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Despite complications from Hurricane Michael, the AMA had plenty going on in the fall with the Autumn Reception for three gallery exhibitions, the successful launch of the fourth Supper Series with The Bounty of Autumn, and the AMA Contemporaries turning the calendar back a few decades with What the Funk.
ON THE COVER | Our cover photo is from a series of charcoal drawings by Masud Olufani.
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FROM THE DIRECTOR Where did the year go? We ask ourselves that question every December as we stare at the holidays and an approaching new year. We start making plans, including those perennial pledges to eat better and get more exercise, both of which tend to fall by the wayside in plenty of time for Valentine’s Day candy. But we also reflect on the year that is nearly gone. Have we done everything we intended to do? Have we left anything unfinished? Did we miss an opportunity? That is especially true in this season of giving. Non-profit organizations like ours benefit from the generosity that people feel toward the end of the year when they make decisions about which ones to support with end-of-year gifts. Paula Bacon Williams Executive Director
You are well aware of the challenges our young people in metro Albany and the surrounding area face on a daily basis. Your support of the Albany Museum of Art helps them break through barriers by exposing them to inspiring, thought-provoking art, and connecting art with school curriculum. The AMA provides students with unique, enriching experiences they otherwise would miss, sparking the creativity and critical-thinking skills tomorrow’s leaders must have. How does that happen? Arts Education Navigator notes that students who have high participation in the arts score 100 points higher on SATs than their peers who have low participation. If they’re from low-income situations, those with high participation in the arts are five times more likely to finish school, four times more likely to get recognition for academic achievement and twice as likely to graduate from college. The AMA, with your help, is reaching many of these future leaders. This school year, more than 1,200 second-graders in the Dougherty County public schools are visiting the museum. Each year, more than 200 high school and college students compete in our A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words essay contest; more than 500 parents and children attend our spring and fall Family Day events; more than 60 tots get early exposure to art through monthly Toddler Takeover programs; more than 150 Homeschool Day students participated in art and STEAMrelated education. This year alone, 60 public and private high school students met to talk about the delicate topic of race at our second Courageous Conversations workshop, 10 scholarships were offered for our art camps and classes, and five young interns gained experience in a museum setting. With free admission, we ensure there is no financial barrier that keeps our community from being exposed to world-class art. None of this happened by accident. All of it happened because of your support. When the ball drops on New Year’s Eve, don’t greet the new year with a nagging feeling you left something important unfinished. Remember the AMA in your end-of-year giving plans. Keep building community through art. Help us Ignite the Future!
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GET READY TO HAVE A BALL The Albany Museum of Art’s most anticipated event of the year, the AMA Art Ball, returns Feb 9, 2019. More than a party, it is the museum’s biggest fundraiser each year, enabling the AMA to conduct programs that build a better community through art. “The Art Ball supports our mission of enhancing the quality of life in the Albany area,” AMA Executive Director Paula Bacon Williams said. “The arts help children in the development of their critical-thinking skills.”
The Paddle Raise and live auction are always competitive and exciting.
Noting that research shows children exposed to the arts are more social, more likely to stay in school and graduate, and more likely to attend college than their peers who are not exposed to art, Williams said the museum’s mission is critical to the Albany area. “We talk about the need to ‘Ignite the Future’ by creating better outcomes for young people who will be tomorrow’s leaders ,” Williams said. “The Art Ball plays a big role as a spark for that.” After an absence in 2017 because of the twin storms that January, the Art Ball returned last February to great success. This year’s event is being chaired by Margaret “Puddin’” Bass, who is working on details for the gala with her amazing group of volunteers. In addition to cocktails, fine dining and dancing, popular portions of the Art Ball that were new in 2018 will return in Art Ball 2019.
The 2019 Art Ball at the Albany Museum of Art will again offer raffle tickets for amazing items that lucky winners will take home.
The silent raffle will be back, as will the paddle raise where those attending can make donations to the museum’s education programs. Those will be followed by a live auction, which will offer art, hunting trips, fabulous dinner parties and vacations. Check our website at albanymuseum.com for more information about the Art Ball and how you can purchase tickets.
Puddin’ Bass 2019 Art Ball Chair
Masud Olufani, an Atlanta-based artist, actor and writer, starts conversations that can be diďŹƒcult with his art work. He explores history and the changing use of language through a cultural lens that also brings the present day into contextual focus.
