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Founded in 1805, the <strong>Pennsylvania</strong> Academy of the<br />
Fine Arts (PAFA) is America’s first school and museum<br />
of fine arts. A recipient of the 2005 National Medal of<br />
Arts presented by the President of the United States,<br />
PAFA is a recognized national leader in fine arts education.<br />
Nearly every major American artist has taught,<br />
studied, or exhibited at the Academy. The institution’s<br />
world-class collection of American art continues to grow<br />
and provides what only a few other art institutions in<br />
the world offer: the rare combination of an outstanding<br />
museum and extraordinary faculty known <strong>for</strong> its commitment<br />
to students and <strong>for</strong> the stature and quality of its<br />
artistic work.<br />
President & Chief Executive Officer, David R. Brigham<br />
Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs, Jeffrey Carr<br />
Vice President of Admissions & Financial Aid, Stanislaus Greidus<br />
Dean of Student Affairs, Anne Stassen<br />
Senior Vice President of Finance and Operations, John J. Berg<br />
Senior Vice President of Development, Louisa Hanshew<br />
Senior Vice President of Marketing & Communications, Marsha Braverman<br />
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Board of Trustees<br />
Donald R. Caldwell, Chair<br />
Kevin F. Donohoe, Vice Chair and Treasurer<br />
Herbert S. Riband, Jr., Esq., Vice Chair & Secretary<br />
Thomas N. Pappas, Vice Chair and Assistant Secretary<br />
James C. Biddle, Vice Chair<br />
Mark L. Alderman, Esq.<br />
Roger H. Ballou<br />
Gerald P. Barth<br />
John B. Bartlett, Esq.<br />
Sally J. Bellet, Esq.<br />
Thomas L. Bennett, CFA<br />
Max N. Berry, Esq.*<br />
Lynn Nowicki Clarke*<br />
Jonathan L. Cohen*<br />
Robert A. Fisk<br />
John A. Fry*<br />
Anthony A. Imbargüen<br />
Michael T. Kennedy<br />
Mary Louise Krumrine, Ph.D.<br />
Ellen Berman Lee<br />
Marguerite <strong>Lenfest</strong><br />
Rev. Herbert H. Lusk, II<br />
Frances M. Maguire*<br />
Emeritus<br />
Robert L. Byers, Sr.<br />
Barbara L. Greenfield, Chair, Emeritus Trustees<br />
William A. Slaughter, Esq.<br />
Richard E. Woosnam<br />
Frank Martucci*<br />
Anne E. McCollum<br />
Francis P. Newell, Esq.<br />
Delphine Poussot<br />
Linda Richardson<br />
William L. Rulon-Miller<br />
Steven L. Sanders<br />
William H. Schorling, Esq.<br />
Alfred R. Shands, III*<br />
Carole Price Shanis<br />
Henry B. du P. Smith<br />
Martha McGeary Snider<br />
Julie D. Spahr<br />
Gerard H. Sweeney<br />
Barbara A. Sylk<br />
Steven Volla<br />
Debora C. Zug<br />
*National Trustee<br />
Ex officio<br />
Julia B. DeMoss, President of the Women’s Board<br />
James J. Lynes, President, Alumni Association<br />
Gary Steuer, Director, Office of Arts, Culture and Creative Economy<br />
Ahmeenah Young, President & CEO of the <strong>Pennsylvania</strong> Convention<br />
Center Authority<br />
Faculty Representative<br />
Al Gury<br />
Photo: Susan Beard Design<br />
Photo: Hinda Schuman<br />
Letter from the President<br />
I recently witnessed one of the most<br />
remarkable sights of my career as<br />
an arts professional: PAFA sculpture<br />
instructor Shane Stratton (see Faculty<br />
Spotlight, page 6) led his students in<br />
a bronze pour. This is the process by<br />
which delicate wax models become<br />
durable bronze sculptures. A group<br />
of six students wearing respirators,<br />
visors, and leather protective clothing,<br />
and using a mechanized gantry lifted a<br />
cauldron of molten bronze, heated to<br />
more than 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, and poured it into molds<br />
of their own making. It took only twenty minutes to accomplish<br />
the pour, but it reflected millennia of tradition, years of Stratton’s<br />
training being conveyed to a group of PAFA’s undergraduate<br />
students, and hundreds of hours of student preparation. In<br />
addition to the six students directly participating, another dozen<br />
were gathered nearby observing this carefully choreographed<br />
exercise. I was awed by the chance to observe our students<br />
learning valuable foundry skills that will expand the ways they<br />
can express themselves artistically and giving them technical<br />
abilities that can lead to professional art-foundry jobs.<br />
Later in the afternoon, I toured with a patron through the galleries<br />
