Volume 1 | Fall/Winter 2008 MEMB E R M AGA Z INE
ART MEETS WORLD THE NEW FROST OPENS
Six Exhibitions, Outstanding Programs and Events, Mark Inaugural Season
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The Frost Art Museum at Florida International University is an AAM accredited museum and Smithsonian affiliate. Museum Hours From Saturday Nov. 29th, through Sunday, December 7th, the new Frost Art Museum will expand hours of operation for inaugural events and exhibitions. On Wednesday, December 10th, we will resume normal hours of operation as follows: Tues / Wed / Thurs / Fri / Sat 10am – 5pm Sun / Noon – 5 pm The Frost Art Museum is closed on all legal holidays. Admission is free. Accessibility Our main entrance is wheelchair accessible and includes electronic doors. If you require additional arrangements, please call us at 305.348.6186.
HOW WE GOT HERE
Directory General Information / 305.348.2890 Education and Student Tours / 305.348.6963 Member Services / 305.348.2254 Sculpture Park / 305.348.6283
In this special section, a look back at the Frost’s 31-year history reveals that the once small gallery became the Frost Art Museum through vision, leadership and sheer force of will.
Frost On View is published three times yearly for members of The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum. Editor / Kitty Dumas Designer / Kirtland House Contributing Writers / Judith Blumenthal, Nicole Espaillat, Ana Estrada, Stephanie Guasp, Linda Powers and Susan Thomas Photographer / Ivan Santiago
About Frost on View This special issue of Frost On View, devoted to the opening of the new Frost Art Museum, is dedicated to our founder Jim Couper, Director Emerita Dahlia Morgan, Patricia & Phillip Frost and to you our donors and members. Without your vision, dedication and devotion to art education and community, there would be no Frost Art Museum. Thanks also to our members and friends for your positive response to our first issue of Frost On View and your encouragement of our efforts. Enjoy. Kitty Dumas Editor frostartmuseum.org 2
On the Cover: Clouds + Steps, June 2008, at Frost Museum, by Paul Clemence.
Parking Visitors may park in metered parking spaces conveniently located across from the Frost Art Museum in the Blue and Gold garages. Parking is free on weekends.
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Director’s View
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Acquisitions
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Exhibitions
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Modern Masters from The Smithsonian American Art Museum Simulacra and Essence: The Paintings of Luisa Basnuevo Florencio Gelabert: Intersections The Figure Past and Present: Selections from the Permanent Collection John Henry’s Drawing in Space: The Peninsula Project Illustrated Andrew Reach: Full Circle Green Lecture Series
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NEWS & EVENTS
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Education
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HAPPENINGS
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ART OF GIVING
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MEMBERS & DONORS
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DIRECTOR’S VIEW Dear MemberS, Whenever the doors of an art museum open, so do minds. Art, like literature, challenges and inspires the mind and spirit. Students of every age see, experience and learn new ways of viewing and interpreting the world around them. As a professor of art and art history, I have seen firsthand the power of art education to turn students into students of the world. The opening of the new Frost Art Museum building is a pivotal moment in our history as an institution. The sheer beauty of the structure, the years of design and construction and the contributions of those who made it possible make for an event well worth celebrating. Dr. Carol Damian
Yet, this grand moment for the Frost and Florida International University will soon be overshadowed many times over by the greater impact of the museum on our community. For the first time, residents of Miami-Dade County, particularly students of all ages, cultures and economic backgrounds will have access to a world-class museum building featuring significant exhibitions and outstanding programs at no cost. Admission to the Frost Art Museum at FIU and its exhibitions is free. The potential impact on the lives of FIU students and children across Miami-Dade County is limitless. Our generous donors and members have allowed us to offer the priceless gifts of both art and education. They believe this community is a worthwhile investment. Access to major art exhibitions and programming, especially in these lean economic times, is a gift of which we are proud. Since its opening in 1977, the Frost, previously known as The Art Museum at FIU, has never charged admission. Part of the mission of the Frost is to “enrich and educate the university and local communities as well as national and international audiences through the universal language of art. The Frost Art Museum contributes to the goals of FIU and its commitment to educate students, provide service to the community and promote greater understanding by collecting, preserving, presenting and interpreting a broad range of art from around the world.� We do not take this mission lightly. The Frost is the only art museum in western MiamiDade, an area long underserved by cultural institutions. As we open our doors to a new era in our history, we look forward to seeing you, our members and donors, inside the building you made possible. We also hope to share this experience with other members of our local community, students, faculty and visitors from around the country and the world. The Frost belongs to all of us.
Dr. Carol Damian Director and Chief Curator
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ACQUISITIONS
Thornton Dial Lady Know How to Hold the Jungle Mixed media assemblage, 47 1/4” x 59 1/4” Gift of Richard Levine, AIA
Carlos Estevéz Feminologia Practica, 2005 Mixed media assemblage, 49 1/2” x 37 7/8” x 4” Gift of Pan American Art Projects Born in Havana, the Miami artist is known for symbolic work, combining myth and reality, as he presents people as hybrids, part human, part machine and sometimes part bird. Inspired by themes of freedom, knowledge and human existence, his work is based on elements from alchemy, botanical and mechanical drawings.
Born in 1928, this self-taught artist began making art after his retirement. Dial worked as a steelworker, welder carpenter and a bricklayer around Bessemer, AL, before deciding to create for his own enjoyment. He was soon discovered by the art world and showing his work at galleries and museums, including The New Museum in New York and the Whitney Biennial. His art uses African and American traditions to tell stories, functioning as folktales. Richard Levine and Jose Calderin also donated a large collection of works by a number of artists including 35 drawings by Purvis Young and prints by 50 renowned artists including Picasso and Matisse. Aramis O’Reilly Providence, 1998 Graphite drawing on canvas, 12” x 18” Gift of Susana and Yann Weymouth in honor of Patricia Frost The critic Juan Espinosa has described O’Reilly’s art as providing “the traditional visual elements of drawing and painting with scenic, kinetic and musical components.” Born in Havana, he has had his work exhibited in museums, galleries and public spaces. A Cintas fellow, O’Reilly attended the University of Connecticut and received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Florida International University. He teaches painting and drawing at the New World School of the Arts in Miami.
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Charles Ginnever Fourth Bridge, 1979 Corten steel, 116” x 240” x 72” Gift of Gloria and Leonard Luria in honor of Patricia Frost In the 1960s and ’70s, Ginnever was a pioneer in the revival of outdoor sculpture and public art in America. Best known for his large-scale geometric abstractions in steel which display an intentional patina of rust, Ginnever came to maturity as a sculptor in 1960s New York. He characteristically explores the tension between optical illusions and sculptural reality in his large open form welded metal constructions.
Steve Tobin Steelroots, 2008 Steel with white patina, 144” x 336” x 144” Steve Tobin Steelroots, 2008 Steel with rust patina, 180” x 240” x 192” Long-term loan from the artist Tobin’s Steelroots are an evolution of his signature bronze Walking Roots series, which culminated in the first and only 9/11 memorial near Ground Zero. Trinity Root, the massive bronze casting/sculpture is known for being the “tree that saved St. Paul’s Chapel” during the World Trade Center attack. In 2007, Tobin’s Steelroots was one of 40 sculptures chosen for the City of New York’s “40 Years of Art in the Parks” retrospective, gracing the entrance to Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Tobin is known for turning aspects of nature into sculpture. His work has been shown at the American Museum of Natural History and the American Craft Museum. The sculptures join other Tobin works, Bone Wall, Walking Roots, and Forest Floor, on loan since 2003.
