SUMMER 2015 Longview Museum of Fine Arts

Longview Museum of Fine Arts
SUMMER 2015
Mission
Statement
The Longview Museum of
Fine Arts is a non-profit
organization which seeks to
create interest in and promote
knowledge of the visual arts
throughout the city of Longview
and vicinity by exhibiting,
interpreting and preserving
works of art and providing
educational opportunities to
a diverse audience.
LMFA HOURS
TUESDAY – FRIDAY
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
SATURDAY
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
SUNDAY & MONDAY
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES
MARTELL ARMSTRONG
JESSICA M. LaRUE
AMY CANTON
ELYSE McCOSKEY
CHELSEA CACE
RODNEY OVERMAN
CLIFF HALE
RYAN POLK
JOSH HUDSON
IRA SHEEK
TIFFANY JEHOREK
LISA SMITH
NEIL JOSEPH
MIKE SNELL
SAM KHOURY
YVONNE SWAIN
LESTER KILPATRICK
ADVISORY BOARD
903.753.8103
903.753.8217
LMFA.org
fineart@LMFA.org
LMFA–Longview Museum of Fine Arts
@LMFA_TX
@LongviewMuseum
LMFA is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit
organization operating for
the benefit of the public.
A $5 admission fee is charged
for non members. Children
under 12 are admitted free.
I. J. “Pete” Lamothe
Jane Akins
William Blair, III
Glenn McCutchen
Betty Bodenheim
Stephen McDaniel
Linda Buie
Carol Manley
Dr. Mel Fish
Jack Mann, Jr.
Holly Forbes
Nancy Mobley
Claire Foster
Gordon Northcutt
Carolyn Fox-Hearne
Ralph Pelaia
Shirley Griffin
Dick Stebbins
John Hillier
Linda Ryan Thomas
Keith Honey
Charlotte Wrather
Volume I, Issue 3
Summer 2015
PHOTOGRAPHY
Marc Bailey, Tammy Cromer-Campbell,
Paula Davis, Renee Hawkins, Jim Tilley
and John Wrather
PERSPECTIVE is published quarterly
as a benefit for Museum members.
N
ature always wears the colors of the spirit.
This project is sponsored in part by
a grant from the City of Longview
Commission on Arts and Culture.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
DESIGN
MEMBER FDIC
EQUAL HOUSING LENDER
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Renee Hawkins
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
Paula Davis
EVENT COORDINATOR
Jack Barkley
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
Nathadis Lucas
VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR
Valencia Smotherman
“CATCHING BREAKFAST” by Don Fincher I 2014 TBT Photography Contest I Second Place, Nature
www.texasbankandtrust.com
STAFF
DIRECTOR EMERITUS
Betty Bodenheim
WEEKLY VOLUNTEERS
Maria Aguilera, Joyce Allen, Debbie Anderson,
Debbie Beck, Calvin Halley, Pollie King, Chris Manley,
Mary Martin, Noble Roberts, Isabelle Seeger,
Beverly Sheveland and Valencia Smotherman
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WHAT’S INSIDE
D IR E C T O R ’ S L E T T E R
LIGHT US UP LONGVIEW!
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EX HIB ITS
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EXPERIENCES
05Director’s Letter
07ArtWalk at LMFA
09Upcoming Exhibit Invitation
16 LMFA Memberships
17Special Thanks and Wish List
18Summer Art Classes
20Glow Run & Street Dance
23Light Us Up Longview
E V E NT S
24Boots & Suits Thank You
26Featured Favorite
28ArtWorks
32New Acquisitions
33LMFA Gift Shop
34Membership Levels
and Benefits
35Membership Renewal Form
E V EN T S C A L EN D A R
JULY
SEPTEMBER
2ArtWalk
11 Exhibit Opening
East Texas Regional Artists –
Scott Campbell, Mark Hiett,
Joe Mraz, Hank O'Neal,
Ellen Soffer and Bob Spangler
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Ladies’ Night
Marbled Bowl Making
with Lindsey Eberhart
and "Her Texas" – Story,
Image, Poem and Song
by
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Ladies’ Night
Block Printing Party with Amanda Tilley
Glow Run and Street Dance
Music by Take 2 Band
Art We Walk On
7 to 9 PM
OCTOBER
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ArtWalk
Cute & Creepy Exhibit
Carrie Ann Baade plus 10 others,
including LMFA favorites Chris
Mars and Robert Jessup
Ladies’ Night
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Every second and fourth Tuesday from
6 to 9 p.m. in the ArtWorks building.
Free to members.
e are having lots of music and art this
summer at LMFA!
