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fia
SUMMER 2021
magazine
CONTENTS From the Executive Director 1
Board of Trustees
Elizabeth S. Murphy, President
Thomas B. Lillie, First Vice-President
Mark L. Lippincott, Second Vice-
executive director 1 lectures 19–21
President Recently a friend asked, “Why does the glass)—to name just a few—today we have a
Elisabeth Saab, Secretary
Martha Sanford, Treasurer FIA collect the art it does? Why collect in respectable collection representing aesthetic
exhibitions 2–9 program 22 John Bracey some areas and not in others? Why doesn’t achievements from around the world and
Eleanor E. Brownell
acquisitions 10–11 calendar 23–25 Ann K. Chan the FIA have a gallery full of ancient Greek spanning five millennia. Many of their gifts
James D. Draper, Founders Society
art on loan 12 membership 26–33 President
sculptures like those in the Metropolitan in are always on view in our collection galleries.
films 13–15 contributions 34–36 Mona Hardas New York or sculptures by Bernini like those Others are featured in special exhibitions (see
Carol Hurand
in the Borghese in Rome?” These are good pages 4, 5, and 8).
education 16–17 museum shop 37 Lynne Hurand
Raymond J. Kelly III, FIA questions that I’m sure have crossed other It is safe to say most museums have
art school 18 Representative to FCCC Board
Alan Klein people’s minds. gaps in their collection, and it is a never-
Jamile Trueba Lawand Though the FIA’s history and circumstances ending pursuit to fill those gaps. The FIA is
Eureka McCormick
William H. Moeller are vastly different from the Met and the no exception and, to that end, we keep our
Jay N. Nelson Borghese Gallery, what we have in common eye on artists, auctions, art galleries, and
Office Hours Admission Karl A. Olmsted
Mon–Fri, 9a–5p Adults $10.00* Dr. Brenda Rogers-Grays is that we, along with other museums around
12 & under FREE
Michael Rucks the world, were formed by benefactors who
Gallery Hours Mary Coe Ryan
Students w/ ID $8.00* Sharon A. Simeon wanted to share works of art that gave them
Mon– Sat, 10a–5p; Sun, 1p–5p
Senior citizens 62+, $8.00* Patricia Spangler
pleasure. There are instances where a museum
Closed on major holidays Theresa A. Stephens-Lock
active military, & veteran
Tiffany Stolzenfeld collection has been amassed by a single
FIA Theater Hours Lynne A. Taft-Draper, Friends of
Fri & Sat, 7:30p; Sun, 2p Modern Art President
donor, as in the case of the Borghese, but
David T. Taylor most museum collections are a composite of
Museum Shop & Gregory G. Viener
Art School Gallery Jan Werschky gifts made over time by many donors. Their
810.234.1695 * Free to FIA members and
Shannon Easter White gifts reveal their personal taste, interest, and
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Mon–Sat, 10a–5p; Sun, 1p–5p Genesee County residents FCCC Board Representative intellect, and, as such, museums, including
David Stickel
The Palette Café the Met and the Borghese can be seen as
810.249.0593 scrapbooks representing those who, over
Website
Mon–Fri, 9a–5p; Sat, 10a–5p; Administration time, have made gifts of art or money for the
flintarts.org John B. Henry, Executive Director
Sun, 1p–5p purpose of creating or expanding a collection. collectors. We create wish lists and cultivate
Michael A. Melenbrink, Director of
Address
The Museum Shop, Art School Finance & Administration The FIA has been collecting works of art relationships with scholars, artists, art dealers,
1120 E. Kearsley St. Marissa Pierce, Acting Director of
Gallery, and The Palette Café are since its founding in 1928 and, of the 9,000 potential donors, and other museums—all in
Flint, MI 48503 Development
open late for select special events. Tracee J. Glab, Curator of Collections objects in the collection today over 90% have an effort to add quality and depth to what we
Telephone & Exhibitions
810.234.1695 Monique M. Desormeau, Curator of been gifts. Fortunately, Flint, being the home have to present to our visitors.
Education
Donovan Entrekin, Director of the Art
of General Motors and its subsidiaries, had an There will always be missing links, hidden
Fax
School impressive number of wealthy, well-travelled, treasures, discoveries of overlooked and
810.234.1692 Sarah Mullane, Director of Member &
Guest Relations
and informed collectors who together formed underappreciated artists, and, of course, new
the nucleus of a collection that has since creations by contemporary artists. Our goal
attracted many others to give. is to refine our collections in order to further
The FIA is a non-profit, equal FIA Exhibitions and Programs are cover image from the exhibition Thanks to collectors like Thelma Chrysler enhance the visitor’s experience as they stroll
opportunity employer, and made possible in part with the (page 4)
Foy (Chinese ceramics), her sister Bernice through the galleries contemplating a work
provides programs and support of the Michigan Council for George Sugarman
services without regard to Arts and Cultural Affairs, a partner American, 1912–1999
Chrysler Garbisch (American naive paintings), of art’s meaning and relationship with other
race, color, religion, national agency of the National Garden, 1985 G. Mennen Williams (African sculptures), works, marvelling at the artist’s virtuosity, and
origin, age, gender identity, or disability. Endowment for the Painted aluminium
24 x 24 x 24 inches Richard Pohrt (Native American objects), Viola making connections between a work of art
Arts.
Operating support for the Museum purchase, 2010.225 Bray (Renaissance and Baroque decorative and their own personal experiences.
FIA is provided in part by © 2021 Estate of George Sugarman
/ Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights arts), Dr. Robert and Deanna Harris Burger Leaving a legacy of a gift to the collection
the Charles Stewart Mott
Foundation.