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EXHIBITIONS
MODERN MASTERS FROM THE SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM
Nathan Oliveira, Nineteen Twenty-Three, 1961, Oil on canvas, 54 1/8” x 50 1/8, Courtesy the Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Frost Art Museum is the first stop on a national tour for Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which features more than 30 artists who transformed American art in the years after World War II. The exhibition includes five pieces donated to the Smithsonian by Patricia and Phillip Frost in 1986, including works by Josef Albers and Hans Hofmann. In this important show, Virginia Mecklenburg, senior curator for the Smithsonian American Art Museum, chronicles the emergence of postwar abstraction, and Abstract Expressionism in particular, from the mid-1940s through its “triumph” in the late 1950s. Richard Diebenkorn and Nathan Oliveira in California, immigrants Hans Hofmann and Louise Nevelson, New Yorkers Franz Kline and Robert Motherwell, and many more explored powerful color and the nuance of line as they sought to express what it meant to live in the mid6
twentieth century. Some were friends who dropped by each other’s studios, attended each other’s openings, and then retired to bars and restaurants to talk about art. Others never met, but knew of the paintings and sculptures created by their colleagues from reports in the press. Some of the artists, among them Seymour Lipton and Theodore Roszak, probed the dark side of man’s unconscious. Sam Francis and Adolph Gottlieb explored the mysteries of space. Helen Frankenthaler and Joan Mitchell captured the color and light of the natural landscape; Romare Bearden and Larry Rivers explored meaning in family and community. Others, including Josef Albers, Ad Reinhardt and Esteban Vicente, tested the nature of human perception. They all experimented, reversed course, refined and readjusted to capture the thoughts, feelings and moods of America during the Cold War. Exhibition runs through March 1, 2009.
SIMULACRA AND ESSENCE: THE PAINTINGS OF LUISA BASNUEVO
Florencio Gelabert: INTERSECTIONS
Luisa Basnuevo, The Other Side of The River, 2006, Oil on canvas, 66 x 80 inches, Courtesy of the Artist
Luisa Maria Basnuevo’s solo exhibition was the first to hang in the new Frost Art Museum, an emotional event for both Basnuevo and the show’s curator, Jim Couper, founder of the Frost and Basnuevo’s former painting professor. Basnuevo was one of the first graduates of FIU’s BFA program and received a Betty Laird Perry Student Award in 1988 upon her graduation. She went on to receive her MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale University in 1991. “Luisa has had numerous solo shows, participated in many group exhibitions, has had her work placed in prestigious collections, and has been the subject of dozens of reviews and articles,” Couper said. “Her art is rich, mysterious and compelling…” Simulacra and Essence presents recent works from her series of large-scale paintings inspired by eucalyptus seeds she collected in Spain.
Florencio Gelabert, Birth, 2008, Plywood, Styrofoam, aquaresin, soil, artificial plant and flowers, 6’ x 3’ x 1’
Florencio Gelabert’s environmentally-based installation Intersections illustrates the diverse nature of his oeuvre, from sculptures to video. The new show is comprised of two large-scale sculptures, Birth (2008) and Column Tree (2008), made in Gelabert’s characteristic style and a video loop Cycle (2008). Birth comes from a recent series of works in which the artist combines artificial elements extracted from the real world and his own creations. The result is the creation of a dramatic fantasy supplemented with a title that gives the work a figurative reference to the uterus.
“As the title of this exhibition suggests, each canvas is a synthesis of ideas and images,” says independent curator Mark Ormond. “In her investigation of the formal issues of painting, Basnuevo has creatively appropriated shapes and forms from the real world to become vehicles for her study, as well as material for discourse about her imagined terrain. Basnuevo’s intuitive combination of referential elements and process on the same picture plane endows her paintings with energy of anticipation…”
Column Tree is comprised of tree trunks made in aquaresin, burlap, gauze and PVC mirror panels, vertically forming a 12-foot high column supported by a steel structure. The mirrors are arranged as if they were cutting the trunk’s surface from different angles as the spectator walks around the piece, constantly changing the perspective.
Exhibition runs through April 4, 2009.
Exhibition runs through February 28, 2009.
In Cycle, Gelabert is interested in transcending traditional notions of sculpture by expanding its definition of threedimensionality into a multi-media video.
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EXHIBITIONS The FIGURE Past and PrEsenT Selections from the Permanent Collection
JOHN HENRY’s Drawing in Space: THE PENINSULA PROJECT ILLUSTRATED
Head of an Oba, early 19th century, West Africa, Late Benin Kingdom Bronze, 16.5 x 11 x 13 inches
For thousands of years, every culture across the world has paid homage to the human body. Today, in a world of vastly expanded knowledge of physical life, artists go beyond the simple representation of the human body by relating it, by analogy, to all structures that have become part of our imaginative and intellectual experience. This exhibition showcases the similarities and differences among the traditional cultures of Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, and honors the achievements of the men and women we now call artists. Many of them were not artists in the contemporary sense, but rather magicians, shamans, priests and anonymous servitors of a higher authority. This selection is meant to introduce the viewer to the rich traditions associated with figurative representation, real and imagined, human and animal, and the often fantastic combinations of both. By casting wide temporal and geographic nets, the exhibits show the cross-cultural influences so relevant today, especially in the Miami area. This selection represents only a small number of works in The Frost Art Museum’s collection of more than 6,000 pieces of art. Exhibition runs through 2010.
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Image courtesy the Peninsula Project
This exhibition highlights the process and concept behind Drawing in Space: The Peninsula Project, which incorporates large scale sculpture into the Florida landscape. Henry specifically chose Florida for its peninsular shape which creates a unique geographic environment. Each individual sculpture invites the viewer to see the next, thus experiencing a new part of Florida. This is not only an art exhibition but a way to provide a deeper connection between the viewer, the cities and the sculptures that encourages exploration of the natural beauty of Florida. Along with each outdoor installation, a local museum partner hosts an accompanying exhibition. The Frost presents the signature exhibition for the project: Peninsula Project Illustrated and showcases all nine monumental works in the seven participating Florida cities. With models of the sculpture and large photographs of the pieces set in their various landscapes, the show will illustrate the artist’s unprecedented use of the Florida peninsula as his canvas. Exhibition runs through March 9, 2009.
ANDREW REACH: FULL CIRCLE
Xavier Cortada THE FOUR ELEMENTS
Andrew Reach, There’s No Place to Hide, 2008, Edition 3 of 3, 40” x 70”
Andrew Reach was working as an architect, helping to design the new Frost Art Museum, when his career ended because of a crippling spinal disease. In an effort to transcend his pain and physical limitations, he turned his creative energies to art. Lacking the strength to paint, Reach ultimately created large-format computergenerated images. Reach’s love for painters Larry Rivers, Jackson Pollock, and other mid-twentieth century American artists inspired him to fuse the Abstract Expressionist’s aesthetic with his interest in Eastern traditions, Islamic art and African patterns. Reach’s conception of vertebral structures and cellular forms evolved as he created images through which viewers might obtain a brief glimpse into the effects of his debilitating physical condition. With its ability to heal, art provided Reach the means to transcend his pain and limitations and exist in a space free of their constraints. With this exhibition, Reach has brought his career full circle by showing his work at the Frost: the beautiful and innovative structure he helped design at the close of his architectural career. Exhibition runs through April 4, 2009.
Photo: Sherry Zambrano
One of the first sights to greet visitors to FIU’s new Frost Art Museum is a stunning 40-foot tapestry created by celebrated Miami artist Xavier Cortada. The piece entitled “aer” or air, which hangs in the museum’s soaring atrium, is the first of four commissioned works that the artist describes as “digital tapestries.” The works are inspired by the four elements of water, air, fire and earth, and will be rotated throughout the year. Cortada’s work was chosen from among 80 artists who submitted proposals to the Frost for an installation as part of the state Art in Public Buildings Program. “The piece is breath-taking,” said Carol Damian, director and chief curator of the Frost. “Along with our beautiful building, this work makes quite a first impression.” Cortada says that the tapestries, composed in striking colors that relate to each element, suggest “that if we look more closely at our surroundings, there are new worlds to discover. Indeed, inside the museum, there are works by artists who strive to push boundaries to further human understanding.”
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10 1 2 Adolph Gottlieb, Three Discs, 1960, Oil on canvas Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
EXHIBITIONS
REASONS TO VISIT THE NEW FROST ART MUSEUM The Frost begins the season and its next chapter with a new building, more exhibitions, events and members than at any other time in its history – a multitude of gifts worth celebrating. Priming the city for Art Basel Miami Beach and other important upcoming art fairs, the Frost opening invites South Florida and its visitors to experience a new arts destination. In the spirit of the opening and the new arts season, we would like to provide you with 10 reasons to visit the Frost this season.
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Alfred Stieglitz (1980), The Marcel Duchamp Exhibition (1985), Adolph Gottlieb: Works on Paper (1987) and a list of other important shows set a new standard for Miami. Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum follows that impressive list.
