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October, November, December 2015

Marks Made: Prints by American Women Artists from the 1960s to the Present

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Director's WelcomeDear Friends,

As we move into the fall and winter, change is in the air. The season begins with the pioneering exhibition Marks Made: Prints by American Women Artists from the 1960s to the Present. More than 90 works by many of American’s most gifted artists are on view. Most are still active, and they have all excelled in printmaking.

This exhibition, curated by Katherine Pill, has a fascinating history. Until recently, only a small number of women artists were represented in the collection. Granted, some of their paintings were among our very best, but there was still a dramatic gap.

Martha and Jim Sweeny, two of the Museum’s most committed friends, stepped forward to address this issue. Working closely with the curatorial staff, the Sweenys helped us focus on prints by American women. Nearly all of the works in Marks Made are gifts from the Sweenys or were purchased with funds donated by the couple.

Martha and Jim, an alum of Florida Presbyterian College (now Eckerd), met at Coca-Cola in Atlanta where he was in the Research and Development Department for 27 years. Martha went on to become Assistant to the Curator of Decorative Arts at the High Museum of Art. That experience led to their avid art collecting. Upon retiring to St. Petersburg, they adopted the MFA. What a stroke of good fortune for our community! They have also given us most of their impressive folk art collection. We cannot thank Martha and Jim enough.

On the opening weekend of Marks Made, Käthe Kollwitz, one of the founders of the Guerilla Girls, will present the Wayne W. and Frances Knight Parrish Lecture. This group has been protesting the treatment of women in the art world since 1985; Guerrilla Girls use the names of famous female artists and wear gorilla masks to preserve their anonymity. This event – and it will be an event – will enlighten and challenge you and is made possible with funds from The Parrish Estate and again, the Sweenys.

You can also read about our new mobile app, MFA Viewpoint, on this page. The app will expand our audience and also encourage greater engagement with our collection through audio and children’s tours. We are embracing technology, just as we have new media in the Helen and Dick Minck Gallery.

We are also delighted that Dr. Jerry Smith is our new Hazel and William Hough Chief Curator. Jerry will build on our foundation of excellence and bring new ideas to the conversation. He comes to us from the Phoenix Art Museum where he helped build the collection and curated and supervised nearly 40 exhibitions.

May the holiday season bring you good health and much happiness. We hope you will celebrate with us. Thank you for everything you do for the MFA.

Sincerely,

Director

On the cover:

Betty Woodman (American, born 1930)Greek Pots Visit Edo (detail), 2002

Color woodcut, lithograph, and chine collé on paperPublished by Shark’s Ink

Museum Purchase with funds donated by Martha and Jim Sweeny©Betty Woodman, 2002. Courtesy of the artist

and Shark’s Ink, Lyons, ColoradoMFA Photographs: Thomas U. Gessler

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Marks Made: Prints by American Women Artists from the 1960s to the PresentSaturday, October 17, 2015-Sunday, January 24, 2016

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The MFA has built an impressive collection of prints by American women and premieres the largest grouping to date in this stunning

exhibition of more than 90 works. The vast majority of the prints are gifts of major collectors Martha and Jim Sweeny of St. Petersburg or museum acquisitions made possible by funds from the couple. The Museum had very few works by American women before this project began. Along with others like Donna and Thomas Brumfield Jr., the Sweenys were also instrumental in establishing the MFA’s extraordinary holdings of folk art.

Many of America’s most talented and innovative artists, most still active, are represented in Marks Made: Anni Albers, Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Agnes Martin, Joan

Mitchell, Louise Nevelson, Louise Bourgeois, Janet Fish, Joyce Kozloff, Jennifer Bartlett, Joan Snyder, Lynda Benglis, Lee Bontecou, Judy Chicago, Barbara Kruger, Elizabeth Murray, Judy Pfaff, Susan Rothenberg, Faith Ringgold, Kiki Smith, Pat Steir, Lorna Simpson, Lesley Dill, Nancy Graves, Yvonne Jacquette, Kara Walker, Betty Woodman, Arlene Shechet, and Betye Saar. Nearly all print processes are on display.

Four selections from the Portfolio Compleat by the Guerilla Girls, a Museum acquisition made possible by the generosity of the Sweenys, will be another highlight. The Guerilla Girls began protesting the treatment of women by the established art world in the mid-1980s and are still making waves. Members choose pseudonyms based on the names of late influential female artists and wear gorilla masks in their protests and appearances to maintain anonymity. One of the founders, Käthe Kollwitz will speak at 2 p.m. Sunday, October 18 – on opening weekend. Kollwitz was one of Germany’s most significant twentieth-century artists, known for her drawings and prints of women, the poor, and the marginalized.

The abstract works in Marks Made are by such pioneers as Anni Albers, Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, and Elaine de Kooning and contemporary artists like Julie Mehretu and Jessica Stockholder. Agnes Martin’s On a Clear Day (1973), a portfolio of 30 screenprints featuring her subdued color and signature grid, has been lent by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

Anni Albers and her husband Josef were leading Modernists who met at the Bauhaus in Germany, came to America to escape the Nazis, and had a profound influence on our country’s artists. Anni made her mark as a printmaker and textile artist. Her two color lithographs – gifts of Thom O’Connor in honor of his wife Linda O’Connor – have a poetic, even mystical quality.

Lee Krasner was married to Jackson Pollock and Elaine de Kooning to Willem de Kooning, but both were accomplished artists in their own right. Their art has received ever greater acclaim over the years. Ms. Krasner is part of a small circle of women to have received a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and Elaine de Kooning: Portraits is currently on view at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.

Ms. de Kooning’s Jardin de Luxembourg I (1977), Joan Mitchell’s Flower I (1981) and Arbres (Trees) (1991-1992), and Pat Steir’s Peacock Waterfall (2001) and From the Boat (1991) reference nature, but veer toward abstraction. Jennifer Bartlett’s well-known series The Elements (1992) combines representation and abstraction. Ocean

CURRENT | UPCOMING | EXHIBITIONS

Jennifer Bartlett (American, born 1941)The Elements: Water (1992)

Etching and aquatint on paperPrinted by Creative Works Editions, Osaka, Japan

Gift of Martha and Jim Sweeny©Jennifer Bartlett/Photo courtesy of the

artist and Locks Gallery, Philadelphia

Pat Steir (American, born 1940)Peacock Waterfall (2001)Color silkscreen on paper

Pace EditionsPromised Gift of Martha and Jim Sweeny

©Pat Steir/Photo courtesy of the artist and Pace Editions

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with Cross #1 (2005) by Vija Celmins, Louisa Chase’s Dawn (1982), and Sylvia Plimack Mangold’s The Nut Trees (1985) are among those prints that more explicitly explore the natural world.

In contrast, Janet Fish has transformed the domestic realm with her bold, colorful still lifes. Joyce Kozloff brings the decorative, often seen as the province of women, into higher profile, titling one of her works, Is It Still High Art? (1979). Howardena Pindell was inspired by the great tradition of quilting in African American communities in Flight/Fields (1989).

Betty Woodman and Arlene Shechet, two of the world’s most inventive ceramic sculptors, also challenge the distinction between craft and fine art. Ms. Woodman has concentrated on the vessel – its multiple uses and meaning throughout time – which can be seen in her imaginative Greek Pots Visit Edo (2002). Ms. Shechet’s Parallel Play: Spill (2012) uses relief and has an extremely tactile surface. She molds paper pulp like clay.

Fascinating prints by the towering sculptors Louise Bourgeois and Louise Nevelson suggest their three-dimensional work. Ms. Bourgeois’ Reply to Stanley Hayter (1996) focuses on the eye, perhaps alluding to his early Surrealist work and one of her sculptural series. (British artist Hayter is one of the most respected printmakers of the twentieth century.) Ms. Bourgeois’ Beautiful Night (2004), a nine-color lithograph on music paper, is magical.

There are many other gems: Yvonne Jacquette’s evening scenes of Manhattan and the Brooklyn Bridge, an energetic and abstract urban landscape by Nicola López, and Elizabeth Peyton’s portrait of Robert Mapplethorpe. Barbara Kruger’s We Will No Longer Be Seen and Not Heard (1992) is a notable feminist work, uniting image and text.

Katherine Pill, the Museum’s Assistant Curator of Art after 1950, has organized the exhibition, and a handsome illustrated catalogue with a foreword by Judith Brodsky is available in the Museum Store. The essays are by Art in Print Editor Susan Tallman, Master Printer Erika Greenberg-Schneider, and Ms. Pill. Two limited-edition prints by Elisabeth Condon and Jane Hammond, who are represented in Marks Made, have been produced in collaboration with the University of South Florida St. Petersburg and Bleu Acier Editions of Tampa to celebrate both the exhibition and the MFA’s 50th anniversary.

Carrie Schneider: Reading WomenHelen and Dick Minck Gallery of New MediaSaturday, November 7, 2015- Sunday, January 17, 2016

Artists have depicted women and girls in domestic spaces throughout the centuries. The MFA’s painting, La Lecture (Reading), 1888, by Berthe Morisot is a stellar example. Like so many women, Morisot had to struggle to pursue her art. She and Mary Cassatt were the only women accepted into the circle of the male French Impressionists.

Contemporary artist Carrie Schneider has created a video projection and photographs capturing her women friends and acquaintances in the process of reading. They, too, are in domestic spaces and are all reading books by women. Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, Zora Neale Hurston, Sylvia Plath, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Joyce Carol Oates are some of the writers. The titles of the photographs include the name of the woman reading, the author, and the book’s title and publication year.

Ms. Schneider has written: “There is something rare about the depth of concentration experienced while reading and it’s this moment I’m after: when the sitter loses awareness of the camera – and any semblance of a pose – forgetting her cultural performance.”

Both Reading Women and Marks Made celebrate the achievements of women, too many of whom remain underrepresented in the art historical and literary canons. Ms. Schneider’s work not only explores women reading works by other women, but challenges the viewer to attempt to “read” the women themselves and the installation as a whole, to search for meaning on many different levels.

Ms. Schneider (born in 1979) earned her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and now lives in New York. She has had solo shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh. She has participated in group exhibitions and screenings at the 2011 Pittsburgh Biennial at The Andy Warhol Museum, The Kitchen in New York, and the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University in Milwaukee. Her work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College in Chicago, and the Centre Canadien d’Architecture in Montreal.

Carrie Schneider (American, born 1979)Abigail reading Angela Davis (An Autobiography, 1974), 2014

from the series Reading Women (2012-2014)Chromogenic print

©Carrie Schneider. Courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago

Members’ Opening ReceptionMarks Made: Prints by American Women Artists

from the 1960s to the Present

Wednesday, October 14, 7-9 p.m.

Cash Bar, Lite Bites Complimentary Valet Parking on Bayshore Drive

Please RSVP: www.fine-arts.org/rsvp or 727.896.2667, ext. 210.

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Mr. Scott (1940-2007) once said, “What I’ve been trying to do ... is make a piece of art that would be similar to what African American musicians have done with gospel and blues and jazz. So that when you hear it, it wraps your soul.” He described his art as “a polyrhythmic visual experience.”

Music, movement, and storytelling are some of the greatest contributions of African American culture to our country and the world. Mr. Scott captured all three visually, no small feat, in his prolific career. He produced I Remember Birmingham at Graphicstudio, the respected collaborative institute at the University of South Florida, Tampa that creates fine art editions.

One of Louisiana’s towering artists, Mr. Scott was a master of many media: sculpture, painting, drawing, prints, and installations. His 2005 retrospective at the New Orleans Museum of Art, Circle Dance: The Art of John T. Scott, featured nearly 200 works and attracted large crowds. An “art world” event, it ended up being especially poignant, as Hurricane Katrina struck the city one month after the closing and Mr. Scott would pass away from pulmonary fibrosis just two years later.