of PAFA’s museum, including the Henry Luce Sculpture<br />
Study Center and the Tuttleman Sculpture Gallery that together<br />
<strong>for</strong>m a veritable survey of American sculpture. The works on<br />
view span from the 18th century to the 21st centuries, and<br />
include a number of bronzes by the likes of Thomas Eakins,<br />
Alexander Stirling Calder, and more contemporary bronzes by<br />
David Smith and Lee Bontecou. My appreciation <strong>for</strong> their work<br />
was deepened by the process I had seen that morning in our<br />
teaching foundry.<br />
At the end of my tour, I guided the patron to see the foundry<br />
where the bronze had been poured about four hours earlier.<br />
The space was quiet except <strong>for</strong> one student perched on the<br />
floor with a hammer and chisel in his hands, breaking away<br />
the concrete shell from his sculpture that had been cast that<br />
morning. He showed us a somersaulting figure that was half<br />
emerged from its casing. As we each marveled at the result,<br />
he looked up and told us with a broad smile, “It’s the first time<br />
I’ve ever cast a bronze sculpture.” A day like that is only possible<br />
at the <strong>Pennsylvania</strong> Academy of the Fine Arts, and I will<br />
never get tired of participating in such moments of wonder and<br />
discovery.<br />
David R. Brigham<br />
President & Chief Executive Officer<br />
Become a Member of the Peale Circle<br />
Roxana Pérez-Méndez: Este Es Mi Pais<br />
Morris Gallery, Historic Landmark Building<br />
May 22 - September 26, 2010<br />
Presenting a series of solo exhibitions by emerging artists,<br />
the new Morris Gallery season begins with an installation<br />
project Este Es Mi Pais by Philadelphia based artist<br />
Roxana Pérez-Méndez.<br />
Pérez-Méndez is a multi-media and per<strong>for</strong>mance artist<br />
whose work examines the fragile nature of history and<br />
identity through the lens of her own experience as a<br />
Puerto Rican woman. Este Es Mi Pais is an installation<br />
that combines paintings from the collection of PAFA with<br />
Pepper’s Ghost holograms, video images, and readymade<br />
material. In a work where illusion and reality overlap,<br />
it addresses the ambiguities of historical representation<br />
and draws into question the certainty of vision itself.<br />
Roxana Pérez-Méndez received her MFA from the Tyler<br />
School of Art and attended the Skowhegan School of<br />
Painting and Sculpture. She was a finalist <strong>for</strong> both the<br />
Joan Mitchell Award and the Pew Fellowship in the Arts in<br />
By Louisa Hanshew, Senior Vice President of Development<br />
There are three kinds of people: those that make things<br />
happen, those that watch things happen, and those who<br />
don’t know what’s happening!<br />
The new Peale Circle is that group of people who make<br />
things happen. At the $1000 giving level and above,<br />
PAFA is pleased to announce the creation of our new<br />
Peale Circle. Using the templates of the <strong>for</strong>mer Charles<br />
Willson Peale and Potamkin Collectors Societies as our<br />
guide, and enhancing membership benefits to reflect the<br />
role the Academy plays in our artistic future, members of<br />
The Peale Circle will be able to participate in a variety of<br />
exclusive new programs, trips, lectures, tours of private<br />
collections, wine adventures, and more.<br />
Committed to a leading role in the financial support of<br />
PAFA, the Peale Circle is a group of individuals who are<br />
dedicated to the cultural achievements that have shaped<br />
American art. Members join because art matters, because<br />
it supports PAFA as we continue to grow into our third<br />
century, and because it is educational, interesting, and<br />
fun.<br />
Please let us tell you more about what’s to come and<br />
how to get involved. Contact Bill Swoope, Director of<br />
Stewardship at 215-972-2103.<br />
Vik Muniz (b. 1961), Charles Willson Peale from the series, Pictures of Ink, 2000<br />
60 x 45 inches, Dye destruction print.<br />
Roxana Pérez-Méndez, Boricua, 2010, Pepper’s Ghost hologram, mixed media diorama, DV video and<br />
components, overall 60 x 72 x 36 inches. Courtesy of the artist<br />
2006. Currently, she is an artist/member of the collective Vox Populi<br />
Gallery in Philadelphia and an Assistant Professor of Sculpture<br />
at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.