CALENDAR
*Denotes TORN FROM HOME Complementary Program, see insert for more information. JANUARY JANUARY 8 through FEBRUARY 28 IMAGE*INATION: Catawba Valley Camera Club’s 3rd Annual Photo Competition Exhibition in the Windows Gallery
MARCH MARCH 6 THROUGH APRIL 4 63rd Annual PAUL WHITENER STUDENT ART SHOW: Middle School & High School Division Exhibition in the Shuford Gallery Sponsored by Hickory Rotary Club SUNDAY, march 7* International Women’s Day Program 3 PM; Hickory Museum of Art
FRIDAY, JANUARY 8 – OPENING RECEPTION IMAGE*INATION: Catawba Valley Camera Club’s 3rd Annual Photo Competition 6 – 8 PM; Windows Gallery
Thursday, MARCH 18 – AWARDS RECEPTION 63rd Annual PAUL WHITENER STUDENT ART SHOW: Middle School & High School Division 5:30 – 7 PM; Shuford Gallery
JANUARY 9 through MAY 23* A Celebration of Heritage: The Face and Voice of Latinos in the Catawba Valley Exhibition in the Entrance Gallery
SATURDay, MARCH 20 – HMA FAMILY DAY* Special Art Activities & Tours for Families 1 – 4 PM, FREE Admission
Sunday, JANUARY 10 – EXHIBITION CLOSES Valdese Weavers Textile Design: Inspiration to Interpretation JANUARY 12 THROUGH FEBRUARY 28 WATERCOLOR SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA Selections from the 64th Annual Juried Exhibition Exhibition in the Shuford Gallery JANUARY 26 THROUGH MAY 2* TORN FROM HOME: My Life as a Refugee Exhibition in the Coe Gallery
Presented by Howard & Pat Anderson and the Beaver Family Foundation
FRIday, JANUARY 29 – JOINT RECEPTION* TORN FROM HOME: My Life as a Refugee & A Celebration of Heritage: The Face and Voice of Latinos in the Catawba Valley 5 – 8 PM; FREE Admission SUNDAY, JANUARY 31 – EXHIBITION CLOSES Rhythm & Rights: 1960s Era Photography by Mervin Sealy FEBRUARY Wednesday, february 3 – special event Watercolor Demonstrations & Pizza Party $6 Admission; 12 – 4 PM See inside for more information. Friday, FEBRUARY 5 – Preview reception This Murky Purpose: Prints by Heather Freeman 6 – 8 PM; Gifford Gallery FEBRUARY 6 THROUGH MAY 2 This Murky Purpose: Prints by Heather Freeman Exhibition in the Gifford & Regal Galleries FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12 – CENTRO LATINO BENEFIT* El Arte de la Vida (Art of Life) 6 – 9 PM; Hickory Museum of Art $25 Tickets (available at Centro Latino & HMA) SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13 – AWARDS PROGRAM* PANGEA–MUN (Model United Nations) 6 – 9 PM; Arts & Science Center Auditorium SATURDay, February 20 – HMA FAMILY DAY* Special Art Activities & Tours for Families 1 – 4 PM, FREE Admission
THURSday, MARCH 25 – CONCERT* Romanian Baptist Choir Concert 7 PM; Arts & Science Center Auditorium APRIL APRIL 9 THROUGH MAY 2 PAUL WHITENER STUDENT ART SHOW: Elementary School Division Exhibition in the Shuford Gallery Sponsored by Hickory Rotary Club APRIL 17 THROUGH MAY 9 JEANS FOR JUSTICE Exhibition in the Entrance Gallery
Presented by the Rape Crisis Center of Catawba County
SUNday, APRIL 18 – GALLERY TALK* Chagall and the Bible, Presented by Vivian Jacobsen 3 PM; Arts & Science Center Auditorium Sponsored by “Roads Scholars” Speakers Bureau, a program of the North Carolina Humanities Council. Thursday, APRIL 22 – AWARDS RECEPTION PAUL WHITENER STUDENT ART SHOW: Elementary School Division 5:30 – 7 PM; Shuford Gallery SUNDAY, APRIL 25 – DIGITAL STORYTELLING* The Stories We Tell: Crossing the Cultural Divide through Digital Storytelling 3 PM; Hickory Museum of Art Presented by Catawba Valley Community College
ADDITIONAL EXHIBITIONS
TREACHEROUS BEAUTY The Art of the Dagger Extended through Summer 2010; Objects Gallery CAROLINA FOLK SCULPTORS Four Formidable Folk Fathers Through Fall 2010; Mezzanine Gallery SOUTHERN CONTEMPORARY FOLK ART Open Storage Ongoing; Donnelly & Lail Galleries BORN OF FIRE Glass from the Luski Collection Ongoing; Objects Gallery
HIGH SCHOOL & ADULT WORKSHOPS
Call Kate Worm at 828-327-8576 extension 207 to register
Judy Rider Shore Birds watercolor