Mr. Scott’s work has been shown at many other leading museums, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.; the Detroit Institute of Arts; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Dallas Museum of Art; and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo.

In 1995, his work was selected for an exhibition of twentieth-century American sculpture at the White House and was chosen for the inaugural exhibition of the sculpture garden at the Studio Museum in Harlem. He received a fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, often referred to as the “genius grant,” in 1992.

Mr. Scott spent nearly his entire life in his beloved New Orleans, which he called “the only city that I’ve been in, that, if you listen, the sidewalks will speak to you.” He only left to earn his MFA at Michigan State University. He returned to teach at his alma mater, Xavier University, a historically black, Catholic college, which he credited with changing his life. Even when he was able to live independently as an artist, he continued to teach at Xavier. Mentoring young people, especially African Americans, was a lifelong commitment and part of his noble legacy.

The MFA is honored to have I Remember Birmingham in the collection, an acquisition made possible with funds provided by The Margaret Acheson Stuart Society, the MFA’s dedicated service organization. Then Chief Curator Jennifer Hardin and Fran Risser, President of The Stuart Society during the 1998-1999 season, selected this powerful installation for the collection.

I Remember BirminghamLee Malone GallerySaturday, November 14, 2015- Sunday, February 28, 2016

This technically innovative and spiritually moving installation is John Scott’s response to the tragic church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963. Four girls lost their lives that Sunday morning at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. This dark day occurred just three weeks after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

I Remember Birmingham (1997), which will remain on view through African American History Month in February, is a ritual piece. It provides a quiet place for people to gather and reflect. The artist emphasized that his work is “about man’s inhumanity to man” and he described it as a “poem to their [the girls’] potential. All I can do is scream in their absence for them.”

The glass blocks placed on pedestals bring to mind the dramatic cemeteries in his native New Orleans, but the installation is, by no means, stark or grim. Lit from within, the blocks are striking and spiritual. They could be viewed as fragments of church windows, once shattered, now transformed through art. Mr. Scott once noted that his brilliant use of color, inspired perhaps by Mardi Gras celebrations, is designed to draw people into the piece. His elegant calligraphy on the blocks records both his pain and his hope for the future, conveyed in eloquent poetry.

The relief prints on the wall were made from the glass blocks, and in two colors, deep black and palest ivory. These somber images provide a dramatic contrast to the glass blocks and encourage a dialogue within the space and within the viewer’s heart and mind.

John Scott (American, 1940-2007)I Remember Birmingham (1997)

Seven hand-pigmented glass blocks and seven hand-burnished relief prints on Seichosen paper from the glass blocks

Museum Purchase with funds provided by The Margaret Acheson Stuart Society

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50 Artworks for 50 Years: First LookWorks on Paper GalleryThrough Sunday, March 13, 2016

For the 50th anniversary, the MFA initiated this project to secure 50 works for the collection. So far, more than 20 donors have given approximately 60 works, and more are expected as the year proceeds. This exhibition will spotlight these gifts, which encompass all media and range in date from antiquity to our own time. They will be rotated during the exhibition; new works will be added as they enter the collection. The MFA’s comprehensive collection of world art now numbers approximately 20,000 works – for the most part due to a legion of generous donors and friends.

Piotr Janowski’s CuriosityOpens Thursday, December 3, at 5:30 p.m.The artist will be present and a cash bar will be available.

Piotr Janowski will wrap selected trees on the Museum grounds in aluminum foil, bringing contemporary art outside. He made international headlines after creating a large-scale installation at his rented home in Tarpon Springs. Using aluminum foil, he wrapped every inch of his bungalow and driveway, as well as the surrounding palm trees.

Inspired by the light and vegetation of Florida, Mr. Janowski aimed to highlight the beauty of his surroundings: “The meticulously applied and highly reflective medium invites the viewer to explore every groove and hair of the bark. It does this

mainly by exceptionally strong reflectance at sharp angles and an unpredictable, scrambled appearance of colors and light coming in from the surrounding environment. In the uncovered palm tree,

expected colors and shadows conceal the natural complexity and beauty to the viewer. Paradoxically, it is revealing through concealing.”

Public art is a controversial topic, and its context is paramount to its understanding. This installation will allow for an important discussion of artistic intent and public reception. In The Contemporaries Lunchtime Lecture at noon Monday, December 7, Mr. Janowski will participate in a panel discussion on Curiosity and the larger issue of public art.

Pick-a-Pic Friday, October 2, 6-8:30 p.m.

Celebrating the MFA’s 50th anniversary and the closing weekend of Five Decades of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, featuring The

Dandrew-Drapkin Collection

$35 in advance, $45 after September 28

Enjoy live music by the Ocho Brother Band, dancing, interesting people, and delicious hors d’oeuvres. Meet emerging photographers. Complimentary signature cocktail made possible by Reyka Vodka and Marian Tagliarino Photography, cash bar. You will also have the chance to help choose a photograph that the Friends will donate to the collection. Friends of Photography members vote five times for free. Additional votes are available to all for $20 per vote.

Piotr Janowski’s installation of 402 Ashland (2015). Courtesy of the artist.

Hughie Lee-Smith (American, 1915-1999)The Distraction (1994)Watercolor on paper

Gift of Howard L. Mills, past President of the Board, in memory of Ms. Jewel Spruell and in honor of the Museum’s 50th anniversary©Estate of Hughie-Lee Smith/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

Jerry N. Uelsmann (American, born 1934)Untitled (Library with Clouds), 1976

Gelatin silver printGift of the Friends of Photography

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Five Decades of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts,

featuring The Dandrew-Drapkin Collection Members’ Opening Reception, Friday, June 19

Dr. Jennifer Hardin (left), curator of the exhibition, joins Carol A. Upham, Founding President of the Friends of Photography and past President of the Board of Trustees (1998-2008). They admire William Clift’s Footsteps, Mont Saint Michel, France (1982), one of many photographs Mrs. Upham has donated to the Museum.

At the reception, trustee Hazel and William Hough discussed the exhibition with Dr. Jennifer Hardin (far right), the former Hazel and William Hough Chief Curator. During her 20-year tenure, Dr. Hardin had a profound impact on the development of the entire collection. She was instrumental in arranging the donation of more than 15,000 photographs from Ludmila and Bruce Dandrew and Chitranee and Dr. Robert L. Drapkin. She worked closely with many other collectors, organized more than 80 exhibitions, presented numerous lectures and gallery talks, and wrote catalogue essays.

William Knight Zewadski, one of the MFA’s major donors of photography, with Lee Miller’s Isamu Noguchi, The Japanese Sculptor, in His Studio (1946), one of his important gifts.

Local photographer Herb Snitzer and his

wife Carol Dameron, also an artist, with his

Des Gendarmes aux bicyclettes, Paris (1961).

MFA’s Painting by Vigée-Lebrun Selected for First RetrospectiveThe Museum’s prized painting, Julie Lebrun as Flora (about 1799) by Élisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun, has been selected for the artist’s major retrospective, which will bring renewed appreciation of her talent. This is only the second exhibition devoted to Vigée-Lebrun in modern times. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, together with the Réunion des musées nationaux in France, are organizing the exhibition.

The MFA’s painting will be one of 75 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from February 8-May 15, 2016 and at the National Gallery of Canada from June 10-September 12, 2016. Dr. Joseph Baillio, one of the most important Vigée-Lebrun scholars, has developed the project in consultation with the curatorial departments at the participating museums. The Metropolitan Museum is publishing the catalogue, which includes the Museum’s painting.

Vigée-Lebrun (1755-1842) was one of the few women of her time to earn recognition as an artist. She followed in the footsteps of her father, a portrait painter, but far surpassed his achievements. As a young woman, she quickly earned a distinguished reputation for painting the portraits of French royalty and aristocrats. Essentially self-taught, she was only 23 when she was commissioned to paint Marie Antoinette’s portrait. The queen was so pleased that Vigée-Lebrun became her royal portraitist. As a result, she became one of the few women selected for the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture.

With the French Revolution, the artist was forced into exile and survived by painting portraits in numerous European capitals. She painted Julie Lebrun as Flora, one of the most significant portraits of her daughter, in St. Petersburg, Russia, where she lived from 1795-1801 and where the work remained until 1928. With this provenance, it is especially appropriate that her painting found its final home in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1983 and where it usually greets visitors to The Junior League Great Hall. In this large-scale painting, Vigée-Lebrun depicts Julie as Flora, the Roman goddess of flowers.

Dr. Thomas Campbell, Director and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum, has written that the artist “possessed a virtuosity that made her the envy of many. Her capacity to portray her sitters to best advantage without straying too far from reality earned her a wide and distinguished clientele…The European scope of her career, the stature of her aristocratic clients, her skill – rivaling that of the Old Masters – and the publication of her memoirs combined to surround the artist with a unique aura. Her work, however, though never forgotten, has not been assigned its rightful place in the history of art. This exhibition will thus be an opportunity to rediscover a truly marvelous painter.”

Élisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun (French, 1755-1842)Julie Lebrun as Flora (about 1799)

Oil on canvasMuseum Purchase

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LECTURES | TALKS | SPECIAL EVENTSFollow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook, and visit www.fine-arts.org for updates on public programs. These events are sponsored in part by the Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, and the State of Florida. The Margaret Acheson Stuart Society provides major support. Additional funds come from the City of St. Petersburg and Westminster Communities of St. Petersburg. Programs are subject to change without notice.

LECTURES & GALLERY TALKS

Free with MFA admissionWayne W. and Frances Knight Parrish Lecture by Käthe Kollwitz of the Guerrilla GirlsSunday, October 18, 2 p.m. Reception to follow on the Museum portico. Cash bar.Sponsored in part by Martha and Jim Sweeny

The Guerrilla Girls joined together in 1985 to protest the treatment of women artists by museums, galleries, critics, and scholars. Using the primary medium of posters, they quickly became art world icons, who continue to spread their humor-laced activism today. Members use pseudonyms based on the names of noted female artists and wear gorilla masks in their protests and appearances. The MFA is thrilled to present founding member Käthe Kollwitz during the opening weekend of Marks Made: Prints by American Women Artists from the 1960s to the Present.

Each year, the Parrish Lecture brings outstanding speakers to the community. The Parrishes, who lived most of their lives in Washington, D.C., donated many of the MFA’s most significant pre-Columbian objects. They are displayed in a gallery named in their honor. Mr. Parrish was a successful publisher of aviation magazines and Mrs. Parrish was Director of the U.S. Passport Office from 1955-1977.

Gallery Talk on Carrie Schneider: Reading Women by Katherine Pill, Assistant Curator of Art after 1950 Sunday, November 8, 3 p.m.

Contemporary artist Carrie Schneider’s video projection and photographs in the Helen and Dick Minck Gallery spotlight her women friends and acquaintances in the process of reading. They are captured in domestic spaces and are all reading books by talented women. This exhibition complements Marks Made, which Ms. Pill

curated. She previously organized Color Acting: Abstraction Since 1950 and has developed a number of gallery installations, innovative programs, and special events, which have attracted large audiences. She is the first curator in the history of the MFA to specialize in art created after 1950 to the present day. Ms. Pill completed a three-year dual MA in art history, theory, and criticism and arts administration and policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Sponsored by The DMG School ProjectFree with MFA admission

Sunday, October 11, 3 p.m.Hyunsung Cho

Hyunsung Cho has taught and exhibited widely in Korea, Japan, and the United States and has received numerous grants, scholarships, and awards. He earned his MFA in studio glass from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, his MA in glass design from Kookmin University in Seoul, Korea, and his BFA in environmental design and plastic arts from Namseoul University in Chon-an, Korea.