THE SCULPTURE PARK AT FIU
One of the nation’s best university sculpture parks is on the museum’s front lawn and stretches across FIU’s 342-acre campus. Tour the sculpture park, and see works from celebrated artists, including Tony Rosenthal, Steve Tobin, Charles Ginnever, John Henry and Jean Claude Rigaud.
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Coming in spring 2009, this centerpiece of the new Frost Art Museum will welcome families, students and guests with art activities designed to educate and entertain children.
THE STEVEN & DOROTHEA GREEN CRITICS’ LECTURE SERIES
Maya Lin Photo: Cheung Ching Ming
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Since 1981, this series has introduced an array of art world luminaries to South Florida including Philippe de Montebello, Michael Graves and Maya Lin.
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THE FROST ART MUSEUM
The building is a work of art in itself.
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Bring a Friend to Lunch.
KENAN-FLAGLER FAMILY DISCOVERY GALLERY
Connoisseur members enjoy lunch, an exhibition tour and lecture. Head of Buddha, ca. 1300-1400, Siam (Kumpeang Province, Thailand), gilt, mother-of-pearl, 16.5 x 10.5 x 11.37 inches
THE PERMANENT COLLECTION
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Our collection includes 6,000 works of art from around the world. The new exhibition The Figure Past and Present: Selections from the Permanent Collection runs through 2010.
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Great music, dance, films lectures, poetry slams and performance art. Need we say more?
(Don’t miss Nicole Henry January 7th. See story on page 19)
Art Smart and Art Smart Figures Our children’s programs educate, challenge and engage young artists.
Admission is free at The Frost.
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HOW WE GOT HERE MOVING FORWARD LOOKING BACK As the Frost Art Museum steps into the future with the debut of its new building, it is with a sense of history. Years from now, visitors will find it hard to imagine that this major cultural institution began as a small university gallery in the lone building on a fledgling campus. A look back at its 31-year history reveals that the gallery became a museum through vision, leadership and sheer force of will. Jim Couper, founder of the original Visual Arts Gallery, and Director Emerita Dahlia Morgan, who transformed the gallery into a major art museum, created the institution we now know as The Frost. Couper’s initial vision and Morgan’s passion changed the landscape of FIU and Miami. In this special section, they tell us how it all happened, bridging the past and present.
1977 Jim Couper Opens Visual Arts Gallery
1978 Exhibitions: The Nazi Drawings of Mauricio Lasansky Jean Dubuffet Electronic Art Light Works
1979 Exhibition: Mira, Mira, Mira Los Cubanos de Miami
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Dahlia Morgan Becomes Director of Gallery
Exhibition: The Olga Hirshhorn Collection
Critics’ Lectures: Robert Hughes
Betty Laird Perry Establishes Student Purchase Award
Critics’ Lectures: Marcia Tucker
Exhibition: Alfred Stieglitz
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Critics’ Lectures: John Cage
Exhibition: Anxious Interiors
Michael Graves
Critics’ Lectures: Tom Wolfe
Linda Nochlin
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Exhibition: The Marcel Duchamp Exhibition
Critics’ Lectures: Claes Oldenburg & Coosje Van Bruggen
“American Art Today” Exhibition Series starts with Portraits
Exhibitions: William Tucker
Critics’ Lectures: Roberta Smith
Dore Ashton
Adolph Gottlieb: Works on Paper
Mark Stevens Susan Sontag
Recent Sculpture by Louise Bourgeois
American Art Today: Narrative Painting Critics’ Lectures: Peter Seltz
Critics’ Lectures: Robert Irwin Robert Storr
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JIM COUPER:
THE NEW FROST BUILT ON FOUNDER’s VISION
As a visual arts professor and a painter, Jim Couper has influenced the lives and careers of thousands of students and art lovers for nearly 40 years. In the course of doing his work with his characteristic passion, and easy plain-spoken Southern style, he also achieved one of his greatest accomplishments. Couper founded the Frost Art Museum. More than 30 years later, his initial vision and direction still define the Frost, and is arguably responsible for its tremendous success over the years. What was that vision? The museum opened in 1977 as the Visual Arts Gallery at FIU, a 2,800-square-foot gallery. (It was renamed the Art Museum at FIU four years later, and renamed in honor of donors Patricia & Phillip Frost in 2003.) Couper’s focus was securing exhibitions of work by major artists, while building a teaching arm for the art department. Although his mission was also to develop a solid link to the art department, “the museum was never exclusively designed conceptually to be a student exhibition place,” Couper said. “I insisted there be a programmatic link between the museum and the department. It’s a teaching component in that sense and an educational
Carol Damian, director and chief curator at the Frost and former chairperson of the School of Art and Art History, credits Couper with much more. “It was Jim Couper who had the original vision to create a museum that would also serve as an introduction to a professional career in the arts,” she said. “Students could see art, study techniques, talk to artists and understand the entire gallery process, things not readily available to our students in South Florida. They could participate in the entire experience of being an artist. It was really the beginning of our very successful BFA and MFA programs that prepare students as artists and as qualified members of the art world.” Successful artist Luisa Basnuevo was Couper’s student. His instruction and
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The Metropolitan Collection Acquired by the Museum
Exhibitions: American Art Today: The City
Exhibitions: American Art Today: New Directions
Exhibitions: American Art Today: Surface Tension
Exhibitions: American Art Today: Clothing as Metaphor
New Aquisition: The Metropolitan Collection
Contemporary Spanish Paintings
Cuba-USA: The First Generation
Elaine de Kooning
Critics Lectures: Lucinda Barnes
Through the Path of Echoes: Contemporary Art in Mexico
Anton Tapies In Print
Critics Lectures: Michael Kimmelman
Frank Stella
Critics’ Lectures: Richard Serra
The Cintas Fellow Collection Exhibits at the Museum Exhibitions: American Art Today: Contemporary Landscape Critics’ Lectures: Philippe de Montebello
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component in a larger sense. It’s a critical element to the whole art experience at FIU.”
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Agustín Fernandez A Retrospective Critics’ Lectures: Helen Frankenthaler
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mentoring helped her to overcome her shyness and fear as an artist. An early graduate of FIU’s Bachelor of Fine Arts Program, Basnuevo went on to receive her Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale University. Her exhibition Simulacra and Essence: The Paintings of Luisa Basnuevo, with Couper as curator, is the first to hang in the new museum. The show is on view in the Betty Laird Perry Student Gallery.
“He has a good way of talking about a student’s work without harshness…and telling you how you can improve the work,” BASNUEVO said. A native of Atlanta, Couper moved to Florida to attend Florida State University where he majored in painting. He came to Miami in 1963 to begin his teaching career in Humanities at the University of Miami. He taught part-time at Miami-Dade Community College and was artist in residence at the former Miami Art Center. When FIU opened its doors in 1972, Couper was hired as a painting professor by the founder of the university’s art department, Frank Wyroba, who knew of Couper’s success as a teacher. Couper felt extremely fortunate to land the job. “A lot of artists wanted that position. FIU was a hot new place,” Couper said.
Museum founder Jim Couper, Director Carol Damian and Luisa Basnuevo enjoy the moment after the installation of Basnuevo’s exhibition, Simulacra and Essence: The Paintings of Luisa Basnuevo. The exhibition, curated by Couper, was the first to hang in the new museum building.
“I was the lucky one.” During the interview, Wyroba asked Couper if he would be willing to establish the museum and assume the directorship. Couper agreed. When Couper signed on, FIU’s total enrollment was 5,000 students, and the campus had only one building, the Primera Casa or PC building. FIU was still a two-year college using trailers for classrooms. “Despite the absence of infrastructure, there was a great deal of excitement about what the university and the art department could become, Couper said. The Visual Arts Gallery found a home on the first floor of the Primera Casa building, PC 112, where the museum remained until May 2008.
Couper’s first exhibition, Contemporary Latin American Drawings, included work by such internationally known artists as Fernando Botero and Claudio Bravo. This important show set the standard for the gallery. Three years after its opening, the museum was up and running with both cutting edge exhibitions and the clearly defined role as an educational component for the art department that Couper had envisioned. For him, it was time to go. “My heart was in my creative work and in the teaching profession,” he said. Couper supported the choice of Dahlia Morgan as his successor, ushering in a new era of success that furthered the operations and mission he had set in place. As the Frost debuts its new building and major exhibitions including Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Couper is gratified, but hardly on the sidelines. He is still painting and curating.
