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2 Founded in 1805, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is America’s first school of fine arts and museum. A recipient of the 2005 National Medal of Arts presented by the President of the United States, PAFA is a recognized leader in fine arts education. Nearly every major American artist has taught, studied, or exhibited at the Academy. The institution’s world-class collection of American art continues to grow and provides what only a few other art institutions in the world offer: the rare combination of an outstanding museum and extraordinary faculty known for its commitment to students and for the stature and quality of its artistic work. President & Chief Executive Officer, Edward T. Lewis Edna S. Tuttleman Museum Director, David R. Brigham Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs, Jeffrey Carr Vice President of Admissions & Financial Aid, Stanislaus Greidus Dean of Student Affairs, Anne Stassen Senior Vice President of Finance and Operations, John J. Berg Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Administration, Leslie Moody Senior Vice President of Development, Louisa Hanshew Senior Vice President of Marketing & Communications, Marsha Braverman Preview is published three times a year by PAFA for alumni, friends, faculty, staff, and students. Produced by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Marketing Department Designed by Laura Blumenthal Copy Editor Gigi Lamm For comments or questions, contact Gigi Lamm, Public Relations Manager, at glamm@pafa.org. Board of Trustees Donald R. Caldwell, Chair Kevin F. Donohoe, Vice Chair and Treasurer Herbert S. Riband, Jr., Esq., Vice Chair & Secretary Thomas N. Pappas, Vice Chair and Assistant Secretary James C. Biddle, Vice Chair Mark Alderman, Esq. Roger H. Ballou Gerald P. Barth John B. Bartlett, Esq. Elaine V. Bell Sally J. Bellet, Esq. Thomas L. Bennett, CFA Max N. Berry, Esq.* Lynn Nowicki Clarke* Jonathan L. Cohen* Robert A. Fisk John A. Fry* Anthony A. Ibargüen Michael T. Kennedy Mary Louise Krumrine, Ph.D. Ellen Berman Lee Marguerite Lenfest Rev. Herbert H. Lusk, II Frances M. Maguire* Anne E. McCollum Francis P. Newell, Esq. Delphine Poussot Carole Price Shanis Linda Richardson William Rulon-Miller Steven L. Sanders William H. Schorling, Esq. Henry B. du P. Smith Martha McGeary Snider Julie D. Spahr Gerard H. Sweeney Barbara A. Sylk Steven Volla Debora C. Zug *National Trustee Emeritus Barbara L. Greenfield, Chair of Emeritus Trustees & Committee Members Committee Robert L. Byers, Sr. William A. Slaughter, Esq. Richard E. Woosnam Ex officio Julia B. DeMoss, President of the Women’s Board James J. Lynes, President, Alumni Association Gary Steuer, Director, Office of Arts, Culture and Creative Economy Ahmeenah Young, President & CEO of the Pennsylvania Convention Center Faculty Representative Robert Roesch Photo: Susan Beard Design Perspective: A Partnership The numbers speak for themselves. Seventy-eight percent of School District of Philadelphia children live in poverty, and 50 percent of these young people don’t graduate from high school. Given these numbers, it is no surprise that only 20 percent of Philadelphians have college or university degrees— a percentage that places this city 92nd out of the 100 largest cities in this country. It is almost glib to say that something is very wrong. But that is why we wanted to meet with Dr. Arlene Ackerman, the new superintendent of the School District, when she first came to Philadelphia. As one of the leading art institutions in the region, we wanted to talk about how we might help make Philadelphia schools a better place for this city’s children. Out of that meeting and the several that followed, the Academy and the District crafted a collaborative agreement in what we came to call the Family Arts Academy at PAFA. Guided by one of the principal elements of the District’s new strategic plan, the Family Arts Academy is built around the importance of familial involvement in a child’s education. Starting in September of 2009 as a pilot program in conjunction with the exhibition, Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth Member News and Events Events Join PAFA Curator of Modern Art Robert Cozzolino and artist Elizabeth Osborne for a walkthrough of the exhibition, Elizabeth Osborne: The Color of Light, on Tuesday, September 8 at 5:30 p.m. Join us for the opening reception for Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool, on