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January / February 2008

FOR MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OF THE OKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART

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Oklahoma City Museum of Art Executive Staff Carolyn Hill, President & CEO Hardy George, Ph.D. , Chief Curator Rodney Lee, Finance Director Kenneth H. Lindquist, Development Director

Editorial Staff Alison Amick, Associate Curator Chandra Boyd, Education Curator Jim Eastep, Membership Officer Nicole Emmons, Editor Brian Hearn, Film Curator Matthew C. Leininger, Registrar Leslie A. Spears, Communications Manager

Director’s Letter Who could not be enthusiastic? A New Year, vibrant city, extraordinary members and supporters, and a rising tide raising all the ships. Oklahoma City is within reach of hosting an exhibit from the greatest museum in the world. Think Roman Art from the Louvre at the Museum, think Renee Fleming at the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, and think of Allied Arts, our champion for a dedicated team of cultural assets. No doubt, Oklahoma City is the fastest

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rising cultural center in the region. Much may be said for the synergy of a

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city engaged by the tandem of teams, inspired by ideas of greatness, and

Virginia Meade Fox, Chairman Leslie S. Hudson, Immediate Past Chairman Frank D. Hill, Chairman-Elect Elby J. Beal, Vice-Chairman Duke R. Ligon, Vice-Chairman Judy M. Love, Vice-Chairman Peter B. Delaney, Treasurer John R. Bozalis, M.D., Secretary Katy Boren James C. Meade William M. Cameron Frank W. Merrick Teresa L. Cooper Charles E. Nelson Marion DeVore Maurice C. Nickell, D.D.S. Theodore M. Elam Morris Permenter Shirley Ford John P. Porter Preston G. Gaddis II Christopher P. Reen David T. Greenwell Marianne Rooney Kirk Hammons Robert J. Ross Suzette Hatfield Ira H. Schlezinger K. Blake Hoenig Amalia Miranda Silverstein, M.D. Joe M. Howell, D.V.M. Jeanne Hoffman Smith The Honorable Willa D. Johnson Denise Semands Suttles Penny M. McCaleb Jordan Tang, Ph.D. Katie McClendon Lyndon C. Taylor Frank McPherson Wanda Otey Westheimer

Donald W. Reynolds Visual Arts Center 415 Couch Drive Oklahoma City, OK 73102 (405) 236-3100 Fax: (405) 236-3122 www.okcmoa.com E-mail info@okcmoa.com Readers’ comments are welcome.

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imbued with an indomitable spirit. Thank you Oklahoma City.

Carolyn Hill Executive Director

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Inside Exhibitions................................................................ Pages 3-5 The Collection.......................................................... Pages 6-7 Calendar..................................................................... Pages 8-9 Film......................................................................... Pages 10-11 Education............................................................. Pages 12-13 News...................................................................... Pages 14-15

Mission statement The Oklahoma City Museum of Art enriches lives through the visual arts.

PARIS

1900 Jules Chéret (French, 1836-1932). Jardin de Paris, ca.

1895. Color lithograph, 48 x 34 1/8 in. (121.92 x 86.68 cm). Lent by The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Gift of Bruce B. Dayton

I paint things as they are. I don’t comment. I record.

-Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Jean Béraud (French, 1849-1935). Paris Street Scene, ca. 1910. Oil on canvas, 9 ½ x 15 in. (24.13 x 38.1 cm). Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut. Bequest of Genevieve Harlow Goodwin

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aris 1900 brings together more than 100 paintings, prints, posters, ceramics, decorative objects, and sculptures to reveal the height of the Paris art scene at the turn of the twentieth century. Think Montmartre, Moulin Rouge, the cancan, and the exotic nightlife of the cabaret. Experience the advent of a consumer culture enticed by advertisements for cigarettes and perfumes by artists such as Toulouse-Lautrec. It was a time of innovations and forward thinking that helped spark the technological advances we have today and expanded the scope of high art, and it all culminated in 1900 Paris.

“The 1900 Paris Universal Exposition, which celebrated the opening of the new century, emphasized the arts and is associated with the maturation of the complex and sensual beauty of the convoluted style of art, architecture, and interior design known as art nouveau,” said Hardy George, chief curator. “The exhibition will show the very interesting variety and extraordinary quality of the wide range of art forms associated with fin de siècle Paris.”

Paris 1900 explores important aspects of the art nouveau movement, while delving into other artistic and technological innovations that caused Paris to emerge as the center of artistic creativity. The exhibition also parallels how advancements in the arts produced such a culturally rich period in history. It includes key artists and leading poster makers, such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Alphonse Mucha, and Jules Chéret, whose works drew attention to everything from performances at the Moulin Rouge to new commercial products.

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Agnes de Frumerie for Lachenal (Swedish, 1869-1937). Nymph and Lily Vase, 1897. Earthenware, 14 x 8 x 4 ½ in. (35.6 x 20.32 x 11.43 cm). Jason Jacques Inc.

Charles Guilloux (French, 1866-1946). L’Allée d’eau [The Waterway], 1895. Oil on board, 17 11/16 x 23 7/16 in. (45 x 59.5 cm). Russell Collection, Amsterdam

Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860-1939). Sarah Bernhardt, La Plume, 1897. Colored lithograph, 23 x 16 in. (58.42 x 40.64 cm).

Courtesy J. Raj K. Dhawan through Galerie Michael, Beverly Hills, California

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The exhibition introduces this period with large photographs of interiors designed by artists under the guidance of art dealer Siegfried Bing. Bing’s Maison de l’Art Nouveau, which was presented in the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition, featured rooms designed by leading artists and designers of the period, such as Edward Colonna, Georges de Feure, and Eugene Gaillard.

Bing encouraged artists to work together in creating unified and organic interiors and was prominent in the introduction of Japanese art to the West.

To show the direct influence of Japanese art, four color, woodblock prints by Japanese artist Andō Hiroshige as well as Bing’s Japon Artistique with turn-of-the-century interpretations of the prints are included in Paris 1900. The Japanese prints illustrate the very different use of perspective, expressive color, and line that had been used by artists since the Renaissance. The incorporation of this style into European art can be seen in many of the ceramics, paintings, and posters by artists working in Paris around 1900.

