> Images in Tile - Joplin
This company, founded here in 2002 by Paul Whitehill and Mary MacPherson, essentially puts 2D art on tile and glass for domestic and commercial architectural applications ranging from a kitchen counter-top to an atrium mural. They use stock images, but also have a line of original art which they presumably license for reproduction or will commission for special projects... so, they will consider new images if an artist thinks they might like to give it a try. Images in Tile is, I would say, a paradigm of what can be accomplished in the applied art professions.
Last year their revenues were reported to be $1,200,000, and they employ 10 people. They have been selected for the 2006 Missouri Governor's Small Business Award for their role in economic development... as reported in the very useful and almost-new Joplin Tri-State Business periodical ( jwells@joplintsb.com )
See this link for Images in Tile:
www.imagesintile.com
Friday, July 14, 2006
Thursday, July 13, 2006
July 2006 Page 8
> Daughter becomes Department Head
My eldest daughter, Shannon Bell-Price, was recently promoted to Senior Research Associate, Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC... she has been with that museum for almost seven years. See what their program is about here:
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_Of_Art/department.asp?dep=8
> Hillary Rodham Clinton portrait
Ginny Stanford is the artist who painted the portrait of Senator Clinton recently seen on TV being unveiled along with the full length image of her husband... both of which are now on display in the newly refurbished and open National Portrait Gallery in Washington. Ginny was born and raised on a farm near Joplin, and in the late 1980s was a client of Visual Art Access in San Francisco. That museum also collected her portrait of the author MFK Fisher, and a New York collector owns a large pencil portrait she made of yrs trly in 1988 at my office on Hayes Street.
> English Language BENEZIT dictionary
At last, there is the publication of the much-treasured Benezit Dictionary of Artists in the english language. The new issue is 14 volumes, 20,608 pages, 170,000 entries, costs a measley $1489 to own and can be obtained from the U.S. distributor out of Detroit, Omnigraphics, Inc. Of all possible international historical artist directories, this is the most definitive one, in my opinion.
> Adopt Art
Interesting new service... artists having works of art they wish to find homes for and collectors looking for art to display on a tight budget (sole cost is one-way shipping) might consider checking out www.fineartadoption.net
> Josh Nail - Springfield, MO artist
Young Josh is Carol Meredith's only son and youngest child... quite an accomplished visual and performing artist. His Reggae band, Jah Roots has been performing for quite awhile, and we are about to see them for our first time in person this weekend in Pittsburg, Kansas at Fox Town City Limits.
For more about him and their music group, see:
www.myspace.com/jahroots
My eldest daughter, Shannon Bell-Price, was recently promoted to Senior Research Associate, Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC... she has been with that museum for almost seven years. See what their program is about here:
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_Of_Art/department.asp?dep=8
> Hillary Rodham Clinton portrait
Ginny Stanford is the artist who painted the portrait of Senator Clinton recently seen on TV being unveiled along with the full length image of her husband... both of which are now on display in the newly refurbished and open National Portrait Gallery in Washington. Ginny was born and raised on a farm near Joplin, and in the late 1980s was a client of Visual Art Access in San Francisco. That museum also collected her portrait of the author MFK Fisher, and a New York collector owns a large pencil portrait she made of yrs trly in 1988 at my office on Hayes Street.
> English Language BENEZIT dictionary
At last, there is the publication of the much-treasured Benezit Dictionary of Artists in the english language. The new issue is 14 volumes, 20,608 pages, 170,000 entries, costs a measley $1489 to own and can be obtained from the U.S. distributor out of Detroit, Omnigraphics, Inc. Of all possible international historical artist directories, this is the most definitive one, in my opinion.
> Adopt Art
Interesting new service... artists having works of art they wish to find homes for and collectors looking for art to display on a tight budget (sole cost is one-way shipping) might consider checking out www.fineartadoption.net
> Josh Nail - Springfield, MO artist
Young Josh is Carol Meredith's only son and youngest child... quite an accomplished visual and performing artist. His Reggae band, Jah Roots has been performing for quite awhile, and we are about to see them for our first time in person this weekend in Pittsburg, Kansas at Fox Town City Limits.
For more about him and their music group, see:
www.myspace.com/jahroots
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
July 2006 Page 7
> Flatwater Art Foundation
On the Missouri river in the village of Brownville, Nebraska, in an 1885 wood-frame church (with steeple) of prairie design, will now be discovered a Folk Art Museum and lyceum founded by and under the direction of George W. Neubert and friends. The purposes of the Foundation include the museum facility, public art projects, and artist-in-residence opportunities, along with educational, museum management, curatorial, collections development and public art policy consultation resources emanating from and relating to the American Heartland... so much so that their logo is a heart in the palm of an open hand.
