2011, Untitled (bathtub) How He Was to His Talents: The Work of Ernest Haskell: Katrina Thursday, April 14, 2011, 4:30 p.m. Greene, Andrew W. Mellon Post-baccalaureate Curatorial Fellow Thursday, May 26, 2011, 3:00 p.m. Workshop Outward Bound: Katrina Greene, Andrew Mellon Post- Museum Tour Baccalaureate Curatorial Fellow Who’s Afraid of the Weaker Sex? Images of Women at the Turn Saturday, April 16, 2:00–4:00 p.m. of the 20th Century: Bettina Jungen, Thomas P. Whitney, Class of 1937, Curator of Russian Art Gallery Talk Friday, May 27, 2011, 11:00 a.m. ‘The Desert of Forbidden Art’ and the Mead’s Collection: Bettina Jungen, Thomas P. Whitney, Class of 1937, Curator of Russian Art Museum Tour Sunday, April 17, 2011, 5:00 p.m. Extraordinary Art for a Great College: Highlights of the Mead Art Museum: Elizabeth Barker, Director and Chief Curator Slide Lecture Friday, May 27, 2011, 1:00 p.m. Dancers from the East Street Dance Center in Hadley performing Moments of Grace: Ballet Meets Art at the Mead in the Rotherwas Room. Phidias and the Artists: Nineteenth-Century Responses to the Photo by Alec Jacobson ’12 Elgin Marbles: Elizabeth Prettejohn, Professor of History of Art, University of Bristol Pre-Lecture Reception Gallery Talk and Reception Monday, April 18, 2011, 4:30 p.m. Collages, Cider, and Conversation: featuring jazz historian How He Was to His Talents: The Work of Ernest Haskell: Katrina Pruyne Auditorium, Fayerweather Hall Robert O’Meally Greene, Andrew Mellon Post-Baccalaureate Curatorial Fellow Tuesday, February 22, 2011, 2:30 p.m. and exhibition curator Musical Celebration and Museum Tour Thursday, March 24, 2011, 4:30 p.m. Evening at the Mead: museum docents with special guests Musical Celebration and Museum Tour The Sabrinas Evening at the Mead: museum docents with special guests Public Conversation Tuesday, April 19, 2011, 8:00 p.m. The DQ How He Was to His Talents: The Work of Ernest Haskell: Katrina Tuesday, February 22, 2011, 8:00 p.m. Greene, Andrew Mellon Post-Baccalaureate Curatorial Fellow Outdoor Activity and exhibition curator with Haskell collector Cheryl Vogel Tai Chi at the Mead: David Mazor, Amherst College Tai Chi and Sunday, March 27, 2011, 4:00 p.m. Discussion Quigong Meditation and Exercise instructor Exposing the Mead: Thea Goldring, Class of 2014: organized by Wednesday, April 20, 2011, 11:00 a.m. Alex Strecker, Class of 2013, of Amherst College’s Marsh Arts Musical Celebration and Museum Tour House Evening at the Mead: museum docents with special guests Public Conversation Tuesday, March, 1, 2011, 8:00 p.m. Route 9 Exposing the Mead: Alex Strecker, Class of 2013, of Amherst Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 8:00 p.m. College’s Marsh Arts House Gallery Talk Tuesday, April, 26, 2011, 8:00 p.m. Orra White Hitchcock (1796–1863): An Amherst Woman of Art Workshop and Science: Tekla Harms, Professor of Geology and exhibition Outward Bound: Katrina Greene, Andrew Mellon Post- Pioneer Valley Community Celebration catalogue contributor Baccalaureate Curatorial Fellow The Nature of Art: museum docents Thursday, March 3, 2011, 4:30 p.m. Saturday, April 2, 2:00–4:00 p.m. Sunday, April 30, 2011, 11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.

Gallery Talk Discussion Public Presentation Treasures from Nickels and Dimes: Maggie Dethloff, Andrew Exposing the Mead: Alex Strecker, Class of 2013: led and Trinkett Clark Memorial Student Acquisition Project: Mellon Post-Baccalaureate Curatorial Fellow organized by Alex Strecker, Class of 2013, of Amherst College’s museum docents Tuesday, March 8, 2011, 4:30 p.m. Marsh Arts House Friday, May, 2011, 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, April, 5, 2011, 8:00 p.m. Meditation at the Mead Outdoor Activity Claude Monet’s Morning on the Seine: Joel Upton, Professor of Public Conversation Tai Chi at the Mead: David Mazor, Amherst College Tai Chi and Art and the History of Art Baseball in Japan: A Discussion with Bobby Valentine Quigong Meditation and Exercise instructor Wednesday, March 9, 2011, 7:30 p.m. Sponsored by the Amherst Department of Athletics, Wednesday, May 11, 2011, 11:00 a.m. Andrew W. Mellon Post-Baccalaureate Curatorial Fellow Maggie the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations, Dethloff presenting a gallery talk on the Mead’s Samuel H. Kress and the Mead Art Museum Study Collection of Italian paintings in the Rotherwas Room. Discussion Reunion Weekend Event Wednesday, April 6, 2011, 4:30 p.m. Photo by Jessica Mestre ’10 Exposing the Mead: Perry De La Vega, Class of 2013: organized Wine and Cheese Reception by Alex Strecker, Class of 2013, of Amherst College’s Marsh Wednesday, May 25, 2011, 5:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m. Arts House Tuesday, March, 1, 2011, 8:00 p.m.

