MEMORIAL ART GALLERY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
MURAL NOW ON VIEW
THE WATERCOLORS OF KARAL ANN MARLING
AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2019
V O I C E S The Memorial Art Gallery docents have had another very busy and exciting year. In 2018, we celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the docent program at our annual June luncheon. At this year’s luncheon, we welcomed 32 new docents to our corps. All have completed their yearlong training, culminating in their graduation tour. We now have 85 active docents ready to welcome MAG visitors to our amazing collection! This past fiscal year, our docents introduced over 11,000 visitors to the treasures of the Memorial Art Gallery. This number includes over 7,200 pre-K through college students. Many of the schools that come to MAG have been coming for several years. They always comment on how their visit to the Gallery enhances their knowledge and understanding of art, and also opens up their eyes and minds to a whole new way of looking at the world around them. Art & Observation is another program that engages area students, including those studying to become physicians, nurses, physical therapists, and physician assistants. This program encourages in-depth looking at artworks as they strive to sharpen patient observation skills. Students come from the University of Rochester, Nazareth College, St. John Fisher College, Roberts Wesleyan, and Alfred State. This past year, over 530 students participated in this program. In addition to school tours, docents are involved in several other programs that reach out to the Rochester community: Meet Me at the MAG is a weekly program that partners with the Alzheimer’s Association and residential care facilities to bring visitors with memory loss to the museum. Docents are specially trained to encourage participants to draw from and share their personal memories. The art chosen for this program focuses on familiar themes such as the seasons, children, landscapes, and portraits. MAG has served over 450 people this year with this initiative. The Art of Looking is a program offered through OASIS, a non-profit organization that promotes lifelong learning, active lifestyles, and volunteer engagement for people over 50. This popular repeat-visit program encourages the participants to slow down and look more carefully at the art and feel more comfortable in an art museum. Over 490 people were involved in this program. To complement our tours of the collection, we now offer a Special Topic Tour one Sunday a month at 1:00 PM, and the word is getting out—there were over 45 visitors in attendance for our “Women in History” Mother’s Day Tour! Our docents all have a passion for sharing the MAG collection with our visitors. They are truly an incredible group and definitely one of the treasures of the MAG!
Mary Ann Monley
Administrator of Volunteer Services and Tours COVER IMAGE: FUA KREW, 2019. IMAGE COURTESY OF ALYSSA BILESCHI AND THE MEMORIAL ART GALLERY.
CALENDAR Sunday, August 11 10:00 AM–2:00 PM NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE ARTS BLOCK PARTY
Join us in MAG's Sculpture Park for the first annual “NOT-A FESTIVAL, IT’S A PARTY” party. The artistic focus, party atmosphere and family-friendly nature of the event will showcase the best of what the ROC has to offer. We'll have music and yoga in the park and pop-up art projects.
Free and open to the public. Thursday, August 15 & Thursday, September 19 7:00 PM ALTERNATIVE MUSIC FILM
Join the Alternative Music Film Society in the MAG auditorium for a monthly screening .
Free and open to the public. Thursday, August 22 6:00 PM (Talks begin at 7:00 PM) ROC-FLX ARTIST TALKS
Join us for casual conversations and insights into the creative process with three ROC-FLX artists and a cash bar. At this talk, you will meet and hear from Lucia Falsetti Guarino (photography), Ani Hoover (mixed media), and Andrew Zimbelman (animation).
Included with museum admission. Free for members. Saturday, September 7 & Sunday, September 8 10:00 AM−5:00 PM 62ND M&T BANK CLOTHESLINE FESTIVAL
Our biggest annual fundraiser is back! Shop over 400 artists and enjoy food and entertainment while experiencing art from all corners of the United States. Member preview starts at 9:30 AM. Please, no pets.
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Sunday, September 15 66TH ROCHESTER-FINGER LAKES EXHIBITION CLOSING
It's the last day to see the Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibtion, until 2021. The juried exhibition is open from 11:00 AM until 5:00 PM and features artists from the western NY and Finger Lakes region.