Neubert served the museum profession as a Curator and Director for about 35 years; in Oakland and San Francisco, CA, Lincoln, NE and San Antonio, TX from which he retired Emeritus. Among museologists and artists, he has always been primarily a dedicated regionalist and remains so in Brownville where his long-time private collection habits have now, in my opinion, surfaced in a public way. By an act of fate or coincidence, he was appointed Chief Curator of Art for The Oakland Museum of California, at age 25. That museum's mission is regional as was established by the late Paul Mills. Neubert, like Mills, was inspired by regionalism... and their motivation in turn inspired me in service with that same and other museums. Neubert's pioneering effort in the fields of art-in-public-places and meaningful support of local artists has always been exemplary and a standard for aspiration. Though Neubert might not agree as stridently, ALL art is first and finally "regional."
The Flatwater Art Foundation and Neubert may be reached at:
P.O. Box 7
Brownville, NE 68321
gwneubert@alltel.net
> Spiva Center for the Arts - Joplin
The George A. Spiva Center for the Arts was established by his philanthropy in 1947, and was first housed in the historic Zelleken home at 4th and Sergeant. It moved to the campus of Missouri Southern State University, and is now located in the old Cosgrove building downtown, about a block west of the public library.
Each season the Spiva staff of three plus volunteers host changing exhibitions of many kinds in the elegant street level gallery, and on the second floor continues support of local artists in the Regional Gallery. Augmenting and in advocacy they maintain an education program of classes and lectures for adults and children, have the beginnings of a permanent collection, and have a gift shop.
Director, Jo Mueller, views the role of the Center as, in part, helping to assert the place of visual arts in the domain of regional economic development, as well as assisting the school system and parents with the task of filling in the gaps of art education for those who are of that inclination. The Spiva Center's contribution to support for hundreds of regional artists over the decades has been limitless and outstanding in a community not generally recognized as being a nexus of fine art activity.
Introduce yourself to their staff, program and facility at:
www.spivaarts.com
On the Missouri river in the village of Brownville, Nebraska, in an 1885 wood-frame church (with steeple) of prairie design, will now be discovered a Folk Art Museum and lyceum founded by and under the direction of George W. Neubert and friends. The purposes of the Foundation include the museum facility, public art projects, and artist-in-residence opportunities, along with educational, museum management, curatorial, collections development and public art policy consultation resources emanating from and relating to the American Heartland... so much so that their logo is a heart in the palm of an open hand.
Neubert served the museum profession as a Curator and Director for about 35 years; in Oakland and San Francisco, CA, Lincoln, NE and San Antonio, TX from which he retired Emeritus. Among museologists and artists, he has always been primarily a dedicated regionalist and remains so in Brownville where his long-time private collection habits have now, in my opinion, surfaced in a public way. By an act of fate or coincidence, he was appointed Chief Curator of Art for The Oakland Museum of California, at age 25. That museum's mission is regional as was established by the late Paul Mills. Neubert, like Mills, was inspired by regionalism... and their motivation in turn inspired me in service with that same and other museums. Neubert's pioneering effort in the fields of art-in-public-places and meaningful support of local artists has always been exemplary and a standard for aspiration. Though Neubert might not agree as stridently, ALL art is first and finally "regional."
The Flatwater Art Foundation and Neubert may be reached at:
P.O. Box 7
Brownville, NE 68321
gwneubert@alltel.net
> Spiva Center for the Arts - Joplin
The George A. Spiva Center for the Arts was established by his philanthropy in 1947, and was first housed in the historic Zelleken home at 4th and Sergeant. It moved to the campus of Missouri Southern State University, and is now located in the old Cosgrove building downtown, about a block west of the public library.
Each season the Spiva staff of three plus volunteers host changing exhibitions of many kinds in the elegant street level gallery, and on the second floor continues support of local artists in the Regional Gallery. Augmenting and in advocacy they maintain an education program of classes and lectures for adults and children, have the beginnings of a permanent collection, and have a gift shop.
Director, Jo Mueller, views the role of the Center as, in part, helping to assert the place of visual arts in the domain of regional economic development, as well as assisting the school system and parents with the task of filling in the gaps of art education for those who are of that inclination. The Spiva Center's contribution to support for hundreds of regional artists over the decades has been limitless and outstanding in a community not generally recognized as being a nexus of fine art activity.