He has conducted workshops at the Pilchuck Glass School near Seattle, the Corning Museum of Glass, and the Pittsburgh Glass Center, among others. His work has been featured twice in the New Glass Review, published by the Corning. Mr. Cho has noted that “visual impressions and personal memories from the city are the main streams of my works.”

Sunday, November 15, 3 p.m.Michael Schunke

A talented draftsman, Michael Schunke demonstrated a natural affinity for glassblowing at an early age. The influence of drawing and mark-making is evident in his work. He attended the Rhode Island School of Design, where he studied Venetian techniques, and has become especially known for his stunning goblets.

Mr. Schunke formerly taught at the Toyama Institute of Glass Art in Japan and continues to teach around the world. He has recently been recognized as resident artist at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington, and the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio.

Sunday, December 13, 3 p.m.Jacob Stout and Mariel Bass

Master glassblower Jacob Stout is the Duncan McClellan Hot Glass Workshop Director. He uses Venetian techniques, developed 500 years ago, to create his objects. Because he does not use molds, each work is unique. He holds his BFA in glass art from Kent State University in Ohio, where he studied with Henry Halem, a Harvey Littleton student and protégé.

Mariel Bass, the Duncan McClellan Studio Manager, fell in love with glass at the Massachusetts College of Art, where she earned her BFA. She has studied with noted glass artists Dan Dailey, Susan Reid Holland, and Kenny Pieper. Both Mr. Stout and Ms. Bass offer classes and workshops and show their work at the Duncan McClellan Studio and Gallery.

Coffee Talks with Nan Colton

Sponsored by:

Second Wednesday of the MonthFree with Museum admission.

Connect with the arts through monthly performances that give voice and embodiment to the two-dimensional. The MFA’s ever popular artist-in-residence Nan Colton creates scripts inspired by special

Lines of the Sky by Hyunsung Cho

Guerrilla Girls, Abrons Art Center, New York, 2015.

Courtesy of the Guerrilla Girls.

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Thursday, December 3, 6:30 p.m.Woman of the Year (1942), directed by George Stevens, 112 minutes.

Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, who received an Oscar nomination for her performance, began their artistic and personal relationship in this classic film. Ms. Hepburn plays Tess, a sophisticated international affairs correspondent way ahead of her time, and Mr. Tracy is Sam, a gruff sportswriter. Dr. Margit Grieb, Associate Professor of German and Director of the Film Studies Certificate Program at the University of South Florida, Tampa, will provide an introduction and concluding remarks.

Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Thursday, December 17, 6:30 p.m.Big Eyes (2014), directed by Tim Burton, 106 minutes.

This outrageously true story examines one of the most notorious art frauds in history centering on the work of Margaret Keane. Arrive early and participate in a complimentary, instructor-led drawing class. Please see December’s UNCHartED listing for more details.

Save the Date: Thursday, January 7, 6:30 p.m. Screening of Kundun, Martin Scorsese’s bioepic about the 14th Dalai Lama, in honor of the temporary installation of the Sand Mandala.

Gather on the third Thursday of the month for an offbeat art-fix or to learn a creative craft. Free with MFA admission, which is only $5 after 5 p.m. on Thursday.

Random Act 10.15.15 @ 6:30 p.m.: Collaborative Practice features a panel discussion on printmaking and the commemorative MFA 50th anniversary prints by Elisabeth Condon and Jane Hammond in collaboration with Master Printer Erika Greenberg-Schneider. Both Ms. Condon and Ms. Hammond have works in Marks Made and the Museum collection.

Born in Los Angeles, Elisabeth Condon now divides her time between Tampa and Brooklyn and has been influenced by Chinese scroll-painting, American postwar abstraction, and 1970s wallpaper patterns. She is the recipient of the 2015 New York PULSE Prize, a Confucius Institute Understanding China Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and a Florida Individual Artist Grant. She has been artist-in-residence at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai and the Red Gate in Beijing, Grand Canyon National Park, and Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, New York.

exhibitions and the Museum collection. These 30-minute presentations introduce great artists and other historical figures, as well as the times in which they lived. Enjoy refreshments at 10 a.m., Ms. Colton’s performance at 10:30, and a general docent tour at 11:15. Visit www.fine-arts.org/coffeetalks for her complete 2015 schedule.

October 14: Spine Chilling TalesThis performance will haunt you long after you leave the Museum.November 11: A Self-PortraitMs. Colton uncovers the inspirations of acclaimed abstract artist Joan Mitchell, who is represented in Marks Made.December 9: An Intellectual Affair Enter the close, tumultuous friendship between Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas which fueled their Impressionistic masterpieces.

Free with MFA admission. Complimentary snacks.

The fall series spotlights leading ladies in honor of Marks Made: Prints by American Women Artists from the 1960s to the Present.

Thursday, October 22, 6:30 p.m.Women Art Revolution! (2010), directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson, 83 minutes.

This illuminating documentary explores the influential movement through interviews, observations, archival footage, and works of visionary artists. Katherine Pill, Assistant Curator of Art after 1950, will introduce the film.

Nan Colton as Mary Cassatt

In partnership with the Alzheimer’s Association, ILLUMINATE offers participants a space to experience and interpret art with your family

and friends. Discuss art and/or express yourself through a make & take activity. Program is free. Supplies included for activities. Refreshments. Two sessions available per month (choose one).

First and Third Mondays, 10-11:30 a.m.

Advanced registration and a screening are required. For more information or to register, call Mary Szaroleta at 727-896-2667, ext. 220, or email mary@fine-arts.org.

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Her work has been shown at the National Art Museum of China and the Songzhuang Museum in Beijing, the Shenghua Art Centre in Nanjing, 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery in New York, the Tampa Museum of Art, and the NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, among others. She is represented in the collections of the US Embassy in Beijing, the Swatch Art Peace Hotel, and JPMorgan Chase. Ms. Condon holds her BFA from Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Erika Greenberg-Schneider lived and worked in France for 20 years, becoming a Master Printer of Intaglio and Lithography for Atelier Franck Bordas and then Director and Master Printer of the Gallery Maeght studios in Paris and St. Paul. Upon returning to the United States in 1998, she became Master Printer of Intaglio at USF/Graphicstudio, as well as visiting professor in drawing and printmaking at the University of South Florida, Tampa. She is currently Assistant Professor of Foundations for the Graphic Design Program at USF St. Petersburg. In 2003, she opened Blue Acier, her internationally known print studio and gallery in Tampa. She was elected Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Republic of France in 2011 in recognition of her contributions to promoting French culture in Florida.

Jane Hammond, who lives and works in New York, is one of our country’s most multitalented artists. After receiving her BA from Mount Holyoke College, she completed an MFA in ceramics at Arizona State University and another MFA in sculpture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has pursued painting, printmaking, drawing, and photography, as well as sculpture, and has been inspired by

the music and approach of experimental composer John Cage and especially by language. She created 62 paintings based on titles suggested by poet John Ashbery and collaborated with poet Raphael Rubinstein on the sculpture Fallen for the Whitney Museum of American Art. The latter was comprised of thousands of handmade leaves printed by Ms. Hammond and inscribed with the names of soldiers killed in the Iraq War.

She has received 29 solo exhibitions at such venues as the de Young Museum in San Francisco and the Detroit Institute of Arts, and her work has been seen in galleries around the globe. She is represented in over 50 public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

Random Act 12.17.15 @ 5:45 p.m.: Eye Draw. Local artist Steven Kenny captures the spirit of the human eye on paper. Before the screening of Big Eyes, he will lead a 40-minute drawing demonstration, including a presentation on how eyes have been depicted throughout art history. Supplies will be provided. Limited to 30 participants. To preregister, please visit www.fine-arts.org/rsvp.

Mr. Kenny received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and during his senior year, studied independently in Rome. He worked as a freelance commercial illustrator before turning full-time to his own work. His paintings have been displayed in galleries and museums across the United States and in Europe.

The decorative arts – fine furniture, jewelry, ceramics, and glass – are all around us and in the Museum. FODA expands understanding of their variety and beauty. Plus, you will make new friends at the meetings. Annual dues are $20 in addition to Museum membership.

The Museum of Fine Arts thanks the following community partners in support of 2015’s Beer Project:

Green Bench Brewing Co., tbt*, John F. Kennedy of Raymond James, 7venth Sun Brewery, Barley Mow Brewing Co., Cigar City Brewing,

Pair O’ Dice Brewing Co., Being – The Art of Living, Central Oddities, Tampa Bay Furnishings, Treehouse Gallery, ZaZoo’d,

Duncan McClellan Gallery and Carol Dekkers.

Special thanks to the participating home brewers and volunteers who contributed to the success of this year’s program.

Thursday, January 21, 2016, 6 – 8pmThe Beer Project 2015 Winner’s Release Party at the MFA. Meet the home brewers who took home the “Best of Show” prize and taste their brew, “Strawberry Rhubarb.” In partnership with Green Bench Brewing Co.

FREE for MFA members.

Friday, March 18 – Friday, May 13, 2016Registration is open for the 3rd Annual Beer Project Pro Am

Home Brew Competition.

Friday, June 10, 2016, 7 – 10pmBEER + ART LOUNGE. Taste beers uniquely crafted by local artisans.

Saturday, June 11, 2016, 1 – 4pmPUBLIC HOME BREW TASTING. Professional and amateur brewers

exhibit liquid works of art for a tasting.

Visit www.fine-arts.org/beer-project for updates, competition rules and event details.

Interested in sponsoring The Beer Project for 2016? Contact our Development Office at 727.896.2667

or development@fine-arts.org.

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FODA programs are held on the second Tuesday of the month at 2 p.m. during season. Non-FODA members can attend for $5, plus MFA admission. Carolyn Nygren is the volunteer coordinator. Upcoming events follow:

October 13: Roy Slade, Director of the Cranbrook Art Museum from 1977-1995 and now Director Emeritus, will examine “Design in America: The Cranbrook Vision 1925-1950.” Cranbrook came into being in 1904 and later became an educational community. Located in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, it is now a National Historic Landmark and is renowned for its architecture influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement. The 319-acre campus has been called “the most enchanted and enchanting setting in America.”

Mr. Slade will discuss the founders, creation, and influence of the Cranbrook community, with an emphasis on architecture, design, and the decorative arts. He was also Director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. from 1972-1977 and remains an active artist.

November 10: Fredric T. Schneider, an independent scholar living in New York City, will introduce Japanese cloisonné enamels, which are some of the world’s most exquisite objects. They are also extremely difficult to create. Mr. Schneider will trace the development of the medium from its inception to the present day and will highlight contemporary examples. He has researched and collected these works for more than 20 years and is the author of The Art of Japanese Cloisonné Enamel: History, Techniques and Artists, 1600 to the Present, one of the foremost studies in the field. He has lectured on this subject at universities, museums, and other venues in the United States, Asia, and Europe.

December 8: Steve Fuller followed the example of his mother and began collecting early. He has saved nearly every toy his father ever bought him and has continued this interest throughout his life. He will offer an overview of “Antique Toys, Dolls, and Collectibles,” which range from miniature die-cast cars to an “Alfred E. Neuman 4 President” campaign button. (Baby boomers will definitely remember Mad magazine, which is still being published.) The term “antique toys” describes those created or manufactured at least 25 years ago.

With his wife Lourdes and fellow collector Tom Graboski, Mr. Fuller started the Miami Antique Toy, Doll and Collectibles Show 36 years ago. It is now the only such show in the Southeast. The Fullers’ collection is evident in nearly every corner – and closet – of their home.

Lunchtime LecturesFirst Monday of the Month, noonArtist Talks, Panel Discussions, Lively Lectures$5 (lecture only), plus MFA admission$10 (lecture and lunch) for Contemporaries members$15 (lecture and lunch) for nonmembers of the ContemporariesLunch reservations must be made by 3 p.m. the Friday before the lecture.