GATEWAYS BRASS COLLECTIVE - AUGUST 9, $5 FRIDAY
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 7:00–8:00 PM MEET THE ARTIST: KARAL ANN MARLING IN CONVERSATION
Hear scholar and artist Karal Ann Marling discuss her current MAG exhibition, Rochester Americana: The Watercolors of Karal Ann Marling, offer insights into her artistic process, and share her experiences as a native of Rochester’s 19th Ward neighborhood.
Included with museum admission. Free for members.
ONGOING THURSDAYS 5:00–9:00 PM 1/2 Price Admission • Docent-led Tours - 6:00 PM (no tour 8/15 & 9/19) | free with museum admission • MAG DeTOURSM - 6:00 PM/$12 | includes museum admission Purchase tickets online: mag.rochester.edu/events/detours
August 15: Things Not To Discuss During Dinner DeTOURSM
They say to never talk about politics or religion, but this is a DeTOURSM so, naturally, we’re breaking all the rules. On Thursday, August 15th we will be reflecting on the past and the artwork that inspired and was inspired by social justice. We will be looking at art as a tool for action, education, and change, and we will be sharing wild facts about pieces in our collection. Get ready to march* through MAG! *peacefully
September 19: Women (and Witches) Who Read DeTOURSM
“When in doubt, go to the library.” On this day our favorite heroine, Hermione Jean Granger, turns the big 4-0 and we’re celebrating her birthday in a magical way – by talking about books in our collection and the women who read them. Since the early 14th century, works of art have been depicting women who read and on September 19th, we will talk about why this is, the many joys of reading, and everything Hermione taught us from her many trips to the library. Come and dress up like your favorite witch and join our art history book club. • Food & drink available for purchase from Brown Hound Downtown • The Store @ MAG open for shopping
FRIDAYS Docent-led tours 1:00 PM | September 13, 20, 27 Free with museum admission
$5 Friday! 5:00–9:00 PM
August 9: Gateways Brass Collective with Gateways Music Festival ART SOCIAL — 6:15–8:15 PM/$20 PER PERSON Inspired by JAZZ September 27: Glenda Brayman a cappella and Charlie Lidner Trio to play. ART SOCIAL — 6:15–8:15 PM/$20 PER PERSON Autumnal Art (watercolor & ink, inspired by fall leaves)
SATURDAYS KIDS CREATE DATES
While the skylight in the Vanden Brul Pavilion is under construction, Kids Create Dates will be going "on vacation." Watch for the return in November!
SUNDAYS Docent-led tours 1:00 PM | September 15, 22, 29 Free with museum admission
1:00 PM & 3:00 PM
Going For Baroque organ concerts | Included with museum admission
KARAL ANN MARLING : AN ARTIST'S STATEMENT W R I T T E N
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K A R A L
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M A R L I N G
Once upon a time, there was a red-haired little girl who lived with her family in a great big house on 107 Rugby Avenue in Rochester, New York. She was, in her own way, thrilled to be a real Rochesterian. As such, she loved downtown, especially Sibley’s, the RKO Palace Theater, and the two flourishing five-and-dimes on Main Street. But best of all, she loved the Memorial Art Gallery on University Avenue, where classes in painting were offered for children every Saturday in a tiny brown house behind the stately cube of the main building. One could take a bus to the very spot—and she dearly loved to ride the bus! Suddenly the little girl became a teenager, just as things began to change in Rochester and her own neighborhood. Corner stores closed. Neighbors moved away to the suburbs, overnight even the lovely old ladies who always had cookies and stories to spare were gone. The MAG and its summertime Clothesline Festival retained their magic somehow. But our heroine had become a teenager now—and Rochester felt dull and less interesting.
Rochester Americana: The Watercolors of Karal Ann Marling will be on view in the Lockhart Gallery August 2 through October 27.
IMAGE ABOVE: KARAL ANN MARLING, UNTITLED (BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET), CA. 2017.