Society (ARS), NY (contemporary ceramics), Jack Pierson or collection endowment is something anyone
This magazine, made possible
through a generous donation by
(prints), the Whiting Foundation (19th-century can do. If you’re interested in donating a work
FIA operations are funded in
part by the Genesee County Lynne Hurand, is published four European and American masterpieces), Mary of art or funds to purchase one, I invite you to
Arts Education and Cultural times per year for mailing to FIA Mallery Davis (modern masters), the Hurand get in touch with us.
Enrichment Millage funds. members, museums, and libraries family (contemporary sculpture), and Bill
Your tax dollars at work. around the country.
and Claire White and the Isabel Foundation John B. Henry, Executive Director
(20th-century regional art and contemporary
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OPENING IN JUNE OPENING IN JULY 3
Art Nouveau Innovation Bo Bartlett Graphics Gallery
sponsored by
Danish Porcelain from an American Collector Forty Years of Drawing
6.12.21 to 11.28.21 7.17.21 to 10.3.21
Ann K. Walch-Chan Gallery Graphics Gallery
Art Nouveau flourished in Europe This exhibition presents
and the United States from graphite drawings and
the 1880s until the First gouache paintings
World War. Taking spanning 40 years of Bo
inspiration from nature, Bartlett’s career (from
this style was a reaction 1976 to 2016). Bartlett is
against the popular Royal Copenhagen an American realist with a
Danish, founded 1775
Neoclassical style of the Vase with “Persian-Like” modernist vision, and his
late 18th and early 19th Motif, 1886–1888 artwork celebrates both
Porcelain
centuries. This was also a 71/16 × 65/16 inches the commonplace and the
EXHIBITIONS
renaissance period for Danish
EXHIBITIONS
Private collection extraordinary. According
porcelain manufacturers, Bing & Grøndahl
to Bartlett, “The purpose of
marked by technical and Danish, founded 1853 art is to wake up—to wake
artistic innovations. The two “Heron Service” Sauceboat, up to the numinous now,
1888–1890
major manufacturers, Royal Porcelain to the great unfolding of
Copenhagen and Bing & Bing & Grøndahl
57/8 × 77/8 inches the mysterious universe
Private collection
Grøndahl, explored new that we are one with.”
forms, techniques, and These works reveal an
intimate peek into a side of the artist’s life and oeuvre rarely seen
by the public. Educated at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
artistic influences. Like many artists of the Bo Bartlett Arts, Bartlett pushes the boundaries of the realist tradition with his
Art Nouveau period, the designers and American, born 1955
multilayered images. Family and friends are the cast of characters
Charlotte Cohen, 2014
painters of Danish porcelain reflected an Pencil on paper that appear in his dreamlike works, some revealing intimate scenes
interest in the natural world and cultures 201/2 × 181/2 inches
between two people and others singular portraits.
The Collection of Bo Bartlett
from around the globe. They reached new and Betsy Eby
heights of artistic achievement, winning
numerous awards along the way. Their Bo Bartlett
American, born 1955
output influenced the work of companies Serena Sleeping, 2004
across Europe and created a global market Gouache on paper
23 × 261/2 inches
for Danish porcelain. The Collection of Bo Bartlett
Art Nouveau Innovation: Danish Porcelain and Betsy Eby
from an American Collector brings
together a wide variety of 19th-century
ceramics from Royal Copenhagen and
Bing & Grøndahl. Many were first
unveiled at international expositions
and world’s fairs.
This exhibition was organized by
the Museum of Danish America, Elk
Horn, Iowa.
Royal Copenhagen
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ON VIEW 5
Political and Personal
Images of Gay Identity Virtual Talk
through 7.11.21 Men Laid Bare:
Graphics Gallery
Homosexual Bodies and
This exhibition features 24 works donated
by Flint native Jack B. Pierson. Drawing on
collection to the FIA, and continued to collect
and donate additional works until his death
Homophobic History
Pierson’s experience as a gay man, Political in 1997. Among the hundreds of prints that 6.23.21 • Online @ 6:00p
and Personal: Images of Gay Identity sheds Pierson collected, several focused on public
light on the important role sexual identity identity, social activism, as well as gay love Guest Curator Eric Birkle
played in informing his collecting habits. and attraction.
This talk takes as its premise the double
Highlighting the work of several well-known
entendre of the phrase “to lay bare,”
and lesser-known gay artists, as well as
which is used to refer at once to the
works by heterosexual artists, this exhibition Support provided by
archetype of the nude in art history (or
captures the multi-dimensional nature of gay
the idea of bodily exposure) and to
EXHIBITIONS
EXHIBITIONS
identity in the 20th century.
reveal the extent to which homosexual
Pierson was employed by General Motors
subject matter and gay artists of the
following World War II and later moved to Graphics Gallery
last century have been repressed and
Long Island with his life-long partner, Robert sponsored by
trivialized. It examines a selection of the
Martin Purcell. In 1976, following Purcell’s
works on view in Political and Personal:
death, Pierson began donating his print
Images of Gay Identity, as well as works
by several other artists in order to
Joe A. Stornello
establish a context for conversations
about where “gay art” has been, where it’s headed, and what it has
always endured.
Eric Birkle hails from Lapeer, Michigan and is currently pursuing
Paul Cadmus his Ph.D. in Art History, Visual Culture, and Curatorial Practice at
American, 1904–1999 York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He obtained a B.A.
Two Boys on a Beach No.1,
1938
in French & Art from Saginaw Valley State University in 2015, and
Etching on paper an M.A. in Art History & Museum
18 x 141/2 inches Studies from Ohio University in
Gift of Mr. Jack B. Pierson
in memory of Mr. Robert 2019. From 2014 to 2017, he held
Martin Purcell, 1979.323 several positions at the Saginaw
© 2021 Estate of Paul
Cadmus / Artists Rights Art Museum, culminating with
Society (ARS), NY Associate Curator. Birkle curated this
Joe A. Stornello
exhibition in the summer of 2018
American, born 1951 as part of a Curatorial Internship
Portrait of Jack B. Pierson, Program grant awarded to the FIA
1982
Silver print by the IFPDA Foundation.