‘It’s the finest university museum in the state, and one of the best in the country…” Couper said. “It’s a very satisfying moment for me to see what is happening today – and to have played a role in that.”
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Exhibition: Visiones de Pueblo: The Folk Art of Latin America
Exhibitions: American Art Today: Night Paintings
Exhibition: American Art Today: Images from Abroad
Steven & Dorothea Green Endow the Critics’ Lecture Series
Exhibition: El Alma del Pueblo
Critics’ Lectures: James Rosenquist
Miró & Noguchi, Selections from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection
Critics’ Lectures: George Segal
Exhibitions: American Art Today: The Garden
“Dictated By Life”: Marsden Hartley’s German Paintings and Robert Indiana’s Hartley Elegies
Anne D’Harnoncourt
William Lieberman
Guido Llinás and Los Once After Cuba
Critics’ Lectures: Glenn Lowry Françoise Gilot Art Spiegelman
Critics’ Lectures: Robert Indiana Alex Katz
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DAHLIA MORGAN:
PORTRAIT OF A LIFE IN ART
Before there was Art Basel Miami Beach, the Wynwood art district or the countless other venues that bring art to Miami, there was Dahlia Morgan. When people in Miami’s art community think of the Frost Art Museum at FIU, they inevitably think of her. For nearly 30 years, Morgan infused the Frost with her style and flair as a trail-blazing art maven, and in the process became a local art institution in her own right. As visitors and members of the Frost explore its new building, they will find the Dahlia Morgan Members’ Lounge, a tranquil space overlooking the pond at the rear of the building and the campus beyond – a tribute to the woman who took a small university gallery and developed one of South Florida’s best museums. It is a fitting tribute, given Morgan’s commitment to Frost members and to building a loyal membership base over the years. “A museum’s strength lies in its members – their faith in its leadership and belief in what’s possible,” said Carol Damian, director and chief curator of the Frost. “Dahlia understood that.” Morgan’s passion for art, characteristic drive and zeal made her the top choice to lead the Frost when founder Jim Couper decided to return to teaching in 1980. “Dahlia was the right person at the right time,” Couper said.
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Latin American & Caribbean Lecture Series Begins
Exhibitions: American Art Today: Fantasies & Curiosities
Museum Becomes a Smithsonian Affiliate Exhibitions: Contemporary Folk Art: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum Faces of the Gods: Art and Altars of Africa and the African Americas Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum Critics’ Lectures: Arlo Guthrie
Museum Receives American Association of Museums Accreditation Exhibitions: Luis Jiménez Working Class Heroes - Images from Popular Culture, Exhibits USA José Bedia
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Critics’ Lectures: Keith Davis Susan Stamberg
Critics’ Lectures: Barbara Haskell Arnold Lehman
Four years after Morgan became director, the original gallery space had evolved from the Visual Arts Gallery to the Art Museum at FIU. For long-time members of the gallery, it was not just the cuttingedge exhibitions Morgan brought to Miami, but her passion and excitement that first attracted them to a small gallery located in what was then viewed as the hinterlands of the county. “Before you knew it you were talking to people and telling them to join,” said Connoisseur member and long-time friend, Lois Rukeyser. “She made the membership grow to an unbelievable amount of people who followed her.” Rukeyser believes that member loyalty to Morgan and to the institution over so many years reveals the most about Dahlia’s work as director. “You stay because you feel the dedication in what you’re getting back,” she said. “That should tell you something.”
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Critics’ Lectures: Pierre Rosenberg
The Building of the New Frost Art Museum Begins
Julia Platt Herzberg
Exhibitions: American Art Today: Faces & Figures
Harald Szeemann
The Land Through a Lens: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum Critics’ Lectures: Dave Hickey
Morgan remembers that the first members of the museum were actually part of a group of friends and art enthusiasts who were attracted to the exhibitions and speakers. “They came to me and said we want to establish a Friends group for the museum,” she said. They held an informal reception and the museum’s membership base was born.
“It was an adventure,” Morgan says of her years as director. “You had to be beyond entrepreneurial… I had three jobs – director, chief curator and fundraiser.” “We had a great vision as a group,” she says of her staff. “We were a tiny band of loyal and determined people for many years.” Morgan sought and received museum accreditation from the American Association of Museums (AAM) in 1999. Just two years later, in 2001, at her urging, the entire university signed an agreement with the Smithsonian Institution that provides use of Smithsonian resources and institutions. The affiliation between the two was the first of its kind in the United States. Under her direction, the museum has given Miami more than 200 exhibitions attracting varied audiences and respect
from local and international critics. Exhibitions of work by Alfred Stieglitz, Marcel Duchamp, Louise Bourgeois, and others which at that time were only presented in New York and Europe, were a triumph for Morgan and the museum at FIU. In addition, the museum was one of the first to highlight the works of young Latin American artists including Agustin Fernandez, at a time when they were just beginning to be well known. The museum garnered recognition with its important exhibitions as well as its programs. With the Steven & Dorothea Green Critics’ Lecture Series, Morgan brought to South Florida some of the best and brightest in the art world. This series has introduced Miami to such distinguished lecturers as Michael Graves, Philippe de Montebello, Claes Oldenburg, George Segal, Robert Hughes and many other famed artists, museum curators, scholars and critics. “You had to get there early or you wouldn’t get a seat,” Rukeyser said. They were free to anyone in the city, and they were outstanding. Tom Wolfe, Art Spiegelman John Richardson…Where would you ever get an opportunity to do that? In New York you have to pay for everything.” Not only did Morgan bring important critics and art world luminaries to the Frost, she became a popular speaker with
her own lecture series, the Dahlia Morgan Lecture Series, for members. The series gave members a chance to increase their knowledge of art and art history. “Dahlia has been my teacher and my mentor,” said Patricia Strawgate, a Connoisseur and one of the first museum members. “I have learned more from Dahlia than from all my humanities classes in college.” However, despite all of these accomplishments the museum lacked the space to exhibit larger pieces and shows and to store its growing permanent collection. Morgan’s dream was to build a stand-alone museum, and she worked to raise the necessary funding. A gift from Patricia and Phillip Frost set the project on its way. In 2003, the museum was renamed in their honor, and construction began in 2004.
“It was her vision, her input into every aspect of its design and construction, and her extraordinary gift for convincing others to get involved and give substantial donations,” Damian said. “Dahlia Morgan is our Director Emerita,” Damian added, “but that honorary title really does not do justice to describe her years of work as director that culminated in this amazing building. ”
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Exhibition: Vision Revealed: Selections from the Work of Abelardo Morell
Vision Revealed Tours Latin America
Exhibitions: Ruben Torres-Llorca
Art Smart Program Begins
The new Frost Art Museum opens to the public.
Exhibitions: Mark Klett: Ideas About Time
A Room of One’s Own Critics’ Lectures: Glenn Lowry
Exhibition: Pip Brant: The Flying Carpet and Other Reusables
Carol Damian, professor and former chairperson of FIU’s School of Art + Art History, is named director and chief curator.
Lespri Endepandan: Discovering Haitian Sculpture
The Saint Makers: A Living Tradition in American Folk Art
Critics’ Lectures: Terry Gross
Critics’ Lectures: Carlos Fuentes
Critics’ Lectures: David Adjaye
Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Exhibitions: Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Critics’ Lectures: Maya Lin
The Figure Past and Present
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LECTURE SERIES STEVEN & DOROTHEA GREEN CRITICS’ LECTURE SERIES
ROBERT ADANTO Robert Adanto’s provocative film The Rising Tide was screened at the Frost Art Museum October 22nd, and on October 24th, Adanto talked about the making of the film at the Green Library auditorium. He appeared as the first speaker of the season for the Frost’s Steven & Dorothea Green Critics’ Lecture Series. The film navigates the complex cultural, political and economic landscape artists face in the newly awakening China. The Rising Tide investigates China’s meteoric march toward the future through some of its most talented emerging artists, whose work reflects the country’s rising influence as an economic, political and cultural force in the global arena. Adanto said he chose China’s visual artists to tell the story of China’s rise, because “I knew I needed to find individuals whose lives had been transformed by this great social stirring.” “There was this epic tale unfolding in this enigmatic land of contradictions… and it was escaping the notice of most Westerners,” Adanto said. “I wanted to change that.”