28 29 ATTENDANCE

MUSEUM July 2010–June 2011: 16,935 (3,961 for special events) o o o o o o o o *July 2010: 811 (0 for special events) . . ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ o o o o o o o o o August 2010: 961 (20 for special events) . . ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ o o o o o o o o o o o o o o September 2010: 1460 (372 for special events) . . ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o October 2010: 2743 (881 for special events) . . ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o November 2010: 1664 (360 for special events) . . ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ o o o o o o o o o o December 2010: 1064 (318 for special events) . . ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ o o o o o o o January 2011: 735 (188 for special events) . . ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ o o o o o o o o o o o o o o February 2011: 1469 (272 for special events) . . ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o March 2011: 1700 (298 for special events) . . ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o April 2011: 1824 (254 for special events) . . ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o May 2011: 1760 (947 for special events) . . ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ o o o o o o o June 2011: 744 (51 for special events) . . ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ * The Mead was partially opened due to gallery renovations.

STUDY ROOM July 2010–June 2011: 1,200 July 2010: 1 ...... August 2010: 1 ...... o o o o o September 2010: 136 ...... ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ o o o o o o o o Visitors to The Haunted Museum: A Pioneer Valley Community Celebration at the Mead Art Museum. Photo by Jessica Mestre ’10 October 2010: 200 ...... ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ o o o o November 2010: 95 ...... ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ o o Exhibition Tour SUMMER 2011 December 2010: 58 ...... ❚ ❚ Orra White Hitchcock (1796–1863): An Amherst Woman of o o o Art and Science: Daria D’Arienzo, co-curator of the Hitchcock January 2011: 85 ...... ❚ ❚ ❚ Gallery Talks o o o o exhibition and co-author of the catalog ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ It’s Cool at the Mead: museum curators and educators, co- February 2011: 199 ...... Friday, May 27, 2011, 2:00 p.m. o o o sponsored by Atkins Farms Orchard Run Ice Cream Shop March 2011: 186 ...... ❚ ❚ ❚ June 2 through August 12, 2011, Thursdays at 2:00 p.m. and o o o o Reunion Presentation April 2011: 200 ...... ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ Fridays at 11:00 a.m. o Not Busted but Medallioned: Robert Louis Stevenson and the May 2011: 39 ...... ❚ St. Gaudens Medallion, 1887: Robert-Louis Abrahamson, Class Outdoor Activity of 1971 June 2011: 0 ...... Tai Chi at the Mead: David Mazor, Amherst College Tai Chi and Friday, May 27, 2011, 3:00 p.m. Quigong Meditation and Exercise instructor Wednesday, June 22, 2011, 11:00 a.m. SCHOOL & COMMUNITY GROUPS Museum Tour Highlights around Curriculum: Maggie Dethloff, Andrew W. July 2010–June 2011: 1,145 Presentation o o o Mellon Post-Baccalaureate Curatorial Fellow, with 2010 Wise Snake in the Path: Biology, Mythology, and Art: Maggie Dethloff, July 2010: 73 ...... ❚ ❚ ❚ Prize winner Mike Greenberg o o Andrew W. Mellon Post-Baccalareate Curatorial Fellow Saturday, May 28, 2011, 10:00 a.m. August 2010: 52 ...... ❚ ❚ Sunday, July 10, 2011, 12:00 p.m. o o o o o September 2010: 137 ...... ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ o o o o o o o o Reunion Presentation Outdoor Activity October 2010: 210 ...... ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ Enduring Impressions: Celebrating the Gift of Dr. Sanford Tai Chi at the Mead: David Mazor, Amherst College Tai Chi and o o o o o Sternlieb, Class of 1946: led by Charles Eldredge, Class of 1966, November 2010: 128 ...... ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ Quigong Meditation and Exercise instructor Hall Distinguished Professor of American Art and Culture and o Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 11:00 a.m. December 2010: 21 ...... ❚ Randall Griffey, Curator of American Art. Presented by the o o Classes of 1946 and 1966, and followed by a champagne toast. January 2011: 59 ...... ❚ ❚ o Saturday, May 28, 2011, 2:30 p.m. February 2011: 43 ...... ❚ o o o o o March 2011: 125 ...... ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ Outdoor Activity o o o o o o o o Tai Chi at the Mead: David Mazor, Amherst College Tai Chi and April 2011: 218 ...... ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ Quigong Meditation and Exercise instructor o o May 2011: 56 ...... ❚ ❚ Wednesday, June 22, 2011, 11:00 a.m. June 2011: 0 ......

