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Show Docent Recruitment Barbecue September 16, 1999 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. We will be holding our annual recruitment event for new docents on September 16 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. If you know of anyone who is interested please give Bernadette their name and address so she can mail him or her an invitation. You may also pick up an invitation from the education office and personally deliver it to your candidate. I hope that as many of you as are available will come to the Recruitment event since there is no better or more effective recruitment tool than having prospective docents meet with you. Last year's event resulted in 14 new docents. Let's see what "we'all" can do this year. ~~~ Harvest Festival Event On October 9 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. the UMFA will be collaborating with the Children's Museum of Utah and Red Butte Garden on a Harvest Festival event. All three institutions will focus on harvest traditions -- the Children's Museum on Native American and Polynesian harvest customs while UMFA will do activities connected with freColumbian and Jewish traditions. In addition members of the Children's Dance Theater are scheduled to perform an original Harvest Dance at Red Butte Gardens. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED We will be needing your help with this event so please sign up on the Sign-up Sheet posted on the Bulletin Board. rs;OTLIGHT ON EXHIBITIO~ B.B.'S Notes from Frank's Gallery Talk on August 22. ~ Still Life is a very old genre. Still life paintings have been found in Pompeii and decorations on capitals and choirs in medieval churches continued, in a modified way, the still life tradition. However, the tradition of still life as an important genre really developed in the Renaissance. One style can be seen in the context of religious painting while a second style displays the ostentatious life style of the patron who commissioned a painting. The works in the current exhibition are mainly from the twentieth century with one piece from the nineteenth. Most have no symbolic meaning but rather are exercises in formal composition -- colors, shapes, etc. and demonstrate the competency of the artist with the particular medium. Personal Notes on Various Artists Sandra Shannonhouse, who created "Fleurs of Cherries," was the wife of Robert . Arneson. Samuel Halpert shows the influence of Cezanne in the way he approached his still life as an arrangement of shapes and forms. The Raymond in the title, "Sunday Noon at Raymond's," was a noted painter and friend of the artist, Russell Gordon. ~error in interpretation is totally mine~ |