October 5: GraphicstudioThis lecture highlights the importance of Graphicstudio to the contemporary art and printmaking communities. Margaret Miller, Director of the Institute for Research in Art at the University of South Florida, Tampa, will outline the history and influence of Graphicstudio and its related programming.

November 2: Birmingham StoriesDr. Julie Buckner Armstrong, Associate Professor of English at USF St. Petersburg, specializes in literature of the civil rights movement. She is the author of Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching and the

upcoming collection of essays Birmingham Stories. Dr. Armstrong’s talk complements John Scott’s I Remember Birmingham.

December 7: Public/Private ArtThis panel will discuss Piotr Janowski’s Curiosity, located on the Museum grounds, and the role of context in public art. Mr. Janowski will be on hand to discuss his approach.

Field Trip: Ybor CityThursday, November 5, 7 p.m.$10 for members of The Contemporaries$15 for non-members of the group

This is a special opportunity to visit the late Theo Wujcik’s archives and studio in Ybor City. Advance registration will be available for members of The Contemporaries, but this excursion is open to the public. Please go to www.fine-arts.org for more information.

Creative Time SummitSaturday, November 14, noon-5 p.m.Free with MFA admission

The Museum is partnering with the University of South Florida, Tampa and the Tampa Museum of Art to bring a screening of the Creative Time Summit to the area. This initiative brings people together to discuss the role of art in public life, with the focus this year on the construction of knowledge.

Live presentations will take place at each venue. Jacqueline Mabey, founder of Art + Feminism, will lead a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the MFA. Wikipedia’s gender trouble is well documented. A 2010 survey revealed that less than 13 percent of its contributors identify as female. The practical effect of this disparity is clear: Wikipedia is skewed in favor of male artists.

Edit-a-thons have taken place globally, encompassing 1,300 volunteers, 70 events on four continents, and nearly 400 new articles devoted to female artists. This effort, inspired locally by Marks Made, will ensure greater visibility of women artists in the MFA collection, as well as others identified by the editors and organizers.

Second Thursday of the Month, 6:30 p.m.Free with Museum admission, which is only $5 after 5 p.m. on Thursday.

Join Keep St. Pete Lit, a local organization that supports the literary community, for a book club connecting the visual and

literary arts. Each month’s featured book will relate to the MFA’s collection or special exhibitions.

October 8: Just Kids by Patti Smith won the 2010 National Book Award for nonfiction. It is an eloquent, lyrical exploration of her development as an artist, on her close friendship and collaborations with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, and on the New York art scene of the late 1960s and 1970s.

Patti Smith with Robert Mapplethorpe Photo by Kate Simon

November 12: Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann will encourage reflection on how literary and visual artists bring together seemingly unrelated elements into a complete work.

December 10: The thrilling novel The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro revolves around the 1990 heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, but that is only the beginning. It will foster discussion on seeing, collecting, and creating art – and relationships behind the paintings.

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Special Events Mariam Paré Artist DemonstrationFriday, October 23, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.Mary Alice McClendon ConservatoryFree, regular admission to the rest of the Museum

Mariam Paré has pursued art from childhood, but her creative journey was tragically diverted after being a victim of random gun violence at the age of 20. The bullet penetrated her spine and rendered her a quadriplegic. Through occupational and art therapy, she learned how to control first a pencil and then a paintbrush using her mouth. In 2006, she found a supportive community – the Mouth and Foot Painting Artists (MFPA) – and became a member. Art has been her salvation.

In 2014, actor Pierce Brosnan learned of her work and Ms. Paré painted his portrait as James Bond. She has also produced portraits of disabled artists like Frida Kahlo and Chuck Close. She will demonstrate her talent at the MFA and will share information on MFPA, which has played such a large role in her life. Visit her website, www.mariampare.com, to learn more.

Mariam Paré presents her portrait of Pierce Brosnan as James Bond to the actor in his Malibu home.

Sand MandalaSunday, January 3-Saturday, January 16Mary Alice McClendon ConservatoryFree, regular admission to the rest of the Museum

The Venerable Losang Samten, renowned Tibetan scholar and former Buddhist monk, served as the attendant to His Holiness the Dalai Lama. In 1988, Losang was instructed to demonstrate the art of sand painting as the first to be offered in the West. Since then he has created sand mandalas in many museums, including

the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, as well as at universities across the country.

Losang served as religious technical advisor and sand mandala supervisor for and appeared in Martin Scorsese’s film about the Dalai Lama, Kundun, which will be shown at the MFA on Thursday, January 7, at 6:30 p.m. He is also the spiritual director of numerous Buddhist Centers in the United States.

Mandalas have been referred to as “visual scripture,” which can be seen as dwellings for enlightened beings. Sand mandalas are created with great care and detailed accuracy, bringing the sacred symbols to life in order to share an uplifting message. For more information, please go to www.losangsamten.com.

The MFA schedule follows:Sunday, January 3, 11 a.m.: Drawing of the Mandala Monday, January 4-Friday, January 15, 10 a.m.-noon and 1-4 p.m.: Creation of the Mandala Saturday, January 16, noon: Dismantling Ceremony

Youth & Family

Kidding Around Yoga and Drumming @ the MFA will take a holiday break in December.

First and third Saturday of the Month, 10 a.m.Ages three and older$5 per person (includes admission to entire Museum). Please bring a towel or yoga mat.

Kidding Around Yoga uses the yoga poses or asanas creatively tucked into partner yoga, games and activities, original music, stories, and more. The class is designed for kids, but entire families are welcome. Practicing yoga with children creates a special bond.

Second and Fourth Friday of the Month, 11 a.m.(in November and December, only the second Friday due to the holidays)ASL-accessible programFor parents/guardians and their children up to six-years-old$5 per family

This “Night at the Museum” is designed for your favorite stuffed animal. Imagine their adventures as they explore the Museum while waiting for Santa to arrive the next morning.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2015, 5-8pm Early drop-off available.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2015: Drop-off your stuffed animal between 10am and 6pm. Animals receive a keepsake badge when they are tucked in for the night. Follow their journey on twitter. #MFAanimalnight

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2015, 9-11am: Pick up your stuffed animal, enjoy a hot buffet breakfast, watch a slide show of your buddies’ adventures, and get creative with make and take activities. Receive an early visit from Santa Claus, and at 10:30am, finish the morning by listening to stories of the North Pole from Mrs. Claus.

Children are $12 and adults, $17. Children 3 and under are free. Includes breakfast, activities, galleries, souvenir photo, and keepsake badge. Space is limited. Reservations are required by December 7.

Visit www.fine-arts.org/nightatthemuseum to purchase tickets online or call 727.896.2667, ext. 210. Hurry! Last year’s event was a sell-out.

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Discover art and learn a new language as a family. Gain an introduction to ASL (American Sign Language) vocabulary while touring the galleries. Classes are designed and presented by certified ASL instructor and interpreter Carol Downing.

First and Third Saturday of the Month, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.Free with Museum admission. No registration necessary.For ages five and older, but entire families are encouraged to participate.

Create your own masterpiece inspired by works in the collection and special exhibitions. Supplies are included.October 3 and 17: Get creative with your food and join us as we make one-of-a-kind prints using vegetables. November 7 and 21: Every home chef and every artist should have a great apron. Make an artful apron that celebrates your culinary or artistic genius.December 5 and 19: Enjoy Marks Made and then produce your own foam-board monoprint.

Second and Fourth Saturday of the Month, 10:30-11:30 a.m.Adults and families are welcome. Children must be accompanied by an adult.$5 per personPresented by Sally and Katherine Robinson of the Drum Connection

Explore the many cultures represented in the MFA collection by experiencing them to a rhythmic beat. Feel the momentum grow while you drum and use other percussion instruments to bring art alive. No experience is necessary. Just come and have fun.

Viaje a Cuba (Trip to Cuba)

Go with the MFA.

Thursday, March 24-Thursday, March 31, 2016

For details and/or to make your reservation, please contact Suzanne Carlson of Carlson Maritime Travel at 727.945.1930.

Portrait of Artist Fletcher Martin Tours the CountryGeorge Biddle’s Portrait of Fletcher Martin with a German Pistol (1943), a recent acquisition, will earn even more admirers through a traveling exhibition. Art for Every Home: Associated American Artists is on view at the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, the organizer, through Sunday, January 31, 2016.

The show then goes to the Grey Art Gallery, New York University (April 19-July 9, 2016); the American Historical Textile History Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts (September 16-December 31, 2016); and the Syracuse University Art Galleries (January 26-March 26, 2017). Dr. Elizabeth Seaton of the Beach Museum and Jane Myers, who served as Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas for 28 years, are the curators.

Art for Every Home features 125 paintings, prints, ceramics, and textiles and chronicles the efforts of Associated American Artists (AAA) to bring art by hundreds of our country’s artists into the everyday lives of as many people as possible. Founded in New York City in 1934, AAA served as a highly successful artists’ agent that expanded the popular reach of original works, as well as artist-designed textiles and ceramics, through mail-order catalogues, department stores, and print advertising. Corporate commissions ranged from Madison Avenue to Hollywood Boulevard.

The MFA’s painting appears in the section devoted to World War II commissions facilitated by AAA and the War Department and supported by Abbott Laboratories and Life magazine. Biddle completed the portrait while both artists were in Tunisia and Southern Italy in 1943, offering a remarkable example of an artist creating in the field. It is reproduced in the catalogue published by Marquand Books and distributed by Yale University Press.

Biddle is largely credited with persuading Harvard classmate Franklin D. Roosevelt to establish the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration, which played a major role in the development of American culture. He was represented in more than 100 exhibitions during his lifetime.

The MFA’s portrait complements Fletcher Martin’s powerful painting The Undefeated (1948), the 2012 Collectors Choice on view in the Paul and Alice Poynter Gallery. Each year at the group’s April gala, members of the Collectors Circle vote on a work to enter the collection. Biddle’s Portrait of Fletcher Martin with a German Pistol was considered this year, with the Museum deciding to purchase the work after the event.

George Biddle (American, 1885-1973)Portrait of Fletcher Martin with a German Pistol (1943)

Oil on canvasMuseum Purchase

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This season’s programs and events will educate, entertain, and most of all, bring people together. Please make your reservations early, as events sell out quickly. Note the event you wish to attend and send

your check, made payable to The Stuart Society, to reservations chair Shari Ellis, 171 North Tessier Drive, St. Pete Beach, FL 33706. If you have other questions, please contact Affaires d’Art chair Liz Heinkel, lizheinkel@gmail.com or 727.239.5623.

Saturday, October 10, 10 a.m.: Fall Fashion Show and Brunch with Doncaster Designs, 329 Bayview Drive NE. Get the latest tips on the hot new colors and styles for fall and winter while enjoying a fashion show with the Doncaster clothing line. Casual attire. There will be an opportunity to try on clothes after the show. Hosted by Leslie Trevathan-Ritch. 30 guests, $25 per person.

Wednesday, October 21, 11 a.m.: Hands-On Cooking Class with Chef Ana, 400 Beach Seafood and Tap House. Bring your apron for step-by-step instruction to prepare a three-course brunch at your cooking station. Enjoy your delicious meal and mimosas with friends after the lesson. Hosted by Jane Beam, Lynell Bell, Irma Bridgeford, Vicki Fox, Jean Getting Irwin, Donna Painter, Betty Shamas, and Loretta Stitt. 16 guests, $60 each.

Thursday, November 5, 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m.: Historic Downtown Walking Tour + Lunch. Meet at Mickey’s Café and Organics, 318 Central Avenue. Emily Elwyn, President of St. Petersburg Preservation, takes you on a tour of the city’s unique architecture. Lunch follows at a nearby downtown restaurant. Wear casual attire and comfortable walking shoes. Hosted by Emily Elwyn, Elizabeth Samuelson, and Liz Heinkel. 20 guests, $40 each.

