THE MUSCARELLE MUSEUM OF ART DIRECTOR DIRECTOR’S FELLOW HOURS ADMISSION Aaron De Groft, Ph.D. Christina Carroll Tuesday – Friday Regular Admission: $5.00 10 AM – 5 PM Special Exhibitions CURATOR OF EDUCATION & NEW MEDIA EDUCATION SPECIALIST/ Additional: $5.00 - $10.00 Amy Gorman, Ph.D. GRADUATE ASSISTANT Saturday – Sunday Elayne Russell 12 noon – 4 PM Free to Members, W&M College Students, Faculty and Staff, and ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR Closed Monday Children under Twelve. Cindy Lucas ASSISTANT TO DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATION, & NEW MEDIA Admission may change during Rusty Meadows special exhibitions. SPECIAL PROJECTS ADMINISTRATOR M - F, 8 AM – 5 PM Ursula McLaughlin-Miller For more information CURATORIAL FELLOW Closed on most national holidays please visit our website, Katja Saldana REGISTRAR www.wm.edu/muscarelle Melissa Parris or call 757.221.2700. DIRECTOR OF SECURITY Charles Pfenning MEMBERSHIP MANAGER Bronwen Watts ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF SECURITY Larry Wright FACILITIES & EXHIBITIONS MANAGER Kevin Gilliam SECURITY Ernest Wright MUSEUM SHOP MANAGER COVER: Mary Grace Shore Michelangelo Buonarroti Studio per un Cristo risorto Black pencil and ink on paper Courtesy of Archivio Buonarroti © 2010 Fondazione Casa Buonarroti, Florence, Italy Michelangelo Buonarroti Studio di nuda Red pencil and ink on paper Courtesy of Archivio Buonarroti © 2010 Fondazione Casa Buonarroti, Florence, Italy THIS PAGE: Michelangelo Buonarroti Basi di pilastri Red pencil on paper Courtesy of Casa Buonarroti © 2010 Fondazione Casa Buonarroti, Florence, Italy BACK: Michelangelo Buonarroti Studio di nudo maschile Red pencil on paper Courtesy of Archivio Buonarroti © 2010 Fondazione Casa Buonarroti, Florence, Italy One of our primary core values is curatorial as a laboratory for learning. As many of you LETTER excellence. There are few times in a director’s know one of our student volunteers, Rusty SPRING/SUMMER life when he can sit back and say “wow” at Meadows, co-curated the Andy Warhol FROM THE an exhibition schedule – this year I certainly exhibition as part of his senior honors thesis. DIRECTOR have. Without a doubt, for a museum of our As part of the Warhol exhibition the Museum size, our exhibition schedule is unparalleled. encouraged Rusty and our Director’s Fellow, Following the modern master Andy Warhol, Christina Carroll, to present lectures on topics 10 the Museum is the only U.S. venue for works of of their interest to the community. This spring the Old Master and one of the greatest artists the Herman Graphic Arts Study Room will in the history of the world, Michelangelo be used for several student-curated shows MICHELANGELO Buonarroti. The exhibition features drawings, including an exhibition highlighting the Anatomy as archival pages, and engravings that are rarely history of printmaking. Curating is not all our Architecture, Drawings seen and infrequently loaned from the Casa students do, however. If you were to walk into by the Master Buonarroti in Florence, Italy. Michelangelo: the DEN as our students call it (Development, February 6, 2010 through April 11, 2010 Anatomy as Architecture, Drawings by the Education, and New Media Department), on Greetings, Master depicts and illustrates Michelangelo’s any given day you would see students engaged concept and philosophy that architecture in projects including exhibition design, THE MEDIATED was anatomical like it has never been done developing marketing and public relations I read an article recently about IMAGE before. It will be on view from February 6, plans, and collection research. Day in and Techniques of museums moving locations and 2010 through April 11, 2010. The Museum day out our professional staff is engaging and Printmaking and College has produced a catalogue of the fostering an environment for the Museum to February 6, 2010 through re-designing buildings in an exhibition as part of its scholarly mission. serve as a laboratory for learning. April 11, 2010 effort to reconnect with their Another of our primary core values is to Our continuing ability to strive toward our core institutional values. Since integrate with faculty, staff and students core values is due in large part to you. Thank POPULAR our re-branding in November of The College. This past fall we hosted you for your continuing generosity and RELIGION an exhibition of works by thirteen of our support of the Muscarelle Museum of Art. I Art of Private Devotion 2008, I have been thinking a Studio Art faculty and featured lectures by look forward to seeing you all this spring. in Colonial Mexico & Peru lot about our core values as a several artists in the exhibition. This spring Coming in April a member of the Studio Art faculty, Elizabeth Best, museum, and more importantly Mead, will open an exhibition of unbearably how we are doing at achieving beautiful photographs showing the effects UNBEARABLE of mercury poisioning. This collaboration, a BEAUTY them. Due to the support of multi-departmental, global inquiry group at Photographs by The College opens April 