Virginia Mecklenburg / Image Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Robert Storr / Photo: Herbert Lotz
VIRGINIA MECKLENBURG Virginia Mecklenburg, senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, will be the featured speaker for the Green Critics’ Lecture Series January 23rd at 8pm at the Wertheim Performing Arts Center located adjacent to the Frost Art Museum. Mecklenburg will talk about 20thcentury abstraction and the exhibition Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which debuts at the new Frost Art Museum building November 29th and runs through March 1st. Mecklenburg is a writer and lecturer who specializes in American art. She has organized exhibitions and written on Edward Hopper, George Bellows, Earl Cunningham, Robert Indiana, James Rosenquist, abstraction in the 1930s and 1940s and other 20th century artists and movements. Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York, which she co-authored with Rebecca Zurier and Robert Snyder, won the Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Award in 1997.
ROBERT STORR On February 20th, Robert Storr, dean of Yale University’s School of Art, will talk about the evolution of contemporary art, which he has helped to shape during his 30 years as a writer and critic. He will speak at 8pm at the Wertheim Performing Arts Center. Storr was also the first American to serve as commissioner of the Venice Biennale in 2007. He was curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from 1990 to 2002, where he organized exhibitions on Elizabeth Murray, Gerhard Richter, Max Beckmann, Tony Smith, Robert Ryman and others.
JOIN US Steven & Dorothea Green Critics’ Lecture Series Virginia Mecklenburg | January 23, 2009 | 8pm Robert Storr | February 20, 2009 | 8pm Frost Art Museum 18
TARGET WEDNESDAY AFTER HOURS SERIES
Nicole Henry
TARGET SPONSORS POPULAr FROST SERIES Target has teamed up with the Frost Art Museum in sponsoring the museum’s popular educational series Wednesday After Hours. The Frost and Target will kick off the new Target Wednesday After Hours on January 7th, at 7pm. The series, which will take place on the first Wednesday evening of every month, is designed to complement the museum’s exhibitions with events including music and dance performances, films, lectures, panel discussions, poetry slams and performance art. All of the events are free and open to the public. One of the Frost’s core community outreach programs, the series aims to engage FIU students and faculty and the local community in a multifaceted approach to the arts, said Carol Damian, director and chief curator. “Target shares our commitment to increasing access to the arts, and this partnership is an ideal way to foster an artistic culture on campus and in the community.” Target also signed on to help the Frost celebrate the opening of its new building by sponsoring a barbecue for Student Day at the new museum, Wednesday, December 3rd. “We are grateful for Target’s generous commitment to sponsor the 2009 series as well as the student celebration during this important week in our history,” Damian said. Through Target Wednesday After Hours, the Frost would like to inspire an integrated approach to the arts among students and members of the community who might not typically take advantage of FIU’s many cultural resources, including the museum. The museum will partner with FIU academic units such as the College of Business Administration and the Honors College for each event.
BEST IN CLASS The first event of the series will feature popular jazz vocalist Nicole Henry, accompanied by musicians from the FIU School of Music. Hailed by Japan Times as “one of the most impressive live performers to personalize the great American songbook,” Henry will perform songs from her recent CD, At Last, featuring standards and new compositions. The evening will honor FIU students, staff, faculty and alumni recognized in the university’s “Best in Class” campaign, designed to showcase the achievements of the university community.
JOIN US Target Wednesday After Hours “Best in Class” Featuring jazz vocalist Nicole Henry January 7, 2009 | 7pm Frost Art Museum
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NEWS & EVENTS
WELCOME LINDA POWERS AND JULIA PLATT HERZBERG Linda Powers joins the Frost Art Museum as Curator of Education. Prior to joining the Frost, she worked as an art teacher, classroom teacher and adjunct instructor in New York City and Miami. Powers holds a double major in finance and art history from Rutgers University and a Masters in Education with a concentration in Art Education from City College of New York. At the Frost, her responsibilities include managing education programs for children, Target Wednesday After Hours, teacher workshops and BFA and MFA exhibitions. Julia Platt Herzberg has been appointed Consulting Curator to assist Director and Chief Curator Carol Damian with curatorial projects and exhibitions. Dr. Herzberg received her PhD in Art History from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her dissertation was on “Ana Mendieta: The Iowa Years, A Critical Study, 1969-1977.” She has a Master of Arts from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University and a Master of Arts in Linguistics/Teaching English As A Second Language from Hunter College (CUNY), New York. Dr. Herzberg resides in New York City.
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Breakfast in the Park FEATURES JOEL SHAPIRO The sixth annual Breakfast in the Park, the Frost’s signature event during Art Basel Miami Beach, features renowned modernist sculptor Joel Shapiro December 7th. This year, the event will culminate more than a week of opening events for the new Frost Art Museum, beginning November 29th. Visitors can also see two pieces of Shapiro’s work on loan from the Pace Wildenstein Gallery in New York City. The pieces are on display in the Sculpture Park.
Joel Shapiro, Untitled, 2007 Bronze 9’4” x 4’ 7-7/8” x 2’ 11-1/2” Cast Edition 1 of 3. Edition 3 + 1AP.
Breakfast in the Park has become a destination for hundreds of visitors to Art Basel Miami Beach each year. They enjoy an elegant complimentary outdoor breakfast, a lecture by an acclaimed sculptor, tours of the Sculpture Park and a look at current exhibitions at the museum. In Shapiro’s elegant works, human moods and movement are reduced to a geometric essence that is open to the viewer’s perception and speculation. As you walk around each sculpture, the changing vantage points offer views of the work that look very different. Since his first one-person exhibition in 1970, Shapiro’s work has been the subject of more than 100 solo exhibitions and retrospectives. His sculptures have been regularly included in prestigious group exhibitions such as the Whitney Biennial, Documenta in Germany and the Venice Biennale. Commissions and publicly sited sculptures by Shapiro are located in major Asian, European and North American cities including the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington and a major plaza in the city of Orleans, France. His work is also in more than 80 public collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Tate Gallery, National Gallery of Art, Walker Art Center and Philadelphia Museum of Art. He lives and works in New York City.
JOIN US Breakfast in the Park December 7, 2008 | 9:30am - Noon Florida International University
EDUCATION KENAN-FLAGLER DISCOVERY GALLERY COMING IN SPRING 2009...
A centerpiece of the new Frost Art Museum, the Kenan-Flagler Family Discovery Gallery will welcome families, students and guests with art activities designed to educate and entertain children. A generous gift of the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust, this interactive gallery is grounded in the belief that hands-on art activities help children learn.
FROST IS NEW HOME OF MUSEUM STUDIES PROGRAM FIU’s Museum Studies program, formerly offered by the School of Art and Art History, is now part of the new Frost Art Museum. With the completion of the new museum building, the program moved to the Frost this past summer. FIU’s Museum Studies certificate is an 18-credit-hour program intended to prepare students for professional employment in museums and historical sites. The program is available to students who already hold a B.A. degree. Courses are offered at FIU’s University Park campus, and the graduate certificate is awarded by the Frost Art Museum. Application forms for the Museum Studies program are available on frostartmuseum.org. For more information, contact: Dr. Annette B. Fromm, Coordinator Museum Studies 305-348-6056 or fromma@fiu.edu
Be a Frost Ambassador The new Frost Art Museum is recruiting and training FIU students and community art lovers to be Frost Ambassadors in its new docent program. Frost docents guide visitors toward a personal connection with works of art and the museum space. They provide educational tours of museum exhibitions, including bilingual and multilingual tours. To gain a thorough overview of the works of art, artists and related artistic movements, docents will conduct research and receive extensive training on the Frost’s permanent collection, history of the museum and temporary exhibitions.
Children will explore interactive stations where they can use a touch screen monitor to create a self portrait, design patterns using the theory of positive and negative space, experience the printmaking process through a series of rubbings on low relief metal shapes and manipulate images on a computer to create their own works of art. Some activities will encourage individual exploration, while others will require group interaction. Some will encourage physical activity and others quiet contemplation. The gallery will add a new dimension to the museum visit, and provide a powerful experience for parents and children working together.
