Protégé 2015 - Art Museum of Southeast Texas
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Protégé 2015 - Art Museum of Southeast Texas
500 MAIN Winter 2015 Newsletter HARVEY JOHNSON: A Triple Middle Passage (January 17 – April 12, 2015) Opening Reception: Friday, January 23 Houston artist Harvey Johnson will return home this winter with an exhibition opening at AMSET, entitled Harvey Johnson: A Triple Middle Passage. Born in Port Arthur in 1947, Johnson is familiar with the southeast Texas area and renders poetic imagery of his upbringing, African American culture, Negro spirituals, folklore and religious symbolism in his art. This exhibition will feature over 30 works on paper and paintings by Johnson and will be a major solo exhibition, inspired by an earlier feature of his work at The African American Library at the Gregory School, Houston in 2013 (curated by Danielle Burns). Burns is the guest curator of the AMSET exhibition, and has worked with AMSET curatorial staff to prepare for this show. In celebration of this landmark exhibition, AMSET is publishing a full color exhibition catalogue, including an interview between Burns and Johnson, image Harvey Johnson, Humble Yo’self de Bell Done Ring, 2011, acrylic oil wash on canvas 41 1/2 x 32 3/4 in., highlights and an artist biography. collection of John H. Stone Johnson graduated from Texas Southern University, Houston (1971) with a B.A. in Education, later receiving his M.F.A from Washington State University in Pullman, Washington (1973). While at Texas Southern University (TSU), Johnson studied under Dr. John Biggers, who remained a mentor and friend for the duration of his career (the two often collaborated on commissions). Following his studies, Johnson returned to Houston where he accepted a post as Instructor of Art at TSU. He was a devoted artist and educator to the students of TSU for over thirty years (retired as Professor of Art in 2007). Johnson’s career as an artist is lauded with numerous honors and awards; he was the recipient of a Ford Foundation grant in 1977, traveled to Sierra Leone to research African-American Ancestral Art in 1990, and was recently acknowledged by city of Houston Mayor Annise Parker as an important, founding artist of Houston (“Founding Artist Day Proclamation,” 2013). This exhibition is generously funded, in part, by the Edaren Foundation, the City of Beaumont, the Wesley W. Washburn, M.D. and Lulu L. Smith, M.D. Endowment Fund, the Texas Commission on the Arts, the C. Homer and Edith Fuller Chambers Charitable Foundation, Sandra F. Clark and Dr. Charles and Linda Foutz. Caprice Pierucci: Dream State (January 17 to April 12, 2015) Opening Reception: Friday, January 23 This winter, we welcome artist Caprice Pierucci to AMSET with a solo exhibition of her large-scale wood sculptures. Pierucci’s sculptures interlock, interlace and dance together, building a “tapestry” of wood that resembles woven fabric. Before turning to wood, Caprice often worked in other media and explored with fiber works. She cites her late mother, renowned fiber artist Louise Holeman Pierucci, as a key influence on her career. Louise encouraged Caprice to pursue a life as an artist, and the two often collaborated on fiber pieces. The sculptures presented in this exhibition evidence these formative influences and Caprice’s keen eye and facility with the medium of wood. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pierucci currently resides in Austin, Texas, where she splits time between creating art in her Austin studio and teaching Fibers at Texas State University in San Marcos. She received her B.F.A. from Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1983, later attending the School of Visual Arts in New York (graduated with her M.F.A. in 1989). Pierucci has received numerous awards throughout her career; she was nominated for Austin’s “2010 Artist of the Year 3D,” declared a winner in International Art Waves: Art and Design Competition in the Netherlands, and has exhibited her art throughout Texas and the nation. This exhibition is generously funded, in