91/2 × 7 inches
Gift of Mr. Jack B. Pierson Free and open to the public.
in memory of Mr. Robert
Martin Purcell, 1982.437
Register at flintarts.org/events/
lectures to view the lecture and
participate in the live Q&A with the
guest lecturer via Zoom or watch the
lecture live via YouTube.
Eric Birkle in Piper Print Library.
Paul Cadmus
6
ON VIEW 7
Blue Plate Special
through 9.19.21
Harris-Burger Gallery
Hot dogs, french fries, and
milkshakes are staples of
American cuisine but for
glass artist John Miller they
also represent a sense of
nostalgia. One of his earliest
memories is spending time
at his father’s motorcycle John Miller
American, born 1966
dealership in Hamden,
Connecticut, and eating
Box O’ Curlys, 2020
Hot sculpted glass and steel Visiting Artist
12 × 12 × 4 inches
lunch across the street at
John Miller
Courtesy of the artist
Kitties diner. Since then hot
EXHIBITIONS
EXHIBITIONS
rods, diners, and the pop John Miller
American, born 1966
culture of the 1950s have CB w/ L, T, BAC, PIC, 2020 Artist John Miller,
had a great impact on Miller’s Blown, fused and hot whose exhibition
sculpted glass
personality and artmaking. 14 × 22 inches Blue Plate Special is
His early glass works revolved Courtesy of the artist on view in the FIA
around serious topics until galleries through
he realized that “this work September 19, will
revealed only one side of offer a two-day
me. The predominant side glass workshop
of my personality is very and free public
loose and comical but it had demonstrations
not come out yet.” In 1999, in the FIA Hot
Exhibition Shop. John
sponsored by
Miller began
working with
glass in 1987 John Miller
in the undergraduate program
John Miller at Southern Connecticut State
University, (SCSU) in New Haven,
Connecticut. A decade later, July 23 & 26 • 6:30p–9:30p
he earned an MFA in Sculpture
after absentmindedly
sketching crinkle-cut at the University of Illinois at 2-Day Workshop
fries on napkins every Champaign-Urbana. From 1993 This two-day workshop is open to
time he went out to eat, to the present, he has been a staff students in beginner, intermediate,
Miller made his first member at Pilchuck Glass School and advanced levels. Tuition: $250*
oversized glass french in many different capacities, as
a technician, coordinator, gaffer
fry. The idea exploded,
and instructor. Miller exhibits
July 24 • 11:00a–4:00p
and no food was safe July 25 • 1:00p–4:00p
from becoming part of internationally and frequently
his lighthearted Blue tours the country lecturing and
demonstrating with hot glass.
Demonstrations
Plate Special series.
Free and open to the public.
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ON VIEW MEDIA ARTS GALLERY 9
3D: Focus on the Figure June
Contra-Internet Inversion
through 8.29.21
Hodge Gallery
Practice #3: Modeling
Although the method and final product may
Paranodal Space
look different, the concept of the human form Modeling Paranodal Space is part three of
has been providing sculptors with inspiration Zach Blas’s Contra-Internet Inversion Practice
for thousands of years. In Western art, the series. Contra-Internet Inversion Practice
human form has evolved from ancient Greek confronts the transformation of the internet
mythology to religious subjects, to figures into an instrument for state oppression and
that are highly abstracted. As some sculptors accelerated capitalism. Invoking a practice of utopian plagiarism, Zach Blas
American, b. 1981
in the 20th century opted to turn away from Contra-Internet Inversion Practice experiments with queer and Contra-Internet Inversion Practice
recognizable imagery to begin experimenting feminist methods to speculate on internet futures and network #3: Modeling Paranodal Space,
2016
with new materials and more expressionistic alternatives. Blas is an artist, filmmaker, and writer whose practice 3:02 minutes
representations. Traditionally artists worked in spans technical investigation, theoretical research, conceptualism, Image copyright of the artist,
courtesy of Video Data Bank,
materials like metal, stone or clay; however, performance, and science fiction. He is a Lecturer in the www.vdb.org, School of the Art
EXHIBITIONS
EXHIBITIONS
contemporary artists began to use a variety of Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. Institute of Chicago.
materials like glass resin or found objects, as
their primary medium. This exhibition explores July
the rich history of depicting the figure in three
dimensions with sculptures spanning over five Warm Objects
centuries. Warm Objects was produced by Peggy
Ahwesh in close collaboration with the
engineering research center MIRTHE (Mid-
William Zorach
InfraRed Technologies for Health and the
3D: Focus on the Abstract Environment), an organization dedicated
to the development of optical trace gas
sensing systems. Utilizing MIRTHE’s imaging
William Zorach
through 8.29.21 American, born Lithuania, technology, scenes of everyday incidents are
1887–1966
Henry Gallery Spirit of the Dance, 1932
transformed by infrared photography into
Bronze glimpses of our world through an alien lens.
At the turn of the 20th century, the concept of abstract art began 76 × 31 × 48 inches Two insertions of on-screen text betray the
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
to gain traction as artists explored making images that were not Stewart Mott, 1965.10 artist’s ominous implications. The first is a meditation on Rudyard Peggy Ahwesh
American, b. 1954
based on recognizable forms found in nature. Artists no longer felt Kipling’s oft-quoted “Truth is the first casualty of war,” while the Warm Objects, 2007
Robert Goodnough
the need to imitate the world but rather explored how they could American, 1917–2010 second takes the form of a hastily crafted e-mail, suggesting that 6 minute
express their emotions through abstract Red, 1980 its author has become withdrawn and pessimistic out of fear of Courtesy of Electronic Arts
Intermix (EAI), New York
concepts and forms. The artists in Aluminum
some pending disaster. Warm Objects is a portrait of the world in
201/2 × 42 × 111/4 inches
this exhibition used a wide Gift of Hans and Judy Noe, uncertain and paranoid times.
range of materials, 2007.141
techniques August
and concepts,
moving away Flint Youth Film Festival
from realistic In conjunction with the Flint Youth Media Project, the FIA will
representation toward exhibit the award winners of the 2021 Flint Youth Film Festival.
abstraction, embracing The Flint Youth Media Project introduces the art of filmmaking
movements such as to people ages 13–30 and college students regardless of age. In
Minimalism, Abstract addition to a series of free filmmaking workshops, the program
Expressionism, Constructivism, provides opportunities for participants to share their work with
and Kinetic art. peers, professional filmmakers, screenwriters, and the public.
