Quarterly Calendar Fall 2012 cover: Art Center Association of Sioux City Andrew Langoussis, Sojourner: Solar Reef, 2010 Carlos G. Rodriguez, President cast bronze, 86 x 86 x 24 inches John Wagner, Vice President Stacie Anderson, 2nd Vice President/Secretary Mike Nagel, Treasurer Legacy Collection purchase, 2012.01 Sheri Lund, Past President Gift of the Yanney family, Jim, Charese and Jim Jr., in loving memory of Do Yanney. Stacie Anderson Calendar of Events page: Joyce Barnes Chosen detailed images from Leonardo da Vinci: Man Inventor Genius & Man Artist Genius exhibition Greg Berenstein Luanne Gielser Helen Glazer Dolores Guest Chris Holman Paula Jacobsen Mari Kaptain-Dahlen Kevin Kjeldseth Lisa Leopold Shannon Liddell Laurie Mills Lisa Newton Dr. Carol Roge Emma Rooney Mary Sterk Mindy Stevens Suzan Stewart Laura Troth Joe Twidwell Kent Vriezelaar Distinguished Members Leslie Bebee Sandy Ellis Helen Glazer Milt Glazer Junior League Liaison Angela Ericson Sculpt Siouxland Liaison Lisa Kalaher Sioux City Art Center Board of Trustees Jeff Baldus, Chair Gregory Jones Steve Kammerer Terri McGaffin Dwight Packard Doug Palmer James Yanney City Council Bob Scott, Mayor John Fitch, Mayor Pro-Tem Rhonda Capron Tom Padgett Keith Radig Paul A. Eckert, City Manager Art Center Staff Al Harris-Fernandez, Art Center Director Sandi Baron, Visitor Services Deb Bell, Custodian Todd Behrens, Curator Dave Brienzo, Custodian Jenny Bye, Studio Program Coordinator Lynn Foster, Visitor Services/Membership Secretary TABLE OF CONTENTS Regis Garvey, Development Coordinator Roy Hullinger, Custodian Lyle Listamann, Publications Coordinator 3 Report from the Director Alice A. Marley, Education Liaison Debra Marqusee, Education Aide 4 Current Exhibitions Shannon Sargent, Exhibitions/Collections Coordinator Mary Sexton, Visitor Services 6 New Exhibitions Mary Vaught, Visitor Services Lisa Verschoor-Matney, ArtSplash Coordinator 7 Ongoing Exhibitions Erin Webber-Dreeszen, Development Associate Kjersten Welch, Administrative Secretary 8 Art Star 9 Calendar of Events 10 art center’s ArtSplash 11 Development All exhibitions and programs are supported, in part, by a grant from the Iowa Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and the National Endowment for the Arts; the Art Center Association of Sioux City; 14 Education and the City of Sioux City. Report from the Director The Sioux City Art Center is a model Art Center. Over the last ten years, public and private partnership. While the the Foundation has provided funds to Art Center is a department of the City of support the Art Center’s endowment, Sioux City, the Art Center’s staff works and its education, exhibition and closely with the Art Center Association of collecting programs, as well as our Sioux City, the non-profit fundraising arm future plans to increase access to of the Art Center, to raise approximately education and the Permanent Art one-half of the Art Center’s total Collection with an expansion of the Art annual operating budget. Without this Center facility. Most recently Gilchrist partnership, the Art Center could not Foundation support allowed us to mount offer the quality programs it provides our a television advertising campaign in community. March – May of 2012 that resulted in a significant increase of first-time visitors Greetings! If you have not visited the to the Art Center. Leonardo da Vinci exhibition, you have until October 14 to view and participate I look forward to seeing you at the Art in this major traveling show, featuring Center. models of Leonardo’s inventions and ideas as well as full-scale reproductions Al Harris-Fernandez of the 23 artworks that are attributed to Art Center Director him, including The Last Supper. Unless you have visited the famous mural in its location in the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy, you will be surprised at its size. The Last Supper measures 15 × 29 feet. While the Art Center’s staff continues to be involved with the Leonardo exhibition, they have also been planning the reinstallation of the long-term exhibition featured in the Margaret Ann Martin Everist Permanent Collection Gallery. The tentative opening of the updated exhibition is September 26, and will Sunday, November 25, 2012, 3 – 5 pm feature both long-time favorites as well as new artworks acquired through the Kick off the holiday season with a free Legacy Collection collecting initiative. concert in the T. S. Martin Atrium by In addition to adding new artworks, the pianist Richard Steinbach as he premieres exhibition will feature additional free his latest CD—CHRISTMAS SPIRIT—a educational materials, as well as new collection of classic holiday favorites! books and catalogs for the adjacent study area non-circulating library. A new Richard Steinbach