part, by the Edaren Foundation, the City of Beaumont, the Wesley W. Washburn, M.D. and the Lulu L. Smith, M.D. Endowment Fund, the Texas Commission on the Arts and the C. Homer and Edith Fuller Chambers Charitable Foundation. Caprice Pierucci, Vessel 1, 2014, pine, 84 x 16 x 9 inches, collection of the artist Café Arts DIVIDING TIME: Works on Paper by Chris Troutman On View: Through March 22, 2015 Opening this January, our Café Arts space will feature a selection of monumental charcoal drawings by Chris Troutman, Assistant Professor of Art at Lamar University. Before moving to Beaumont, Troutman lived in Japan, where he returns annually, as well as Illinois, California, Kentucky and Indiana. Much of his imagery references these geographic locales, exploring the relationship between memory and pictorial expression. His pieces are large in scale and divided into multiple sections, building a continuous narrative throughout his composition. Born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in Peoria, Illinois, Troutman graduated from Bradley University in 2003. He moved to Japan that same year, where he and his wife opened a conversational English school. Upon his return to the states, he received his graduate degree from California State University in 2008. He currently teaches drawing at Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas. Chris Troutman, Five-Part Story, Recycling, charcoal on paper, 64 x 64 in., 2012, loan courtesy of the artist WILL-AMELIA STERNS PRICE: Mike’s Road to Taos (April 25, 2015 – August 30, 2015) Opening Reception: Friday, May 1 Will-Amelia Sterns Price, Dock, oil on Masonite, 18 x 31 7/8 in., c. 1960, The Bobbie & John L. Nau Collection of Texas Art This spring, AMSET will have the honor of presenting a retrospective exhibition of work by Will-Amelia Sterns Price. Born in Denison, Texas in 1907, Sterns Price eventually moved to Beaumont, where she was a major figure in the local art scene. She assisted in the founding of the Beaumont Art Museum (now AMSET), where she also taught anatomy and life-painting classes. This exhibition will feature a variety of paintings and drawings from Stern Price’s oeuvre, paying attention, in particular, to her time in Taos, New Mexico where she briefly studied with renowned artist Walter Ufer. The range of styles and subjects in this exhibition will explore her movement from traditional, conservative compositions to abstraction, and her exquisite versatility in both areas, fluidly transitioning between these realms throughout her career. SELECTIONS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION (April 25, 2015 – August 30, 2015) Opening Reception: Friday, May 1 In conjunction with the Will-Amelia Sterns Price exhibition, we will also feature a selection of works from our permanent collection, highlighting the diversity and strength of this collection. The works on view will focus on fine and folk art created in the 19th century through present, with a focus on the Texas region. A full color catalogue will be published to accompany this exhibition, highlighting AMSET’s collecting mission, focus, and objects acquired by the museum over the years. John Alexander, The Beast, Arnhem Land, Northern Australia, pastel and charcoal on paper, 50 x 72 in., 2001 Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Permanent Collection Permanent Collection Spotlight DOROTHY HOOD – Sounds From The Earth DOROTHY HOOD, Sounds From the Earth, 1972, oil on canvas, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Mavis Kelsey Dorothy Hood’s 1972 painting entitled Sounds From the Earth is a significant part of AMSET’s permanent collection. This stellar, monumental work is one of two Hood paintings in our permanent collection, which focuses on modern and contemporary American art with an emphasis on regional artists. This painting is exemplary of Hood’s signature period during the 1960s and 1970s, which is characterized by large paintings with sweeping waves of color that spread throughout the composition, often producing a rain-like effect across the canvas creating