Robert Goodnough
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ACQUISITIONS 11
Recent Acquisitions Featured Acquisition
Purvis Young
American, 1943–2010
Purvis Young
American, 1943–2010
Thomas Roese
American, born 1948
George Rogers
American, 1930–2002
Igbo
Federal Republic of Nigeria
Viola Frey
Overtown Cityscape, 1980s In the Park, 1980s 898 Cle Series: Double Sculptural Forms 1 (Black and Elephant Spirit Mask (Ogbodo
Mixed media on found wood Mixed media on pieced found Crossed and Standing Alone, Silver), 1984 Enyi), 20th century Over the course of
25 × 82 inches wood with pierced, painted 2020 Color sculpturegraph on paper Wood, pigment, metal her 50-year career,
Gift of Selig D. Sacks in honor found wood frame Graphite, acrylic, and colored 131/4 × 87/8 inches 14 × 12 × 22 inches
of David Miller, 2020.70 79 × 13 inches pencil on illustration board Gift of Dr. Jamile Trueba Museum purchase with funds Viola Frey produced
Gift of Selig D. Sacks, 2020.78 16 × 40 inches Lawand, 2020.92 from the Collection Endowment, an impressive body
Purvis Young Gift of Thomas Roese, 2020.86 2021.4
American, 1943–2010 Purvis Young Ke Francis of artwork, including
Showgirls, 1980s American, 1943–2010 Thomas Roese American, born 1945 Salampasu sculptures, paintings, and
Mixed media on board Overtown Street Concert, American, born 1948 Untitled, n.d. Democratic Republic of Congo
451/2 × 37 inches 1980s 801 Cle Series: Yellow Grove, Woodcut on paper Mask, 20th century drawings, but she is best
Gift of Selig D. Sacks, 2020.71 Mixed media on found wood 2017 26 × 26 inches Wood, wicker known for her brilliantly
42 × 421/2 inches Graphite, acrylic, and colored Gift of John and Janice Henry, 16 × 111/2 inches
Purvis Young Gift of Selig D. Sacks, 2020.79 pencil on illustration board 2020.93 Museum purchase with funds
colored, monumental
American, 1943–2010 32 × 40 inches from the Collection Endowment, ceramic figures. Frey
Fireworks, 1980s Purvis Young John Morning
Mixed media on found American, 1943–2010
Gift of Thomas Roese, 2020.87
American
2021.5 belonged to a generation
pegboard panel with attached Bubble People, 1980s Two Circles, 2019 Mumuye of California artists who
acrylic and mixed media works Mixed media on Screenprint on paper Federal Republic of Nigeria
36 × 57 inches untrimmed 8 × 81/2 inches Standing Figure, Early 20th pushed the boundaries of
Gift of Selig D. Sacks, 2020.72 canvas glued to Anonymous Donor, 2020.94 century clay as a craft to produce
COLLECTIONS
COLLECTIONS
carpet Wood
Purvis Young 37 × 48 inches Ed Watkins 22 × 7 inches
sculptural artworks, which
American, 1943–2010 Gift of Selig D. Sacks, American, born 1950 Museum purchase with funds would elevate ceramics
Night Club Dance Floor, 1980s Surrender Pock, 2013
Mixed media on found wood
2020.80
Polyester plate lithography on
from the Collection Endowment, as a medium of fine art as
2021.6
171/2 × 42 inches Purvis Young paper we know it today.
Gift of Selig D. Sacks, 2020.73 American, 1943–2010 16 × 10 inches Federal Republic of Nigeria
Evening in Overtown, Museum purchase with funds Seated Female Figure, n.d.
Although she rarely
Purvis Young 1980s from the Collection Wood worked in small scale
American, 1943–2010
Miami Cityscape with Liberty
Mixed media on Endowment, 2020.95 26 × 6 × 6 inches it was not until the mid
paper Museum purchase with funds
Tower, 1980s 33 × 26 inches Ed Watkins from the Collection Endowment, 1970s when Frey’s art
Mixed media on found wood American, born 1950
stockade fence section with
Gift of Selig D. Sacks, 2020.81 Thomas Roese The Draw, 2013
2021.7 took on the massive scale
pieced painted found wood Purvis Young American, born 1948 Waterless lithography on Northern Igbo for which she is most well
frame American, 1943–2010 907 Cle Series: Monumental paper Federal Republic of Nigeria
48 × 48 inches Triangular Creatures, 1980s Momentum, 2020 13 × 17 inches Seated Figure, Early 20th
known. After two of her
Gift of Selig D. Sacks, 2020.74 Mixed media on found panel Graphite, acrylic, and colored Museum purchase with funds century figures buckled under
pencil on illustration board
Purvis Young
17 × 17 inches
32 × 40 inches
from the Collection Wood their own weight, Frey developed a Viola Frey
Gift of Selig D. Sacks, 2020.82 Endowment, 2020.96 291/2 × 103/4 × 11 inches
American, 1943–2010 Gift of Thomas Roese, 2020.88 Museum purchase with funds new technique that allowed her to American, 1933–2004
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Purvis Young Senufo Arrogant Man, 1986
Parade, 1980s American, 1943–2010 Frank Lloyd Wright Côte d’Ivoire
from the Collection Endowment, build well over life-sized. Figures like Glazed polychrome ceramic on a
2021.8
Mixed media on found wood Great Bald Head, 1980s American, 1867–1959 Double-faced Mask (Kpelie), Arrogant Man are built in individual steel armature
Window from Robie House, 123 × 57 × 23 inches
47 × 58 inches Mixed media on found wood
Design No. 2, n.d.