Our summer classes are off to a great start, and
we're looking forward to many more fun things like
ArtWalk on July 2 with art by Newgate Mission’s artists
and our own ABC artists.
Nightwork Jazz will play for our East Texas Regional
Artists, featuring Scott Campbell, Mark Hiett, Joe Mraz,
Hank O'Neal, Ellen Soffer and Bob Spangler. Come enjoy
the opening and meet the artists on July 11.
Our next plan for the museum is new LED lighting
for our galleries. This will be good for several reasons:
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Better lighting for the art
Less heat from the bulbs
Less expensive bulbs
Bulbs will last longer
Utility bills will go down
So, we’re kicking off our new building renovation asking you to Light Us Up! Our
new lights will show off lots of new exhibits coming up that we’re so excited about,
with one in particular, George Rodrigue’s Blue Dog is coming from New Orleans with a
retrospective of his owner/artist’s work in April of 2016!
As we enter our “Blue Period” we are making as many things blue as possible:
T-shirts for our Glow Run sponsored by Pegues-Hurst Ford in September, a “Blue
Christmas” table at our Holiday Market & Luncheon in December and a “Bluesfest”
partnership with the T-Bone Walker festival next June.
We’ll be ordering Blue Dogs to go in your yard or peek out your window or ride in
your car or carry wherever you’d like. Blue Dog will give clues to our murder mystery
we’re having at Night at the Museum on April 23, 2016, and is hanging around our
website as we speak. I suspect he’ll be around on quite a few things in the coming year
until the exhibit arrives next spring!
So sign up for something! Want to be a Blue Dog sponsor? Join Jennifer and
Landon Ogilvie, Citizens National Bank, ETALA, Lisa and Hank Smith and Crystal and
Kelly Brightwell in sponsoring this show so we can have all kinds of public awareness
and bring visitors to our city. Can’t wait to see Blue Dog’s face on a billboard on I-20!
Sign up for Light Us Up Longview campaign and help us make the building look its
best when the exhibit gets here! Sign up for the Glow Run and street dance with Take 2
Band! Sign up to be a sponsor for any of our exhibits and get your name on the save the
date postcards! Sign up for a summer class!
There’s a lot happening around here. Call to see how you can be a part of it all!
Thanks for your support!
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SCOTT
CAMPBELL
MARK
HIETT
PHOTOGRAPHER
MIXED MEDIA ARTIST
A B O U T T H E A RT I S T
A B O U T T H E A RT I S T
Scott Canterbury Campbell is one of the foremost photographers of Caddo Lake, one of the
state’s most iconic landscapes. For more than a quarter century, Campbell has captured the
subtleties of light in creeks and bayous snaking through Caddo’s dark forests.
Mark Hiett was born in Longview in 1958 and graduated from Longview High in 1976.
His work is quiet, mysterious and deeply personal. Widely exhibited across Texas and
the United States, Campbell’s images are held in many permanent collections, including
The Houston Museum of Fine Arts, The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University and
The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas. In addition, The Houston Center for
Photography granted Campbell a fellowship and exhibition for his body of work known as
Evelyn’s, an elegiac response to his mother’s death in 1999.
Advertising in Dallas, Texas. He worked on accounts for Pepsi, Frito Lay, Pizza Hut and
Campbell has also been published in some of the nation’s most prestigious art publications,
such as Communication Arts, LensWork and Photo District News.
A graduate of Kilgore College, where he studied under the direction of O. Rufus Lovett,
Campbell furthered his education with Ansel Adams’ Friends of Photography workshop. He
has studied with Ruth Bernhard, John Sexton, Brett Weston, Michael Kenna, Keith Carter
and many other leading photographers. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for
the Texas Photographic Society.
Hiett graduated from University of Texas in 1982 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
From 1988 to 2008, Hiett was the Art Director and Computer Illustrator for Tracy Locke
Harrahs. Hiett now paints full time and lives in Rowlett, Texas with his Border Collie, Daisy.
A RT I S T S TAT E M E N T
My paintings are a pop art/abstract mix of collage, old ad clip art and typography,
inspired by Abstract Expressionism of the 50s, Pop Art in the 60s and a long career in
advertising. Comic books, especially Archie and Superman, plus the cartoons of Charles
Shultz and Bill Mauldin were also a big influence. Before I got into advertising my art
was very loose and abstract, the act of painting more important than content. Now after
20 plus years in advertising, I try to create work that looks at the world and pop culture
in a fun, mysterious, sometimes satirical way and draws the viewer in where they can
enjoy it as is or interpret it as they see it.