an atmospheric void. Shapes, fissures and cave-like motifs are juxtaposed against Hood’s minimal backgrounds, giving a sense of excitement and mystery to her works that often resemble cosmic motifs in their nonobjectivity. In addition to large-scale paintings, such as those in AMSET’s permanent collection, Hood also created fascinating abstract collages and watercolors, as well as stunning drawings that are at times more representational in nature, depicting organic, flora elements and otherworldly, surrealistic figures. Born in Bryan, Texas in 1919, Hood studied art at the Rhode Island School of Design from 1937 -40, and the Art Students League in New York in 1941. Following these studies, she moved to Mexico where she remained until 1961. While there, she met significant Mexican modernists including José Clemente Orozco, who became a close friend, and married Velasco Maidana, a Bolivian composer and conductor in Mexico City. In 1961, Hood and Maidana moved to Houston, where Hood accepted a post as instructor at the Museum School at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (she taught there until 1976). She lived in Houston for the remainder of her career, where she was lauded with a solo exhibition of her drawings at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston 1975, and honored as the Artist of the Year by the Art League of Houston in 1984. Hood exhibited at many prestigious institutions throughout her career and died in Houston in 2000. Her works are highly sought after by collectors of American art, in particular, those who focus their collections on artists living and working in Texas. In addition to AMSET, her work is in numerous public and private collections, including the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Susie Kalil, art historian and independent curator, is currently working on a retrospective exhibition and book featuring the life and art of Dorothy Hood with the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi. Part of our mission at AMSET is to support and acquire works by regional artists. Dorothy Hood is one of many key artists from our region that is also well-known on a more national scale. We depend on the generous support of our museum patrons and donors to assist in building our collection, and are constantly looking to diversify and strengthen our growing permanent collection holdings. We continue to raise funds through annual gala auctions, grants and contributions. Please contact the museum at 409-832-3432 if you would like more information on how you can help us meet our goals. A Four-Year Vintage Affair Returns to Chateau St. AMSET Held upon the request of those who enjoy the fermented grape, made in many varieties such as red, white, sweet, dry, still and sparkling, the art museum is hosting its fourth Vintage Affair wine tasting fundraiser at 7:30 p.m., January 30, 2015. A Vintage Affair, chaired by LeeAnn and Terry Garth, will include an opportunity to sample a wide variety of fine red and white wines as well as light appetizers, chocolate and cheese. A chance to win artsy wine baskets and other wine related items will also be part of the fun. Start your 2015 out right by purchasing your Affair tickets today. It could also be a special treat to get that Valentines romance moving in the right direction? Reservations are limited, so please hold your spot by sending $35.00 per person to AMSET or by going online to www.amset.org. Tickets at the door to this Affair are $40.00 per person. All proceeds will benefit Chateau St. AMSET’s exhibition and education programs. Go For the Gold is Rollin’ It Back for 2015 Thursday, March 5, 2015, 6:30 p.m. Attention all Go for the Gold lovers! Better hurry up and buy your tickets while supplies last, because we will be Rollin it Back for 2015! That’s right! This year, your odds to win are better than they’ve been in a l-o-n-g time. We’re only selling 450 tickets as opposed to the usual 500! This increases your chances of winning that big pot of gold waiting at the end of that AMSET Rollin it Back rainbow. Once the word