30 31 SECURITY AND FACILITY STAFF In August 2010, Angelique Harrell (University of In September 2010, Dr. Miloslava Waldman Massachusetts, Amherst, Master of Arts, Class of joined the museum as Researcher for Russian The Mead made various improvements to its TRANSITIONS 2011) began work as the Assistant to the Director. Art. In January 2011, she was appointed Interim security program and facility in 2010-2011. Angel interned at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Study Room Supervisor, and in August 2011, she In August 2010, the museum completed a In August 2011, David Dashiell will begin the and previously worked at the University Gallery became Study Room Supervisor. Dr. Waldman reinstallation of the entire museum, which included grant-funded position of Digitization Project (now the University Museum of Contemporary Art) previously served as the director of the Lobkowicz a substantial remodeling of its Fairchild Gallery. Photographer. Before coming to Amherst, David at UMass and at Smith College’s Summer Institute Collections, a private art foundation in the Czech During the 2010-11 academic year, the museum worked as a freelance photographer and as for Art Museum Studies. In July 2011, Angel left the Republic. Since relocating to the United States, added light-blocking and UV-filtering coverings to Publications Director at The Mount. He holds a position of Assistant to the Director at the Mead in she has focused her professional interests on the the windows in its lobby doors, and, with funding Masters degree in Architectural History from the order to relocate to another area. management and documentation of art collections assistance from the Amherst College Facilities University of Virginia Charlottesville. for private collectors and institutions (including Department, upgraded its exterior lighting. The In August 2011, Ashley Hogan, Class of 2011, will the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum), and Mead added a key access system to its first floor In July 2010, Maggie Dethloff (Smith College Class begin the grant-funded position of Digitization Proj- established the company Documenting Collections. office wing, thereby simplifying employee access of 2010) became the Mead’s second Andrew W. ect Data Specialist. A major in Art and the History and reducing the movement of non-art objects Mellon Post-Baccalaureate Curatorial Fellow, of Art at Amherst, and a graduate of Smith Col- In August 2011, Betsey Wolfson began work as through the galleries. a grant-funded two-year position for aspiring lege’s Summer Institute for Art Museum Studies, the Mead’s Publication Coordinator. A freelance museum curators open to recent Five College Ashley previously worked as an intern at the Mead graphic designer, Betsey previously worked as in- The museum refined the location-reporting graduates. Maggie’s exhibition, PHOTOdocument, and at Shelburne Museum, and as a studio assis- house Graphic Designer at the Yiddish Book Center. specificity of its climate tracking software, will open in March 2012. tant at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. and installed new hardware that creates a NEWS comprehensive electronic climate history for each In July 2011, Katrina Greene (Smith College Class of In August 2011, Rachel Rogol, who holds a B.A. in gallery. In September 2010, the Mead’s Security 2008) concluded her position as Andrew W. Mellon English and Creative Writing from Emory University, In November 2010, Elizabeth Barker spoke to the Program became an institutional member of the Post-Baccalaureate Curatorial Fellow. In the fall, began work as Assistant to the Director. Rachel Northampton Rotary Club. In January 2011, she International Foundation for Cultural Property she will begin graduate studies as a doctoral candi- previously worked as a studio assistant to the artist presented “New Light on an Old Master: the Mead Protection (IFCPP). To present specific exhibitions, date in Art History at the University of Delaware. Tom Friedman and as an education coordinator at Art Museum’s portrait of Lord Jeffery Amherst by the Mead acquired a rope Mad Science of Western New England. (Sir) Joshua Reynolds” at Amherst in Los Angeles. In and stanchion system; April 2011, Lizzie delivered the Annual Humanities purchased new display In August 2010, Samuel Rowlett became Lecture for the University of Massachusetts Honors cases, Plexiglas vitrines, Coordinator of Community Programs. Samuel College: “How Citizen Kane is like the Mona Lisa: and gallery track lighting received his M.F.A. from the Cranbrook Academy of Moving Definitions of a Work of Art.” In May, she fixtures; and added Art and teaches art at Holyoke Community College. attended Print Council of America’s annual meeting more than thirty frames He formerly served as Youth Programs Coordinator in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. to its stock of standard- at Artspace in New Haven, Connecticut. sized exhibition frames In November 2010, Heath Cummings became an for works on paper. In May 2011, Inga Stevens left the