20th century Yoruba sections that weigh between 30 to Gift of Tiffany Lovett in honor of
Gift of Selig D. Sacks, 2020.75 with pierced, painted found Wood Federal Republic of Nigeria
wood frame Hand-made iridescent and 17 × 9 × 41/2 inches Figure of Eshu, n.d. 70 pounds. Since they are essentially her father William S. White, who
Purvis Young clear glass; crafted in solid was not an arrogant man, 2020.54
American, 1943–2010
29 × 141/2 inches
copper came construction
Museum purchase with funds Wood, beads three-dimensional puzzles, each © 2021 Artists’ Legacy Foundation
Gift of Selig D. Sacks, 2020.83 from the Collection 17 × 8 × 6 inches
Guitar Man, 1980s 437/8 × 151/2 inches Endowment, 2021.1 Museum purchase with funds section required careful planning. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Mixed media on found wood Thomas Roese
53 × 241/2 inches American, born 1948
Gift of Dr. Seymour and
Lwalwa
from the Collection Because of this, she sacrificed
Barbara K. Adelson , 2020.89 Endowment, 2021.9
Gift of Selig D. Sacks, 2020.76 625 CL Urban Series: Democratic Republic of the spontaneity in creating the form but expressed herself instead
Sam Wolson
Purvis Young
Promised/1,2,3, 2010
American, born 1989
Congo Michael James Hunter with the creative application of glazes. She could mix colors, add
Graphite and acrylic on Mask, Early 20th century English, born 1958
American, 1943–2010 illustration board Denard X. Robinson, 2010 Wood, pigment Close Concentric Murrine with gestural lines, and incorporate texture to make the sculptures
Trucks, Deer, Horses, 1980s Color photograph
Mixed media on found wood
22 × 29 inches
13 × 141/2 inches
14 × 10 inches Finch, 2019 dynamic and colorful.
Gift of Thomas Roese, 2020.84 Museum purchase with funds Glass
with attached mixed media on Gift of Dr. Seymour and from the Collection 215/16 inches diameter Control and power are under-lying themes in Frey’s work. She
wood with pieced, painted Thomas Roese Barbara K. Adelson, 2020.90 Endowment, 2021.2 Gift of Ralph Edwards, 2021.10 lived in a time where men held most of the authority. She likely felt
found wood frames American, born 1948
70 × 36 inches 899 Cle Series: Split But Meissen Porcelain Manufactory Bété Igbo some of the effects of that in her own career, often being compared
German, founded 1710
Gift of Selig D. Sacks in Together, 2020
Widderkorb (Ram’s Head
Côte d’Ivoire Federal Republic of Nigeria to her male contemporaries. It is not surprising that she addressed
memory of Larry T. Clemons, a Graphite, acrylic, and colored Spider Mask (Nyabwa), 20th Mask, 19th century
champion of Purvis Young, pencil on illustration board Basket), 1815–1860 century Polychrome wood it in her artwork with depictions of imposing men in business suits.
2020.77 16 × 40 inches Porcelain Wood, pigment, fiber, metal, 12 × 9 × 7 inches In a 1995 interview, Frey explained what her suited men were
Gift of Thomas Roese, 2020.85 71/4 × 141/2 × 9 inches beads Museum purchase with funds
Gift of Johanna E. Harmon, 15 × 8 × 61/2 inches from the Collection Endowment,
about—“the power to do good and the power to do bad.” At nearly
2020.91 Museum purchase with funds 2021.11 101/2 feet tall, Arrogant Man towers over the viewer with hands on
from the Collection his hips and a stern expression on his face.
Endowment, 2021.3
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ART ON LOAN FIA FILM SOCIETY 13
The artworks listed here are on loan from the FIA to the following exhibitions:
InterStates of Mind Roy Lichtenstein: History
2020–21 Film Society SNEAK PREVIEW
Eli and Edythe Broad Art in the Making, 1948–1960 • Announcements of upcoming titles
Museum Colby College Museum of Art • Movie trailers
Michigan State University Waterville, Maine • Early enrollment in Film Society
East Lansing, Michigan 2.11.21 – 6.6.21
11.7.20 – 8.8.21
Parrish Art Museum Free admission to preview
Allan D’Arcangelo
American, 1930–1998
Water Mill, New York RSVP by August 27 to Valarie Bailie at
June Moon, 1969 8.1.21 – 10.24.21 810.234.1695 or vbailie@flintarts.org.
Serigraph on paper
14 x 11 inches Roy Lichtenstein
Gift of Nancy Rajala, 2010.47 American, 1923–1997
Mechanism Cross Section, ca. 1954 The Film Society is open for all to
Walker Evans Oil with sgraffito on canvas
August 31 join. Levels range from $100 to
American, 1903–1975 40 x 54 inches $2,500 with many great benefits!
Gift of Messrs. Samuel N. Tomkin and
5:30p–6:30p
Joe’s Auto Graveyard, Near Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania, 1936, printed 1971 Sidney Freedman, 1956.2 For details of levels and benefits,
Gelatin silver print
visit flintarts.org.
