This Month at Maryhill
Greetings,
Looking out my window just this morning, it was hard to believe we're diving into June when the weather suggests incipient January. The fact is, we've been here before. Just when we think hot days and sere hills will never arrive, someone flicks a switch and everything turns to gold and brown.
And as if on cue, this afternoon the sun has appeared and there is an amazing and glorious light filling the grounds. And this year, summer at Maryhill means the history of heat in the genesis of art glass — the gorgeous work of William Morris, and Hades' heat of the Mobile Hot Shop from the Museum of Glass. The Morris show and Hot Shop share center stage on June 12, what we have brazenly labeled Summer Fun at Maryhill.
Colleen Schafroth
Executive Director
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William Morris (American, b. 1957)
Left: Vase with Ponderosa Pine Branches, 2004.
Dusted vessel, pine needle pick-up, hot glass applied pine boughs.
18-5/8" x 8-1/4" x 8-1/8".
Right: Vase with Ponderosa Pine Boughs, 2004. Dusted vessel, pine needle pick-up, hot glass applied pine boughs.
14" x 6-3/4" x 6-3/4".
Collection of George R. Stroemple
Photography Robert Vinnedge |
Museum of Glass brings Hot Shop to Maryhill
If you've never seen the artistry it takes to shape molten glass into the fragile frozen beauty of art glass, you've got a treat coming Saturday, June 12. The portable Hot Shop glass blowing studio from the Museum of Glass in Tacoma pays a visit for Family Fun: Fun With Glass, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. With one paid adult admission, children under 17 are admitted free on Family Fun day.
Skilled glass artists will work with molten glass to create glass objects, and field questions from visitors. Then—the team stays on the rest of the week—and will continue to demonstrate glass blowing from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily through June 20.
Maryhill sculpture collection feeds this year's sculpture garden show
Continuing our 70th anniversary celebration, Maryhill Museum has dipped into its sculpture trove and extracted signature work for its annual Outdoor Sculpture exhibit. It opened May 15, and continues through Oct. 3. To get a glimpse of sculpture in the museum's permanent collection, click through to the museum's website.
In addition, Recent works by Northwest artists Jesse Kelly (Seattle, WA), Jesse Swickard (Sherwood, OR) and Tom McClelland (Benton City, WA). They join work carried over from last year's popular exhibit by Matt Cartwright, Tom Herrera, Fracisco Salgado, Julie Speidel and Jeff Tangen in this year's Outdoor Sculpture Garden. Also on view are works from the permanent collection by Tom Herrera, Mel Katz, Heath Krieger, Alisa Looney, Jill Torberson, Julia Voss-Andreae, Jeffrey Weitzel and Leon White. Nearby, enjoy views from the Maryhill Overlook by Brad Cloepfil and the Windy Flats Walk and Viewpoint.
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Jesse Kelly (Seattle, WA)
Vitra Botanical, 2010, glass and mixed media. |
LOOKING AHEAD
Celebrate your independence — by joining us for the Fourth of July
You don't have to be alone to be yourself, so why not celebrate independence—personal and national—at Maryhill on Sunday, July 4? A full slate of activities awaits, including late museum hours and free admission from 5 to 8 p.m. You can bring your own picnic to the grounds, or purchase dinner at our cafe from 5 to 8 p.m. Kids can meet Smokey Bear and make their own flag, and everyone can settle back to enjoy music and a fantastic laser light show from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Listen to the Gorge Winds jazz band play patriotic classics, followed by the Gorge Jazz Band, 7:30 til 9:00. Then, at 10 p.m., tune your eyes to the technicians of Lasersmith as they use laser beams to project a stunning graphic light show onto the museum walls. No, it's not fireworks. We think it's better.
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| Laser Lights projected on the museum in 2009 as seen from the Grand Lawn. |
Thrills and Chills…
The Maryhill Festival of Speed
The Maryhill Festival of Speed is the most highly-attended event on the International Gravity Sports Association's World Cup circuit. Over 200 of the top international gravity sports athletes will compete. The event runs from June 30 through July 4. It's a five-day multi-sport event headlined by downhill skateboarding, street luge and in-line skating. Watch the race from the Highway 97 viewpoint or at the base of Loops Road! Visit the Festival of Speed website for more information.