Paris 1900 features fine examples of art pottery by French master potters such as Adrien Pierre Dalpayrat, Paul Jeanneney, Edmond Lachenal, and Ernest Chaplet. Their skillful and inventive designs, many of which were presented in the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition, helped further the international renaissance of the applied arts. The exhibition includes works by Lachenal that reveal the number of different historical styles that were being used. Nymph and Lily Vase by Agnes de Frumerie for Lachenal is one of the more interesting examples of how sculpture and ceramics were combined in art pottery.

Several paintings by Charles Guilloux highlight the influences of early-nineteenthcentury Japanese art. Guilloux’s L’ Allée d’eau, a dreamy landscape composed of rows of trees and water, brings to mind the simplified design, soft tones, and atmospheric effects of Andō Hiroshige’s prints, which can be seen in a previous section of the exhibition.

Other key painters include Charles Maurin, Maurice Denis, and Alphonse Osbert, whose subjects and styles are quite varied, ranging from Maurin’s sphinx-like femme fatale to the

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angelic mortals in Denis’s mural paintings and the classical figures of Osbert. The subject of dreams and dream-like states permeates many paintings from the late nineteenth

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1964-1901). Moulin Rouge, La 114.3 cm). Courtesy Mr. & Mrs. Clay Timon through Galerie Michae

century. It was an interest that also can be found in the early psychological studies of hypnosis and the related investigation of the unconscious by Dr. Jean Martin Charcot, of

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whom Sigmund Freud was a pupil.

Paris 1900 concludes with key works by some of the most important poster and magazine cover designers of the period.

a unique way that redefined commercial art. The graphic works by these artists also made the connection between Japanese and eighteenth-century French art. One such work is Jules Chéret’s Jardin de Paris. This work features costumed figures inspired by the Parisian theater of the eighteenth century, along with decorative lines and flat fields of bright color reminiscent of Japanese prints.

Other pioneering graphic artists included are Georges de Feure, Alphonse Mucha, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

The exhibition is organized by the Museum and cocurated by Hardy S. George, museum chief curator, and Gabriel P. Weisberg, professor of art history at the University of Minnesota.

Accompanying the exhibition is a 176page, four color catalogue with essays

by Hardy S. George, Gabriel P. Weisberg, Elizabeth Fowler, and Sarah Sik.

Jules Chéret (French, 1836-1932). Jardin de Paris, ca. 1895.

Color lithograph, 48 x 34 1/8 in. (121.92 x 86.68 cm). Lent by The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Gift of Bruce B. Dayton

CATALOGUE EXCERPT From Introduction and Acknowledgments

By Carolyn Hill Paris in 1900 was a snapshot of international rivalry. Envious of such successes as the

Henri Rivière (French, 1864-1951). L’Isle des cygnes, 1900. Color lithograph, 33 ¼ x 20 11/16 in. (82 x 52.5 cm). Russell Collection, Amsterdam

World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago 1893, and concerned that its reputation as the international art capital was declining, Paris mounted a fierce initiative, the Exposition Universelle (1900). In a mammoth effort that encompassed history and future equally, 210 pavilions occupying about a fourth of Paris set out to celebrate the nineteenth-century values of imperialism and eclecticism while staking claim in leadership toward the future of modernism. Although the aims of the event were to showcase the city’s supremacy in education and instruction, fine and decorative arts, technology, labor, State welfare, and

a Goulue, 1891. Color lithograph, linen backed, 74 x 45 in. (187.96 x el, Beverly Hills, California

hygiene, the emphasis on the 1889 Exposition, which centered on machinery, had shifted,

These artists depicted everything from theater, circus, and cabaret performances to advertisements for soap, cigarettes, and publications, approaching their subjects in

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giving far more attention to the arts. Art nouveau, at its height at the time, was a Eduard Stellmacher (German, 1868-?). Amphora Eastern Dragon Vase, 1899. Earthenware, 17 x 13 in. (43.2 x 33 cm).

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significant movement.

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FROM THE CHIEF CURATOR Modern Art in the Oklahoma City Museum of Art Colle

W The Tilghman Print Collection Through May 4, 2008 Second Floor

e have been fortunate to receive many fine works of art over the years representing various aspects of major developments that took place in the twentieth century. On the whole, this collection can be placed in three major categories. One is made up of second generation abstract expressionists such as Grace Hartigan and Sam Francis. Secondly, there is the closely related and more all encompassing post-painterly abstractionists, which includes artists associated with later forms of lush but non-tactile paintings by artists such as Sam Gilliam, as well as minimalists such as Ellsworth Kelly, Gene Davis, and Robert Indiana. A third very distinct group is made up of optical and kinetic artists: Alexander Calder, Victor Vasarely, Richard Anuszkiewicz, and Raphael Soto. The reinstallation of three galleries of modern art on the third floor offers the opportunity to integrate these works and indicates how, in various ways, these seemingly separate and autonomous groups, associated with seemingly distinct schools, movements, and ideas, are actually related.

Optical and Kinetic Art Mark Klett: Oklahoma City Panorama Through February 10, 2008 Second Floor

Shining Spirit: Westheimer Family Collection Through January 20, 2008 Third Floor

Dale Chihuly: The Exhibition Permanent Installation Third Floor

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For example, in the 1920s Naum Gabo and Alexander Calder produced important early works associated with developments that led to the kinetic art movement. At the same time, a great deal of abstract art of the twentieth century celebrates change, dynamic movement, the temporal and existential. The futurists, abstract expressionists, and kinetic artists describe in various ways dynamic movement and the transitory nature of life

experiences.

In the 1909 Futurist Manifesto, Marinetti declared: “A roaring motor-car that looks as though running on shrapnel is more beautiful than the victory of Samothrace.” One of the earliest examples of kinetic art has been associated with Naum Gabo’s Kinetic Construction Vibrating Spring of 1920. Gabo spread the dynamic machine age theories of Russian Constructivism to the places associated with his various residences in Germany, France, England, and the United States. Alexander Calder completed a degree with honors in mechanical engineering, before going on to study at the Grande Chaumière in Paris.

In Paris in 1929, he built his first kinetic work, a Circus consisting of miniature performers which would move with the help of strings. Next, Calder made a moving piece of sculpture that would create various patterns as it changed position in space. This new form of hanging

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sculpture was made of flat thin pieces of polychrome metal balanced on sections of wire. It was appropriately christened “mobile” by Marcel Duchamp. Calder first planned to have these works move with the help of electric motors. Then in 1932, he decided to introduce a chance element by having these works move by the unpredictable forces of wind. Calder went beyond the scintillating effects of Naum Gabo’s Kinetic Construction: Vibrating Spring by activating his carefully balanced mobiles by natural air currents that caused his work to take on different forms in space.