Tuesday, November 10, 7-9 p.m.: A Night of Line Dancing at The One Night Stand Club, 149 First Avenue North. Dust off your cowboy boots and join the fun. Don’t know how? Instructors will demonstrate all the right moves. The event includes admission to the club, appetizers, and two drink-tickets. Hosted by Beth England, Carolyn Kopco, Leslie Trevathan-Ritch, and Virginia Ward. 50 guests, $50 per person.

Tuesday, November 17, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.: Food + Art Portrait-Making and Luncheon, Art on 1st Gallery, 550 First Avenue North. Watch popular artist Rita Gould draw a portrait, featuring one lucky guest, while enjoying a specially prepared luncheon from our new Food + Art: Cooking around Tampa Bay with the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg. Register early for a chance to have your portrait created. Hosted by Rita Gould, Judy Preston, Ellen Gaffney, Myrna Davis, Jackie Piper, Nichole Mezrah, and others. 26 guests, $50 per person.

Thursday, November 19, 5-7:30 p.m.: Food + Art Holiday Happy Hour, Dawn Sumner’s home, 133 16th Avenue North. Usher in the holidays as Stuart Society provisionals pair recipes from Food + Art with delicious wines. A cookbook drawing, as well as additional ones for sale, will be part of the festivities. Hosted by Dawn Sumner, Pam Hatton, Carolyn Kopco, Judy Beck, and Colleen Young. 20 guests, $30 each.

Monday, December 7, 6-8 p.m.: Holiday Artistry, Wonderland Floral Art and Gift Loft, 2887 22nd Avenue North, Suite A. Create an arrangement to take home with stem-by-stem instruction from floral artist Cassie Osterloth and savor a wine and dinner buffet. Please make your reservations early. This event always sells out. Hosted by Sally Wheeler, Debbie Baxter, Roseanna Costa, Susan Hicks, Mary Maloof, Signe Oberhofer, Jennifer Rogers, and Dale Wybrow. 24 guests, $60 per person.

For the latest information, please visit www.thestuartsociety.org. Like us on Facebook, www.facebook.com/thestuartsociety, or send us a tweet,

twitter.com/stuartsociety. Carol Russell is the President and Allison Canfield is Director of Communications and Events.

The Margaret AchesonStuart Society

Wednesday, December 9, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.: Food + Art Progressive Holiday Luncheon, all three stops at the Cloisters, 288 Beach Drive N.E., beginning at Unit 7B. All recipes are from Food + Art. The first stop features a lasagna cooking demonstration, followed by lunch, and concluding with decadent desserts. Cookbooks will be available for purchase. Hosted by Margaret Amley, Margaret Bowman, Irma Bridgeford, Linda Oelschlaeger, Tina Douglass, Susan Hicks, Ruth Kent, Monica Mason, Carolyn Warren, and Sharon Withers. 24 guests, $50 each.

Monday, January 11, noon-4 p.m.: Mah Jongg and Lunch at the MFA. Both experienced players and newcomers are welcome. If you have a Mah Jongg set, please bring it. Sets will be provided for newcomers. Hosted by Susan Anderson, Beegie Arnes, Nancy Dunn, Donna Fletcher, Shirley Kaylor, Karen Banfield, Audrie Rañon, and Julia Sorbo. 32 guests, $40 per person.

Monday, January 11, noon-2 p.m.: Food + Art Pizza Demonstration and Lunch, Bavaro’s Pizza Napoletana & Pasteria, 514 North Franklin Street in Tampa. Master pizzaiolo Dan Bavaro will demonstrate how to make authentic Naples-style pizza, and you will have a chance to try your hand at this centuries-old craft. You will also receive a complimentary jar of Bavaro’s gourmet tomato sauce and have the opportunity to buy Food + Art. Carpool from the MFA can be arranged. Please let us know if you need a ride. Hosted by Dan Bavaro, Jeanne Houlton, and Toni Lydecker. 20 guests, $45 per person.

Thursday, January 14, 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.: Achieving Your Personal Best, Parkshore Plaza Social Room, 300 Beach Drive N.E. Join Sidney Chaney of Smarter Image and learn how to update your home and enhance your personal style. Lunch with wine. Two-hour parking on Third Avenue N.E. or parking garage across the street. Hosted by Sidney Chaney, Liz Heinkel, Chris Chapman Hilton, Carol Piper, and Shari Ellis. 20 guests, $40 each.

Thursday, January 28, noon-5 p.m.: iPad 1 – iPad for Dummies, Bayview Room, MFA. Learn all the secrets of your new or old iPad or iPhone. This class is designed for the basic user. We will discuss all intrinsic programming and teach you how to get the most out of your iPad. Required: Bring your iPad and Apple ID. Presented by Dr. Juli Shamas. Hosted by Jessica Futch Monzingo and Anne Shamas. 25 guests, $50 each.

Saturday, January 30, 6:30-9 p.m.: Bowling Galactica at Sunrise Lanes, 6393 9th Street North. Hit the lanes with family and friends. Beer, wine, and eats are provided. Hosted by Lynell and Robert Bell, Sidney and Fred Chaney, Patty and Elliott Gassner, Pam and Dr. Myles Levitt, Suzanne and Jim MacDougald, Ginny and Terry McCarthy, Carole and Dr. Lawrence Merritt, Glenn and Dav Mosby, Carol Nelson and Bob Hopewell, Gail and Fred Razook, Carol and Tom Treichel, and Kathy and Kent Whittemore. 40 guests, $45 per person.

Friday, February 12, 1-4 p.m.: Valentine Dessert and Bridge Party, home of Betty Shamas, 798 Cattail Court N.E. in Placido Bayou. An afternoon of bridge, dessert, prizes, and fun. Hosted by Betty Shamas, Jane Beam, Susan Hicks, and Parsla Mason. 16 guests, $30 each.

Friday, February 26, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.: Neiman Marcus Presents: The Art of Entertaining with Flowers, Neiman Marcus at International Plaza in Tampa, second floor. Floral artist Ian Prosser of Botanica International Décor & Design Studio in Tampa will demonstrate amazing floral designs. Lite bites and gift card opportunities are included. Carpooling from the MFA can be arranged. Please let us know if you need a ride. Hosted by Deborah Utz and Susan Taylor. 40 guests, $25 per person.

Thursday, March 3, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.: Historic Waterfront Walking Tour and Lunch. Meet in front of the MFA and gain a new appreciation of our civic jewel. The tour will end at the Museum with a box lunch prepared by the MFA Café. Hosted by Emily Elwyn, Shari Ellis, Julie Davis, Anne Dowling, and Liz Heinkel. 20 guests, $40 each.

Thursday, March 10, 6:30-9 p.m.: Girls Night Out Bunco, home of Nancy Rutland, 300 Coffee Pot Riviera N.E. Join us for an evening of games, appetizers, cocktails, and prizes. Hosted by Liz Bradley, Tina Dyer, Sue Froid, Linda Hirsch, Judy Holland, Linda Jantschek, Susan Cook Lahey, Ginny McCarthy, and Nancy Rutland. 24 guests, $50 per person.

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Sunday, March 13, 2-4 p.m.: La Dolce Vita – Food + Art Dessert Party, home of Barbara McCoy, 1311 Brightwaters Boulevard N.E. Sample Italian-themed desserts from Food + Art, Prosecco, and espresso, as well as an introduction to Italian art in the Museum collection. Food + Art will be available for purchase. Hosted by Chloe Firebaugh, Barbara McCoy, Samantha Nevins, and Candy Sharp. 35 guests, $35 each.

Thursday, March 15, noon-4 p.m.: iPad 2 – iPad for Not So Dummies, MFA Multipurpose Room. Move past the basics to more advanced use, guided by Dr. Juli Shamas and Anne Shamas. Bring iPad and Apple ID. Hosted by Anne Shamas and Jesse Futch Monzingo. 25 guests, $50 per person.

Friday, March 18, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.: Lebanese Cooking Class and Luncheon, home of Anne Shamas, 1919 Brightwaters Boulevard N.E. Learn about Lebanese cooking and reward yourself with lunch that you prepared. Recipes will be shared. Hosted by Anne Shamas and Judy Bistany. 10 guests, $50 each.

Saturday, April 9, 6:30-10 p.m.: Cheeseburger in Paradise, “Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes,” home of Ann Siviter, 1413 45th Avenue N.E. Dress casually for an evening of island music, libations, and selections from Food + Art. Hosted by Jean Catanese, Mary Jane Cartier, Jan Fazio, Pam Hatton, Ann Siviter, Jean Spencer-Carnes, and Joan Stevenson. 50 guests, $50 per person.

Thursday, April 26, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.: iPad 3 – Going Pro and Cutting the Cord, MFA’s Bayview Room. Use the iPad to enhance your productivity and everyday life. Dr. Juli Shamas will take you to advanced use of your IPad and a better digital experience. Hosted by Jessica Futch Monzingo and Anne Shamas. 30 guests, $50 each.

Friday, May 6, 7-9 p.m.: Olé! Olé! – It’s Mexican Dominos Night, home of Shari Ellis, 171 North Tessier Drive, St Pete Beach. The grand finale of Affaires d’Art will be a party to end all parties with dominos, margaritas, and Mexican cuisine. Seating is limited so book early. Hosted by Shari Ellis and Marian Yon Maguire. 14 guests, $50 per person.

Join local celebrity chefs and home cooks in showcasing select recipes from Food + Art: Cooking Around Tampa Bay.

Enjoy samplings from food stations, a signature cocktail, and meet the recipe contributors!

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 20156:00 p.m. – Museum of Fine Arts

Cash bar. Complimentary valet off Bayshore Drive.Register at thestuartsociety.org/foodart/

A Christmas tree has been displayed in The Junior League Great Hall from the very beginning. Museum

Founder Margaret Acheson Stuart loved the Christmas tree at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and established the tradition here. For many years,

the provisionals of The Margaret Acheson Stuart have decorated the tree, ushering in the holidays at the MFA.

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MFA Appoints Hazel and William Hough Chief CuratorDr. Jerry N. Smith brings extensive curatorial, scholarly, and administrative background to his new role as the Hazel and William Hough Chief Curator. He begins his new position on Monday, October 19. He was formerly Curator of American and European Art to 1950 and Art of the American West at the Phoenix Art Museum. The MFA conducted a national search for a new chief curator. Dr. Smith’s interests complement those of Katherine Pill, the MFA’s Assistant Curator of Art after 1950.

“Jerry held leadership positions at the Phoenix Art Museum for more than a decade,” said MFA Director Kent Lydecker. “He was responsible for all aspects of display, interpretation, and acquisition of works by artists ranging from Leonardo da Vinci to Paul Cézanne to Andy Warhol. He also curated innovative exhibitions of modern and contemporary art of the American West. Jerry’s enthusiasm for the MFA – our collection, exhibitions, programs, and our future – is contagious. We all greatly look forward to working with him.”

“I am very excited to have Jerry Smith join the Museum of Fine Arts as the Hazel and William Hough Chief Curator,” said Mark T. Mahaffey, Chairman of the Board of Trustees. “Jerry brings vast knowledge and experience to our exceptional museum. His willingness to collaborate with our staff in bringing exciting exhibitions to our community and in adding significant works to our collection gives me great confidence in the future of the MFA.”

Dr. Smith’s responsibilities and accomplishments in Phoenix mesh ideally with the MFA’s comprehensive collection. During his tenure, he curated and supervised nearly 40 exhibitions that spanned the art of the Renaissance to American modernism through contemporary art of the American West.