Friday, October 16 at 6:00 p.m. To rsvp for either of these events, please call 215-972-0522 or email rsvp@pafa.org. Save the Date Mark your calendar! The Annual Print Sale and Members Shopping Day will be held on Friday, December 4, featuring original works for sale by PAFA students and discounted shopping at PORTFOLIO at the Pennsylvania Academy®. Keep an eye on the alumni e-newsletter, e-preview and www.pafa.org for more information on these and upcoming events. If you would like to join the e-mail list for e-preview, send us a note at membership@pafa.org. PAFA does not trade its email lists with other organizations. of the Cool, this program will be offered free of charge on weekends to adults with children. In its fullness, it will offer multi-week courses in the visual arts, workshops, exhibitions, and career mentoring. Although the program will be open to all families with children, we’ll make a special effort to reach families whose children attend low performing and under-funded schools. The District and PAFA are now jointly seeking funding for the program’s full implementation by next January. This program isn’t founded on some mawkish nostrum. We know that family involvement makes a decided difference. We know that young people in a visual arts program are twice as likely to excel in academic performance and far more likely to continue their education after high school. So we think the District and PAFA are on to something important. And we’re proud to be the District’s partner in an educational initiative that just might make a difference. Edward T. Lewis President & Chief Executive Officer PAFA Receives Major Grant from William Penn Foundation The William Penn Foundation has awarded PAFA a grant in the amount of $440,000. The grant will fund a three-year contemporary art program that will support the production of new art, encourage the broadest understanding of contemporary art practice, and expand audiences for both contemporary and historical art at PAFA. “This grant is a major step forward in making contemporary art more accessible to the public and to advancing Philadelphia’s identity nationally as a center for contemporary art,” comments Edna S. Tuttleman Museum Director David Brigham. PAFA’s multi-year contract with the William Penn Foundation will be used in support of the following forthcoming exhibitions: Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious (January – April, 2010) is the inaugural presentation of a multi-sited international festival of contemporary art that will occur in Philadelphia every four years. Philagrafika 2010 will focus on artistic practices that engage the visual, intellectual, and creative frontiers in printmaking and how these approaches relate to social and political issues. Further developing the Morris Gallery’s role and reputation as an important venue for supporting emerging art, PAFA will stage a series of five solo exhibitions (May, 2010 – December, 2011). The five artists will be drawn from across the country and the Philadelphia region and their work will be in a diverse range of mediums. In a number of cases this will be an artist’s first solo museum exhibition. This series will also provide for the commissioning of new works. We’re All Still Here (October, 2011 – January, 2012) will bring together six curators from other regions, commissioned to collaborate with PAFA’s Curator of Contemporary Art to create an exhibition that surveys artists who live outside the main market centers and who make the hot issues of contemporary art their own. Conceived to take account of an artist’s “sense of place,” this exhibition will provide a platform to support and promote the work of Philadelphia and regional artists demonstrating the vitality of art being made in different parts of the country. Julien Robson, PAFA’s Curator of Contemporary Art states, “This is a great vote of confidence in our programming plans and allows PAFA to move into a new and dynamic phase of contemporary exhibitions that will promote regional artists in a national and international context while expanding audiences within the city and the region.” A Special Thanks PAFA would like to acknowledge the following members of the Charles Willson Peale Society, we are truly grateful for your support: Lorraine and Benjamin Alexander; Ms. Linda Lee Alter; Mr. W. Graham Arader III; Mrs. Joseph T. Beardwood, III; Mr. and Mrs. Julian A. Brodsky; Mr. and Mrs. William C. Buck; Ms. Lori Cohen; The Hon. and Mrs. Robert W. Duemling; Mr. and Mrs. John Durham; Mr. and Mrs. Bruce H. Hooper; Mr. Joel Koppelman; Ms. Emanuela Miller-Cooke; Mr. and Mrs. Washburn S. Oberwager; Mr. W. Gresham O’Malley III; Dr. and Mrs. Karl F. Rugart; Mr. John M. Ryan and Ms. Mary Gregg; Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer N. Sellers; The Honorable Nicholas Sellers; Dr. and Mrs. Bayard T. Storey; Mr. Febo F. Troilo; and Mr. and Mrs. A. Morris Williams, Jr. Special thanks to Mrs. J. Maxwell Moran, and her support of the Thomas Eakins Circle. PAFA would also like to acknowledge the ongoing generosity of our Board of Trustees.