The more recent kinetic sculpture of Raphael Soto (Vibration) exhibits a sense of motion that is created optically by the movement of the spectator. After leaving Yale and the Bauhaus instruction of Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz felt he could further develop his teacher’s ideas concerning optical color. Anuszkiewicz gave up figuration and by 1965 became one of the important innovators of eye dazzling Op Art (Radiant Red, 1966). An excellent Barbara Hepworth (Britis Maquette for Divided Circ example of kinetic sculpture is the Museum’s Bronze, 15 3/4 x 15 1/2 x Calder, Caracas, 1955, purchased in 1979 with funds 39.37 x 10.16 cm). Gift o R.A. Young, 2003.074 provided by the Beaux Arts Committee.

Minimalist Painting and Sculpture The minimalist painting and sculpture in the collection has its origins in Russian constructivism, filtered through the clean lines and industrial aesthetics of the Bauhaus and De Stijl. in. .

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72 th 19 m Kenneth Snelson, like e, n fro u l o i n B at Buckminster Fuller, was ee nd Gr ou 71 Art F 1 interested in making use o. hild N 6). irc of physics and engineering in 99 Fa 6-1 stin 90 Au 1 establishing a new sense of aesthetics. , the n a ric t of This type of design can be seen in the me if (A ). G 7 ith 6 cm .01 m brightly painted steel sculpture by John 7 5 S 8 .

9 2 lk 6 1 Po x 1 n, Henry, who studied at the Bauhaus-related on 6 rre Le 62.5 Wa (1 illip Illinois Institute of Technology. Henry’s open and all Ph encompassing metal structures are engaged with the surrounding space rather than being defined with mass.

Other minimalists works in the collection come from the legacy of Piet Mondrian’s neo-plasticism. The aesthetic basis for this form of geometrical abstraction was defined in the Dutch periodical De Stijl. The work of art had to exclude all representational relations to the natural world in order to attain a purer form of spiritual expression. The minimal abstractions of Ilya Bolotowsky (Perpendiculars and Diagonals, 1945) and Leon Polk

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sh, 1903-1975). cle, 1969. x 4 in. (40.005 x of Mr. and Mrs.

Smith (No. 171 Green Blue, 1972) are associated with the Mondrian legacy. Like the Russian-American Bolotowsky, Smith was influenced by the pure geometry of straight lines, rectangles, and primary colors of Mondrian’s abstractions.

Post Painterly Abstraction In the works of the Washington Color Painters– Gene Davis (Autumn Largo, 1963), Thomas Downing (Blue Electric, 1962), and Paul Reed (Number 17, 1964)–there is a form of minimalism that comes straight from the post-painterly abstractions of Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman. Their large-scale, flat fields of color were distilled from the essence of life and were intended to have “a presence of transcendence.”

These aesthetic values were shared by the Washington color school minimalists.

While minimal art contains a sense of timelessness and stability associated with the classical tradition, it can also open the door to an oceanic sense of the vastness of time and space. The contemplation of time, space, and infinity is another way of questioning mortality.

The geometric, immobile, and more stringent forms of exclusionary minimalist works, in which the artist sought to completely depersonalize the object, seems to be an attempt to deny the true nature of the human condition.

Rufino Tamayo (Mexican, 1899-1991). El pintor [The Painter], 1960. Oil on canvas, 39 x 51 in. (99.06 x 129.54 cm). Gift of Mr. and Mrs. R.A. Young, 2002.003

post-World War II second generation abstract painters such as Morris Louis, Grace Hartigan, and Sam Francis, post-painterly abstractionists like Gene Davis, and even Rufino Tamayo and the indomitable Frank Stella. All are represented in the Oklahoma City Museum of Art’s collection. This tradition proved to be one of the most important, original, and enduring forms of twentieth-century American art.

Abstract Organic Forms With the arrival of World War II, Barbara Hepworth began to work with more organic forms in her sculpture. Unlike Henry Moore, she was never a representational artist. Nevertheless, she was something of a romantic and her abstract forms were drawn from nature. She spoke of sculpting as a “biological necessity” and felt that it was an “extension of the telluric forces which mould the landscape.” Her Maquette for Divided Circle (1969) shows the continuation of this trend in her later work. Henry Moore worked out the designs for his sculpture with drawings of the human figure, bones, shells, and small rocks worn smooth by running water. As a war artist he portrayed people sleeping, row upon row, on the platforms of the London underground during night bombings of the Blitz. His initial interest in the human figure and his deep feeling for the tragic and heroic aspects of life is not lost in his later more abstract works (Sculptural Object, 1960).

Late Forms of Abstract Expressionism Jackson Pollock’s use of surrealist theories of automatism aided him in carrying out, with dance-like movements, his unusual method of dripping and splashing paint onto a canvas spread out on the floor of his studio. In doing so, he established the accidental yet controlled manner associated with the beginnings of expressionism. His style and working method influenced a number of the younger

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Alexander Calder (American, 1898-1976). Caracas, 1955. Painted steel, 52 x 48 x 58 in. (132.08 x 147.32 x 121.92 cm). Purchase from the Beaux Arts Society Fund for Acquisitions, 1979.007

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JANUARY 2008 TUESDAY

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Museum Cafe is open 11am-3pm.

THURSDAYs open until 9pm!

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HAPPY NEW YEAR! The Oklahoma City Museum of Art will be closed for the holiday!

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The Museum is closed on Mondays.