Introduce yourself to their staff, program and facility at:
www.spivaarts.com
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
July 2006 Page 6
> Thomas Hart Benton
The artist was a native of Neosho, just a few miles south of Joplin near the Arkansas border. Although he is best known for his murals and depictions of rural life, he was also the early mentor of Jackson Pollock in New York... an unlikely seeming alliance if there ever was one; the two men could not have been more different. Pollock furiously and frustratingly attempted to emulate Benton's figurative painting style for a time, possibly because of his own rural upbringings in Wyoming, and came close. There do exist a few works to prove this point which only Pollock scholars would ever recognize as being by his hand. It has been written that Pollock drove himself to his now-famous manner of abstract expressionism partly because of his inability to do what Benton did... one cannot be sure of that assertion, in my opinion.
One famous Joplin story about Benton is told in his autobiography, "An Artist in America". He came here to work the mines at age seventeen. At some point he found himself downtown at the then-famous House of Lords bar at 4th and Main, and describes in his book his response to a saloon painting of a female nude common in those days. The teasing he received from other patrons ended him up doing drawings for the Joplin American newspaper, just around the corner (where the Joplin Globe still is). Benton wrote, "By a little quirk of fate, they made a professional artist of me. It had never seriously occured to me before that I wanted to be an artist, Certainly I had never declared myself one until the kidding in the House of Lords."
> Digitized Postcard Tour of Joplin
Go to www.joplinpubliclibrary.org
~ then click Digitized Collections button
~ then on word "Postcards"
Leslie Simpson, Director, Post Art Reference Library (see squib in this issue of ARTHROBS), worked for 18 months producing and writing narratives to go with all those vintage postcards. It makes for quite a nice virtual tour of this beautiful old town... quite a tribute to Leslie's tenacity and scholarship.
The artist was a native of Neosho, just a few miles south of Joplin near the Arkansas border. Although he is best known for his murals and depictions of rural life, he was also the early mentor of Jackson Pollock in New York... an unlikely seeming alliance if there ever was one; the two men could not have been more different. Pollock furiously and frustratingly attempted to emulate Benton's figurative painting style for a time, possibly because of his own rural upbringings in Wyoming, and came close. There do exist a few works to prove this point which only Pollock scholars would ever recognize as being by his hand. It has been written that Pollock drove himself to his now-famous manner of abstract expressionism partly because of his inability to do what Benton did... one cannot be sure of that assertion, in my opinion.
One famous Joplin story about Benton is told in his autobiography, "An Artist in America". He came here to work the mines at age seventeen. At some point he found himself downtown at the then-famous House of Lords bar at 4th and Main, and describes in his book his response to a saloon painting of a female nude common in those days. The teasing he received from other patrons ended him up doing drawings for the Joplin American newspaper, just around the corner (where the Joplin Globe still is). Benton wrote, "By a little quirk of fate, they made a professional artist of me. It had never seriously occured to me before that I wanted to be an artist, Certainly I had never declared myself one until the kidding in the House of Lords."
> Digitized Postcard Tour of Joplin
Go to www.joplinpubliclibrary.org
~ then click Digitized Collections button
~ then on word "Postcards"
Leslie Simpson, Director, Post Art Reference Library (see squib in this issue of ARTHROBS), worked for 18 months producing and writing narratives to go with all those vintage postcards. It makes for quite a nice virtual tour of this beautiful old town... quite a tribute to Leslie's tenacity and scholarship.
Monday, July 10, 2006
July 2006 Page 5
> Joplin's early art history
This town's pre-european art history was, like most American settlements, exclusively that of indigenous "indian" tribes; beadwork, carving, textiles, basketry and the like mainly of the Wyandotte and Seneca people, but later also of the White River Cherokee band. In the 1870's lead was discovered here in great abundance. Joplin as such quickly became a mining boom town, eventually to include zinc (called "jack" in those days.)
As early as 1876, once wives and children began to civilize this rowdy region, in what was known then as Barbee Park (out west near 20th Street and Maiden Lane), an art and floral hall was established as part of The Joplin Exposition facility, under the Jockey Club and Fair Association.
That same year a young easterner named E.O. Bartlett arrived to invent and patent a method of capturing lead waste fumes coming from the stacks of several Joplin smelters. The product was a substance resembling white flour, and it became the major element in recipes for manufacturing white lead paint; then the only white pigment artists used other than gesso. The US government was Bartlett's primary customer. They bought the chemical for use in producing paint for US Navy battleships. Eventually the White Lead Works evolved to become what is today known as Eagle-Picher Company, a firm still existing in the profession of making military and other specialized batteries. Although white lead pigment has not too long ago fallen out of favor due to its toxicity, any artist who has ever used white lead knows the uncommonly beautiful pearly quality it gives to transparent glazes overlain.
