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OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 2015 There is a lot going on at the Spring- Ettinger is a local talent who served on field Art Museum this fall. Of particular the faculty at Missouri State University interest are three exhibitions that show for many years. Much of the work on the diversity of programs produced display is on loan from local collectors. by our Museum. This September we Finally, the Museum is playing host to opened Emancipating the Past: Kara a new interactive installation by Art Walker’s Tales of Slavery and Power, of Space called The House of Art(S). which is organized by the Jordan This work takes the form of a pavilion Schnitzer Museum of Art at the Univer- in the Museum’s Amphitheater that sity of Oregon and is traveling to ven- is inspired by Charles Eames’ House ues of note across the United States. of Cards game. As part of the project Walker is an internationally renowned the public is invited to add their own artist who has become one of the most artwork or creative efforts to become successful and controversial artists part of a “people’s museum.” These working today. In contrast, the Muse- exciting exhibitions and projects um also has on display Susi Ettinger: demonstrate the many facets of our Ciphers & Glyphs. Ettinger works in a Museum and the creative ways we surrealistic style, mixing collage and serve the community. Read about painting with other media to create these and more in this quarter’s News- enigmatic and abstract dreamscapes. letter then come by and take part! NOW NEXT EMANCIPATING THE PAST: KARA WALKER’S THE ELECTRIC GARDEN OF OUR MINDS: TALES OF SLAVERY AND POWER BRITISH/AMERICAN POP September 12, 2015 – January 3, 2016 January 23 - April 17, 2016 Eldredge, Spratlen and Armstrong Opening Reception: January 22, 2016, Galleries 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. Eldredge and Spratlen Galleries This summer, the Springfield Art Muse- Special thanks to the Hammons School of um worked with Art of Space to install Architecture and Conco for their generous the House of Art(S), an outdoor mu- donations of in-kind support and materials to this project. seum gallery constructed from murals and graffiti panels. This public, partici- patory art installation invites members of the community to paint, draw, write, and to add or subtract artwork and cool “stuff” from exhibits inside of the installation. Staff from the Springfield Art Museum will document the chang- es over the course of the installation, and this record will become part of the Museum’s collection. The House of Art(S) is currently on display in the Museum’s Amphitheater. Financial assistance for this project has been provided by the Missouri Arts Coun- cil, a state agency. OCTOBER FIRST FRIDAY ART WALK SHUTTLE SUSI ETTINGER: CIPHERS & GLYPHS Friday, October 2, 5:30 – 9 PM Closes November 8, 2015 Free shuttle service from the Spring- Weisel and Kelly Galleries field Art Museum to downtown Spring- field’s First Friday Art Walk. FAMILY ART WORKSHOP Saturday, November 14, 10 - 11:30 AM FAMILY DAY Explore our “Creating an American Saturday, October 3, 10 AM – 12 Noon Identity” exhibit in this workshop Join us for children’s art activities at designed to help kids and grown-ups the House of Art(S). Admission is free! enjoy art together! We’ll get inspired in the galleries and then move to the 13TH C. GANGS, EGGS, AND THE MAGNA studio to create our own artwork. This CARTA workshop is free, but pre-registration Thursday, October 8, 6 PM is required. Visit sgfmuseum.org or Join Carolyn Cárdenas, Professor of give us a call for more information. For Painting & Drawing and Head of the ages 5-10, accompanied by an adult. Department of Art + Design at Mis- souri State University for a discussion WATERCOLOR NOW! and demonstration about 13th century November 21, 2015 - March 6, 2016 art materials. Opening Reception: November 20, 5:30 - 7 PM KARA WALKER IN CONTEXT Weisel and Kelly Galleries Thursday, October 22, 5:30 PM This invitational exhibition, hosted Professor Curlee R. Holton, Director of every four years by the Springfield the David C. Driskell Center at the Uni- Art Museum, will feature work by versity of Maryland, will speak about current members of the Watercol- Kara Walker’s work. or U.S.A. Honor Society. WHS is an independently governed, not-for-profit TRICK-ART-TREAT organization formed in 1985 from a Saturday, October 31, 10 AM - 12 broad-based assemblage of inven- Noon tive artists whose paintings had won Join us for Halloween games, art awards in Watercolor U.S.A. or who activities, performances and fun...and had served as jurors to the exhibition. don’t forget to come in costume! The The mission of WHS is to focus na- contest will start at 11am. This event tional attention on the Springfield