The son of an aerospace technician and grandson of a master carpenter, Campbell said
he is drawn to the technical aspects of the photographic process. When he was a child his
family settled in Clarksville, Texas, his mother’s hometown. He has lived and worked in
East Texas ever since.
A RT I S T S TAT E M E N T
I have been drawn to the landscape of East Texas for over 25 years. The land occupied by
Caddo Indians before being clearcut over a century ago is an enduring place where creeks
trickle into Big Cypress Bayou as it snakes through the East Texas pines. In these woods
a sanctuary reveals itself that beckons my camera to unfold. I usually visit a place many
times before and after photographing it.
I work early or late in the day when the light is "quiet." This allows me, as a photographer,
to achieve a sense of clarity within the natural scene that exists as I explore the subtleties
of light within the landscape that I love to discover.
Respecting tradition and craftsmanship, 4x5 film and a view camera are my preferred
initial materials and equipment for the making of these selected images.
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“Every portrait that is painted
with feeling is a portrait of the
artist, not of the sitter.”
~ Oscar Wilde
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JOE
MRAZ
HANK
O’NEAL
PA I N T E R
PHOTOGRAPHER
A B O U T T H E A RT I S T
A B O U T T H E A RT I S T
Joe Mraz was born and educated in Chicago, Illinois. As a child any chance he could
get he was off drawing and painting. He studied art throughout high school and during
his senior year he attended “Saturday Life Drawing Classes” at the Chicago Academy of
Fine Art. After graduation from high school he attended the American Academy of Art, in
Chicago full time. He then spent over 15 years working for advertising art and commercial
photography firms in Chicago and New York. He moved to Longview, Texas in the 1980s to
pursue business interests unrelated to art.
Hank O’Neal’s first photographs were taken as a teenager and young man, but he didn’t
Working in all types of art media over the years, watercolor has held a special interest and
has always been a love of his. It wasn’t until 2005 that he decided to pick up his brushes
once again and watercolor painting became his true passion.
Since then he has devoted his time to further study and attending workshops and
demonstrations under such well-known watercolorists as Richard Stephens, Alvaro
Castagnet and Joseph Zbukvic.
He is a member of the Southwestern Watercolor Society, the Mt. Pleasant Art Society and a
active member of the ABC Group at the Longview Museum of Fine Arts.
pursue photography seriously until 1969 when he acquired a professional camera and
began documenting recording sessions and jazz concerts he was producing. Long before
Berenice Abbott admonished him to always have a project, he undertook his first, in rural
East Texas during the years 1970-1973, leading to his first exhibition in 1973, at The
Open Mind Gallery in New York City.
In the 1970s he became friendly with a diverse group of people in the photography world,
notably Walker Evans, Andre Kertesz and most importantly, Berenice Abbott, with whom
he worked for the last 19 years of her life.
Between the years 1970 and 1999, O’Neal also published numerous books related to
photography, including A Vision Shared, Berenice Abbott – American Photographer and
The Ghosts of Harlem, that featured his own photographs. He had his first one man
retrospective at the legendary Witkin Gallery in 1999.
He has had many exhibitions since that time and published many additional books.
The most recent exhibition of his work was at New York City’s Howard Greenberg Gallery
A RT I S T S TAT E M E N T
in March-April 2012 with the launch of his new book, XCIA’s Street Art Project and a
retrospective at The Erie Museum of Art, March – June 2012.
Watercolor painting has this unique unpredictability of pigment and water reacting on
paper, as applied and as it dries, that has always fascinated me. Understanding how
and why this happens can be a lifetime journey. One never fully knows where a painting
may take you. It’s this combination of pigment and water coupled with the emotions and
passions of the moment that becomes the impressions we leave on the paper.
More recently he has published a series of books documenting the work of his mentor,
Berenice Abbott, the latest being The Unknown Abbott, a five volume set devoted to
various aspects of her long career. These books, published by Steidl in 2014, won the
Silver prize for best photo of the year in Germany.
In June 2015 his jazz photographs will be exhibited at the Joyce Yahouda Gallery in
Montreal in conjunction with the Montreal Jazz Festival and in July his photographs
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“Art to me was a state: it didn’t
need to be an accomplishment.”
~ Margaret C. Anderson
representing over 40 years of work in East Texas will be presented at the Longview
Museum of Fine Arts.