RE-ENACTMENT SOLDIER FOR DRAWING AND PAINTING Two Wednesdays: January 6 & 13 1 – 4 PM $24 Members, $30 Non-Members Come join the artists that will surround Ken Johnson for six hours of drawing and painting. Ken is a re-enactment soldier who will be dressed in full Civil War uniform. He will sit in the same pose both days for 20 minute segments. All materials are welcome. There will be no instruction. FANCIFUL, FUNCTIONAL AND HAND-MADE! Journals With Sigrid Hice Monday & Tuesday Afternoons: January 11 & 12 4:30 – 6:30 PM $40 Members, $50 Non-Members (includes materials) Sigrid’s classes are always popular with both teens and adults. Students will make and paint beautiful journals or story books with cleverly folded paper inserts and accented book covers. Very beautiful! Register by January 6. OPEN STUDIO WITH THE FIGURE Six Mondays: January 11 – February 15 Again March 8 – April 19 (no Easter Monday) 6 – 9 PM $65 Members, $80 Non-Members The Open Studio is an on-going opportunity for artists to work with an unclothed model. Participants can draw, paint, collage or use the printing press. The model holds the same pose for three hours with a break every 20 minutes. All ability levels are welcome. There is no instruction. WATERCOLOR DEMOS & PIZZA PARTY Wednesday, February 3 12 – 4 PM $6 Registration (includes pizza) In conjunction with the North Carolina 2009 Traveling Watercolor Exhibition, the HMA is sponsoring an afternoon of pizza and demonstrations by three talented members of the NC Watercolor Society: Judy Rider (local), Ann Vasilik (Asheville), and Kate Worm (local). Take a cold February afternoon to warm your belly and have a good time while improving your mind, all at the Museum. It couldn’t get any better.
Payment is due at time of registration. HMA will not offer refunds for cancellations with less than a 3 day notice. Payment may be applied to future classes if desired.
LESSONS IN WATERCOLOR With Judy Rider Come for One or for All Four! Four Wednesdays: February 10, 17, 24 & March 3 1 – 3:30 PM $20 Each Class Members, $25 Non-Members Judy is a master watercolorist and popular educator. The HMA is offering this class in conjunction with the Traveling 2009 NC Watercolor Exhibit. Each day will be a self-contained lesson emphasizing basics of good watercolor painting. Judy will meet with students one to four times. The HMA is experimenting with a new, flexible format. You get to choose. Bring your painting supplies. Registration due the Monday before the class. DYNAMIC STILL LIFE WITH WATERCOLOR AND GOUACHE With Kate Worm Two Thursdays: February 18 & 25 1 – 4 PM $40 Members, $50 Non-Members Join Kate Worm and explore the details of good still-life painting while using watercolor and gouache (opaque watercolor) in a non-traditional way. Painters will apply paint with rollers, rags, and eyedroppers and maybe a brush (or not). Kate’s figure painting was featured in American Artist Watercolor, Summer 2006. Check out her website at kateworm.com. This class is in conjunction with the NC 2009 Traveling Watercolor Exhibition. A materials list will be sent. HAND-BUILT CERAMIC BIRDHOUSES With Lauren Gallion For Teens and Adults Three Tuesdays: February 16, 23 & March 2 4:30 – 6:30 PM $40 Members, $50 Non-Members (includes clay and glaze) HMA’s very own Lauren Gallion is a professional ceramist eager to share technique and knowledge when it comes to welcoming birds to your garden. Students will learn the fundamentals of hand-building and glazing while creating adorable, functional birdhouses. Register by February 10. PRAYER DOODLING With Jacquelyn Maté Three Wednesdays: March 3, 10 &17 12 – 1:30 PM $35 Members, $40 Non-Members (includes materials) Prayer Doodling is for the artist and non-artist alike. Join Jacquelyn in exploring your experience of prayer through journaling and drawing. Participants will use art to quiet the mind in order to listen to the still small voice within. The written/ artistic response is a way of carrying prayer through the day. HAND-WIRED RINGS AND THINGS With Jessie McCann Two Mondays: March 22 & 29 4:30 – 6:30 PM $30 Members, $40 Non-Members (includes materials) Jessie is a professional jewelry maker who displays her unique work in the HMA Galleria. She will help jewelers learn techniques of wire wrapping to make beautiful, funky rings. This class is designed for teens and adults. Register by March 17.