Masud Olufani, Tight Packers: A Depleted Harvest (excerpt), 2016, graphite, photography, sardine cans
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MASUD OLUFANI: MEMORY AND MEANING Haley Gallery | Feb 21 – June 15, 2019 Olufani’s exhibition Memory and Meaning opens Feb 21, 2019 in the Haley Gallery at the Albany Museum of Art. It will continue through June 15. “For me it really is a kind of visual exploration and excavation of language and historical events that deal particularly with the African diasporic experience and also have resonance for everybody,” the 2017 Southern Arts Prize State Fellow for Georgia said. AMA staff had an opportunity in late November to talk with him about his work at a visit his studio at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, where he is an artist in residence. “It’s looking at history through a particular cultural lens,” he said, “but at the end of the day, that’s part of the larger story.” Much of Olufani’s work incorporates images that illustrate the inventive fluidity of black colloquialisms, words and phrases that developed different meanings as decades and centuries passed. Several of his sculptural works also are multimedia, incorporating visual and audio components. He notes that the reaction to his work is complex. At times, it can evoke humor, but also pain. And it leads to a deep contemplation of meaning.
and links that past moment to a very present social dilemma that we’re still dealing with.” A graduate of Arts High School in Newark, N.J., and Morehouse College in Atlanta, Olufani has an MFA in sculpture from Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). He has exhibited in Atlanta; New Orleans; Chicago; Richmond, Va.; Lacoste, France, and Hong Kong, China. He is a recipient of a 2018 and 2015 Idea Capital Grant; a Southwest Airlines Art and Social Engagement grant. He has written for Burnaway, Baha'i Teachings and the Jacob Lawrence Struggle Series catalog. He also is creative director of Blocked: A Global Healing Project, an international multimedia performance memorializing spaces marked by the trauma of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Olufani’s acting career includes a recurring role on the BET series The Quad, and he has appeared in Greenleaf, Being Mary Jane, Devious Maids, Satisfaction and Nashville on TV, and the film biopic All Eyez on Me: The Tupac Shakur Story. Also, he and Celeste Headlee are hosting Retro Report, a Public Broadcasting Service investigative journalism program that re-examines high-profile news stories from the past.
In Tight Packers: A Depleted Harvest, Olufani relates today’s prison system to the deadly way enslaved people were transported on slave ships. The installation includes images of African-Americans in sardine cans bearing prison I.D. numbers. Those cans surround a graduation photo that has been manipulated to illustrate African Americans who have been lost to imprisonment. “Tight packing is a way to refer to the packing of a slave ship, a way that enslaved people were placed in the hull of a slave ship, and relating that to the current state of mass incarceration in the prison industrial complex of disproportionately young AfricanAmerican men and Afro-Latino men, and what that says about how that can be related to that past experience of slavery. That piece really collapses time
Atlanta artist Masud Olufani, center, talks with Albany Museum of Art Guest Curator Didi Dunphy, left, and AMA Executive Director Paula Bacon Williams during a studio visit in November.
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MIKE LANDERS: STACK East Gallery | Jan 24 – March 30, 2019
Legos, the colorful, interconnecting plastic pieces that have entertained and captivated children for decades, have been elevated from child’s play to fine art by Athens, Georgia, native Mike Landers. Stack, an exhibition of Landers’ work in which he creates abstract “paintings” with Legos, will exhibit Jan 24-March 30, 2019 in the Albany Museum of Art’s East Gallery. Landers is a self-trained photographer and designer who studied at the University of Georgia. His photographic work includes intimate portraits, formal architectural landscapes, large format pinhole landscapes, and a long-running documentary series of the late-night Athens party crowd. He began exhibiting his work in 1990, then began creating art in a new medium—one that captured his imagination as a child— 22 years later. “Building with Lego bricks was a big part of my childhood,” the artist said. “Even when I was a kid, I marveled at the brilliant design of the bricks and the variety of colors and shapes.” Mike Landers, Mini Stripes 2, Legos
That affection was rekindled in 2012 when he saw a “Pick-a-Brick” wall in a Los Angeles Lego Store. “Seeing the bold colors displayed side by side made me believe Lego bricks would make a excellent medium for abstract art,” Landers said. “From then until now, I have worked to create more complex designs, starting with my multicolor ‘sticks’ and moving toward the large-scale ‘paintings.’” Most of his current work, he said, “evolved as a result of my love of textile weavings and geometric patterns.” Landers says he enjoys the challenge of incorporating the limited brick sizes and colors into his designs. “From the start, I wanted to maintain the tradition of Lego as a building tool that could be taken apart and rebuilt,” he said. “In that spirit, none of my work is held together with glue. “This adds to the challenge as they must be transported, handled and hung without falling apart.”