411/16 × 611/16 inches FIA Theater
COLLECTIONS
FILMS
Museum Purchase, 1978.8
With Eyes Open:
Claes Oldenburg
American, born Sweden, 1929
Cranbrook Academy of
Profile Airflow, 1969 Art Since 1932 Bob Thompson: This
Molded polyurethane over lithograph on The Friends of Modern Art (FOMA)
paper Cranbrook Art Museum House is Mine film series is made possible Film Society Membership Form
331/2 × 651/2 inches Bloomfield Hills, Michigan through support from membership
Museum purchase, 1970.19 Colby College Museum of Art
6.18.21 – 9.19.21 in the FIA Film Society, beginning o $100 Ticketholder o $1,000 Leading Actor/Actress
© Claes Oldenburg Waterville, Maine
o $500 Supporting Player o $2,500 Screenwriter
Mel Ramos
Duane Hanson 7.20.21 – 1.9.21 its eighth year. We invite you to
American, 1925–1996
American, 1935–2018
High School Student, 1990
support our great 2021–22 film Total Amount Enclosed $__________________
AC Annie, 1972
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SUMMER FILM SERIES 15
AUGUST 6, 7, 8
Seating in the theater will be Admission
arranged with appropriate $5 members
The Passenger
(Italy, 1975) Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni,
social distancing based $6 non-members
126 min., subtitled, rated PG-13
on existing governmental $4 FOMA members
Two summers ago, we showed Antonioni’s
restrictions on Blow Up. Here, the scene shifts from London
public gatherings. to the Middle East, where a journalist
Masks will be Film titles and
dates are subject (Jack Nicholson) assumes the identity of
required. Advance a dead businessman while working on a
to change.
reservations will documentary. What he doesn’t know is that
be strongly encouraged. the dead man was also an arms dealer.
Tickets can be purchased at
flintarts.org. AUGUST 13, 14, 15
Do the Right Thing
(U.S., 1989) Directed by Spike Lee, 120 min., rated R
JUNE 4, 5, 6 In Brooklyn, an Italian pizzeria owner (Danny
The Father Aiello) garners complaints from the black
(United Kingdom, 2020) Directed by inhabitants of the neighborhood over
FILMS
FILMS
Florian Zeller, 97 min., rated PG-13 displays in his restaurant. On the hottest
Anthony Hopkins stars as JULY 16, 17, 18 day of the year, tensions rise to a fever pitch
an elderly man who refuses West Side Story in Spike Lee’s still-timely drama about race
assistance from his loved (U.S., 1961) Directed by Robert Wise and Jerome relations.
ones as, in the grips of Robbins, 152 min., not rated
dementia, he attempts to The legendary Broadway musical—an inner- AUGUST 20, 21, 22
make sense of his changing city update of Romeo and Juliet— came to The Night of the Hunter
circumstances. Olivia Colman, life on the screen as the winner of 10 Oscars, (U.S., 1955) Directed by Charles Laughton, 93 min.,
Mark Gatiss, and Olivia Williams co-star in including best picture. Natalie Wood and not rated
a drama that earned six Academy Award Richard Beymer head the cast, which sings In what its director, the famed actor Charles
nominations (among them best picture) and great songs by Stephen Sondheim and Laughton, called a “nightmarish sort of
won the best actor award for Hopkins. Leonard Bernstein. Mother Goose tale,” a handsome but
JUNE 25, 26, 27
psychological “preacher” (Robert Mitchum,
JUNE 11, 12, 13 Reservoir JULY 23, 24, 25 in his greatest performance) exploits a rural
Collective Dogs Romeo and Juliet widow (Shelley Winters) and her two small
(Romania, 2020) Directed by Alexander Nanau, 109 min., (U.S., 2002) Directed (United Kingdom/Italy, 1968) Directed by Franco Zeffirelli, children while in pursuit of stolen money.
subtitled, not rated by Quentin Tarantino, 138 min., rated PG Lillian Gish also stars.
A recent Academy Award nominee for best 99 min., rated R
No less than Roger Ebert called Zeffirelli’s
documentary and best international feature, In director Quentin Tarantino’s breakout adaptation “the most exciting film of AUGUST 27, 28, 29
this chronicles the aftermath of a fire at a movie, a group of thieves attempts to pull off Shakespeare’s ever made.” Leonard Whiting The Gay Divorcee
Bucharest club in which victims begin dying the perfect diamond heist—but it turns into a and Olivia Hussey portray the star-crossed (U.S., 1934) Directed by Mark Sandrich, 107 min.,
in hospitals from non-life-threatening injuries. bloody ambush when one of the men turns young lovers of Verona. Winner of Academy not rated
A corrupt health care system is uncovered out to be not what he seems. Harvey Keitel, Awards for best cinematography and The legendary series of Fred Astaire-Ginger
in an uncompromising look at investigative Tim Roth, and Steve Buscemi head the cast. costume design, it was also nominated for Rogers starring musicals at the RKO studio
journalism at its best. best picture and best director. began with this tuneful tale of romantic
JULY 9, 10, 11 intrigue and mistaken identity set in a seaside
JUNE 18, 19, 20 Eternal Sunshine of the JULY 30, 31 & AUGUST 1 hotel. The production numbers are led by the
Saturday Night Fever Spotless Mind The Lives of Others Oscar-winning song “The Continental.” Come
(U.S., 1977) Directed by John Badham, 118 min., rated R (U.S., 2004) Directed by Michel Gondry, 108 min., rated R (Germany, 2006) Directed by Florian Henckel von and see how the great Depression Era dance
Relive the ’70s disco scene in the trend- In a seriocomic look at memory and modern Donnersmarck, 132 min., subtitled, rated R team made big-screen magic.
setting musical that explored the subculture romance, Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet play In this, the winner of the 2006 Oscar for best
of disaffected urban youth and made John two lovers who adopt drastic means to forget foreign language film, a secret police agent,
Travolta a movie star. “How Deep Is Your their damaged relationship. conducting surveillance on a writer and his
Love,” “Night Fever,” and “Stayin’ Alive” are lover, becomes increasingly absorbed by
among Bee Gees tunes heard. their lives in unexpected ways.