FOR MORE INFO To find out more about the Kenan-Flagler Family Discovery Gallery, visit frostartmuseum.org
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HAPPENINGS
BRING A FRIEND TO LUNCH Members, donors and friends enjoy Bring a Friend to Lunch, a Frost member event that features special guided tours of Frost exhibitions, a lecture and lunch.
Francien Ruwitch, Susan Jay and Ella Gelvan
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Arthur Dunkelman and Patricia Frost
Francien Ruwitch and Stefanie Block Reed
Guests listen to Director Carol Damian discuss the new Frost and upcoming exhibitions.
Juan Martinez and Florencia RodrĂguez Giavarin
Irina Leyva Perez and Magnus Sigurdarson
Dora Valdes-Fauli, Amy Pollack, Axel Stein, Carolina Camps, Marta de la Torre and Nancy Wilson
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ART OF GIVING THE FROST ART MUSEUM GALLERIES
Frost Founders Use Galleries as Their Canvas I would like to express my sincerest thanks to the donors of the named spaces, who not only gave their time and financial resources, but great thought to endowing these beautiful galleries with a greater meaning and purpose beyond just building materials. Their contributions support art education, student and emerging artists and greater awareness of the healing arts and the state of the environment. Some donors wanted to honor the commitment and legacy of our Director Emerita Dahlia Morgan, while others wanted to provide classrooms and state-of-the-art technology. These special individuals are all Frost Founders who chose to use their galleries as a canvas to help create a better community, and we salute them. Carol Damian
FIRST FLOOR KENAN-FLAGLER FAMILY DISCOVERY GALLERY
KENAN-FLAGLER FAMILY TERRACE DAHLIA MORGAN MEMBERS’ LOUNGE
SOL TAPLIN FAMILY CLASSROOM STEVEN & DOROTHEA GREEN MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM 24
WILLIAM R. KENAN, JR. GRAND GALLERY
SECOND FLOOR
THE GRAND GALLERY
< STELLA & J. BURTON ORR PAVILION
GALLERY 4 TERESA & ALFRED ESTRADA GALLERY
The B. & Don Carlin Pavilion >
CAROL WELDON METROPOLITAN GALLERY GALLERY 2
Francien Ruwitch GALLERY
THIRD FLOOR Fishman Family Pavilion >
WILMA BULKIN SIEGEL GALLERY BETTY LAIRD PERRY GALLERY 25
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BECOME A MEMBER
Whether you’re an art aficionado, an admirer or just want to know more about art, a membership to the Frost Art Museum is the perfect gift for you or someone you know. Here’s why.
It’s your museum. The Frost Art Museum was built for you. Meet your friends at the Frost for a look at our exhibitions, a special member event or a reception with the artists. Enjoy our Steven & Dorothea Green Critics’ Lecture Series and Wednesday After Hours featuring local and internationally acclaimed artists. You’ll be the first to know about our exciting exhibitions, and receive invitations to special Frost programs and social events. We keep you informed with Frost Bytes (our online updates) and Frost On View, our member magazine.
The Frost Art Museum is a work of art. Call us for a tour. You’ll see what we mean. Some membership levels include discounts for facility rentals, allowing you to use the Frost as the perfect backdrop for your events.
You can help support the next generation of artists. The Frost Art Museum is the teaching arm of FIU’s respected visual arts program, which has produced many internationally acclaimed artists. The Frost’s Betty Laird Perry Emerging Artist Collection is comprised of artwork obtained through purchase awards granted to selected Bachelor of Fine Arts and Masters of Fine Arts students.
Art works.
Ways to join: Phone: 305.348.2254 Fax: 305.348.2762 Online: frostartmuseum.org Onsite: Sign up at the front desk
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We know that exposure to art and art education challenges and motivates children. The Kenan-Flagler Family Discovery Gallery offers children the chance to create their own exhibitions. The Frost also offers Art Smart, a program designed for 5th graders. It includes a tour of the Sculpture Park at FIU and engaging art activities. Art Smart: Figures, a spin-off of the original, was inspired by the Frost exhibition, Figurative Art Past and Present: Highlights from the Permanent Collection. Students receive a tour of the exhibition and participate in a collaborative learning art activity. The program takes students on a journey through time and place as they learn about history, cultures and customs through artwork from around the globe.
You get an excellent return on your investment. Your support is a gift to you and your community. The Frost Art Museum is the only museum in South Florida that charges no admission. Why is this important? People in our community who might not have access to an art museum – particularly young people – can visit and learn at no cost.
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MEMBERS & DONORS Norman Gorson Betty C. Gosman Harry Graff D. R. Graham Dorothea & Steven J. Green Dorothea Green Emerging Artist Fund Green Family Foundation, Inc. Eric F. Green Monte W. Green Sylvia & Carl Green Randall M. Greenbaum ‘84 Ms. Beatrice Greenberg Barbara U. Greene Greene Gallery Inc. Rose E. & Gerald Green Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Richard Greenman William K. Greiner Mr. William Kross Greiner Marsha A. Griffith Giovanni Grimaldi Felice Grodin Lynne & Robert Grossman Dr. & Mrs. Martin B. Grossman Helene Grubair-Hermantin Jose Guerra Ramon Guerrero Sheldon B. Guren Alfredo D. Gutierrez Fernando Gutierrez Marta & Henry Gutierrez Marta Gutierrez Mr. & Mrs. Richard Haft Clayre & Jay M. Haft Esq. Karen & Anthony Hai Ernest M. & Diane Halpryn Harriet L. & Marshall S. Harris Mr. & Mrs. Erwin Harris Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Harrison M.C. Harry & Associates Inc. Erica Hartman Rebecca Haug Robert R. Hawk David M. Hayes Thomas P. Healy Florence Hecht Karen S. & Kenneth Heithoff Bruce Helander Daniel N. & Diane S. Heller John Henry Jane & Richard A. Herron Robbie & Jerome Herskowitz Joseph M. Hickey Mr. & Mrs. Hieber Mr. & Mrs. Daly Highleyman Argentina & Lee Hills Marilyn P. Himmel ‘81 Katherine J. Hinds Hyman Hirsch Robert S. Hoag James E. Hof Peggy M. Hollander Gary Holmes Rol& R. Homberger E.W. Hopkins
Jeffrey & Helen Horowitz Arthur A. Horowitz Robert D. Howard HSBC Bank USA Jane Hsiao Patricia C. & Jerry G. Hubbard William B. Humphreys E. Joan Hynek IAC Advertising Group Inc. Martha E. Ibarguengoytia Iberia Tiles Icex/Commercial Office of Spain Immaculate Conception School Chris Ingalls Natalie Ireland Thomas Isenberg Island Developers Ltd. Islands in the Sun Inc. Samuel Jacobson Norman Jaffe Dr. & Mrs. Edward Jaffe Lucille Jaffe Robert Jaffee Mr. & Mrs. Frank Jagger Kathleen Janik Remon Janpier Susan R. Jay EdD ‘98 Jefferson National Bank William T. Jerome Jewish Communal Fund Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago Steve Jones Kimberly Jones Mr. Martin Jones Bonnie Joustra Gregg G. Juarez Donald P. Kahn Ruth Kalb Moe J. Kammer Naomi Kanter John Kapioltas Betsy H. Kaplan Robert A. Kast MD Katcher Family Foundation, Inc. Jane & Gerald Katcher Phyllis Katz Michael D. Katz Thea Katzenstein Areta & Jeffrey S. Kaufman The Kaufman Foundation Inc. Susanne Kayyali Karen Kearns Robert J. & Frances C. Keefe William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust Kenneth Keusch Mary F. King Billie Kirpich Charles E. Kirsch Jean & Jay I. Kislak Gerti Kleikamp Donald Klein Roland & Helen Kohen Marilyn & Ronald Kohn Saida Koita