Art is free and open to the public. For all Museum as a repository for conserv- ages. ing, preserving, and collecting water- color painting. The work presented in NOVEMBER this exhibition represents the focus of the contemporary watermedia artists KARA WALKER: ART21 that comprise the diverse membership Thursday, November 5, 5:30 PM - 6:30 of WHS. PM Join us for this film screening of PBS documentary, Art 21 featuring Kara FOR MORE EVENTS, JOIN OUR EMAIL LIST Walker. Admission is free. OR VISIT: WWW.SGFMUSEUM.ORG Becoming a member of the Springfield Art Museum To become a Museum helps support programs, exhibitions, and acquisitions. We offer a variety of levels and exciting benefits includ- Member, visit our website, ing discounts on classes, invitations to special events, benefits at museums across North America, and more. sgfmuseum.org or call the Discover all the things you can see and do when you become a Springfield Art Museum member! Museum at (417) 837-5700. With a variety of membership levels, there is sure to be one that’s right for you! Student Free Open to students with valid ID Individual $35 20% off for military and City Employees w/ valid ID Family $50 20% off for military and City Employees w/ valid ID Sustaining $100 Patron $250 Art Advocate $500 Art Partner $1,000 Circle & Society Members $1,500+ All members receive a 20% discount on classes, copies of our Newsletter, and invitations to special events throughout the year. Sustaining Members and above are eligible for the NARM program, which provides member benefits like free admission and gift shop and cafe discounts at over 700 museums nation-wide. For more information about the exciting benefits received at each level of mem- bership, visit sgfmuseum.org or call the Museum at (417) 837-5700. Key’s to the Coop, 1997, linoleum block print © 2015 Kara Walker From the collections of September 12, 2015 – January 3, 2016 Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Reception: September 11, 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Family Foundation Eldredge, Spratlen and Armstrong Galleries This exhibition is intended for an adult audience. “There is always a beginning and there’s never a conclusion.” KARA WALKER Kara Walker, African/ American, 1998, lin- ocut, 44 x 62 inches. Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer. @ 2015 Kara Walker. [Image 1997-15] The Springfield Art Museum presents stories we tell about ourselves and Emancipating the Past: Kara Walker’s specifically, a desire for a narrative Tales of Slavery and Power, on view about “African American” that engag- from September 12, 2015 to January es the past, present, and future. 3, 2016. The exhibition brings to- gether 60 works from the collection Born in Stockton, California, Walker of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family received her BFA from the Atlanta Foundation in a variety of mediums, College of Art in 1991 and her MFA from large-scale printmaking to metal from the Rhode Island School of sculpture and shadow puppetry. Design in 1994. At the age of 27, she became the youngest recipient of the Kara Walker is best known for her prestigious John D. and Catherine black cut-paper silhouettes that ex- T. MacArthur Foundation’s “genius” plore the painful history of American grant. Her work has been exhibited race relations and its contemporary nationally and internationally and is paradoxes. Set primarily in the Amer- included in the collections of major ican pre-Civil War antebellum South, museums worldwide. Walker current- Walker questions traditional narra- ly lives in New York, where she is a tives of race, gender, sex and power professor of visual arts in the MFA through exaggerated truths and program at Columbia University. fictionalized events leaving viewers to unpack, sort out, and ultimately de- This exhibit was organized by the cide which elements are true. Walker Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the utilizes the framework of conventional University of Oregon. Jordan Schnitzer storytelling via characters, setting notes that “Kara Walker is one of the and action but composes narratives most important artists in our collec- that are not always linear and don’t tion. Her art needs to be seen and the necessarily include a clear plot line. In themes need to be examined. No art- the artist’s words, “There is always a ist today does a better job of forcing beginning and there’s never a con- the viewers to deal with stereotypes, clusion.” Walker is interested in the gender, and race.” for eight at the Fall Fashion Show on November 3. I am excited to see how many of you step forward to meet this challenge. Many of you have such fun and interesting meetings and I know your friends and family would love to be invited to attend.

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