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June 2 June 30 August 4
CHILDHOOD
The Art of the Ancient Sister Wendy’s Grand Good Work: Masters of P RO GRA M S
Greeks Tour the Building Arts
Art à la Carte is a series This program traces the Sister Wendy Beckett has In this inspiring film, master Join us online for our early
of informative programs development of the portrayal of transformed public appreciation artisans from across America childhood programs this summer.
focusing on the arts. It is the figure in Greek art from the of art through her astonishing share their delight in skill, their Visit flintarts.education/virtual and
offered free of charge on early Archaic period up to the knowledge, insight and passion dedication to preserving and click on Early Childhood Programs
Wednesdays at 12:15p. Hellenistic period. 51 min. for painting and painters. passing on their craft traditions to access videos to guide your
All programs are held 86 min. to a new generation, and their experience. New programs will be
June 9
in the FIA’s Isabel Hall pride and satisfaction in Good posted each month for toddlers
unless otherwise noted. The Art of the Romans July 7
Work. 65 min (ages 18–36 months) and preschool
To prevent the spread of This program shows the My Kid Could Paint That children (ages 3–5 years old).
August 11
COVID-19 and reduce daring, innovative functional This program documents the
the potential risk of buildings constructed by rise and fall of four-year old Impossible Builds:
Roman engineers and architects artist Marla Olmstead. 83 min. Miami June
exposure, seating will
and their tremendous theatres, In Miami, The Scorpion Tower
be limited per Michigan
guidelines, and coffee, thermae and circus buildings.
July 14
is a show-stopping skyscraper Toddlers
51 min. Wyeth with an insect-like external
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
tea and cookies will not
be served. Participants June 16
Through unprecedented access
to family members, archival
skeleton. Its design is so radical, Exploring Nature
are encouraged to construction experts have Listen to the story Anywhere Artist
Nero’s Sunken City materials, and his work, this turned to a building material
bring lunch or pick up Baiae… an ancient Roman city program presents the most by Nikki Slade Robinson and
something from The never used in skyscraper go outside to create your own
lost to the same volcanoes complete portrait of Andrew construction before. If
Palette Café. that entombed Pompeii. Now, Wyeth, bearing witness to a anywhere art.
successful, it could revolutionize
a team of archaeologists is legacy just at the moment it is the industry. 60 min.
mapping the underwater ruins evolving. 87 min.
and piecing together what life August 18
July 21
was like in this playground for
Basquiat: Rage to Riches Impossible Builds:
the rich. 60 min.
This is a definitive documentary Manhattan
June 23 about one of the most In Manhattan, architects and
June Art à la Carte Sponsors
Secrets of Underground influential American artists of engineers are redefining just
how much land it takes to
Merkley-Elderly London the 20th century, Jean-Michel
Basquiat. 75 min. support a skyscraper. In a city
Charitable Trust On the surface, London is a
where the only direction to
buzzing, modern metropolis July 28
- but underneath lies a secret,
Jackson Pollock: Love
build is up, they’ve designed
a needle-thin tower 82 stories Preschool
hidden world, all but forgotten
and Death on Long
Drawing Doodles
high, built on the construction
by the millions of people above.
equivalent of a postage stamp.
July/August Art à la Carte As we dig deep, we’ll unearth Island 60 min.
Sponsor some of the most extraordinary Listen to the story Ish by Peter H.
In the late forties, Life magazine
Jim Chintyan stories of the darkest side of the Reynolds and create a series of
featured a shy, brooding artist August 25
city. 60 min. doodle drawings to hang in your
with a cigarette jutting from his Operation Bridge home.
mouth as he stood dwarfed by
June 30
a canvas displaying a nearly Rescue
Sister Wendy’s Grand indescribable orchestration of Follow the race to rebuild the
Tour chaos. Overnight, millions of Blenheim Covered Bridge in
Sister Wendy Beckett has Americans received this image New York State, an icon of 19th
transformed public appreciation in their homes and businesses, century American engineering,
of art through her astonishing and the legend of Jackson destroyed by Hurricane Irene in
knowledge, insight and passion Pollock was born. 46 min. 2011. 60 min.
for painting and painters.
86 min.18
CL A SS H IG HL IG HT S THE SHEPPY DOG FUND LECTURES 19
One-Day Drawing Notre-Dame of Paris
Workshops for Fundamentals In the Light of the Fire
Children Amy Mahnick, Faculty
At its very core, drawing is
June 2 • Online @ 6:00p
Guest Lecturer: Dr. Lindsay Cook
The FIA Art School This summer, the Art School will about setting up relationships
is dedicated to the offer dozens of short introductory between various elements in In April 2019, a catastrophic fire damaged
enrichment of the workshops for children ages the picture: light against dark, Notre-Dame of Paris, throwing its admirers Free and open to
community through 3–12 covering topics such as positive and negative shapes, for a loop and leaving the Gothic cathedral in the public.
individual academic painting, drawing, watercolor, etc. In this class, we’ll cover the a fragile and fragmentary state, without a roof
Register at flintarts.
exposure to the collage, clay, weaving, and more. relational nature of drawing, or spire. In this illustrated talk, Dr. Lindsay
visual arts. Highly Each workshop will include basic from the placement of our set- S. Cook will discuss the past, present, and org/events/lectures
qualified faculty offer instruction in the elements of ups to the edges of our paper likely future of the cathedral of Paris through to view the lecture
instruction in drawing, design and materials. Students to value relationships that create its material remains, graphic traces, and digital doubles— and participate in
painting, glass arts, will complete their own original convincing illusions of volume, including the laser scans produced of the building before and the live Q&A with
weaving, photography, art to take home. Please see our space and light. Teens welcome. after the fire. the guest lecturer
animation, ceramics, website for a complete listing of Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced via Zoom or watch
ART SCHOOL
LECTURES
sculpture, college opportunities for children. 6/8-8/10 (TU) 5:30p-8:30p the lecture live via
portfolio development, No Class 7/13 Tuition: $237*
YouTube.
and early childhood
art courses. The Art Clay Art in the
School has served
our community since
Garden
1928, helping students Karyn Konkel, Faculty
develop a wide range Learn how to coil, pinch and roll
of artistic goals and skill clay with your child to create
levels. our summertime clay garden.