Mike Landers, Weaving 1, Legos
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BENJAMIN BRITTON: THIS UNFOLDING IDYLL West Gallery | Dec 13, 2018 – Feb 23, 2019
In artist Benjamin Britton’s exhibition This Unfolding Idyll, the reward comes from looking beyond the abstract surface beauty to discover deeper meaning. This Unfolding Idyll will show in the West Gallery of Albany Museum of Art from Dec 13, 2018 through Feb 23, 2019. “My work often appears at first to function like a dense and colorful abstract painting, but contains representations of nameable things and places,” says Britton. “I work with color and space to reflect the mechanisms of sensation in the body, to inspire a feeling of motion, and to continually reward the investigation of pictorial space.” The paintings capture the underlying complexity of human relationships and nature. “The paintings in This Unfolding Idyll propose a loss of coherency between the knowledge of where and when our body is located in the landscape and the sensation of our location in space and time,” the Palo Alto, California, native said. “In brief, the paintings use this sensation to explore human relationships to ecological conditions.
Benjamin Britton, Body first, but not always, then mind, also not always, 2016, oil on canvas over panel
“Like emotional relationships with other humans, these relationships are often deeper and more complicated than one normally ends up accounting for, and are often revealed just at the moment our emotions get the best of us.” Raised in the Pacific Northwest, Britton has an MFA in painting from UCLA and a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and is represented by the Marcia Wood Gallery. His work has been shown in commercial galleries and alternative spaces in Atlanta, New York and Los Angeles, and is included in collections at the High Museum in Atlanta and the
West Collection in Oaks, Pennsylvania. He is an assistant professor who teaches drawing and painting at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia in Athens. Britton’s work has been included in Art in America, the Los Angeles Times and New American Paintings. A recipient of the Chiaro Award in painting and an artistin-residence awardee at Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California, he is a recipient of an artist fellowship from the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ballycastle, Ireland, and a J.B. Blunk Residency from the Lucid Art Foundation in Inverness, California.
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CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS HOME TOUR: ARTISTS INVESTIGATING INTERIORS, DOMESTICITY AND IDENTITY Haley Gallery | Through Feb 2, 2019 A dozen artists with Georgia connections investigate the domestic environment through a lens that is both sweet and sour. While the works in the Home Tour: Artists Investigating Interiors, Domesticity and Identity exhibition have beauty and whimsy, they also instill a sense of longing, nostalgia and a desire to feel like you belong. Artists in the show are Paige Adair, Meg Aubrey, Justin Barker, April Childers, InYoung Choi Chun, Melissa Harshman, Sarah Hobbs, Carol John, Jessica Machacek, Sam Stabler, Kaleena Stasiak and Jessica Wohl. The exhibition continues in the Haley Gallery through Feb 2, 2019.
Picture perfect memories for this holiday season Planning an event this fall or during the holiday season? The Harry and Jane Willson Auditorium at the Albany Museum of Art is the perfect venue for your holiday party, wedding reception, engagement celebration, bridal party, rehearsal dinner, birthday or anniversary celebration, or family get-together. Create your unique canvas with our catering kitchen, artwork backdrop, lobby area, grounds and amenities. Call now! The dates are quickly ďŹ lling up! For information and availability, please call Randi Hooks at 229.439.8400 or email rental@albanymuseum.com.
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BRIAN DETTMER: SELECTIVE COLLECTIVE MEMORIES East Gallery | Through Jan 5, 2019 One of the leading artists working with the book, Brian Dettmer gives books new life as sculpture. Dettmer says that Selective Collective Memories, which continues in the AMA East Gallery through Jan 5, 2019, “reflects the focus on my work with books as a cultural material and sculptural object. I seek to honor the book’s role and its past, while illustrating both the exciting and troubling potentials of an intangible future.”