FRIDAY

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FILM: Margot at the Wedding, 7:30pm

SATURDAY

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FILM: Margot at the Wedding, 5:30pm & 8pm

SUNDAY

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FILM: Margot at the Wedding, 2pm

DROP-IN ART: Bird Mobiles, 1-4pm

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FILM EVENT: FREE SNEAK PREVIEW! The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, 7:30pm

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SCHOOL: Paris 1900 Teacher Workshop, 5-8pm

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FILM: Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten, 5:30am & 8pm

SCHOOL: The Art of Yoga, 6-7pm

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SCHOOL: Critter Prints, 10-11am SCHOOL: Snowy Scenes, 10am-noon DROP-IN ART: Mini Weavings, 1-4pm

FILM: Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten, 7:30pm

FILM: Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten, 5:30pm

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SCHOOL: Watermedia for the Serious Beginner, 1-4pm SCHOOL: Clay Handbuilding, 2-4pm FILM EVENT: Aida, opera from La Scala, 2pm

FILM EVENT: Bruce Springsteen: Live in Barcelona, 8pm

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SCHOOL: Watercolor Wonders, 4-5pm

SCHOOL: Handbuilding Decorative Vases, 6-8pm

SCHOOL: Glassblowing Intensive, 6-9pm

SCHOOL: The Art of Yoga, 6-7pm

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FILM: ‘Tis Autumn: The Search of Jackie Paris, 5:30pm & 8pm EVENT: Oklahoma Portfolio Day, 10am-noon & 1-3pm

FILM: ‘Tis Autumn: The Search of Jackie Paris, 7:30pm

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SCHOOL: Glassblowing Intensive, 6-9pm

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SCHOOL: Handbuilding Decorative Vases, 6-8pm SCHOOL: The Art of Yoga, 6-7pm FILM: Control, 7:30pm

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SCHOOL: Home School Elements Class, 1-2:30pm FILM: Control, 5:30pm & 8:30pm

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SCHOOL: Digital Photography for Absolute Beginners, 1-4pm

DROP-IN ART: Make a Hat!, 1-4pm

SCHOOL: Basic Design and Color Theory, 2-4pm

FILM: Note by Note, 5:30pm & 8pm

FILM: Note by Note, 2pm

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SPECIAL EVENT: Paris 1900 SUPER SATURDAY FAMILY DAY, noon4pm

FILM: Control, 5:30pm & 8pm

SCHOOL: Splatter Silhouettes, 4-5pm

30 SCHOOL: Glassblowing Level 1, 6-9pm

31 SCHOOL: Handbuilding Decorative Vases, 6-8pm SCHOOL: The Art of Yoga, 6-7pm FILM: Oscar® Tune-up

SCHOOL: Drawing with Pen and Ink, 1-4pm

SCHOOL: Things That Are Cold, 10-10:45am

SCHOOL: Glassblowing Intensive, 10am-4pm

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Enriching Lives Through the Visual Arts!

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAYs open until 9pm!

FEBRUARY 2008 FRIDAY

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BIG SHAPE, LITTLE SHAPE, 9/15 BOTERO’S BIRDS, 9/15 CLAY SCULPTURE – THE SIMPLIFIED PORTRAIT, 9/16-10/14 STILL LIFE DRAWING, 9/16 DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY FOR ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS, 9/16 PLAY-DOH CREATIONS (W. PARENT) 9/18 FALL FAMILYGlassblowing TREES (W/ PARSCHOOL: ENT) 9/22 Level 1, 6-9pm POLAROID IMAGE & EMULSION TRANSFERS, 9/22 CREATIVE USE OF YOUR DIGITAL CAMERA, 9/23 STILL LIFE PAINTING, 9/23 CHIHULY BOWLS (W/ PARENT) 9/25 STILL LIFE PAINTING , 9/30

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October PORTRAITS OF THE MASTERS, 10/4-11/1 IN- TERMEDIATE GLASSBLOWING, SCHOOL: Paper Quill SCHOOL: Glassblowing 10/13-11/10 Valentines, 4-5pm Level 1, DRAWING, 6-9pm STILL LIFE 10/13

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SCHOOL: Singing Puppets, 1010:45am

FILM: Oscar® Tune-up

SCHOOL: Art Nouveau Scratchboard, 10am-noon DROP-IN ART: Groundhog Puppets, 1-4pm MUSEUM EVENT: The 24th Annual Omelette Party MOULEGG ROUGE Bricktown Events Center, 7pm-Midnight

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SCHOOL: Chinese New Year Placemats, 4-5pm

SCHOOL: Home School Elements Class, 1-2:30pm

SCHOOL: Handbuilding Decorative Vases, 6-8pm

FILM: Oscar® Tune-up

9 SCHOOL: Toulouse-Lautrec Posters, 10-11am SCHOOL: Art Nouveau Ceramic Bas Relief Tiles, 10am-noon DROP-IN ART: Valentine’s Day Gift Boxes, 1-4pm

SCHOOL: The Art of Yoga, 6-7pm

FILM: Oscar® Tune-up

FILM: Oscar® Tune-up

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SCHOOL: Pop-Up Cards with a Heart, 1-4pm SCHOOL: Vivid Watercolor, 2-4pm FILM: Oscar® Tune-up

10 SCHOOL: Art Nouveau Floral Watercolors, 1-4pm SCHOOL: Digital Photo Editing II, 1-4pm SCHOOL: Pop-Up Valentines, 2-4pm

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EVENT: Allied HeARTS lunch in the Museum Cafe, 11:30am-2pm

SCHOOL: Home School Elements Class, 1-2:30pm

SCHOOL: Colors, Colors, Everywhere!, 10-10:45am

SCHOOL: Intro to Drawing & Painting, 1-4pm

SCHOOL: Valentine’s Day Dollies, 4-5pm

FILM: Oscar® Tune-up

SCHOOL: Transferring Art Nouveau Imagery Onto Fabric, 10am-4pm

SCHOOL: Video Production, 1-4pm

SCHOOL: Glassblowing Intensive, 10am-4pm DROP-IN ART: Presidential Portraits, 1-4pm

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SCHOOL: The Art of Tai Chi, 6-7pm

SCHOOL: Home School Elements Class, 1-2:30pm

SCHOOL: Thursday Night Drawing, 6-8pm

FILM: Oscar® Tune-up

FILM: Oscar® Tune-up

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SCHOOL: Home School Elements Class, 1-2:30pm

SCHOOL: Thursday Night Drawing, 6-8pm

FILM: Oscar® Tune-up

FILM: Oscar® Tune-up

SCHOOL: Fun Glazing Techniques, 2-4pm FILM: Oscar® Tune-up

FILM: Oscar® Tune-up

23 SCHOOL: Big Shape, Little Shape, 10-10:45am

24 SCHOOL: Intro to Drawing & Painting, 1-4pm

SCHOOL: Art Nouveau Watercolor Resist Painting, 10am-noon

SCHOOL: Video Production, 1-4pm

SCHOOL: Glassblowing Intensive, 10am-4pm

SCHOOL: Drawing 101, 2-4pm

DROP-IN ART: Chinese New Year Dragon Sculptures, 1-4pm

FILM: Oscar® Tune-up

FILM: Oscar® Tune-up

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SCHOOL: Digital Photo Editing I, 1-4pm