His diverse exhibitions included Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Leicester and The Power of Observation, Cézanne and American Modernism, Georgia O’Keeffe: Ingénue to Icon, and Andy Warhol: Portraits. He also focused on The Migrant Series of Colorado-based artist Don Coen, whose large-scale paintings capture the dignity of these farmers; the work of Ernest Blumenschein, co-founder of the Taos Society of Artists; retablos (small devotional paintings of Mexico and the Southwest); and even the engraved guns of master craftsman Ray Wielgus.

In addition, he was instrumental in selecting and recommending art for the collection, which numbers more than 18,000 works. He has written a number of catalogues, most recently Don Coen: The Migrant Series. Cézanne and American Modernism, for which he wrote an essay on the artist and the American West, was published by Yale University Press. The Phoenix Art Museum, which opened in 1959, has 285,000 square feet and serves one of the country’s largest metropolitan areas.

Dr. Smith holds his BA magna cum laude and his MA from Arizona State University and his PhD from the University of Kansas, all in art history. His advisor at Kansas was Dr. Charles Eldredge, the noted scholar of American art. His dissertation examined the automobile in American art from 1900-1950.

“I will work with everyone at the MFA to help create a vibrant exhibition schedule for the coming years,” Dr. Smith said. “I’ve learned that exhibitions are not cookie-cutter experiences that perfectly translate from one museum to another or one part of the country to the next. To be successful, exhibitions must speak to the community. One of my initial goals is to get to know the collectors and art enthusiasts in St. Petersburg and the Tampa Bay area and to learn about the community’s various interests.

“Just so people know up front, I tend to get excited when I talk about art and don’t try to hide my enthusiasm,” he added. “I believe strongly that if I can’t get excited about art, how can I engage others? If I don’t feel emotionally charged by an exhibition, why should I believe visitors will be interested? I am thrilled about this opportunity to expand audiences for art at the MFA.”

Wine, Whiskey, and Wonder!Friday, February 5-Sunday, February 7, 2016

Plans are still evolving for this fantastic weekend. The event on Friday, February 5, will feature fabulous cuisine, fine wines and whiskey, craft beer, music, and dancing, along with a silent and small live auction. The piece de resistance on Saturday, February 7, will be an expanded version of the Grape Escape, the highly acclaimed Wine Weekend event held in 2014. The dining extravaganza that evening will accommodate approximately 160 guests. The ever popular Sunday Jazz Brunch in the Marly Room and gardens will conclude the weekend on February 7.

For more information or to become a sponsor, please visit www.thestuartsociety.org or contact Allison Canfield, Director of Communications and Events for The Stuart Society, at 727.896.2667, ext. 221, or Allison@fine-arts.org.

William Duffield (British, 1816-1863)Still Life with Lemons, Grapes, and Plums (1855)

Oil on canvasMuseum Purchase with funds donated by The

Margaret Acheson Stuart Society

The Plaza of Honorat the Bayshore entrance to the Hazel Hough Wing

Order an Engraved Brick, the Perfect Memorial or Tribute.

• Commemorate an engagement, wedding, anniversary, milestone birthday, or graduation.

• Memorialize relatives or special friends.

• Honor family, teachers, volunteers, or donors.

• Show support for the MFA.

Forms are available at the Welcome Desk. For more information, please contact chair Libby Salamone, libbysoldit@aol.com.

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Why Give to the Annual Fund?

Why does the MFA ask for your support? Because we want to engage people of all ages with an arts experience they cannot find elsewhere. If you are reading the Mosaic, you know the wonder of a visit to the MFA.

By supporting the Annual Fund, you are making the daily activities of the Museum possible, both in the galleries and in the community:

• Inspire lifelong learning. Every day we teach from our renowned, encyclopedic collection during our docent tours, and we provide outreach programming to more than 10,000 students through our partnership with the Pinellas County Schools.

• Make multigenerational experiences matter. The Museum is the perfect place for your family to spend quality, creative time together. From Saturday morning Make and Takes to the Stuffed Animal Night in December, we are your premier family art destination.

• Welcome everyone. We offer diverse opportunities to encourage the entire community to enjoy the arts. Just ask any of the 900 participants in Painting in the Park or the more than 4,000 visitors who attended Arts Alive! free museum day in September.

As we approach the end of our 50th Anniversary, consider a “50 for 50” gift. Increase your gift by $50 or 50 percent, whichever is within your means, and you will help preserve one of the area’s most enduring and dynamic cultural resources. You can help us change, renew, and grow for the next 50 years.

More than 51 percent of the Museum’s operations are generated by membership support and additional contributions to our Annual Fund. Your tax-deductible contribution is an investment in our future. We are deeply grateful for your continued support.

Make Your Contribution Today! Contact the Development Office at 727.896.2667 or online, www.fine-arts.org/annual-giving-campaign/.

$10,000 to $24,999Irwin and Patti NovackJean Giles Wittner

$5,000 to $9,999Nina FocardiKent and Toni LydeckerGerald Langlykke

$1,000 to $4,999Dr. Gene and Toni Altman Community Foundation

(Give Day Tampa Bay)Ellen Esteva Seymour and Susan GordonBob and Chris HiltonJeff and Jennifer LoveladyFred S. and Gail RazookFrederick and Carolyn

RehbergerArlene Fillinger RothmanDr. John E. SchloderThe Honorable Mel and

Betty SemblerEllen C. StavrosJudy A. Weitekamp

$500 to $999Helen N. HameroffDr. Mack and Susan HicksHarry C. and Joan

McCrearyDr. Robert and Anne

NelsonSunset Rotary Foundation,

Inc.

Up to $499Susanne S. AngermeierRobert and Dr. Angela BaisleyGeorge and Pamela CampbellJudy ClappKaren S. CorsonMarjorie R. DosikDavid and Jane EgbertChloe FirebaughThe Rev. Peter and the Hon. Marion

FlemingSue FroidLouise G. and John GarriguesDr. Daniel M. HameroffBarbara Wilson HugginsIBM International FoundationDr. Thomas and Margarita LaughlinThomas and Laura McGrathDr. Gary and Susan OsherMichael and Carol PiperJohn and Susan ReganJohn and Patricia ReppertDr. Chester H. RobinsonDr. Deborah C. RothJ.C. and Carol RussellDr. Harold and Joyce SederRobert and Mary Lee SetzerGeorge and Phyllis ShipleyPamela L. SlaggThomas and Donna SouthardBob and Carol StewartDarren and Wini StoweJoan Waterbury

Annual Giving

Thank You The MFA is grateful to the following donors who contributed

to the Annual Fund between May 27 and August 25:

Dr. Malcolm Daniel traced the invention and early history of photography in the Wayne W. and Frances Knight Parrish Lecture on Sunday, June 28, in the Marly Room. Dr. Daniel is Curator in Charge, Department of Photography, and Curator of Special Projects at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Gathering after the lecture were (left to right): local photographer Herb Snitzer, Dr. Daniel,

MFA Director Kent Lydecker, and Robin O’Dell, Manager of Photographic Collections.

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Circle Level MembersDirector’s CircleEdwards, Bill and JoanneHough, William R. and HazelJames, Tom and MaryMahaffey, Mark T. and MarianneVinik, Jeff and Penny

Founder’s CircleEdwards, William P. and AnnMosby, Glenn and DavNovack, Patti and IrwinWittner, Jean Giles

New/Upgraded Sustainer/BenefactorBelger, C. Richard and Evelyn

CraftRichardson, Bradford

New General MembersMay 29-September 2

FamilyAlbrect, Ron and VernaAmmerman, NancyAzneer, Jay and SamuelAzuola, ElenaBaker, Shelley and GlennBeauchamp, Brent and GloriaBeaudry, Brian and PatriciaBlake, Lynn and RodBlanshan, Sue and Barbara SmithBoulay, Carol and JoeBuxbaum, GabrieleCardinal, Michele and CatherineCarroll, Glenn and ShelleyChill, StephanieClapp, JudithCollins, Gene and Barbara Riley

CollinsCorner, David and JudithCorrigan, Shannon and DavidCrawford, Dan and LauraDay, CarminaDefourneaux, David and ShannonDentremont, Mark Paul and JillDopp, PaulDuBois, Dean and Mary-BethDumin, David and MarielEndres, DanaFabian, Hope and MichaelFeher, GeorgeFoley, NancyFoster, David and GailGabe, MaureenGaddoni, RachelGeivett, AiLing and DennisGoldrich, Howard and DonnaGoodrich, Michael and StacyGordon, Leigh and MichaelHammach, Jo-Ann and Norma

Quance

Heckler, Vic and Eileen KamerickHerr, Josie and LeslieHill, Lance and AmyHoward, Joshua and LydiaHunt, James and RebeccaJohnson, DeborahKaltezas, TinaKearney, RichardKendall, Patricia and RalphKeyser, John and LyndaKinder, CarolynKing, Ann and CharlesKirk, Terrell and MeiKratz, Charles and KimKuster, Heidi and JeffreyLamb, KathleenLeitz, Christel and RichardLevine, Samuel and JayLewis, Mary and CharlesListon, DeanLoretero, Francine and WilliamLovelady, Jeff and Jennifer

Petrini-LoveladyMahesha, DeepakMahoney, WilliamMann, TimMann, TomMarkiewicz, Kim and CharlesMartin, Michael and HopeMartinez, PeggyMasters, GeorgiaMcCullough, RuthMcKinney, Anne and WilliamMcNeice, ScottMitchell, James and StephanieMonlux, George and LauraMontalvo, Nina and JorgeMorgan, Joseph and MelissaMorton, J. Stuart and ErikaMuncie, Marvin and SabinaMyers, Michael and LavedaNeri, Greg and Maggie KusenbachNivens, Catherine and MicheleNixon, Douglas and IreneO’Connor, JuliaOsthus, John and TinaPetrila, Amy and JohnPorzig, Patricia and BrianPotts, Bill and KimPowell, Amy and LancePremo, MichaelPrice, Edith and RobertRansdell, Douglas and SandraReitan, Thane and LauraRogers, Dan and MeeganRoit, Sheila and AllanRoman, Connie and MarkSchatzberg, Elizabeth and RonnieSchauer, Nancy and J.Schmelter, Ryan and SarahSchreck, William and FrancineSeplesky, VinnieSetzer, Mary Lee and RobertSinclair, Cynthia and RonaldSmalley, Cassandra and Kevin

Smith, Constance and RichardSmith, David and MaggieSmith, MatthewStang, ElizabethStockhill, Sarah and RyanSurdi, CamilleSweeney, LucilleTew, Donna and HowardThompson, CraigTojo, DavidTrivin, DanielVernon, Garth and MonicaVirgilio, RaymondVisser-Ney, AnneWalentine, Alsace and CandiceWaller, Leslie and JosieWebb, Sandy and TerryWest, CraigWhite, KathyWilliams, J. and NancyYoungs, Amy and ToddZumpe, Lee and Tracey

IndividualAlbritton, KeriAllen, GloriaArtise, PasqualAskin, PamelaBarrett, JudyBates, ToddBergquist, ColleenBerk, CherylBloyd, PatriciaBredenberg, IngridBurgess, Patricia PrinceButler, R.Cain, CatherineCarey, JennyCarrington, MargaretChapin, MariaChonko, RoxanneCidelca, BerthonierClark, KarenCunningham, BethDachnowski, LenoreDaicoff, GeorgeDenbigh, Robert and BrendaDowling, RichardFitzgerald, JamesFrench, PatriciaGilmer, JudithGiuli, AnnGrant, Stacey AnnHapke, CherylHatch, CaroleHickman, HeatherHoft, TerryHoward, JudithJacobs, StanleyJohnson, JayKaplan, KenLanda, SusanLawrence, AliciaLawrence, RichardLeCavalier, Mary

Lee, ErinLove, MatthewLudin, JudyLulias, JohnMajeed, CarolineMajeed, ChristinaMatkowski, StephenMay, ArmandinaMazzaferro, DebMcDole, KathleenMcGuane, SusanMcQuary, SusanMencher, RobynMoynahan, LauraNiss, NancyPenhallegon, Dee-EttaQuaglieri, AnthonyRamm, BarbaraRogers, MarkSanders, HeleneSchmidt, PeterSchmidt, RickSchmidt, ZelmaScholle, MarshaSearfoss, EstherSesko, CynthiaSherman, JoyShibley, JefferySpaul, PatriciaSt. Clair, RobertTaylor, DannyThomas, SylviaThomson, HilaryVancavage, LoisWeber, MiriamWieland, Suzanne

ScholarBraddock, JohnnaBravo, ErickBremer, NoraCiancarelli, FranciscaClark, AngelaDenbigh, BrendaGibson, KatherineIgielski, AudreyJankowski, KarenKirk, RowenaLevy, IrisMaier, KelleyMartin, ShaneMcFarland, StephenMonahan, SheilaMoore, KristenMullins, SamNelson, KelliRoberts, EmilySorensen, TiaThayer, JanetTheodorou, AlanaTrauscht, AleciaVanderpoel, MichelleWestberg, DarleneZepeda, Sally

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Music in the MarlyTickets are first-come, first-served, cost $20 for adults and $10 for students 22 and younger with current ID, and can be purchased online by going to www.fine-arts.org. Marly Music Society members pay only $15 per concert. Admission to the entire Museum is included in the ticket price. Concerts are sponsored in part by the Friends of Joe Sprain in his memory; the Estate of Mrs. Elvira Wolfe de Weil; the Tampa Bay Times; WUSF; and the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture.