gets out, tickets will be sellin like hotcakes. This fabulous fundraiser will be chaired by the creative and talented gold-roller herself, Melanie Dishman. It will be held at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, March 5, 2015 at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas. Go for the Gold is a reverse drawing and a great opportunity to win $10,000 in sumptuous, glittering rollin gold coins. The $100 entry ticket is not only a chance to be a big winner, but it also admits two people into the art museum for a rollin evening of entertainment, watching the suspenseful reverse drawing with a top drawer open bar and “good as gold” food all evening. Only 450 tickets are sold and a number of prizes are given away throughout the evening, including a $1,500 second prize and a $1,000 third prize all rollin in gold coins. You need not be present to win but it’s pretty exciting if you’re here. Call your favorite Board member today to purchase a ticket or two or call AMSET at (409) 8323432 or purchase tickets online at www.amset.org. Rollin it Back tickets sell in a hurry so don't delay! All proceeds benefit the museum’s spectacular exhibition and education programs. Tree Lighting 2014 The Annual Holiday Tree Lighting was a great success this year! Kids of all ages and their parents had fun frosting cookies, making pipe cleaner ladders, greeting cards, spin art ornaments, and writing personal letters to Santa. The Clifton J. Ozen High School Choir provided the festive holiday music. The Post Office operated their giant mailbox to receive the letters addressed to Santa. This year’s Annual Holiday Tree Lighting was made special by all of the participating museums and organizations including the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Fire Museum of Texas, Texas Energy Museum, Edison Museum, Southeast Texas Arts Council, Tyrrell Library, Beaumont Convention & Visitors Bureau, McFaddin -Ward House Museum, and Ben J. Rogers Regional Visitor Center. Special thanks to Mobil Federal Credit Union and Flint Hills Resources for their sponsorship. Gingerbread Workshop 2014 Icing, gingerbread, white chocolate, candy canes, orange slices, gum drops, mints… If it sounds like AMSET has grown a sweet tooth, we have! We held our bi-annual Gingerbread House Workshop on Saturday, December 7th. Paige Neyland of Michaels Arts & Craft Store in Beaumont led this tasty gingerbread adventure. The twelve Gingerbread House Workshop participants displayed their holiday spirit by rolling up their sleeves and creating a gingerbread masterpiece. AMSET did permit finger licking - as if we could have stopped it! Protégé 2015 Competition and Exhibition In its 29th year, the Protégé Competition and Exhibition was created specifically to encourage graduating high school seniors to begin taking the steps necessary to become part of the world of art. This year's Protégé juror is Ann Wood. Ann Wood currently lives and creates art in Galveston, Texas. Wood is an Adjunct Professor of Art at Galveston College. Wood graduated in 1996 from California State University, Chico with a BFA in Art and an emphasis on painting. She later moved to Texas, where she received her MFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 1999. Wood has exhibited in solo and group shows throughout Texas, with recent exhibitions in Houston and Austin. This competition allows students to begin learning about the evaluation processes used in the art world. Prizes for winners include scholarships to Lamar University's Art Department and gift certificates for art supplies. Requirements and materials required for entries can be found at www.amset.org. If you know a budding young artist, counsel him or her to prepare to enter this school year’s Annual Protégé Competition and Exhibition. Entries will be accepted from January 6 - 20, 2015 and he or she may enter any work created after August 2014; he/she need not be part of an organized art class to enter. Join us to see what great works of art this year’s students have created at the 2015 Protégé Reception and Awards Ceremony