EXHIBIT: Mark Klett, closes

SCHOOL: Glassblowing Level 1, 6-9pm

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LECTURE: “ToulouseLautrec and Montmartre” lecture by Gloria Groom, curator of European Painting, The Art Institute of Chicago, 6pm

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FILM: Oscar® Tune-up

SCHOOL: The Art of Yoga, 6-7pm

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EVENT: Valentine’s Dinner in the Museum Cafe, 5-10pm

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SATURDAY

Thursday, January 3, 7:30pm Fri. – Sat., January 4 – 5, 5:30pm & 8pm Sunday, January 6, 2pm

REEL MUSIC

Margot at the Wedding

In this bitingly funny and painfully honest dissection of family life, Margot (Nicole Kidman) and her adolescent son Claude take a train from New York City to Long Island, where Margot’s sister Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is about to get married to Malcolm (Jack Black).

Even though Margot is a successful writer with a compassionate husband (John Turturro), she takes out her frustrations on anyone and everyone, threatening not only to put a damper on the wedding, but to ruin it completely. Director: Noah Baumbach 2007 USA 93min. R 35mm

FREE SNEAK PREVIEW! Wednesday, January 9, 7:30pm

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is the remarkable true story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, a successful and charismatic editor-in-chief of French Elle, who believes he is living his life to its absolute fullest when a sudden stroke leaves him in a life-altered state. While the physical challenges of Bauby’s fate leave him with little hope for the future, he begins to discover how his life’s passions, his rich memories and his newfound imagination can help him achieve a life without boundaries. Director: Julian Schnabel 2007 France/USA 112min. PG-13 35mm FREE advance tickets (limit 4 per person) available starting Wednesday, January 2, 2008. Call 405278-8237, Tuesday through Saturday, 10am to 5pm.

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A musical blend of punk, rock, opera, jazz, and classical performance films, biopics and documentaries, best seen (and heard) on the big screen through the end of January.

Thursday, January 10, 7:30pm; Friday, January 11, 5:30pm & 8pm Saturday, January 12, 5:30pm

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten

As the front man of the Clash from 1977 onwards, Joe Strummer changed people’s lives forever. Four years after his death, his influence reaches out around the world, more strongly now than ever before.

In The Future Is Unwritten, from British film director Julien Temple, Joe Strummer is revealed not just as a legend or musician, but as a true communicator of our times.

Drawing on both a shared punk history and the close personal friendship which developed over the last years of Joe’s life, Julien Temple’s film is a celebration of Joe Strummer - before, during and after the Clash. Director: Julien Temple 2007 Ireland/GB 124min. NR HDdigital Saturday, January 12, 8pm

Bruce Springsteen: Live in Barcelona

Throughout the 1970s and 80s Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band barnstormed America, rocking audiences all across the country. Many venues were, in fact, classic theaters from the Golden Age of vaudeville and “picture shows.”

Bruce’s fondness for these iconic movie palaces has led to his commitment to support community based theaters. Live In Barcelona captures Springsteen and the E Street Band at the peak of their form performing a dream set-list of new songs, classic hits, audience favorites, and seldom-heard rarities. Join us for this special 2002 concert performance recorded live in HD in Barcelona, Spain benefiting the Museum’s film program at the Noble Theater. 140min.

SPECIAL PRICE: $10 per person, no discounts apply.

Advance tickets go on sale Wednesday, January 2, 2008.

Call 405-278-8237, Tuesday through Saturday, 10am to 5pm.

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Sunday, January 13, 2pm

Aida

Emerging Pictures, in an exclusive American collaboration with RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana), will bring operas recorded live in HDTV format from La Scala and two other prestigious Italian opera houses to the Noble Theater in 2008. The season begins with Aida, which Giuseppe Verdi himself premiered at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala in 1872. 135 years later Aida is directed by cinema and opera auteur Franco Zeffirelli. His production opened the 2006-07 season at La Scala receiving a 12 minute ovation. The opera tells the story of Aida, an Ethiopian princess, who is captured and brought into slavery in Egypt. A military commander, Radames, struggles to choose between his love for her and his loyalty to the Pharaoh.

Director: Franco Zeffirelli 2007 157min. with an intermission SPECIAL PRICE: $20 Adults/ $18 Members, Students, Seniors. Advance tickets go on sale Wednesday, January 2, 2008. Call 405-278-8237, Tuesday through Saturday, 10am to 5pm.

Thursday, January 17, 7:30pm Friday, January 18, 5:30pm & 8pm

‘Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris

Oscar nominated filmmaker Raymond De Felitta examines the groundbreaking jazz vocalist, Jackie Paris’, life and art, his meteoric rise, and enigmatic career, asking the question: how much do we need to know of an artists’ life to appreciate their art? Using both new and archival performance footage, still photography, audio clips, unreleased recordings, and interviews with the musicians, songwriters and personalities that worked with him over the years, the film explores the legendary New York nightspots of 52nd street. Director: Raymond De Felitta 2007 USA 100min. NR 35mm

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Saturday, January 19, 5:30pm & 8pm Sunday, January 20, 2pm

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Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037

Follow the creation of a Steinway concert grand, #L1037 from forest floor to concert hall. The film explores the relationship between musician and instrument, chronicles the manufacturing process, and illustrates what makes each Steinway unique in this age of mass production. From the factory floor in Queens to Steinway Hall in Manhattan, each piano’s journey is complex, spanning 12 months, 12,000 parts, 450 craftsmen, and countless hours of fine-tuned labor. It reminds us how extraordinary the dialogue can be between an artist and instrument, crafted out of human hands but born of the materials of nature. Director: Ben Niles 2007 USA 81min. NR HDdigital

Thursday, January 24, 7:30pm Fri. – Sat., January 25 – 26, 5:30pm & 8pm Sunday, January 27, 2pm

Control

Ian Curtis has aspirations beyond the trappings of small town life in 1970s England. Wanting to emulate his musical heroes, such as David Bowie and Iggy Pop, he joins a band, and his musical ambition begins to thrive. Soon though, the everyday fears and emotions that fuel his music slowly begin to eat away at him. Married young, with a daughter, he is distracted from his family commitments by a new love and the growing expectations of his band, Joy Division.