The Art School’s We’ll make vegetables, fruit,
Summer session, flowers, insects and a vase in
from June 7 – August this fun introduction to ceramics.
15, offers 99 classes Children and their caregivers will
in addition to those enjoy working together in the Amy Mahnick
featured here. The studio.
catalog is available Ages 6–8 One-Day Workshop
online at flintarts. 6/29-8/3 (TU) 4p-5:30p
org/learn/news. Visit Tuition: $100* Stretching Canvas Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, undergoing restoration in December 2019.
The Sheppy Dog
Photo: Getty Images
our website, call Donovan Entrekin, Faculty Fund Lecture has
810.237.7315, or email
arted@flintarts.org for
Teens Clay Basics Preparing your own painting
Lindsay S. Cook is Assistant Teaching Professor of Art
been established to
address the topics
supports saves money and gives
more information. Jeff Hageman, Faculty History in the School of Art at Ball State University. Originally of art, religion, and
you complete control over the
Get a taste of the vast from Chicago, she earned her B.A. in Art History and French & history, and is funded
sizes and materials you use. In annually by The
possibilities of working with clay. this brief workshop, students Francophone Studies from Vassar College and her Ph.D. from
We will go over many different Sheppy Dog Fund, Dr.
will learn about various painting the Department of Art History & Archaeology at Columbia
Alan Klein, Advisor.
techniques such as, but not materials and will properly University. She is an architectural historian, medievalist, digital
* FIA members receive limited to, hand building, slab humanist, translator, and digital preservation advocate. She
stretch and prime a canvas for
20% off tuition. construction, extrusions, and is the translator of Notre Dame Cathedral: Nine Centuries of
use with oil or acrylic paint.
throwing on the potters wheel. Materials provided. History (Penn State University Press, 2020), a content editor
Starter tool kit provided. of the open-access databases Mapping Gothic France and
Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced
Ages 13–17 6/28 (MO) 10a-12p Musiconis, co-editor of The Notre-Dame Translation Project, and
6/7-8/9 (MO) 12p-2p Tuition: $24* chair of the Digital Resources Committee of the International
No Class 7/5 Tuition: $168* Center of Medieval Art (ICMA).20
THE SHEPPY DOG FUND LECTURES 21
The Greatest Bible Ever Written Between Worlds
Kennicott no. 1, La Coruña, Spain, 1476 The Port of Caesarea Maritima and the
July 14 • Online @ 6:00p Roman to Medieval Near East
Guest Lecturer: Dr. Gary Rendsburg August 25 • Online @ 6:00p
The Kennicott Bible is the crown jewel of Guest Lecturer: Dr. Joseph L. Rife
all medieval Hebrew manuscripts, expertly Free and open to
written by a skillful scribe and beautifully Caesarea Maritima, on the north coast of
the public. modern Israel, flourished as a provincial
illuminated by an ingenious artist. What makes
the manuscript even more remarkable is the Register at flintarts. capital, commercial center, and hotbed
fact that it was written in 1476, just 16 years org/events/lectures of religious conflict from the time of King
prior to the expulsion of the Jews from Spain to view the lecture Herod the Great to the time of King Louis IX.
in 1492, in the wake of and participate in It was the eminent port-city on the eastern
the Alhambra Decree of the live Q&A with Mediterranean seaboard between Alexandria
Ferdinand and Isabella. and Antioch from the early Roman Empire to the Crusades. In
the guest lecturer
In addition, printing his lecture Prof. Rife will explore the archaeology and history of
via Zoom or watch this uniquely important urban community. The story of this one
LECTURES
LECTURES
(movable type) had just the lecture live via
been invented, and in city encapsulates the broader historical evolution of the region,
YouTube. from the negotiation between regional sovereignty and Roman
fact the Hebrew font
was created just a few imperialism to the advent and growth of Christianity and the
years earlier, sometime eventual prosperity of the Islamic caliphates.
between 1470 and 1475,
in northern Italy (though
such technology had not
yet reached Spain). Prof.
Rendsburg will present a
general background of
Hebrew Bible manuscripts
from before the age of
printing, and then will
focus on the Kennicott
Bible, its layout, format,
biblical text, and beautiful
illuminations.
Gary A. Rendsburg
The Sheppy Dog
serves as the Blanche and Fund Lecture has
Irving Laurie Professor been established to
of Jewish History in the address the topics
Department of Jewish of art, religion, and
Caesarea Maritima
Studies at Rutgers history, and is funded
University. His Ph.D. and annually by The Dr. Rife received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of
M.A. are from N.Y.U. Prof. Sheppy Dog Fund, Dr.
Michigan and is a member of the Department of Anthropology
Rendsburg is the author Alan Klein, Advisor.
at Vanderbilt University. He is a historian and archaeologist of
of seven books and about the eastern Mediterranean world during the Roman Empire
190 articles; his most through Late Antiquity. For 25 years he has conducted
recent book is How the archaeological research in the Mediterranean basin, and
Bible Is Written. currently directs major excavations in southern Greece and in
Kennicott Bible fol. 353r (Psalms 1–5) northern Israel. Prof. Rife has held fellowships and endowed
Photo: © Bodleian Libraries, positions at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, the
University of Oxford
Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard, Cornell University, and
the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.22
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