Sunday, January 3, 2 p.m. The Fred Moyer Jazz TrioFrederick Moyer, piano, Peter Tillotson, bass, and Bob Savine, drums

Fred Moyer and friends perform their own arrangements and improvisations of standards from the Great American Songbook, as well as music by jazz trios led by Erroll Garner, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Chick Corea, and other giants.

During his 35-year career, Frederick Moyer has been a soloist with many of the world’s great orchestras, including the Cleveland, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and London. His far-flung venues have ranged from Windsor Castle in England to Suntory Hall in Tokyo, from the Sydney Opera House in Australia to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. His 22 recordings of works by more than 30 composers reflect his eclectic interests – from classical to jazz. He studied music and piano performance in two of the country’s most prestigious programs – the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and Indiana University in Bloomington.

Peter Tillotson’s journey has ranged from garage bands to Lincoln Center, from bebop to bluegrass. He has performed with members of the Boston Symphony, as well as with numerous pop stars and entertainers. The Count Basie Orchestra, Barenaked Ladies, Sheryl Crow, the Dixie Chicks, John Mayer, Dave Matthews, Paul Simon, and Bonnie Raitt have sought his technical expertise in acoustic amplification.

Bob Savine began his formal musical training at Pennsylvania State University where he received his BS in music education. He later studied at the noted Berklee College of Music in Boston. He has performed with a diverse group of singers and instrumentalists, including The Artie Shaw Orchestra, Keely Smith, Mike Metheny, and many more.

In memory of Betty BreedonJoan Jaicks

In memory of Mary Grace Johnson Dalton

David Connelly

In memory of Joseph DiazDavid Connelly

In memory of Joan GesslerDr. Richard and Niela Eliason

Bill and Gale LaubachPeter and Dr. Starr Sherman

Duke and Sally Wheeler

In honor of John M. Hamilton, M.D.

Susanne S. Angermeier

In honor of Terence Leet Dr. John E. Schloder

In memory of Norma S. LewisEric Lang Peterson and Millie Brown

In memory of Charles MackeyRobert and Mary Lee Setzer

In honor of Fay Mackey and the Museum’s 50th anniversary

Eric Lang Peterson

In memory of Sam H. Mann Jr., Esq.

J. Hayden KnowltonFay MackeyCarol N. PhillipsStan and Iris Salzer

In honor of Patti NovackMaurice Rothman and Thelma Rothman Family Foundation, Inc.

In memory of Helen Gandy O’Brien

Eric Lang Peterson

In memory of Roberta June Santee

Dr. John E. Schloder

In honor of Candy Scherer Sharp

J.C. and Carol Russell

In memory of Robert StoffelsDuke and Sally Wheeler

In honor of Ruth Fleet Thurman

James and Gaelynn Thurman

In honor of Lynn Whitelaw Dr. John E. Schloder

Memorials & Tributes

Jane Hammond (American, born 1950)Family Business (2015)

PhotogravurePrinted by Blue Acier, Tampa

Edition of 10 $2500 each

Elisabeth Condon (American, born 1959)Notes from Shanghai: Stream (2015)

Three-color direct gravurePrinted by Blue Acier, Tampa

Edition of 15 $1200 each

Commemorative Prints Honoring the MFA’s 50th Anniversary

andMarks Made: Prints by American Women Artists from the 1960s to the Present

Available in the Museum Store

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Ms. Tallman is Editor-in-Chief of the noted international journal and website Art in Print, and her writing has appeared in Art in America, Parkett, Art on Paper, Print Quarterly, Arts Magazine, and many other publications. Her books include The Contemporary Print from Pre-Pop to Postmodern, The Collections of Barbara Bloom, Silent & Violent: Selected Artists’ Editions, and numerous catalogues.

She has lived and worked in New York, Amsterdam, and Berlin and currently teaches in the Departments of Printmedia and Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Ms. Tallman holds her BA from Wesleyan University and her MA in art history and archeology from Columbia University.

Thursday, February 18, 6:30 p.m.: Dr. Gloria Groom is an internationally acclaimed scholar and author on nineteenth-century European painting and sculpture. She is Senior Curator and David and Mary Winton Green Curator of Nineteenth-Century European Painting and Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Dr. Groom has curated many major traveling exhibitions and was the lead curator for the groundbreaking Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity (2012-2013), which opened at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. Others include: Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde (2006-2007); Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre (2005); Manet and the Sea (2003); Beyond the Easel: Decorative Painting by Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis and Roussel, 1890-1930 (2001); Renoir’s Portraits: Impressions of an Age (1997); Gustave Caillebotte: Urban Impressionist (1995); and Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams (1994). Among her future exhibitions are Van Gogh’s Bedrooms (2015) and Gauguin, Painter-Sculptor (2017), the latter in partnership with the Musée d’Orsay.

The author of numerous catalogues and essays, Dr. Groom has lectured across the country and in Europe. Her book, Edouard Vuillard: Painter-Decorator, was published by Yale University Press. Since 2009, she has led the project for the monographic online scholarly collection of catalogues for Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Manet, Gauguin, and Caillebotte. This effort has involved an international team of scholars, conservators, and scientists.

Dr. Groom was elected Chevalier and Officier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres, respectively, by the Republic of France in 2005 and 2013 and was made Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur this year. She holds her BA from the University of Oklahoma and her MA and PhD in art history from the University of Texas at Austin. She also received a graduate certificate from the École du Louvre in Paris.

Lecture SeriesFree with MFA admission, open to the public

Sponsored by:

This outstanding series features some of the world’s foremost art historians, curators, artists, and collectors. The public is invited to these free lectures. An always elegant reception for Collectors Circle members, also sponsored by Northern Trust, is held one hour before the lecture. Seymour Gordon, Honorary Trustee and past President of the MFA Board, is President of the Collectors Circle.

Thursday, November 19, 6:30 p.m.: Dr. Arthur Wheelock, Curator of Northern Baroque Painting at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., will explore “Beauty of Abundance: Still Life Painting in the Dutch Golden Age.” Also Professor of Art History at the University of Maryland, he has lectured widely on Dutch and Flemish art and has written many articles and a number of books and catalogues, including Jan Vermeer and Vermeer and the Art of Painting.

Dr. Wheelock has curated a host of major exhibitions at the National Gallery: Anthony van Dyck (1990), Johannes Vermeer (1995), Jan Steen: Painter and Storyteller (1996), Aelbert Cuyp (2001), Gerard ter Borch (2004), Rembrandt’s Late Religious Portraits (2005), Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered (2008), Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age (2009), and Pleasure and Piety: The Art of Joachim Wtewael (1566-1638) (2015).

His many honors attest to his distinguished contributions to his field. In 1982, at the time of the Dutch-American Bicentennial, he was named Knight Officer in the Order of the Orange-Nassau by the Dutch government. He has also been awarded the title, Commander in the Order of Leopold I, by the government of Belgium. In 1993, he received the College Art Association/National Institute for Conservation Award for Distinction in Scholarship and Conservation.

Dr. Wheelock was awarded the Minda de Gunzburg Prize for the best exhibition catalogue of 1995 ( Johannes Vermeer), the Johannes Vermeer Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Dutch Art, the Bicentennial Medal and the Kellogg Award from Williams College, and the Dutch-American Achievement Award from The Netherlands American Amity Trust. In 2008, the University of Maryland created a doctoral fellowship in his name. His online catalogue of the Dutch collection at the National Gallery received the 2014 George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award for being the best art publication in the United States. Dr. Wheelock attended Phillips Exeter Academy, Williams College, and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1973.

Thursday, December 10, 6:30 p.m.: Susan Tallman, who has written an essay for the Marks Made catalogue, will focus on contemporary printmaking. She has written and lectured extensively on the history and culture of the print, as well as on issues of authenticity, reproduction, and multiplicity.

Collectors Circle Corporate and Foundation SponsorsAstral ExtractsThe Bank of TampaChristie’sComegys Insurance

AgencyFifth Third Private Bank

Green, Henwood and Hough Investment Group, RBC Wealth Management

Helen Torres FoundationNorthern Trust

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Bridging the Bay An Artistic Evening

for

Collectors Circle Members, MFA Trustees, Upper-Level MFA and Legacy Society Members

and Tampa Museum of Art Patrons

Tampa Museum of ArtTuesday, October 13

Presented by:

6:30 p.m.: Champagne, wine, and gourmet hors d’oeuvres

7:15 p.m.: Private Tour of XTO + JC: Christo and Jeanne-Claude Featuring Works from the Bequest of David C. Copley

with Tampa Museum of Art Director Michael Tomor

Cocktail Attire Coach Transportation provided from St. Petersburg

Please RSVP: twilkins@fine-arts.org or 727.896.2667, ext. 248

Chair: Mary B. Perry

Christo, The Umbrellas, Project for Japan and Western U.S.A. (1987). Pencil, fabric, pastel, charcoal, crayon,

enamel paint and map, collage in two parts. Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Bequest of David C. Copley. Photo: Wolfgang Volz. ©CHRISTO 1987.

The exhibition is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Support has been generously provided by Colette Carson Royston and Dr. Ivor Royston and the Friends of David C. Copley; additional funding and works of art received from the David C. Copley Foundation. Presented at the Tampa Museum of Art by Maureen and Doug Cohn.

Save the Dates Collectors CircleMember Appreciation Party at the home of Rhonda Shear and Van Fagan2020 Brightwaters Boulevard N.E., St. Petersburg

Thursday evening, January 14, 2016

Hors d’oeuvres, wine and cocktails Complimentary valet parking

For more information, please contact Sheila Tempelmann, sheilaherbtemp@aol.com or 727.864.1338.

Chair: Cynthia Astrack

Underwritten by:

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Collectors Choice XV Gala Friday, April 29, 7 p.m.

Cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, exquisite dinner,select wines, champagne, and moreComplimentary valet parking

Collectors Circle members will vote on a new work for the collection. Join today to participate.

Study TripsSponsored by:

The Collectors Circle visits other museums, galleries, and private collections and homes throughout the year. Members receive private tours and also enjoy lunch or dinner at some of the finest restaurants.

Tuesday, November 10-Wednesday, November 11: Overnight excursion to historic St. Augustine and Jacksonville.