Director: Anton Corbijn 2007 GB/USA 121min. R 35mm AFTER PARTY: Saturday night after party at Electro Lounge, 5929 N May, call 843-8777 for more information.

Exhibitions

February is time for our sixth annual “tune-up” for the biggest night in the movie business. The 80th Academy Awards® will be handed out on Sunday, February 24, 2008 with Jon Stewart set to host. The Museum’s Noble Theater will again present many of the year’s acclaimed titles in the acting, screenwriting, foreign language, documentary and short film categories. Tune-up titles will be announced shortly after the nominations are announced early on Tuesday, January 22.

THE GUESSING GAME

by Brian Hearn, film curator

This year’s race has been a curious one with no clear front runner for Best Picture at the time of publication. In other words, the race is wide open and it’s anyone’s guess who will take home the little golden guy. Based on what I’ve seen I’ve got some good hunches in several categories. The Best Picture category has some interesting contenders. The Coen Brothers, who have flirted with Oscar® before with films like Fargo and O Brother, Where Art Thou?, have their best chance to win with No Country for Old Men which has been both a critical and commercial success. It will likely earn them nods for Best Director, and Adapted Screenplay (from the Cormac McCarthy novel), as well as acting nominations for Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem. The other strong contender looks to be Atonement starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy, based on the best selling novel. This classic British romance appears to have that winning mix of sweeping historic drama, solid acting and top notch production values.

A couple of acting performances really stand out to me this year. Julie Christie’s heart wrenching performance as an Alzheimer’s patient in Away From Her was the first great film I saw in 2007. The only lead actress that might come close is Marion Cotillard’s extraordinary transformation into French chanteuse Edith Piaf. While La Vie en Rose received mixed reviews, her physical embodiment of the character was truly amazing. On the Best Actor side, Daniel Day Lewis delivers an equally powerful portrayal of a hard-boiled California oil man in the 1920s in There Will Be Blood directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. There are few actors who can disappear so thoroughly into their character.

George Clooney and Johnny Depp will be no match in my book.

Some other intriguing films that will be in the Oscar® mix are artist/director Julian Schnabel’s deeply moving The Diving Bell and the Butterfly based on a true story, as is Sean Penn’s wilderness drama Into the Wild, Tim Burton’s musical adaptation of Sweeney Todd, the snappy comedy Juno, and the intelligent corporate thriller Michael Clayton.

The Academy may as well hand over the Best Animation statue to the global blockbuster Ratatouille, because the race is already won. The Best Documentary has some eclectic subjects as usual but I’m counting on Michael Moore’s Sicko to lead the pack, with Lake of Fire and No End in Sight likely to make the final five. The Foreign Language category is notoriously hard to predict, but French animation Persepolis, Nazi drama The Counterfeiters from Austria, and Cannes winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days from Romania may find their names called later this month.

But as William Goldman famously wrote in Adventures in the Screen Trade, “Nobody knows anything.”

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Museum School ADULT CLASSES

Open to ages 14-adult PARIS 1900 TEACHER WORKSHOP Thurs., Jan. 10, 5-8 pm $10 Registration Fee (materials and boxed meal provided) THE ART OF YOGA Thurs., Jan. 10-Feb. 14, 6-7 pm (6 classes) $60 members/ $90 nonmembers (PACER members, $60) GLASSBLOWING ONE-DAY INTENSIVE Sat., Jan. 12, 10 am-4 pm $78 members/ $96 nonmembers (materials provided) WATERMEDIA FOR THE SERIOUS BEGINNER Sun., Jan. 13, 1-4 pm $20 members/ $25 nonmembers (materials provided) GLASSBLOWING TWO-DAY INTENSIVE Tues., Jan. 15 and 22, 6-9 pm $78 members/ $96 nonmembers (materials provided) HANDBUILDING DECORATIVE VASES Thurs., Jan. 17-Feb. 7, 6-8 pm (4 classes) $55 members/$65 nonmembers (materials provided) DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY FOR ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS Sun., Jan. 20, 1-4 pm $20 members/ $25 nonmembers DRAWING WITH PEN AND INK Sun., Jan. 20, 1-4 pm $20 members/ $25 nonmembers (materials provided) GLASSBLOWING ONE-DAY INTENSIVE Sat., Jan. 26, 10 am-4 pm $78 members/ $96 nonmembers (materials provided) CREATIVE USE OF YOUR DIGITAL CAMERA Sun., Jan. 27, 1-4 pm $20 members/ $25 nonmembers

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DRAWING WITH COLORED PENCILS Sun., Jan. 27, 1-4 pm $20 members/ $25 nonmembers (materials provided)

GLASSBLOWING ONE-DAY INTENSIVE Sat., Feb. 23, 10 am-4 pm $78 members/ $96 nonmembers (materials provided)

CHILDREN’S CLASSES

GLASSBLOWING – LEVEL 1 Wed., Jan. 30-March 5, 6-9 pm (6 classes) $244 members/ $298 nonmembers (materials provided)

CHILDREN’S CLASSES

SNOWY SCENES Sat., Jan. 12, 10 am-noon

POP-UP CARDS WITH A HEART Sun., Feb. 3, 1-4 pm $20 members/ $25 nonmembers (materials provided) DIGITAL PHOTO EDITING I Sun., Feb. 3, 1-4 pm $20 members/ $25 nonmembers DIGITAL PHOTO EDITING II Sun., Feb. 10, 1-4 pm $20 members/ $25 nonmembers ART NOUVEAU FLORAL WATERCOLORS Sun., Feb. 10, 1-4 pm $20 members/ $25 nonmembers (materials provided) GLASSBLOWING ONE-DAY INTENSIVE Sat., Feb. 16, 10 am-4 pm $78 members/ $96 nonmembers (materials provided) TRANSFERRING ART NOUVEAU IMAGERY ONTO FABRIC Sat., Feb. 16, 10 am-4 pm $40 members/ $50 nonmembers (materials provided) VIDEO PRODUCTION Sun., Feb. 17-March 16, 1-4 pm (4 classes; no class meeting March 2) $75 members/ $90 nonmembers INTRODUCTION TO DRAWING AND PAINTING Sun., Feb. 17-March 9, 1-4 pm (4 classes) $75 members/ $90 nonmembers (materials provided) THE ART OF TAI CHI YOGA Thurs., Feb. 21-March 27, 6-7 pm (6 classes) $60 members/ $90 nonmembers (PACER members, $60) THURSDAY NIGHT DRAWING Thurs., Feb. 21-March 13, 6-8 pm (4 classes) $50 members/ $60 nonmembers (limited supply list)