Melvin & Rosalie Kolbert Bernard J. & Evelyn Korman Jacqueline Kott & Irwin Kott Mark A. Koven ‘88 Louis Kowalski Florence Kraft Carolyn & Stanley Kraftsow Robert I. Kramer Kate Kretz Sarah Kupchik Margery Kurtz Alan Kurzweil Judy Kutun Barbara Lagoa ‘89 Robert F. Laird Kenneth L. & Sarah M. Laird Leo Landis B. Landon Foundation, Inc. Gayle & Jerome J. Landy The Lannan Foundation Helene & Solomon Lanster Rochelle & Steven M. Lanster Alvin M. & Lois Lapidus Lapidus-Corenblum Foundation, Inc. John A. Laskey Mr. & Mrs. David Laskey Harriet J. & Ronald Lassin Jerome Laudy Bruce J. & Joan G. Leavitt Joann E. Leavitt ‘80 Wynne L. Leavitt ‘80 Geraldine C. & Bennett S. LeBow The Bennett & Geraldine LeBow Foundation, Inc. Dr. & Mrs. Jacob Leby Jack & Joan Lee Fund K. W. Leffland Joel L. Lefkowitz Donald C. Lelong Ann Lemire James W. Lessig Lorraine M. Letendre Rustin & Randal Levenson Sandra & Stanton G. Levin Richard Levine Denise LeVine Elizabeth & Richard B. Levine Sheila W. Levine ‘85 Rhoda & Morris D. Levitt Allan Lewis Barry M. Lewis Juan Carlos Liberti Dr. Sidney Licht Pat Lieberman Jerry M. Lindzon Charles R. Lipcon Nancy & Norman H. Lipoff Robert & Donna M. Litowitz ‘80 Carlos A. Lizano ‘01 David S. Loeb Heidi Krisch & Jack Loeb Lilia-Ana R. Lopez Karen E. Lord P. Lorillard & Company Juan P. Loumiet
Mrs. C. Ruxton Love Robert C. & Barbara A. Lowes Emil Lukas L. Luria & Sons Incorporated Leonard & Gloria Luria Ralph M. Lutrin Ernest Lynk Roslyn M. Lyons Ricardo Machado ‘05 Miriam Machado ‘07 Macy’s Florida Dr. Ralph & Nita Maercks Dr. Modesto Maidique William G. Mallory Stacey H. Mancuso Ellen & Bernard Mandler Dr. Joel Mann Elizabeth B. & Robert T. Mann, Esq. Mr. David Manzur Dr. & Mrs. Rene I. Marasigan Alan Marcus Phillip Marcus Martin Z. Margulies Dr. Loren Skeist & Dr. Marlene Marko Mr. & Mrs. Cedric Marks Larry Marshall Conroy Martinez Group, Inc. Jose Martinez-Caña Rosario Martinez-Cañas Jean Mason Don A. Mayerson Sabrina R. Mayfield Angela McBride Judith S. McCleary Lynnette P. McCollum Mrs. Malcolm McConnell David McKee Inc. W. Scott McMartin Patricia A. & Robert A. McNaughton Adam R. Rose & Peter McQuillan Virginia S. & D. Richard Mead, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Oded Meltzer Donald Carlin & Audre Mendel Eliecer F. Mendia The Metropolitans Michael A. Meyers Miami Clay Company Miami-Dade County Fair & Exposition Inge W. Michaels Heather & Max Millard Joel Miller Virginia Miller Gallery, Inc. Irvin D. Milowe Paulette E. Mintz Marijean & Rafael Miyar Sami Mnaymneh Rosanne Model Marvin & Elayne Mordes Rose Morgan Andrew & Dahlia Morgan Joan & Albert Morrison Dale K. Moses
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MEMBERS & DONORS Arturo F. & Liza Mosquera Mrs. Alexander Moss Cindi Mufson Design Studio, Inc. Multinational Trading Company Mireya A. Muniz ‘77 Yvette G. Murphy Sandra S. & Stephen Muss Gary Nader Fine Art Naples-Fort Myers Greyhound Track Robert Nau Larry Rivero & Steven Neckman Sunny & James Neff Barbara Neijna Neikrug Photographica Limited Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Nesbitt Brenda Nestor Castellano Netsky Gallery Arthur C. Nharwold Helen J. Nicastri Diana & George L. Niels Peggy Nolan Lynne & Murray Norkin Neil Norry Norseman Shipbuilding Corporation Mrs. E. Hope Norton Peter Norton & Family Isaac Nossel Joe Novak Jorge G. Nuche ‘85 Ricardo & Dolores NunezPortuondo Margie Goldsmith & Jack H. Nusbaum Hilda Kutsukian & Hakim O’Brien Ocean Reef Art League Oceania Brokerage, Inc. Gloria L. O’Connell ‘81 ‘02 Richard Ogust William T. & Nancy N. O’Leary Noramari Onate Steven Opler Sadie Opper Patricia Orden Nedra & Mark E. Oren Rose & Samuel Oroshnik Marilyn Ostrow Linda Oxenberg Wendy Pagán Fern&o Paiz Ingeborg & Mario Palenzona Palm Gardens Chapter Robin M. & Carlos Palomares Pan American Art Projects Jayson D. Pankin Joseph M. & Mary L. Pankowski PhD Louis Paolino Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Paolino Patricia M. & Emanuel M. Papper, MD Charles C. Papy David Paresky Beverly A. & William H. Parker Ricardo Pau-Llosa Gail Payne
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Carolyn Pearce Nancy Pencer Harvey Peretz DDS Martha Perez Henry A. Perles Rita K. & David L. Perlman LouisPerlman Perlman Family Supporting Foundation Inc. Edward Perlow Ethel Perry Thomas E. Perry James F. Perry Charles E. Perry Betty Laird Perry Emerging Artists Fund Betty L. Perry ‘74 Jonlee Peterson Vivian B. Kenneth Pfeiffer Mary Lou Pfeiffer ‘96, MA ‘04 Mrs. E. L. Phillips Julius W. Phoenix Jorge H. Picaza Maxine & Isidore Pines Barbara & Robert Pinkert Pitman Photo, Inc. Platina Art Appreciation Club Diana C. Platz Podhurst Orseck, P.A. The Podhurst Family Supporting Foundation, Inc. Dorothy E. & Aaron S. Podhurst Mai Pogue Amy B. & Richard A. Pollack, CPA ‘02 The Polo Club of Boca Raton Peter M. Polow Mary Ann Portell Porto Vita Property Owners Association Mark & Kathie Poses Potamkin Family Foundation Claudia Potamkin Alan Potamkin Linda S. & Irwin M. Potash, MD Nancy & Herbert Praver Primerica Holdings Inc. Publicis Sanchez & Levitan Elvira F. & Jorge R. Pupo, Jr. June Purcilly Jerry H. Pyle Rachlin LLP Rachlin Mr. Ashvin Rajan Mrs. Alma Rand Toni & Carl Randolph Marc Ransdell David K. & Crennan M. Ray Lucille F. Reals Alita W. Reed Stefanie B. & Evan J. Reed Nathan Reiber Sonya Reich Jay A. Reinfeld Serge Renard Republic National Bank of New York Sheila & Sorrel S. Resnik
Rex Artist Supplies Alberto Rey Raymond & Judi Richards Steven D. Richman Jean Claude Rigaud Kjell Ringi Serg J. Rioux Lazaro M. Rivero ‘00 Mr. & Mrs. Norman Robbins Charles W. Roberts Sanford Robertson Steven D. & Joyce Robinson Margaret D. Robson Olivia Rocabado De Viets Miguel Rodrigo-Mazure David Rodriguez Arturo Rodriguez Elizabeth L. & Mark C. Rogers David J. Roomy Helena W. Roomy Hazel Rosen & Larry L. Rosen Janice M. & Charles B. Rosenak Victoria A. Rosenberg Herbert & Michelle Rosenfeld Leonard H. Rothenberg Mrs. R. Rothenberg Wendy & Ira Rothfield Mr. & Mrs. Ludwig Rothschild Sandy B. Rouse Marc Routh Dr. & Mrs. Seymour Rubenfeld Joseph Rubini Ruden McClosky Smith Schuster & Russell, P.A. Evelyn R. Rudnick Charles Ruffner Lois M. & Howard Rukeyser Stephanie Russell Francien Ruwitch The Francien & Lee Ruwitch Charitable Foundation Inc. Ryder System, Inc. Mr. Natan Saban George B. Sachs Marvin A. & Ruth K. Sackner Susan & Philip Sacks Dominique Sada Doris Sadoff Sagamore Hotel Kate D. Sage Phyllis Salzman Lina Z. Samimy Hortensia Sampedro Hacker Angela E. Sanchez Emilio Sanchez Mr. & Mrs. Donald Sanderson Nelson Santiago Annie Santuli Sylvan Sarasohn Michael J. Sastre ‘84 Joann P. Sautte Samuel & Pearl Schaffer James S. Schainuck The Scharlin Family Foundation Gloria G. & Howard R. Scharlin Linda S. Schejola