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SUPPER SERIES: FELICE ANNO NUOVO marketing manager for major corporations including Disney and Warner Brothers before she and her husband, Dr. Giovanni Piovesana, a cardiothoracic surgeon, moved to Texas eight years ago. There she started The Italian Wooden Spoon cooking classes that she brought to Albany when they moved here two years ago. “I use very simple ingredients,” Piovesana said. “That is the core of the preparation. We use few ingredients, but top-quality products. Everything is chosen with a lot of care. The products come from small gourmet producers in Italy.” For Felice Anno Nuovo, Piovesana has created a menu with starters that include a fresh Main lobster catalana salad. The dinner will include artichokes, arugula and parmigiana served on bresaola carpaccio; fresh porcini mushrooms and truffle, and meatballs created from a family recipe. Chef Laura Bernardi Piovesana
The meal, which will include specially selected wine pairings for each course, will conclude with tiramisu and panna cotta with a raspberry sauce.
Bid farewell to 2018 a little early at Felice Anno Nuovo, where you will enjoy an authentic Italian dinner planned and prepared by Chef Laura Bernardi Piovesana, owner of the Italian Wooden Spoon. Set for 6 pm on Saturday, Dec 29, 2918 at the Albany Museum of Art, the dinner is the second of fourth season of the AMA’s Fine Art of Dining Culinary Series. Seating is limited and tickets are $175 for AMA members at the Patron level or higher and $200 for future members. Tickets are available at albanymuseum.com/supper-series. Chef Piovesana learned Italian cuisine at her grandmother’s apron while growing up in Conegliano in the Veneto region of Italy. “It’s something you don’t really learn unless you grow up in Italy,” she said. “I started to do this just for passion and it turned into a job. What I do is according to what you really eat when you go to Italy. What I stress is I use real Italian ingredients.” In Milan, Piovesana had a flourishing career as a
SAVE THE DATES Future Supper Series dinners: April 13: Spring Fete July 18: Midsummer Night's Supper
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LIBBY WOMACK HOLIDAY WORKSHOP
Libby Womack
The fifth Libby Womack Holiday Workshop, designed for children in grades K4 through 5th grade, is set for Thursday, Dec 20 and Friday, Dec 21. Participants are placed in work groups according to age and grade level, the camp offers hands on art experiences, crafts, and games. This workshop is named in memory of the late Libby Womack, a long-time friend, educator and trustee at the Albany Museum of Art. Her husband of 39 years, Jim, is now a trustee for the museum, where he continues to honor her life and the significant contributions she made in the community. Cost: Full-day is $30 per day for AMA members and $40 for future members. Half-day is $20 for members and $30 for future members.
PARENTS HOLIDAY RECOVERY CAMP 2019 will open with something new—the AMA’s first Parent Holiday Recovery Camp, which is set for WednesdayFriday, Jan 2-4. Between New Year’s Day and the start of school, parents can drop campers off and rest up after the holidays with the knowledge that the kids will be engaging in creative, entertaining art fun. Cost: Full-day is $30 per day for AMA members and $40 for future members. Half-day is $20 for members and $30 for future members. All three days are $80 for members and $110 for future members. There also is a discount for additional campers from the same family. Both camps are 9 am-4 pm with early drop-off every day at 8 am and late pick-up at 5 pm (except 4 pm Fridays). Details on both camps are at albany.museum.com/holiday-workshop.html. Call 229.439.8400 to register.
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Designed for children ages 15 months through 3 years with their caregivers, Toddler Takeover conducted 10:30-11 am on first Tuesdays engages children’s creativity and incorporates monthly themes with related artwork, art-making activities, stories and tours.
Set for 11 am-12:30 pm on the second Thursday of each month, each Homeschool Day focuses on specific curriculum concurring with the current AMA exhibitions. The program is geared toward children K5-5th grade. The cost is $5 for AMA members, and $10 for future members.
NOTE: There is no session in January. Feb. 5: Focus is on Benjamin Britton, This Unfolding Idyll, West Gallery. March 5: Focus is on Lego artist Mike Landers, East Gallery. Cost: AMA members, free; future members, $5
NOTE: There is no session in February. Dec 13: The focus is on literature and inspired by Brian Dettmer’s exhibition Selective Collective Memories. Jan 10: The focus is on math and science, and Benjamin Britton’s This Unfolding Idyll exhibition. Cost: AMA members, $5; future members, $10
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A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words, a juried writing competition at the Albany Museum of Art, is for college, high school, middle school students who inspire museum-goers by writing an essay that relates to a work of art. Particpants must visit the museum to be eligible for this competition, and write an essay no longer than 1000 words, in any style that relates back to the piece the author selected. Cash prizes will be awarded to first, second, and third place winners with three honorable mentions in the
college and high school competition. The winners will be announced at a press conference and check presentation at 11:30 am on Friday, Dec 21 at the AMA. All winning essays will be published on the museum’s website and in a special museum publication. The AMA thanks our panel of judges for the contest— Bummi Anderson, Danny Carter, Ulf Kirchdorfer, Leslie Partridge, KK Snyder and Bill Strickland—for lending their expertise and talents.
