WINTER 2018/19 fiamagazine Board of Trustees 1 Thomas J. Mitchell From the Executive Director CONTENTS President Elizabeth S. Murphy First Vice-President executive director 1 founders travel 27 Mark Lippincott Membership Second Vice-President exhibitions 2–9 education 28–31 Kathryn C. Boles Becoming a member of the Flint Institute Genesee County voters granting everyone Secretary of Arts has always been a popular way in the county free admission to the FIA art on loan 10–11 art school 32–35 Martha Sanford Treasurer for people to support the museum while galleries for the next 10 years. Although we acquisitions 12–13 contributions 36–37 Dean Yeotis Immediate Past President also receiving a benefit. For example, avid films 14–16 membership 38–40 Eleanor Brownell travelers join at the $100 level and above Ann K. Chan for the benefit of free admission to 1,038 James Draper news & programs 17–26 museum shop 41 Founders Society President museums nationwide in the North American Carol Hurand Reciprocal Museum (NARM) program. Others calendars 19, 23, 25 Raymond J. Kelly III Jimmy King join for the benefit of attending members- Alan Klein only exhibition previews and lectures or for Jamile Lawand Eureka McCormick eligibility to join a limited membership to Office Hours Admission William H. Moeller the Print Club. Bargain lovers find the 10% Jay Nelson discount at the Museum Shop and Palette Mon–Fri, 9a–5p Adults $10.00* Karl Olmsted 12 & under FREE Dr. Brenda Rogers-Grays Café irresistible and students enrolled in Gallery Hours Students w/ ID $8.00* Michael Rucks Mon–Fri, 12p–5p; Sat, 10a–5p; Senior citizens 62+, $8.00* Ira A. Rutherford Sun, 1p–5p Mary Coe Ryan active military, & veteran Closed on major holidays Patricia Spangler Theresa Stephens-Lock FIA Theater Hours Tiffany Stolzenfeld were happy about what that Lynne A. Taft-Draper means to our future and Fri & Sat, 7:30p; Sun, 2p FOMA President Jan Werschky for the residents living in Museum Shop & Shannon Easter White Genesee County, we were Art School Gallery * Free to FIA members and apprehensive about the 810.234.1695 FCCC Board Representative Genesee County residents Steve Heddy Mon–Sat, 10a–5p; Sun, 1p–5p effect the millage would Honorary Trustee have on revenue from The Palette Café Elizabeth Neithercut memberships. We were 810.249.0593 told that when the Detroit Mon–Fri, 9a–5p; Sat, 10a–5p; Website Institute of Arts received Sun, 1p–5p flintarts.org Administration John B. Henry their three-county millage in The Museum Shop, Art School Address Executive Director 2012, they saw a significant Michael A. Melenbrink 2018 members-only Thompsons Lecture Gallery, and The Palette Café are 1120 E. Kearsley St. decrease in memberships. open late for select special events. Flint, MI 48503 Director of Finance & Administration I am relieved and pleased Telephone Kathryn K. Sharbaugh Director of Development the FIA Art School join to receive early to report that, so far, that is not the case at 810.234.1695 Tracee J. Glab registration and a 20% discount on tuition. the FIA. In fact, membership is at its highest Curator of Collections & level ever! More than 4,300 individuals Fax Exhibitions Rubens Society members join at the highest 810.234.1692 Monique M. Desormeau level ($1,000 and above) to attend three have chosen to continue to support the FIA Curator of Education exclusive events each year: a dinner following through their membership contribution. Donovan Entrekin Director of the Art School the annual Thompson Lecture with the guest The fact that the millage passed and our fia Sarah Mullane speaker in attendance; a sumptuous holiday membership numbers have also increased, Director of Member & This magazine, made possible through a generous donation by Lynne Hurand, Guest Relations event; and a springtime visit to private is once again, testimony to the committment is published four times per year for mailing to FIA members, museums, and collections or artist’s studios. Others use their our community has always had to support the libraries around the country. membership eligibility to join one or both arts. cover image of the FIA’s auxiliary groups, the Friends of As always, thank you for your continued The FIA is a non-profit, equal FIA Exhibitions and Programs are Vanessa German Modern Art and the Founders Society, for the support of the FIA, and I look forward to opportunity employer, and made possible in part with the American, born 1977 added benefits their organizations offer. And seeing you soon. we are the animals are us (detail), provides programs and support of the Michigan 2017 some people just like receiving the quarterly services without regard to Council for Arts and Mixed-media assemblage FIA Magazine with timely announcements of John B. Henry, Executive Director race, color, religion, national Cultural Affairs, a partner 81 x 48 x 36 inches origin, age, sex or