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ELLEN
SOFFER
BOB
SPANGLER
PA I N T E R
A B O U T T H E A RT I S T
A B O U T T H E A RT I S T
Ellen Soffer is the proud recipient of several solo and group exhibitions. Her art resume
This exhibit’s roots date back some 45 years ago to the jungles of Vietnam where I served
11 months as a Combat Correspondent with the 10th Public Information Detachment of
the 23rd Infantry Division (Americal) Public Information Office, attached to the 196th
Light Infantry Brigade at Hawk Hill, Vietnam.
is highlighted with solo exhibits at venues such as the Peacock Gallery at Georgia Middle
State College in Cochran, Georgia, the Magale Library at Centenary College in Shreveport,
Louisiana and the East Bank Gallery in Bossier City, Louisiana among others. Her group
exhibitions include the “8th Louisiana Fine Arts Showcase,” at Southeastern Louisiana
University in Hammond, Louisiana, “Working it Out” at The Painting Center in NYC,
“Surface” at The Wylie and May Louise Jones Gallery at Bakersfield College in Bakersfield,
California and “Fresh Faces” at the Bath House Cultural Center in Dallas, Texas.
Soffer was awarded with an artist residency at the Ragdale Foundation in Lake Forest,
Illinois in 1984, 1988 and 1993. She also received the Shreveport Regional Arts Council’s
Visual Arts Fellowship in 2007. Most recently, Soffer’s work was chosen for Studio Visit
magazine and she spoke at Middle Georgia State College on her most recent body of work
entitled, The Shimmer Series.
Ellen Soffer obtained her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and BFA from
her birthplace of Philadelphia at the Philadelphia College of Art. Soffer currently resides
in Shreveport, Louisiana where she continues her practice at a local art studio. For more
information about the artist or her work visit www.EllenSoffer.com
In 2011, my wife and I visited the R.W. Norton Art Gallery in Shreveport, Louisiana and
toured a photography exhibit by Ansel Adams. I commented to my wife how great it would
be to have my Vietnam pictures exhibited like this one day.
The next day I called the museum and mentioned my idea. I was told that they didn’t even
schedule their own exhibits, but an agency in New York City did that for them and they
were scheduled 3-5 years in advance. I was devastated and about to hang up the telephone
when the young lady on the other end said, “We have an Oral History Project here where we
interview veterans and record their history. I’m sure our oral history director would like to
talk to you.”
I spoke with Phil Lynch, Director of the Oral History Project, and he scheduled an interview
with me. During my interview, Lewis Norton, Director of the museum, came by and
introduced himself and viewed my photos and scrapbooks from Vietnam. He stated that the
museum had never done anything on Vietnam and maybe it was time that they did.
This started an 18 month journey watching an exhibit take form: Selecting 80 photographs
from the 500 that I had brought home from Vietnam; working with Gary Ford, Staff Writer
for the Norton, compiling information for the text boxes that accompany each photograph
and watching Loren Culver, Digital Archivist for the Norton, turn my 5” x 7” press release
photos into the 11” x 17” photographs that appear in the exhibit.
A RT I S T S TAT E M E N T
These photographs were shot on Kodak Tri-X, ASA 400 black and white film. The few color shots
were taken on Kodak color slide film and sent through the post exchange for development.
Earlier paintings are usually the basis of inspiration for new work.
There wasn’t a dark room at Hawk Hill, so I took an empty plywood shipping crate and
hung an Army blanket over the opened end for a door. I sat this crate in the corner of the
information office. There wasn’t any running water, so the prints were soaked in a series of
plastic trays to attempt to rinse the developing chemicals off of the photos.
A painting begins with drawing shapes and lines on the canvas. These compositional
elements are abstract and I work on them intuitively. Later, stepping back, I may sense
figurative or associative elements in the painting. It is important that these elements
be universal forms- something that isn’t too literal but might be understood by or at
least create intrigue for anyone anywhere. On another level, there is the uncertain space
created by the overlapping forms. The space may seem to be inside or outside: exposed or
concealed. This ambiguity is critical. The use of small marks to create pattern and intensity
of color is an important aspect of many of the paintings. Interpretation is left to the
individual viewer. My intention is that the paintings evoke feelings left behind by a dream,
an emotion, or a memory without being limited to the specific details of the event itself.
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PHOTOGRAPHER
Supplies for photography were non-existent, so I ordered a 400 foot roll of Tri-X film and a
bulk loader as well as a film development tank and plastic developing trays by mail order
through a photography magazine. The chemical detachment on Hawk Hill had an old rusted
enlarger that they donated to the cause. Conditions were very crude at best. It is really a
miracle that any of the pictures survived without being rinsed properly.
I’m eternally grateful to the R.W. Norton Art Foundation for taking my forty year old dream
from embryonic form into reality.
It is my hope and prayer that these photographs serve as a Tribute to the veterans who
served in Vietnam, many of whom have never heard the words, “Thank You”, for their
service. If you’re not a veteran, I hope these photos will give you a brief glimpse into life in
Vietnam during the war.
