ART INFLUENCERS

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EDITOR’S NOTE

June / July 2023

You might say the late Vernon Fisher was the impetus for our Art Influencers issue. In keeping with a summer tradition, 2015 found us emphasizing the Best of the Arts (which has since morphed into Art Influencers). Back then, via Talley Dunn, Vernon invited me and photographer John Smith inside his Fort Worth studio to photograph our cover story. While there, in a clumsy move, I caught my heel, slipped, and fell, experiencing an excruciating albeit tiny fracture beneath my elbow. Vernon kindly asked if I thought it was broken but I denied this. Instead, channeling those erasure marks for which he was known and dismissing the pain, we pressed on with the shoot.

Curators, prominent museum directors, critics, art historians, gallerists, and other art professionals revered the artist and educator, wanted to be like him, paint like him, and teach like him, but perhaps none more than his students. During our studio visit he mentioned that he wasn’t fond of the word “impact.” I can’t recall why exactly; nevertheless I won’t use that here. Influencer— that he was.

Thus, in remembering the great Vernon Fisher and his wry, effective ways, we meet the influencers of today. Artists and filmmakers, a museum director, a playwright and theater professor, a family foundation, and art-meetstechnology festival producers, they are David-Jeremiah, Amanda Dotseth, Tramaine Townsend, Gregory Ruppe, Adam Green for Green Family Art Foundation, Ayvaunn Penn, Thaddeus D. Matula, and AURORA founders Joshua King, Shane Pennington, and Veletta Forsyth Lill. Each compelled by their own arts-passionate niche to generously push the cultural conversation forward, together they represent the best of the arts

TERRI PROVENCAL

Publisher / Editor in Chief

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On that note—don’t let anyone tell you otherwise—summer remains chock-full of opportunities to take in the arts, specifically exhibitions within our air-conditioned North Texas museums and art spaces. We highlight four of them here. Eve Hill-Agnus previews Motherwell: Pure Painting , the monumental retrospective for the eminent postwar abstract expressionist at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in A Legacy Looms Large. In The Sounds of Silence, Danielle Avram shares Elizabeth Turk’s Tipping Point, her poignant recollection of the songs of extinct birds through sculpture installed on the grounds of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Nancy Cohen-Israel writes of the Mingei Movement exemplified within Japan, Form & Function: The Montgomery Collection at the Crow Museum of Asian Art. In The Body Politic, Eve discusses Full and Pure: Body, Materiality, Gender, opening at Green Family Art Foundation.

Recognizing the power of music, Lee Cullum regales us with the virtues of Kim Noltemy, president and CEO of Dallas Symphony Association, who keeps the band not just playing on but thriving under her tutelage. Read about her and the DSO’s powerful business and artistic team in Marvelous Moxie

Heading East this summer? Chris Byrne invites readers through the 92-yearold Guild Hall of East Hampton, where history meets robust music, theatre, and exhibition programming, all within a newly modernized building and refreshed gardens in anticipation of the institution’s forthcoming centennial.

Issue’s end brings us back to Vernon Fisher. Brandon Kennedy, a student at one time, remembers him in Furthermore as “an artist of vast influence here, a man and thinker who helped others chart the turbulent waters of art practice and contemporary theory.”

– Terri Provencal