Kindergarten Elementary Middle School
Call Ginny Zellmer at 828-327-8576 extension 216 to register
Happy Birthday to the following kids who celebrated their birthdays at HMA: Emma Chaney – 5 years old Katie Kuba – 4 years old Elle Nutting – 5 years old Alex Lewis – 7 years old Reyna Peoples – 6 years old Tatum Reising – 8 years old Uma Seebald – 9 years old Sloane Sinclair – 4 years old For more information about birthday parties call Ginny Zellmer at 828-327-8576 or visit www.HickoryArt.org. PINT SIZE PICASSOS 2nd and 3rd Wednesday of each month from 1 – 2 PM 3 – 5 years with accompanying adult $12 Members, $18 Non-Members, Adults free This is an art experience your child will love. Hear stories, play games and get messy with all sorts of art materials. Preregistration is required and price includes both Wednesdays. New activities each month. Next classes: January 13 & 20 and February 10 & 17. HOMESCHOOL ART CLASSES 2nd Thursday of each month from 1 – 2:15 PM Ages 5 years and older $5 per class Members, $8 per class Non-Members Students will be led through the galleries examining works of art on a student level. From gallery inspiration, students will then create artwork of their own. Different media will be used each month for experimentation. Registration required. DRAWING TECHNIQUES Three Fridays: January 22, 29 & February 5 3:30 – 5 PM 3rd – 7th Grades $30 Members, $40 Non-Members Learn drawing techniques such as shading and perspective. Experiment using pencils, charcoal, and pastels. Excellent class for students who want to sharpen their drawing abilities. Instructor: Amanda Norman 3-D ART Three Mondays: February 8, 15 & 22 3:30 – 4:30 PM K – 2nd Grades $24 Members, $30 Non-Members Make some 3-D sculptures of your own! Build a wooden sculpture and paint it, make a 3-D picture with colored tissue, and make other amazing art! Folk Art on the Museum’s 3rd Floor will be our inspiration. Instructor: Ginny Zellmer
Kristina Anthony
YOUTH CLASSES
HMA student intern, Tyler Lariscy, a senior at Hickory High School, recently painted an “Artie in Space” mural in the 1st Floor Artie Activity Station, located near the back stairwell. Have a seat on the couch, then look up to enjoy the mural!