Pop Culture Icon Malcolm McLaren’s Shallow 1-21 on View in Morris Gallery Shallow 1-21, 2008 Video on DVD, 86 min., Lent by Brook and Pam Smith October 25, 2009 - January 3, 2010 Morris Gallery, Historic Landmark Building A pop cultural icon for over thirty years, Malcolm McLaren is a visionary artist. Always at the forefront of culture and pushing boundaries, he is probably best recognized for his work in melding fashion with music. Shallow 1-21, an 86-minute video, consists of 21 “musical paintings.” Using both musical cut-ups and short clips appropriated from old sex films that have been spliced, repeated, and slowed down, the result is hypnotic, layered, and provocative. PAFA is proud to exhibit Shallow 1-21 in its entirety for the first time in North America. “I considered making portraits of people about to have sex,” explains McLaren. “This as it turned out, involved trawling through and selecting scenes from hundreds of old and often obscure amateur sex movies: 8-mm films of ordinary folk who played a part in sex films before sex cinema turned into the industry as we know it today. I slowed down most of the images until sometimes they almost stood still, revealing through their age, a certain painterly quality.” McLaren continues, “I made 21 musical works from a grab bag of pop culture’s debris of the past 50 years. In linking these musical cut-ups to the face of those sexual encounters, I can’t say what happens is what happened. The alchemy made possible another meaning far deeper than what existed before. I began to call these works the musical end of painting because they are not films or videos but another form entirely; a map of feelings that navigates the look of music and the sound of fashion.” Born in London in 1946, McLaren was educated at art schools in England. In 1971, with his then partner, Vivienne Westwood, McLaren opened the legendary Let It Rock shop in London, creating fashion that would dress the punk generation and inspire legions of fashion designers. In the mid-1970s, McLaren founded, managed, and art directed the iconic punk band, the Sex Pistols. He then went on to work with such artists as Boy George, Adam Ant, and Bow Wow Wow, before becoming a recording artist in his own right. In the 1980s and 90s, McLaren’s solo albums, Duck Rock, Fans, Waltz Darling, and Paris were ma- Continuing Education Programs: Dedicated Artists of All Ages and Skill Levels Whether you’re venturing into art for the first time, mastering your craft or preparing a portfolio, Continuing Education at PAFA has something for you. n Reasonably priced studio art classes in drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking and more taught by practicing, professional artists n Conveniently scheduled weekday, evening and weekend courses, lectures, and seminars n Small-sized classes for plenty of individual attention n Members at the “Friends” level and above receive a 10% tuition discount! Fall Highlights Master Class with Bo Bartlett Don’t miss this rare opportunity to study with Bo Bartlett, a PAFA alum and recognized master of American realism. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, October 16, 17 & 18 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. FREE Slide Lecture with Bo Bartlett Open to the public! Thursday, October 15, 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. Drawing: A Personal Connection With Timothy Hawkesworth with Lala Zeitlyn Work with life models in an energized and supportive environment. Take risks, explore new materials, and learn by immersion. Friday, Saturday and Sunday November 13, 14 & 15 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Saturday Drawing and Painting for High School Students This course offers young people a valuable opportunity to develop and hone their skills. Includes assistance with preparing