Dr. Donald A. Scheurer Barbara Schiff Arnold A. Schiller Dr. Paul Lambert Schmitz Mr. Leonard Schneidman Mrs. Robert Schoelkopf Jason Schoen Dennis Scholl, Esq. ‘77 Leslie J. Schreiber, Esq. Adam Schuster Eugene I. Schuster Karyn K. & James G. Schwade, MD Fred Schwalbe Marvin W. Schwartzbard Leonore & Alexander E. Schwerter Mr. & Mrs. A.M. Schwitalla Raymond E. & Jean C. Scroggins Dr. & Mrs. Arthur I. Segual Jane G. Seifert June I. Seley Ruth & Richard Shack Marvin Shapiro Beverly Shapiro Louis E. Shecter Betsy R. Sherman Dr. M. Shinefield Sarah L. Shuck Dr. Richard M. Siebold Robert S. & Marian Siegel Lois H. Siegel Irving & Diane Siegel Jesse S. & Wilma B. Siegel Susan & Gerald Silver Jacqueline Simkin Muriel & Sherman Simon Susan Helfman & George M. Simon Mr. & Mrs. Charles Sioberg Dr. Bernard Siverstein Emmanuelle & Allan Slaight Donald D. Slesnick, II Dr. Mike Slomka Hunt Slonem Mr. Charles E. Slonem Sandra L. & Joseph J. Slotnik Jo Ann Smith Joan Peven & Harry B. Smith Peggy Smith Smith & Wollensky Restaurant Allison C. Smith ‘91 Jacqueline A. & Chesterfield H. Smith, Sr. Fredric Snitzer Dr. & Mrs. Gilbert & Natalie Snyder Theodore Sobel Societa Dante Alighieri D’Italia, Inc. Sharon & Howard Socol Sonesta Charitable Foundation, Inc. Roger & Joan Sonnabend Susana Sori Sotheby’s Mr. & Mrs. William Sottile Southeast Banking Foundation Southeast Banking Corporation
MEMBERS & DONORS Southeastern College Art Conference Southland Corp. Inc. Southwest Florida Enterprises, Inc. Theodore & Rosalind P. Spak Jacqueline A. Ford & Byron Sparber Irving A. Spiegel Ulysses V. Spiva Clara Sredni Lesta S. & Matthew J. Stacom Gerald I. Starr Arthur J. Steel Sarah Steinbaum Bernice Steinbaum Mark Steingard Rosalind G. & Raul Stern Edward Stern Florence & Sidney J. Stern Jewel Stern Lynn Steuer Judith H. Stiehm & E. Richard Stiehm Jacqueline H. Stoneberger Anne Stormont ‘97 Adam Straus Pat Strawgate Laura J. & Arch A. Sturaitis Hilda & Amancio V. Suarez Barry & Barbara Sugarman Rosa Sugrañes Clara Diament Sujo Nesie Summers Mark Surloff Lily Swaebe Robert M. Swedroe Leatrice Swenson Edward F. Swenson Sherie & Michael J. Swerdlow Ms. Frances F. Switt Tassilo Szechenyi William Taggart Christine J. & Martin W. Taplin Sheila Elias Taplin The Sol Taplin Charitable Trust Target Stores Monica Tchinnosian Marjorie Tedesco Mrs. Francisco Tejidor Rebeca Terner Texaco Inc. Nancy M. Herstand & Jacques Teze Mrs. Roberta Thompson Vann & Parker D. Thomson Helene & Anitra Thorhaug Steve Tobin Pilar Tobon Mr. & Mrs. Alexander E. Schwerter & Frank D. Tolin Bernardo C. Navarro Tomas Elba M. Torres ‘76 Ruben Torres-Llorca Patricia A. Torter The Travelers Foundation Travelers Insurance Company Harriet Trepper Lawrence & Linda Twill
UBS International Inc. Marbel X. Ugando ‘96 Gladys & Orlando Valdes José J. Valdés-Fauli ‘75 Lynn A. & Thomas F. Valerius, Esq. Paul Vaughan Kathleen D. & Michael Vazquez Peter A. Venzara Candido & Anabelle Viyella Mark R. Vogel Mary B. Vuglen Mr. Herbert Wallach Roberta H. Waller Janis W. Ward William L. Ward Edith A. Warga Natalie & Frank Warner Washington Storage Company, Inc. Dale Chapman Webb Mark J. Webb Carol A. Wein Sandra & Albert L. Weintraub The Weiser Family Foundation Inc. Sherwood M. & Judith Weiser Stephen & Sharlene M. Weiss Dr. Peter Weissman The Weldon Foundation, Inc. Carol J. & Norman R. Weldon Nicolette Wernick Dr. Herbert & Nicole Wertheim Foundation Pinki & Allan Wesler Janda Wetherington Yann & Susana Weymouth Helena C. White Peggy White Richard M. White Sr. Marie-Ilene Whitehurst Marina D. Whitman Bernard & Delores Whyman Mr. & Mrs. Leonard A. Wien Carol A. Wien Dinorah Wilkins Bryan Williams Frank Williams Willington Holdings Limited Mr. & Mrs. James R. Willis Dolores & Arnold Wolf Mary Ann & Gregory B. Wolfe, PhD Richard F. Wolfson Family Foundation Elaine R. Wolfson Mr. Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Nancy D. Wood E. Martin Wunsch Roger E. & Vicki S. Wyman Rose M. & Harold E. Wyman PhD Thomas Wyroba Francis Wyroba Yablick Charities Yablick Allan D. & Ray Ellen Yarkin Walter P. Zivley Ricardo Zulueta Cynthia J. Zwierlein
Board of Trustees Cesar L. Alvarez Jorge L. Arrizurieta Betsy S. Atkins Thomas Breslin Albert E. Dotson, Sr. Patricia Frost R. Kirk Landon
Miriam López Albert Maury Arthur “AJ” Meyer David R. Parker Claudia Puig Rosa Sugrañes
UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION Modesto A. Maidique, President Ronald M. Berkman, Executive Vice President and Provost Sandra Gonzalez-Levy, Vice President, University and Community Relations Robert Conrad, Vice President, University Advancement Rosa L. Jones, Vice President, Student Affairs and Undergraduate Education Vivian A. Sanchez, Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President, Business & Finance and Human Resources Stephen A. Sauls, Vice President, Governmental Relations George E. Walker, Vice President, Research and Dean of University Graduate School Douglas Wartzok, Vice President, Academic Affairs Corrine M. Webb, Vice President, Enrollment Management Min Yao, Vice President, Information Technology and Chief Information Officers Frost Art Museum Carol Damian, Director & Chief Curator Julio Alvarez, Security Manager Etain Connor, Development Director Kitty Dumas, Communications Director Nicole Espaillat, Museum Assistant Ana Estrada, Curatorial Assistant Annette Fromm, Museum Studies Coordinator Alison Garcia, Museum Assistant Ana Garcia, Museum Intern Elisabeth Gonzalez, Administrative Assistant Stephanie Guasp, Museum Assistant Julia Herzberg, Consulting Curator Catalina Jaramillo, Curatorial Coordinator Debbye Kirschtel-Taylor, Curator of Collections/Registrar Miriam Machado, Museum Studies Intern Mary Alice Manella, Budget & Finance Manager Ailyn Mendoza, Communications Coordinator Amy Pollack, Special Projects D. Gabriella Portela, Museum Intern Linda Powers, Curator of Education Ana Quiroz, Museum Assistant Alejandro Rodriguez Jr., Museum Assistant Klaudio Rodriguez, Museum Assistant Miryam Rodriguez, Museum Intern Chip Steeler, Exhibition Designer Susan Thomas, Membership Coordinator Tatiana Torres, Museum Intern Andy Vasquez, Preparator Sherry Zambrano, Assistant Registrar
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Nathan Carter, Aero Dolomitti Flight 3MTA3 Calling All Non-Stop Cali-Marys, Linda Blair and Give Your Blowers Some Go-Juice Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s A Furball, 2005
Coming April 17, 2009
Because I SAY So Sculpture from the Collection of Debra and Dennis Scholl
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