is a professor of facet to the study area is that many of music at Briar Cliff University and is these same materials will be available at the grand prizewinner of the France the Sioux City Public Library. Piano International Competition (Paris, 1995). He has performed extensively as The Legacy Collection collecting both soloist and collaborative artist in initiative has been made possible concerts throughout the United States, through a combination of support from Canada, Peru, Ecuador, France, Italy, the Blockbuster Partners II, Heffernan Great Britain, New Zealand, Jamaica, Fund, M. A. Martin Everist Foundation South Korea, Japan and The People’s and the Gilchrist Foundation. Republic of China. The Gazetta del Mezzogiorno (Bari, Italy) stated that I especially want to acknowledge the Steinbach’s performance exhibited special role that the Gilchrist Foundation “sonorous expressivity, consummate has played in supporting the Sioux City clarity and insightful sensitivity…” CURRENT EXHIBITIONS Man Inventor Genius & Man Artist Genius July 14 – October 14, 2012 The Sioux City Art Center is proud to present its newest Blockbuster exhibition, Leonardo da Vinci: Man Inventor Genius & Man Artist Genius. This massive celebration of the mind of the original “Renaissance Man” brings to life many of Leonardo’s most remarkable ideas and inventions while taking visitors on a journey that features nearly two dozen carefully rendered reproductions of his artistic masterpieces. While he is widely known as the creator of the world’s most famous painting, Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was recognized in his time as a genius in science and engineering. Made by the Italian family of artisans that has been building them to da Vinci’s specifications for two centuries, the meticulously crafted models in this exhibition include many interactive inventions and machines related to flight, hydraulics, mechanics, and war. To view Leonardo’s paintings in a single trip, one would need a passport to visit at least five countries throughout Europe. Each of the painting reproductions is presented to scale, including the massive Last Supper, which is displayed in the Art Center’s atrium. By presenting Leonardo’s paintings along with his inventions, this exhibition reveals how his creativity flowed from careful observation and an unquenchable thirst for knowledge. To enrich visitors’ experiences, the exhibition includes four interactive computer stations to explain how Leonardo’s designs work, a time line that chronicles Leonardo’s life, and a five-part docudrama film, The Life of Leonardo da Vinci, that is shown in its entirety daily in the Stark Lecture Hall: Tuesday through Saturday, the film begins at 11:00 am, with a special evening showing on Thursday beginning at 4:00 pm. On Sunday, one half of the 4.5 hour film will be shown beginning at 1:15 pm. The exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: Man Inventor Genius And don’t forget to join us for lunch during the Leonardo da Vinci exhibition at the & Man Artist Genius is organized by EMS Exhibits, Vienna Arté Bistro in the Gardner Room, featuring soups, salads, sandwiches, and desserts and distributed by Exhibits Development Group, USA. from Distinctive Gourmet! The Sioux City Art Center’s seventh in a series of major traveling exhibitions underwritten by the Blockbuster Partners: Founder Avery Brothers Sign Company • The Gardner Foundation • Powell Broadcasting • Sioux City Journal Patron Irving, Jr. & Carolyn “Tigger” Jensen • KTIV – News Channel 4 • Security National Bank • Drs. Allan S. Manalan & Diane K. Werth • Wilson Trailer Company Investor BPI Technology, Inc. • Great Southern Bank • Klinger Companies, Inc. Sponsor Anonymous Contributor Eunice Acker & Donnin Custer • Richard C. Brown, Jr., M.D. & Aaron Beutler • Chesterman Company • Rick & Regis Garvey • Innovative Benefit Consultants – Stuart Lee • Mercy Medical Center – Sioux City • Tegra Corporation • Thompson Electric/Electric Innovations • Wells Fargo Bank Additional support from the Gilchrist Foundation ADMISSION FEES Arte Non-Members: ` $ Adult 10 $ DG Senior/Student 7 Child (12 & under) $4 Bistro Hours: 11 am – 2 pm Tuesday – Saturday Members: $ Adult 8 $ The Sioux City Art Center in partnership with Senior/Student 5.60 $ Distinctive Gourmet is proud to announce the Child (12 & under) 3.20 opening of Arté Bistro. Enjoy an epicurean Groups of 10 or more $7 delight with the following offerings: Evenings after 5:00 pm $5 Soup de Jour (except for children 12 & under) Soup of the Day ................................... $4.00 Salads The D.G. Wedge Salad ........................ $8.00 Applewood Smoked Bacon, Crumbled Blue Cheese & Tomato Strawberry Spinach Salad .................... $8.00 Baby Spinach topped with