NDMOA October 2011 Newsletter

North Dakota Museum of Art

Above: Margaret Wall-Romana, Memento Lucem (Remember the Light), 2010.

Oil on wood panel, 60 x 135 inches.

OCTOBER 5, 2011: A GIFT OF $600,000 FROM JEAN HOLLAND WAS DEPOSITED IN THE JEAN DEAN HOLLAND ENDOWMENT WITHIN THE NORTH DAKOTA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION In addition, the Museum is adding another gem to its collection in memory of Jean Holland, a long-time supporter and volunteer. Margaret Wall-Romana’s Memento Lucem (Remember the Light) is the anchor work in a solo show by this master painter, currently on view through October 23 in the Museum’s Jean Dean Holland gallery. The gift was acquired in part with memorials from her family and friends.

LUCINDA MASON: SUPER CONDUCTING SUPER COLLIDER SUITE is showing concurrently. The artist based her paintings on the essential properties of matter and the infinite possibilities of immeasurable space, using the Superconducting Super Collider project from the Fermilab in central Texas as a starting point. Mason said, “I am creating a number of largescale canvases to accompany past works which draw from scientific experiments using particle accelerators to try to locate an infinitivally small particle called the Higgs boson. It is thought to be a link in explaining the very make up of our universe.”

Left: Lucinda Mason (1974-2007), Dark Matter and the Heavy Ion Collider, from the “Super Conducting Super Collider Suite,” 2007.

Oil on canvas, 75 x 57.5 inches.

October 2011

BRYAN HOIME AND SALLY OPP TAKE ON THE GARDEN PATH TO RAISE FUNDS FOR MUSEUM GENERAL OPERATING ENDOWMENT

Bryan Hoime (left to right), City Councilman Tyrone Grandstrand, and Museum staff member Justin Dalzell lay the footprint for The Garden Path.

DATES TO REMEMBER Ying Quartet: Dim Sum, October 23, 2011, 2 pm These young Chinese performers will play short pieces

by Chinese-American composers in addition to Mozart’s Quartet in E-flat Major and Ravel’s Quartet in F Major.

Informal lecture about Autumn Art Auction exhibition November 3, 7 pm Autumn Art Auction: November 12, 2011 Butterfly, December 4, 2011, 2 pm Gao Hong, master of the Chinese Pipa, Nirmala Rajasekarm a world-renowned Carnatic veena virtuoso (plucked string instrument) who hails from southern India, and cellist Michelle Kinney.

Benefit Dinner and Silent Art Auction February 4, 2012 Rural Arts Initiative Touring Exhibitions: October 6 - 10, 2011, “Fantastic” Minot State University, Minot, ND A dozen artists from the United States, Canada, England, Iceland, and Argentina who delve into the implausible, incredible, and the improbable, that is the Fantastic.

October 18 - November 1, 2011 “The American Nile: The Story of Red River Valley Migrant Workers” Steve Larson Studio, Grafton, ND October 25 - November 10, 2011, “Fantastic” County Court House, Langdon, ND

Opp Construction sunk the first $4,000 into building the North Dakota Museum of Art’s Garden Path. Sale of individual stones, which start at $1,000 and range upward, will create an endowment to underwrite general operating costs for the Museum. Already Trustees have bought up the first $15,000 worth of flagstones. As soon as they picked their favorites from among the 200 possibilities, the granite stones went off to the engraver to be embellished with family or business names, logos, children’s drawings, slogans, or whatever caught their fancy. It could be a riddle, a quote from literature, a stone for each of the grandchildren, or "anonymous."

Sally Opp, Operations Manager of Opp Construction and a Museum Trustee, is co-chairing the project along with Bryan Hoime, retired farmer from Edmore, North Dakota and former owner of Columbia Liquor in Grand Forks. Hoime now puts in long hours as a Museum volunteer, working on exhibition installations, permanent collection care, and special projects such as planting stones in the Garden Path. Hoime was joined by City Councilman Tyrone Grandstrand and Museum staff member Justin Dalzell to dig up the newly renovated plaza and place the stones.

The Museum Garden is where peonies grow, summer concerts take place, and sculpture finds a home. The Garden Path flanks the Museum entrance and is anchored by the Museum’s most recent sculptural addition, a granite chair. Sculptor Zoran Mojsilov worked the rock to bring an embedded rose quartz vein to surface. Thus the chair gleams in the rising and sinking sun.

A gift to The Garden Path Endowment is one more step in securing financial stability for the Museum today and the generations that follow.

The principle will be invested in perpetuity by the Museum Foundation; only income from the fund’s invested assets will be expended by the Museum. Call the Museum to make arrangements to choose your stone.

MUSEUM WINTER CONCERT SERIES: HIDDEN HISTORIES, BORROWED SOUNDS 2 pm on Sundays in the Museum galleries 7:30 pm the following Monday evening at Mayville State The North Dakota Museum of Art Winter Concert Series, long rooted in traditional Western Classical Music, is devoting the upcoming season to the cross pollination between World Music and Classical Music. Hear musicians from Syria and Sri Lanka, China, Korea, and America. This outreach effort to attract a younger and more diverse audience is funded by the Myra Foundation and the Knight Foundation Donor Advised Fund at the Grand Forks/East Grand Forks Community Foundation.

WINGED SHADOWS: LIFE AMONG BIRDS OPENS IN TIME FOR THANKSGIVING, CONTINUES THROUGH JANUARY 15, 2012 PUBLIC RECEPTION AND LECTURE: Tuesday, November 29, 7 pm It was evening all afternoon.

It was snowing And it was going to snow.

The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs.