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Open to ages 15-36 months (with parent) $7 members/ $9 nonmembers (materials provided)

Open to ages 6-9 $10 members/ $15 nonmembers (materials provided)

BASKETWEAVING Sun., Jan. 27, 2-4 pm

THINGS THAT ARE COLD Sat., Jan. 19, 10-10:45 am

VIVID WATERCOLOR Sun., Feb. 3, 2-4 pm

THINGS THAT ARE COLD Sat., Jan. 19, 10-10:45 am

CHILDREN’S CLASSES

BIG SHAPE, LITTLE SHAPE Sat., Feb. 23, 10-10:45 am

CLAY HANDBUILDING Sun., Jan. 13, 2-4 pm

CHILDREN’S CLASSES

PRINTMAKING Sat., Jan. 19, 10 am-noon

Open to ages 7-10 $10 members/ $15 COLORS, COLORS, EVERYWHERE! nonmembers Sat., Feb. 16, 10-10:45 am (materials provided)

Open to ages 3-5 (with parent) $7.50 members/ $10 nonmembers (materials provided) CRITTER PRINTS Sat., Jan. 12, 10-11 am

POP-UP VALENTINES Sun., Feb. 10, 2-4 pm

WATERCOLOR WONDERS Tues., Jan. 15, 4-5 pm SPLATTER SILHOUETTES Tues., Jan. 29, 4-5 pm MARDI GRAS MASKS Tues., Feb. 5, 4-5 pm CHINESE NEW YEAR PLACEMATS Thurs., Feb. 7, 4-5 pm TOULOUSE-LAUTREC POSTERS Sat., Feb. 9, 10-11 am PAPER QUILL VALENTINES Tues., Feb. 12, 4-5 pm VALENTINE’S DAY DOILIES Thurs., Feb. 14, 4-5 pm

FOR HOMESCHOOLERS

Open to ages 5-12 $45 members/ $55 nonmembers (materials provided) HOME SCHOOL ELEMENTS CLASS Fri., Jan. 25-Feb. 29, 1-2:30 pm (6 classes)

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ELEGANT ART NOUVEAU SCRATCHBOARD Sat., Feb. 2, 10 am-noon

FUN GLAZING TECHNIQUES Sun., Feb. 17, 2-4 pm ART NOUVEAU WATERCOLOR RESIST PAINTING Sat., Feb. 23, 10 am-noon

CHILDREN’S CLASSES Open to ages 10-13 $10 members/ $15 nonmembers (materials provided)

BASIC DESIGN AND COLOR THEORY Sun., Jan. 20, 2-4 pm ART NOUVEAU CERAMIC BAS RELIEF TILES Saturday, February 9, 10 am-noon DRAWING 101 Sunday, February 24, 2-4 pm

For more details or to enroll, call (405) 236-3100, ext. 213, or visit www. okcmoa.com.

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Programs Friends Lecture

“Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre” Speaker: Dr. Gloria Groom Date: Wednesday, February 20 6:00 p.m. Reception in Lobby

Wine Courtesy of Dick and Jeannette Sias 6:45 p.m. Lecture in the Noble Theater Dr. Gloria Groom, a Tulsa native, is an engaging curator, author, and lecturer with The Art Institute of Chicago. Her 2005 exhibition Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre highlighted this popular and important painter at the height of his career in late-nineteenth-century Paris.

Join her as she places ToulouseLautrec and Montmartre in the context of society, politics, and vangarde in 1900 Paris. Her topic will look at the incredible de Toulouse-Lautrec, Marcelle Lender Dancing the Bolero energy and spirit of Montmartre Henri in “Chilpéric,” 1895–96. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., as a state of mind as well as an Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney. environment and add a new dimension to the understanding of Toulouse-Lautrec and his achievement as the artist, who like Warhol, elevated popular culture into fine art. The lecture is free to members at the Friends and Sustainer levels. Cost is $15 for general membership and $20 for nonmembers. Reservations are required.

Please call Jim Eastep at 278-8215 to reserve your seat.

Dallas Travel Tour to see J.M.W. Turner Wednesday, March 5 Reserve your spot on the Museum’s next day trip to see the Dallas Museum of Art’s exhibition J.M.W. Turner*. This will be the largest, most comprehensive retrospective ever presented in the United States of the career of J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851), one of the greatest landscape painters in the history of art. The exhibition features approximately 140 paintings and works on paper with a range of subjects, including seascapes, topographical views, historical events, mythology, modern life, and scenes from Turner’s own fertile imagination.

The Museumsponsored day trip includes travel by luxury motor coach to the Dallas Museum of Art, continental breakfast and return J. M. W. Turner, Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute, 1835, oil on canvas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1899 trip refreshments, (99.31) lunch, and accompaniment by Museum curatorial staff. The cost is $135 per person.

Contact Brenda Kelly at Journey House Travel to make reservations, or for further information, call 1-800-726-0051 or e-mail brendatravel@cox.net.

PARIS 1900 TEACHER WORKSHOP Thursday, January 10, 5-8 pm Educators from across the state are invited to join museum education curators for an in-depth study of the special exhibition, Paris 1900.

You’ll hear background information from guest speakers and participate in hands-on activities developed by art educators to take back to your classroom and share with students. Participants receive a full-color resource guide, complete with lesson plans aligned with PASS skills, and a staff development certificate.

Cost is $10 per person and includes a boxed meal.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864-1901). Aristide Bruant dans son cabaret, 1893. Color lithograph, lined backed, 52 x 37 in. (132.08 x 94 cm). Courtesy Mr. & Space is limited to 40, so Mrs. Clay Timon through Galerie Michael, Beverly Hills, California be sure to register early by calling Amy Young, education curator, at 405-278-8212 or 1-800-5799278, ext. 212.

PARIS 1900 SUPER SATURDAY FAMILY DAY Saturday, January 26, Noon-4 p.m.