position of internationally Certified Institutional Protection Assistant Collections Manager after six years of Specialist with the International Foundation outstanding work for the Mead. for Cultural Property Protection (IFCPP), after attending a training and evaluation course. Heath In September 2010, Triin Vallaste began work as was also recertified as a Healthcare Provider-Level Collections Handbook Coordinator. Trained as a CPR and First Aid Instructor, after attending a classical pianist in her native Estonia and currently workshop on vital 2010 changes in CPR procedures enrolled as a Ph.D. student in Ethnomusicology at Mead Staff, 2010-11 in April of 2011. Back: Samuel Rowlett, Tim Gilfillan, Pamela Russell, Stephen Fisher, Mila Waldman, Triin Vallaste, Maggie Brown University, Triin is interested in Russian- Dethloff, Karen Cardinal, Heath Cummings. Front: Inga Stephens, Katrina Greene, Angelique Harrell, language music and Russian arts in general. Elizabeth Barker, Randall Griffey, Bettina Jungen. Photo by Jim Gipe, Pivot Media

32 33 In May 2011, Maggie Dethloff and Stephen Fisher Association for Slavic, East European, and Inga Stevens, Assistant Collections Manager Erikka James, Class of 2011 Triin Vallaste, Collections Handbook Coordinator Rebecca Kelley, Class of 2012 attended the international seminar A New Era of Euroasian Studies’ (ASEEES) annual convention Miloslava Waldman, Ph.D., Interim Study Room Supervisor Annika Lawrence, Class of 2011 Collaboration and Digitized Resources: World War II in Los Angeles. Alice Li, Class of 2013 Katrina Manis, Class of 2011 Provenance Research at the United States National SECURITY GUARDS Diana Madden, Class of 2013 Archives in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the October 2010, Samuel Rowlett exhibited work in Jill Bierly Miranda Marraccini, Class of 2012 American Association of Museums (AAM), the Album – Artist Portraits of Artists at the ArtGym at Gil Bolduc Jerry Devine National Archives, the American Association of Art Marylhurst University in Portland, OR. In November Mary Hazlett Museum Directors and the Smithsonian Institution, 2010, while a visiting artist and guest critic at Green Joe Kosiorek with additional support provided by the Samuel H. Mountain College in Poultney, Vermont, Samuel Chester Palerma Joseph Russell Kress Foundation. presented a lecture on his recent work, Peer Nicholas Taupier Mythology: Manifest Destiny and Geo-Engineering. Jamison Taupier In April 2011, Katrina Greene was offered In spring 2011, Samuel was selected for an artist’s Arthur Williamson Tony Yacuzzo admission to the University of Delaware’s Direct residency at MassMoCA; his work will be exhibited

Ph.D. program in Art History. She will begin the in North Adams during summer 2011. LOBBY ATTENDANTS program in the Fall 2011 semester. Elizabeth Adamo, Class of 2011 In February 2011, Pamela Russell attended the Catherine Bryars, Class of 2012 In January 2011, Randy Griffey presented “New conference Rethinking the University Museum: Kimona Cameron, Class of 2012 Emily Dick, Class of 2011 The Past Engaging Collections at the John Nicholas Thoughts on Old Favorites: Thomas Cole’s Ashley Hogan, Class of 2011 and The Present” to an online audience as part of Brown Center for the Public Humanities and Lilia Kilburn, Class of 2012 Amherst College’s Telephone Lecture Series. In Cultural Heritage at Brown University. In May Peter Krensky, Class of 2011 Angela Pratt, Class of 2011 Sophia Meyerson, Class of 2013 2011, Pam was elected to the Executive Council March, Randy published “Other and Self: Evolving Ewelina Przybyszewski, Class of 2013 Asgeir Nielsen, Class of 2014 Manifestations of Primitivism in Two Still Lifes by of the Western Massachusetts Society of the Samantha Regenbogen, Class of 2011 Lindsay Oxx, Class of 2014 Marsden Hartley” in the exhibition catalog Poetical Archaeological Institute of America. Mark Seager, Class of 2011 Emily Pawlowski, Class of 2012 Nicole Starrett, Class of 2012 Angela Pratt, Class of 2011 Fire: Three Centuries of Still Life s, published by Vanessa Prill, Class of 2013 the Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of In April 2011, Miloslava Waldman attended a Leslie Quiroz, Class of 2013 PAID STUDENT INTERNS Workplace Writing Workshop organized by Sam Schnell, Class of 2011 Nebraska–Lincoln. In April, he presented “Still Life Katherine Abbey, Class of 2011 Molly Scott, Class of 2013 Amherst College. Focused on effective and concise Timothy Clark, Class of 2012 Stories” at the Sheldon in conjunction with the Suzi Stein, Class of 2014 Katherine Eisen, Class of 2012 same exhibition. In May, Randy attended the methods of communication in writing, it also Caroline Stern, Class of 2011 Thea Goldring, Class of 2014 provided resources for grammatical and stylistic Kendra Stern, Class of 2011 annual meeting of the Association of Art Museum Samantha Schnell, Class of 2011 Yun (Nancy) Tang, Class of 2014 writing rules as well as professional and technical Kendra Stern, Class of 2011 Curators, in which he serves on the prize