handicap. agency of the National Collection of the Figge Art upcoming events. Operating support for the Endowment for the Arts. Museum, Davenport; museum purchase with funds provided FIA is provided in part by by the Friends of Art Acquisition In the last issue of the FIA Magazine, I the Charles Stewart Mott Fund and Linda and J. Randolph announced the passage of a millage by Foundation. Lewis, 2017.27.2 2 CLOSING SOON 3 Art of Collecting Impressionist through 1.6.19 Hodge and Henry Galleries Prints of Exhibition is The Art of Collecting, organized by the FIA, is sponsored by an exhibition of paintings, prints, drawings, and Childe Hassam sculptures on consignment from galleries in New York, through 1.13.19 Chicago, and Detroit, selected based on comparisons of price and quality. All artworks are available for Graphics Gallery purchase. Each object represents an outstanding You may be familiar with Childe value in the art market and an excellent opportunity Hassam’s impressionist oil paintings, for seasoned, as well as novice, collectors to purchase such as Newport Waterfront, which high quality artwork with confidence. Prices range from hangs in the FIA’s Rabiah Gallery. This $200 for prints to more than $400,000 for works by exhibition explores another side of master artists. Hassam’s artistic output—his works on paper. He began producing etchings in 1915, turning away from oil paintings to experiment in a different medium. Breaking with Tradition Still impressionist in style, his etchings Contemporary Ceramics demonstrate his fascination with city and country landscapes, as well as through 1.27.19 figures. Harris - Burger Gallery EXHIBITIONS Breaking with Tradition features EXHIBITIONS work by artists who have bent the rules and subverted ideas Kathryn Kennedy Sharbaugh about traditional ceramics with American, born 1948 Night Jump, 1999 unconventional subjects, experimental Porcelain techniques, and manipulations of 8 × 5 × 2 inches Gift of Jane M. Bingham in historical and traditional forms. memory of Grayce M. Scholt, Like the other artists in this exhibition, 2018.42 Kathryn Kennedy Sharbaugh took an unconventional approach to a traditional subject: the teapot. In 1999, Sharbaugh created Night Jump, imbedding her own symbolic language based on geometric Childe Hassam forms. The emblematic language of Night American, 1859–1935 New England Barroom, 1917 Jump comes from Sharbaugh’s personal Etching on paper 3 1 experience with looking at the night 7 /8 × 18 /8 inches Gift of Mrs. Childe Hassam, sky through a spotting scope she had 1940.26 purchased for bird watching. She became fascinated with the rings of Saturn, Graphics Gallery which prompted her to think about the is sponsored by type of night jumps soldiers took with parachutes. Saturn’s rings and the shape of the parachute make up the body of the design. 4 ON VIEW OPENING IN JANUARY 5 Small Worlds The Drama of Japanese Prints through 5.26.19 1.19.19 – 4.14.19 Ann K. Walch-Chan Gallery Graphics Gallery Small Worlds features paperweights Most of the classic weights in the This exhibition features woodblock spanning from the mid-19th century, the exhibition were collected by FIA patron, Viola prints by Tsukioka Kōgyo (1869–1927), classic period of paperweight production, Bray and gifted in 1969 by her family. Also on from the private collections of Dr. David through present day. By comparing classical view are classic and contemporary weights Weinberg and Dr. Sheldon Siegel. Each with contemporary weights, you will see collected by Genevieve Shaw given to the work depicts scenes and characters from how they have stayed true to tradition, as FIA by her husband, Richard, shortly after her Japanese Noh theatre, which combines well as evolved stylistically over the last 150 death in 2007. The contemporary weights acting, singing, dancing, and elaborate years. Flowers are a design motif that has on loan are from two private collections costuming to tell stories of romance, remained in the vernacular of paperweight including Tennessee collector Gordon Park, revenge, adventure, and salvation. Noh artists still today. The language of flowers, who generously lent a selection of aquatic theatre is a traditional aristocratic form of known as floriography, became popular in works by Rick Ayotte to the exhibition. Japanese performing arts, is considered France in the early 19th more refined than the popular Kabuki century and by mid- theatre. The stage decorations are sparse, century was embraced by drawing the audience’s attention to the Victorian society. Flowers actors in their lavish, colorful costumes. symbolically represent The Drama of Japanese Prints features different meanings, such prints from two major series by Kōgyo: as a red rose for passion Nōgaku zue (pictures of Noh plays) and and a yellow rose for Nōgaku hyakuban (One Hundred Noh friendship. Although not Plays).