— Wallace Stevens Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Rosalie Winard, Great Egret, Lake Merritt, Oakland, California,1998.

Bottom: Kenojuak, Untitled, etching, 1962.

Collection of the North Dakota Museum of Art.

UPCOMING CLASSES IN THE MUSEUM Children ages 6 - 13 Saturday Classes A Miniature Dream Space with Sue Fink October 22 & November 5, 9 - 11 am $25 members; $30 non-members Collage with Sheila Dalgliesh November 19 & 26, 9 - 11 am $25 members; $30 non-members Adults Tuesday Evening Classes Drawing from Photographs with Molly Douthit October 25, November 1 & 8, 6 - 8 pm $55 members; $70 non-members Painting with Adam Kemp November 22, December 6 & 13 Per Session: $25 members; $30 non-members

We who live in the woodlands; the moraine ridges, washes and sloughs of the Northern Plains; or along the Central Flyway—that migration route from the Arctic to South America—live among birds. Collected in this exhibition are dozens of ways of looking at birds through the eyes of artists. They include Canadian electronic-installation artist Erika Lincoln; photographer Barbara Bosworth who captures the stillness of birds and their human perches; Terry Evans with her botanical specimen shots; Matt Anderson, the maker of gigantic drawings of birds consuming cities; Rebecca Norris Webb who photographed birds in Cuba; Barton Lidice Benes with his Bird Museum; environmentalist and photographer Rosalie Winard with her photographs of wetland birds; Kenojuak, the famous Innuit printmaker whose name will forever be coupled with the owl; Walton Ford with his etchings of allegories and metaphors and symbolic language; painter David Kruger, the master of bird-eats-man scenarios; and video artists Guido von der Werve, Cecelia Condit, Ann Walsh, and Rob Yeo. Come celebrate our world as fall is overtake by the encroaching snows of winter.

OUTREACH OPPORTUNITIES RURAL ARTS INITIATIVE TRAVELING EXHIBITION AND VISITING ARTIST PROGRAM Week-long workshops in North Dakota schools are available, plus one international exhibition for three sites. This year the Museum will offer school workshops with Gudjon Ketilsson and Helgi Hjaltalin Eyjolfsson of Iceland, Guillermo Hart of Argentina, and Bill Harbort of Minot, to communities throughout the state on a first-come basis. Guillermo Guardia, a Museum staff member, will be available year around for multiple workshops in North Dakota and Northwest Minnesota. This autumn the Museum will tour Baku, Azerbaijan photographer Rena Effendi’s “Pipe Dreams” through its Rural Arts Initiative to three North Dakota communities without charge. They must, however, supply a clean, secure exhibition space, volunteers, and organizational assistance. For more information contact Matthew Wallace at the Museum, 777-4195 or mwallace@ndmoa.com.

MUSEUM RECEIVES MAJOR GIFT FOR COLLECTION Colombian artist Juan Manuel Echavarría has given the North Dakota Museum of Art a gift of twenty-one lenticulars from Requiem NN.

Juan Manuel Echavarría, Requiem NN, lenticular.

2006 - 2010, 20 x 20 inches.

Echavarría’s “Requiem NN,” is comprised of over 200 lenticular photographs of burial vaults, many individually decorated with the letters NN (NO NAME). During the massacres endemic to Colombia’s drug war, the bodies of disappeared and mutilated victims are tossed in the river, food for vultures, untraceable. In the region of Puerto Berrio, however, the decomposed corpses are rescued from the Magdalena River and placed in tombs. It is then that the common people of Puerto Berrio start a unique ritual of appropriation. An NN can be chosen and asked for favors, business-like favors such as ”Please help me win the lottery and I will take care of your tomb.” The person, blessed by the favor, enthusiastically adopts the NN and places flowers, a glass of water, or possibly a marble slate inscribed with “thank you NN for the favor received.” The Museum also owns twenty silver gelatin prints from the artist’s botanical series, “Corte de Florero / Flower Vase Cut.” Cataloging and appraising of the Barton Lidice Benes Collection in New York City (left) is proceeding. Thus far the African and Egyptian collections are appraised at over $1 million. In addition to the historical work, Barton has stuffed his Westbeth apartment with the art of his contemporaries along with his own work. Other collections of Barton Benes’s art have been given to the Museum to form a Study Center.

Upon the artist’s death, the Museum will rebuild Barton’s studio apartment in North Dakota as its first period room, a Twenty-first Century Artist’s Studio.

Barton Benes’s New York apartment, 2011.

Georgie Papageorge, Suspension, twelve mixed-media panels mounted on steel frame,16 x 35 x 2 feet.

Created for the Native American Thanksgiving Service at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City, November 23, 1990.

OTHER NEWS: Valued staffer Justin Dalzell is moving with his family to Bismarck • • • The Annual Membership Campaign is underway. Please stay with us, or join for the first time • • • Both our Minnesota State Arts Board and North Dakota Council on the Arts general operating grants were reduced due to Federal cuts • • • McCanna House, our new Artist-in-Residence, saw its first visitor, John Rogers of Oakland— and Larimore, if we’re lucky • • • Fundraising has begun to increase the endowment for McCanna House • • • THE MUSEUM IS SEEKING CHURCHES OR INDOOR PUBLIC SPACES TO EXHIBIT GEORGIE PAPAGEORGE’S SUSPENSION, (with contributions from Belcourt teenagers) NOW IN THE COLLECTION OF THE NORTH DAKOTA MUSEUM OF ART. GIFT FROM THE ARTIST. Special Holiday Workshop Handbuilding in Clay for the Whole Family with Memo Guardia December 3, 10 & 17 $30 members; $40 non-members

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