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M EM B E R SHIP S
N E W & R EN E W E D
N E W M EM B E R R O UN DUP
The following have renewed their memberships or joined the museum from
MARCH 15, 2015 – JUNE 1, 2015
SUSTAINER
Lester Kilpatrick
Brad Tidwell
PATRON
Longview Chamber
of Commerce
Diana and James Mears
Leah and Rodney Overman
SUPPORTER
Kimberly and Mel Fish
Peggy Garland
Sue and Ruben Martin
ADVOCATE
Mimi and Bruce Cammack
Vickie and Brad Echols
Tiffany and
Jonathan Jehorek
Phyllis Jolley
Dorothy and Judge
Alvin Khoury@
Gem Meacham and
John Hillier@
CONTRIBUTOR
Nancy and Mark Abernathy
Shirley and Clint Blackman*
Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Bianca
Dianne and Jim Byrd
Evelyn and Lloyd Bolding
Patty, Patrick and
David Clark*
Betty and Mike Clowers
Nancy Conwell
Karen and John Deaton
Ann Broome Dorney*
Ms. Jane Edmonds*
Mr. and Mrs. Milton French*
Karen Frith*
Brenda and Gil Gillam
Diann and Dr. John
Greifenkamp
Cynthia and Thomas Hellen
Neil Joseph
Samuel M. Khoury@
Mary and Harold
LeTourneau
Cheryl McClure
Bob and Joyce Moomau
Mary Murdoch
Cindy and Darrell Pliler
Barbara Thomas Pool
Betty Wyche Rader*
Kathryn and William Reagan
Jo and Jimmy Salmon
Ira and Brad Sheek
Lisa and Hank Smith
Rachel Snell
Andrew Snell
Janel and Jamey Walker
Dr. Morgan and
Alma Ruth Willeford
GENERAL
Joyce and Robert Allen
Janet Brown
Sally and Russ Brown*
Judy Downing*
Lucinda Hamilton
Nancy and Craig Jackson
Eleanor and John Kirk
Joanne and Leon Lewis
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Lynch
Mary Martin
Susan and David McWhorter
Suzi and Charlie Powell
Melinda and Steve Randall
Bonnie Stansell
Cissy and John Ward*
Mr. and Mrs. Dickens
Wilkinson
INDIVIDUAL
Gregory Adams*
Brieta L. Allison
Charles Blalack
Dorothy Blevins*
Barbara Brush
Suzann Cromer
Ray Fessler
Vera M. Garlough*
Tommy Gillingham
Llwanda Golden
Jim Heller
Miriam Jones
Kathleen Keyes
Jennifer Lewellen
Pat Mapes*
Barbara McClellan
Ed Rast*
Tim Reardon*
Patty Shappell
Vickie D. Steed
Ms. Shea Tyra
Jo Ellen West
Sheila Wyze
Angie Young
STUDENT
Abigail Pauley
Lara Pauley
Kathleen Payton
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@ Members who have "Gone Green"and have elected to receive all info via e-mail.
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SP E CI A L T H A N K S
Thank you to DEBBIE ANDERSON for setting up our display at Longview Public Library; to
MINDY COLEMAN for being our model for the Bobbe Gentry Workshop and to the 15 ladies and
gentlemen that attended; to NATHADIS LUCAS for the flower bed at the front door, for moving
sculpture and lighting our wonderful art and keeping us tidy; to JOE MRAZ for two (cool!) office
chairs; to TIM LEE and EILEEN HARPSTER for the canvases. As always, we want to thank OUR
VOLUNTEERS that greet our guests and answer our phones and to our AMAZING FRIENDS GUILD
for all they do for opening night receptions and various other functions. To JACK BARKLEY
for EVERYTHING! AND FINALLY TO YOU, OUR MEMBERS. We appreciate your support!
Wish
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Acrylic paint tubes
Card stock
Rolling carts
Soft cut linoleum blocks
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HELLO LONGVIEW ART PATRONS!
In a little less than 300 days you may well be
referring to me as “that dastardly murderer”
but for now you may refer to me as Blue Dog.
Over the coming months I will be trying to explain why it is
that I chose to end the life of one of your cohorts. I will also be
giving you clues on where I did it, how I did it and what I did it
with. I will tell you this though, it happens at 215 E Tyler Street
and it happens on April 23, 2016. The rest, well it will take
your best sleuthing if you want to pin this crime on the real me.
To have the best chance of solving this “whodunit” keep a sharp eye on these pages,
watch for LMFA announcements and most of all attend all of the exciting events LMFA
has planned for the next year. Clues will abound throughout each of these mediums.