She went away to college, to graduate school, to researches staged hither and yon. She was a professor now, a jetsetter who roamed from Moscow to Minnesota, always on the move, writing shelves of books, giving lectures everywhere (even at the MAG), but this new person was no Rochesterarian! Sometimes, however, she felt the pull of the place, especially on warm, sun-drenched afternoons. Memories of Charlotte Beach and Don and Bob’s and the Clothesline Festival came unbidden. So here I am, a novice Rochestarian once more, living in a big old house at 108 Rugby Avenue, half a block from the bus stop (albeit buses are few and far between). And I explore the 19th Ward, Bull’s Head, West Main Street, and spots of decay and hopeful signs of renewal, like the new river bridges that carry Main Street over the Genesee. But best of all, I go to the MAG every Wednesday morning to paint the Rochester I’ve seen during the past week. In the absence of Sibley’s, the RKO Palace, and my old neighbors, I am starting (or so I think) to find Rochester again, as it is today. So far, it has proven unfailingly interesting, puzzling, hopeful, and, from time to time, beautiful. Go Red Wings!
IMAGE TOP: KARAL ANN MARLING, WEST MAIN AREA GRAFFITI, CA. 2017. IMAGE BOTTOM: KARAL ANN MARLING, BED OF THE ERIE CANAL APPROPRIATED BY GRAFFITI ARTISTS, CA. 2017.
CORY CARD
COLLEEN BUZZARD
ANI HOOVER
JOHN ELLIOTT
Ronan Christopher Louis Award
Elmer Louis Award
Ida Abrams Louis Award
Sweepings 17: Dust Conglomerate, 2019
Hard Merge from Left, 2019
Rubber Garden, 2017
Gertrude Herdle Moore/ Isabel Herdle Award Collus Major, 2017
Sweepings 12: Belly Button Lint II, 2019
ANDY BUCK
KATHY ARMSTRONG
Holland Houdek
Trish Coonrod
Louis D’Amanda Memorial Award
Alice E. Koret/Docent Award
Memorial Art Gallery Award
Harris Popular Vote Award
Fresh Squeezed OJ, 2019
Elevated Triple Mitosis (Artificial Cell Replacement), 2015
Still Life with Yellow Gourds and Pumpkin,
Boot, 2017 Alfred, 2018
Cardiovascular Complex (Heart and Vein Implant), 2017 Spoked Shoulder Anthroplasty (Complex Shoulder Anthroplasty), 2018
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The 66th Rochester-Finger Lakes exhibtion is sponsored by the Rubens Family Foundation and the Gallery Council of the Memorial Art Gallery, with additional support from the John D. Greene Endowment for Contemporary Exhibitions and the Robert L. and Mary L. Sproull Fund. PHOTOS COURTESY OF JOHN SCHLIA AND JON LIEBHERR (BACKSPLASH MEDIA).
JONATHAN BINSTOCK REAPPOINTED T O D D G R E E N | P R E S I D E N T, B O A R D O F M A N A G E R S We are delighted about the reappointment of Mary W. and Donald R. Clark Director Jonathan P. Binstock for another five-year term. Jonathan became the seventh director of the Memorial Art Gallery in September 2014. Since then, he has led an expansion of the museum’s permanent collection, special exhibition programs, public engagement and outreach efforts, and its annual operating budget.
“HIS COMMITMENT TO THE MUSEUM AS A COMMUNITY ASSET AND HIS DEDICATION TO ARTISTIC INNOVATION HAVE EXPANDED MAG’S COLLECTION AND ENHANCED ITS WORK WITH THE REST OF THE UNIVERSITY.” “I am very pleased that Jonathan Binstock has been reappointed director of the Memorial Art Gallery,” said University of Rochester President Richard Feldman. “His commitment to the museum as a community asset and his dedication to artistic innovation have expanded MAG’s collection and enhanced its work with the rest of the University.” As Board president I would add that in his first term as director, Jonathan brought tremendous energy to the MAG. His exciting programming and art acquisition projects have introduced new audiences to the museum and strengthened ties to the broader Rochester community, and beyond. We are grateful for Jonathan's leadership and success. All of my friends and colleagues on the Board of Managers are thrilled to partner with Jonathan as he begins his next five years.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF JOHN SCHLIA
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