24, corresponding Eugene Smith the Museum family, I can say Aaron H. De Groft, Ph.D., W&M ’88 with Earth Day and the William & Mary April 24, 2010 through Director we have never as an institution International Symposium on Mercury June 20, 2010 done a better job at attaining Poisoning. This is but one way, albeit a major way, to fully integrate the Muscarelle into the our core values. life and liberal arts mission of The College. A third of our core values is using the Museum Michelangelo’s full name is Michelangelo di Lodovico Buornarroti Simoni. He was born in Caprese, Italy on March 6, 1475 to Ludovico di Leonardo di Buonarotto Simoni and Francesca Neri, he was one of five brothers. Best known for his artistic achievements in painting, sculpture and architecture, Michelangelo was also a poet. There are more than 300 of his poems still in existence. Dear Members and BOARD OF LETTER DIRECTORS FROM THE Supporters of the CHAIRMAN INTERIM CHAIRMAN Museum, be accredited by the AAM. Fewer Ray C. Stoner than five percent of museums in the VICE CHAIR U.S. are accredited. I have no doubt Theresa Thompson the Muscarelle will receive its third Ten years ago I was asked to be an inaugural member SECRETARY accreditation award this year. Constance W. Desaulniers of the Board of Directors of the Muscarelle Museum of As an extension of our continuing self-study and evaluation, the Anne H. Barr 2008/09 Progress Report of the Art. Ten years later I can hardly believe the success Polly S. Bartlett Museum is provided at the back of this David M. Brashear the Museum has achieved. Poised for greatness, the bulletin. Despite a troubled economy, membership, attendance, and financial Laura Burrows Museum now has a steady influx of willing docents, support all remained steady. Kathleen D. Durdin Sarah O. Gunn Friends, and student volunteers; an unmatched On behalf of the entire Board of Susan Hillard Directors, thank you for continued George E. Howell exhibition schedule; and a talented professional staff support that made 2009 another great Jane Kaplan year for the Museum. We look forward Michael W. Koch to working with you all to make 2010 Gordan S. Kray an even better year for the Muscarelle Jill M. Lord led by a director that literally brought the professionals will visit the Museum to Museum of Art. Museum out of the trenches. With these conclude the re-accreditation process. Janet M. Osborn Patrisia B. Owens tools I know the Museum is only going to We anxiously look forward to showing our Sincerely, continue to improve over the upcoming guests what the Muscarelle has achieved Pamela G. Palmore years. in the last ten years. Kathleen M. Ring Christine C. Rowland Over the past year the Museum engaged For those of you unfamiliar with the Anna C. Sim in a self-study for its re-accreditation accreditation history of the Museum, Ray C. Stoner, Esq., W&M J.D. ’71 Dr. John T. Spike with the American Association of the Muscarelle Museum of Art was Interim Chairman, Board of Directors Jane Y. Spurling Museums. The self-study period provided accredited by the American Association Muscarelle Museum of Art Carlton A. Stockton an opportunity for the Museum staff to of Museums (AAM) in 1988, and received H.C. Thaxton, Jr. evaluate the core values and practices subsequent accreditation in 2000. The N. Christian Vinyard of the Muscarelle. During the summer Museum was the first university museum Dixie D. Wolf of 2010, a peer group of museum in the Commonwealth of Virginia to Michelangelo: Anatomy as Architecture, Drawings by the Master by Aaron De Groft, Director One of the most famous artists in the ON VIEW AT MUSCARELLE history of the world, Michelangelo OPENS CLOSES FEB 6 APR 11 Buonarroti is known for his iconic works 2010 2010 such as the Sistine Chapel and the sculpture David. Without a doubt, however, the rare and infrequently seen drawings of this Renaissance artist are among the most treasured in the world. Michelangelo: Anatomy as Architecture consists Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564) had a vision ancient sculptures. More importantly, when he of drawings, archival pages, and engravings on of architecture rooted in the understanding of was sixteen years old and a guest at the convent THIS PAGE: loan from the finest collection of Michelangelo the human body, and his theory of anatomy was church of Santo Spirito on the south-side of the Michelangelo Buonarroti Schizzi di blocchi di marmo con drawings and ancestral home, the Casa Buonarroti articulated in the study and design of architecture. Arno River in Florence, he dissected corpses from annotazioni autografe, 1517 in Florence, Italy. Combined with Old Master While most Renaissance architects treated the the convent hospital. Besides making drawings of Ink and red pencil on paper Courtesy of Casa Buonarroti drawings from the collection of the Museum, human body as analogy, Michelangelo, a supreme dissections, Michelangelo also studied and drew © 2010 Fondazione Casa Buonarroti, Florence, Italy the exhibition depicts and illustrates in a way master of the human form, took the comparison from the human model.