There might even be something on that thing called Facebook (which, in my considered
opinion, would drive a person to murder). But I digress, just be ever diligent and you just
might solve this thing and, if you do, a night of snacks and entertainment await.
So don that raincoat, put on your deerstalker hat, pull out your calabash pipe and get ready
for the most complex, most diabolical, most fiendish murder case ever! Oh, and by the way,
make your plans to attend Murder at the Museum, April 23, 2016. You just never know
who you might meet up with.
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Help Light Up Our Life & Those Around Us!
We have finished Phase III of our building plan, and now it's time to move on to our next
improvement. LMFA is in need of LED lighting for our art galleries. This update will reduce
the heat in the building, brighten the art and cut down on our utilities!
So, our next project is to replace all the lighting, add warming drawers and a stove to the
kitchen and do a little renovating in the front gallery – a project of about $150,000. We have
our Light Us Up logo ready for a new donor sign and we're ready to get this started!
With the work that we have done, we now have meeting spots galore – take your choice of the
Texas Bank and Trust Lecture Hall, Junior League of Longview Classroom, Hearne Library,
Stone Works Conference Room or maybe just lounge in our seating areas. Meetings are $50
an hour for groups of 2 to 140 during regular business hours.
Come be the first to get in on our
Light Us Up Longview Campaign!
We'll put your family or business name up on a new donor sign in a spot to be determined!
Walk-in, call or mail this completed form with payment information to:
Walk-in: Longview Museum of Fine Arts • 215 East Tyler Street
Phone: (903) 753-8103
Mailing: P.O. Box 3484 • Longview, Texas 75606
Name:_______________________________________________________________
Address:_____________________________________________________________
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Sponsors:
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THANK
YOU
TO ALL OUR SPONSORS!
We couldn't have done it without you.
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Citizens National Bank
Good Shepherd Medical Center
McCarley’s Jewelry
Pliler International
Snell Heritage Investment Properties
Texas Community Media
Special Thanks
to Our Auction
Donors:
ABC Group at LMFA
Allied Trophy
Anderson, Debbie
Applebee’s
ARC Coffee Shop
Baade, Carrie Ann
Back Stage Printing Company
Bargain Box
Barron’s
Bartlett Fine Jewelry
Beauty in the Beads
Berry’s Framing
Bhandari, Anup
Bigony, Ron
Dennis Blagg
Blue Door Antiques
Borejon - Cece Bode
Brown’s Shoes
Campbell, Scott
Casa Flora
Cavender’s Boot City
Chem-Dry
Cherry Hill
Citizen’s Bank
Classics Furniture & Interiors
Clower’s Company
Cook’s Lighting
Cromer-Campbell, Tammy
Cullar, Warren
Divine Catering
Dog Style
Dry Comal Creek Vineyards
Eberhart Interactive
Echo Magazine
Eclectic Architecturals
Edge Office Products
Edible Art
Enoch’s Stomp
Forbes & Butler Visual
Communications, Inc.
Fritz’s
Gallery of Lights
Gans & Smith Insurance Agency
Good Shepherd Hospital Guild
Good Shepherd Institute
for Healthy Living
Grimes, Sharon
Guest, Raymond
Guys & Gals Salon
GZs
Hardin’s True Value Hardware
Harley Shop
Haute Goat Creamery
Hawkins, Mike
Hawkins, Renee
Hidalgo’s Hair Co.
Homewood Suites by Hilton
Hudson, Josh
Hull, Jeff
Hurwitz Clothier
Inspire Marketing – Cindy Terry
Inspire Photography by Hannah
Irene Isham
Jake’s Feed
Jan C’s
Jehorek, Tiffany
Jucy’s Taco
Just the Right Thing
Kimbrough Animal Hospital &
Gindy’s Pet Express
Kokenzie Floor Store
KTBB/ESPN Radio
LaRue, Jessica
Lindenberg, Dale
LMFA
Lollar Jewelry
Lollipops & Lace
Longview Ballet
Longview Eye Associates
Longview Independent School
District
Longview News-Journal
Louis Morgan #4
Lowell Holloway Furniture
Lucas, Nathadis
Made Rite
Manley, Carol
Margaritaville Casino
Martin Resources
McCarley’s Jewelers
McCoskey, Steve
McCoy, Neal Fan Club
McCutchen, Glenn
Mike’s Custom Hatters
Moda Me
Morgan Abbigail
Mraz, Joe
Mundt Music
Murray’s Jewelry
Nanny Goats
Nehrling, Christina
Neiman Marcus
New Orleans Garden
O’Neal, Hank
Pace, Carol
Panera Bread
Pen & Co.