Summer of Fun at the Summer Art Institute
Think you knew art? Well here is your chance to be inspired and amazed. The museum's annual Summer Art Institute from July 19 through the 23 is all about stories. Join us as we explore our stories, and learn from four great artists: Jason Greene will guide students in blind contour drawing; Richard Quigley, watercolor pencil; Linda Steider, the intricacies of glass and Cathleen Rehfeld, plein air painting. For more information about this year's institute, see the website at the museum's website.
Take a tour of Gorge glass artists' studios
If you're inspired by watching the artists of the Hot Shop on June 12, you can dip your eyeballs into more hot glass from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 4, during the Columbia Gorge Glass Artists Studio Tour. The tour includes stops at the "hot shops" of artists Peter McGrain, Andy Nichols and Robin and Ellen Knoke. Cost is $75 for Maryhill members, and $95 for non-members. Call 509-773-3733 for reservations, which are required.
Comics exhibit includes work of
35 Northwest artists
If you're already a fan, or just wonder why your adults friends are so obsessed with graphic narrative—what is often derisively dismissed as comic books—you'll want to plan a visit to Comics at the Crossroads: Art of the Graphic Novel, opening Sept. 18. Steve Grafe, curator of the exhibition, celebrates the combination of narrative and artistic skill in the graphic novel, noting that many people remain unaware of how sophisticated the art form has become. The show features the work of 35 Northwest artists, several from Portland's Periscope Studio, the largest collective of graphic novel talents in North America. Sponsored by Humanities Washington.
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Personification of the Judicial Branch, from The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation, written by Jonathan Hennessey with art by Aaron McConnell.
Published by Hill and Wang (a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 2008. Copyright © 2008 by Aaron McConnell. Used with permission. |
Museum News
Board again selects Foster as president, salutes Trick, Honeyford, Henchell
As part of our celebration of Founders' Day on May, the museum conducted its annual membership meeting and election of trustees and officers. Board President Jim Foster of The Dalles first paid tribute to retiring Trustees Jerry Honeyford and Corday Trick. Trick, who was unable to attend, served most recently as treasurer. Foster presented Honeyford with a plaque and flowers in appreciation of her service. Foster also recognized Volunteer of the Year Fred Henchell, who chairs the building and grounds committee. Then Anne Avery and Ken Weeks were elected for the first time to the board. Lee Weinstein was elected to a second term, and Bill Dickson and Foster will return for third terms. The newly constituted Board of Trustees then re-elected Foster as president, Dickson as vice president, Phil Swartz as secretary, and Jim McCreight as treasurer.
Second Wine Auction raises more than $48,000 for Museum
 More than 150 people attended the museum's second Northwest Wine Auction on May 15, helping raise more than $48,000 before expenses. With generous support of more than 150 Northwest wineries, businesses and individuals, the auction pool had "tasty" written all over it.
The 22 items in the silent auction ranged in estimated value from $45 to $500. The 26 live auction lots averaged in the neighborhood of $1,000 in value each, with some pushing double that. Packages included getaways to Maui (with 18 bottles of wine), a float-n-stay down the Rogue River, a trip for four to the Oct. 16 football game between Washington and Oregon State in Seattle, beach weekends in Manzanita and Astoria, and (did we mention this?) loads and loads of wine.
"This was so much fun, I'd like to do it every weekend," said museum Development Director Tim Copeland. "But I think we'll wait until 2011 — just to make everyone suffer with anticipation." Nice guy.
Maryhill Théâtre de la Mode supports Frist Center exhibit
First made famous in a global tour after the end of the World War II, the nine stage sets of fashion-clad mannequins known as the Theatre de la Mode became a precious part of the Maryhill Museum collection in the 1950s. Each year, three of the stage sets rotate into public view. Four mannequins from the Maryhill collection are now touring the world again, in an exhibit organized by the Victoria & Albert Museum of London. And on June 18, the exhibit—The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947–1957—lands in Nashville, Tenn., at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts.
The exhibit celebrates the explosion of interest in high fashion following the war, driven in part by the "New Look" designs of Christian Dior. Designs from theThéâtre de la Mode include a day suit and long dinner dress designed by Lucile Manguin, a fitted coatdress of red linen by Marcelle Chaumont, and a square-necked day dress by Jeanne Lafaurie.
The Frist show continues through Sept. 12, and will be the only stop for the exhibit in the United States. |
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