Dylan Vasey, Class of 2014 Perry De La Vega, Class of 2013 committee. writing. Jake Walters, Class of 2014 Keith Wine, Class of 2012 Ji An (Julian) Wang, Class of 2013 Jiaman (Alice) Wang, Class of 2013 PROFESSIONAL STAFF In February 2011, Angelique Harrell, Assistant to VOLUNTEER STUDENT DOCENTS Yilin (Andre) Wang, Class of 2014 Elizabeth E. Barker, Ph.D., Director and Chief Curator the Director, received her Master’s in Art History Katherine Abbey, Class of 2011 Daneen Wilkerson, Hampshire College, Class of 2013 Karen Cardinal, Accounting, Web, and Marketing Manager Danielle Amodeo, Class of 2013 Keith Wine, Class of 2012 at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with Heath Cummings, Head of Security and Facility Manager David Baird, Class of 2014 Fengsheng (Helen) Zhu, Class of 2014 Maggie Dethloff, Andrew W. Mellon Post-Baccalaureate a concentration in Modern and Contemporary Art. Brooke Bennett, Class of 2011 Curatorial Fellow Jill Bierly, M.A./Ph.D. Candidate, UMass Stephen Fisher, Collections Manager Libby Blanco, Class of 2013 In October 2010, Bettina Jungen published “Frozen Tim Gilfillan, Preparator Madeleine Chan, Class of 2014 Action: Thoughts on Sport, Discipline and the Arts Katrina Greene, Andrew W. Mellon Post-Baccalaureate Curatorial Fellow Alejandro Chaviano, Class of 2012 in the Soviet Union of the 1930s” in the conference Randall R. Griffey, Ph.D., Curator of American Art Tim Clark, Class of 2012 publication Euphoria and Exhaustion: Modern Sport Angelique Harrell, Assistant to the Director Perry De La Vega, Class of 2013 Dr. Bettina Jungen, Thomas P. Whitney, Class of 1937 Erin Downey, Class of 2011 in Soviet Culture and Society. In November 2010, Curator of Russian Art Angie Epifano, Class of 2014 she presented “New World - New Freedom? Pamela Russell, Ph.D., Andrew W. Mellon Coordinator Cassandra Farnow, Class of 2013 of College Programs Russian Artists in the USA since the 1960s” at the Thea Goldring, Class of 2014 Samuel Rowlett, Coordinator of Community Programs

34 35 DOCENT IN FOCUS Jennifer Brown Gene O’Grady, Class of 1969 John Burlingham, Class of 1956 Kevin O’Mara, Class of 1961 Kendra Stern, Class of 2011 Capitol Clinical Neuroscience, Inc. Stephen Petegorsky, Class of 1975 Sharon Carty Charles Pittman III, Class of 1951 Mark Cruse, Class of 1993 Dwight Poler, Class of 1987, and Kirsten Poler, Class of 1988 During her senior year at Amherst, when Kendra David Dangremond, Class of 1974 Stephen Pollock, Class of 1977 Stern, Class of 2011 and National Swimmer of Donald and Honore David Alexander Radetich, Class of 1990 the Year, wasn’t breaking records in the pool, she Daniel Dindal Francis Randall, Class of 1952 Anita Eliason V. Ross Read III, Class of 1973, and Mary Read spent much of her time at the Mead Art Museum, Samuel Ellenport, Class of 1965 Gary Rogalski, Class of 1971 where she was both a volunteer student docent Claude Erbsen, Class of 1959 Ronald and Betty Rosbottom and the Faculty Coordinator Intern. Working closely Suzannah Fabing Kenneth Rosenthal, Class of 1960 Kent Faerber, Class of 1963 John Sataloff, Class of 2014 with Pamela Russell, Andrew W. Mellon Coordina- Docent Kendra Stern ’11 leading an Evenings at the Mead series discussion of artwork from the collection. Robert Fay, Class of 1956 Patrick Savage, Class of 2007, and Sawa Savage, Class of 2007 tor of College Programs, Kendra created thematic Photo by Rose Lenehan ’11 Arnold and Susi Friedmann Barret Schleicher, Class of 1953 guides and extensive object listings on the topics Stephen, Class of 1972, and Gail Gang Paul Schnell, Class of 1976, and Joanne Schnell ADVISORY BOARD David Golann, Class of 2004, and Joanne Golan, Class of 2004 Ernest Van Seasholes, Class of 1955 of Spain, the Hispanic world, American history Emily Goldberg Nadine Shapiro Danielle Allen, Amherst College Trustee Representative through the Civil War, and world wars of the twen- Louis Goldring, Class of 1974 Chris Shipley Elizabeth Barker, Mead Art Museum Director and Chief Curator Fredrick Griffiths Anne Spencer tieth century to help facilitate faculty and student Greg Call, Dean of the Faculty, Professor of Mathematics Werner Gundersheimer, Class of 1959, and Karen Edward Stein, Class of 1984, and Perrin Stein, Class of 1984 Nicola Courtright, Associate Dean of the Faculty, use of artworks in the museum’s collection. Each Gundersheimer Professor of Art and the History of Art James and Gladys Strain Jack Hagstrom, Class of 1955 guide brings together dozens of works of art and Linda and Ronald Daitz, Class of 1961, and Parents, Class of 1988 Trudi Goheen Swain William Hart, Class of 1969 conveniently groups them in ways not yet possible Suzannah Fabing, Director Emerita, Smith College Museum of Art Albert Swett, Class of 1975 Liza Heath Thomas Firman, Class of 1966 G. Wylie and Sallie Sypher with the online database, thereby providing a con- Harvey Hecht, Class of 1958 Younghee Kim-Wait, Class of 1982 Michael Takemori, Class of 1968 Geoffrey Hendricks, Class of 1953 venient new way to examine the Mead’s collection Adam