WATERCOLOR WORKSHOP Monday, February 8, 3:30 – 5:30 PM 3rd – 7th Grades; $14 Members, $19 Non-Members Students will begin by exploring the Museums’ watercolor exhibit and then paint a watercolor landscape of their own. Students will be guided as they sketch and paint on quality paper using artist watercolors. Each student needs to bring a landscape picture they would like to paint (magazine pictures or photographs). Instructor: Ann Baggett HEART’S DESIRE Friday, February 12, 3:30 – 5 PM K – 3rd Grades $10 Members, $15 Non-Members Make special gifts for someone special to you. Hearts, frames, and sparkles will make this a Valentines class you won’t want to miss. Instructor: Ginny Zellmer EARTH AND FIRE Three Thursdays: February 18, 25 & March 4 3:30 – 5 PM 3rd – 7th Grades; $35 Members, $45 Non-Members Students will try their hand at the potters wheel to make a bowl or cup and hand build a birdhouse for the spring. Pieces will be glazed and fired and ready to be picked up a week after the last class. Instructor: Lauren Gallion SPRING FLING Three Thursdays: March 11, 18 & 25 3:30 – 4:30 PM K – 2nd Grades; $24 Members, $30 Non-Members Young artists will make a “secret pocket” out of clay that will hold flowers, a birdhouse out of a gourd, and spring art out of unusual materials! A great class for “budding” young artists. Instructor: Ginny Zellmer Wanted: Hand Puppets! Our puppet stage in “Little Hands, Big Hands” is in need of new puppets. We will take new or gently used puppets, or small donations so we can purchase some. Also, the Education Department would like a digital camera to keep in the classrooms for those times when masterpieces are being created. We don’t always have time to run upstairs and find a camera before the moment has passed. If you have an old camera you are not using, we would love to put it to good use!
ARTVIEW WINTER 2010 VOLUME 64 ISSUE 1 H I C KO RY M U S E U M O F R T
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FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR TORN FROM HOME: My Life as a Refugee, January 26 – May 2, 2010 This upcoming exhibition provides a logical transition for HMA as we continue to incorporate more exhibition themes involving children, families, educational curriculum, partnerships, and community. The proposal to present this unique exhibit developed by Lied Discovery Children’s Museum of Las Vegas came from the Hickory International Council. While using the Internet to prepare for this February’s Model UN in Hickory, Dr. Marion Love, Council VP, stumbled across an announcement for an inspiring, hands-on journey into the extraordinary lives of children forced from their homes to seek safety in new lands. The co-sponsorship of this vivid interactive experience – for both youth and adult audiences – has quickly resulted in the generation of funding, promotions, teacher training materials, volunteer recruitment, and complementary public programming. I hope you will accept my invitation to take full advantage of this exhibition which comes to Hickory through the generous support of national sponsors Pamela & Pierre Omidyar (eBay founder), and local sponsors Howard & Pat Anderson and the Beaver Family Foundation. See the enclosed flyer for a listing of related programs. Please put the exhibit opening reception (January 29) on your calendar and see for yourself how TORN FROM HOME – which is touring only 12 cities in North America over a 4-year period – will stimulate powerful conversations and insights as we grow more knowledgeable about our local responses to refugee resettlement and immigration in our region.
Lisë C. Swensson
WE NEED YOUR HELP! Please consider one or more of the following ways to assist us with this exhibition: 1. Post the enclosed flyer. 2. Share information regarding the exhibit from our website & E-News. 3. Invite friends and co-workers to come to the Museum to see the exhibition and related programs. 4. Volunteer to assist in areas including installation, greeting and tour guiding. (Go to HickoryArt.org for a volunteer application form or call Ann Hinson at 828-327-8576)
Presented by Howard & Pat Anderson and the Beaver Family Foundation
January 26 – May 2, 2010 Hickory Museum of Art
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Complementary ExhibitionS & ProgramS:
COMPLEMENTARY Exhibitions All exhibitions take place at the Hickory Museum of Art FREE General Admission JANUARY 9 THROUGH MAY 23
A Celebration of Heritage: The Face and Voice of Latinos in the Catawba Valley Local artist Clayton Joe Young takes the viewer on a photographic journey into the culture and heritage of Latinos in Western North Carolina. The artist interviewed his subjects and their words accompany the exhibition. JANUARY 26 THROUGH MAY 2
• Refugee Voices Short video vignettes highlighting the journeys and life experiences of local Asian refugees and immigrants. • Freedom in Creation Exhibition Artwork by war affected children in Uganda created through an art therapy program that also helps children bring clean water to their community. • ShelterBox on Display See how you can help Rotary Club provide victims of disaster with shelter. Explore the contents of an actual ShelterBox that provides supplies for a family of 10. • Hmong Storycloths and other Artwork Trace the Hmong refugee experience through beautiful handmade storycloths.