a portfolio for art school/college. Saturdays, September 26 – December 5 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. Photo: Jérôme Schlomoff jor musical breakthroughs exploring Hip Hop, Opera, R&B, and Lounge Music, among other genres. In 1985, McLaren went to Hollywood where he worked as a development executive for Columbia Pictures and Steven Spielberg. He lives and works in New York and Paris and has been writing music, producing films, writing “radio movies,” and giving live performances. The presentation of Shallow 1-21 is made possible with the support of Brook and Pam Smith and Timothy Patric Speiss. Bo Bartlett, Sweetness (detail), 24 x 24 inches, oil on panel, 2008. Courtesy of P.P.O.W Gallery, New York Continuing Education Core Curriculum Program Designed to help you achieve your artistic goals, this program provides a structured curriculum of classes in logical sequence to build your basic skills and confidence. n Individually tailored assistance in course selection n Helpful guidance and feedback on your progress from the CE staff and faculty n A flexible timeframe – complete the requirements at your own pace n Previously taken courses may be transferable n A Certificate of Achievement upon completion n A complementary one-year Academy Alumni Circle Membership Advanced Curriculum for K-12 Educators Program (ACE) NEW! Designed to provide K-12 educators with an opportunity to advance their artwork and refresh their teaching while earning graduate credit. All PAFA CE courses and workshops are eligible for Act 48 and New Jersey Department of Education Professional Development credit. For the complete fall schedule, visit www.pafa.edu/CE, call 215-972-7632 or e-mail continuinged@pafa.edu. Alumni News The recent opening of the 2009 PAFA Alumni Invitational Legacies: Works by Twelve Former Students of Elizabeth Osborne and Sidney Goodman was a smashing success, with over 700 guests honoring the opening of an exhibition of the works of twelve prominent alumni who found their lives and their careers forever changed by two of PAFA’s most respected and beloved faculty, Sidney Goodman and Liz Osborne, who are the subjects of current, major retrospectives of their works. Alumni Bo Bartlett and Vincent Desiderio were represented by their works in the Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building, and other alums exhibited paintings, large scale drawings, and sculpture. Michael Bartmann, Stephen Estock, Barry Goldberg, Kate Javens, Edgar Jerins, Kate Kaman, Rusian Khais, Elena Peteva, Anne Seidman, and Wade Schuman are all respected and successful artists in a great variety of approaches and media. The exhibition was organized by the Alumni Association, with the assistance of PAFA staff member Marianne Maxwell, and faculty member Michael Gallagher. The show was curated by PAFA curators of modern and contemporary art, respectively, Robert Cozzolino and Julien Robson. The exhibition is on display in the School Gallery, Gift of the Women’s Board in the second floor galleries of the Samuel M. V. Hamilton Building through September 20, 2009. Alumni are exhibiting, winning awards and commissions, and engaged in many wonderful activities and adventures. For up to date news of recent shows and alumni events, please see the Alumni Newsletter. If you have something to contribute about your life and work, please let us know about it at: http://www.pafa.org/School/ PAFA-Alumni/56/#contact. PAFA Presents Fall 2009 Schedule PAFA is pleased to announce that it will continue its series: PAFA Presents. Partnering with various cultural institutions throughout Philadelphia, PAFA’s series aims to offer visitors the opportunity to attend a variety of arts events in a vibrant and historic setting. Performances are free to PAFA members, $10 for nonmembers. For information and reservations, contact Alison Campbell-Wise at 215-972-2011 or acampbell@ pafa.org. This fall, join us for: A Taste of Opera Sunday, October 4, 2:00 p.m., Annenberg Gallery Join the Opera Company of Philadelphia for a discussion about and selections from Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. The Philadelphia Orchestra Salon Series Friday, October 9, 5:30 p.m., Historic Landmark Building Come for an interview with 2006 Gilmore Young Artist Yuja Wang, a Curtis Institute graduate who is one of today’s most charismatic pianists, making her Philadelphia Orchestra subscription debut. 3
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