TEEN PORTFOLIO DRAWING CLASS IS BACK The Teen Portfolio Drawing Class, a progressive drawing class that focuses on teenage artists of all skill levels, is coming back 10 am-noon on Saturdays in February to the Albany Museum of Art. The series, taught by instructor Jordan “J.W.” Walker, is an excellent choice for high school AP Studio and Portfolio Preparation students. Teen artists will be able to develop their work, focus their skills and experiment with their portfolios. Students work in a project based format to create two- and three-dimensional drawings. The basic tenets/principals of drawing and rendering are incorporated within the process and each project moves students further along in their development. Initially participants will work mostly from photos– theirs or ones provided by the instructor. Beginner to intermediate students draft outlines with grids to
better learn and create proportional perspective. The class will work in graphite/charcoal to build an understanding of value, then move on to color. The cost of the class is $100 plus supply list for AMA members and $140 plus supply list for future members. Contact the AMA at 229.439.8400 to sign up.
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FLUID ART MAKING A DYNAMIC RETURN A Saturday workshop for acrylic paint pouring art, a new abstract art trend, is returning Jan 19, 2019 to the Albany Museum of Art. Casey Cole Corbin will be back to instruct of the Dynamic Fluid Art workshop. The workshop will have two segments, and participants can take one or both. The 10 am-noon class is for beginners, who will be taught the basic techniques for creating fluid art. The 1:30-4 pm session is those who attended the morning workshop or those who have taken a beginner workshop previously. They will build on the techniques they have learned. Register at albanymuseum.com. The cost for the morning beginner class is $39. The advanced afternoon class is $79. Both workshops can be taken for $118.
CALL FOR DOCENTS JAN 12 If you have a passion for the arts, why not share that love with people of all ages? You can have an impact on the art community by becoming a docent for the Albany Museum of Art. Join us at 10 am on Saturday, Jan 12, 2019, to find out all the ins and outs of becoming an AMA docent. If you’re not familiar with what docents do, they are trained museum volunteers who engage with visitors to enrich their experiences with works of art while also creating a warm, welcoming environment. A good docent is enthusiastic, patient and flexible, and skilled at public interaction. You don’t have to have a background in art, but you must be 18 or older. Docents also must be willing to learn about new and established methods of engaging visitors, and they must be willing to make the necessary commitments to both training and touring. If you have any questions about the program, contact the AMA at 229.439.8400.
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The AMA gratefully acknowledges the following friends for their contributions | July-September, 2018 FOUNDATIONS
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W.B. Haley Foundation Eloise Haley Foundation Ralph Hodges, Jr. Foundation Herbert and Marion Haley Foundation
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Cathy Darby in memory of Florence Prisant
CORPORATE CONTRIBUTIONS Artesian City Sertoma Club (architectural blocks in Children’s Gallery) Susan Northington
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NEW AND RENEWING MEMBERS The AMA is proud to recognize our new and renewing members | July-September, 2018 COLLECTOR’S CIRCLE ($1,000) Sylvia Berry Delano Braziel Alton L. Darby Cathy Darby Michael Mallard Marsha Taylor
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FAMILY/INDIVIDUAL/ MILITARY ($75) Robert Aaron Michelle Barkley Jenny Bertram Jamie Bertram Tim Bice
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LIFT EVERY VOICE SET FOR FEB 28, 2019
Students perform on the stage of the Albany Municipal Auditorium at the 2018 Lift Every Voice event.
The Albany Museum of Art is proud to join again with the Albany Civil Rights Institute and, for the first year the Albany Symphony Orchestra to host the 2019 Lift Every Voice concert. The event is 6:30-8:30 pm on Thursday, Feb 28, 2019, at the Albany Municipal Auditorium. Conducted in conjunction with Black History Month,
the concert, which will be in its sixth year, brings the Freedom Singers, Junior Freedom Singers and the choirs from participating public and private Dougherty County schools together for an amazing night of goodwill and celebration. This inspirational evening of song is free and open to the public.
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