> Ozark artist discovery?
Came across a remarkable painter said to have lived in Rocky Comfort, MO sometime during the 1950s... named Ms. E. BUFFORD (don't know her full first name yet). Donna and Terry Hart of Joplin own 2 of her works from that general time period; one is a folk primitive titled "Log Cabin Home" and the other is provisionally titled "Camp Site" - both are signed BR recto, oil on illustration board, ca. 20 x 18" or so. Terry is a native of Neosho, and worked as a city constable there and in Granby before co-owning with Donna the famous (for its truly crispy frenchfries, fresh pie and down-home hospitality) Eagle Diner in Joplin. The "Camp Site" piece shows a quite sophisticated post-impressionist treatment of the subject, and caught my eye... making me want to know if there are any other paintings of hers around here and what her story was. There is some history that she was once known for doing the finish painting on the folk-art bows and arrows of a Mr. Sam "Fitz" Looney also of Rocky Comfort... an example of which was seen in Las Vegas, NV by Mr. Hart.
> Dioko Coffee Company (514 S. Main, Joplin) art display
Robin Wampler showed me a great Joplin Globe article describing that in December 2005 Dioko showed magnificent paintings and woven rugs (Swedish or Navajo wool) by Joplin artist Gerald A. Johnson, thanks to the efforts of his wife, Lisa. Her husband studied with Ilya Bolotowsky (one of my few favorite formalists of all time)in NYC, and creates tributes of his own to that learning. Quite remarkable work... Dioko has since closed, but the artist may be reached at 417.659.9140
This town's pre-european art history was, like most American settlements, exclusively that of indigenous "indian" tribes; beadwork, carving, textiles, basketry and the like mainly of the Wyandotte and Seneca people, but later also of the White River Cherokee band. In the 1870's lead was discovered here in great abundance. Joplin as such quickly became a mining boom town, eventually to include zinc (called "jack" in those days.)
As early as 1876, once wives and children began to civilize this rowdy region, in what was known then as Barbee Park (out west near 20th Street and Maiden Lane), an art and floral hall was established as part of The Joplin Exposition facility, under the Jockey Club and Fair Association.
That same year a young easterner named E.O. Bartlett arrived to invent and patent a method of capturing lead waste fumes coming from the stacks of several Joplin smelters. The product was a substance resembling white flour, and it became the major element in recipes for manufacturing white lead paint; then the only white pigment artists used other than gesso. The US government was Bartlett's primary customer. They bought the chemical for use in producing paint for US Navy battleships. Eventually the White Lead Works evolved to become what is today known as Eagle-Picher Company, a firm still existing in the profession of making military and other specialized batteries. Although white lead pigment has not too long ago fallen out of favor due to its toxicity, any artist who has ever used white lead knows the uncommonly beautiful pearly quality it gives to transparent glazes overlain.
> Ozark artist discovery?
Came across a remarkable painter said to have lived in Rocky Comfort, MO sometime during the 1950s... named Ms. E. BUFFORD (don't know her full first name yet). Donna and Terry Hart of Joplin own 2 of her works from that general time period; one is a folk primitive titled "Log Cabin Home" and the other is provisionally titled "Camp Site" - both are signed BR recto, oil on illustration board, ca. 20 x 18" or so. Terry is a native of Neosho, and worked as a city constable there and in Granby before co-owning with Donna the famous (for its truly crispy frenchfries, fresh pie and down-home hospitality) Eagle Diner in Joplin. The "Camp Site" piece shows a quite sophisticated post-impressionist treatment of the subject, and caught my eye... making me want to know if there are any other paintings of hers around here and what her story was. There is some history that she was once known for doing the finish painting on the folk-art bows and arrows of a Mr. Sam "Fitz" Looney also of Rocky Comfort... an example of which was seen in Las Vegas, NV by Mr. Hart.