on February 26, 2015 from 6 - 7:30pm. The Protégé Exhibition will be on display in the Conn Take pArt Gallery until March 22, 2015. Freedom: Family Arts Day 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, February 21, 2015 Join us from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2015 for Family Arts Day! This fun day will be about creating works of art inspired by the exhibitions of Caprice Pierucci: Dream State, featuring a selection of nonreferential sculpture, and Harvey Johnson: A Triple Middle Passage, featuring the oil paintings of the artist Harvey Johnson. In addition, audiences will have the opportunity to create Freedom hats and president’s beards, and also decorate a Valentine’s Day cookie. AMSET Donors 2014 This Donor list reflects contributions made to AMSET for the year preceding November 30, 2014. Corporate/Individual Sponsor $10,000+ CapitalOne Bank, N.A. / Trust & Asset Management C. Homer & Edith Fuller Chambers Charitable Foundation City of Beaumont, Beaumont CVB Estate of Dorothy Anne Conn City of Beaumont Crenshaw Family Foundation The Sidney & Charline Dauphin Foundation The Edaren Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Michael Fuljenz Mr. & Mrs. Michael Gamson (In Kind) Mary Jane Garth, Harriet Garth, and LeeAnn & Terry Garth Goodyear-Beaumont Chemical (Includes In Kind) Alys Holden (In Kind) Karol Howard/George Morton (In Kind) Helen Caldwell Locke and Curtis Blakey Locke Charitable Foundation Sylvia and Warren Lowe (In kind) Dr. & Mrs. Garrett Peel (Includes In kind) Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Quinn Texas Commission of the Arts Estate of Wesley W. Washburn, M.D. and Lulu L. Smith, M.D. Mr. & Mrs. Carl Weisenfelder Wilton P. & Effie Mae Hebert Foundation Corporate/Individual Sponsor $5,000+ Mr. Rob Clark & Mr. Jerry Thacker (Includes In Kind) Entergy Jefferson County Kinsel Motors, Inc. Kathleen “Kit” Ohmsted (In Kind) Sheila & Jerry Reese with Susan & Jordan Reese Ms. Regina Rogers Mr. & Mrs. J. Mitchell Smith (Includes In Kind) Union Pacific Foundation US Secure Coins /Mr. & Mrs. Jason Whitney Corporate/Individual Sponsor $2,500+ B.A. & Elinor Steinhagen Benevolent Trust Bill Clark Bugsperts (Includes In Kind) Burns Properties/Mr. & Mrs. Robert Burns Chisum Resource Management/Bessie Fisher Chisum Ms. Sandra F. Clark Mr. W. Seth Crone & the Honorable Marcia Crone ExxonMobil Foundation Foundation for Southeast Texas Giglio Distributing Co. Mr. & Mrs. James Gilliam Mr. & Mrs. Edward H. Green Mr. & Mrs. Rene Greenwald (Includes In Kind) Mr. & Mrs. Tom Kiehnhoff (Includes In Kind) Mr. & Mrs. Michael Lockwood Market Basket Food Stores Dr. & Mrs. Terry Morris Simpson-Omohundro Foundation Southeast Texas Arts Council Two Magnolias (In Kind) TOTAL: Port Arthur Refinery UBS Financial Services Mr. & Mrs. Russell A. Waddill Walter Crawford Jr. Family Donor Advisory Fund Wathen De Shong & Juncker, L.L.P. Mr. Clint Willour (In Kind) Sponsors/President’s Club $1,000+ Mr. Christopher L. Bean Beaumont New Car & Truck Dealers Association Mr. & Mrs. James Black Dr. Beth & Mr. Brian Bommer Betsy & Pat Boyt (In Kind) The Late Mrs. Sally Bundy Mrs. Becky Burleson (In Kind) Carlo Busceme, III Stacey & Casey Crenshaw Mr. & Mrs. C.C. Crutchfield Ms. Melanie Dishman Mr. & Mrs. Joseph F. Domino Mr. & Mrs. Frank Eastman Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Fertitta Mr. & Mrs. Mark Fertitta Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Ford, Jr. Katherine & Bill Fouts (Includes In Kind) Dr. Charles & Linda Foutz Mrs. Martha Gideon Natalie & S.L. Greenberg Kathe & Jim Hendricks Humanities of Texas Sallye J. Keith Lamar University Mr. Ronald Legnion Mr. & Mrs. Charles B. Locke Mr. Dean Lovejoy Becky & Chuck Mason (Includes In Kind) Jeff McManus Mr. Pat H. Miller (In kind) Mr. & Mrs. W. Frank Newton Mr. & Mrs. James R. Old, Jr. (In Kind) Mr. & Mrs. Michael Phelan Chris & Lana Portner Mr. Stanley K. Price (Includes In Kind) David Riker (In Kind) Mr. & Mrs. William F. Scott Mr. & Mrs. B.A. Steinhagen Mr. & Mrs. R.N. Steinhagen Malcom Williams Corporate Sponsors $1,000+ Alyson Jon Interiors (In Kind) American Valve & Hydrant Bando's Catering (In Kind) Ben E. Keith Beverage Distributors Del Papa Distributing Co., Inc. Giglio Distibuting Co. Helen Bell Charitable Trust J.S. Edwards & Sherlock/Mr. & Mrs. Lum Edwards, III Mathews Jewelers (In Kind) The Beaumont Club/Christina Delgadillo (In Kind) Walmart Zachry Industrial, Inc. /Mercedes Delgado Knott Corporate/Patron $500+ Anonymous Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. Josh Allen, Sr. Ms. Christy Amuny BASF TOTAL Petrochemicals, L.P. Paula & Joey Blazek Bob & Karen Wortham Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Tim B. Byrom Mr. & Mrs. Rocky Chase, Jr. Cheyenne Capital Corp – Tyrrell L. Garth, owner Dr. Henri Des Clarke & Betty Clarke Coburn Supply Company, Inc. Community Bank of Texas Cook Parker, PLLC Mr. & Mrs. Bernie Daleo Mr. David Everett (In Kind) Mr. & Mrs. John T. Fowler Fred Miller's Unique Gifts/Mr. Chris Miller (In Kind) Gloria & Mack Fulbright Suzanne & Lee Roy Garrett (Includes In Kind) Dr. & Mrs. Frank Giglio Mr. & Mrs. David Goodale Dr. & Mrs. Edward Gripon M. James Design Group, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Hayes Mr. Chris Henson Mr. & Mrs. Lewis Hoffer Dr. & Mrs. Young In Mrs. Pat Klein Virginia & Ralph Jordan (In Kind) Mr. & Mrs. Michael Kirkpatrick Drs. Vijay & Rita Kusnoor Mr. Allen Lea Mr. & Mrs. James Makin Kelli Maness, Inc Mr. Eric Meadows Dr. & Mrs. John K. Miller Mr. Albert Nolen Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Ohmstede Lisa & Sam Parigi Mr. W.L. Pate, Jr. Heather & Mark Petkovsek (Includes In Kind) Ms. Ida McFaddin Pyle Mr. & Mrs. Jordan W. Reese IV Mr. & Mrs. J. Mark Smith Dr. & Mrs. Michael L. Smith (Includes In Kind) Ms. Christine Stedman The Clubhouse Child Care Center Mr. & Mrs. Tommy Vance Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Verde Mr. & Mrs. Wilkinson Ms. Rosine M. Wilson Paige & Morris Windham (Includes In Kind) Corporate/Individual Fellow $250+ Able Fastener, Inc. /Nancy & Stephen McGrade Mr. & Mrs. Mark Adkins Mrs. Jan Allred Ms. Bobbie Applegate & Mr. Joe Pizzo Mr. Dexter Augier Mike & Beverly Baker Ms. Lynn Bencowitz Munro's Uniform Services/Chad Blanchard Mr. & Mrs. Martin Broussard Mr. Douglas Bruton Mr. & Mrs. Jim Bunt Mr. & Mrs. James Byerly Cater to You/ Mr. Scott Fisher (In Kind) Mr. Paul Chargois Mr. & Mrs. Tolbert Chisum Mr. & Mrs. Josh Crawford Kate & Keith Davis (In Kind) Mr. & Mrs. George A. Dishman, Jr. Johnnie & Vernon Durden Mr. Harold M. Eisen Mr. & Mrs. Martin Edwards Maria & Michael Fazio (In Kind) Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Fierce For Heaven's Sake/Gina Crenshaw (In Kind) Jill Fortney Mr. & Mrs. David Fournerat Mr. & Mrs. Bill Grantham Ms. Jeanette M. Greer Mr. Krimo Hafsaoui Ms. Mary Hager Mrs. Matilda Hickman Judge & Mrs. Earl Hines Mrs. Gisela Houseman Mary Ellen & Tanner Hunt Lynda & Pat Jones Ms. Martha Jones Katharine & Company Naomi Kathnelson Mr. Jasper T. Leone Mr. & Mrs. John Lovoi Mr. & Mrs. Mark Low Mr. & Mrs. David Masters Mr. & Mrs. William D. Maxey Dr. & Mrs. Paul W. McCormick Mr. Will McNeill Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Moncla Kevin J. & Tracey L. Mott Nance International Mr. & Mrs. J. Pat Parsons Suzanne & Chris Peiler Ms. Renee Pomonis Mr. Kip Price Ms. Ellen Reinstra Mr. & Mrs. John J. Riedmueller Ms. Misty Riffer Mr. & Mrs. Rutman Dr. & Mrs. Russ Schultz Dr. & Mrs. George C. Scott Mr. & Mrs. Micah Shanks Texas Regional Title The Talley Bryan Foundation Farmers Insurance/Timothy Thompson YMCA - Beaumont Heidi & Russel Zech Memorials/Honoraria In Memory of Mary L. Dean Fisher Bessie Fisher Chisum Upcoming Events Friday, January 30 A Vintage Affair Wine tasting Fundraiser Saturday, February 21 Free Family Arts Day Thursday, February 26 Protege 2015 opening reception Thursday, March 5 Go for the Gold Fundraiser Until Sunday, March 22 Chris Troutman: Dividing Time on view in Café Arts Until Sunday, April 12 Harvey Johnson: A Triple Middle Passage and Caprice Pierucci: Dream State on view Map Contact us Become a member Remove from mailing list