Celebrate the culture of Paris in 1900 with a fun-filled afternoon of activities for the entire family! Make your own art nouveau-inspired artwork and enjoy face painting, gallery scavenger hunts, door prize drawings, story times presented by the Metropolitan Library System, and festive dance productions featuring danceXpress Oklahoma! For more details or a complete program schedule of activities, visit www. okcmoa.com or call 405-236-3100, ext. 231.

Hands-on family workshops for all ages Saturdays, 1-4 p.m.

Free with Museum admission, and members are always free!

No advance registration required.

January Guest Artist: Linda Busha January 5 – Bird Mobiles January 12 – Mini Weavings January 19 – Make a Hat! January 26 – Paris 1900 Super Saturday Family Day February Guest Artist: Debbie Langston February 2 – Groundhog Puppets February 9 – Valentine’s Day Gift Boxes February 16 – Presidential Portraits February 23 – Chinese New Year Dragon Sculptures

*J.M.W. Turner is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in association with Tate Britain, London.

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February is Allied Arts Month

Museum welcomes Jennifer Klos New assistant curator

February is Allied Arts month! One of the best way to support the arts in Oklahoma City is by purchasing the OKCityCard. It’s the most valuable discount and savings card EVER for year-round savings and year-round entertainment for OKC-area adventure. For a donation of just $50, you can Own The City with an OKCityCard. Check out OKCityCard.com or call Allied Arts at 278-8944.

Jennifer Klos is the Museum’s newly appointed assistant curator. She will provide key assistance with future special and permanent collection exhibitions and is currently researching the formation of special interest groups at national museums.

A 1999 graduate of Casady High School, Klos earned her B.A. in art history and French at Vanderbilt University and her M.A. from Bard Graduate Center in New York City, where she studied history of the decorative arts, design, and culture. She also studied abroad in Sweden and Finland on an intensive study of Scandinavian decorative arts, design, and architecture and interned at The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is a member of the Junior League of Oklahoma City.

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2007-08 Giving Levels

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Director Sterlin Harjo with cast and crew at the Oklahoma City premiere of Four Sheets to the Wind.

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The Museum’s 2007-2008 Annual Fund Campaign has raised $221,500 in gifts, grants, and pledges towards its goal of $240,000.

As of mid-December, the Museum had received 228 donations, including 115 from new donors. Additionally, 14 donors increased their gifts over past year’s giving. The opportunity to pledge or make your gift in support of the Annual Fund is available through June 30, 2008. All donations are tax-deductible, as allowable by law. Donations in any amount are deeply appreciated. To make your contribution, contact Ken Lindquist at 278-8286.

Photo by Christina Hicks

Children participate in The Baroque World of Fernando Botero Super Saturday family day in November. Families enjoyed making their own Colombian-style hats and having their faces painted like the characters in Botero’s paintings.

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Program Survey complete Thank You for Participating The Museum would like to thank the 344 participants of its program survey. The survey winners were Carole Harrington, Robin Nauman, and Kelly Fanning. Each will receive a $50 Museum Gift card.

Congratulations!

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Journal Record Gifts Museum School Scholarship Program

Contact Information

The Museum School Scholarship Program has experienced great success to date with the help of The Journal Record. For the second year in a row, The Journal Record has donated nearly $3,000 in proceeds from the silent auction of its Best Dressed event. “The Museum is grateful to have the continued support of The Journal Record for its Museum School Scholarship Program,” said Chandra Boyd, education curator. “This past summer, several children attended camp that may have not been able to otherwise. I would like to see the program expanded in 2008 to reduce barriers to enrollment for all classes, workshops, and camps, so that more families can take advantage of art education opportunities for their children,” Boyd continued.

Prior to receiving assistance, each child applicant was asked to write about why they wished to attend camp. The responses ranged from kids with a real love of and passion for art to students seeking to improve their skills as part of career-planning. One child wrote: “Art Summer camp students learned about composition and how to expresses my mind!” Boyd’s favorite entry, however, was from a little better use their digital cameras to get the most creative pictures possible. boy who said he liked art so much that he made little sculptures out of school supplies and even his lunch.

Applications are currently being accepted for 2008 spring break camps. For more information, visit the Museum School page at www.okcmoa.com, or if you would like to help expand this program, call (405) 236-3100, ext. 231.

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Film Admission Members, $5 Adults, $8 Seniors (62+), $6 College students (with ID), $6

Membership (405) 236-3100, ext. 215 or 200

24th Annual Omelette Party to stage bal au MoulEGG Rouge

Facility Rentals (405) 236-3100, ext. 207

Group Tours

February 2nd event to benefit the Oklahoma City Museum of Art Bal au MoulEGG Rouge will be held Saturday , February 2, 7 p.m. to midnight, at the Coca Cola Bricktown Events Center. The 24th Annual Omelette Party, chaired by Catherine Lawrence with cochair Robin Richardson, will feature omelettes prepared by chefs from local restaurants, an art raffle, and dancing to the music of Banana Seat.

The popular mid-winter fundraiser, an icon known for its zany themes and decorations, will benefit the Museum’s exhibitions program. “Who could resist the idea of MouLEGG Rouge during the Museum’s fantastic exhibit Paris 1900?” said Carolyn Hill, president and CEO. Participating chefs and restaurants include Adobe Grill, Bedre Chocolate, Bin73, Cheevers Café, Chef Chip Sears/Bellinis, Deep Fork Grill, Eli’s Custom Catering, Frank Newcomb, Ken Bradford, LeCep Bistro, The Melting Pot, Museum Cafe, Old Germany, Paseo Grill, Rococo Restaurant and Fine Wine,

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Faberge egg sponsors are Chesapeake Energy Corporation, Devon Energy Corp., MidFirst Bank, OGE, and SandRidge. Platinum sponsors are The Oklahoman, GlobalHealth, Leslie & Cliff Hudson, Interlink Dermatology Lab, Oklahoma Egg Council, T.A.W., Inc., and American Fidelity.

Golden egg sponsors are Dub and Betsy Brunsteter, Porter and Terri Davis, Virginia Meade Fox, Suzette & Kim Hatfield, and Frankfurt Short Bruza Associates.

Tickets are $65 in advance, $70 at the door. For more information call (405) 236-3100, ext. 237. Tickets will be available online soon!

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