Lindemann, Class of 1983 Nancy Tang, Class of 2014 Frederick Hill, Class of 1967 and suggest new avenues of learning and research. Anthony Marx, Amherst College President Miriam Teitel, Class of 2000 Richard and Ann Holt John Middleton, Class of 1977 Three Little Pigs Foundation (Bill Ford, Class of 1983, As a culminating project, Kendra prepared an an- Christine Huber and Charlotte Ford) Megan Morey, Amherst College Chief Advancement Officer Mary Hutchison, Class of 1971 George and Sidney Treyz notated, visual essay on Latin American identities Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Class of 1984, Chair of the Mead Art International Business Machines Corporation Benjamin Turner, Class of 1995 as revealed in selected works of art at the Mead. Museum Advisory Board Kenneth Rosenthal, Class of 1960, Secretary of the Jonathan Jensen, Class of 1990 Karen Vaites, Class of 1998 Mead Art Museum Advisory Board Charlene Kaiser William Vickery, Class of 1957 How did the recently announced National Swimmer Axel Schupf, Class of 1957 and Amherst College Life Trustee Arthur and Virginia Kamin Judy Vowles Blair Kamin, Class of 1979 W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. of the Year juggle her talents? According to Kendra Perrin Stein, Class of 1984 and Parent, Class of 2012 Elizabeth and Thomas Sturges II, Class of 1966 Paul Kaplan, Class of 1962 Jacob Walters, Class of 2014 it wasn’t always easy, but she spent her days (and Helen and Charles Wilkes, Class of 1971 and Parents, Class of Andrew Keats Ji An Wang, Class of 2013 nights) doing what she loved. Often swimming up 2008, Vice Chair of the Mead Art Museum Advisory Board Elizabeth Klug Stephen Warner Patricia and Philip Winterer, Class of 1953 Stephanie Klug Whitney Morsman Ebmeyer, Class of 1996 to four hours a day, Kendra balanced a heavy load and Amherst College Life Trustee Alan Kovacs, Class of 1969 Charles Wilkes, Class of 1971, and Helen Wilkes, of academics and extracurriculars, and said that Stephen Kunian, Class of 1960 Parents, Class of 2008 it was easy to make time to do the things that she FRIENDS OF THE MEAD ART MUSEUM OFFICERS Maurice and Donna Levin Cheryl Wilson, Class of 1962 Philip Winterer, Class of 1953, and Patricia Winterer Werner Gundersheimer, Class of 1959, President Peter Lobdell, Class of 1968 enjoyed, like being involved at the Mead, because George Witwer, Class of 1981 James B. Lyon, Class of 1952, Treasurer Kathleen Lovell she needed these outlets to decompress. Sunny Xiao, Class of 2014 H. Hylton Cooke, Class of 1986, Vice President Suzannah Luft, Class of 2008 Jacob Yamins, Class of 1936 Suzannah J. Luft, Class of 2008, Vice President James Lyon, Class of 1952 William Malloy David and Myrna Yashon Kendra double majored in Spanish and the History Roger Marshall, Class of 1953 George Zimberg, Class of 1948 of Art and hopes to enter graduate school in a few FRIENDS OF THE MEAD ART MUSEUM Gail Mazur, Class of 1957 years so that she can someday become a curator of Katherine Abbey, Class of 2011 Drake McFeely, Class of 1976, and Karen McFeely AD HOC FACULTY ADVISORY COMMITTEE Rosemary Abbott, Class of 1936 Leonard Meeker, Class of 1937 American art. She said that her experiences at the FOR THE MEAD ART MUSEUM John Ancona Class of 2007, and Lisa Ancona, Class of 2008 Henry Meneely, Class 1963 Carol Clark, Professor of the History of Art and American Studies Mead gave her “a lot of insight into the museum Lynettra Artis, Esq., Class of 2005 Richard Mills, Class of 2008 Nicola Courtright, Professor of the History of Art Kit Smyth Basquin Robert Moorhead, Class of 1959 world”, and she thinks herself extremely lucky to Lawrence Douglas, Professor of Law Jurisprudence Lucy Benson, Class of 1943 George Morgan, Class of 1955 have gotten to spend so much time there. Accord- and Social Thought Mike and Tina Berins Robert and Wendy Morrison Heidi Gilpin, Associate Professor of German ing to Kendra, the Mead is a “spectacular resource” Louise Berner-Holmberg, Class of 1982 James Muspratt Luca Grillo, Assistant Professor of Classics that enriched her college experience. Broeck Born, Class of 1955 Edward O’Connor

36 37 Tekla Harms, Professor of Geology As noted in the 2008-09 report on the strategic meet with the Five College Libraries Discovery Ser- Maria Heim, Associate Professor of Religion plan, the museum’s staff has adjusted the order in vice Task Force to discuss opportunities for feder- Jenny Kallick, Professor of Music Carol Keller, Professor of Art which collections areas are digitized, but continues ated searching of museum and library catalogues. William Loinaz, Associate Professor of Physics to work at an ambitious pace. By summer 2011, Marisa Parham, Associate Professor of English 45% of the collection was illustrated in the on-line 2. Increase opportunities for curricular, including Boris Wolfson, Assistant Professor of Russian database. A major grant from the IMLS awarded in interdisciplinary, collaboration with and