> Dioko Coffee Company (514 S. Main, Joplin) art display
Robin Wampler showed me a great Joplin Globe article describing that in December 2005 Dioko showed magnificent paintings and woven rugs (Swedish or Navajo wool) by Joplin artist Gerald A. Johnson, thanks to the efforts of his wife, Lisa. Her husband studied with Ilya Bolotowsky (one of my few favorite formalists of all time)in NYC, and creates tributes of his own to that learning. Quite remarkable work... Dioko has since closed, but the artist may be reached at 417.659.9140
Sunday, July 09, 2006
July 2006 Page 4
> [Posted from Sand Springs, Oklahoma]
If you might be interested in showing some support for Americans serving in uniform (some of whom are artists) check out the link below... a bona fide serious and freely provided thing we can do without making (or not-making) a political statement:
www.anysoldier.com
> Here is a link to the MISSOURI ARTS COUNCIL news of the month. These councils exist in every American State, and if you aren't already signed on for their automatic updates, then you should be. Your taxes at work, if nothing else... they do a good job, and have for a long number of years.
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July MACnotes is now available on the MAC website. Articles include:
Happy New Fiscal Year!
FY06 Final Report Reminder
2007 Missouri Arts Awards
Call for Panelists
2006 Guide to Festivals
Another Postage Increase?
Opportunities
Conferences, Workshops & More
MAC Calendar
Click here to access July MACnotes (PDF file).
SUBMISSION DEADLINE
If you have news items for MACnotes, please send them to Keiko C. Ishida, email preferred (keiko.ishida@ded.mo.gov) at least two months in advance of the event or opportunity deadline. News items will be published if space allows and may be edited. If you have any feedback on MACnotes or no longer wish to receive it, please notify Keiko C. Ishida at toll free 866/407-4752, 314/340-6845, or keiko.ishida@ded.mo.gov.
Missouri Arts Council, a division of the Department of Economic Development, annually awards approximately $2 million in grants to 400 Missouri organizations for their art activities. As public leader, partner, and catalyst, MAC is dedicated to broadening the appreciation and availability of the arts in the state, and fostering the diversity, vitality, and excellence of Missouri's communities, economy, and cultural heritage.
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Missouri Arts Council 111 N. 7th Street, Suite 105, St. Louis, MO 63101-2188
> SPECIAL TRIBUTE
I want to take this space in your attentions to honor three CURATORIAL INTERNS who worked with me at the Saginaw Art Museum, without whose devotion and labors my so-called "achievements" there would (most certainly) not have occured as timely or as well as they are said to have done:
~ Katie (Katherine) Fruchey ~
Came to us from the now all-but-defunct Museum Studies program at Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant. She worked her butt off during the collection moving phase, staying beyond the terminus of her expected tenure. She decamped to Berkeley, California thereafter for the purpose of attending JFK Museum Studies program, and has been employed by a major bookstore chain in the Bay Area ever since. Her sense of humour was tantamount to mine, and she gave as good as she got.
~ Alex Fintonis ~
This young man arrived as a volunteer whom I urged to become an Intern. He and Katie worked together week after week, slogging through the outdated chaotic collection storage, gently handling and moving one artifact at a time, helping me get those galleries and exhibitions ready in the early days, and helping the museum set up its first Preparatorial shop. I am somewhat responsible, then, for the fact that he met his wife, the wonderful and skilled Mary Penn (then Assistant Curator of Education at SAM, now Curator of Education at Castle Museum of Saginaw County History), during his tenure with us... and, may I say, when I was wondering why the two of them spent so much time together talking over the front desk... the result was a wonderful baby. Alex is now working in the jewelry repair profession, and being a Dad.
~ Sara Gonzalez ~
As a senior in high school, Sara expressed an interest in art museum curatorial work. She ended up coming one day weekly, spending the majority of her time doing the laborious nit-picky stuff of sorting and interfiling Couse and Roecker archives. She is currently about to enter her second year as a student of fine art at Delta College near Saginaw. Perhaps her most memorable experience would have been the day I asked her to (and she did) replace all the burned out bulbs in our changing gallery... almost 20' above the floor, atop a large and gnarly industrial hydraulic lift.
> Sally Armstrong, Director of Art Carthage, says that BRYAN FLOCK, a Joplin artist whose Main Street gallery is called "Wasted Time", has begun publishing "The Current" in town. Now I gotta go meet this guy and see how little time he's wasting.
> Department of "DO WE REALLY NEED THIS?"
My brother, George, was the first to let me know that there is about to be yet another GUGGENHEIM art museum... this one in ABU DHABI (a nation which refuses diplomatic ties with Israel, building a museum whose original funder was and the architect of which is Jewish.) They expect it all to cost, roughly, $400,000,000, or thereabouts, give or take... for edifice and collection.
a. I was kinda sorta hoping it wouldn't have to be designed by Gehry again. How 'bout Rem KoolHaas instead!
b. What happens when the oil actually DOES run out? Sand fleas anyone?
c. Pardon my cynicism.