COMPLEMENTARY PROGRAMS FRIDAY, JANUARY 29
Joint Opening Reception for TORN FROM HOME: My Life as a Refugee & A CELEBRATION OF HERITAGE: The Face and Voice of Latinos in the Catawba Valley 5 – 8 PM; Hickory Museum of Art; FREE Admission
January 26 – May 2, 2010
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12 – Centro latino benefit El Arte de la Vida (Art of Life)
6 – 9 PM; Hickory Museum of Art $25 Tickets (available at Centro Latino) Evening includes silent auction, refreshments, wine tasting, cultural presentations and entertainment. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13 – Awards Program PANGEA–MUN (Model United Nations)
6 – 9 PM; Arts & Science Center Auditorium Lenoir Rhyne University is hosting a High School Model UN Green Conference February 12 & 13, 2010. The Conference ends with an awards recognition event. Keynote Speaker: Andrew Briggs of Freedom in Creation, presents “Identity, the War of Your Generation.” SATURDay, February 20 – Family Day
1 – 4 PM, Hickory Museum of Art, FREE Admission Special art activities and guided tours of Torn From Home. THURSDay, February 25 – FILM NIGHT
7 PM, Arts & Science Center Auditorium, FREE Admission Screening of Being Hmong, Being Free.
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SUNDAY, march 7 International Women’s Day Program
3 PM; Hickory Museum of Art Recognition of successes and challenges of women in today’s global marketplace. TUESDAY, MARCH 9 – Clergy breakfast
Sponsored by the North Carolina Council of Churches 8:30 – 10 AM, Hickory Museum of Art SATURDay, March 20 – Family Day
1 – 4 PM, Hickory Museum of Art, FREE Admission Special art activities and guided tours of Torn From Home. TUESDAY, March 23 – FILM NIGHT
7 PM, Carolina Theatre (221 1st Ave NW, Hickory), FREE Admission Screening of Rain in a Dry Land. THURSday, MARCH 25 – Romanian Baptist Choir Concert
7 PM; Arts & Science Center Auditorium; FREE Admission Refreshments and tours of Torn From Home: My Life as a Refugee to immediately follow concert. SUNday, APRIL 18 – GALLERY TALK Chagall and the Bible, Presented by Vivian Jacobsen
3 PM; Arts & Science Center Auditorium; FREE Admission This slide presentation focuses on Marc Chagall’s Bible Series and references his experiences as a refugee. A book signing, refreshments by the Sisterhood of Temple Beth Shalom, and tours of Torn From Home to immediately follow the talk. Sponsored by Road Scholars Speakers Bureau, a program of the North Carolina Humanities Council. SUNDAY, APRIL 25 – The Stories We Tell: Crossing the Cultural Divide through Digital Storytelling
3 PM; Hickory Museum of Art; FREE Admission Presented by Catawba Valley Community College FRIDAY, April 30 & SATURDAY, MAY 1 INTERNATIONAL Spring fest
Presented by Hickory International Council Union Square in Downtown Hickory, FREE Admission Friday Night Saturday Multicultural Dance Show Vendors: 9 AM – 5 PM 7 – 10 PM Entertainment: 10 AM – 4 PM Saturday, may 1 Art on the Avenue Family Festival
10 AM – 4 PM; SALT Block Central Lawn; FREE Admission Arts & Crafts Booths, Food Vendors, Children’s Art Activities & Cultural Entertainment. SUNDAY, MAY 2 – CLOSING CELEBRATION TORN FROM HOME: My Life as a Refugee
3 PM; Hickory Museum of Art; FREE Admission The exhibition comes to a close with a special awards recognition ceremony. Attention Boy Scouts! All Boy Scouts who explore the exhibition Torn From Home in uniform and complete a short quiz receive a patch!
www .H ickory A rt . org for additional programs and information .