Penny & Jack
Phillip’s Flooring
Pliler International
Racquet & Jog
Regal Entertainment Group
Ridgway, Linda
Blue Dog Gallery - George Rodrigue
Ruffled Feathers
Salon Pink
Sam Smead Photography
Shannon’s Beading Basket
Sharp, Jamie
Sheek, Ira
Sheveland, Beverly & Lynn Snedecor
Smith, Lisa & Hank
Snell, Mike & Shelby
Soffer, Ellen
Starbucks
Stringer & Associates
Swearingen, Becky
TCC Studio
That Girls Boutique
Tobacco Junction
Tomboni’s
Trendy Chicks
Tuxedo Co.
Vision Source
Ward, Estate of Velox
Waterman, Gayle
Willy G’s
Woodhollow Golf Course
Chefs &
Beverage
Donors:
Bodacious Bar-B-Q on 6th Street
Chicken Express
Harley’s on Loop 281
Lori’s Eats and Sweets
Made-Rite
R & K Distributing
Gerald Rodriguez
SYSCO
Tuscan Pig Catering
Thank you to Candlewood Suites
for our guest accommodations
and to GOGA for our evening’s
entertainment!
BScene Magazine & KYKX Radio
Night at
the Museum
Committee:
Martell Armstrong
Jack Barkley
Amy Canton
Josh Hudson
Tiffany Jehorek
Neil Joseph
Elyse McCoskey
Lisa Smith
Yvonne Swain
With special help from:
Pat Barkley
Kent Crank
Paula Davis
Lindsey & Dustin Eberhart
Mel Fish
Gina Grantham
LMFA Guild
Nathadis Lucas
Steve McCoskey
Christopher Manley
Margaret Partin
Leslie Paull
Stephanie & Zack Peters
Isabelle Seeger
Southside Bank
Shannon Story
Derek Wade
Ann Werline
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A B O U T
F E AT UR E D FAV O R I T E
T H E
A R T I S T
Charles Umlauf
One of Our
Favorites from the
LMFA Permanent Collection
Charles Umlauf's sculptures range in style from realistic and
abstract expressionism to lyrical abstraction. His influences
include Rodin, Henry Moore and Jacques Lipschitz.
U
mlauf was born in South Haven
Michigan in 1911 of German
immigrant parents and studied at
the Chicago School of Sculpture and
the Chicago Art Institute. He worked
at numerous jobs in Chicago including
the Federal Art Project for which
he did sculpture commissions for
public buildings.
He moved to Austin, Texas in 1941, with
We learn of his
convictions in his
own words:
his family, where he taught for 40 years
in the Art Department of the University
of Texas. From 1960 until 1991 he
personally supervised the casting of his
sculptures in various foundries in Italy.
Charles Umlauf died in 1994.
His sculptures are to be found in
churches, at numerous public sites,
in museums including the Houston
Torso
by Charles Umlauf, 1973
Gilded Bronze
8 x 11 x 18 inches
Museum of Fine Arts, the Smithsonian
in Washington, D.C, and the New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art as well as
in many private collections.
In 1985 he and his wife, Angeline Allen
15th Annual Invitational
Purchase Award
Umlauf, gave their home and studio with
sculptures, drawings and paintings to the
Juror, Richard F. Brown; Director,
Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum,
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth
located in Austin, Texas.
... an artist must
continue to
observe and study,
specializing in the
period or kind of
art most suited to
his abilities and
taste. This I feel,
develops one's
sensitivity and
broadens one's
vocabulary...that by
personal discipline
and determination
one gains a certain
freedom...but it
must be earned.
Photo: CultureMap.com | Article: CharlesUmlaf.com | Quote: Memoriam from UTexas.edu
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Ladies’Nights!
THIRD THURSDAY OF EVERY MONTH
August 20
Marbled Bowl Making
THANK
YOU
to Kim Taylor's
White Oak art students
for creating these super
fun pieces of Love Luggage
for Buckner Community Ministries.
Also, thank you to Debbie, Kedric, Kay, Sherry, Renee and
Linda from Buckner Family Services for helping load the luggage.
with Lindsey Eberhart
6 to 8 p.m.
$20 per person in advance
$25 at the door
Her Texas: Story, Image, Poem & Song
Benefiting Buckner Community
Ministries
With Speakers: Rachel Crawford, Donna Walker-Nixon, Tammy
Cromer-Campbell, Anne McCrady, June Zaner and Charlotte Renk.