FACULTY ADVISORS summer 2011 will allow the museum to complete involving the Museum. Luca Grillo, Assistant Professor of Classics (Ancient Art) the digitization of nearly the entire collection by the Maria Heim, Associate Professor and Chair of Religion end of 2013. A. Hire a full time Museum Educator to promote (Buddhist Art) Samuel C. Morse, Professor of Art and Art History and coordinate institutional research involving and of Asian Languages and Civilizations (Asian Art) B. Enrich cataloguing information recorded in the the Museum (2008, Amherst College funding) John Pemberton, Professor Emeritus of Religion (African Art) database: Rowland O. Abiodun, Professor of Art and Art History and of Black Studies (African Art) i. Catalogue thoroughly all new acquisitions and B. Invite faculty to participate in exhibitions and Rebecca H. Sinos, Professor of Classics (Ancient Art) outgoing loans (Curatorial staff, ongoing, no special events (Curatorial staff, ongoing, no Rick A. Lopez, Assistant Professor of History (Mexican Art) Paola Zamperini, Associate Professor of Asian Languages special funding required) special funding required) and Civilizations (Chinese Art) ii. Enter all didactic wall labels and exhibition texts concerning collection objects into data- Student in Professor Moss’s First Year Seminar discussing C. Establish a Museum Forum open to faculty, Slavery and the American Imagination in the William Green A REPORT ON THE STRATEGIC PLAN base (Administrative Assistant and forthcom- Study Room. Photo by Jessica Mestre ’10 students, and the public to exchange ideas and ing ‘Green Dean’, ongoing, no special funding information with Museum staff at least four In the text that follows, the passages written in required) As noted in the 2008-09 Report on the Strategic times per year (Director and Chief Curator, then Roman letters represent the strategic plan adopted iii. Establish, monitor clear cataloguing research Plan, these goals have been met. In 2010-11, the Museum Educator, 2008, no special funding in January 2007; annotations inserted in italics goals for curatorial staff (Curatorial staff, 2008, Mead improved upon them by hiring a scholar in required) document the Mead’s progress in meeting those no special funding required) master prints as the museum’s first full-time Study goals and objectives during the 2010-11 academic Room Supervisor. D. Expand curatorial experiences offered to year. Curatorial and collectors management staff student docents (currently Director and Chief progressed on the Mead’s cataloguing work in D. Encourage the use of the Study Room Curator, later in collaboration with Museum Goals and Objectives 2010-11, entering many new acquisitions, updating i. Meet with incoming faculty at orientations Educator, ongoing, no special funding required) data on works placed on view or seen in the Study (Director and Chief Curator, beginning in 2008, 1. Improve access to and information about the Room, and furthered work on a forthcoming no special funding required) E. Offer Interterm courses that provide permanent collection. collection guide and catalogues of American ii. Approach specific faculty members with ideas opportunities for students to learn about nineteenth-century paintings, American twentieth- relating collection objects to specific courses museum work and to curate exhibitions A. Digitize the collection century photography, and Russian art. (Museum Educator, Curatorial staff, ongoing, (currently Director and Chief Curator, later in i. Photograph and link to the online catalogue: no special funding required) collaboration with other Curators and Museum a. All paintings (Professional photographers, C. Expand the opening hours of the Study Room iii. Post Study Room information on the Frost Educator, ongoing, no special funding required) summer 2008, Amherst College support) i. Increase position of Assistant Collections Library website, where student researchers b. All drawings (Museum staff, 2008-2009, Manager to full time (2008-2009 academic are likely to encounter it (Museum Educator, F. Provide internship opportunities for students Museum funding) year, Amherst College funding) 2008, no special funding required) (Curatorial staff, ongoing, Museum and c. All sculpture (Professional photographers, ii. Create ‘Green Dean’ two-year competitive, Amherst College funding) 2009-2010, grant support) rotating position for graduating student In 2010-11, the Andrew W. Mellon Coordinator d. Applied arts (Professional photographers, to oversee Study Room, learn the ropes of College Programs expanded upon the previous The Mead met all of these goals by and/or in 2010-2011, grant support) of museum work, assist in cataloguing the years’ success in continuing to meet the first two 2009–10. e. Photographs and Prints (to be determined collection, and curate a small in-house objectives. The Mead’s Director arranged for repre- in 2010) exhibition of works on paper (2009-1010 sentatives of the Five Colleges-affiliated museums academic year, Amherst College funding) that employ a consortial collections database to

38 39 3. Create small, innovative, collections-based, curriculum-related exhibitions.

