2011-2012 ANNUAL REPORT MOBILE MUSEUM OF ART TABLE OF CONTENTS MMOA BY THE NUMBERS ............................................................................ 3 THE FROM THE DIRECTOR ..................................................................................... 4 MISSION EXHIBITIONS ..................................................................................................... 5 OF CURRICULA-BASED EDUCATION .............................................................. 10 MOBILE COMMUNITY OUTREACH ............................................................................ 12 MUSEUM GIFTS & ACQUISITIONS ............................................................................... 14 OF ART GIFTS & CONTRIBUTIONS ........................................................................... 16 is to provide a place DONOR CIRCLE............................................................................................... 17 where people enrich STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION ................................................... 18 their lives through MMOA DOCENTS & STAFF ......................................................................... 19 interaction with cover, A young art enthusiast waits his turn to talk with artist and MMofA member Tut Altman Riddick. the visual arts in thought-provoking and creative ways that nourish and delight the mind and spirit. For the fundamental purpose of education, the Museum collects, conserves, exhibits, interprets and researches art. 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS MMOA BY THE NUMBERS 93,212......................... Number Of Sculpture Trail Visitors 41,432....................................Number Of Onsite Visitors 30,981.................................... Number Of Website Visits 22,177 .........Number Served Through Traveling Exhibitions 7,000 .....Number Of Students Who Attended Guided Tours 30,151 ..........................Number Served Through Outreach 4,430 ................................. Number Of Art Blast Attendees 170 ....................Number Of Spring Break Camp Attendees 1,062 ................................. Number Of Free Day Attendees 2,144 .................. Number Of Attendees At Adult Programs 710 ....................................................Number Of Members 1,152 ............ Number Of Home School Program Attendees 344 ...................Number Of Students Attending Art Classes 161 .....................Number Of Curricula-Based Guided Tours 330 ..............Number Of Woody’s Song Program Attendees 207 ................................ Number Of Gifts And Acquisitions 128 .......................................... Number Of Adult Programs 41 ..............................................Number Of Facility Rentals 1 (online) .......................Number Of Catalogues Produced MMOA BY THE NUMBERS 3 FROM THE DIRECTOR This Annual Report includes many wonderful programs, exhibitions, gifts and acquisitions that preceded my tenure as the Museum’s Director (which began Oct. 1, 2012). As I review those achievements in the following pages, I am reminded of what a dedicated, talented group of Board members, staff and volunteers we have! The Annual Report is a clear indicator of ongoing, dedicated activity by many good folks; it also communicates our commitment to arts education – the heart and soul of our core mission. Our Education department is thriving in its enrichment of lives at every age. After completing my first year in Mobile, I am pleased to report I am very happy to be here and honored to be associated with this fine Museum. I Deborah Velders look forward to building upon the successes of the past as we begin year- Mobile Museum of Art Director long preparations and activities for our 50th Anniversary, culminating in celebrations in early November 2014. It’s been a good year... and we expect an even better year to cite in our next Annual Report! 2011–2012 Mrs. Wanda Chalhub Mrs. Rosalie P. Lockhart Mrs. Buffy Donlon Mrs. Austill S. Lott BOARD OF DIRECTORS Mr. Tyrone Fenderson, Jr. Dr. Arnold Luterman Dr. W. Allen Oaks Mr. F. Michael Johnson Mr. Lowell J. Friedman Mrs. Lucy McVay Chairman Treasurer Dr. J. Russell Goodloe, Jr. Mrs. H. Taylor Morrissette Mrs. Katie H. Hassell Mrs. Geri S. Moulton Mr. G. Tim Gaston Mrs. Tammy Smith Mrs. Susan O. Helmsing Mr. James F. Watkins Vice Chairman Secretary Mrs. Yuko T. Jordan Mrs. Sheri N. Weber ADVISORY COMMITTEE Mrs. Billie F. Goodloe Mrs. Arlene Mitchell Ms. Ansley G. Green Mrs. Edna Rivers Mrs. Nan Altmayer Dr. Fred Cushing, Jr. City Council Mbr. Gina Gregory Mrs. Nancy T. Sledge Mrs. Karen Outlaw Atchison Mr. Michael C. Dow Dr. and Mrs. Rhodes Haverty Mrs. Teresa M. Smith Dr. Robert J. Bantens Mr. Gilbert F. Dukes, Jr. Mr. Vivian G. Johnston, Jr. Ms. Sarah C. Teague