6 p.m. • Lecture Hall
"Her Texas is being buzzed as the most important anthology
Texas writes in a generation. Multicultural, multiethnic, and
multidisciplinary, it includes stories, essays, memoirs, poetry,
song lyrics, paintings and photographs by 60 Texas women."
– San Antonio Express-News
September 17
Block Printing Party
With Amanda Tilley
Block printing is a fun way to create your own bold
and graphic art (or essentially your own stamp!)
We will be exploring two methods - one using LinoBlocks (or Linoleum) and the other with vegetables,
that's right veggies (from celery to potatoes). Feel
free to bring a photograph, magazine clipping, or
even a swatch of fabric that inspires you - we can
incorporate these sources into your final print!
6 to 8 p.m.
$20 per person in advance • $25 at the door
AGES 21 & UP • BYOB & FRIENDS
Bobbe Gentry
Sculpture Class
Fifteen sculptors gathered for a four day class with teacher
Bobbe Gentry the week of May 18. A good time was had by all!
For more information visit LMFA.org.
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LMFA for your special occasion!
September 26, 2015
7 to 9 PM
HORS D'OEUVRES • MUSIC • DRINKS
Proceeds will be split between Chemdry and LMFA.
LONGVIEW MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
215 E. Tyler St. • Longview, TX 75601
COMING
SOON!
A Lifestyle Community for Seniors
For more information, please call (903) 758-8888.
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EVENT COORDINATOR
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N E W A C Q UI SI T I O N S
Lingam's Landing
by John Hiller
Prismacolor Pencil and Airbrushed
Acrylic on Museum Board
30"x40"
This is a depiction of four shiny chrome objects
that appear to be flying or floating over a watery
sky either trailing smoke or clouds or flying
through them. The objects vary in size suggesting
that they are in three dimensional space and are
similar in size relative to each other. They are
rendered in various shades of grey, black and
white with a few hints of the surrounding colors
much as chrome would do. The objects are egg
shaped and are mostly nestled in the vapors.
Only one appears to have completely emerged.
The sky is composed of rippling shapes of blues, oranges, pinks and dark grays that seem
to suggest water rather than sky. The ripples get smaller in size as they descend the
composition. This implies a deep space.
At the bottom of the composition the clouds are rendered in cool grays and a variety of
warm browns. They appear to be larger and more defined in the foreground and softer and
less defined as they recede into this implied space.
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Throughout the composition there are a variety of small chrome or brass spheres that
appear to be floating in space. Some are rendered to appear to be three dimensional while
others are actually so.
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BENEFITS J O I N
FOR OUR
N OW !
MEMBERS!
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Reciprocal Organization of
Associated Museums (ROAM)
program, along with the North
American Reciprocal Museums
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Bestower
Angel
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MEMBERS RECEIVE
GENERAL BENEFITS:
•
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membership recognition and
invitations to members-only
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Reciprocal memberships in the NARM and ROAM
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ADVOCATE: All Contributor benefits, plus an art
poster available for pick-up during museum hours
and a free ticket to an LMFA special event.
SUPPORTER: All Advocate benefits, plus two
tickets to an LMFA special event and sponsorship
recognition on website.
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tickets to an LMFA special event, sponsorship
recognition on website and catalogs and a 10%
facility rental discount.
• Building rental privileges.
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tickets to an LMFA special event, sponsorship
recognition on website, catalogs and front window
on Tyler Street, a hardbound copy of The Collection
book and a 15% facility rental discount.
• First notice for all exhibitions,
lectures, classes and special
events at the museum.
BENEFACTOR: All Sustainer benefits, plus
a complimentary use of the Museum for one
private function.
• 10% discount on Museum
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tickets to all Museum and Guild functions.
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BESTOWER: All Promoter benefits, plus 10
tickets to all Museum, Guild and Artworks
functions.
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automatically charged each year to renew your membership.
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A TRIBUTE is a great way
A MEMORIAL is an
memory of a loved one is
truly a living tribute. It
honors the person and is an
investment in the museum
and in our community by
supporting the museum.
to honor a person or celebrate
a significant accomplishment
and, in addition, is a
meaningful gift to give to the
person "who has everything"
or is hard to buy for.
expression of concern and
a way to acknowledge the
memory of a deceased loved
one, friend or relative. This is
a lovely way to make a
donation in lieu of flowers.
The Longview Museum of Fine Arts will send a card to the honoree or bereaved on behalf of the
donor and, with permission, list the tribute in LMFA newsletters. The amount of the gift will not
be shared with anyone. All donations to the Tribute and Memorial Fund are 100% tax-deductible.
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and want us to just e-mail them this newsletter. If you want to go
green too, just drop us an e-mail and we'll sign you up!
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