MISSION (Curatorial staff in collaboration with Faculty coordinated by Museum Educator, planning to The Mead Art Museum at Amherst College Integrity | The Museum endeavors to meet begin in 2008, resulting exhibitions to appear by seeks to stimulate thought, inspire creativity, the highest professional, academic, and ethical 2010, Museum funding with possible support from provide insight, interrogate preconceptions, standards in all of its activities, policies, and outside sources) and invite contemplation through interaction procedures. with the original works of art that the In 2010-11, the Mead continued to create resonant Museum collects, researches, interprets, Excellence | The Museum is committed to collections-based displays, outlined in the Exhibi- exhibits, publishes, and preserves. providing the best possible experiences for its tions section of this annual report. various audiences, and to undertaking rigorous

Docent Julian Wang ’13 leading a tour of the Mead during To realize its mission, the Museum makes its and regular self-assessment to ensure its 4. Engage a wide community of Museum Homecoming Weekend. Photo by Alec Jacobson ’12 collections available to the students, faculty, ongoing advancement. stakeholders. staff and alumni of Amherst College, and to As outlined in the 2008-09 Report on the Strategic visitors from around the world; develops Agility | The Museum seeks to act rapidly A. Form a Mead Advisory Board comprised of Plan, the Mead met the first three goals by the innovative exhibitions drawn primarily to realize new ideas that serve its mission, and trustees, major donors, alumni collectors, spring of 2009. In 2009-10, the museum replaced from the permanent collection and linked by extension, the educational mission regional museum professionals, and senior the all-stakeholders two-hour Museum Forum meaningfully to the curriculum and to the of Amherst College. administrators to oversee acquisitions, deacces- meetings with more public-focused several-hour wider intellectual life of the College; engages sions, and museum policies (Director and Chief Community Days, and created an Ad Hoc Faculty faculty, students, and other visitors in Innovation | The Museum strives Curator pending the approval of the College’s Advisory Committee to consult on academic fresh, sometimes interdisciplinary inquiries continuously to test fresh ideas and implement Board of Trustees, 2008, no special funding matters. The museum’s ongoing efforts to attain involving art and visual understanding; and improvements. required) the fourth goal were assisted in 2010-11 by the produces original, engaging, academically presence of a new Coordinator of Community rigorous publications. Diversity | The Museum aims to present B. Create a Museum Forum open to faculty, stu- Programs charged with connecting the Mead’s art representing a wide range of cultures dents, and the public to share information and volunteer student docents with area schools and vision and historical periods; to offer a rich array of ideas about exhibitions, events, and services community groups. interpretative and educational programs; and to (Director and Chief Curator and Museum Educa- The Mead strives to become an essential, cultivate an environment in which visitors from tor, 2008, no special funding required) ASSESSMENT integrated participant in the intellectual and all backgrounds feel welcome. cultural life of Amherst College; a leader C. Relaunch the Friends of the Mead Art Museum The Museum will provide status reports on its among college and university art museums; Accessibility | The Museum recognizes (Director and Chief Curator in coordination progress in meeting these goals and objectives in and a destination for a diverse range of its responsibility to make the art collection of with Advancement, 2008, no special funding its annual reports for 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011. visitors from around the world. Amherst College available in person, in print, required) In 2011, informed by the experiences of the cur- and in new electronic media to its audiences, rent plan, and with the assistance of a complete VALUES and to make its facility accessible to many types D. Strengthen relationships with local and regional professional staff, a lively Museum Forum, and of visitors, including people with disabilities. groups and institutions (specific priorities and active Friends group, the Mead Advisory Board will Authenticity | The Museum grounds all activities to be developed by the Museum Edu- reopen the planning process to draft a new, longer- of its activities in the unique experience of Inquiry | The Museum pursues its activities cator in conjunction with the Director and Chief term institutional plan for the Museum. original works of art, which offer irrepro- in a spirit of intellectual curiosity, always testing Curator, Advisory Board, Museum Forum, and ducible insights into the human condition. received ideas and seeking new understanding. Friends, 2008-2010, funding needs and sources to be determined)

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