Wednesday, February 24, 2016: The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota. Private tours of the new Center for Asian Art and the major exhibition Samurai: The Way of the Warrior from the Stibbert Museum in Florence, Italy. The show features approximately 70 objects, including full suits of armor, helmets, swords, and saddles, as well as exquisite writing boxes and incense trays.

Tuesday, May 10-Friday, May 13, 2016: Study trip to Boston. Watch for more details.

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Board of Trustees 2015Executive CommitteeMr. Mark T. Mahaffey,

ChairmanMrs. Cathy Collins, Vice

ChairmanMr. Wayne (Skipp) Fraser,

CPA , TreasurerMr. Clark Mason, SecretaryMr. Howard MillsMrs. Glenn MosbyMr. Fred S. Razook Jr.Dr. Kent Lydecker, DirectorTrusteesMrs. Erin Smith AebelMr. Roy BingerMs. Laura Militzer BryantMr. Gary DamkoehlerDr. Gordon J. GilbertMr. James R. Gillespie, JD,

LLMMr. Robert L. HiltonMrs. Hazel C. Hough

Mr. Richard Kriseman, Mayor of the City of St. Petersburg, ex officio, nonvoting

Mr. Darryl A. LeClairMs. Fay MackeyMrs. Mary Alice McClendonMrs. Patti NovackMr. Marshall RousseauMs. Ellen StavrosMr. Harold E. Wells Jr.Mrs. Carol Russell,

President, The Margaret Acheson Stuart Society

Honorary Trustees, nonvoting

Mrs. Isabel Bishop, Honorary Memorial Trustee

Mr. Seymour A. Gordon, Esq.Mr. Charles HendersonMr. Peter ShermanMrs. Carol A. Upham

Concept Corpse by Salvador T. Saint Germain, Jeremiah Jacobs, and Josh Poll. Photograph by Steven Le.

This project was developed by area artists Salvador T. Saint Germain and Jeremiah Jacobs, along with Ann Marie Cash Levasseur of Rhino on Air. This word and visual game was invented by the Surrealists. The artists participated by adding words or images, either by following a rule or viewing the very end of the previous contribution. The Surrealists loved surprise and the final result, based to a large degree on chance.

Exquisite Corpse International is bringing this game into the new millennium. The body has been divided into the head, torso, and legs. Artists, mainly from the area, but from as far away as England, have been assigned one of the parts. They do not know with whom they are collaborating.

Three paintings and seven sculptures will be revealed in The Parade of Corpses Thursday, November 12, from 5:30-9:30 p.m. in the Mary Alice McClendon Conservatory. Some of the artists will also make informal presentations in the Marly Room. Admission on Thursday is only $5 after 5 p.m., and hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar will be part of the fun. The event is being held in conjunction with the Museum Store. The works will then travel to museums in England, Japan, and Canada.

In addition to the coordinators, the following local artists have brought their imaginative touch to the project: Mark Aeling, Mariel Bass, Zoe Bocik, Rocky Bridges, Cyber Craft Robots (Sarah Campagna), Don Gillespie, Carrie Jadus, Steven Kenny, Marc Levasseur, James M. McCracken, Mark Noll, James Olsen, Dan Painter, Vince Pompei, Josh Poll, Calan Ree, George Retkes, Rebecca Skelton, Laura Spencer, Rob Tanguay, and Dave Walker.

Rarely have so many local artists been involved in a special event at the Museum. These corpses are guaranteed to be inventive, SPIRITed, and unforgettable.

Museum Storein partnership with Aylen Suarez of NuSoBel

presents

Art Advances Fashion Forward Three Magical Worlds Collide

Fine Art, Fashion, and Photography

Thursday, October 29, 5:30-10 p.m.

Cutting-Edge Fashion and Photography inspired by

the MFA collection

Models throughout the Museum

Jewelry, Fashion, Accessories, and

Photography in the Mary Alice McClendon

Conservatory

Admission to all Galleries

Full Cash Bar, Delectable Bites, Valet Parking

$5 general admission

$15 limited VIP seating with complimentary drink and patron gift

No reservations required.

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Marks Made: Prints by American Women Artists from the 1960s to the PresentSaturday, October 17, 2015-Sunday, January 24, 2016

Carrie Schneider: Reading WomenSaturday, November 7, 2015-Sunday, January 17, 2016

I Remember BirminghamSaturday, November 14, 2015-Sunday, February 28, 2016

50 Artworks for 50 Years: First LookThrough Sunday, March 13, 2016

Piotr Janowski’s Curiosity Art Installation on the Museum GroundsOpens Thursday, December 3General Tours, Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., Sunday, 2 p.m.Family Tours, Saturdays, 11 a.m.

OCTOBERFriday/2Friends of Photography: Pick-a-Pic, 6-8:30 p.m.

Saturday/3Kidding Around Yoga, 10-11 a.m.MFA: Make and Take Saturday – Vegetable Prints, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Sunday/4Five Decades of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts closes.

Monday/5ILLUMINATE, Session A, 10-11:30 a.m.The Contemporaries: Lunchtime Lecture on the history and influence of Graphicstudio, noon-1 p.m.

Thursday/8Book Club @ the MFA: Just Kids by Patti Smith, 6:30 p.m.

Friday/9Art and Sign Language, 11 a.m.

Saturday/10Drumming @ the MFA, 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Sunday/11Hot Gatherings, Cool Conversations: Glass artist Hyunsung Cho, 3 p.m.

Tuesday/13Friends of Decorative Arts: Roy Slade on “Design in America: The Cranbrook Vision 1925-1950,” 2 p.m.The Margaret Acheson Stuart Society: SMartLY DRESSED Dress Rehearsal, Saks Fifth Avenue, The Mall at University Town Center, Sarasota, sold out, 5-7 p.m. Bridging the Bay at the Tampa Museum of Art, invitation only, 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday/14Coffee Talk: Nan Colton’s Spine Chilling Tales, tour, and refreshments, 10-11 a.m.Marks Made Members’ Opening Reception, 7-9 p.m.

Thursday/15Porch Party, 5:30-7 p.m.UNCHartED: Random Acts of Culture – Collaborative Practice panel discussion with artists Elisabeth Condon and Jane Hammond and Master Printer Erika Greenberg-Schneider, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday/17Kidding Around Yoga, 10-11 a.m.MFA: Make and Take Saturday – Vegetable Prints, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.Marks Made opens.

Sunday/18Wayne W. and Frances Knight Parrish Lecture: Käthe Kollwitz (pseudonym), one of the founders of the Guerrilla Girls, 2 p.m., followed by a reception on the Museum portico.

Monday/19ILLUMINATE, Session B, 10-11:30 a.m.

Wednesday/21Food + Art Launch Party, presented by The Margaret Acheson Stuart Society and the MFA, 6-8 p.m.

Thursday/22Cinema @ the MFA: Women Art Revolution! with an introduction by Katherine Pill, Assistant Curator of Art after 1950, 6:30 p.m.

Friday/23Artist Demonstration by mouth-painter Mariam Paré, Mary Alice McClendon Conservatory, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.Art and Sign Language, 11 a.m.

Saturday/24Drumming @ the MFA, 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Thursday/29Art Advances Fashion Forward: Three Magical Worlds Collide, Fine Art, Fashion, and Photography, 5:30-10 p.m.

Friday/30SMartLY DRESSED, presented by The Margaret Acheson Stuart Society, at the Vinoy Renaissance, sold out, 11 a.m.

NOVEMBERMonday/2ILLUMINATE, Session A, 10-11:30 a.m.The Contemporaries Lunchtime Lecture: Dr. Julie Buckner Armstrong of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg on her upcoming book Birmingham Stories, noon-1 p.m.

Thursday/5The Contemporaries: Visit to the late Theo Wujcik’s studio and archives in Ybor City, 7 p.m.

Saturday/7Kidding Around Yoga, 10-11 a.m.MFA: Make and Take Saturday – Artful Aprons, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.Carrie Schneider: Reading Women opens.

Sunday/8Gallery Talk on Carrie Schneider: Reading Women by Katherine Pill, Assistant Curator of Art after 1950, 3 p.m.

Tuesday/10Friends of Decorative Arts: Frederic T. Schneider on Japanese cloisonné enamels, 2 p.m.

Wednesday/11Coffee Talk: Nan Colton’s A Self-Portrait, tour, and refreshments, 10-11 a.m.Thursday/12Book Club @ the MFA: Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann, 6:30 p.m.Exquisite Corpse, 5:30-9:30 p.m.

Friday/13Art and Sign Language, 11 a.m.

Saturday/14Drumming @ the MFA, 10:30-11:30 a.m.Creative Time Summit, noon-5 p.m.I Remember Birmingham opens.

Sunday/15Hot Gatherings, Cool Conversations: Glass artist Michael Schunke, 3 p.m.

Monday/16ILLUMINATE, Session B, 10-11:30 a.m.

Thursday/19Museum Store Holiday Sale for members only begins today and continues through Sunday, November 22.Porch Party, 5:30-7 p.m.Collectors Circle Lecture: Dr. Arthur Wheelock, Curator of Northern Baroque Painting at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., on “Beauty of Abundance: Still Life Painting in the Dutch Golden Age,” 6:30 p.m.

Saturday/21Kidding Around Yoga, 10-11 a.m.MFA: Make and Take Saturday – Artful Aprons, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Thursday/26Museum closed for Thanksgiving.

DECEMBERThursday/3Piotr Janowski’s Curiosity opens on the Museum grounds at 5:30 p.m. The artist will be present, and a cash bar will be available.Cinema @ the MFA: Woman of the Year, starring Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, with an introduction by Dr. Margit Grieb of the University of South Florida, Tampa, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday/5MFA: Make and Take Saturday – Foam-Board Monoprints, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Monday/7ILLUMINATE, Session A, 10-11:30 a.m.

DATES to RememberThe Contemporaries Lunchtime Lecture: Public/Private Art with a focus on Piotr Janowski’s Curiosity on the Museum grounds, noon-1 p.m.

Tuesday/8Friends of Decorative Arts: Steve Fuller on “Antique Toys, Dolls, and Collectibles,” 2 p.m.

Wednesday/9Coffee Talk: Nan Colton’s An Intellectual Affair, tour, and refreshments, 10-11 a.m.

Thursday/10Book Club @ the MFA: The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro, 6:30 p.m.Collectors Circle Lecture: Susan Tallman, Editor-in-Chief of Art in Print, on contemporary printmaking, 6:30 p.m.Stuffed Animal Night at the Museum: Early Animal Drop-Off, 5-8 p.m.

Friday/11Stuffed Animal Night at the Museum: Animal Drop-off, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.Art and Sign Language, 11 a.m.

Saturday/12Stuffed Animal Night at the Museum: Breakfast with Santa, 9-11 a.m.

Sunday/13Hot Gatherings, Cool Conversations: Glass artists Jacob Stout and Mariel Bass, 3 p.m.

Thursday/17Porch Party, 5:30-7 p.m.UNCHartED: Random Acts of Culture: Eye Draw with artist Steven Kenny, 5:45-6:25 p.m.Cinema @ the MFA: Big Eyes, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday/19MFA: Make and Take Saturday – Foam-Board Monoprints, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Friday/25Museum closed for Christmas.

JANUARYSunday/3The Venerable Losang Samten draws the Sand Mandala in the Mary Alice McClendon Conservatory, 11 a.m.Music in the Marly: The Fred Moyer Jazz Trio, 2 p.m.

Monday/4Creation of the Sand Mandala begins today and continues through Friday, January 15, 10 a.m.-noon and 1-4 p.m. in the Mary Alice McClendon Conservatory.

Thursday/14Collectors Circle: Member Appreciation Party, evening event at private home, invitation only

Saturday/16Dismantling Ceremony of the Sand Mandala, noon

Sunday/17Carrie Schneider: Reading Women closes.

Sunday/24Marks Made closes.

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