Mrs. Patrice Baur Mrs. Patricia Edington Mayor Samuel L. Jones Mrs. Ann Marie Terry Mrs. Linda H. Cooper Mrs. Marilyn Foley Dr. Jerry D. Jordan Mr. Charles Duke Zucker City Council Pres. State Rep. Victor Mr. James E. Kennedy Reggie Copeland Gaston Mrs. Freida Maisel 4 FROM THE DIRECTOR EXHIBITIONS JOHN JAMES AUDUBON: American Artist and Naturalist October 14 to January 8, 2012 John James Audubon’s (1785-1851) accomplishments as a naturalist and artist were chronicled in this exhibition. His written journals kept over a lifetime stand as an unsurpassed contribution to the world of fine art, natural science, American history and literature. The exhibition featured 51 Double Elephant Folio size, hand-colored engravings from his masterwork, The Birds of America, printed in England between 1826 and 1838. The Birds of America consists of four volumes containing 435 hand- colored plates portraying 1,065 birds. Life-size images of the birds, from JOHN JAMES AUDUBON: American the snowy owl to the blue heron, were printed on sheets of J. Whatman Artist and Naturalist John James Audubon (American, 1785-1851), Double Elephant laid paper measuring 26 1/2 inches by 39 inches, the largest Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes Migratorius), Plate #62, 1829, hand-colored copper plate engraving. On loan size available. Fewer than 200 of the complete four-volume sets were ever from the Collection of the John James Audubon Museum, Henderson, Kentucky. printed. The exhibition also presented original works by Audubon, including oil paintings, a drawing and watercolors with his field notes, as well as comparative prints and a portrait of Audubon by his contemporaries, original letters, documents, personal items, rare books and photographs. Reflections and Projections: A Collaboration of Music and Art October 14 to January 8, 2012 Birmingham artist Sally Johnson and Miami-based composer Dorothy Hindman collaborated to create this installation of projected and still images in an environment of ambient “aleatory” music. The inspiration for this project was a conversation Johnson had with legendary avant-garde musician John Cage (1912-1992). Aleatory music, as Cage employed it, incorporates random or accidental elements and has been an important contribution to modern music, dance and drama. The exhibition was conceived to involve the viewer in an experience of chance interaction with the projected and Reflections and Projections: A still images produced by Johnson and with Hindman’s music, which came Collaboration of Music and Art Sally Wood Johnson (American, b. 1933), Silence, from nine separate music sources playing individual lines of music begun in 2007, digital photograph. random fashion. This exhibition was organized by the Mobile Museum of Art and Sally Wood Johnson and was supported by a grant from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. EXHIBITIONS 5 EXHIBITIONS Celebrating Our Maritime Heritage: A Coastal Holiday December 9 to January 8, 2012 Juror Ben Shamback selected this display of works by local artists on the theme of coastal and maritime life from well over 100 submissions. Shamback is a highly accomplished realist painter and instructor at the University of South Alabama. Works in the show depicted the picturesque waterfront and estuaries of the Mobile area as well as wildlife fishing boats and other water-based activities. Best of Show honors went to William C. Morris for his incredibly detailed and evocative scene of a snowy egret flying over the Celebrating Our Maritime Heritage: A Mobile Delta as the sun sets behind a bank of clouds. Coastal Holiday William C. Morris (American, b. 1945), Dust on the Delta, acrylic on paper. FACING SOUTH: Portraits of Southern Artists by Jerry Siegel January 13 to April 1, 2012 This series of portraits by Jerry Siegel is the result of more than 15 years of traveling to visit the homes and studios of the South’s most significant artists. As a young man, Siegel had become acquainted with many artists through his namesake uncle’s Selma gallery, which was one of the first to collect and promote Southern artists. This project began as Siegel was photographing some of his friends who happened to be older artists and realized the value a more complete record would have for art historians. In all, 100 intimate, sympathetically composed portraits of the artists – potters, sculptors, photographers, painters and writers – were presented. A book by the same name was released with the opening of the exhibition. Co-published by The University of Alabama Press and the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University, Facing South includes brief FACING SOUTH: Portraits of Southern Artists by Jerry Siegel biographies of these remarkable artists and essays by Marilyn Laufer, Dennis Jerry