If you might be interested in showing some support for Americans serving in uniform (some of whom are artists) check out the link below... a bona fide serious and freely provided thing we can do without making (or not-making) a political statement:
www.anysoldier.com
> Here is a link to the MISSOURI ARTS COUNCIL news of the month. These councils exist in every American State, and if you aren't already signed on for their automatic updates, then you should be. Your taxes at work, if nothing else... they do a good job, and have for a long number of years.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
July MACnotes is now available on the MAC website. Articles include:
Happy New Fiscal Year!
FY06 Final Report Reminder
2007 Missouri Arts Awards
Call for Panelists
2006 Guide to Festivals
Another Postage Increase?
Opportunities
Conferences, Workshops & More
MAC Calendar
Click here to access July MACnotes (PDF file).
SUBMISSION DEADLINE
If you have news items for MACnotes, please send them to Keiko C. Ishida, email preferred (keiko.ishida@ded.mo.gov) at least two months in advance of the event or opportunity deadline. News items will be published if space allows and may be edited. If you have any feedback on MACnotes or no longer wish to receive it, please notify Keiko C. Ishida at toll free 866/407-4752, 314/340-6845, or keiko.ishida@ded.mo.gov.
Missouri Arts Council, a division of the Department of Economic Development, annually awards approximately $2 million in grants to 400 Missouri organizations for their art activities. As public leader, partner, and catalyst, MAC is dedicated to broadening the appreciation and availability of the arts in the state, and fostering the diversity, vitality, and excellence of Missouri's communities, economy, and cultural heritage.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Missouri Arts Council 111 N. 7th Street, Suite 105, St. Louis, MO 63101-2188
> SPECIAL TRIBUTE
I want to take this space in your attentions to honor three CURATORIAL INTERNS who worked with me at the Saginaw Art Museum, without whose devotion and labors my so-called "achievements" there would (most certainly) not have occured as timely or as well as they are said to have done:
~ Katie (Katherine) Fruchey ~
Came to us from the now all-but-defunct Museum Studies program at Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant. She worked her butt off during the collection moving phase, staying beyond the terminus of her expected tenure. She decamped to Berkeley, California thereafter for the purpose of attending JFK Museum Studies program, and has been employed by a major bookstore chain in the Bay Area ever since. Her sense of humour was tantamount to mine, and she gave as good as she got.
~ Alex Fintonis ~
This young man arrived as a volunteer whom I urged to become an Intern. He and Katie worked together week after week, slogging through the outdated chaotic collection storage, gently handling and moving one artifact at a time, helping me get those galleries and exhibitions ready in the early days, and helping the museum set up its first Preparatorial shop. I am somewhat responsible, then, for the fact that he met his wife, the wonderful and skilled Mary Penn (then Assistant Curator of Education at SAM, now Curator of Education at Castle Museum of Saginaw County History), during his tenure with us... and, may I say, when I was wondering why the two of them spent so much time together talking over the front desk... the result was a wonderful baby. Alex is now working in the jewelry repair profession, and being a Dad.
~ Sara Gonzalez ~
As a senior in high school, Sara expressed an interest in art museum curatorial work. She ended up coming one day weekly, spending the majority of her time doing the laborious nit-picky stuff of sorting and interfiling Couse and Roecker archives. She is currently about to enter her second year as a student of fine art at Delta College near Saginaw. Perhaps her most memorable experience would have been the day I asked her to (and she did) replace all the burned out bulbs in our changing gallery... almost 20' above the floor, atop a large and gnarly industrial hydraulic lift.
> Sally Armstrong, Director of Art Carthage, says that BRYAN FLOCK, a Joplin artist whose Main Street gallery is called "Wasted Time", has begun publishing "The Current" in town. Now I gotta go meet this guy and see how little time he's wasting.
> Department of "DO WE REALLY NEED THIS?"
My brother, George, was the first to let me know that there is about to be yet another GUGGENHEIM art museum... this one in ABU DHABI (a nation which refuses diplomatic ties with Israel, building a museum whose original funder was and the architect of which is Jewish.) They expect it all to cost, roughly, $400,000,000, or thereabouts, give or take... for edifice and collection.
a. I was kinda sorta hoping it wouldn't have to be designed by Gehry again. How 'bout Rem KoolHaas instead!
b. What happens when the oil actually DOES run out? Sand fleas anyone?
c. Pardon my cynicism.
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